Global Role Level Assessment

Chapter 157 Yongjia Town (36)

The movement in the forest also reached Duan Qiqing's ears.

She turned around and looked at the quiet path behind her, wondering what she was thinking.

A few seconds later, when she turned around again, her brows and eyes twitched instantly.

Even though she still felt a little unbelievable in her heart, she had to admit that she lost Gu Yicheng again.

It's not a good sign for something like this to happen just before the sun goes down.

At the same time, a bright red flower ball immediately broke into her field of vision.

The flower ball fell on the slope corner of the mountain, and got stuck under a tree, covered with a layer of dead leaves, it was hard to find if you didn't look closely.

Near the flower ball, Duan Qiqing also found a more obvious trace of an item slipping.

Although the entire trail looked a bit intermittent, and some were hidden by fallen leaves, she still found it. On the edge of the trail in front of her, there was a collapsed grass that happened to meet this trail.

Presumably there must be something, after falling from here, it rolled down this slope all the way.

Duan Qiqing pondered for a moment, then followed the slip mark, walked to the tree, and picked up the flower ball.

Although she was basically sure in her heart that it was the bouquet for the newlyweds, she still studied the bouquet carefully.

It was an ordinary wedding bouquet, but just under the bouquet, there was a dark wooden stick with broken ends.

Seeing this, Duan Qiqing's eyes flashed immediately.

Her eyes began to quickly search the vicinity, although very fast, but very carefully, not letting go of any corners.

Immediately afterwards, she saw a small pile of 'debris' falling apart on a small protruding flat ground about a hundred meters away from where she found the flower ball.

Looking at it from a distance, it looks like a small pile of garbage that was littered there, completely inconspicuous.

But when Duan Qiqing found this small pile of 'debris', he quickly approached it with his hands and feet.

Less than 2 minutes.

Duan Qiqing, who came all the way supporting the tree trunk, quickly went to the pile of 'clutter'.

And after getting closer, she was very sure that these were the dowry brought by the bride's family that Gu Yicheng brought them to find.

Although some of the dowry has been damaged, it can still be seen that it is some jade bracelets and the like.

Come to think of it, the bride shouldn't have such a humble status.

Duan Qiqing thought to himself, and then picked up a piece of high-grade fabric from the side, packed all the accessories around, and planned to take it back later.

There is no way, because the gift box containing these dowries has been damaged, she can only take these dowry back through this way.

When they came out of the Gu mansion this time, their mission was to bring the dowry back.

Although she didn't understand what was the use of doing this, she knew in her heart that it would definitely not work to just go back empty-handed.

However, just when Duan Qiqing was packing up almost all the dowries that fell nearby, her eyes were suddenly attracted by the bottom of the dowry box not far away that was still relatively intact.

It can be seen that the bottom of the wooden dowry box is also dark in color, which is the same color as the wooden stick tied to the flower ball she picked up just now.

At this time, on top of the dowry box, there was still an unopened letter.

In the middle of the letter was also written the words 'Qin'er kisses'.

If the dowry box hadn't been destroyed, the letter should have been well hidden.

When Duan Qiqing picked up the letter, the first thought that flashed through her mind was - who is Qin'er?
However, considering that this letter was found in the dowry box of the bride's natal family, this 'Qin'er' must be the bride herself.

After thinking about it, Duan Qiqing stared at the letter in his hand for a few seconds, and finally opened the letter.

Although it is immoral to open a letter written by others without authorization, but considering that there may be some clues in it, she can only be an immoral person once.

The letter wrote: [My daughter Qin'er died at the age of eighteen.As a mother, I don't want you to go too lonely, so I specially found Mr. Gu's family to marry you for you.I hope that you can take care of each other when you are down below, so that you can feel at ease as a mother. 】

The letter was written simply and clearly.

Duan Qiqing did obtain two key pieces of information in this letter.

One is that 'Qin'er' is indeed the bride herself.

The second is that this lively wedding banquet in Yongjia Town turned out to be a ghost marriage!
No wonder, the lanterns hanging at the door of every house in this town will have red and white sides.

Reminiscent of the resentment that young master Gu saw in Gu's mansion when he mentioned the bride, Duan Qiqing had no doubts, could it be that young master Gu was dissatisfied with this ghost marriage, so he was so furious?
But even if he is dissatisfied with this marriage, then Young Master Gu probably won't be able to keep talking about 'bitch' and the like.

And on the first night, when Young Master Gu mistook her for a bride, why did he say that he and his lover gave birth to a bastard?
So this bride, did she offend Young Master Gu so much because of her cheating before marriage?

Who is the 'lover' that Young Master Gu is talking about?
Duan Qiqing thought about it for a long time, and felt more and more that there must be something else hidden about this marriage.

Although she has obtained some information now, it is still too one-sided, and some clues cannot be connected at all, so she has to continue to observe.

After thinking about it, she folded the letter in her hand and put it in her pocket.

When she was about to stand up and leave, her feet suddenly touched the bottom of the dowry box that had fallen on the ground.

The bottom of the dowry box, which was still on the edge of the plane, suddenly slid down a small section along the slope of the edge, until the bottom touched a raised dirt, and then stopped again.

If it were someone else, they might just look at the bottom of the slipping dowry box, and then turn around and leave.

But at this moment, Duan Qiqing's dark eyes were fixed on the dowry box.

It was as if he had discovered something extraordinary, and there was a little surprise in his eyes.

After a while, she quickly slid down the slope and fished up the dowry box again.

Fortunately, the dowry box didn't drop too much, and she didn't have to spend much energy to retrieve the dowry box.

The first time she picked up the dowry box, she immediately bent her index finger, and tapped the wooden board at the bottom of the dowry box with the back of her bowed finger.

"咚咚-"

The sound of knocking on hollow wooden boards was heard in Duan Qiqing's ears instantly.

Her eyes froze for a moment, and her heartbeat accelerated a lot at this moment.

After all, she heard that the bottom of the dowry box is hollow...

(End of this chapter)