Chapter 14: The Secrets of the Cinerary Caske (2/2)
On hearing this, He Zheng clenched his teeth. 'Then the true part must be Qiao Peiyu giving father pillow talk to have him marry me to Li Zong.'
Since Qiao Peiyu had done that, naturally she would have a backup plan. He Zheng was no fool and he soon figured it out. ”I think I know who is so eager to kill me.” No outsiders hated him so deeply. Except for Qiao Peiyu and her son, he couldn't think of a third person who could have gone to so much trouble to try to kill him.
”Who is it? Tell grandfather. Grandfather will help you get justice.” Old Master Zhu's face instantly darkened.
He Zheng shook his head. Suddenly, He Zheng asked Li Zong, ”Is there anything else that you came to my grandfather's place for?”
Seemingly somewhat surprised that He Zheng's intuition was so keen, Li Zong fished a little black lacquered box out of his pocket and placed it in front of all people present.
”This box dropped out of that lacquered wooden casket of yours. There were half a page of divinatory symbols and a jade pendant.”
”That lacquered wooden casket? There was this thing in it?” He Zheng was astonished. After saying this, he fell silent as that weird dream sprang to mind.
Before he came to Zhu family, he had once had a dream, in which his mother, who passed away over ten years ago, implored him to bring her cremains back to Shen City...
”Does this by any chance have anything to do with my dream?” He Zheng mumbled.
”What kind of dream?”
He Zheng told them all about it from first to last.
When a deceased relative appeared in someone's dream, either this living person had unduly deep affection for the deceased one and missed him or her too much, or... the deceased one had something to tell the living one. They carefully pondered over the conversation between He Zheng and his mother. A thought seemed to have suddenly struck Old Master Zhu. ”Wait – Li Zong, what did you say were in the box?”
Li Zong directly opened that little lacquered box in front of them. In it, there were a page of divinatory symbols half of which had been burnt, and a glittering translucent emerald pendant.
On the sight of the things in the box, Old Master Zhu and those behind him got such a shock that their faces changed drastically.
”Is this...!”