The machinery factory was the most profitable factory in Changning City. He had worked his way up to the position of deputy factory director. How could he possibly only be earning a fixed salary of a little over one hundred yuan a month?
Fortunately, the box was covered with sheet metal, otherwise the metal detector wouldn't have been able to detect it.
Meng Fuyan quickly put it into her spatial storage.
While there was still time, she hurried back to ransack all the well-off families, including the Wu and Zhang families. However, her space wasn't big enough, and she was afraid she wouldn't be able to fit everything in, so she only picked a few of the wealthier families. She left some unimportant items behind, but she made sure to take things like bicycles, radios, and sewing machines, including the iron pots from the kitchen, which were scarce resources.
Wu Laoda's house was the richest. Several large boxes were found, along with at least 30,000 yuan in cash and a lot of tickets. However, Meng Fuyan didn't have time to clean it all out, leaving him with nothing, not even a single piece of clothing.
She wanted to save time to settle accounts with Zhang Guilan.
Zhang Guilan is Zhang Guifang's older sister, much older than her, and is Wu Siyu's biological mother.
She looks just like Wu Siyu, a pure, delicate, and innocent type. This woman is the most vicious and scheming. Now, her legs are crippled, her appearance is ruined, and she lives alone in a small courtyard, working as a warehouse keeper for a machinery factory.
She originally planned to marry Wu Guozhu after Meng Suqin died, but Meng Suqin would not allow such a thing to happen. If Zhang Guilan married into the Meng family, Meng Fuyan and her brother would definitely not survive. So Meng Suqin wanted to kill her, but she failed. She only crippled her legs and disfigured her. Even so, it completely cut off her path to marrying Wu Guozhu.
Such a woman was incapable of socializing and could not possibly enter the circles of high society women, so her sister had to marry into the family in her place.
Meng Fuyan wanted to take this opportunity to finish off the woman, but unfortunately the woman wasn't home. Enraged, Meng Fuyan had no choice but to empty the woman's house before leaving in a huff.
Time was running out, so Meng Fuyan ran all the way back to the city.
She was going to the most important place in the Meng family, which was also the most valuable property of the Meng family.
It's also a house.
However, it is a large courtyard, and it consists of multi-story buildings.
This house was built by my great-grandparents. They lived here in the early years. My grandfather expanded his machinery factory, so the Meng family built two buildings here in advance. Later, my grandfather built the new factory here, and the Meng family's house was never short of tenants.
There are two buildings, each with four floors, and twelve households per floor, for a total of ninety-six households.
The house is nice and furnished, so the rent is relatively high. The people who rent here are all well-off families. They can collect more than a thousand yuan in rent every month, which makes countless people extremely envious.
It's not that no one was envious, but the Meng family has a powerful background, strong connections in Changning City, and has made too many contributions, even receiving praise from higher authorities. They wanted to take action against them but couldn't.
This is only possible because it belongs to the Meng family; if it were someone else, it would have been divided up long ago.
In the past, the higher-ups protected the Meng family because of the foreign exchange orders they brought back. After all, Changning Machinery Factory was one of the top performers in the entire southern city, and these were political achievements. How could they not protect them?
But now, the leadership at the top has been replaced. With Lu Jianjun holding the house in her hands for the time being, Meng Fuyan understands that if she can't find stronger connections to continue the relationship within two or three years, she probably won't be able to keep the house.
The rent had always been in Meng Fuyan's hands. Wu Guozhu had tried to take it, but Lu Jianjun held him back, and he failed.
The house in the corner was once the home of my great-grandparents, but it is now abandoned. There is a well in the yard, and the most valuable treasure of the Meng family is in the well.
There's still water inside, but it hasn't been used for a long time.
Meng Fuyan slowly descended the rope, collected some of the well water, and put it into a large bucket in her space. The well was very deep. When she had sunk halfway down, Meng Fuyan stopped and opened the mechanism hidden in the well wall. The secret passage was right there.
The entrance to the secret passage wasn't large; after going in a little over a meter, there was a door made of glutinous rice water, which was extremely well-sealed.
After opening the door and walking about four meters inside, you'll find a secret room containing the Meng family's greatest treasure.
All of them were sealed wooden boxes: six large boxes of gold, five boxes of jewelry, three boxes of silver coins, more than a dozen boxes of antiques and ancient books, and 100,000 yuan in cash. Meng Fuyan put all of these into her spatial storage, then pried open the wall and continued digging.
They dug through a nearly two-meter-thick earthen wall and found another secret room there.
The most dangerous place is also the safest place. Even if the outer secret room is discovered and so much money is obtained, most people would not think that there is another secret room inside.
There's even more stuff here: fifteen boxes of large yellow croaker, five boxes of small yellow croaker, six boxes of top-grade jewelry, four boxes of silver dollars, 700,000 in cash, and twenty-six boxes of antiques and ancient books. Many of these are unique copies, like some lost Chinese medicine prescriptions and musical scores, which will be treasures decades from now.
In addition, there were tens of thousands of kilograms of grain.
This is why, even with Wu Siyu's extraordinary abilities, Meng Fuyan was still able to maintain a subtle advantage in her past life.
The Meng family has a strong bloodline!
The foundation of a large family is incomparable to that of a nouveau riche. Even though Wu Laoda confiscated the property of so many people, it still couldn't compare to the accumulation of the Meng family over several generations. It is said that when that big capitalist left, he didn't take much of his wealth with him and gave a lot to his great-grandfather and great-grandmother!
Meng Fuyan had too many trump cards, so even Wu Siyu, who was overpowered, had a hard time defeating her. In the early stages, Meng Fuyan was always in the upper hand until her path of revenge began to threaten the big shots above her, which is when she lost her life.
Meng Fuyan put all of these into her spatial storage.
There were only 20,000 jin of grain left, and it was all refined grain.
Initially, there was definitely more than that, but over the years, with the consumption and the fact that grain has a shelf life and needs to be replaced every few years, exchanging old grain for new grain will inevitably result in significant losses.
Meng Fuyan remembered that during the great famine of 1960, her family never went hungry. The big capitalist who left back then left a lot of grain for the Meng family.
The 20,000 jin here is a batch that was exchanged when my mother was alive. It's old grain now, but it's still edible.
After putting everything away, it was almost dawn. Meng Fuyan cleaned up the scene, put the well water back in to restore its original depth, and hurried home.
Meng Fuyan breathed a sigh of relief after safely returning home.
Back in the room, I got my younger brother out of bed and quickly went to sleep.
The next day, Meng Fuyan slept until late morning. When she woke up, she saw that her younger brother had already packed all her luggage and was sitting obediently at the desk waiting for her.
"Sis, you're awake!"
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