Chapter 6

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“Good, good. Go to your father’s yard first, you will find your room there. I have let them know already. I have also kept your father’s study well-maintained. You can tell the butler if you need any additional repairs.”

After the elder was situated, the couple with boxes in hand went to visit Zhang Guo Qing’s father’s yard with heavy hearts. Although the couple tried their best to create a cheerful atmosphere in the main building, they couldn’t help but think about how much longer their grandfather could spend his days with them.

The old mansion was quite large, passing through- one could feel the rich heritage of the century-old mansion. Fortunately, Father Zhang’s yard was not far from the main building otherwise, without a guide, they would have certainly gotten lost.

When they arrived at the yard, everything looked perfect except for its big size. It was too big, even if the whole family lived here it would still feel empty. Fortunately, there were many trees, flowers, and plants all around, otherwise if there was only a hundred-year-old tall and looming tree around—Zhou Jiao fears she wouldn’t have the guts to live here alone.

The yard and rooms were probably cleaned regularly as there was no dust in sight, and the luggage brought in has already been arranged in the room.

The Zhang’s housekeeper, Uncle Guang, was very kind to the young couple. Originally, this elder was also alone. He has never married before and grew up with the Zhang elder. The young master, who is also Guo Qing’s father, was watched over by Uncle Guang.

Now that the young young master has finally come home, the elder watched Zhang Guo Qing while silently wiping away the tears at his eyes, reassured he said: “little master, you two rest first I will arrange dinner. Do you have anything you would like to eat? If there’s anything you want to eat, just let Uncle Guang know. The study next to this room is your father’s, I have kept it untouched, because I just knew you will come back. If you have anything else you need, don’t forget to tell Uncle Guang. There is more free time now, I will bring you along the mansion.”

(Little master will be referring to Zhang Guo Qing and young master will be Zhang Guo Qing’s father)

Zhang Guo Qing immediately supported Uncle Guang as he got up to leave. He didn’t dare comfortably call out Uncle Guang- this is another elder of the Zhang family, he watched father Zhang as he grew up.

With a smile, he said: “Grandpa Guang, your age is a big number, I can’t bother you. When there is more time in the future, we will take a stroll in the garden. If there’s anything you need to do, you can relay it to the workers to do.”

Uncle Guang anxiously shook his hand off: “How is Grandpa Guang old? I still need to help you take care of the small young master. I can still lift up to 200 kg right now.”

Zhang Guo Qing smiled and reassured him: “Yes, yes, my Grandpa Guang is so young. This bad mouth of mine, I didn’t mean to say that you are old and cannot help. You need to stay by our side for many more years to come.”

“Ok ok, little master ah, after two days you and your wife should head over to your parents’ graves to pay a visit. I have prepared the things you will need. It’s been 20 years, I finally waited long enough to see you two. In the future, I will report back to your parents. The old man is so cruel ah, no matter what was said he wouldn’t bring you back earlier. The old man is confused, with Uncle Guang here, just see who will dare to touch our little master. Little master don’t leave in the future again, this is your family. No one else should dare try to take over your position. Uncle Guang has promised young master to carefully watch over this family.”

Uncle Guang could not be at ease. Little master didn’t know how hard it was in the past. All he wanted to do now was carefully watch over little master and his soon-to-be-born child. Who knows what the second faction (the step grandmother’s side of the family) is planning, he could not let anything happen under his watch. He still needed to prepare the items a new born will need, and to see if the old man can live for a longer time. Sigh, this family had too many problems. Yesterday the second faction didn’t even want to leave, but this is little master’s home, he will still need to live longer in order to support the little master ah.

“The elder treats us very well, he really placed our father in his heart, his eyes were filled with love and happiness.”

“En…” Zhang Guo Qing felt slightly uncomfortable. A lot of things happened these two days. This whole while, as he’s been feeling touched, he couldn’t believe that at such an unknown time he would get so many people who would worry about him. Actually, he was pretty fortunate-- he had parents that loved him, although they were not here anymore, and a grandfather that loves him, a house keeper who watches over him, and his loving wife who was carrying their soon-to-be-born child.

After chatting with the old man in the evening, the couple sorted out the contents of the study room. There were many commemorative items in the room, such as a photo of Zhang Guo Qing’s parents—all of these he must put away and safe keep. There were also some jewelry that needed to be put away.

