mtl008 Chapter 127 Tong Sihe’s “Secret Base”
Chapter 127 Tong Sihe’s “Secret Base”
It was more than ten minutes after Qin Hanyi carried Tong Jia away that Mrs. Tong suddenly realized something.
That is, once the eldest son Tong Simin ran away with all the valuables in the house, he would never come back.
He couldn't rely on his eldest son's wife and daughter at all, and the only ones he could rely on were his youngest son's wife and daughter.
She wanted to send someone to catch up with Qin Hanyi and go with them to see the doctor, so that if anything happened, she would be able to know about it in time.
Qin Hanyi, the younger daughter-in-law, is different from the older daughter-in-law. She has received a good education, and there has never been any conflict between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law since she came into the family.
Even if she remarried in the future, Qin Hanyi would not leave her alone if she had done everything she should do now.
Unfortunately, by the time she thought of this, it was already too late.
More than ten minutes was enough for Qin Hanyi to carry Tong Jia out of the Tong family's old house and get in the car away from the Tong family's old house.
When Old Lady Tong sent people to chase after the car, they couldn't even smell any exhaust fumes, let alone the shadow of the car.
After hearing the news, Mrs. Tong sighed deeply.
He ordered the maid beside him, "Go to the telegraph office and send a telegram to the capital to ask about the Second Young Mistress and the Second Young Miss's situation.
Hey, wait, add another sentence at the end.
I said she left in such a hurry that I hadn't taken the money I had prepared for her child's medical treatment, and asked her to come back and get it when she had time.
Upon hearing this, the maid looked at her, nodded, and left.
All of Mrs. Tong's private money was in a secret compartment in the nanmu bed she slept on.
Now that the bed is gone, Mrs. Tong may have some spare change, but definitely not much left.
What's more, she had never heard that Mrs. Tong had prepared medical expenses for the second young lady.
These words sound nice, but in fact they are mainly meant to soften the Second Young Lady's heart.
After the maid left the yard, she shook her head, sighed slightly, and said to herself: "The old lady has also started to plan for herself."
Immediately afterwards, the maid who had just come out of the front door appeared at the back door of Tong's house.
Soon, they left Tong's house with two men and a woman, carrying bags.
The man walking next to the maid wanted to speak, but the maid glared at him, so he lowered his head and said nothing, walking behind the maid with his head down.
Only after they were quite far away from the Tong family's old house did the man ask, "Mom, are we just leaving like this without even saying goodbye to the old lady? Ouch! Mom, why did you hit me?"
"Why would I hit you? You've been in the Tong family for quite some time now. You don't even know who the old lady is, do you?
If the master were still alive, not only would we have to work to support him, we could also support the old lady and the young masters in the family.
What a kind and honest man the master is!
And the second young master, if he hadn't helped you back then, you would have been washed away by the flood.
In the entire Tong family, only the master and the second young master are humane.
Now the old lady has given up pretending and is planning to take advantage of the second young master's wife and daughter. If I continue to help the old lady, I will be unworthy of the second young master's kindness in saving you." The maid glared at her youngest son, really wanting to wake him up from his muddled head.
It's already this late, and you still think the old lady is a good person.
If she had stopped it from the beginning, the relationship between the eldest master Tong Simin and the younger master Tong Sihe would not have become what it is now.
The man standing a little further back said, "Little brother, actually, after the New China is established, we can leave.
It’s just that the old master has done a favor to our father, and the second young master has done you a favor, so we have stayed until now.
Now that all those who have done us a favor are gone, there is no need for us to stay in the Tong family and watch the eldest young master and the old lady bully the second young master's wife and daughter.
We don't have the ability to help resist.
If I ignore it, I will feel guilty.
In recent years, policies have become better and better, and we can all get land after returning to our hometown.
If we cultivate the land diligently and add the money my mother and I have saved over the years, our lives will only be better than working here, definitely not worse."
The maid nodded with satisfaction and said, "Did you hear that? That's exactly what your elder brother said. Learn from him in the future."
Okay, don't waste time, let's go quickly, maybe we can catch up with the Second Young Madam and the Second Young Miss, and we can help them."
The woman walking at the end asked, "Mom, if we leave, won't someone else send a telegram to the Second Young Madam?"
