Chapter 153 Going Deep Alone

Meeting Su Meng's questioning and resistant gaze, Cheng Wangshu smiled and said, "You know about what happened last night."

Commander Tang specifically asked me to go there.

Comrade Su, I'm so sorry! It was my negligence that put you in danger again. Please forgive me!

Su Meng glanced at him and thought to herself that this guy's attempts to get close to her were too old-fashioned.

She turned her head away, brushed a stray hair behind her ear, and walked out first. "The accident happened too suddenly; it's not your fault."

"Director Cheng, I have something to attend to, so I'll be leaving now."

Cheng Wangshu took a step back, a gloomy look flashing in her eyes, her mood plummeting to rock bottom.

He just couldn't understand it. He had money, power, and was just as good-looking as that soldier, so why couldn't he catch her eye?

He clenched his fingers tightly, narrowed his long eyes, and tried his best to suppress the dark thoughts in his heart.

He then chuckled lightly, as if nothing had happened, "That's right! Your Commander Huo is waiting for you."

Su Meng didn't correct her, and just waved her hand.

The address that person gave her last night was thirty miles outside of Zhou City.

Thinking about the upcoming return of another portion of her lost assets, she was so excited that she walked with a spring in her step.

I took the bus back to the city.

After shaking off the pursuers, it released the small car from its spatial storage and drove towards its destination.

The place where the scarred man hid his valuables must have been guarded.

It wouldn't be bad to capture one or two more to help with the farming!

Once they reached their destination, Su Meng put the car back into her spatial storage.

She frowned as she looked at the tall archway at the entrance to her destination.

She thought "Dashanzhai" was a village, but it turned out to be a small town.

Su Meng followed the flow of people into the town at a leisurely pace, her eyes quickly scanning both sides of the street, secretly memorizing the terrain.

"I need a piece of meat, cut it for me! Hurry up!"

At the entrance of the supply and marketing cooperative, a woman with her hair in a bun was shouting loudly, holding a meat ration coupon and a few loose banknotes in her hand.

A long queue trailed behind her, stretching all the way to the pharmacy behind several shops.

A cool breeze carried the scent of mentholatum from the pharmacy.

Su Meng carefully checked the name of the pharmacy.

They turned into the alley next door.

The man said that the destination was in the alley next door.

She glanced at the empty alley and stopped under an old tree.

After looking around, I climbed up.

There was no one in the courtyard.

Su Meng was secretly delighted and walked towards the other side of the courtyard, trying to climb over the wall to check the situation inside the target courtyard.

But just as she reached the center of the courtyard, she heard crying.

It's very light!

Indistinctly.

Sometimes it's very clear.

Startled, Su Meng hurriedly hid under the washing sink, listening intently.

The crying sounded somewhat familiar, intermittent.

I listened carefully for a while, but I couldn't figure out where the sound was coming from.

She kept her purpose in mind and prepared to collect her own property first.

Standing close to the courtyard wall, you can clearly hear footsteps in the alley next door.

There was also the sound of two people talking.

"Why hasn't the food been delivered yet? I'll go check."

"Go ahead! I don't know what the boss is thinking, what's the point of guarding this empty courtyard? It's a waste of time!"

"Exactly! Going out to work can earn some extra income. Anyway, I'm off."

"OK!"

Hearing the footsteps fade away, Su Meng jumped up and sprinkled a packet of powder into the alley. Then, as the man collapsed, she put him into her spatial storage.

Judging from what they said, there must be no one left in that courtyard.

She cautiously slipped through the gate into the courtyard.

The courtyard is laid out like the courtyard of Huo Zhenhua and Zhou Shi, with three main rooms.

Su Meng walked into the room on the left.

In most cases, the left side is considered the larger one, and it is the residence of people of high status, such as the head of the household.

But apart from an old wardrobe, a square wooden table, four long wooden benches, and a wooden bed, there was no other property in the room.

Never mind, take them all.

Then they walked towards the main hall.

Apart from an altar, the main room was empty.

His gaze swept across the room, and he immediately pushed open the partition door on the other side of the wall, quickly taking away the "junk" inside.

Su Meng checked again, but still couldn't find where the valuables were hidden.

She stroked her chin thoughtfully. The scarred man had sent men to guard the place; it was impossible for him to guard such an empty courtyard. Perhaps she had overlooked something.

Suddenly, he noticed the marks on the ground under the offering table, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

This person shares the same mindset as "Shen Wuyang" from the Su Mansion, both thinking they are clever enough to copy the Su Mansion's method to build a secret room.

The mechanism in the dark room is easy to find.

The altar appeared to be made of wood, but it was actually made of iron and was very heavy, weighing about three or four hundred pounds.

If she hadn't been able to store it in her spatial storage, she really wouldn't have been able to move it or open the secret room.

The dark room, which was about fifty or sixty square meters in size, was filled with wooden crates, all of which were secured with sheet metal.

There were still some rolls of cloth in the corner that hadn't been sorted out yet.

Su Meng collected them one by one, leaving only white marks on the ground and a few books to use as footrests.

"Traditional Chinese Medicine books?"

"The Five Thousand Years of Chinese History?"

......

She picked up the books one by one, but didn't even bother to look at them before taking them directly into the study.

Having successfully found the valuables, I was eager to get home.

Perhaps by this time, Cheng Wangshu had already arrived at the military region.

But just as she turned around, she heard a "click" sound, like a dark room opening.

Su Meng was so startled that she entered the space.

The next second, a crack appeared in the corner of the wall, and the ground was slowly pushed open from the corner, forming a hole about one meter wide.

Su Meng: "......"

If she hadn't seen the opening with her own eyes, she really wouldn't have noticed the hidden secret in the corner.

She cocked her gun, preparing to launch a surprise attack.

