"Oh?" Chu Tianyi's heart moved, "What about later?"

Mr. Tao continued, "I wondered if he had something to look for your grandfather, so I wanted to go over and tell him. As a result, as soon as I said 'ah', the man turned around and left quickly."

"Leave?" Chu Tianyi couldn't help but frowned slightly, "What kind of person is he?"

Mr. Tao shook his head slightly, "It was quite late at that time. He left quickly. I couldn't see clearly, but he just looked like a young girl."

"Young girl?" Chu Tianyi murmured to himself and lowered his head to think, and suddenly a name appeared in his mind, "Gu Xiaoqian?"

"What's ancient?" Mr. Tao asked curiously, "Is there anything wrong?"

Chu Tianyi shook his head, "Oh, no, it's okay."

"It's fine," Mr. Tao nodded, "Tianyi, you have often been away from home in recent years. I don't know that our street has opened many antique shops. In addition to the old stores we used to have, this time it has become an antique street!"

Chu Tianyi nodded, "That's a good thing. Once it reaches a scale, everyone will think of this first when they want to buy antiques."

Mr. Tao sighed, "That's what I said, but it's a bit messy when there are too many people. There are often waves of scammers who are trying to mess around at the intersection of the street."

"Oh?" Chu Tianyi asked curiously, "How to touch the car?"

Mr. Tao shook his head, "Actually, it's not a clever technique, it's all the tricks of the market during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. In short, be careful."

Chu Tianyi couldn't help but frowned, "Why no one called the police?"

"Hi," Mr. Tao sighed, "They basically seek out tourists from other places or women, and they usually cooperate with several people, some of whom are scared and some are persuasive. When the person who was cheated was a little confused, they thought they had really touched them. In addition, the money is not too much, basically only a few hundred yuan. So most people choose to calm down."

"I'll go!" Chu Tianyi snorted coldly, "If I meet, I can't spare these people! It's a good street, and they're making it messy." Chu Tianyi still has feelings for the place where he grew up.

After seeing off Mr. Tao, Chu Tianyi sat on the chair, and couldn't help but think of the secret box that Gu Xiaoqian and her said...

In the next few days, Chu Tianyi began to deal with the antique shop. He first took all the antiques and cultural relics in the store one by one and carefully studied them. After all, if a store doesn’t even know what he sells, what else can he talk about attracting customers!

Fortunately, Chu Tianyi's grandfather was very serious in his work, and every item in the store had corresponding records. Comparing these records, and Chu Tianyi had learned some more and more from his grandfather over the years, so he did these jobs twice the result with half the effort.

Most industries like antique shops don’t open for half a year, and they’re in a state of eating for half a year, but Chu Tianyi’s pocket has less and less money, and he even worried that he would starve to death in less than half a year.

One day, just as Chu Tianyi was cleaning up the cabinets at the top of the shelf, he accidentally discovered that the roof beams were a little different.

The thick beams are high above, and they are covered with dust over the years, but there is only one location that is relatively clean. It seems that someone will touch it occasionally.

This discovery made Chu Tianyi very curious. He brought a ladder to climb up the roof beam, reached out to touch it, and found a square hole above the roof beam, and a wooden box was placed on the square hole.

Chu Tianyi's heart moved. Could this be the secret box that Gu Xiaoqian mentioned? He quickly took it down and looked at it, and found that it was just an ordinary box. There were some letters and an album inside.

Chu Tianyi didn't quite understand why grandfather put such an ordinary wooden box so secretly?

Chu Tianyi is actually not unfamiliar with the photo album in this wooden box. He often took it out when he was young. Later, Chu Tianyi gradually grew up and then left home to study, and the photo album was slowly put on the shelf. Later, I didn’t know where the photo album was placed, but I didn’t expect to find it again today.

Chu Tianyi took down the wooden box and sat at the table to flip. There were some photos of his parents in the album and several photos of his family, but Chu Tianyi was still in his infancy at that time. Because his parents left early, Chu Tianyi's memory of their appearance was basically in the photo.

As for the letters in the wooden box, many of them were sent back by Chu Tianyi's father Chu Chu Chuan when he was working outside. Chu Chuan was a teacher at Lincang University of Geosciences and was often invited to follow the inspection team to carry out some exploration work across the country. Sometimes he went there for more than half a year, so Chu Chuan would often write letters to his home, and sometimes he would also attach a work photo to his letter. Chu Tianyi's grandfather would save the photos and letters.

When he was young, his grandfather often showed these photos to Chu Tianyi and read Chu Chu Chuan's letter to him, and he would also give him a lot of things about Chu Chuan when he was young. After he grew up, Chu Tianyi began to understand his grandfather's intentions. Through these, he learned about his father's personality, character, even his way of dealing with others, and how to think about problems. Because of this, although Chu Tianyi and his father were together for a short time, he seemed to be familiar with his father in terms of feeling, and deep down, he thought that he knew his father.

At this time, Chu Tianyi was touching these photos. Every face on it was so kind and kind, they seemed to be looking at him and smiling. Chu Tianyi understood that these people closest to him had left him at this time, which made his heart feel like a knife for a moment.

Chu Tianyi closed the album and flipped the letters below. Suddenly he found that there were several magazines and a letter he had never seen before at the bottom of the wooden box.

He opened these magazines and found that although they looked very new, they were basically journals published more than ten years ago, with some content related to antique collections. I think it was bought by my grandfather, but in Chu Tianyi's impression, my grandfather never reads magazines.

Chu Tianyi took out one of them in confusion and looked through them carefully, but did not find any special place. However, the number written on the title page attracted his attention, and not just this one, but all magazines had such numbers. Chu Tianyi kept thinking about it, but these numbers were neither like phone numbers, nor their birthdays, nor their directions. After thinking for a long time, Chu Tianyi had no idea and had to give up. He felt that he was thinking too much, and these numbers might just be numbers, which had no meaning.

Putting down the magazine, he picked up the letter he had never seen before. From the envelope, he saw that the recipient was grandpa, and the sender was Lincang University of Geosciences where Chu Chuchuan used to work. "Is it sent by Dad's School?" Chu Tianyi said to himself and took out the letter.

Looking at the yellowed letter paper, the content on it was not long, but after reading the whole article, Chu Tianyi was stunned as if he was struck by lightning.

Judging from the date, the letter was sent shortly after Chu Tianyi's father Chu Chu Chuan's accident. The content of the letter was not complicated. First, it expressed condolences to Chu Chu Chuan's unexpected disappearance, and then praised Chu Chuan's contribution to geology over the years, but finally changed the subject. The letter mentioned that if something happened to the scientific research team, except for the missing team leader Chu Chu Chuan, all the others were killed. Chu Chu Chuan's missing place was close to the national border, and he had a lot of geological research information, some of which were confidential. Therefore, it is inevitable that some aspects of speculation that Chu Chu Chuan had crossed the border privately. The letter was sent by the school on behalf of the relevant departments, hoping that if Mr. Chu Xiubai received any information about Chu Chuan, he could contact the school or the police in time.
Chapter completed!