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Chapter 4 The Mystery of the Old Collection

"Miss, this is an entrustment agreement signed by Commander Zhang and his will before his death. This is the agreement, please take a look. If there is no objection, just sign it."

"Lawyer Wang, what did Grandpa entrust?"

"I don't know. The commander only gave me this key before he was alive, and entrusted me to give it to you only on the lady's 25th birthday. This is the key to the bank safe. Please keep it safe, miss."

Looking at the key in her hand, Zhang Zhan suddenly felt that her recent life seemed quite colorful.She has been with her grandfather for 20 years, and her grandfather is not someone who can hide his words. To put it bluntly, her grandfather is a reckless man who waited 5 years for something before giving it to her.

Zhang Zhan went to the bank and took out the things in the safe—a wooden box, and she got the things, but the problem was that she didn't know how to open the box.

At 3:[-] p.m. Beijing time, Zhang Zhan and Song Ning had been watching the wooden box for more than an hour.

"Did Lawyer Wang forget to give you the key?"

"No, I've confirmed it. Besides, we have been thinking about this box for so long, and we don't know where the keyhole is even if there is a key. I don't know where Grandpa got this thing? The list that my mother wrote down before her death is all Here it is."

"Ah Chan, look at the pattern on this box is a flower, but there are so many petals."

"Petals?" Zhang Zhan stared at the wooden box, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar the patterns on the box looked. "Embroidery... Embroidery... Yes, I saw it in my mother's dowry."

Zhang Zhan dug out a piece of embroidery from her mother's dowry room and compared it with the wooden box. They were indeed exactly the same.Is this the key?

"what is this flower?"

"I don't know either. I still remember what I told you. My mother is a lady from the Manchu Shangsanqi family. It's just that my grandparents just passed away at that time and they were in troubled times. That's why I married someone from a place like mine. Father. Father said that mother brought these things from home."

This embroidery is divided into two parts. It should be viewed from different angles. The upper part is viewed from the front, and the lower part is viewed from the back.The flower is divided into four layers. The second layer has the most petals, with a total of 128 petals. No wonder you have to look at the flower from the back. The first layer has only eight petals, which are all covered by the second layer.The third layer also has eight petals, and the fourth layer has four petals.The colors of these four layers of petals are also different, the first layer is red, the second layer is a little transparent pink, the third layer is white, and the fourth layer is yellow.

The next day, Zhang Zhan went to the largest library, but she couldn't find any information about this flower even after looking for the treasured ancient books. Then she asked several respected botanists, but no one knew what it was. Everyone thought it should be fabricated, but Zhang Zhan's intuition told her that the flower existed.

These days, the soul bell on Zhang Zhan's feet also rang from time to time. Now she was seriously pondering the embroidery and the wooden box at home, when the bell reappeared, followed by the feeling of being spied on.Although being spied on, this feeling has always been faint and not too uncomfortable, so Zhang Zhan let it go.It's been almost a month anyway, and nothing happened.

"It would be great if this was a Rubik's Cube..." Zhang Zhan was thinking wildly while rubbing the small wooden box.

"Huh?" Zhang Zhan repeatedly touched the place where the flowers were carved, and found that a few petals protruded a little more than the surrounding ones, but they were quite inconspicuous. She counted each layer of petals carefully, and then compared the embroidery Only then did the flowers on the screen finally discover the way to open the box.The first layer had one more petal, and the third layer had just one petal missing; the second layer had two petals missing, and the fourth layer had just two more petals. After putting the petals back in place, the wooden box finally opened from the pistil.

Inside was a piece of parchment. She had seen this kind of paper before, and it was the kind of paper used in Zhang's family tree.It says, Zhang Haiyun, this is the name of Zhang Zhan's father.Married to Hadanara Jiatu, Zhang Zhan's mother's name, 42 years old, childless.

Childless? ! ! !Who is she then?

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