Chapter 285 - Another Cranium (2/2)

Shi Baoning kept silent since she entered the room. When Shi Qingxue asked her out of the blue, she was stunned yet then sneered. “Grandpa didn’t take me as Father’s daughter. How would I dare to have such a feeling?”

Shi Qingxue was rendered speechless.

She knew that Shi Baoning was sensitive and the manager’s words stabbed her heart like the sharpest thorn.

“…Baoning, you misunderstand it.” Shi Qingxue defended Shi Lei with difficulty. “Grandpa must not think so. It’s…”

She racked her brains but couldn’t find proper words.

Meeting Shi Baoning’s eyes with sarcasm, Shi Qingxue felt that her heart hurt, as if being stabbed by a needle.

Suddenly, she had a brain wave and stated decisively, “Grandpa loved you so much and would never say something like that. Didn’t I say that just now? The boss of the manager might have passed away, and his boss was entrusted by Grandpa and then gave the job to him. Three people were involved, so it is normal if he made a mistake.”

She tried her best to speak for Shi Lei and almost said everything nice as she didn’t hope that Shi Baoning would misunderstand their grandpa.

However, Shi Baoning remained unmoved after Shi Qingxue’s words. She just stared at her younger sister coldly, making her at a loss.

“Fine!” Shi Junhe couldn’t bear to see that and interrupted the two sisters’ stalemate. He forcefully ended this subject. “Now it’s not the time to talk about this issue. Qingxue, just open it first and check what on earth it is.”

Seeing that all of them didn’t pay attention to the suspicious manager, Shi Qingxue had to open the red cloth obediently and show the stuff inside.

“Gee?”

A white piece with an arc was revealed out of the red cloth, and it was like a…human bone.

“Ah!”

When Shi Baoning realized what was in Shi Qingxue’s hand, she screamed and hid behind Wenren Chi. She trembled and didn’t dare to look at Shi Qingxue.

In the beginning, all people didn’t overreact but were shocked by her action.

Although Shi Qingxue also felt frightened, especially when this human bone was grabbed in her hand directly and being watched, she still restrained her fear and continued to observe the bone.

She was so scared that she swallowed, while she still fumbled on the bone tentatively.

Judging from this bone’s arc and size, it must be a cranium.

And…when she touched the inside of the arc with her finger, she paused all of a sudden and subconsciously looked up at Mo Junyang. “Here…”

As soon as she started to speak, she was stopped by Mo Junyang. They were so close that they didn’t need to talk but understood what the other party wanted to express only by a glance.

Shi Qingxue wondered why Mo Junyang stopped her suddenly at this time, yet she shut up by instinct because she trusted this man.

The others were petrified by the fact that the so-called relic was a cranium and didn’t notice their interaction.

After a moment, Shi Junhe said with certainty, “This is definitely not my father’s cranium.”

Shi Qingxue nodded and took it for granted. “Of course, I saw that the skeleton was intact in Grandma’s dark room, and Grandpa would never ask somebody to cut off his cranium and then give it to me as a keepsake in a few years, right?”

Only at this thought, she felt horrified.

If Shi Lei really did that, Shi Qingxue must not be his most loved granddaughter, but the most hated one.

However, there was another question.

If it was not Shi Lei’s, whose cranium was this in Shi Qingxue’s hand?

It couldn’t be that Shi Lei kept an enemy’s cranium after killing him and then told somebody to give it to his little granddaughter after he died, with a purpose to test if she was bold enough.

On second thought…it was incredible.

When all people racked their brains but couldn’t figure it out, Mo Junyang suddenly said, “If I guess right, this cranium must be a woman’s.”

Shi Qingxue didn’t doubt how Mo Shujun made such a conclusion and asked directly, “Whose?”

However, Mo Junyang shrugged to express that he didn’t know, either.

Then he looked at Shi Junhe and stated casually, “We can guess a little when we face only a cranium, and Qingxue said just now that the manager of The You’s Pawnshop is suspicious. General Shi, you can start with this.”

Shi Junhe’s eyes lit up, and he clapped. “Right, let’s investigate that manager first.”

After that, he summoned Shi Jie and told him to investigate.

During the period, Mo Junyang grabbed Shi Qingxue’s hand, and they left the study.

After Shi Junhe finished everything, only Dong Hui, Shi Baoning and Wenren Chi were left in the study.

It became weird all of a sudden.