However, after Lai Xueming shouted, he realized that none of his men were moving.
Lai Xueming roared angrily, "What are you all standing there for! Make your move!"
There was still no movement.
Lai Xueming turned his head angrily and found that all the men he had brought were surrounded by Qin Xiao's men, with two fully armed soldiers standing next to each of his men.
Compared to the upright and imposing warriors, his men trembled like leaves, their faces ashen, utterly vulnerable.
I can't move at all!
"Useless! You're all a bunch of useless trash!"
Lai Xueming, enraged and embarrassed, launched into a tirade.
Then, he turned to look at Old Master Qin, who was gulping down his tea, and said angrily, "Qin Zhenyuan, what do you mean by this? Are you openly resisting arrest? Aren't you afraid of being punished even more severely?"
Old Master Qin swallowed the tea in his mouth, handed the cup to Xiao Li beside him, and slowly said, "I haven't finished speaking yet, Director Lai, why are you in such a hurry? You haven't even heard me finish speaking before you're rushing to convict me, what kind of logic is that? Oh, I forgot, this is also a tradition of your various committees, you only listen to what you want to hear, the truth is not important to you at all, as long as you believe it is the truth!"
Lai Xueming angrily pointed at Old Master Qin: "Qin Zhenyuan, stop with your sarcastic remarks! What are you two trying to do by bringing so many people here? Aren't you guilty? Let me tell you, don't think you can turn black into white or get away with it just like that. You just admitted that your Qin family has a secret vault, and so many people here heard it! I didn't wrong you!"
Old Master Qin sneered: "I do admit that our Qin family has a secret vault, a contingency plan left by our ancestors for future generations, but I never said there were any treasures inside!"
Duan Yannian sneered: "I know about the Qin family's secret vault. Back when the war was at its most difficult, when we lacked food, clothing, and medicine, Old Man Qin secretly took money and treasures from the Qin family's secret vault several times to sell and subsidize the soldiers. With so many soldiers under his command to feed, let alone a small Qin family secret vault, even the national treasury would have been emptied long ago."
You all believe every rumor you hear and are fixated on this trivial matter. It seems you're living too comfortably and have nothing better to do!
Lai Xueming frowned. He hadn't expected the Qin family to have done something like this, and he felt a bit of a headache.
Suddenly, he remembered that someone had reported that the house where the Qin family lived did not meet the standards, and wanted to use this as an excuse to bring down Old Master Qin.
However, this matter was suppressed by those above.
At the time, he thought that the Qin family had someone in power to protect them and that's why they were able to keep the house. Now it seems that the Qin family must have donated a large sum of money during the War of Resistance against Japan to save the house.
It's the same situation as Zhang Chunqiu's second courtyard.
Upon realizing this, Lai Xueming's gaze towards Qin Zhenshan and Qin Zhenyue sharpened.
"You two actually made false accusations?"
Qin Zhenshan and Qin Zhenyue felt a chill run down their spines as they stared in horror at the enraged Lai Xueming. They felt that Lai Xueming's eyes were like those of a highly venomous snake, sinister and chilling to the bone.
Qin Zhenshan stammered in fright, "No, no... we didn't... we didn't make a false report! Then... there must be many more treasures in that secret vault..."
Qin Zhenyue quickly added, "Yes, yes, yes! There must be many more treasures! Those are things that the Qin family has accumulated over hundreds of years, how could they just disappear like that! There must still be some left! Director Lai, don't be fooled by them! The eldest branch of the family just doesn't want to properly divide the family property and doesn't want to give us those things, that's why they're saying this."
Qin Zhenshan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: "Yes, yes! Otherwise, why would they bring so many people? They're clearly just bluffing because they have a guilty conscience!"
Qin Zhenyue knew they had no way out and could only go all the way down the road. He gritted his teeth and said, "If they have nothing to hide, let them open the secret vault in public and let us in to take a look!"
He remembered that when Qin Zhenyuan was exiled last time, he had people follow him and try to get the red jade thumb ring that symbolized the identity of the family head from him. It was said that the ring was the key to opening the Qin family's secret vault.
Qin Zhenyuan used to always wear that red jade thumb ring on his hand, but since the last incident, the red jade thumb ring has disappeared and is said to have been lost.
At first, he refused to believe that the ring was missing, suspecting that Qin Zhenyuan had hidden it. Now, however, he hoped that the ring was really missing. Without the ring, the door to the secret vault couldn't be opened, they couldn't get in, and there would be no way to prove whether there were any treasures inside.
Then they can pin all the blame on Qin Zhenyuan, saying that he deliberately refused to open the secret vault because he had a guilty conscience!
Lai Xueming turned to look at Old Master Qin, "What do you say? The two of them are insisting that there are still things in the secret vault. How are you going to prove it?"
Old Master Qin looked at Qin Zhenshan and Qin Zhenyue, and once again his eyes showed deep disappointment.
Qin Zhenshan misunderstood and sneered, "Brother, just admit it. Confess and you'll be treated leniently; resist and you'll be punished severely."
Qin Zhenyue also feigned concern, saying, "Brother, although what we brothers did was somewhat unfair to you, we were responding to the country's call and abiding by government policies, which is a matter of righteousness."
Old Master Qin was so angry that his face turned ashen and his body trembled slightly.
Upon seeing this, Ye Weiwei suddenly scoffed: "You're even bringing up righteousness now? This is the first time I've ever heard someone describe shamelessness and heartlessness in such a refreshing and elegant way!"
"Pfft!" Duan Yannian, who was standing to the side, couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of tea.
Even Qin Xiao, who had been keeping a straight face, almost couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Qin Zhenshan gritted his teeth in anger, "Ye Weiwei! Shut up! How dare you interrupt your elders!"
Qin Zhenyue also looked at Ye Weiwei hypocritically: "Niece-in-law, you are so ignorant of etiquette."
Grandpa Qin roared angrily, "You two shut up! You piece of trash dare to think you can be my Weiwei's elders? You should take a good look at yourselves! You're not worthy!"
Qin Zhenshan looked at Old Master Qin with displeasure: "Big Brother..."
Old Master Qin, like a fiery dragon, roared at Qin Zhenshan again: "Shut up! Who's your older brother! I don't have brothers as heartless and shameless as you! Today, in front of everyone, I officially declare that from now on, I, Qin Zhenyuan, have severed all ties with your two families and have no further connection with you!"
Qin Zhenshan was speechless with embarrassment and also became angry: "You can't even take care of yourself right now, do you think we want to have anything to do with you! Fine, let's cut ties, from now on we have nothing to do with your family!"
Qin Zhenyue chimed in, "Since we're going to sever ties, let's do it cleanly. Open the secret vault and divide the family property!"
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