Chapter 416: Greeted with excitement
"Not bad! But to cut the nodule, a saw or axe is needed. After Zhao Di finished speaking, Tang Ping immediately rushed away, leaving words to say:
"I'll go to the inn to borrow it from the proprietress and I'll be back in a while!" Sure enough, half an hour later, he returned with his axe, sweating profusely.
Gu Jiawu, who thought he had strength, swung the axe. However, the skin of the tree, which is more than 200 years old, is as hard as iron. Even though he struggled to cut down, he was bounced back every time, leaving him panting and sweating like rain.
"Let me try!"
Tang Ping took the axe and slashed wildly a few times, and the three of them took turns to attack the old tree. Snow-white leaves splashed down like shooting stars, and the fragrance of tree trunks wafted through the air.
After half an hour, the tree finally cracked open, revealing a black hole inside. Tang Ping reached out and pulled out a small box from inside.
"Oh, it's here!"
Although the diamond box is locked, it has been worn down and decayed by the sap of trees after 200 years of wind, frost, snow and rain.
Just as Tang Ping reached out to open it, Miaolide stopped him in time.
"Wait a minute, we can unearth the diamond without any problems, all thanks to Miss Zhaodi's ingenuity. Therefore, the honor of opening the box should belong to her. ”
"Oh, sorry! I ignored that...... Miss, please open it! ”
"Thank you!"
Zhao Di smiled lightly and opened the box. There was a pocket made of fine flannel inside, and when it was opened, four diamonds fell into Zhao Di's palm at once.
It was a walnut-sized diamond, four in all, shining brightly in the setting sun. For two centuries, they have been buried in the trunks of large trees that have never been exposed to the sun, and now they are beginning to shine beautifully again.
Is there really such a big and beautiful diamond in the world?
Everyone present was dumbfounded, they were so fascinated by the dazzling brilliance that their legs seemed to have roots, they couldn't speak, they even forgot their breathing and heartbeat.
After a long time, the eldest family let out a long breath and gradually came to his senses, and everyone looked at each other.
"Finally...... The will was confirmed. ”
"We're not in a dream."
"But I still don't feel down-to-earth, is that true? Isn't it a dream?"
The three men were all full of emotion, and only Zhao Di was calm.
"There are only four diamonds...... However, there are three gold coins...... It's just that I don't have gold coins in my hand......"
"But you also have the right to diamonds." Tang Ping said.
"However, I don't have a gold coin that can be identified......"
At this moment, the sound of a motorcycle came from a distance.
Everyone turned their heads to look in the direction the voice was coming from.
On the far side of the beach, a motorcycle was speeding up, shining with a dazzling white light.
After the motorcycle stopped, a man with a hard hat on his head jumped off the car and rushed over, stepping on a pair of big red boots on his slender feet, and stepping on a cloud of dust.
The man gradually approached them.
"Ah, Mr. Lang......"
Zhao Di was very excited to greet him.
The person who came was none other than Lang Xiaobai.
"I'm here to give this to you!"
As he spoke, Lang Xiaobai took out a paper bag from his pocket.
Zhao Di asked puzzledly, "What is this?"
When she opened the paper bag, she couldn't help but scream in ecstasy, the contents of the paper bag were gold coins that could prove her identity.
"It's your gold!"
"Wow!" Zhao Di was so shocked that she couldn't speak.
Miao Lide, Tang Ping, and Gu Jiawu were all taken aback, looked at the gold coins in Zhao Di's hand, and then looked at Lang Xiaobai's face.
"This ...... It's ...... me."
"That's right! This is your father's gold coin, and the one that was stolen by the king. ”
"Ah, is it? But how did you find it?"
"Found in Dongzhou."
"Where is Dongzhou?"
"I don't want to say where, and there's no need to say it. Do you remember the letter that Meng De handed you over?"
"Of course I remember. It was my father's last letter. I can't forget! ”
"Then you must remember that there is a passage in which he said that in the hospital, a mysterious and strange man reached through the window and threw poison into the glass on the small table next to the bed, and the man's arm was tattooed with the words 'Luck is in the Hall of Thrift'."
"Of course, I remember it clearly! My father died at the hands of that mysterious man with a tattoo on his arm, and that man was Wang Qiang!"
"At that time, your father was in a dream, and saw him put poison in the cup. But at that time, his consciousness was no longer clear, so he could not distinguish the real from the false, as if his soul was out of his body, and he drank the poison in the cup in a daze.
As a result, the poison worked, and he began to develop a high fever. He hurriedly wrote a letter to tell Meng De everything. Perhaps because he was in a fever and dazed, his writing was sloppy and intermittent. However, he made it abundantly clear that it was the gangster who put poison in his cup.
"Your father was killed in this way, and his gold coins were missing."
"It's been stolen!"
"Not bad! It was Wang Qiang who poisoned your father and stole the gold coins. Because he knew that the gold coin was engraved with the location of the diamond. ”
"How did he get the news?" Mian Lide pondered for a moment and asked.
"I don't understand about this either, anyway, a greedy person like Wang Qiang always has some extraordinary cleverness, so he found out the secret of the gold coin and inquired about Zhao Di's father who has one such gold coin."
After Lang Xiaobai finished speaking, he turned his head to stare at Zhao Di, and then said:
"Wang Qiang is an ambitious and ruthless person. He seemed to have heard the secret of the gold coin for a long time, and he also understood that the gold coin had the strange words "Lucky is in the Diligence and Thrift", so he wrote the same word on his arm.
His purpose in doing so was to mislead people into believing that he had gold in his hand and that he deserved a share of the treasure. That's why he tattooed the text himself. This is the mysterious man your father has seen.
Moreover, he also inquired about more than one gold coin, and also knew that the stone statue of the fountain in Mengde's garden was engraved with such a word, and he thought that Mengde also treasured such a gold coin in his hand.
"That's why you saw him digging treasure in the valley, Wang Qiang has a belly of ghosts, he first deliberately approached Mr. Mengde, and created an opportunity to get acquainted with Mengde in the southern region of Dongzhou, and later developed to the extent that he was in a big shape and freely entered and exited Mengde's house.