Chapter 463
Seeing her go in so straight away, Lu Qi felt that if he didn’t go in, he wouldn’t be a man, he wouldn’t even be as good as a woman.
After taking a deep breath, Lu Qi shivered and followed her into the old mansion.
The old mansion, which had not been inhabited for a long time, was covered with cobwebs and dust, and looked quite like one of those haunted mansions in movies.
It was no wonder that Ah Qi had just said that there were no ghosts.
Rongshu thought as she wiped a handful of dust off the table.
“Baby.” Lu Qi’s voice rang out from behind her.
Rongshu patted the dust off her hand, “What’s wrong?”
“Where did you put your grandfather’s notes?” Lu Qi was holding a long broom he had found from somewhere, waving it around as he asked.
Rongshu pointed in the direction of the study, “It’s over there, but it’s too dirty here, so I’ll clean it first and then go over to find the notes later.”
“It’s time to clean, otherwise we won’t even be able to stay tonight.” Lu’s head agreed.
Rongshu opened her suitcase and took out a few towels she had brought from it, “Let’s get started then.”
“Okay, you wipe the tables and chairs and all that, I’ll strangle the cobwebs and sweep the floor.” Lu Qi said as he stopped wielding the broom.
Rongshu hmphed, “Okay then, that’s it, I’ll go fetch water from the well.”
Saying that, she took the towel and went to the backyard.
There was an ancient well there that had water in it all year round.
Soon the two got busy.
It was several hours of work, and it was not until four in the afternoon that the two cleaned the large courtyard.
By this time, they were already exhausted and rested on a tai-shi chair.
Lu Qi breathed heavily, “Baby, I …… I’ve grown up, it’s the first time I’ve done so much cleaning, I’m exhausted.”
“Sorry Ah Qi, it’s hard for you, I’ll make some delicious treats for you later.” Rongshu also gasped with exhaustion.
Lu Qi’s eyes glowed as she nodded, “Sure, I want to eat fish, but is there any fish here?”
“Yes.” Rongshu sat up straight and rubbed her somewhat sore back, “There is a village on the slope below, the village head’s family has fish, a few years ago, I even went to buy some, so just go to the village head’s house to buy it later.”
“That would be great.” Lu Qi clapped his hands happily.
Rongshu stood up, “Ah Qi, you go make the bed first, I’ll go to Grandpa’s study to look for my notes.”
“Good.” Lu Qi followed the room he pointed to.
It looked like tonight, he would be staying in that room.
“So baby, which room are you staying in?” Lu Qi turned his head to look at her, “I’ll make your bed too by the way.”
Rongshu thought that would be fine and pointed to the room opposite his, “That’s the one, that’s the room I used to have here.”
“Okay.” Lu Qi clapped his hands, and then carried his suitcase over.
Rongshu didn’t delay either, and went straight to the old man’s study.
The study had just been cleaned, and was now spotlessly clean.
Rongshu went to the old man’s desk and pulled open the drawer to look for his notes.
The notes were not difficult to find, and Rongshu found them in the second drawer.
She flipped through them to make sure they were the ones Grandpa had asked her to look for, then closed the notes and prepared to close the drawer and go out.
But just as she was closing the drawer, she suddenly saw something and gave a giggle.
“Is this the …… album?” Rongshu saw the drawer, the pink photo album that had just been pressed underneath her notes, and couldn’t help but reach out and take it out.
The album was small, only palm-sized, but it was very thick.
But what really aroused Rongshu’s curiosity was not this, but this album, which she had never seen before.
Before she married Fu Jingting, she had come to live here every year for a while, so she knew everything about the old mansion.
There were several photo albums in the old mansion, all of which she had seen before, but this one, she had never seen before.
And looking at how old this album was, she knew that it must not have existed for a short period of time, more than ten years in fact, and could not have appeared only in the last few years.
After all, six years is not enough time to make this album so old, so it would not be that Grandpa put it in during those six years.
Rather, this album had been here all along, more than ten years ago, or even further back, only she had never known about it.
Suddenly, Rongshu thought of something and her body was stunned.
She remembered that every time she came to the old mansion, she could go anywhere and rummage around, but every time she entered her grandfather’s study, he would instruct her not to open the drawer of his desk, as if there was something in the drawer that he didn’t want her to see.
And in this drawer, apart from that note, was this photo album, so the thing she didn’t want her to see would be this photo album.
As for why it wasn’t the notes, it was because it wasn’t like she hadn’t seen any of Grandpa’s other archaeological notes, so he must not mind her looking at them, so the only thing he would mind her looking at would be this photo album.
What exactly was in this album that Grandpa wouldn’t let her look at?
Rongshu’s gaze fell on the photo album in her right hand, and her heart raced.
