HLnovel Chapter 109 Returning to the Shen Family
Chapter 109 Returning to the Shen Family
"Miss is back?" The cleaning lady bowed slightly in greeting.
Su Qi still found it strange: "Why aren't you asking me to take care of Miss anymore?"
"The young master has given instructions that the subordinates are not allowed to treat people differently."
Su Qi looked left and right: "Where are Aunt Wu and her daughter?"
The cleaning lady whispered back, "Young Master forbids us servants from talking about her and her daughter. They've already been sent to the Rong family in Hong Kong to work as servants."
The only thing that moved Su Qi was that Shen Chaohuai, who seemed not to care much about the infighting in the house at the time, actually held a grudge behind the scenes. The first thing he did to take over the Shen family was to replace the people in the backyard.
A servant told Su Qi, "Oh dear, Miss didn't see the spectacle back then. Dozens of servants and stewards from the Shen family were all kicked out."
Following the directions of Butler Yang, Su Qi entered the villa. Butler Yang cautioned, "Miss, please be very careful in the room where the Master and Madam are staying."
"What's wrong?" Su Qi asked.
Uncle Yang said, "Madam has some mental issues now, and Master doesn't trust anyone, so we don't dare to get close. We can only bring them some food every day. Young Master ordered that they be locked up..."
"Locked up in what way?" Su Qi asked urgently.
"Locked up until death..."
Uncle Yang slapped his thigh: "Young Master also said that they will treat you the same way they treated you in the past."
Su Qi's heart trembled upon hearing this. Originally, she had no intention of doing anything to these people; she just wanted to escape and let everyone know the true face of the Shen family.
"I see."
She closed her eyes to calm herself.
Now that the Shen family is completely under control, who could be the one who sent the anonymous message?
Shen Qingyue?
No, she's currently struggling to get resources due to her lower status and is overwhelmed with work, so she doesn't have time to threaten her.
Gu Yan?
This woman ran away long ago, clearly not wanting to get involved in the Shen family's affairs. At this critical juncture, Gu Yan should be even more eager to sever ties with the Shen family to avoid being implicated by Shen Chaohuai.
So, unless there is a third person involved?
But where in the Shen family is there a third person?
After receiving this answer, Su Qi felt a chill run down her spine upon closer examination.
Feifei reminds you:
[Didn't the owner use some kind of online dismantling technology before? We can try to see if we can find the exact address where it was sent.]
Su Qi said helplessly, "That's something I learned before, now..."
With amnesia, she's almost forgotten how to do some things.
[Got it! Master, you can reload the save file and see how you did it before.]
Fortunately, the information was saved after Su Qi's rebirth, so he can still use his abilities.
She closed her eyes, loaded the save file, and opened them the next second. She suddenly had some recollection of her identity from her previous life.
"Was I a high-ranking official in some secret organization in my past life?"
Feifei was ashamed:
Well...more or less.
"Forget it, it's not important."
She used network IP address segmentation technology to accurately locate the address from which the anonymous message was sent.
Advanced civilizations' dismantling technology can pinpoint not only the address, but also the location and distance from the current address.
The information displayed is: [Northeast direction, 570 meters underground.]
Su Qi froze, while Fei Fei's eyes widened in surprise:
[Hmm? Underground? Could it be that the ghost that was pressing down beneath the Shen family villa has come back to life?]
Ah, no wonder the Shen family has been having such bad luck.
Su Qi: "What are you thinking? There's no ghost."
She naturally didn't believe in ghosts, so after analyzing the situation, there was only one possibility: there were people below.
There must be either an underground passage or a secret room beneath the Shen family villa.
Su Qi followed the arrows in the information prompts, walking from the end of the third-floor corridor to the starting point, which was quite far from the entrance to the corridor on the third floor.
When Su Qi reached the door, she remembered what Uncle Yang had said: don't go near this room.
She almost forgot that Shen Tiancheng and Zhao Meihua lived there.
Soon, a noise came from inside the door. Zhao Meihua went berserk and smashed things. Realizing that someone was at the door and spying on their every move, Shen Tiancheng covered Zhao Meihua's mouth.
"Crazy woman! Be quiet!"
Su Qi slowly placed the screen that had given the prompt on the door. The arrow moved to the center and no longer gave any prompts.
[You have reached your destination. Please walk down 570 meters.]
Go? Where to go? There are no stairs to go down here.
Su Qi suddenly realized something, ran out of the villa, and found the wall that Shen Tiancheng and Zhao Meihua's room was facing.
From the outside, Su Qi finally noticed something amiss.
The area beneath Shen Tiancheng's room was empty, meaning there was no room there, and it was blocked off by thick walls.
However, all the rooms on the third floor have rooms underneath them, extending from the second floor to the first floor.
No wonder they wanted to stay in this room; it was clearly a room specially made for some purpose.
Feifei understood: [So, what's under the Shen family villa isn't a ghost, but rather, someone is sending signals to the owner.]
"But if it's a call for help, there's no need to use a threatening tone, is there?"
Su Qi was puzzled.
Perhaps it's not a cry for help, but a request for the master's cooperation? Only in this way can the master's curiosity be piqued, and only then will the master return to solve the problem.
That's true, Su Qi originally had no intention of returning to the Shen family.
If you don't threaten her or pique her curiosity, Su Qi might just ignore the information.
"It seems the person down there isn't stupid either."
"If that's the case, I can't understand why I was locked up down there by those two old fogies."
Su Qi looked up at the window of the third-floor room, which was tightly shut and airtight.
"The most urgent task is to find the entrance to the secret room."
Feifei: [Okay, saved. Please search the surrounding area first.]
Su Qi picked up a shovel and started digging, leaving not a single patch of good soil in the back garden.
When Wang Ma saw this, she reminded her, "Miss, if the young master sees this, he will scold you."
She didn't want to listen and threw the shovel at Wang Ma.
Su Qi asked casually, "Are you all very afraid of Shen Chaohuai?"
Sure enough, Wang Ma trembled when she heard the name.
"It's not that I'm afraid of the young master..."
“The young master never comes back with good news. He either scolds those two on the third floor or says we’re not taking good care of them and that we’ll be punished,” the young maid added.
Su Qi found it funny, as she couldn't piece together the image of Shen Chaohuai as a vicious person, because the Shen Chaohuai she had ever met was always gentle and kind, and occasionally even humbly jealous.
"Did he ever punish you?"
The maid shook her head: "There hasn't been any real punishment yet, it's all just verbal threats."
Su Qi didn't take it seriously. As he stepped on the shovel and dug into the soil, he said, "There's nothing to be afraid of. It's just a paper tiger."
Su Qi took off his gloves and found that no matter how he dug, the place was surrounded by a stone wall that stretched deep into the ground.
There's no point in digging like this; we can build walls with stones unless we blast them open with artillery fire.
But it's obviously impossible to do that, and there's no need to be so extreme.
Just as Su Qi clapped his hands, panting heavily, and told Wang Ma to take the tools back to the flower room, a cold, sharp voice came from behind him.
"Really? A paper tiger?"
"Ok?"
Su Qi quickly turned her head and saw a tall man looking down at her, his wispy hair obscuring his narrow eyes, which were slightly squinted.
"Who says I'm a paper tiger?"
The servants knelt down and bowed, saying, "Greetings, young master."
Shen Chaohuai slowly approached: "I received a message from Uncle Yang saying that you're back."
"I was wondering why you'd come back to a place like this. Turns out you came to my house to dig for treasure! How's it going? Did you find anything?"
Shen Chaohuai leaned down gently and whispered in her ear.
"If we dig it up, it's all yours..."