Jiang Yutian woke up Mrs. Jiang.

Although she knew that the whole family would be awakened by Mrs. Jiang's screams soon, she still tried her best to keep her movements light.

Mrs. Jiang was not asleep at first, but she woke up after being pushed by Jiang Yutian.

After seeing clearly who the person in front of her was, Mrs. Jiang's brows stretched a little, then they furrowed tightly, and waved Jiang Yutian's hand away.

Mrs. Jiang looked at her once favorite daughter, there was no doting and tenderness in her eyes, only hatred and disgust.

Jiang Yutian was stabbed by the hatred in his mother's eyes.

She flinched subconsciously, looked at her mother with a pale face, bit her lip to hold back the tears, her figure was precarious.

But this didn't make Mrs. Jiang feel sorry for her any more.

Jiang Yutian stopped her tears, and said in a low voice: "Mom, I seem to... just saw someone else in Sister Yueli's room... It seems to be Lu Mingxuan from the Lu family... ...."

As Jiang Yutian expected, Mrs. Jiang's face immediately changed when she heard the words.

Mrs. Jiang got out of bed in a hurry, before she even had time to put on her slippers, she ran towards Jiang Yueli's room.

Standing at the door, Jiang Yutian watched Mrs. Jiang run quickly to Jiang Yueli's room while calling Jiang Yueli's name.

She held on to the door frame with a malicious smile on her face, but it became more and more distorted because of resentment.

Mrs. Jiang's loud yelling disturbed the whole building.

Jiang Yunxin, who was sleeping in the room next to Mrs. Jiang, came out first, followed by Second Brother Jiang nearby, and finally the nanny sleeping downstairs.

Everyone in Jiang's family knew that Mrs. Jiang's mental state was not right, and when they heard her yelling loudly during the middle of the night, they were all worried that she had fallen ill again, and flocked to her nervously and worriedly.

Only the eldest brother of the Jiang family walked last and stopped when he passed by Jiang Yutian.

"Tiantian?" The eldest brother of the Jiang family looked at Jiang Yutian with eyes that seemed to know everything.

"Brother." Jiang Yutian lowered his head, his voice was like a mosquito, "I'm sorry..."

"Don't provoke Mom." Jiang's elder brother calmly reminded, "Don't target Jiang Yueli, she is no longer your threat."

Hearing the elder brother's words, Jiang Yutian couldn't help trembling.

She remembered what Jiang Yueli had said to her not long ago——

"Jiang Yueli is dead"

If Jiang Yueli is really dead, then who is the person who appeared here?

Is it a ghost?

Jiang Yutian didn't tell her eldest brother what happened in the afternoon, and she didn't dare to tell anyone. Even if Jiang's second brother said that he wanted to take revenge for her, she still kept silent.

That was her unspeakable secret, and it was also her nightmare at the moment.

Jiang Yutian didn't dare to say it, so he could only timidly talk about other things: "But Mom only thinks about her now... Mom never used to be mean to me..."

The eldest brother of the Jiang family reached out and rubbed his sister's hair, as if to comfort him: "Mom is just sick now, you have to learn to understand her. When she recovers, she will be the same as before. She loves you."

Jiang Yutian hesitated to speak, and finally gave a low "hmm".

No one knew about the secret conversation that took place in this dark corner, and everyone's attention was on the crazy Mrs. Jiang.

Mrs. Jiang went from brisk walking at the beginning to running wildly all the way, and finally stumbled to Jiang Yueli's door.

Although the eldest brother of the Jiang family has already told Mrs. Jiang to never enter Jiang Yueli's room casually after he came back - the reason is very simple. The eldest brother of the Jiang family said that if she keeps doing what she does, Jiang Yue Li will hate her, and will try to escape in the end.

No matter how uneasy Mrs. Jiang was before, she finally nodded and wrote down the rule.

But right now, Mrs. Jiang can't remember her past promises at all. Just thinking about the daughter she finally found is going to run away with Lu Mingxuan, her mind is like a pot of boiling water is boiling, except for the hazy In the hot air, you can't see or think of anything.

Mrs. Jiang slammed open Jiang Yueli's door.

If one stroke doesn't work, then two strokes, if two strokes don't work, then three strokes.

The twisted obsession on his face made Second Brother Jiang tremble with fear. Jiang Yunxin who was next to him reacted first, and quickly turned around to ask the nanny to bring the spare key to the room.

The nanny brought the keys in a hurry, Jiang Yunxin pulled Mrs. Jiang aside, then kicked the second elder brother, motioning him to use the key to open the door.

