Lan Yin's gaze swept over the altar in the main room, and she raised her chin slightly. "Uh, it's right there."

Li Chunxiang's gaze swept over the area. "There's just an altar there, nothing else."

Wang Xiaobao and Xiang Qiuyun didn't believe it either. They practically dismantled the altar to search for money, but there wasn't a trace of it.

“It’s under the cellar.” When Lan Yin rented this house, she had her eye on the cellar in the main room. There was a board at the bottom of the altar that could cover the entrance to the cellar. To keep it a secret, Lan Yin made some additional camouflage.

Therefore, Wang Xiaobao and Xiang Qiuyun did not discover that there was actually a cellar when they moved the altar.

"So this house has a cellar?" Li Chunxiang was eager to see the money, so she grabbed a woven bag and ran over. With a swift movement, she moved the altar to a more distant spot.

She turned back and paced back to examine it. "Otoko, I can't see a cellar. Could you be mistaken?"

"If you can tell at a glance, is my money safe here?" Lan Yin walked over with light steps, took out a sharp dagger from her bag, stabbed it in a slightly protruding spot, and then slashed it open, cutting a rectangle along the edge.

She stood up and clapped her hands. "Mom, you can lift this board up. I'll leave the task of going down to get the money to you. I'll pull you back up after you're done." As she spoke, she took a sturdy rope out of her bag.

Li Chunxiang was slightly taken aback. "You really know how to come up with ideas. If I had known you had stored it so safely, I wouldn't have rushed you to come and collect the money. We've been renting this house for six months, and you never tell Mom anything, making me worry for nothing."

“I’ve only been renting this place for six months, but too many people know about it. Wang Xiaobao and Xiang Qiuyun know about it, and even that madman Xie Zhi followed me here. What if that madman comes to his senses and tells the police, and we get caught?”

“That’s right.” Li Huxiang rolled up her sleeves and got to work, first moving the disguised wooden board and tying one end of the rope around her waist.

Lan Yin had just tied the other end to a pillar in the main room. “When I put the money away, this is how one person does it. The money is all in a bag, and then the bag we brought is put inside another bag. The bottom is damp, and the money is wrapped in oil paper. That’s why we have to take it away quickly. If it stays too long, the money will rot.”

"Okay, you wait here." Li Chunxiang saw that her daughter had already tied the other end of the rope. She grabbed the hole with both hands and slid down. If her daughter could do it by herself, she had nothing to be afraid of.

Lan Yin shone a flashlight up at it. "Mom, can you see? Should I throw you the flashlight?"

"I can see it, I can see it." After landing, Li Chunxiang bent down and reached out to touch the cash wrapped in oil paper. If it weren't for the unpleasant smell below, she would have liked to open the oil paper to see the money. The smell was just too awful, so she quickly got to work.

After packing, untie the rope from your waist and tie it to the woven bag.

Lan Yin followed Li Chunxiang's movements with the beam of her flashlight. After setting it up, she placed the flashlight beside her feet and pulled the rope upwards with both hands. At this moment, her flat cloth shoes came in very handy, preventing her from slipping. If she had been wearing high heels, she would not have been able to do it at all.

Normally, Lan Yin would definitely not be able to pull it up, but this is money, so she can pull it up no matter how heavy it is.

"What should we do?" Xiang Qiuyun asked Wang Xiaobao in a low voice. "Should we go down?"

"Wait a little longer," Wang Xiaobao whispered in her ear. "We need to move to a different spot; they'll find us if we go down from here."

The two of them immediately moved their bodies gently up there, to a corner where Lan Yin and her daughter couldn't see them. They followed their example and used the rope from the attic to tie around their waists and slid down, not daring to use a ladder for fear of making a noise.

Just as Li Chunxiang and her daughter were working together to get the money out, Wang Xiaobao and Xiang Qiuyun appeared out of nowhere.

To make sure there was money wrapped in the oil paper, Li Chunxiang tore a piece open to take a look before bursting into laughter. "Yinzi, let's move it to the car."

"Haha, trying to leave?" Wang Xiaobao appeared in front of them with his arms crossed.

The mother and daughter stared in astonishment at Wang Xiaobao and Xiang Qiuyun.

"You...you guys...why are you back...aren't you afraid the police will arrest you?" Lan Yin quickly regained her composure. "Xiao Moxi's face was disfigured by you two, if they catch him they'll go to jail!"

"Is that so?" Wang Xiaobao looked at this woman who knew how to act with a half-smile. "But as far as I know, Xiao Moxi wasn't disfigured by me. The police arrested us because of the charge of embezzling money and fleeing?"

Li Chunxiang had already covered up the exposed cash tightly. No matter what, she definitely couldn't let Wang Xiaobao and Xiang Qiuyun take the money she had just received.

"Didn't you ruin Xiao Moxi's face yourself?" Lan Yin backed away step by step.

"Lan Yin, we risked our lives for you, did so many bad things for you, and in the end, you want us to take the blame? I never thought you could be so heartless." Xiang Qiuyun approached her step by step. "Tell me, did you report us to the police? Framing people like this is something you never fail to do. You drove the company's finance manager away with a recording pen, and now you want us to take the blame for you. What a clever scheme! But unfortunately, man proposes, God disposes. We're back."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Lan Yin was trembling with fear, not knowing where things had gone wrong.

"I'm not lying, I'm telling the truth." Xiang Qiuyun now wished she could strangle Lan Yin. "No wonder you were in such a hurry to send me and Wang Xiaobao away. It was all part of your plan. Once we left, we became wanted criminals. And you, you fake good person, promised to take care of my mother, but you didn't even look at her once. You almost killed her. I'm going to settle this score with you today."

Xiang Qiuyun reached out and grabbed at Lan Yin.

Lan Yin reached into her bag and took out a sharp dagger, then swung it at Xiang Qiuyun.

"Watch out!" Wang Xiaobao moved swiftly, pushing Xiang Qiuyun aside. The sharp knife pierced straight into his heart, and blood gushed out.

Lan Yin was so frightened that she crossed her arms and muttered to herself, "I killed someone, I killed someone..."

"Xiao Bao." Xiang Qiuyun collapsed to the ground, then looked at Wang Xiaobao lying in a pool of blood. That was his heart, a spot where one stab could be fatal. She cried as she crawled to Wang Xiaobao's side and hugged his body. "How could you be so foolish?"

"Qiuyun, I'm afraid I'm not going to make it?" Wang Xiaobao said weakly. "However, I have no regrets about dying in your arms. I, Wang Xiaobao, have been a bad person for so many years, and just when I wanted to be a good person, I had to die. This is God's punishment for me. But, since you are alive, I can die in peace..."

"Xiao Bao, you can't die, you can't die! I want to tell you, I'm pregnant, really, I'm pregnant!" Xiang Qiuyun cried out in anguish. "I'll take you to the hospital right now, you must live."

"Qiuyun, give birth to... give birth to her for me..." Wang Xiaobao closed his eyes with a smile.