Sadako came, and the girl walked to the living room, and then picked up a family portrait in the living room and said in surprise.
"Gangxiong, is this your father?"
Sadako trotted over and handed a framed photo to Saeki Takeo.
There are two people in the photo, a boy in his teens, and a middle-aged man in his thirties. They are Takeo Saeki and his father, Saeki Ozo.
Takeo Saeki took the photo and said with emotion.
"Yes, it's my father. This photo was taken when I was in junior high school. I was really young at that time."
Sadako looked at the teenager in the photo with a smile, and joked.
"Gangxiong was pretty cute before."
Takeo Saeki was a little proud.
"After all, it's fresh meat."
Sadako sighed.
"It's a pity that I didn't meet Gangxiong when you were a little fresh meat."
Takeo Saeki joked.
"At this time, Sadako, you may not have been born yet."
Sadako sighed.
"Then wait a few more years. If I met Gangxiong when I was young and made a vow to marry when I grow up, don't you think Gangxiong is very romantic?"
"But it is reasonable to say that after more than ten years, you will be a stranger if you meet again? Besides, few people remember things before the age of five, right?"
"Gangxiong, you are too unromantic."
"I just want to complain, how do you remember those vows under the age of five? Hypermemory per capita?"
Takeo Saeki put the photo on the nearby sofa, and then went to the kitchen and bathroom. These two places were already covered with dust and cobwebs because no one came for a long time.
There's nothing to see in this place, and Takeo Saeki went up to the second floor.
There were more dust and cobwebs on the second floor, and a large amount of dust rose up when Takeo Saeki walked, covering around Takeo Saeki's ankles.
Takeo Saeki pulled the collar to let the air circulate inside the collar to get some coolness, and then opened the door beside him.
Behind the door was a very modest boy's room.
Takeo Saeki had a complicated face.
"Sadako-san, this is my former bedroom."
"Hey, is it Gango's bedroom?"
Sadako bypassed Takeo Saeki and walked into the bedroom.
Takeo Saeki's bedroom is very simple, just a bed, a desk, and a wardrobe.
Sadako glanced at the bed and desk, and then at the wardrobe.
Taking advantage of this time, Takeo Saeki walked to the next bedroom.
The bedroom next door belonged to Saeki Takeo's father, Saeki Ozo.
Saeki Ozo’s bedroom is a bit bigger than Saeki Takeo’s, and there are more things that can be put in it. However, because Saeki Gozo went to Saitama County to work hard after becoming an adult, and bought a house to live in. After Saeki Ozo’s death, Saeki Takeo did not move anything except for coming to preside over the funeral.
The reason is that it is too troublesome. Whether it is to sort out all the things in the old house or throw them all away, it will take a lot of manpower and time to do it.
So it's better to put all the old house and old furniture and other things in the same place, anyway, it's not breaking the law, and the loss is the least.
so…
Takeo Saeki walked to Saeki Ozan's desk and pulled out the drawer. Inside the first drawer was an irregular stone. The stone should have been held by someone for a long time, and many of the sharp parts had been worn smooth and shiny.
Takeo Saeki picked it up and touched it, then put it aside.
Nothing.
Then came the second drawer, which contained some books, and Takeo Saeki took out the top book from it, which was called "Ginzan Kao".
Takeo Saeki stared at the title of the book in surprise for a while, then put the book on the desk again.
After "Ginzan Kao", there is "Ancient History of Musen City", and the third book is "Modern Terrain Changes in Saitama Prefecture".
Takeo Saeki was taken aback.
Takeo Saeki remembers that his father, Saeki Ozo, only had a high school education, and he was also a simple maintenance worker.
People like this read some novels, and reasoning stories are nothing more than "Yinshan Kao", "Musen City Ancient History", "Modern Terrain Changes in Saitama County", what are these three books?
"Ginzan Kao" is a history book, "Komori City Ancient History Kao" is also a history book, and "Modern Terrain Changes in Saitama Prefecture" is a geography book.
Geography and history are the subjects known as the kings of hypnosis. Even students with the strongest memory ability have the idea of watching it for three minutes and getting a full night's sleep.
How could someone of Saeki Okzo's age put these books in the drawer of his desk?
Takeo Saeki looked at the pages of the three books again, and the edges of the pages were obviously damaged due to long-term reading.
Absolutely, these books are not bought and not read, but read many times.
What is my father doing reading these books?
Takeo Saeki opened the third drawer. There were quite a lot of things in this drawer, but they were all leaflets.
Takeo Saeki took out the leaflets and read them one by one.
The middle-aged people saw the luxurious color TV sets in that era, the Oldsmobiles that only the rich could afford, and the leaflets of luxury houses in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
It is no exaggeration to say that each of the luxury goods on these leaflets is absolutely unaffordable for Takeo Saeki's family.
So what did my father do collecting these leaflets?
How cool is it to hold a leaflet and fantasize about owning these luxuries every day?
etc!
Takeo Saeki's expression froze, the middle-aged man put down the flyer, and picked up the "Silver Mountain Examination" on the desk.
In Musen City, there is such a legend that has been passed down since ancient times.
