Chapter 386 : Green Plum Meets Wine 37 (1/2)

Yao Qin had drunk a little too much, so she couldn’t recall much of what had happened. All she could remember was that someone was forcing her to drink.

Shi Sheng didn’t tell her the matter behind it.

“Sheng Xia, did I cause trouble for you?” Yao Qin looked like a child that had done wrong, as she stood in front of Shi Sheng.

“No, don’t think too much on it.”

“Oh.”

Yao Qin scratched her head, her gaze catching sight of the A4 paper in Shi Sheng’s hand. She asked, rather curiously, “Why’re you looking at this again?”

‘She was looking at it before too.’

“Because I don’t know what mysteries lie within.” Shi Sheng sighed. ‘I’ve got no leads at all; how am I supposed to read this?’

“Mysteries? What mysteries?” Yao Qin moved closer. “…Eh?”

“What is it?”

Yao Qin straightened out the paper and examined it for quite a while. “These numbers look a bit familiar.”

“Wait a sec. I’ll ask my dad.” Yao Qin rushed over to the living room to make the call. Shi Sheng followed her.

“Dad, do you still remember how three months ago, you took me to S Country to go to that ‘Secret’ organisation?”

“Right, right! Do you still remember the serial number? 42492702S? Oh, nothing, nothing. Just asking. Hm, okay. Bye bye.”

“Sheng Xia, Sheng Xia!” Yao Qin excitedly turned around. “It’s that organisation’s serial number!”

“What organisation?”

“It’s a private safe-keeping organisation. I think my dad went to collect something belonging to my grandad…seems like it’s been around for a while. All the boxes start with 42492. I was curious, so I asked. The employee told me it was the birthday of their founder and his wife, and the story behind founding the organisation. It was really touching, so I remembered it clearly. The ‘S’ is an abbreviation for ‘Secret’, which is the name of their organisation.”

“Xiao Yao Qin, you’re finally of some use!” Shi Sheng smiled and patted Yao Qin’s head.

“Ah? Oh, glad I could help.” Yao Qin scratched her head.

……

Shi Sheng took a flight to that safe-keeping organisation in S Country. It was just like how Yao Qin had described it.

The only thing was, Shi Sheng had to key in the password herself. And she only had four chances.

She experimentally tried keying in Sheng Xia’s birthday, but that was wrong. She then tried keying in her parents’ birthdays, but that was wrong too.

“Try 819741.” Yu Jiu reminded.

Shi Sheng had already made the decision that if this last attempt didn’t work, she’d just hack it open, so she entered the numbers without any hesitation. But unexpectedly, it opened.

She shot him an odd look.

Yu Jiu laughed lightly. “It’s the serial number on that document. Have you forgotten?”

Shi Sheng suddenly recalled—those numbers had been the document’s serial code.

Sheng Xia’s parents left behind a lot of things relating to that plot of land. There was a completed version of the contract, as well as the materials that they had been preparing to hand over to the government.

And there were photographs…of the diamonds.

Within a vast, natural chasm which had been formed from the movement of the Earth’s crust, one could vaguely make out a few specks of light.

But most importantly, there was a video of the meeting between them and Yang Huairen.

They had wanted to hand these over to the government, but were pursued by Yang Huairen before they could do so. Hence, they could only hide them here.

On the flight back home, Shi Sheng leaned against Yu Jiu as she stared at the layers of clouds outside the window. “Wouldn’t you say they were dumb?”

‘Why go to that extent? Why forfeit their lives just to hand these things to the government?’

Yu Jiu ruffled Shi Sheng’s hair. “They’re not. Everyone has a pair of scales in their hearts, with light on one side and darkness on the other. Some like the darkness, while others like the light. They just preferred the light, so their scales tilted to that side.”

“That’s still dumb.” Shi Sheng spoke indistinctly. “Then do you prefer the light or darkness?”

Yu Jiu stared off into the distance, his gaze gentle and peaceful. “Wherever you are is where my light is. You are the only light I yearn for.”