In the end, Rongshu’s inner curiosity overcame her sanity.
She bit her lower lip, took a deep breath and whispered, “I’ll just take a look, it should be fine if I look at one or two ……”
As she said that, she put down the archaeological notes on her left hand and carefully opened the album.
The first thing that caught her eye was a picture of a baby.
The baby was lying in a swaddling cloth, its eyes closed, its face wrinkled and red, a newborn at first glance.
In the bottom right corner of the photo, there was a date written on it.
Looking at that date, Rong Shu smiled, “That’s me!”
The date on it was exactly the date of her birth, so there was no need to guess who this baby was, it was her.
“So when I was first born, I was so ugly, and so small that I didn’t even look healthy.” Rong Shu thumbed the baby’s face on the photo and laughed softly.
Then, Rong Shu flipped to the next photo.
It was still a baby.
In the bottom right corner of the photo, the date was still written, the date of the day after she was born.
Could this be a record album of her birth?
Thinking that, Rong Shu flipped to the third page, and sure enough, it was still her, with the date of the third day of her birth in the bottom right corner.
At this point, Rongshu was absolutely certain that this was the record album of her birth, and every photo on it recorded every day of her life since she was born.
It was not uncommon for such a record album to be taken, almost all families would take one for their children, some up to the age of a week, some half a year old, and some a hundred days old.
Looking at the thickness of the album in her hand, it should be a record of the half year old.
What Rongshu couldn’t figure out was, if this was her record album, why did Grandpa never let her look at it?
Rongshu narrowed her eyes, her heart full of confusion and incomprehension.
But she didn’t think too much about it, and a*sumed that Grandpa wanted to keep it for himself, so he didn’t want to show it to her.
And now that the album was in her hands, she could look at it herself, just to reminisce about her childhood.
But strangely enough, it wasn’t as if there were no pictures of her as a child in the house, but never of her when she was first born, so she didn’t really know what she had looked like when she was first born.
Rongshu pulled over the tai shi chair and sat down, and began to look through the photos at the back, page by page.
At first, when she looked at them, there was a smile on her lips, thinking that her newborn self was really cute.
But for some reason, cute it was, but she felt no sense of closeness?
As she looked further back, the smile on Rong Shu’s face slowly disappeared and was replaced by a face full of shock.
Chapter 464
What is this all about?
Who was this baby?
Rongshu looked at the photo, the baby with a pale face, as if there were no vital signs left, and her palms could not help but tighten up, her eyes full of shock, confusion, disbelief, and even a hint of unexplainable weirdness.
The time in the bottom right corner of the photo was when she was in her fourth month and five days, but the baby in the photo was not her.
She had seen all the pictures after that, except for the one or two months after she was first born.
When she was four months old, she didn’t even look like this!
So this baby in the photo was definitely not her.
But if it wasn’t her, then why was the time in the bottom right hand corner consistent with the previous photo?
And it’s not just the dates that are coherent, it’s the baby’s looks as well.
In the first month, there is no way to tell what the baby looks like.
But from the second month onwards, the baby’s face begins to show.
And the baby in this photo of the fourth month and five days looks similar to the baby in the photo from the second month onwards.
That is, this is not her birth record album at all, and none of the babies in the photos, from the beginning, were her.
She thought it was her, a picture of her when she was first born, but it wasn’t.
That’s why she doesn’t feel close.
Yes, if it was herself in the picture, how could she not feel close.
Because it wasn’t, that’s why it wasn’t.
But why, with this baby’s date of birth, was it the same as hers?
Rongshu bit her lower lip, her heart unable to speak of the complex and messy feeling.
Just then, there was a knock at the door of the study.
Rongshu looked up and saw Lu Qi standing outside the open door, smiling at her, “Baby, haven’t you found your notes yet? My bed is all made up.”
“Found them.” Rongshu rubbed her brow and said back.
Lu Qi blinked, “Why didn’t you come out if you found them? Also, you don’t look too good, is that what happened?”
He walked in.
Rongshu pursed her lips and said, “I found a photo album.”
“And then what?” Lu Qi asked.
Rongshu squeezed her palms, “I thought the baby in the album was me, but in the end I found out it wasn’t.”
“What do you mean?” Lu Qi didn’t understand.
Rongshu stood up, closed the photo album, then opened it again, flipped to the first glance, pointed to the newborn baby and said, “Ah Qi, do you think this is me?”
Lu Qi looked down and nodded, “Yes, there’s your birthday underneath, isn’t there?”
Rongshu said, “Yes, because of the date, I thought the baby was me, but look back.”
“What’s wrong with the back?” Lu Qi asked curiously but his hands followed suit, flipping backwards page by page.
