Although he was excited, when Zhao Yu was about to open the box, he hesitated. He couldn't help but think of the nightmarish scene that had happened when he had opened the metal box that Tao Xiang had buried under the grave.
Every time he thought of this matter, he felt his hair stand on end, and he was anxious and uneasy. It took a long time for him to gradually get better.
Then, this time … would it repeat the same mistake?
Don't forget, when he found the head in the treasure box last time, he also got a Kun hexagram. This time, he saw a Kun hexagram again. Will it be …
Zhao Yu hesitated, but Cui Lizhu was different. Although she was also one of the people who saw the head, her reaction at this moment was completely different from Zhao Yu's. After she brought the box over, she reached out to pull the zipper of the suitcase without hesitation.
"Mm … You …"
Zhao Yu wanted to stop her, but Cui Lizhu's movements were fast. With a creaking sound, she opened the old suitcase.
The next second, the two of them saw the contents of the suitcase at the same time.
"What the … No way?" Seeing the things inside, Zhao Yu couldn't help but exclaim. "This … What are all these?"
He had never expected that there were neither scary nor dazzling things inside, but … Instead, there were some old books and some dusty sundries.
"These … These …" Cui Lizhu's reaction was different from Zhao Yu's. She reached out and grabbed a broken rag doll, then muttered, "This … This should be the toy I used when I was a child. I still vaguely remember it! This … "She picked up a pencil case." This is what I used when I was in school. I couldn't bear to throw it away. Once it gets old, my dad can fix it until it's as good as new. He … He actually kept it for me! "
As she spoke, she took out a very ordinary photo album and looked through it.
Oh …
Zhao Yu first looked at the stone block and hammer next to him, then thought of Cui Lizhu's reaction. Finally, he understood. "Oh … Little girl! Are you kidding me? You … You already knew what was in the box, right? "
Seeing that Cui Lizhu didn't say anything, Zhao Yu slapped his forehead and scolded, "You're so smart! You're treating me like a free laborer!"
"Hehe …" Cui Lizhu giggled at Zhao Yu. The next second, she was staring at the photos in the album.
Zhao Yu craned his neck to take a look. He saw that the first few were old photos. Some of them were even in black and white, which meant that they were from a long time ago.
"I guess …" Cui Lizhu pointed at a group photo and said, "These should be my dad's fellow disciples, right? Look, isn't this … Li Fei? "
Hearing this, Zhao Yu's interest was piqued. He quickly sat down with Cui Lizhu and watched attentively. The person that Cui Lizhu pointed at was indeed the murderer of the Headless Female Corpses Case, Li Fei.
At that time, Li Fei and Tao Xiang were very young. Next to them were a man and a woman, who were even younger. Zhao Yu quickly recognized that the man and the woman were Cui Lizhu's biological mother, Du Manting, and her biological father, Cui Fangyu.
"They are all thieves, yet they still take photos!" Cui Lizhu stroked the photos, her heart filled with infinite emotion. "Aren't they all shameful?"
"Look at the background. It's a photo studio!" Zhao Yu pointed at the photos and analyzed. "Look at their smiles. They are so happy! I think that they may have taken these photos behind their master's and master's wife's back! "
Cui Lizhu nodded and flipped to the back. Du Manting's personal photo appeared in the album.
"My mom is so beautiful!" Cui Lizhu exclaimed. "No wonder my dad missed her all his life. He couldn't forget her even when he died!"
"But …" Zhao Yu said. "You don't look like your mom at all! You just look like your dad a little bit … "
"That's so rude. Are you saying that I'm ugly?"
Cui Lizhu pouted and flipped to the back. Finally, there was a little girl in the photo. That little girl was undoubtedly Cui Lizhu when she was young.
"These photos … I've only seen some of them!" Cui Lizhu recalled. "I didn't expect my dad to keep all of them. Looking at them now, it's really … Sigh …"
Cui Lizhu's tears rolled down her cheeks again as the old photo touched upon her sad memory.
"Um …" Zhao Yu wanted to comfort her, but he suddenly felt that something was wrong. He frowned and asked, "Lizhu, your dad … What did he say to you at that time?"
"Um?" Cui Lizhu came back to her senses and asked, "What do you mean? Why do you ask? "
"That's impossible …" Zhao Yu said, pointing at the box. "Tao Xiang spent so much effort to bury the box in this hidden place. I don't think he did it for these photos, right?"
"Um …" Cui Lizhu bit her lip and said, "Detective, are you crazy when you don't have a case to work on? Why do you think everything is suspicious?
"My dad buried these things here just to bury a precious memory for me! Take a look … "As she spoke, she put down the photo album and began to pull out the other things in the box." Here, these are all books and things from when I was young. Say, my dad even confessed to the murder. What other secrets could there be? "
"No … No …" Zhao Yu reached out to look at the books and said doubtfully, "I always feel that there must be something! Lizhu, think about it again. When you mentioned this box, did your dad really not say anything else? Hmm … and … what … what books are these? "
While Zhao Yu was asking questions, he realized that these books were different from normal books. Some were notebooks, some were handwritten, and some were even vertical printed books from the older generation. He flipped through a few pages. In addition to traditional Chinese characters, there were many exquisite illustrations, which looked like industrial drawings.
"Um …" Cui Lizhu looked at them and said, "These should be the secret manuals left behind by the ancestors of the thieves, right?"
"What?" Zhao Yu was speechless. "This thing has an ancestral secret manual? Isn't that strange? "
"I don't know the specifics," Cui Lizhu said, looking through the books. "When I was a child, my dad mentioned it to me, but I wasn't very interested. Think about it, technology is changing so fast. If you want to be a qualified thief, you have to keep up with the times. What's the point of learning these ancient books? Ancient locks are different from modern locks! "
"That's true … But …" Zhao Yu took out another notebook and said, "Look at this one. It's full of practical knowledge!"
Cui Lizhu took the notebook and looked at it. Sure enough, the notebook was filled with words and symbols. Some of them were about mathematics, physics, chemistry, and even some knowledge about biology. However, all of this knowledge had one purpose, and that was to improve one's stealing skills!
"This …" Cui Lizhu was speechless. "This should be my dad's notes. This guy … He's really hardworking!"
"See? Every profession has its own champion! No matter what profession it is, if you want to be the champion, you have to work hard! " Zhao Yu sighed. "I don't think your dad regarded these things as real wealth and wanted to pass them on to you so that you could inherit them, right?"
"Don't … Don't joke around, bro. I've turned over a new leaf! When my dad woke up, I told him clearly. "Cui Lizhu shook her head vigorously." He wanted to thank you personally for helping me turn over a new leaf! But … Um … But … "
"But what?" Zhao Yu saw that Cui Lizhu's expression was not right, so he asked quickly.
"But … Now that you mention it, I really remember something!" Cui Lizhu said in surprise. "Didn't you just ask me what my dad said about this box? Now that I think about it, it seems that he did have something to tell me, but unfortunately, he couldn't remember it at that time. At that time, his mouth was open, as if he was in a hurry …
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