Second Brother Jiang certainly didn't think about respecting Jiang Yueli's privacy, so he picked up the key and opened the door.

The old wooden door, which was not very secure, creaked, and just when a crack was exposed on the door frame, Mrs. Jiang couldn't wait to break free from Jiang Yunxin's embrace, and slammed into the door forcefully.

"boom--"

After a loud noise, the wooden door was smashed against the wall and bounced back, leaving some sawdust and dust.

Mrs. Jiang stood at the door together with the people behind.

——The person who was supposed to be sleeping on the bed disappeared.

There was no one in the room, the windows were half open, and the distant firelight almost rendered the entire window orange-red.

Only the shabby floral curtains by the window fluttered back and forth with the incoming wind.

......

"Jump down quickly!"

Lu Mingxuan stood under the fence, looking up at Jiang Yueli who was lying on the fence trembling.

"What are you afraid of, I'm below and will catch you!"

Jiang Yueli hugged the night light post on the fence, glanced at the height of the ground through the lens, and couldn't help swallowing.

When she jumped down from upstairs last time, her mind was full of the word "escape", leaving no room for "height".

In front of Xiaoming, fear of heights is not a problem.

However, once the immediate threat to life is removed for a while, the next level of fear will emerge one after another.

Especially when the person below reached out and grabbed her by the collar just a few minutes ago, with a hideous expression on his face that wanted to kill her on the spot.

Jiang Yueli doubted very much whether Lu Mingxuan would take the opportunity to avenge herself publicly.

For example, she dropped the chain at a critical moment and deliberately let her fall face down to death under the wall.

Lu Mingxuan who was waiting below finally became impatient, narrowed her eyes, glared at Jiang Yueli and gave an ultimatum: "Do you want to jump down by yourself, or do I go up and kick you down?"

Of course, Jiang Yueli had no choice but to jump off by herself.

She took a deep breath, looked at Lu Mingxuan with a complicated expression, closed her eyes for the last time, and jumped down from the not-so-high fence as if she had sacrificed herself heroically.

The corners of Lu Mingxuan's mouth twitched, and the veins on her forehead twitched uncontrollably, wishing Jiang Yueli could just fall down like this.

But she just thought about it.

As soon as Lu Mingxuan stretched out her hand, she caught the falling Jiang Yueli.

The latter tightly closed his eyes, and subconsciously stretched out his arms to wrap around Lu Mingxuan's neck when encountering obstacles.

"Hey, who are you showing such an expression of heroic sacrifice?" Lu Mingxuan couldn't help but sneered, "If I remember correctly, you are the one who insisted on going with me, right? Force you to do the same."

"To be precise, I just said 'I'm a little curious too'. In theory, it's just a superficial expression. In addition, although I think the house should have been blown up when you go back at this time, you don't care about yourself at all. The person whose house was bombed seems to be you..."

Jiang Yueli secretly opened one eye, stared at Lu Mingxuan for a moment, stretched out her hand to push her glasses, and started her long speech.

Lu Mingxuan didn't even try to be patient, she glanced at the nearby bushes from the corner of her eye, and simply threw the person down.

Jiang Yueli rubbed her sore buttocks and got up, straightened her crooked glasses, and stared at Lu Mingxuan with a condemning gaze.

However, Mr. Lu's conscience is made of iron. Not only did he not feel guilty at all, but he even made a gesture of scratching her neck with his fingers: "Shut up and follow me, or——hmm?"

Jiang Yueli closed his mouth.

By the time Lu Mingxuan and Jiang Yueli arrived at the accident site, a crowd of people had already surrounded them, and fire trucks roared past them.

Soon the scene of the accident was brought under control, and everyone was stopped outside the cordon, and could only look at the burning house from a distance through a few paths.

Thanks to the impressive area of ​​this community, almost every household has a small garden, and the distance between each household is extremely wide, which will not cause a second fire.

Although the whole house was shrouded in flames at the moment, as long as you observe carefully, you can still identify where the accident originated.

"Mr. Lu, did you leave the gas on?" Jiang Yueli asked.

Lu Mingxuan stood with her at the back of the sparsely populated house, looking at the window with billowing smoke and raging fire, and fell into a brief thought.

That location is her kitchen.

If it was normal, she could be sure that she would never forget to turn off the gas. She had survived until now with her vigilance and obsessive-compulsive disorder far beyond ordinary people.

But considering the messy accident in the morning, Lu Mingxuan was not so sure.

