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I breathed a sigh of relief and quickly took out the letters. A stack of yellowed letters appeared in front of me. The first one introduced "manager Niu", which was exactly the same as the letter I found when I was a child. The second one was about manager Niu asking Ma Guilan to help, but was rejected. The third one was about Ma Guilan asking Xu Yunping to meet at Back Mountain Orchard. "Yunping, you must come." "I recently found that manager Niu seemed to have murderous intentions towards me." "The last time I went to see him, I accidentally saw his account book. He was making counterfeit drugs!" "I don't know how many secret bases he has, and I don't know if he found out that I didn't." "But my intuition tells me that I can't stay here." "See you at 10 o'clock tomorrow night at Back Mountain Orchard." After reading the last letter, my frown did not relax. Did Ma Guilan tell my mother about this? Did my mother know about the counterfeit drugs? It was already three o'clock in the morning, and I decided to go back to sleep first. However, just as I closed the door and prepared to go back to my room, I heard footsteps outside. Dongdongdong...
The sound was slow and rhythmic; I could tell it was my mother's footsteps.
Oh no!
I hurried back to the study and squeezed under the desk.
The footsteps stopped at the door, and my heart hung in suspense.
Creak—
The door was pushed open.
Surely, my mother wouldn't find me so easily, right?
I held my breath, curling up motionlessly beneath the desk.
The beam of a flashlight slowly moved down from the tabletop, and my heartbeat quickened with each inch it descended.
Oh no!
Had I been discovered?
The light flickered over the Safe and lingered for a few seconds before moving away.
After a few minutes, the footsteps gradually faded.
Phew—
I let out a sigh of relief and crawled out from under the desk.
Once back in my room, I closed and locked the door, feeling a wave of relief wash over me.
Just as I was about to get into bed, a dark voice came from behind me.
“Xu Wen, where have you been?”
I was doomed!
I had been found out!
I quickly turned to run, but the lights suddenly flickered on.
My mother sat on the bed, her face pale and tense as she stared at me.
In her hand, she tightly gripped a kitchen knife.
I was startled by the sudden turn of events and instinctively wanted to flee.
The knife in my mother’s hand sent a chill down my spine.
She pulled out a yellowed letter from her pocket, clearly taken from the Safe.
My mother placed the letter on the table and began to examine its contents closely.
Seizing the opportunity, I snatched the knife from her grasp.
“Mom, did you kill Aunt Gui Lan?”
My question startled her.
“What are you talking about!”
“Put down the knife; let’s talk this through.”
I hid the blade behind my back, locking eyes with her.
"Explain what this knife is about."
My mother looked embarrassed.
"I thought there was a burglar in the house, so I took the knife for self-defense."
"Xiao Wen, put the knife down first. Let me explain slowly."
I hesitated for a moment but eventually set the knife down.
My mother let out a sigh of relief. After putting the knife away, she sat on the bed and began to tell me about the Ma Guilan case.
"Actually, your uncle did visit Gui Lan's house that afternoon. When he came back in the evening, he had blood on him."
"But it wasn't me who did it; he fell on his own."
"When I asked him what happened, he wouldn't say anything and then locked himself in his room, mysteriously disappearing."
"Later on, Gui Lan got into trouble."
My mother rubbed her temples and continued speaking.
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