What do you want to do?

The man who had just been put into the space looked at Su Meng in horror, his gaze fixed on the gun.

“That’s my gun,” he said. “Where are you? Let me go, or else I…”

Su Meng found him too noisy and glared at him coldly, "Shut up! Where's your boss?"

Before the man could speak, a head popped out of the hole.

Su Meng's finger was on the trigger, and she was about to pull hard when her eyes darted around and she stopped.

She wanted to see who came up and whether there were any others behind them.

However, as soon as the person poked their head out and saw the empty room, their pupils contracted, and they wanted to pull their head back in.

Su Meng no longer hesitated.

"Bang!"

In an instant, crimson stains appeared on the yellow and white walls, and also dirtied the white marks on the ground.

She frowned, looked at the terrified man beside her, and repeated her previous question: "Where is your boss?"

The man swallowed hard, trying in terror to back away, but he couldn't move.

He said, "No, I'm not here. What do you want?"

Su Meng brandished the gun and said lightly, "Acting on behalf of Heaven. What's in the cave?"

The man lowered his eyes, seemingly unwilling to cooperate.

Su Meng didn't want to waste any time, so she shot him in the toe. "Hurry up!"

"I don't know either. I was just responsible for guarding the gate, and I didn't even know there was a hole here."

Su Meng: "Then do you know what you're guarding?"

The man shook his head.

Su Meng waved her hand in disappointment and sent him to the fields.

Great! We've gained a free hard-working ox.

Once outside the space, he immediately tiptoed down into the cave.

There is a hidden world underground.

At the entrance is a small square table made of golden sandalwood, on which sits a silver bowl and chopsticks, a bottle of Moutai liquor, a dish of peanuts, a meat dish, and a vegetable dish.

The carpet on the floor was thick, seemingly bottomless, and soft.

Wooden crates were stacked one after another, row upon row, reaching the roof.

Six fist-sized luminous pearls replaced the oil lamp, placed on the lamp stand, and illuminated the cave.

Su Meng was astonished. There were at least a hundred, if not a hundred and fifty, boxes in this cave.

Including those on the ground, there are at least two hundred boxes.

These must all belong to... her Su family, right?

After packing up the boxes, they also took the carpet, and even the metal plate and plastic sheet underneath it used for moisture protection.

These all belong to the Su family.

Just as she turned around, she inadvertently saw the portrait of Old Master Su on a small cabinet at the bottom of the stairs, and her breath caught in her throat.

My hair stood on end, as if I had fallen into an ice cellar.

Why is there a portrait of him here?

Could the scarred man really be related to the Su family?

She walked to the cabinet, and just as she was about to open it, she heard footsteps coming from the yard.

Su Meng's eyelids twitched. She put the cabinet into her spatial storage, looked around, and then went up to the ground, hiding behind the door.

The footsteps stopped outside the door.

"Xiao Wu, dinner's ready!"

It's the guy who went out to buy food who's back.

Su Meng glanced at Xiao Wu working in the space, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.

He probably won't see that Xiao Wu again in his lifetime.

Hehe! With two "old oxen" (workhorses), she, the old ox, is finally free.

Seeing that no one responded, the man muttered a few words and left the courtyard.

Su Meng also took the opportunity to leave the courtyard.

Just as I was about to turn back onto the street, I suddenly heard that familiar sobbing sound again.

This time, the sound was much clearer.

It was Nie Pingting's voice.

Just as I was wondering why she was here, I turned around and saw someone squatting on the ground at the corner.

With a blade of grass clenched in his mouth, he said gruffly, "Boss, are we not going to ship any rice today? My mother is urging me to go back and harvest the rice!"

The man who was standing by the wall with his back to people, relieving himself, yelled irritably, "Get out! How many copper coins is your rice worth?"

Even if we sell off 600 tons of this batch of goods today, everyone will still make a profit.

"Don't trust them for so long, lest something goes wrong at the top? What if they all escape? What will happen then?"

"You've been doing this for so long, have you ever failed once? Coward, you deserve to never get a wife."

"What if this young lady surnamed Nie really is from a military family..."

Su Meng chuckled, "The one surnamed Nie must be Nie Pingting."

She fell into the hands of human traffickers.

She couldn't just leave it to its own devices.

She was very close to the scarred man's yard, and fearing that she would alert more thugs, she wanted to quietly deal with the two men.

However, the leader was very alert, and Su Meng only took one or two steps.

He pulled out a knife and jumped over.

The silver needle and the blade collided, producing a crisp "clinking" sound.

The next second, Su Meng approached him step by step with a gun in hand.

The eldest brother's pupils contracted as he stared intently at Su Meng.

With a quick glance, the dagger spun on his fingertip before launching a fierce attack.

He was certain that Su Meng wouldn't dare to fire.

“You people in the Shila group, even if you kill me, you won’t get away.”

His lips curled into a smirk, and he laughed wildly.

Su Meng remained calm as she slowly pulled the trigger. "No problem! It's perfect for wiping them all out at once."

Our military and police have jointly surrounded this place; none of you will escape.

She ventured in alone, never expecting that this place was not only the scarred man's stronghold, but also the den of human traffickers.

She just wants to take her family fortune; she doesn't want to be trapped.

They could only exploit their fears in hopes of escaping unscathed.

Although she took out her gun, she didn't dare to fire it unless it was absolutely necessary.

I'm afraid of alerting more bad guys.

There's no escaping it now.

Upon hearing her words, the man who was about to come to help stopped, looked around in a panic, and exclaimed, "There are people here, boss! I'd better get out of here!"

The old man, enraged, yelled, "You bastard! Get back here!"

In that instant when he was distracted, Su Meng's silver needles shot out.

The boss's dagger swept over as well...