749: Another person

Another person

Tai Zheng looked at the three men who were turning his house upside down and felt really angry. He wanted to fight with them but he could not, he was tied and gagged up tightly this time. He was filled with hatred but did not dare to make a fuss anymore lest he was beaten again, he decided that he will wait until Lin Ze was gone and then he will find trouble with him again.  It was not as if he would be tied up all his life right?2

" I found it!" Lin Ze has been sniffing around the house like a dog who was looking for a bone unlike Su Yu Cheng and Su Bai who had no interest in looking for the money and letters that Tai Zheng has hidden away, he was very much interested in finding the money and letters that will bring him to glory. 

Tai Zheng had hidden the money along with the letters in a secret cabinet in his bedroom and Lin Ze who has never seen the working mechanism of this cabinet in the house of his nephews but he knew that they had the same cabinet in their house and Su Wan who wanted to help him very generously told him how to find the secret hiding spot. 

Thus, he immediately found a way to open it. His actions were so swift that Tai Zheng who was lying on the bed was stunned, he was relaxed because he thought that Lin Ze would not be able to find the money and letters but turns out that he was a fool! 

This commoner somehow knew how to open the secret drawer of his cabinet. What he did not know was Su Wan has been thinking about dealing with him for a very long time and she was very generous while teaching all the tricks to Lin Ze. 

While the man was busy taking the letters out and Tai Zheng was busy flailing on the bed, a letter from the inside of the cabinet fell. Lin Ze did not have any need to take care of that letter, what he wanted was to first stuff the money in his sleeves which were why he did not pick the letter up. 

Su Yu Cheng who was behind Lin Ze wanted to see what was inside the letter and immediately picked it up from the floor, he was dragged from his house and even had to take part in this incident, he might as well see what was all this about. However as soon as he opened the letter a very familiar writing came into view, strictly speaking, this letter was written by someone in the capital, the writing should have been elegant and fluid but instead the letters, they were wriggly and crooked and the way the word 'I' was written was a bit too familiar for Su Yu Cheng. 

" Father! Father!" His head buzzed as he looked at the letters on the paper and hurried over to his father who was standing behind him. 

" What's wrong with you? Why are you making a fuss like this?" He turned to look at his son who was jumping up and down and could not help but frown. 

" Look at this," Su Yu Cheng thrust the letter that was in his hands in front of his father and then said, " Look at the letters." 

Su Bai did not understand what his son was trying to say but then he took the letter from his son and started reading the letter, the more he read the more he realised that the words written on the paper were a bit too familiar even the mistakes and strokes of the letters were too similar. 

" Isn't this how Su Wan used to write?" Su Bai could not help but mutter as he looked at the yellowing scroll, he did not know much about his daughter but he did know that she was a bit too high-headed. She wanted to get married into a rich and influential family, she also dreamed of having a bunch of servants under her feet and if not then she would not have killed herself when she found out that she was marrying the dirt poor Lin brothers. 

Because she wanted to be influential she would often teach herself words from the books that Su Yu Cheng brought with him, though she could not be called literate, she could at least write a few words. 

Su Yu Cheng nodded and pointed to the "I" that was written on the letter and said,  " I can recognise this I anywhere, I am sure that this was written by Su Wan..there is no way that anyone will write such an ugly I." 

Su Bai looked at the letter and then turned to his son, his mind was fluctuating with numerous possibilities but he could not come up with a plausible explanation, in fact, he already had one but he thought that it was too far-fetched. 

" There is no way, this is possible right?" Su Bai looked at the letter though he has heard of several folk tales where two people exchanged their souls, he did not want to believe that what he was thinking was right. How could something so far-fetched happen to his family?

" Why not?" Su Yu Cheng's eyes were already shining with greed as he looked at the letter. " You know how Su Wan suddenly changed on her wedding day and the way she looks at us is like she cannot be bothered with us, isn't it because she is not close to us? We all thought that she was angry but what if …what if she is not Su Wan at all!" 

" How can a woman suddenly change so much? She was so scared of you, father and now she is willing to hit you, don't you think that she changed a bit too much and too fast at that ?" 

Su Bai rubbed the paper in his hands and thought over it carefully what his son said was not wrong either, Su Wan indeed changed a bit too much and too fast for a human, as if she was another person.

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