novelraw Chapter 277 Grandpa, even if you don't go to scatter his ashes, I'm still going.
Chapter 277 Grandpa, even if you don't go to scatter his ashes, I'm still going.
"Hehehe, I never expected to have such a scoundrel among my elders. Let's check if there are any graves near my great-grandmother's, parents', and brothers' graves first."
"Guo Yunkai must think that after my great-grandmother passes away, she will be buried in the Tong family. That's a very likely possibility!" Tong Yuheng judged.
She had already used her spiritual power to explore deep underground. Coffins and boxes used to store things are always different, right? Sure enough, about two meters away from the grave of her great-grandmother's brother and sister-in-law, there was a small, square wooden box.
"Let's dig here. There are graves everywhere else. This place should be the one that Great-Grandma's brother fought for for her. He said that this is the only empty grave for this branch of the family..." Tong Yuheng took out the current Tong family genealogy, looked it over, and checked the Tong family's population.
The Tong family branched off from the main branch outside the Great Wall. They had been living inside the Great Wall for less than two hundred years. As the family grew, more branches emerged, with those who went out to study, become officials, or do business.
Nowadays, clan ties aren't valued as much. Those still living in the same village might offer incense and set off firecrackers together during festivals. Young people who have ventured out to see the world are even less concerned about clan ties. Northerners don't place nearly as much importance on clan development as southerners.
Yu Xuan used a military shovel to dig at the spot Tong Yuheng had indicated. She quickly dug a large pit and finally found the box she had been searching for. It was square and neat, like a book box, and because it had been buried underground for so long, its original color was no longer recognizable.
Yu Xuan carefully carried it up and said, "There's definitely nothing good here, sister. Look, this wood is all rotten." She gently pried open a corner of the box with her hand, and the piece of wood fell off!
Guo Siman followed from a distance and saw the Tong family digging something. She was pleased that her feeling was right, but why did her great-grandfather bury the things in the Tong family grave? Did he have a change of heart and feel sorry for his ex-wife and son, and want to make it up to them?
Who cares! Anyway, the stuff has been dug up, so as a descendant of the Guo family, she should have a share! They won't give it to her? Then she'll just take it! Or she'll shout and yell, summoning the entire Tong family clan, and see if he can still take those treasures away!
Guo Siman slowly approached, and seeing Yu Xuan break the wooden box, she couldn't help but rush over!
"Bang! Whoosh! Thud!" That was the sound of Tong Yuheng kicking her away, sending her spinning 360 degrees in the air before she finally landed on the ground!
"Who's following us? What are you doing here?" Tong Yuheng lunged forward, stomping on Guo Siman's back. "Speak up, or I'll stomp you to death!"
Guo Siman felt a churning pain in her stomach; she felt like the eldest son of the Tong family could easily crush her. She groaned weakly, saying, "Big sister, please lift your foot, I'm Guo Siman..."
"Hmph! What are you up to?" Tong Yuxuan walked over and asked her teasingly. Tong Anfu remained silent to the side, thinking to himself that none of Guo Qirun's descendants were any good.
"Grandpa! Grandpa, please share some of your things with me! Life isn't easy for us over there! You've brought back a whole box of treasures, can't you just give me a few pieces?"
In Guo Siman's mind, the contents of that tattered wooden box must be priceless. Those few items would be fine; looking at her sisters' fierce expressions, she probably wouldn't be able to ask for more!
"We don't know what's inside. It's not heavy, so there probably isn't much. Besides, that old scumbag lived such a miserable life in the last two years before he died. Wouldn't he have spent his money?" Tong Yuxuan thought that even if there were good things in the box, there wouldn't be many.
"Go fill in the hole first, and take the things back to the hotel to look at them!" Tong Anfu said, standing next to the box and instructing his granddaughters to do the work.
Guo Siman also quickly went to help fill the hole. She used both her hands and feet to scoop the soil that Yu Xuan had dug out back into the hole, just like a big dung beetle!
Filling the hole was much faster than digging it. They quickly filled the hole and then scooped up some stones and clods of earth from the side to cover it on top, tamping it down with their feet.
Tong Yuheng pulled out a large bed sheet from somewhere, put the tattered box on it, tied it into a bundle, and carried it back to the hotel with the group.
"Come on, open it and see what it is! It almost killed our whole family!" Old Master Tong ordered.
The group went to the old man's room, and Tong Yuheng simply threw the "package" on the ground. Even if it wasn't taken from a coffin, it had been buried in a cemetery for decades, making it truly disgusting.
Guo Siman didn't care about any of that. She quickly opened the bed sheet and, following the spot where Yu Xuan had broken it, used a bit of force to open the box! Tong Anfu also looked through it, his face turning ashen with anger, and his hands trembled!
The box contained a large opium pipe and several pieces of opium paste, now turned into clods of dirt! There were also some other odds and ends, which were even more outrageous!
There were men's shorts, and a bellyband embroidered with acacia flowers, the kind only courtesans wore; and his cronies' erotic poems for their lovers!
Guo Yunkai really is a scoundrel! No wonder he said he wanted to disgust his own mother! These things are the things a mother from a respectable family would despise the most!
Tong Yuheng thought to himself: Grandpa, even if you don't go to scatter his ashes, I'm going anyway!
The box wasn't completely empty; it contained several jade bracelets, gold rings, earrings, and gold and silver hairpins. Even the worst jewelry in Tong Yuheng's spatial storage was better than these!
Guo Siman's hopeful heart sank. So this was her great-grandfather's "treasure"! Fortunately, there was some gold and silver jewelry, otherwise she would have had to cheat him out of his travel expenses to get back!
"Damn it! He's a complete bastard! It's a good thing my mother wasn't buried here, or she'd be so angry she'd jump out of her coffin! Yuheng, go and burn all this stuff! Burn it!"
"Grandpa, please don't be angry, I'll go burn it right away!" Tong Yuheng and her sister agreed.
"No! Grandpa, you may not like these pieces, but I don't! Can I have them?" Guo Siman quickly stopped him.
"Grandpa?" Tong Yuheng asked the old man for his opinion.
"Take whatever you want! These things were disgusting things that old bastard made for my mother, we don't want them even if you give them to us!"
Girl, do you know that a few years ago, because of this rumor, my whole family was sent to the countryside, our home was searched, and my son and daughter-in-law were almost beaten to death?!
Don't call me "Grandpa" anymore. We don't acknowledge any of your relatives! I hate everyone in the Guo family!
Guo Siman was terrified by the old man's restrained anger, which resembled that of an enraged lion. She had no doubt that angering them would lead to dire consequences!