Late at night, Zhou Jiao saw that Zhang Guo Qing could not fall asleep. She saw how he had taken out the ancestral necklace and was looking at it. Looking at it under the light, it looked very ordinary. There was nothing strange nor special about it, except that it looked very antique.

As Zhou Jiao was staring, a thought flashed past her mind and she secretly smirked. It might not be possible, but it has happened a lot in short stories—is how she thought about it to comfort herself since she wanted to try it out. Didn’t those short stories talk about how antique items needed a drop of blood in order to recognize its owner? And besides, the item looked very ordinary right now. She couldn’t control her curiosity any further, so she got up to try.

Zhang Guo Qing watched his wife as she secretly laughed, then expressed a dazed look, and finally clenched her hands—he knew she must be up to something. He saw as his wife found a needle, pricked her hand, and then dripped a drop of blood onto a bead of the necklace. Hehe- apparently she read one too many short stories. He shook his head: “Wife, what are you doing? Doesn’t your finger hurt? Why didn’t you use my finger instead ah?”

Zhou Jiao heard what he said and then thought about how he was actually from the Zhang family so maybe it would only work with his blood, hm. She quickly took his finger, pricked it until blood came out, and squeezed it onto the beads.

Originally Zhang Guo Qing was only joking, but then the couple became dumbfounded. Before, when his wife dropped some blood nothing happened, but after he also added his blood—they could see that the necklace was slowly absorbing the blood and gradually flashed.

The two looked at each other, could another space really exist? This world had another space? Zhang Guo Qing tried to shout in the space but there was no response. Zhou Jiao took the necklace with her right hand, while her left hand was on the pillow. All of a sudden her pillow disappeared. Looking at her empty left hand, where had the pillow gone? An average-sized space suddenly appeared in her mind, inside there were two wooden boxes in addition to her pillow.

Zhou Jiao hurriedly took those three items out: “Husband, it’s really a space. I can open it. What should I do? I also took out the two boxes inside. You also try to open it. I’ll be quiet. Let me be quiet, I feel like I’m dreaming right now. Right, I also dreamed that you found your family’s inheritance, en…also a space…wait, I’ll be quiet again.”

Zhang Guo Qing silently and playfully looked at his wife. He knew this would happen, anyways she’ll wake up later. He was still confident in his wife’s mental endurance.

The two boxes were unlocked and were opened. One box was full of precious satin silk and several sets of historical women’s dresses—even after so many years, the brilliance and color stayed the same.

It seems that this space, like the ones in short stories, could also stop time from affecting the objects. The other box was more complicated and it was only filled up halfway. In addition to a few paintings, there was jewelry, ten gold bricks, several embroidered handkerchiefs, some delicate purses, some delicate jade pendants, gold peanuts, gold sunflower seeds, some broken things, etc. Perhaps these were used by the first Zhang ancestors to get rich, but were later not needed anymore.

“Husband, these are all so cute, let’s let the baby play with them in the future. Also, look at how beautiful this satin is—our daughters can have them in the future, hehe~” Zhou Jiao laughed in a silly way after seeing all these things.

Zhang Guo Qing really didn’t know what to say, even after receiving such a huge inheritance they didn’t lose control—now after a few golden peanuts and sunflower seeds, and his wife was already silly.

This little woman, although she can be stubborn at times, but he loves her. When he sees her happy he’s happy, when he sees her crying his heart breaks, this way was fine too—a little simple, a little unclear at times, as long as he accepts all of her then that’s fine.

However, what should be reminded will be reminded: “Jiao Jiao ah, calm down first! Except for the two of us, no one else should know about this space, ok? For now, we can place all the items from grandmother and father and other valuables into the space. I originally wanted to go to the bank to open a safe, now it’s ok, from now on we can place all our valuables inside the space. The cash transferred by the bank tomorrow will be converted into gold bricks and bars. We can also see if the shares can be converted into a physical object later. We won’t need to place money into the bank then, just relying on the shares will cover any worries for food and clothing. After I finish all these miscellaneous tasks, I will go back to work.”

Zhou Jiao understood her husband’s thoughts right away, after all this guy loves gold. His hobby was probably acting up again. It doesn’t matter though, the money is his after all, she nodded her head in agreement.

Translated 6/17/20