Shen Tianshu stayed on the recliner for a long time before reluctantly getting up.
She still remembered that the purpose of her visit this time, besides paying homage to her family, was to find her grandfather's daily notes.
Writing notes is Jiang Sui's habit. No matter whether he is at home or away, he will write down any thoughts, insights or experiences immediately. He has accumulated several boxes of notes at home and they are stacked against the wall in the study room on the second floor. With.
But what Shen Tianshu is looking for is naturally not these handwritten notes that anyone can read.
She remembered that her grandfather had a very old wooden box, which was not very big. It was said to be passed down from ancestors.
Some of his notebooks that he couldn't show to others were put in that box and hidden in a secret compartment in the study.
This is what Shen Tianshu is looking for. She always feels that the Jiang family's disaster must have been foreshadowed, and it cannot just come out of thin air.
If my grandfather had noticed something or had come into contact with someone, he would probably have left clues in the box.
There are several hidden compartments in the Jiang family's study, and Shen Tianshu searches for the past one by one based on his memory.
This search revealed that something serious had happened.
There are four hidden compartments on the second floor, but they are all empty.
But Shen Tianshu clearly remembered that one of the secret compartments contained the Jiang family's secret recipes for several pills, and another secret compartment contained all the secret poison recipes and some antidote prescriptions accumulated by the Jiang family over the generations.
The poison that Shen Tianshu gave Li Zian was the prescription that he accidentally saw here in his early years.
But at this time, these things seemed to disappear out of thin air.
The hidden compartment was not damaged in any way, but everything inside was gone.
Although the secret cells of the Jiang family are not designed to escape everyone's eyes, what is the possibility that the four secret cells in different locations and with different cracking methods can all be opened without any damage?
Shen Tianshu thinks the possibility is basically zero.
Especially the last hidden compartment is under the floor, and the floor needs to be pried open from a specific location. If someone doesn't know the location, the only way to find it is to destroy the floor in the house.
Now the floors in the study are intact, and she can guarantee that they are all original. After all, even the traces of her naughty scribblings as a child are still there.
However, Mr. Jiang has always controlled the hidden compartments in the study. Even Shen Tianshu only changed the positions and positions of all the hidden compartments after she was named Princess Gaoyang and the old man believed that she could inherit the Jiang family's mantle. Tell her how to open it.
Who else but her could know these secrets?
Anyone who might have known about it has long been buried in the ground and turned into a bunch of bones.
Shen Tianshu sat on the floor, feeling a little confused.
She had always been sure that she could find clues in the Jiang Mansion, but she never thought about what she would do if what she was looking for was gone.
Or maybe she just subconsciously didn't consider this possibility and thought of the best in every situation.
Shen Tianshu sat slumped on the floor, not knowing what to do next.
Suddenly, there were footsteps from the other side of the stairs.
Shen Tianshu hurriedly put the secret compartment back in and restored the floor to its original state. After standing up, he asked aloud: "Who is it?"
"I!"
A familiar voice sounded from behind the bookshelves, but Shen Tianshu couldn't help but doubt his ears.
How could that person be here!
I must have heard wrongly. It should just be that the person copying the book below came up to ask something.
But when she walked out from behind the bookshelf, she saw Li Zian standing by the window. The sunlight shining in from the window gave his profile a golden edge, highlighting the perfect lines of his face.
"Shi, Shizi, why are you here?"
"We said we could return in ten days, how long has it been for you? Fan Yuru didn't know how to send someone to bring a message back." Li Zian frowned slightly, and said in a somewhat impatient tone, "Just right. I have to come to Yingtian Mansion for business, so I stopped by to take a look!"
He didn't understand where the anxiety in his heart came from, so he had already found an excuse for no reason, traveled lightly, and chased after him on horseback with a few guards.
At this time, seeing that Shen Tianshu was safe and sound, I felt a little more comfortable.
"It's not Mr. Fan's fault, it's all my fault. I was delayed for two days in Anqing Mansion on the way, and fell ill again when I arrived in Lai'an County, so the time was delayed." Shen Tianshu believed Li Zian's words and explained very apologetically. , "Let the prince worry about it."
Li Zian didn't say anything, and suddenly took two steps forward, walked to Shen Tianshu, reached out and pinched her chin, which seemed to have lost weight, forced her to raise her head, and said, "Did you just cry?"
Shen Tianshu retreated hurriedly, trying to escape from Li Zian's hands, but failed.
She had no choice but to pull out the handkerchief and wipe the remaining tears from the corners of her eyes, and quickly found an excuse for herself: "I used to often see Dr. Jiang Tong mentioning the Jiang family's study in letters. I have always been fascinated by it, thinking that maybe I can do it in the future. Take a look if you have a chance.
"But at that time, I never thought that when I really stood in the Jiang family's study, I would be separated from her forever. So I just felt so emotional that I couldn't help but shed a few tears."
Li Zian reached out and gently touched the red and swollen ends of Shen Tianshu's eyes, and said without any emotion in his tone: "You only shed a few tears, and your eyes can be so red and swollen from crying?"
Before Shen Tianshu could react, his other hand had already reached behind her and pulled open the ribbon tied behind her head.
The mask fell off and was caught by Li Zian, hiding it behind his back.
Shen Tianshu was caught off guard and revealed his most embarrassing side in front of Li Zian.
His eyes were as red and swollen as if he had been stung by a bee, his face was pale and without any blood, his cheeks had become dry and rough from repeated wiping of tears, and even slightly peeled, and there was a blister on his upper lip that hurt when touched.
"I asked Fan Yuru to take good care of you, and this is how he took care of you?" Li Zian's fingers pinched Shen Tianshu's chin and suddenly increased their strength.
"It's not Mr. Fan's fault. He arranged everything very well. It's just that I was too willful and couldn't control my emotions."
"Really?" Li Zi'an knew in his heart that Fan Yuru could not neglect Shen Tianshu.
Not to mention that he is not that kind of person at all, but now he seems to have a different kind of affection for Shen Tianshu. Suddenly having such an opportunity to get along with him, he naturally has to take good care of her.
But for some reason, when he heard Shen Tianshu speak for Fan Yuru, the anger in his heart only increased instead of decreasing.
"I don't ask about the process, I only look at the results." Li Zian said solemnly, "When I was in the palace, I handed over a good person to him. Now that he has become like this, I can't even ask him a few words. What?"
The two of them were just talking and didn't hear anyone coming upstairs at all.
Until a young voice came from the stairs: "Ms. Tong, all the parts you gave me have been copied. I wonder if there are others..."
Shen Tianshu subconsciously wanted to turn around, not wanting anyone to see her true face.
Li Zian's reaction was a step faster. He put his arms around Shen Tianshu and let her bury her head in his arms, directly blocking the curious eyes from the stairs.