Chapter 1: Briefcase
I didn't open the briefcase in front of everyone, after all, I don't know what exactly is in the road, and if I can let them know it.
Tianxiang was still very low, I didn't know how to comfort him, and I didn't know what was going on in Yunnan, so I could only let him be silent. Seeing that it was getting late, I arranged everyone's accommodation, ordered some takeout, all snacks made by a small restaurant nearby, and a few people ate a dinner and went to sleep.
I slept in the east bedroom on the second floor, the old prostitute slept in the west bedroom opposite, and Tianxiang and Ma Daha were downstairs. Originally, I wanted Tianxiang to go upstairs to sleep, after all, he knew more about some things than me, and he wanted to ask him closer. But he didn't speak, lying downstairs in the bedroom, and had to let the old prostitute go upstairs.
Everyone went back to their rooms, and as soon as I closed the bedroom door, I closed the curtains and lay down on the bed to open my briefcase. When I took things out, they were all formal documents, and each document had a stamp on it.
I didn't look at the documents carefully, thinking it was a trick on the part of the elder brother, so I collapsed all the documents on the bed, and looked at the briefcase carefully, and found that there was nothing. In addition to the documents on the bed, there were two envelopes, one was given to me by An Tong, and the other was a letter from the senior brother in the briefcase.
I first opened the letter from the senior brother and read it, and after reading the letter, my scalp immediately became numb, and my head was full of question marks, and my heart said what is the senior brother going to do?
The letter reads:
Xiao Qi, don't be surprised by the content of this letter, this is indeed what I wrote to you.
Actually, I've been struggling with this matter, whether to tell you whether to tell you that the matter of the black armor shouldn't have involved you this time, but you still went, since you have entered this mystery, then I have no reason not to let you know the Tao.
Four years ago, I arranged for someone looking for clues from my master, and found many ancient symbols in a bomb shelter, which were most likely the connection points between the information of the most fragmented scroll of the Tiger Regiment and the information of the bronze triangle wrapped in the bell.
After several researches, this has indeed been proven, and these symbols point to two places, one is the location where the Tigers are most powerful to activate the fragment to record information, which is the sea of reeds where you are going. The other is where the LTTE first used the bronze triangular bell to record information, and I'm on my way, maybe I'll be there when you read the letter.
I have to tell you that I had a very bad premonition before going there again, I'm afraid that I may not be able to come back this time, I always feel that someone has done something in the message, but that is just a feeling, not a fact, so I decided to go in person, some things must be experienced to know the truth of the road.
Whether I can come back or not, you have to pick up the burden of Faqiumen, presumably you must not have read those documents, those are the company's assets, and they have already been transferred to your name, and now Faqiumen is your industry, so run it well, don't fall into the hands of our stubble.
I have already arranged for your sister-in-law's family to go abroad, and I have also taken some of the money from them, so you can leave them alone and do what you have to do.
Don't worry that you can't cope with it alone, I have arranged a few people around you to help you, the little wolf and the old prostitute are trustworthy people, if there is anything that can't be solved, you can discuss with them, they will do their best to help you, you don't want to go back to Shijiazhuang to live, just live in my house, let them live here.
You have to pay more attention to Uncle Seven, in the past two years, I have found that he has changed and become a stranger. He has done a lot of things behind our backs, on the surface he is retiring, but behind his back is still doing business in the field, he is an elder after all, some things still have to be humble, we must remember that humility does not mean concession, do not care who the other party is at the critical moment, and must not be soft.
If your fifth senior brother can come back safely, he will also do his best to assist you, but I have no hope that he will be able to come back.
An Tong is my most admired apprentice, and he is also a person who can eat well on the ground in Chengde, and if there is anything to do, he will be ordered to do it, and if there is a big deal, he will be used appropriately, and don't let him be too idle, so as not to cause trouble.
I know that you still have a lot of things to know about Lu Dao, and the key to the safe that you gave you, which safe was opened, you should be able to think that there is everything you want to know about Lu Dao. Maybe it's not comprehensive, but that's all I know, and when I think of which safe it is, I'll go see it myself, and don't take anyone with me.
My time is running out, and it is still unknown whether this letter will reach you smoothly, but I firmly believe that An Tong will successfully deliver the letter to you.
In the end, I still want to remind you that everything is not as simple as you imagined, if you can give up as much as possible, don't pursue it anymore, and if you continue to investigate, it may still be fruitless and unpredictable.
The last sign is: The little red girl who always cares about you.
Looking at the inscription, I firmly believe that this letter is written by the elder brother, if the pen can be imitated, then this inscription will never be imitated, this is the nickname I called the senior brother when I was a child, outsiders don't know the Tao at all, even An Tong doesn't know.