When he saw the first month’s picture of the baby, the expression on Lu Qi’s face had not changed much, but when he turned to the second month, Lu Qi’s brow furrowed, and then the speed at which he flipped backwards, also increased significantly.
Looking at his movement, Rongshu knew that he obviously saw the problem and took a breath, “Ah Qi, do you still think this baby is me?”
“It’s not you.” I am four years older than you, and I am afraid I know better than you what you looked like when you were a child. The baby in this photo album was not visible in the first month, so it would not be too much to say that it was you. ”
“You knew?” Rongshu looked at him in surprise.
Lu nodded and flipped the photo to one of the baby’s fourth month, “Actually, this baby, as you know, the one I told you about before, is the one I first saw at Rong Shu’s house when I was four years old and thought it was you.”
Being pointed out by him like that, Rong Shu instantly remembered and nodded in a daze, “So this is that baby.”
“Well, didn’t my mother also say that this baby was the one that belonged to a relative or friend of the Rong family?” Lu Qi said as he looked at the baby in the photo.
But Rongshu still didn’t get over it, “If it’s a relative or friend’s, but the date of birth, why is it the same as mine? And why did Grandpa treasure this baby’s photo so lovingly?”
The album was still old, but the photos inside, apart from some yellowing, hadn’t even lost their colour, so it was clear how well preserved they were.
If they hadn’t been preserved with care, the photos wouldn’t have been presented this way at all.
Lu Qi shook his head, “I don’t know about that, why don’t you ask your grandfather when the time comes?”
He suggested.
Rongshu thought about it and closed the photo album, “Okay, I’ll ask then, okay, let’s forget about this for now, let’s go, we’ll go to the village head’s house to buy fish first.”
“Let’s go.” Speaking of buying fish, Lu Qi was suddenly excited.
Rongshu put the photo album back into the drawer and smiled as she went out with him.
On the other hand, the First Hospital.
a*sistant Zhang knocked on the door of Fu Jingting’s ward.
In the ward, Fu Jingting was approving documents, and when he heard the voice, he didn’t even raise his head and spat out one word, “Enter.”
a*sistant Zhang opened the door and entered, “Mr. Fu.”
“What’s the matter with you at this hour?” Fu Jingting raised his eyes and glanced at him, then returned his gaze to the documents and asked in a light voice.
a*sistant Zhang came to the hospital bed, “It’s like this, didn’t you ask me to look into Madam’s pre-marriage lover last time, and I found it.”
Hearing these words, Fu Jingting gave his pen a beat and raised his head suddenly, “What did you say? You found out?”
“Yes.” a*sistant Zhang nodded, “This person’s surname is Su, his name is Su Cheng, and he is the head of the Su family in Jiangcheng.”
“It’s actually the Su family.” Fu Jingting narrowed his eyes, his expression somewhat strained.
Although the Su family was not as powerful as the Fu family, it was not small, and it was also a leader in Jiangcheng.
I didn’t expect that the person in his mother’s heart was actually Su Cheng of the Su family.
“As I recall, Su Cheng got married, right?” Fu Jingting asked with a gloomy face.
Zhang a*sistant answered, “That’s right, twenty years ago, he married the daughter of the Lin family in Jiangcheng, and it was because of this incident that Madam committed suicide, Su Cheng and Madam used to be a pair of lovers with a very good relationship, but in the end, there was a major change in the Zhong family, Su Cheng was not the heir of the Su family at that time, not even the candidate heir, so even though he was the young master of the Su family, he could not help the Zhong family, therefore In the end, Madam broke up with Su Cheng and then joined up with the lord in marriage.”
Speaking of this, a*sistant Zhang glanced at Fu Jingting and added “After the marriage, Madam and Su Cheng have always been in contact, this was known to the master, because the master did not love Madam, so he did not mind, so Madam’s contact with Su Cheng was hardly concealed, so I could find out a lot of things once I checked, including that Su Cheng had been waiting for Madam to divorce, but after waiting for ten years, seeing that Madam was just about ready to divorce her lord, when Su Cheng suddenly announced her marriage at that juncture.”
“So my mother committed suicide under great excitement.” Fu Jingting clenched his fist, his face cold.
a*sistant Zhang nodded, “Yes.”
“Can you be sure that Su Cheng was the murderer behind my father’s death?” Fu Jingting looked at him.
This was what he wanted to know the most.
a*sistant Zhang shook his head regretfully, “Sorry Mr. Fu, we can’t, earlier our investigation team, went to that short term rental room to check the fingerprints, our investigation team did find many people’s questioning inside, but none of them were Su Cheng’s, so we still can’t be sure that Su Cheng is the murderer who killed Master and set you up in the car accident.”