After Huo Haocheng and his men caught up with Steward He, Bai Sirui and Ruan Shaoke waited downstairs for a while. Seeing that no one came down, they left a small group of people to guard the area below, in case anyone heard the commotion and tried to escape when they went up to arrest people.
Bai Sirui and Ruan Shaoke went up to the second floor first. Seeing that there was no one in the hallway, they asked the others to stand against the wall behind them. After they were ready, Bai Sirui knocked on Li Dong's door.
After Manager He left, Li Dong and his family were getting ready for bed when they heard a knock on the door. It was so late, and usually no one came, so Li Dong assumed that Manager He had forgotten to mention something earlier. Without even asking who was outside, he went straight to open the door.
However, when he opened the door, the first thing he saw was two young men. He felt that the two men looked familiar, but he just couldn't remember their names.
"Who are you looking for?" Knocking on the door so late at night, instead of sleeping, immediately ignited Li Dong's temper.
After Li Dong opened the door, Ruan Shaoke looked inside to make sure there was no one else. Just as Li Dong was asking who they were, Bai Sirui and Ruan Shaoke attacked simultaneously, pinning Li Dong to the ground. Seeing their captain make a move, the others quickly entered the room and pinned down the people inside.
"Who are you... Waaah, waaah!" Li Dong was still struggling and trying to attract the attention of the neighbors by shouting when he saw Bai Sirui grab a piece of cloth from the table next to him and stuff it into his mouth.
Just as Persley was making his move, Ruan Shaoke took the rope from the soldier and tied Li Dong's hands behind his back.
After all the other members of the Li family were tied up, Ruan Shaoke noticed that what Bai Sirui had casually grabbed earlier was a rag used for wiping tables.
Ruan Shaoke glanced at Li Dong's mouth, then at the table in front of him, and finally fixed his gaze on Bai Sirui's hand. "Should I make him wash it? Oh well, let's leave it at that for now! Anyway, he won't be touching that hand again until we get back."
Thinking this, Ruan Shaoke said to the others, "Take the person to the car first." After saying that, he turned around and began a thorough search of the Li family's house.
Having learned from his previous experiences, Ruan Shaoke didn't miss a single crack in the wall during the search. Surprisingly, he actually found evidence of Li Dong's usual acceptance of bribes hidden in a crack in the bed during the search of Li Dong's room.
He lay on the bed and tapped each piece of wood a few times. Then, at the very back of the bed, the sound he made was different from the other places. To confirm, Ruan Shaoke tapped it several times.
After confirming that there was something there, he wanted to turn the bed over to check, but when he reached up to lift it, the bed didn't budge.
Unconvinced, Ruan Shaoke tried lifting it several more times with even greater force, but it still didn't work. So he called out to Bai Sirui, who was searching the other rooms, "Bai Sirui, come here quickly!"
Upon hearing Ruan Shaoke call him, Bai Sirui didn't delay and immediately came over with the things he was holding.
"Quick, there's something wrong with this bed. Let's lift it up and take a look."
Afterwards, the two of them struggled to turn the bed upside down.
After they flipped the bed up against the wall, they saw that the entire bed frame was covered with gold bars, which glittered under the light and dazzled them.
"Tsk tsk tsk, this is really sleeping on gold every day, even more dazzling than the dragons in the picture books!!!" Looking at the gold in front of him, Bai Sirui picked up a piece and weighed it in his hand, then went to another room to find a bag and put all the gold in it.
However, when he was setting them up, he just threw them around casually, and soon the room was filled with the 'ping ping kuang kuang' sounds of them hitting the walls.
Seeing his expression, Ruan Shaoke knew he was angry, so he didn't say anything. He took two steps over the bed railing, found the spot where he had knocked earlier and felt something was wrong. He shone his flashlight on it and searched for it, only to find a small protruding spot on the side of the bed. It was really hard to notice unless you touched it carefully. Ruan Shaoke pressed on the protruding spot and then flicked up the board in front of him.
He pulled open the panel, took out several letters and telegrams, and Ruan Shaoke glanced at them. Overjoyed, he immediately called out, "Berserk..."
Just then, Bai Sirui had finished filling one bag with gold and was opening the second bag when he heard Ruan Shaoke excitedly calling his name. Looking up, he saw Ruan Shaoke holding an envelope and a newspaper, looking at him with excitement.
"What?"
"Look!!!" At this moment, Ruan Shaoke changed his previous calm and was as happy as a 300-pound fat man.
He handed all the letters in his hand to Persley, gesturing for him to look at them quickly.
The letters and telegrams contained all of Luo Yufeng's correspondence with spies from previous years, all instructing her to remain in hiding and await the empire's call.
These letters were the life-saving tokens that the Li brothers asked Luo Yufeng for when she tried to persuade them to defect. They had also thought that they might run into trouble someday, and with these things, they were not afraid that the Xu and Zhao families would not protect them.
"Quickly, check again, see if there is any other evidence, look carefully."
Afterwards, Bai Sirui carefully folded the letters and telegrams and put them into his inner pocket. Then he called in a soldier to continue packing the gold. He and Ruan Shaoke searched through everything in the Li family's house, and finally, they found a lot of 100-yuan bills in each door.
They probably never imagined that the Li family would hollow out all the doors and lay out bills of money inside.
"What's wrong with the Li brothers' brains? If they had those brains and were truly dedicated to serving the country and its people, it would be a blessing. What a waste!!!"
Looking at what they found, there were three bags full of gold alone, plus half a small bag of 100-yuan notes. If they hadn't searched so carefully, they wouldn't have found it, especially the mechanism on the bed.
After the search was completed, they took the items back to their car and arranged for a team to take the people and items back first. They and Ruan Shaoke, along with three other people, drove a small car and followed the marks left by Da Yong and the others to find Li Bin's house.
They found so much stuff at Li Dong's house, but Li Bin works for the Revolutionary Committee and lives in a small villa. They don't believe his house has less stuff than Li Dong's.
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