Chapter 232 The Inheritance Ebony Withdrew


Ahhhhh!


Lloyd was such a son of a gun!


As the car began to move, Ebony sat on the passenger seat angry.


When the car stopped at a traffic light, Ebony suddenly asked Lloyd, "Moses' aunt. Why is she surnamed Smith? He took his mother's family name?"


Lloyd glanced at her, thinking she had not noticed that.


Lloyd said, "Moses Smith is his stage name."


Ebony frowned, asking, "What is his family name supposed to be? Or what is his father's family name?"


Aunt could also be Father's sister.


Ebony did not know that she had been mistaken. Moses Smith's aunt was not surnamed Smith!


Lloyd looked at Ebony and asked, "Why do you ask?"


Lloyd looked at Ebony's stubborn profile, and after a moment he said, "I'm giving you a chance to ask me questions. If you want to know something, I'll tell you."


"I... I am not curious!" Ebony was startled, her hair standing on end.


She reflexively said, "I don't want to know at all! I'm not curious!"


At this time the traffic lights changed. Lloyd restarted the car, and he calmly said, "All right then."


Then the atmosphere in the car became quiet. Knowing Lloyd really would say no more, Ebony snorted.


What was the big deal? She could ask Moses herself later!


Lloyd wasn't the only one that knew it. Humph!


After they got back home, Ebony directly went upstairs.


Then she called Moses in the room.


By the time Ebony went downstairs, it was already dinner time.


Lloyd's wound was still severe a few days ago, so it was Ebony that had been cooking for him.


Now Lloyd didn't have any allergies any more, so the maid started to cook again.


The dinner was lavish.


Ebony started to gulp as soon as she sat down.


Lloyd, who sat opposite her, picked up a piece of rib to her bowl.


But Ebony just picked it out and threw it back to his bowl, and then she picked up one herself to eat.


Looking at the rib in his bowl, Lloyd knew she was still unhappy. He didn't say anything.


While Ebony was eating, she would often peek at Lloyd. Lloyd ate things very slowly, which went to show he was brought up in a wealthy family, and had never starved.


But Ebony was different. When she was young, living in Roxanne Gibson's home, often times, she had no food to eat. Not only that, she would be hit if she went back home late from school.


She used to be starved all night long, and then she secretly learned boxing, so her energy was consumed larger. She would always faint for a few seconds when doing punching practice.


From that point on, Ebony became greedy.


But because Victor Torres liked tender girls, so to win Victor's heart, even after she became an adult, having the ability to make money, Ebony still wouldn't eat a lot.


As time went by, she had gotten used to it.


On the thought of this, Ebony felt like she and Lloyd were worlds apart.


After she finished her meal, she wiped her mouth and quickly went upstairs.


When the maid came over to collect plates, she couldn't help but ask Lloyd, who was still eating, "Young master, did you make Miss Gibson unhappy again?"


Lloyd was puzzled, looking at the maid. He said, "Huh?"


The maid pointed the rice cooker which still had some rice left inside, asking unpleasantly, "Miss Gibson only had four bowls of rice! How come she would be full if she only ate that little rice? I wonder if you've made her angry and lose her appetite."


Lloyd didn't say anything.


The maid went to the kitchen and took out some snacks she just bought today.


She gave them to Lloyd and said, "Young master, take these upstairs later for Miss Gibson's night snack. Apologize if necessary, and be sure to make her happy."


Lloyd didn't take the snacks, quietly having a drink of soup.


The maid threatened by saying, "If you don't take them, I'll call Mrs. Vasquez."


Lloyd was speechless.


He put down the bowl with a thump, looking at the maid and said in a low voice, "Just mind your own business."


An hour later, Lloyd knocked on Ebony's door with a cake.


Ebony opened the door in pajama.


Seeing Lloyd was at the door, she squeezed her eyes, asking him with a long face, "What?"


Lloyd passed on the cake box to her.


Ebony's eyes brightened immediately. She took the box and muttered, "How do you know I am not full?"


Lloyd didn't know what to say.


Sure enough she was not full!


Lloyd asked softly, "Why didn't you eat more?"


Ebony pursed her lips and said nothing. She had something on her mind, so she was absent-minded when having dinner.


Ebony didn't answer Lloyd, and she just said, "Thanks." Then she wanted to close the door.


But Lloyd held the door. He looked through the door into the room, seeing there was a big stack of papers laid on the bed.


He asked, "What are you doing?"


At once she covered the crack in the door with her body, saying, "I am not telling you."


With that, she slammed the door shut!


Lloyd stood outside of the door, feeling the door wind blowing to his face.


The door was closed. The man touched the tip of his nose, silent for a moment, and eventually turned back into his room.


Ebony took the cake and went to the bed and opened the box. With a puff in her mouth, she lowered her head, stacking the papers on top of each other and clamping them on.


That night, Ebony was busy for a long time and didn't go to bed until one or two o'clock in the morning.


The next morning she woke up again at six o 'clock.


After washing up, Ebony sneaked downstairs.


When knowing Lloyd wasn't around, she carried her bag like a thief, and stole the car in Lloyd's house, and then immediately drove away!


Ebony drove to the bank and took out the estate papers she had received at the law firm.


With the papers and the password, she successfully opened her grandparents' safe in the bank.


The things in the safe were the same as in her previous live: a certificate of ownership of the ancestral house and a dozen old flash drives.


After taking everything out, she went back to the car.


She took out her laptop, which she had stolen from Lloyd's house, and stuck a flash drive in it.


Because the flash drives were so old, most of which couldn't be read out. They needed to be repaired.


But there were still some that could be read out.


Ebony took a quick look at what was in the flash drives. She took out the papers she had compiled the night before, compared them, and nodded.


The contents of those flash drives were donation information, and what Ebony had compiled was some accounting statistics.


Ebony had no clue why Jared Gibson thought the inheritance was worth a lot.


Her grandparents didn't have any money!


Well, that's not quite accurate. Her grandparents' work indeed could earn a lot of money, but they were not greedy. The two old people were both venerable educators, who taught many students and loved their country.


In these flash drives were the information of her grandparents helping poor students for decades.


A dozen flash drives contained 200 thousand pieces of information all told, and the donation amount was as high as a hundred million.


After Ebony she put the papers and flash drives into her bag, she found an old house ownership certificate.


She typed in the address shown on the certificate on her phone navigation.


After finding out it was too far to get there by car, Ebony had to buy a plane ticket against her will, and then she drove to the airport.


Three hours later, Ebony rode in her fellow-villager's bumpy tractor, and arrived at the house in the village based on house certificate's address.


In her previous life, Ebony had been to the house once, and it looked basically the same as before.


After Ebony got out, the fellow-villager who drove the tractor saw that Ebony was going to enter the house, he reminded her with a local accent, "This is Mr. Pine's house. Nobody lives there anymore, so it became a dangerous building, and could be collapse at any time. Be careful."


Ebony nodded with a smile. She said, "Thank you, sir."


After she finished speaking, she went into the house.


Nothing had changed in the room compared with what she saw in her previous life.


Ebony looked around and went to the center of the living room.


She looked at what used to be an altar table for worshiping, and then looked at the dusty plaque on the upper square beam, which was written with "Filial Offspring".


Ebony pursed her lips. She took out a few snacks and a piece of cake and put them on the altar table.


Then she said dejected, "Great-grandpa and Great-great-grandpa, I found out something big yesterday, which I dared not tell dad and grandparents. I don't know whom I can ask for help from, so I came to you guys. Would you please help me come up with an idea? You could come out all together if you are able to make your presences appear now. But you'd better dress up a bit before coming out. I'm a bit afraid of ghosts.