In the morning, she was so overwhelmed that she cooked several eggs black, not to mention the chaotic noon afterward, otherwise she would not have been able to go out to eat on purpose since she always took care of the three meals by herself.

Lu Mingxuan's hesitant expression said everything.

"How did you survive to such an age?" Jiang Yueli looked at Lu Mingxuan with a surprised look, "Shouldn't a domineering president like you be very experienced?"

"Haven't you heard of being careless?" Lu Mingxuan pushed Jiang Yueli's face back angrily, "And it's hard to say if it was an accident."

"Why don't you call the police first?" Jiang Yueli suggested.

"Hmm... wait!"

Lu Mingxuan nodded her head halfway, and her expression suddenly changed: "My phone and computer are still inside!"

Jiang Yueli asked, "Do you have work documents?"

Lu Mingxuan shook her head, but her expression was still not much better: "It's about some 'private matters'."

Jiang Yueli turned her head to look at Lu Mingxuan for a while, as if she suddenly understood where the gray look on Lu Mingxuan's face came from.

"Ah, if it's just the part about your relatives - I have it here." Jiang Yueli took out a USB flash drive from his pocket and handed it to Lu Mingxuan with sincerity and comfort on his face, "There is also a backup of the address book. .”

"......"

Lu Mingxuan looked at the USB flash drive handed to her, and then at Jiang Yueli who had a natural expression, not knowing how to react for a while.

Should she be surprised at how Jiang Yueli guessed what she was worried about, or should she first question how she got the backup of her address book?

Lu Mingxuan was very tired.

Lu Mingxuan chose to smile.

"I can explain the address book—last time, well, cough, but I promise I didn't use it for bad things." Jiang Yueli took the initiative to explain, "I guess you haven't read the things I sent you."

Lu Mingxuan came to her senses: "You sent me theirs..."

Jiang Yueli put her index finger to her lips, made a silent gesture to her, lowered her voice and said, "Everything is inside, I will tidy up some parts later, you can go back and take a look."

Since she said she wanted to "cooperate" with Lu Mingxuan, Jiang Yueli naturally had to show her sincerity.

The birthday gift she gave Lu Mingxuan was one of them.

The things inside may not be able to kill the Lu family, but at least it can hold them back for a while.

Jiang Yueli still has many puzzles that have not been answered, and she is not interested in getting involved in the Lu family's family affairs.

Lu Mingxuan knew far better than her how to use those "transaction" records left behind in the dark. It was much more useful to give those things to Lu Mingxuan than to keep them in her own hands.

Lu Mingxuan froze for a moment, looking at the small USB flash drive in her palm, she was suspicious, but also more curious.

She would feel annoyed because the clues and evidence she had investigated for a long time were hidden in her home. Now that the fire has come down, not to mention all her hard work wasted, but at least it is a heavy loss.

Those things are things that she spent more than ten years investigating.

How much can Jiang Yueli give her?

In fact, Lu Mingxuan didn't have too many expectations. Even when she was in the hospital, she assumed that the investment for Jiang Yueli was for charity.

But when she turned her head and looked at Jiang Yueli's side face illuminated by the flames, she was still as calm as ever—a calm to the point of indifference, as if she was indifferent to everything, but she was indeed standing with her. together.

Lu Mingxuan's heart suddenly calmed down.

Nothing to worry about.

she thought so.

........

The explosion at Lu Mingxuan's house seemed to be caused by the fact that the gas in the kitchen was not turned off properly, and it was ignited when it encountered an open flame.

Professionals came to the same conclusion after their investigation.

But where that fire came from is another question.

The monitoring of Lu Mingxuan's house was heroically sacrificed in the explosion, and the community would not install cameras near each house for the sake of residents' privacy. It was basically impossible to find some clues through this.

After the threat at the scene was temporarily lifted, Lu Mingxuan was taken to identify the remaining items at home.

There was only ruins left under Lu Mingxuan's feet, and there were scorched and pungent traces everywhere.

She didn't expect anything from those fragile little objects at all, but just observed the orientation of the important objects from memory.

"The safe is gone..." Lu Mingxuan stood in a certain direction and stopped for a long time. She stretched out her hand to measure the length, width and height, and pointed to a location, "The black box is about this big, and it was placed there before. It has not been touched, and the material is very strong, so there should be no fragments left."

"Anything else that's noticeably missing?"

"For the time being, it seems that there are none." Lu Mingxuan shook her head.

