Chapter 81 Rewards

"I don't know the exact number, I only know that they were packed tightly in this sealed room. When it was first opened, there was almost no smell, but after a short while, a putrid smell started to waft out from inside."

All the boxes inside were locked, probably several hundred in total. Old Meng opened the third one and found a corpse. The stench inside was just too strong, so I didn't go in to check. I was then brought back, so I don't know exactly how many there were, but there were corpses inside, and more than one box. Lu Qingzhu gagged again, looking at the food on the table, she really had no appetite. It was all her sister's fault for bringing this up at this time.

"Damn, those people are so twisted. How could they put the corpses in a box and lock it? If there are so many, why hasn't anyone searched for all the missing people?" He Caiwei had never experienced the era when families had servants with death contracts, so she didn't know that whether a servant with a death contract lived or died was up to the master.

"I don't know, my dad won't let me get involved in what happened later." Lu Qingzhu shook his head. Right now, he couldn't eat anything except for the small cake.

"Never mind then, I'll wait for my uncle to come back before I ask." He Caiwei didn't know how the follow-up investigation went. But with so many corpses, it should be kept secret, right? She'd wait for her uncle to come back before asking. If he could tell her, he should satisfy her curiosity.

"There are so many things, we might need to keep it a secret. By the way, sister, there are so many houses there, and so many more. How about we find some time to go treasure hunting? I'm really drooling over those little yellow croakers." Lu Qingzhu suddenly remembered that he had previously wanted to go treasure hunting there again and wanted to ask his sister to go with him.

"Do you think you can get out now?" He Caiwei doubted that after this incident, her aunt or her father would let him out.

The thought of this made Lu Qingzhu feel inexplicably irritable. It seemed that his mother had said he would be confined to his home until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, when he was supposed to go to school.

After upsetting the thirteen-year-old boy, He Caiwei happily came downstairs, just as her uncle returned.

"Uncle, shouldn't you be going back to the hospital? Why did you come back here?"

"Weiwei, come quick, come see what your uncle brought back for you. It's just a minor injury, no need to go back to the hospital and waste national resources. You can rest at home, saving you the trouble of bringing me food every day and running around." Lu Zhining really didn't want to stay in the hospital. It was the New Year, and there was no point in him staying there. Anyway, he didn't need anything except for some painkillers in the morning. He could just have the military doctor come to his house to give him injections later.

When He Caiwei arrived in the living room, she discovered that not only Lu Zhiheng and his brother were there, but also a rugged-looking man who appeared to be around twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. He had the air of a soldier and was carrying a small box. He sat next to her uncle with a serious expression.

"Come and see the rewards for you."

Upon hearing about the reward, Lu Qingzhu, who had been sneaking around on the stairs, immediately ran down the stairs as fast as she could.

"What reward? Dad, what reward is there?"

Lu Zhining rolled her eyes at her silly son. The soldier sitting next to Lu Zhining opened the small box in his hand.

Inside the box was a large stack of newly issued banknotes from this year, along with coupons for some household items, such as bicycle coupons, TV tickets, radio tickets, and some milk coupons.

"Here's two thousand yuan as a reward for the two of you, along with these milk coupons (all in pairs) and other coupons (the quantities are unknown). Take a look for yourselves. Oh, and there are two watches for the two of you." Actually, there were some other things inside that couldn't be revealed, so Lu Zhining didn't say anything. Instead, she took the box from the soldier and handed it directly to her niece.

"Sweetie, let's go back to the room and look at them. Those tickets don't have an expiration date. You can buy them when you need them." He Caiwei understood what Lu Zhining meant when he said this, and she pulled her little brother back to the room.

"Sister, pour it out quickly! I want to see all that money! My God, I'm rich! I'm rich! I have so much money! I'm the richest person in the whole compound!" Lu Qingzhu became a little neurotic when she saw the money.

He Caiwei wasn't going to tolerate him. She slapped him on the back of the head to make him quiet down for a while.

Then, under Lu Qingzhu's expectant gaze, he dumped the entire box onto the table. The sudden, crisp sound startled both of them.

Only after picking up the box and seeing the six small yellow fish on the money note did I realize that the crisp sound I had just heard was made by the small yellow fish colliding with each other.

"I..." He Caiwei was afraid he would shout, so she covered his mouth.

"You're going to die! These things down here were secretly given to you. Do you want to scream your lungs out and have everyone in the compound come looking for trouble?" He Caiwei glared at him fiercely.

Lu Qingzhu realized at this moment what a stupid thing he had just done, and quickly covered his mouth with his hand, afraid that he would shout out loud because he was too happy.

"Little sister, take out the tickets and let me see. I'll give you the watch; I already have one. You can keep all these things; I don't need them right now, so I'll give them all to you. But you have to give me 10 yuan. I want to show off at the compound tomorrow." Lu Qingzhu wanted 10 yuan to treat her friends to candy tomorrow and show off a bit.

"What excuse did you use to show off 10 yuan? You absolutely cannot bring this up. You need to know that if the people caught this time have accomplices, by showing off, you'll put yourself in danger. Do you even want your life?" He Caiwei couldn't let him do something stupid, otherwise he would definitely be dealt with very badly by his uncle and aunt.

"Of course not, I'm not that stupid. I'll just say it was given to me by my sister. How about that? Not a bad reason, right? Hehe..." Lu Qingzhu said, chuckling to herself.

He Caiwei thought this guy was like an idiot; his smile was so funny it made her teeth ache.

He Caiwei counted all the items inside and put them back into the box one by one. She had plenty of these things in her space, so she left them for this young man. However, she couldn't just give them to him directly, otherwise this kid would definitely take them out and squander them.

"Sister, all these things are for you. Find a place to put them away. When I grow up, I will be able to earn money to support myself, so these things can be kept as your dowry." Lu Qingzhu genuinely wanted to give these things to Caiwei, after all, her sister was already twelve years old, and there were only a few years left before she got married, so she wanted to give these things to her first.

His younger sister is still small; he can earn her share later.