She rode her electric bike a block away from the garden villa, then stopped and stored it in her spatial dimension. After disguising herself inside, she quietly crept up into the large trees around the yard.
Just as Ye Weiwei had predicted.
In the middle of the night, three people sneaked over the wall into the yard and began searching everywhere, looking as if they wanted to dig three feet into the ground.
"Third brother, are those things you mentioned really here?"
After searching for most of the day without finding anything, a tall, thin man couldn't help but ask.
"Someone above said it's true, so the news must be true. After all, there's no smoke without fire. That guy surnamed Lai has been in various committees for so many years, who knows how much stuff he's amassed. How much did they actually find when they raided his house?"
Thinking back to the mountain of evidence Lai Xueming confessed when he fell from power, the interrogator couldn't help but wonder, "Didn't he already spill all his illicit gains back then? Wasn't that all?"
The man called Lao San scoffed, "How could that be! The Lai family has far more than that."
"But we've searched here several times already, and we haven't found anything..."
The other one was somewhat hesitant.
He didn't know which one to believe, but he was still somewhat unwilling to accept it.
After all, the three of them had been staring at this place for a long time without finding anything.
The third brother squinted at the garden villa. "It's not outside, but maybe it's hidden inside. Let's go in and look again. Maybe there's some secret room we haven't discovered yet."
Although they had searched the house thoroughly at least a dozen times, they had found a secret room, but it had long been emptied out.
They are all experts at finding things, and if they haven't found anything after searching for so long, it's even less likely that anyone else will find it.
Perhaps, there really is nothing left in here.
Despite having this idea in mind, the three men still opened the lock again and searched the inside thoroughly. They spent more than two hours searching, trying to break through every single brick, but in the end, they found nothing.
They wiped away the traces of their search, locked the door again, and the three of them climbed over the wall and left, looking disappointed.
"It seems there's really nothing left here. Even if that Lai guy has something hidden, he'll hide it somewhere else, definitely not here."
The guy called Lao San was also frustrated, "Damn it, we brothers wasted so much of our time."
The tall, thin man said, "I heard that this house now belongs to that woman surnamed Ye. She's the one who brought down that man surnamed Lai. Do you think she might have the same idea as us, that there's something fishy about this place?"
The third brother frowned and thought for a moment: "I don't know. But even if there really is some treasure in here, even the three of us brothers can't find it, so what could a woman like her possibly find?"
I dare not say anything else, but when it comes to finding secret locations and searching for things, all three of them are experts.
Hearing him say that made the other two feel a little better.
After the three people left, Ye Weiwei nimbly climbed down from the tree, then swiftly scaled the wall into the yard, took out her key, opened the door, and went inside the house.
In the darkness, her eyes were completely unobstructed, and she directly found the mechanism to open the secret room, entered the room, and then found an inconspicuous protrusion in the room, which she twisted.
An entrance appeared on the floor of the secret room. Ye Weiwei covered it with her mental energy and then involuntarily raised her eyebrows.
Wow!
Unexpectedly, this Lai fellow is quite adept at hiding things. He actually built another secret room beneath the secret room, which contained a total of twenty-two large boxes.
No wonder those three self-proclaimed experts couldn't find it.
She wouldn't have found it if she hadn't scanned it carefully three or four times with her mental power.
Who would have thought that there was a series of secret rooms beneath the main secret room?
Is this what they call "the darkest place is under the lamp"?
These twenty-two large boxes contained several boxes of gold, as well as antique calligraphy and paintings, and exquisite jade ornaments. It is conceivable that the items that the Lai family treasured so much must all be the finest of the finest.
To Ye Weiwei's astonishment, one of the boxes was filled with stacks of cash and various ration coupons, with the large denomination coupons alone amounting to hundreds of thousands.
There was another box filled with foreign currency and foreign exchange certificates. It seems that this guy surnamed Lai knew he was doing something inhumane, and he had already prepared an escape route for himself. If the situation turned bad, he could immediately take this money and gold collection and run away. With these, he could continue to live a carefree life abroad.
Unfortunately, he never dreamed he would run into a brick wall with himself, and his sudden and unexpected defeat meant he had no chance to use any of his backup plans. In the end, she benefited from his scheme.
She was speechless.
Her luck is truly unparalleled.
The amount of gold spent on this house is a drop in the ocean compared to all that's inside!
They made a fortune this time.
Ye Weiwei waved her hand and unceremoniously put all these things into her spatial storage.
After restoring the secret chamber's mechanisms, she erased all traces of her presence and left quietly.
What Ye Weiwei didn't know was that the moment she took the things away from the secret room, the man called Lao San felt a sense of emptiness, as if something had left him.
He always trusted his intuition, so after parting ways with his two companions, he quietly returned to the garden villa and searched it carefully once again.
But just like before, they still came up empty-handed.
He kicked the secret room hard in anger to vent his frustration, but it reminded him of the mechanism in the underground chamber. His heart skipped a beat, and he immediately rushed over and opened the underground chamber in no time.
Just when he was overjoyed, thinking that he had finally found the treasure that the man surnamed Lai had hidden and could make a fortune, he found that the secret room was completely empty!
"Impossible! How could this be!"
The third brother was acting like a madman in the underground chamber, yelling, "Where are the things! Where are all those treasures! Where did they go? Where did they all go?"
He searched the entire underground chamber, but found not a single penny, let alone any treasure.
He also wondered if, since the man surnamed Lai could dig another secret room under the secret room, it was possible that he could also dig another secret room inside this secret room.
So he searched the entire floor of the secret room inch by inch, but found nothing!
He searched until dawn the next day, but still couldn't find what he wanted, so he had to leave with regret and resentment.
Ye Weiwei went back to sleep, and when she woke up the next day, she found Old Master Qin and took out a roster.
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