Chapter 820: The Secret from Many Years Ago

In addition, a few guest rooms need to be prepared; if it gets too late or in a situation like the current one, there will be a place to stay.

Once the idea had a rough shape, it was soon put into practice.

The old master and mistress of the Jin Family are returning to A Country; they are very busy, and it was already not easy for them to stay in Jiangzhou for a few days, yet these few days were all wasted arguing with Ji Yingjie.

Ji Yingjie is also leaving; there are a mountain of matters in the Ji Family, and it is already her limit to be able to stay in Jiangzhou for a few more days.

Everyone is busy, so they should just go their separate ways, but no!

I don't know what Grandma and Aunt are thinking, leaving together, and even booking the same flight.

They boarded the plane in a lively manner, and no one knows about anything else.

……

The selection of the site for the Club began.

Everyone expressed their own opinions and provided several plans, and in the end, they all favored one place—the original Mingzhu Clubhouse!

Mingzhu Clubhouse was originally an asset of Zhu Yiwen; when he was preparing to erode the assets of Sheng Hanyu, he purchased properties next to every one of the top industries, and this Club was one of them.

The location is suitable, the quality of the building is beyond reproach, the layout is very reasonable, and there are even secret rooms.

They can be used to hide some valuable things or to avoid danger.

It must be said that Zhu Yiwen is still quite talented at times, but he didn't use it in the right place.

This place has been abandoned for a long time; Sheng Hanyu bought it for very little money and then prepared to renovate and tidy it up.

"Bang!"

"Bang, bang!"

"Bang—"

When the laborer was chiseling a non-load-bearing wall, he discovered that the wall had a sandwich layer and dug a metal box out of the wall.

It was a very ordinary box with a padlock hanging on it.

When this box was placed on the coffee table, several people looked at the box and looked at each other in dismay.

Hidden so secretively, it should be very important.

But shouldn't very important things be given at least the minimum respect?

Just hanging a padlock on it?

The small lock isn't even big; it could be pried open with just about anything.

Jian Yining brought a screwdriver, preparing to open the box: "I'll handle this manual labor."

No one fought him for it; go ahead.

The padlock on the box was pried open easily with the screwdriver; lifting the lid, inside was a diary and a stack of letters.

The content began to make everyone slightly disappointed because it wasn't Zhu Yiwen's stuff.

However, very quickly, the content aroused everyone's gossiping nature.

The diary was written by a woman, and the content was all related to Zhu Yiwen.

The era of the letters was about the same as the diary, and the envelopes had all yellowed a bit.

The woman was from Jiangzhou.

Judging from the content in the diary, the woman loved Zhu Yiwen deeply and gave birth to his first son.

The two of them did indeed spend a period of wonderful time together, but after the child was born, Zhu Yiwen disappeared, and he disappeared with the child!

The woman missed the child like a madwoman, and missed Zhu Yiwen.

She looked everywhere for Zhu Yiwen and the child, but unfortunately, she searched every place she could, yet she had no leads at all.

The woman also wrote letters to Zhu Yiwen, many letters; between the lines, they revealed despair and hatred, but also deep affection.

She wrote quite a few letters, but there was nowhere to send them; only after being deceived did the woman realize she knew nothing about Zhu Yiwen, but she swore she would find him and find the child.

The date of the letters happened to be when Shi Youxuan was preparing to go abroad back then.

Shi Youxuan guessed that the reason she met Zhu Yiwen at the airport at that time was because of this woman.

The woman doesn't know if she is still in this world, but in any case, Zhu Yiwen never mentioned it, yet these things are evidence of his evil deeds.

It can be seen from the diary that Zhu Yiwen deceived the woman into bearing him a child and then dumped her; he just wanted a child.

Zhu Yiwen only cared about interests; other than being able to bear him a child, the woman was of no help to his career, so he abandoned the woman without the slightest hesitation.

He tried every possible way to keep Shi Youxuan back then because she was of great help to his business empire, which is why he racked his brains and used every method to try to keep her.

Shi Youxuan felt it wasn't worth it for that woman.

The woman was a romantic fool; even though she was scarred and wounded, she still loved him deeply!

Calculating by time, the one the woman gave birth to should be Zhu Yiwen's second son—Zhu Qingrui.

His eldest son, Zhu Qingxiang, should not have been born to this woman, because she never mentioned him at all.

The birth mother of Zhu Qingxiang is unknown, but most likely she was just another pitiful woman.

Zhu Qingrui has half the bloodline of a Jiangzhou person.

Shi Youxuan wanted to plead with her aunt to let those two children of his go, but before she could speak, Nianyin told her: "Zhu Yiwen's two sons have run away."

It is not easy to run away from the Ji Family, and they didn't just run away themselves; they also stole quite a bit of money from the Ji Family.

These two children were not as timid as they appeared; everyone had misjudged them.

Shi Youxuan: "How long have they been gone?"

Nianyin: "It's been over a month; Mother wouldn't let me tell you because she was afraid you would laugh at her."

Shi Youxuan: ……

No wonder Aunt hasn't been staying at the Ji Family during this time and has been flying back and forth; it turns out she was catching those two children of Zhu Yiwen.

……

Shi Family.

The residential complex.

The junk collector hadn't come for many days, and Shi Yuke, peering from the windowsill, couldn't see anyone, so she wanted to go out and look.

"Where are you going?" Shi Yucheng blocked the doorway.

Her gaze darted away, not daring to meet her father's eyes: "I, I want to go out and play."

Shi Yuke's little schemes could never escape her father's eyes.

"Where do you want to go play? Let Shi Liu go with you."

"No need, no need, I can go out by myself; let Shi Liu stay with Dad."

She wanted to go to Gu Zhihao's house to see if he was there.

Was he sick?

If Shi Liu followed, she wouldn't be able to go at all.

"You want to go to Gu Zhihao's house, don't you?" Shi Yucheng exposed her in one sentence.

She twisted her hands together; her father had guessed right.

Her father wouldn't let her go out and told her: "A daughter from a good family doesn't pine after a married man; didn't you see how his wife looked at you as if you were a thief?"

"If you go to their house, what will his wife think?"

She said in a tiny voice: "I'll just go take a look, just one look and I'll come right back, I won't be discovered by the fat auntie."

Shi Yuke had changed how she addressed everyone, but she hadn't changed how she addressed Gu Zhihao's wife; she still called her the fat auntie.

"You, why are you still so spineless even after living a second life?" Shi Yucheng felt frustrated that she wouldn't improve.

He regarded his daughter's amnesia and regression into a childlike state as a rebirth.

He taught his daughter that a thief is a burglar, someone who is hated and disliked by everyone.

She was very afraid of people not liking her, so she didn't want to be a "thief."

But she still wouldn't give up.

Shi Yuke negotiated with her father: "I'll pretend to pass by, just to see if he's home; I promise not to say a single word, and I won't even look at him, okay?"

Since things had reached this point, Shi Yucheng also hoped to make his daughter give up, so he agreed: "Fine, I'll go with you."

The father and daughter went to Gu Zhihao's house, sneaking around, truly acting like thieves.

But when they arrived at his door—no one was there.

An iron lock hung brightly on the door; no one was home, and they didn't know why.

"Let's go back, no one's here," Shi Yucheng said.

"Where could they have gone? Dad, do you think he's sick?" She dawdled, not wanting to leave.

The landlord came out: "Oh, isn't this little Shi? Here to look for little Gu?"