“Bureau Qi and Vice Bureau Xu have both been double-regulated, no one in the bureau is giving me a hard time for now, I asked someone to say hello and I was released. I came over to see you today because I wanted to discuss a very important matter.” Zhao Zichen took a deep breath of cool air and said, “Surnamed Yue, I have to ask you what your position is first.”
Zhao Zichen was not very polite to Yue Man Gong, and Yue Man Gong was similar to Zhao Zichen. Yue Man Gong didn’t answer the question, but looked at me.
I said, “Don’t worry, he is one of our own. You can trust him. What exactly are you going to say?”
I always felt that something was wrong with Zhao Zichen, but for a moment I couldn’t tell. Zhao Zichen looked tired. He rarely looked like this, he was so smart and daring and adventurous, most of the time he was full of ambition, but now he looked like he was in some kind of trouble.
Zhao Zichen was a bit anxious and took a cigarette and held it in his mouth, “We have to find a way to get that thing that your aunt has.”
He said it in a very subtle way, a bit defensive of Yue Man Gong. I said, “Yue Man Gong is one of our own, there’s no need to hide it from him. I’ve already told Moon Man-bow about the notebook, I just don’t know what’s so important about it.”
I thought it was nothing more than my mother’s diary, how could so many people be eyeing a diary?
But judging from the secrecy of the diary, I could guess that what was written in it was not ordinary.
This time it wasn’t Zhao Zichen who couldn’t trust Yue Man Gong, it was Yue Man Gong who asked, “Is this place reliable?”
“My place, Zhao Zichen’s place, do you think it’s reliable?”
“Heh, it’s because it’s your Zhao family’s place that I’m asking this.”
“You ……,” Zhao Zichen glared at Yue Man Gong with no good grace.
Chu Xiaoxiao and I looked at each other, why were these two so thick with gunpowder?
I said, “Okay, okay, let’s not infight ourselves. I trust both of you, what is going on?”
Only then did Yue Man Gong let out a long sigh and said, “It was only a few days ago that I heard about this from my master, I found out the truth about the extermination of the Yin family on the boat last time and went back to ask my master. Back then, the Yin family was exterminated, but the huge amount of property was unaccounted for. The house, which could not be taken away, was burned by the Yin family, and the eight families did not get anything. But all the valuable gold bars, antiques, paintings, jade and other items disappeared. According to legend, all these things were hidden in an absolutely safe place. The Yin family head kept a notebook of the place where all these treasures were hidden.”
“That’s the same diary my mother had? How could the Yoon family have something in her possession?” I asked, stunned.
From the way Yin Qiang treated my mother, I could already tell that my mother had a lot to do with the Yin family and was a major player in the jianghu. But how could the Yin family head entrust such an important item to her, what kind of trust was that?
“No, my mother was still a young girl when the Yin family was wiped out, how could the notebook be entrusted to her?”
Zhao Zichen said, “No one would know about that. Back then, when the Jianghu were fighting, everyone said that they were doing justice for Heaven, but in fact, they were all after the Yin family’s property, otherwise they wouldn’t have spared even a child. Only by killing them all could they inherit the family fortune in an honorable manner. Oh, this is the jianghu giants, how disgusting.”
Yue Man Gong said with dissatisfaction, “Even if the Jianghu is hypocritical, it’s not your turn to say so, surnamed Zhao.”
Seeing that these two were about to argue again, I was busy separating them and pressed one hand against the chest of one to stop them from continuing their tit-for-tat.
Yue Man Gong said, “I’ve also asked Master. Master said that the notebook wasn’t pa*sed down to your mother, but to the last Yin family male, and that the Ji family secretly adopted the boy behind the entire Jianghu.”
I hadn’t spoken to Chu Xiaoxiao about the jianghu, and she listened in a cloud of confusion, but I was beyond shocked.
Forty years ago, the Ji family dared to secretly adopt the Yin family, that was making an enemy of the entire Jianghu.
I asked, “What happened afterwards? How could the descendants of the Yin family have given away this notebook.”
Yue Man Gong said, “No one really knows. People from several clans found nothing of value in the Yin family’s ruins and guessed that the valuable items had been moved. Later, a member of the Yin family who wanted to live gave an account of the hidden treasure notebook. The Seven Families demanded that the Ji family hand over the Yin family descendants, and the Ji family did not agree. Then after that, Ge Lao proposed a Jianghu covenant that the eight great families could not kill each other or fight and kill the Yin family again for no reason, otherwise they would be public enemies of the Jianghu. Although the eight families were jealous of the Ji family, there was nothing they could do. Not long afterwards, the Ji family retired to the mountains, and only your mother lived in Tong City after marrying Zhang Jun. But that notebook was always with her. It was known to the whole world. Only no one dared to rob it. The notebook’s skin was made of fireproof lizard skin, but there was a mechanism in the lock hole, filled with kerosene, and unless you used a key, if you poked the lock hole, the notebook would burn to the ground from the inside.”
I don’t know exactly what happened back then, but from just a few words, I could feel the breathless atmosphere back then.
This gang of Jianghu warriors were not bound by the government and did whatever they wanted, which is why the Yin family could actually make a living out of a*sa*sination, and why the Jianghu crowd behind them could actually hunt down and kill the Yin family.
I clenched my fist and could not speak, Zhao Zichen and Yue Man Gong also fell into silence, and the room was silent.
Suddenly, Chu Xiaoxiao asked, “What about which Yin family’s young boy?”
Zhao Zichen shook his head and said, “God knows where he went, and there has been no sign of him since. Probably went into hiding with the Ji family.”
Chu Xiaoxiao held her chin and asked, “How can you be sure that what Zhang Chao’s mother is holding is the real notebook, and maybe the one she’s holding is a fake?”
The three of us were stunned and Moon Man Bow asked, “What are you trying to say?”
Chu Xiaoxiao thought for a moment and said, “It’s just my blind guess. You see, originally everyone was going after this young boy from the Yin family, and I didn’t know how effective that Jianghu covenant of yours really was. After all, the Yin family had been killed to the point where there weren’t many people left, and by killing this little boy, who knows if anyone would do justice for him. But Zhang Chao’s mother is different, she is a member of a large family, and as the saying goes, even a dog must look at its master, if she is touched, the Ji family will definitely take revenge, and when the time comes, they will open a Jianghu pact and together they will crush the family that did it. And haven’t you noticed, since everyone knows that Zhang Chao’s mother has the notebook, no one seems to care where the little boy went?”
“That’s really true.” I sucked in a breath of cold air, Chu Xiaoxiao had a point, “My mother did that to distract the others.”
Moon Man Bow also dawned on me, “According to Master, it does seem like something your mother’s character would do.”