"Okay, thank you for your cooperation. If there is any new progress, we will notify you." The policeman in charge of recording gave Lu Mingxuan a sympathetic look, "Sorry."

The colleague next to him stabbed him in the waist with his elbow, and reminded him in a low voice: "What are you talking about, a billionaire, he still lacks such a small house."

The little policeman who spoke before also realized, smiled awkwardly, and said goodbye to Lu Mingxuan.

"Wait, officer|officer." Lu Mingxuan suddenly stopped them, "Can we not tell the inside story of this matter for the time being? Including my absence?"

"In principle, we cannot release the details of the case until the investigation reveals the truth—but if the media asks for an explanation..."

Lu Mingxuan immediately understood the meaning, nodded and said, "Leave the media to me."

After seeing off the last person who was investigating and collecting evidence, Lu Mingxuan turned around and walked to a nearby coffee shop.

Jiang Yueli was sitting at the table, with her computer on the table and her mobile phone next to it.

When Lu Mingxuan sat down across from her, she immediately noticed the vibrating cell phone.

"Your phone is ringing." Lu Mingxuan reminded.

Only then did Jiang Yueli recover from her isolation from the world. She glanced at the phone, turned it upside down and placed it on the table.

"Your mother?" Lu Mingxuan asked clearly.

"They all know about our marriage." Jiang Yueli parted his gaze to Lu Mingxuan, "I'm thinking about how to make them all lose their memory precisely."

Mrs. Jiang spent the middle of the night at home, and finally remembered that Jiang Yueli still had a mobile phone, so she managed to get Jiang Yueli's number in the middle of the night——

Brother Jiang's girlfriend, Qiao Qianxi, also contributed a lot in it.

But Jiang Yueli didn't care about these things, she only knew that Mrs. Jiang seemed to be going crazy again.

In the beginning, Jiang Yueli also answered two phone calls, but every time it ended without exception, it was Madam Jiang who started to repeat it in an upside-down manner, and finally uttered illogical abuse—except for the Lu family, the target was Lu Mingxuan.

Of course, Jiang Yueli would not repeat the specific details to Lu Mingxuan, she still regretted her life.

"I think our divorce is the fastest way to clarify." Lu Mingxuan continued.

"Unless you can pay a lot of money to hire the staff of the Civil Affairs Bureau to temporarily work overtime, or I will do it, and it will be easy." Jiang Yueli said and glanced at Lu Mingxuan, "Did your sister Hua make it clear? ?”

Speaking of this question, Lu Mingxuan subconsciously looked away, with a bit of embarrassment on her face.

When Hua Yishi called to question her, she stamped them with the word "rumor" in order to avoid hearing the long speeches later.

In short, it's procrastination.

As for explaining this matter to Hua Yishi, Lu Mingxuan could delay it as long as she could, and it would be best to delay it until the other party forgot about it.

Although she knew it was unlikely.

"Cough, let's talk about that, let's talk about it, it's still early." Lu Mingxuan tried to change the subject, "When are you planning to go back?"

"Wait for their siblings to appease their mother." Jiang Yueli said and glanced at Lu Mingxuan again, "How is the situation at your house? Is someone deliberately trying to assassinate you or is it purely an accident?"

This question didn't make Lu Mingxuan feel comfortable, but at least she didn't need to face the embarrassing situation of emotional problems anymore.

"It looks like an accident." Lu Mingxuan knocked on the table, "Unfortunately, I was visited by a thief, who not only threw cigarette butts everywhere, but also stole my safe."

"Is there any treasure map in your safe?" Jiang Yueli asked casually, "Or a lot of gold? Thieves are quite discerning."

"It's probably a treasure map." Lu Mingxuan replied.

"..." Jiang Yueli stopped what she was doing, and deliberately moved her head from behind the computer screen. She took a serious look at Lu Mingxuan, "I'm just joking."

"I'm not joking." Lu Mingxuan raised her eyebrows, "Otherwise, why do you think those guys hate me so much?"

After a long time, Jiang Yueli silently uttered a sentence: "...I thought your family was already rich enough to disdain treasure hunting games."

......

The story about the Lu family was very simple, and it was not a secret to Lu Mingxuan.

So Jiang Yueli finally heard the secret.

Since ancient times, interests have moved people's hearts. If no one is tempted, it must be that the benefits are not enough to sway people's hearts.

The situation of the Lu family is roughly the same.

Compared with other emerging families in K City, the Lu family's ability to dominate K City for many years is not only due to the large number of people and strong ability, but also the heritage accumulated by the Lu family for dozens of generations.

