Holding her brother's gastric toxicological analysis report in his hands, Louie had been sitting in the car for nearly half a day.
Although she had already foreseen something like this to come as a result, something still seemed to drill into her heart and made her in pain when she saw the test report herself.
Her condition was too risk to drive back home herself, so she had no choice but to get back home by taxi.
Yesterday, the whole place of the Hendersons was crowded and bustling, while everything seemed to be extraordinarily quiet here today.
With slow steps, Louie got upstairs and looked around by the staircase.
Everyone was in their own room, while no one seemed to be coming out — even food was delivered to their rooms by servants.
Pondering, she still chose to go to the room of Ryan at the end.
The door of his room was locked on the inside. Louie knocked twice at the door, and the deep voice of Ryan sounded from the inside, "Who's there?"
With a sigh, Louie said, "It's me, grandpa."
A while later, the old man opened the door. He looked much better than he was yesterday, which maybe due to that he was the first one in the family who chose to face up to the reality.
Louie went inside and handed over the report to the old man.
With a confused look in his eyes, he soon figured out everything with a quick look at the file.
He heaved a sigh, "The kid took things too seriously!"
Pitifully, Louie said, "How about we keep it as a secret of our own family?"
The cause of Jakub's death was still announced to be a car accident. Louie was afraid that the whole family might be encumbered if the truth of her brother's suicide were ever to be publicized.
The old man agreed with her and nodded, "Don't tell anyone about this. We are the only two who know the truth. By the way, have you gone through all the procedures in the hospital?"
Louie nodded, "It's all done. The body of Jakub is still kept in the mortuary of the hospital, and they told us that it was our choice to choose cremation or to take it away from the hospital."
With a pause of consideration, the old man said, "Let's cremate his body. The last thing we can do is to greet our last fairwell to Jakub in the cremation ceremony. You dad and mom would go crazy if they were to catch sight of the dead body of their son."
It was quite reasonable.
Louie hummed, "I get it. Leave it to me, and I'll handle it."
Saying so, as she was about to turn around and leave, she still looked back at the old man and said, "Hey, grandpa, go downstairs and take some strolls if you can. It worries me to see you locking yourself inside of the room all the time."
With a reluctant smile, the old man smiled, "Relax, I'm old enough to get over any difficulties."
Sighing, Louie left directly.
It was at the moment when the old man, who was supported by his servants, went downstairs and strolled.
Waiting until her grandpa was gone, Louie came out of her room and stepped inside that of the old man with quick movements.
Opening the wardrobe, she again caught sight of the safe box, and the buttons were coated by some sort of unknown liquid by Louie.
With a flashlight shining the buttons, she went through each of the buttons in detail, and finally, she could vaguely distinguish several key numbers of the password, even though these numbers needed to be permuted and combined.
Prudently, she then peeped at the backyard through the window.
The old man was supported by his servants, strolling around the backyard.
Assured a little, she soon focused back on the safe box again.
She failed decoding for the first two times, and as strain grew inside of her, she carefully tried the third time.
Unfortunately, she still failed it again, and it was the next moment that the safe box sounded strident alarm.
Covering the safe box with clothes and closing the wardrobe, she had successfully reduced the noise, while the alarming sound was still clear enough.
Terrified, she hastily headed to the window and checked outside.
It was lucky that the old man was currently staying too far away from here to notice the peculiarity inside of his room.
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