It is said that a long, long time ago, there was a mountain made purely of silver in the generation of Musen City. The local lords relied on this silver mountain to recruit soldiers and horses, established a huge power, and became a powerful party.
It's just that the lord was later killed by ghosts and gods who coveted the silver mountain from nowhere. After killing the local lord, the ghosts and gods happily ran away with the silver mountain.
The samurai and loyal heirs bought by the lord with money knew about this, and immediately gave up all their work and assembled an army to hunt down the ghosts and gods. Finally, after paying a heavy price, the ghosts and gods were killed by the lord's eldest son.
Before dying, ghosts and gods laughed, saying that killing him is useless, he has hidden the silver mountain, and whoever can find it will own it.
As a result, hundreds of years have passed, and no one has found this silver mountain until now. It is just that there are many jokes about fools who did not work hard when they were young, but only wanted to find the silver mountain and longed for overnight wealth.
"Yinshan Kao" is a history professor who visited the area covered by the legend according to this legend, asked various old people to take notes, and finally compiled the various versions of this legend to write a book.
Many paragraphs in "Ginzan Kao" written by Saeki Ozo have folded footers and reminded them with red lines.
These passages are probably the exact places where the legend of the Silver Mountain is said.
Takeo Saeki brought "Ancient History of Musen City" and "Modern Terrain Changes in Saitama Prefecture" to read.
The content of the three books can actually confirm each other.
A few seconds later, Takeo Saeki looked up dumbfounded.
"What! I really thought my family was some kind of big family, and they lived incognito for reasons of asylum or avoiding enemies..."
What Hachisha-sama said yesterday made Takeo Saeki feel like he is the protagonist's fate, and that his ancestors have some great bloodlines.
And the descendants of this kind of bloodline are ordinary people in normal times, and once the bloodline is opened, they will be invincible in the world, and the heroes will surrender.
Shuangwen's life is nothing more than this.
It turned out not to be.
Judging from the books that Takeo Saeki found in his desk now, his father didn't have any powerful bloodlines, nor did he have any sworn enemies that he needed to avenge. He was just looking for the legendary silver mountain.
This also explains why the third drawer is full of leaflets.
This guy Saeki Okuzo hasn't found any silver mine yet, so he's already thinking about what to buy when he has money in the future.
"No wonder I don't know anything."
Takeo Saeki sincerely sighed.
Saeki Ozang probably also knew that it would make people laugh to talk about finding Yinshan without a trace. In addition, he didn't find Yinshan until he died, so he didn't have the nerve to tell his son about his stupid behavior in the past.
Otherwise, if the Saiki family is some kind of ancient aristocrat, or if there is some big enemy who has been chasing and killing him, when Saiki Ozan is about to die, he has to hold the hand of Saiki Takeo and tell everything about the family?
Takeo Saeki turned the "Modern Terrain Changes in Saitama Prefecture" to the last page. On this page, there were two paragraphs written in a mess because of excitement.
"I found it, according to that adult's prompt, I found the stone of Yinshan!!"
"The Yinshan is real! As long as I find the Yinshan, I will become the richest man in the world!!"
"ha?"
Takeo Saeki's complexion changed slightly.
Silver Mountains...are real?
Stones of the Silver Mountain…
Stones of the Silver Mountain…
Stones of the Silver Mountain…
Takeo Saeki turned his head to look at the stone on the desk that had been polished to a round and shiny shape.
Takeo Saeki picked up the stone again, and put it down again after a while.
Don't look at the two paragraphs on the last page of "Modern Terrain Changes in Saitama Prefecture" how excited Saeki Ozang wrote. In fact, even before his death, the old father never told Saiki Takeo about the silver mountain.
What does this mean?
He should have realized that he was wrong, or felt ashamed of his actions, fearing that he would become one of the local stories of fools looking for Yinshan, so he didn't tell about Yinshan.
Chapter 178 I Like You
Footsteps gradually approached from behind Takeo Saeki, without turning his head, Takeo Saeki knew who was coming.
By the way, Sadako was a bit slow in coming. I have read a few books here, and this little girl just came out of the bedroom where I used to be.
Takeo Saeki turned around, wanting to say something to Sadako, but when he turned around, what Takeo Saeki saw was not Sadako, but a tomboy wearing a blue-black junior high school uniform and a hat of the same style as the school uniform.
The tomboy smiled boyishly when he saw Takeo Saeki's head turned around.
"Are you the me in 20 years?"
Tomboy akimbo.
"The me in twenty years, do you have anything to say to me?"
Takeo Saeki laughed.
"Sadako-san, isn't it hot to wear my old school uniform on such a hot day?"
The tomboy in front of him was just Sadako in the uniform of Takeo Saeki's junior high school.
Sadako took off her hat and slapped the side of her face with it.
"It's very hot, but I want to see if Gangxiong, seeing me like this, think that I have traveled from the past."
Takeo Saeki was overjoyed.
"I was not as cute as you before, how could I recognize you as me."
Sadako nodded her lips and asked again.
"Then why don't I wear the girl's school uniform from Gango's junior high school?"
Sadako blinked at Takeo Saeki.
"Hey, speaking of which, Gango, did you have a crush on a girl in junior high school? What was it like?"
Takeo Saeki turned his head to one side.
"No."