Human connections and cultural flow are both unpredictable things, and ordinary people will naturally not have much jealousy and enthusiasm for them.

But gold and silver treasures are things that can be seen and touched. No one can say exactly how many treasures the Lu family has accumulated for hundreds of years.

These treasures are controlled and preserved by the Patriarch of the Lu family, and have been passed down from generation to generation. You can guess what kind of magnificent treasures they are just by imagining them.

In the early years, the population of the Lu family was not prosperous, but the business was not bad all the time, and the clan members were not short of money, so those treasures were hoarded as backup resources in the future.

But with the passage of time, each generation of the Lu family grew more and more, and the rumors about the treasures became miraculous, and finally became synonymous with "wealthy country".

However, except for the direct patriarchs of each generation, no one knows where the treasures are hidden.

If it is not at a critical moment - such as the crisis that the Lu family will close down in the next moment, even the head of the Lu family will not easily spy on the family's hidden cards.

Perhaps the original intention of the ancestors of the Lu family was just to let future generations live with peace of mind and avoid risks, but money and treasure itself are the biggest risks.

They are the root of vanity and greed, and have also become the fuse of the Lu family's civil wars for generations.

The reason why the Lu family is so discordant now is because the "elders" at the top are relying on the old to sell the old and covet the position of the head of the family. But at the same time, it is undeniable that the disputes surrounding the "treasure" have been buried for a long time since many generations ago. bane.

Unfortunately, the safe that was stolen from Lu Mingxuan's house happened to contain the rumored treasure map.

"So is there really a treasure?" Jiang Yueli asked.

"How is that possible." Lu Mingxuan snorted at this, "Every child knows that this is just a groundless rumor, and although everyone thinks that there is a treasure map in that safe, it is actually just a stack of family trees."

This could explain why Lu Mingxuan was not nervous at all.

The family tree of the Lu family has the book that is kept in the ancestral hall of the Lu family, so the spiritual symbols in the safe are not so important.

"Then why put it in the safe?" Jiang Yueli continued to ask, "Isn't it easy to be misunderstood?"

"Isn't this just preventing thieves and robbers from stealing real good things?" Lu Mingxuan replied.

"..." It made sense, but she couldn't refute it.

Jiang Yueli pushed his glasses, lowered his head silently, and returned his gaze to the computer screen.

Lu Mingxuan didn't seem to understand Jiang Yueli's desire to think about life quietly, so she bent over and put her arms on her shoulders, and lowered her head to look at her screen.

"My computer and mobile phone are all scrapped, and you have both." Lu Mingxuan handed back the USB flash drive Jiang Yueli gave her, with a sunny toothy smile attached, "By the way, I will help you - I won't do it this time." Forget about the past."

Jiang Yueli had no reason to refuse.

She directly copied all the contents of that folder into the phone, and threw it to Lu Mingxuan.

Lu Mingxuan was like a child who got a toy, and finally stopped making trouble with Jiang Yueli.

However, Jiang Yueli endured it for a long time, but in the end she couldn't hold it back. She turned her head and looked at Lu Mingxuan who was slumped on her bed like a piece of cat cake, looking at her mobile phone.

"President Lu." Jiang Yueli reminded, "It's getting dark, you should go back to your own home to sleep."

Jiang Yueli deliberately accentuated the three words "yourself".

Lu Mingxuan just raised her eyelids from the bed, glanced at Jiang Yueli out of the corner of her eye, and didn't even bother to move.

"My house was bombed." Lu Mingxuan said lazily, "I'm homeless now. As the culprit, it's not too much to take me in for a few nights."

Jiang Yueli had reservations about what Lu Mingxuan called the "culprit".

Of course, the main reason was that she couldn't beat Lu Mingxuan, and she couldn't resist with force.

"Your house is bombed, you can stay in a hotel." Jiang Yueli said quietly, "Turn right 100 meters out of the community and there is an express hotel. If it is not possible, there is a five-star hotel 500 meters to the west. Absolutely It fits your identity, Mr. Lu."

"No." Lu Mingxuan flatly refused, "I need an ID card to enter a hotel, what if someone really targeted me and was ambushed."

"..." Jiang Yueli looked at Lu Mingxuan expressionlessly, "You are not afraid that even this place will be bombed—"

Lu Mingxuan woke up with a start, and with a lunge, she overwhelmed Jiang Yueli, and covered her mouth with her hand.

"Shut up!" Lu Mingxuan's reaction could be described as "panicked".

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