The maid said, "The old lady once complained that the address of the second young master's house was too long and she couldn't remember it, so she had someone write it down and keep it in her dressing table.
In the past, in order to make it easier to send letters and telegrams to the Second Young Master, I wrote down a copy for myself. Now the dressing table is gone, and my copy has been torn up. If she wants to find the address again, it will be difficult!
Okay, let’s hurry up and get going.”
After saying that, the family of four rushed to the train station.
They thought that Qin Hanyi, a woman, must have taken Tong Jia away by train. No one expected that Qin Hanyi could actually drive and drove back this time.
When they didn't find Qin Hanyi and Tong Jia at the train station, they thought they had already left, so they bought train tickets back to their hometown and left southern Jiangsu.
In fact, at this time Qin Hanyi and Tong Jia did not leave Southern Jiangsu, but went to Tong Sihe's "secret base".
In order to save time, Qin Hanyi took Tong Jia directly to the stone wall she discovered last night, which was where the last mark was found.
Originally, she wanted Tong Jia to sit down while she went in to check the situation.
As a result, Tong Jia was too light, and after she sat down, the stone wall door seemed to move, but it was probably just shaking, and it had no intention of opening at all.
In the end, Qin Hanyi had to sit down before the stone wall door was opened.
As soon as Qin Hanyi leaves the marked location, the stone wall door will close, and Tong Jia will have to go in alone to check the situation inside.
Qin Hanyi was worried that her daughter would be scared, so before Tong Jia went in, she specifically told her: "Jia Jia, if you are scared, let's leave now.
When you grow up a little bit, Mommy will take some time off and bring you here, how about that? "
Tong Jia shook her head and said, "Mom, it will take more than ten years for me to grow up to be as big as you.
There is such a long time in between. If other people discover this mechanism, the things left by my father will be in danger.
No matter what my father left behind, whether valuable or not, I don’t want those things to be taken away by others.”
"Oh... okay then. Mom will sit at the door. If you encounter any danger, you run outside.
Also, you don't know how deep it is inside. If you need to turn, or if it's too deep or too far inside, don't go any further and get out immediately.
Whenever your mother calls you, you must answer her immediately. Got it?"
Tong Jia nodded obediently. Qin Hanyi then sat on the mark with concern and watched Tong Jia walk in.
There is actually a cave inside the stone wall, and there is indeed a corner.
There is nothing facing the stone wall. You can only see what is inside after walking around the corner.
The area inside is not large, not even as large as the space outside facing the stone wall, but it is filled with boxes.
Tong Jia wanted to open a box to see what was inside, but the lock was too strong and Tong Jia couldn't pull it open. So he found a screwdriver from the space and pried open the lock on the box.
The sound of picking the lock was a bit loud, and Qin Hanyi, who was sitting at the entrance of the stone wall, heard it.
When she first heard the sound, she thought Tong Jia had fallen down.
He immediately asked nervously, "Jia Jia, what happened to you? Did you fall? Are you hurt? Does it hurt?"
Tong Jia checked the contents of the box and replied, "Mom, I'm fine. There was a box in here, but it was too heavy. I tried to drag it out, but I didn't. I accidentally bumped into it, but I'm not hurt."
Mom, wait a moment, I'll see if I can find a way to unlock this box and move the things out separately."
Qin Hanyi said, "Jia Jia, why don't you come out first? I have a toolbox in my car. I'll get it, and you can just use the stuff in the toolbox to pry open the lock on the box."
She and Tong Jia are the people closest to Tong Sihe in this world, except for Old Lady Tong.
Now that he is gone, as his wife and his daughter, Tong Jia, I have the right to open his things directly.
That's why she was going to get the tools from the car and let Tong Jia open the box directly.
Just at this moment, Tong Jia came out with a letter.
She handed the letter to Qin Hanyi and said, "Mom, you don't have to take it from the toolbox.
I used a rock from the cave to break the lock, and I found this letter inside the box. Check to see if Dad left any more messages."
Qin Hanyi took a look at the envelope and found that it was not sealed at all, and there was no signature or name indicating who was receiving it.
It is natural to think that this letter was written by Tong Sihe to himself.
After all, it was Tong Sihe who brought him here. After Tong Sihe left, no one else should know about it except him.
So she took out the letter from the envelope and started reading.
