Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

Chapter 644 A Gift for Lou Xiao'e

While Lou Xiao'e was busy discussing investment with the leaders of Sijiu City, Lin Geng took advantage of the fact that Lou Xiao'e had half a day and took her to the small Western-style building where the Lou family once lived.

When Lou Xiao'e came to her former home, she was surprised to find that the house looked very dilapidated when she came here last time, but now when viewed from the outside, the wall and gate have been repaired, and the rusty iron gate has been replaced with a new one, which is custom-made according to the original style.

Lou Xiao'e excitedly pushed open the door and walked back into the yard. At this time, the weeds in the yard that were originally taller than a person had been completely cleared away. Even the flower beds in the yard had been replaced with new flowers and trees, and some of the original flowers and trees had been maintained and pruned.

The floor tiles in the yard have also been repaved using the original old tiles. It looks like time has gone back to the way it was more than ten years ago.

Even the exterior walls of the small Western-style building in the yard were cleaned. All the messy vines climbing on the walls were cleared away. After the debris on the roof was cleaned up, the broken tiles were replaced, and the walls and roof were cleaned and restored to their original state.

Now, looking at this former home from the yard, Lou Xiao'e's eyes are filled with tears of excitement. In a trance, she felt as if she had traveled through more than ten years and returned to the time before she left the old city. She looked greedily at her former home.

Lin Geng gently embraced Lou Xiao'e and said to her with a smile: "Let's go! Go in and take a look!"

Lou Xiao'e choked up and followed Lin Geng nervously to open the door. What came into view was a huge living room. Lou Xiao'e's eyes suddenly widened, her face full of disbelief, and she even forgot to choke up for a moment.

Because Lin Geng had brought Lou Xiao'e here a few nights before, and carried her over the wall into the yard. He lay on the broken window and used a flashlight to illuminate the house. Lou Xiao'e saw that the house was empty. All the furniture they had in their home was gone. The ground was littered with debris, and there were wild cats running around in the house chasing mice.

The room was a mess at that time. After seeing it, Lou Xiao'e felt very depressed and couldn't help shedding tears.

But when she came again today and opened the door, what she saw was that the house had returned to the way it was when she left seventeen years ago. Even the huge curtains that used to be in the house were hung back on the windows, exactly the same as the curtains in her memory.

The original furniture in the house were all custom-made by Lou's father at that time, and it cost a lot of money. Now, all the furniture is intact and placed in its original position.

The house was spotlessly clean, and in a trance, everything returned to the way it was before their family left seventeen years ago.

Lou Xiao'e walked into the house with a slight tremor, and looked up. Even the stair railings and the floor had been completely restored. All the furniture that had once belonged to their family and had disappeared was now placed in its original place. Even the Big Ben that had been placed against the wall was now back in its original place.

Lou Xiao'e clearly remembers that when she was a child, she was naughty and carved a crooked and ugly duckling pattern on the side of the Big Ben with a knife. Her father scolded her for this and asked someone to repair it, but traces of the repair were left.

So Lou Xiao'e walked quickly to the Big Ben, lowered her head and looked to the side, then suddenly covered her mouth and exclaimed in surprise.

"This... this is the floor clock that my house used to have! Wasn't it gone when you brought me to see it a few days ago? How...how did you find these things?" Lou Xiao'e asked Lin Geng while running hurriedly to the sofa and looking at it carefully. There were also traces of the damage she caused when she was a child on the sofa, and they are still there.

When Lou Xiao'e was sure that all the furniture in this house were the same furniture that belonged to her own home, she was so surprised that she didn't know what to say.

So she asked Lin Geng in a trembling voice.

In Lou Xiao'e's opinion, these furniture must have been bought from her home at a great cost by Lin Geng when they left Sijiu City, and they had been well kept by Lin Geng, waiting for her to return to the villa today and put them back here.

With so many pieces of furniture, I wonder how much manpower, material resources, financial resources, and favors Lin Geng had to mobilize to preserve and hide them. They also had to survive the strong wind that lasted for ten years and still remain intact. I wonder how much effort it took.

This made Lou Xiao'e so grateful to Lin Geng that she didn't know what to say for a moment. She just asked Lin Geng in disbelief how he did it.

Lin Geng hugged Lou Xiao'e and said with a smile: "Don't ask, as long as you like it! I just want to ask you, looking at this place now, does it feel like going back to the time before you left more than ten years ago?"

Lou Xiao'e shed tears and nodded vigorously: "Yes! It looks like it, very much like it! It feels just like when we just left! If you hadn't brought me here a few days ago, I would have thought that this place has always remained like this all these years!

Thank you! Thank you! Woo woo..."

As Lou Xiao'e spoke, she covered her mouth and started crying.

Lin Geng showed a sly smile, and at the same time, he felt a little embarrassed. When Lou's father and mother ran away, they couldn't take away the furniture and bulky antiques in their home, and it was not convenient to deal with them in advance. So Lin Geng sneaked in here and plundered the place thoroughly.

With a wave of his hand, he put all the furniture in the house into the small world, even the wooden floors and curtains upstairs were not left behind. Of course, those bulky antiques were also put into the small world.

After certain departments found out that Lou's father and mother had run away, they rushed over to seal off the Lou family's villa, only to find that it was truly deserted. In a literal sense, everyone was stunned after entering the house. They had seen people running away, but they had never seen anyone run away like the Lou family. When they ran away, they even took away the floor. The house was so empty that even a mouse that came in had to leave crying.

As a result, some departments immediately started an investigation, but after much investigation, they only found out that before the Lou family fled, they had secretly disposed of some assets and exchanged them for yellow croaker or US dollars. It was thought that the assets were disposed of to be taken to Hong Kong for development, but they still did not find out how they had moved the Lou family so empty.

When the Lou family fled, they only took a small amount of luggage with them when they left Sijiu City and went to Tianjin City. It was simply unrealistic to carry a lot of things with them.

But no matter how hard they searched, they couldn't find out where the Lou family had moved the bulky furniture, antiques, or even the floors and curtains in the house before they left.

Although they also suspected Lin Geng, they investigated the days when Lin Geng ran away from the Lou family and found that they had no time to move the things of the Lou family, nor did they have the ability to move so many things. They did not even find out that Lin Geng was involved in the Lou family's escape. So this matter became an unsolved case and was never resolved.

But who could have thought that those things were indeed taken away by Lin Geng. In less than an hour, the Lou family was completely emptied, and those things were all put into Lin Geng's small world and stored in the warehouse of the small world.