After thinking for a moment, I decided to open the letter An Tong gave me. When I opened the letter, it was not very long, and the font was very sloppy, it looked like it was written in a hurry, but it didn't look like the handwriting of the senior brother.
The letter reads:
Seventh Uncle, I don't know how to tell you about Lu Dao, I don't know what happened to Lu Dao, and the master refuses to tell me, but I know that Lu Dao Master must be in trouble, otherwise I wouldn't be ready to break the boat, although I don't know how terrible Lu Dao Master's trouble is, but I have to make this decision.
I'm sorry, Uncle Seven, the master asked me to stay and help you, but I can't stay, it's not that I don't want to help you, but I can't leave when the master is in danger.
The master took me like his own son, how could I leave him when he was in danger, so I decided to go to the master, no matter how big the trouble, even if it was death, I would face it with the master.
After reading this letter, I sighed in my heart, although this is a letter that has not been signed, but from the content, I know that this is written by An Tong to me. I began to understand a little, why did An Tong ask me to read all the documents before reading this letter, it seems that he was afraid that I would stop him and not let him go.
Holding two letters in my hand, I looked at the lamp above my head for a long time, not because I couldn't accept the content of the letters, but because I didn't know how to think about it.
The head that was already sleepy, but he couldn't sleep anyway, he looked at the letters of Senior Brother and An Tong repeatedly, and he was silently filtering the content of the letters, and he was also silently worried.
The moment I saw the two letters, I already thought that it would be like this, but what I never expected was that the second letter was written by An Tong, although it was not impassioned, but it was also full of emotion.
I have to be moved by this nephew, regardless of whether his decision is correct or not, but he at least dares to face it and dare to make a decision. Thinking about me carefully in my heart, what have I done all these years? It's nothing more than a fight for the senior brother, and I have hardly done anything from birth to death, of course, the danger in the tomb is not counted, because that is our profession.
Suddenly, An Tong's image in my heart was infinitely enlarged, and I kept telling myself that I should learn from An Tong's spirit and be a person who is affectionate, righteous and dares to take responsibility. Since Senior Brother asked me to carry the burden of Fa Qiumen, then I must not disappoint his expectations.
Looking at the messy documents on the bed, it was really foggy, and I always couldn't understand why the senior brother wanted to do this, how could such a big industry be said to me, just give it to me, and I was a little hesitant and excited in my heart. No one doesn't like such a big industry, and no one doesn't like money, and these documents are like a room full of hundred-dollar bills, which makes people happy and worried.
I inadvertently saw a line of dates, which made me take a deep breath of cold air, and my brain was suddenly shocked. The date on the document turned out to be 3 years ago, I turned all the documents to the last page, all the dates were the same, all signed 3 years ago.
I was a little confused, thinking to myself, could it be that the senior brother had already transferred everything to Faqiu Sect to me 3 years ago, so he had already thought about it 3 years ago, what was going on today, I decided to take a closer look at these documents.
All the documents are some transfer procedures, all of them are branches and stores, and they have passed through a generation after a rough flip. But when I turned over the previous document, I saw the words cabinet written on the back of the document, so I immediately flipped it back and read it carefully.
My finger immediately pressed the address on the document, this address is unfamiliar to me, if it was a shop in other provinces, maybe I wouldn't attach so much importance to it, but this is actually in Chengde, in our base camp in Faqiumen. A question mark was immediately drawn in my heart, when did this shop open, I don't know how to do it.
Looking at the date of the signing of the document, this shop has been open for at least 3 years, and I said, 3 years, how can I not know anything at all, no one has ever told me, and I have never heard anyone mention it. This is unreasonable, Faqiumen's shop in Hebei, I can say that it is backwards, even if it is newly opened, I can also accurately say the name, not to mention a few shops in the base camp, not to mention that I am an ordinary guy can immediately say the address. But not only do I not know the way of this one, but I have never even heard of it.
Looking at this document over and over again, not only the address of the shop, but also the cabinet at the back, it looks like this trace belongs to the senior brother, but why does he want to write on the back of this document? What exactly does this mean, or is it just an essay.
Thinking about it, I don't think it's right, it won't be an essay, these are more formal transfer documents, the elder brother should know this better than me, and the word cabinet must have some meaning. Just when I was confused, my eyes fell on the key to the bed, and suddenly I seemed to understand what the elder brother meant.
The relationship between the key and the cabinet is not difficult to associate, and I immediately realized that this key must be the safe in this store.
After a long night of looking at the address and key on the document, it was difficult to sleep, and in an instant, an urge to go out of the house came to my heart, and I decided to go to this shop to see what was going on.