The old house in the yard was not locked. Xia Chuqi gently pushed open the door of the old house, and with a creak, the already old door slowly opened, and a faint smell of musty came into his nose at this time. ￣︶︺

It seems that this place does not come here normally, and it is not that there are people coming to clean it every day, and it is close to the lake, so it smells of moistness.

Xia Chuqi frowned slightly, stretched out his hand and waved it, and simply opened the door to drive away the musty smell here.

Taking advantage of the sunshine pouring out of the door, Xia Chuqi looked up at the old house. In my memory, she came to this remote backyard very rarely and had no impression of the old house. Maybe she came here when she was naughty when she was young, but because she was too young, she couldn't remember it now...

The layout of the old house is very simple. Apart from a bamboo bed and a wardrobe in the inner room, there is only a old wooden table and a few chairs in the hall, a chest of drawers against the wall, and a dust-looking vase on it.

Xia Chuqi reached out to stroke the wooden table and found that there was a layer of dust on it. There was no doubt that no one came to clean it recently. It was not surprising to think about it. Since it was said that it was haunted and no one lived there, the maids did not dare to come over easily.

She shrugged, walked to the chest of drawers, and pulled open the first drawer, and found that it was not empty inside, and there were some small things on it.

She picked up one of the small tops, looked at them carefully for a while, and looked at the obvious marks on them, a picture quickly appeared in her mind.

This gyro was a toy she liked very much when she was a child. At that time, she accidentally fell off the table and made a clear mark. However, she lost it somehow and could not find it anyway...

She cried a lot at that time. In order to comfort her, her elder brother bought her many novel toys, and she gradually forgot the lost gyro.

But how could this toy that I lost when I was a child be placed in this remote house without a living place, and be specially kept in the drawer of the chest of drawers?

Whether it is family, maid or housekeeper Chen, he found this gyro because he gave it to her and would not store it in this chest of drawers...

With doubts, Xia Chuqi opened the second drawer again and found some yellow paper and photos inside. She picked up a piece of yellow paper and looked at it, and saw a line of characters on it.

These characters seemed to be Moss' Code. Xia Chuqi had no time to study it carefully, so he picked up the paper with Moss' Code and put it away, and then picked up the photo and looked at it curiously.

The photo is a group photo. The pretty woman is clearly her mother. She was holding a child in her hand and standing with another old-looking woman. Both of them had a slight smile on their faces.

The older woman in the photo looks a little familiar. Xia Chuqi carefully checked and found that the older lady's eyebrows were very similar to that of the white old lady!

She picked up the photo and looked at the time in the corner. It was twenty-two years ago. My mother was still young at that time, and the older lady who took a photo with her mother did not have a head of white hair...

Calculate the birth time, this baby in the cradle held by his mother should be himself!

So Old Lady Bai did not lie to herself. She and her mother really knew each other, and she looked good. As Old Lady Bai said before, she had seen herself in her cradle and took a photo!

But why did my father repeatedly deny it, and even say that the old lady white was lying?

What did my father want to hide from him? Did my father deliberately hide this photo, or did he not know at all?

Xia Chuqiu was puzzled and hesitated for a moment and decided to put away the photo, close the drawer, and open the third floor at the bottom.

There was nothing else in this drawer, only a small and delicate box with a lock on it.

Xia Chuqi picked up the box and shook it. When he heard something rolling inside, he became more and more curious. If there was a mother's thing in the second drawer, then there must be a deeper secret in the locked box on the third floor, and this secret must be related to mother!

She took out the box carefully, blew the dust on it, and then closed the drawer. She was about to study whether the lock of the box was easy to open when she heard a slight movement from the inner room.

"Who is it?" Xia Chuqiyi heard the movement, and immediately put down the box and shouted and rushed to the inner room. However, she saw a bamboo bed in the inner room empty. She immediately opened the door of the wardrobe, but found that there was no hidden person inside. Instead, a fat mouse squeaked and rushed out of the cabinet, and escaped by Xia Chuqi's feet.

Suddenly seeing the mouse, Xia Chuqi screamed strangely. Feng Xun and Noah, who were originally guarding the yard, heard her scream and immediately rushed in.

"Little girl, is it okay?" Feng Xun rushed to the inner room and saw that Xia Chuqi was safe and sound. He then breathed a sigh of relief and asked with concern: "I heard your scream just now..."

"It's nothing. When I heard something happening in the inner room, I came in and saw if someone was pretending to be a fool. But when I opened the door of the wardrobe, I saw a mouse!"

Xia Chuqi patted his chest, shook his head and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that no one came to this old house for too long, and he was patronized by mice!"

"Rat?" Noah wandered on the streets and had long been accustomed to rats. When he heard Xia Chuqi say this, he couldn't help but curiously approaching the wardrobe and look at it, and hesitantly said, "Auntie, don't you say that this is an abandoned yard, and no one comes here?"

"Yes, what's wrong?" Xia Chuqi nodded and had already come back to his senses from the fright of seeing the mouse.

"Then are there any garbage cans or garbage cans nearby?" Noah asked curiously again.

"Of course not, it's just a lake nearby..." Xia Chuqi shook his head and smiled.

"That's strange. No one is here, I don't see any food on the table or in the cabinet, and there are no garbage cans or garbage piles nearby. It's impossible to have any food at all. Why did the rat appear here?"

Noah's doubts immediately reminded Xia Chuqi.

"Noah, you're right. There's no food here. It's impossible for mice to make nests. How could they slip into the house for a long time?"

Xia Chuqi frowned slightly, squatted down and checked carefully, wanting to see if there was a mouse hole in the wardrobe.

Feng Xun walked to the window, opened the thick curtains, and found that although the window was closed, it was not locked. He asked thoughtfully: "Little girl, have the windows here been unlocked?"
Chapter completed!