Just by seeing the handwriting, she knew that the letter was not left by Tong Sihe. In addition to the fact that the handwriting was wrong, the letter also began with "Sihe Wuer".
Qin Hanyi said, "Jia Jia, you also want to write this letter to your father. Let's see if it's inappropriate."
"What's inappropriate about that? Grandpa and Dad are both gone, and now Grandpa left something for Dad. If we don't open the letter and take a look, who knows whether the thing is clean or not, and whether we can keep it with us?" Tong Jia persuaded.
In fact, she had just read the contents of the letter.
This letter was written by her grandfather whom she had never met, and the things in the cave were all left by her grandfather for her father.
In the letter, Grandpa said that he had long seen that his eldest son Tong Simin had evil intentions, and that his wife was partial to his eldest son, so he would consciously favor and cultivate his younger son Tong Sihe, hoping that this would balance the relationship between the two children.
However, he seemed to have used the wrong method.
Every time he tried to use his younger son's excellence to motivate his older son, he was always met with hatred from his older son behind his back.
During the time when he sent his younger son to study abroad, he also devoted time and energy to correcting his older son, but unfortunately it was too late.
I wanted to find a good wife for my eldest son, but God was not on his side.
The daughter-in-law found in a scholarly family is also full of worldly spirit.
So, after struggling for a long time, the old man completely gave up on correcting some of his eldest son's behaviors and thoughts.
But after all, he was his own child, and he also foresaw that the situation might change greatly in the future.
This is how the current arrangement was made.
He buried some antique artifacts in the yard where his eldest son lived.
When the family business is divided in the future, as long as the eldest son does not develop any bad habits such as pornography, gambling, and drugs, he can support himself for the rest of his life even by selling those antiques and cultural relics.
As for his grandchildren, he could no longer take care of them.
Also because the eldest son was narrow-minded, in order to protect his younger son, he did not dare to leave any assets to his younger son openly.
He only left some IOUs in the yard.
Most of these debts cannot be recovered.
After seeing this, the eldest son, who bullies the weak and fears the strong, will definitely not compete with the younger son.
And the younger son will definitely be able to make good use of these IOUs, which can be regarded as some of the network resources he left for his younger son.
As for the truly valuable assets, he quietly transferred them behind the stone wall.
I hope these things can help my youngest son and his family live a good life.
In fact, the words between the lines of this letter clearly reveal the author's favoritism towards the youngest son.
After reading it, Tong Jia felt that Mrs. Tong’s favoritism towards her eldest son was nothing.
After all, she is not as far-sighted as Mr. Tong and can not prepare for a rainy day.
Tong Jia checked everything in the cave one by one.
Compared to the things I collected in my previous life, there aren’t many, only five boxes.
There were three boxes of silver ingots, with "Tongzhi Period" engraved on the bottom. They should have been left by the ancestors of the Tong family.
There was a box of gold, mostly gold bars, but there were also gold ingots. Some were engraved with the year, while others were very smooth without any marks, probably because they had been melted later.
There is another box with some miscellaneous items inside.
There are gold bracelets and longevity locks at the beginning, and then there are four boxes.
One is the largest, and inside is a set of ruby head ornaments, which was the dowry of Mr. Tong’s grandmother.
There are also three relatively small boxes, each containing loose silver, loose gold and jewelry of different materials, mainly necklaces, earrings and rings.
Because Mr. Tong specifically stated in his letter that the jewelry could be kept and passed down through the family.
Therefore, Tong Jia put all the other boxes and the ruby headpieces, as well as the box with gold bracelets and longevity locks at the bottom, into the space.
He gave the three relatively small boxes to Qin Hanyi in three batches.
Qin Hanyi read the letter, then looked at the other things, and said with some regret: "Your father's biggest regret was that he couldn't hear your grandfather's last words. Now...
Jia Jia, let's take all these things back and give them to you as a dowry when you get married.
Burn this letter for your father, and let him have his peace of mind."
Tong Jia nodded in agreement, looked around, and said, "Mom, are there still many Tong family members here? Let's go quickly before we get discovered.
If someone finds out, we won’t be able to explain ourselves.”
Qin Hanyi nodded, holding the three boxes in her hands, asked Tong Jia to be careful with her step, and the mother and daughter got into the car together.