Qin Hanshu observed Director Ma for two days and found that Director Ma went to get off work and came home normally every day. Although his face looked a little pale, he was not as haggard as he had imagined.

Apart from working, Director Ma did nothing else.

So how did Director Ma work on behalf of his brother?

Also, where is the account book hidden?

Director Ma has four children, the oldest of whom is only ten years old, which is the age for mischief. It should be impossible to hide anything in the house.

Apart from home, there is work.

The neighborhood committee is in a bungalow at the entrance of the alley, with people coming and going every day.

People who were going to work, doing business, and even neighbors fought over trivial matters and ended up at the neighborhood committee.

It's very lively.

Director Ma can’t hide the account book in the office, right?

Qin Hanshu thought about it and moved the room to the other side, facing the neighborhood committee.

It's just that she doesn't have a perfect position to see the neighborhood committee from the window. But she has space, and the distance from the neighborhood committee to the room is within the visible range.

Again, there was nothing unusual about Director Ma when he was at work.

However, Qin Hanshu did not relax and continued to stare at Director Ma.

Finally, she discovered something different.

She noticed that when Director Ma passed by the yard outside the neighborhood committee, he would sometimes look at a manhole cover in the corner of the yard.

It didn't happen often, but it would happen once or twice a day, and it felt a bit like it was subconscious, not that he was intentionally looking there.

The neighborhood committee gets off work at five o'clock, and the gate of the yard will be locked after get off work. On one side is the police station, and on the other side is the guesthouse. There is no one on duty, so there is no one to be seen.

After discovering the abnormality of the manhole cover, Qin Hanshu chose the early morning of one night, used the space, and went directly from the room in the guesthouse to the yard of the neighborhood committee.

After prying open the manhole cover and shining a flashlight, you can see some pipes and a water meter inside.

At first glance there isn't much.

Qin Hanshu shone the flashlight inside, then bent down to look around, only to find that there was an oil paper bag right at the entrance, stuck right in the middle of the two pipes.

This position is a blind spot. You can't see anything unless you put your head in.

And even if you see it, you might not notice it, because the color of the oil paper bag is very close to the color of the pipe, and you have to look carefully to find it.

The oil paper package was stuck very tightly, and Qin Hanshu had to pull it hard to take it out.

The oil paper package showed the outline of a book. Qin Hanshu was 80% sure that it was the account book, so she hurried back to her room in the guesthouse.

In order to prevent the oil paper package from being coated with rat poison, Qin Hanshu first let the spirit beast in the space smell it. Seeing that there was nothing unusual, he opened it with his hands.

When it was opened, it turned out to be a brown paper notebook with a black cover filled with words.

Qin Hanshu took a quick look and found that it contained records of Director Ma helping Factory Director Ma to accept bribes, offer bribes, and resell factory supplies.

The basic information of the people involved is clearly written.

Director Ma probably keeps accounts to give himself a talisman.

But he forgot that coin has two sides, and the amulet may turn into a death warrant at any time.

According to the development trajectory of the previous life, it was because of the existence of this notebook that Director Ma was involved in the affairs of Director Ma, and Director Ma was charged with a more serious crime because of the records in this notebook, which led to his execution in the end.

The reason why Hu Dayong was not written into the book was probably because his identity was not high enough and he was of no use.

But the amount of bribes he gave was quite large.

He was so generous, the money he spent definitely wasn't his own!

Qin Hanshu looked at the account book carefully.

Director Ma's accounts are not neat and tidy, but are kept with additions and subtractions as the circumstances of the people being recorded change.

Outlining and smearing are common, and the ink varies in age.

Qin Hanshu recalled the approximate date when Hu Dayong's family of three were registered, found the corresponding position in the notebook, and added Hu Dayong's name on a page with a small blank space.

Of course, she did not use her own handwriting. Instead, she found the corresponding words in the notebook, copied them one by one on paper, and then copied them into the blank spaces on the account book.

After the handwriting dried, Qin Hanshu compared it. It wasn't perfect, but it was not easy to find any flaws.

The only logical incoherence is Hu Dayong's position. A butcher seems a bit out of place among the people who are at least at the cadre level.

However, Hu Dayong did give money to Director Ma, and he was very close to the Ma family during the period when he gave the money. This can be found out by asking the neighbors.

Once this is confirmed, no one will investigate further.

Bribery and corruption were serious crimes at that time. Hu Dayong would be sentenced to jail at worst, or lose his job and be driven back to the countryside at the least.

Given Yang Aizheng's character of losing her backbone and feeling like she can't live without a man, she will definitely follow the Hu family back to the countryside.

Qin Hanshu put the account book back under the manhole cover.

Qin Hanshu was not the only one who knew about the existence of the account book.

Two days later, one night, someone broke into the neighborhood committee looking for something.

The man did not pry the office lock, but went straight under the manhole cover.

Obviously, we already know where the ledger is hidden.

After the man found the account book, he first opened it and looked through it, lingering on certain pages for a longer time.

Only after confirmation did he take the account book and leave.

Qin Hanshu was using space to monitor what was happening over there. It was already the next day when he saw this scene.

She zoomed in on the page where the person stayed. Three full pages were filled with records of one person, and he was a reseller of supplies. The supplies he resold ranged from labor protection products to mechanical parts and even war supplies, with the amount reaching hundreds of thousands.

This is totally punishable by death.

Qin Hanshu looked at the names carefully.

This must be the person who stole the account book and sent Director Ma and Factory Manager Ma to hell.

Sure enough, a few days later, the police came and took Director Ma away.

Qin Hanshu could see clearly that Director Ma was a little happier that day than before.

Who knew that disaster would befall him in the blink of an eye.

Qin Hanshu didn’t know what kind of struggle there was between Director Ma and that person behind the scenes, and she didn’t care about it.

For her, all she had to do was make sure Hu Dayong's name appeared in that account book.

There was a knock on the door.

Qin Hanshu took a last look at Director Ma who was taken away, then came out of the space and opened the door.

The person knocking on the door was a young girl, an employee of the guesthouse.

The little girl looked at Qin Hanshu suspiciously and asked, "Why do you stay in the house every day and never go out?"

This will be a special period with little population movement. No matter where you go, there will be people paying attention to your every word and action.

Qin Hanshu has been living in the guesthouse for more than a week. He stays in his room every day and never goes out, which has already attracted the attention of the guesthouse.

Fortunately, the guesthouse waited until now to ask her.

When Qin Hanshu left, the letter of introduction he asked Zhou Changan to write was not for a family visit, but for a business trip.

She also told the guesthouse that a factory was going to be built in her hometown and she came to the capital to investigate.

So, Qin Hanshu said, “The factory I want to inspect didn’t have time to receive me before, but I have made an appointment for tomorrow, so I will leave tomorrow.”

The girl was skeptical and questioned Qin Hanshu again before letting him go.

In this case, Qin Hanshu really can't stay in the room all the time.

Fortunately, the matter has been settled and she no longer has to keep an eye on Director Ma every day.

The next day, Qin Hanshu went out to find Li Anguo to exchange some meat coupons, and then purchased some cooked food.

This time she had experience, so she only bought her favorite meat buns and meat patties, as well as five roast ducks!