Wu Sicheng kept everyone in suspense, asking, "Have you ever heard the story of keeping a mistress in a golden house?"
An Moxue looked at Wu Sicheng, not understanding why the two of them had suddenly brought up the topic of keeping a mistress in a golden house, when they hadn't said that the temple was hiding a huge fortune.
"What's the meaning?"
"The implication is that if a golden house can hide a mistress, then why can't a temple hide gold? If you made gold into bricks and then covered them with blue bricks, and used them to build houses or walls of Maple Leaf Temple, who would find out? Would you go and take bricks from a perfectly good house or wall to play with?"
An Moxue shook her head and said, "Are you sick?! Go and dig up bricks properly! Otherwise you'll be chased and beaten up as a vandal." She rolled her eyes as she finished speaking.
“Yes! Even you think so, let alone others. Perhaps this is the real reason why Maple Leaf Temple has been preserved so well,” Wu Sicheng said with a smile.
"How did you come up with this idea? I still think that although it's possible, it's still somewhat unbelievable."
“I came here once when I was very young, and that one visit left a deep impression on me. I remember that the people around here were living in great poverty, many of them ragged and emaciated. But the monks in this temple, who kept talking about compassion and saving the world, were all well-dressed, well-fed, warmly clothed, and had rosy complexions. Some of them were even quite plump. I secretly asked my grandfather about it back then, and he smiled knowingly and said to me, ‘Child, remember, not everyone who talks about compassion is a good person. They might be feigning compassion. And don’t assume that someone with a fierce look is necessarily a bad person. Good and bad, kindness and evil, depend on what they do, not what they say.’ At that time, I didn’t have a good impression of these monks.”
An Moxue thought for a moment and said, "Surrounded by a group of penniless people, there is a temple that has no worries about food and clothing. Doesn't that sound strange?"
"That's why I suspect there's something fishy going on inside this temple. The people are so densely packed, they might all be monks from the temple, otherwise they wouldn't all know kung fu, and all of them would be from the same style."
“If this is true, we almost missed the most important thing,” An Moxue said.
Wu Sicheng asked with a smile, "Isn't espionage the most important thing?"
An Moxue glared at him. What a guy who doesn't understand the importance of money! Money is always the most important thing, okay?
Wu Sicheng didn't understand what he had said wrong, but the lessons he had learned from his mother since childhood told him that it was best to pretend to be deaf and dumb at this time and not make a sound, otherwise he would easily make her angrier. So he obediently shut his mouth.
"But with so many people around, it's not realistic for us to verify whether our guesses are true or not. It's really agonizing." An Moxue thought to herself, "If it's true, wouldn't that be a legend coming to life? I really want to see it for myself."
Wu Sicheng looked at her, his eyes brimming with laughter, "You're already so rich, why would you need a little money?"
"How can that be the same? It's a matter of perspective. Besides, who's afraid of having more money?"
"It's alright, I'll give you all my money. It's a considerable sum, including my grandfather's and my own." Wu Sicheng took the opportunity to confess.
“No, I have money. I can only spend my own money with a clear conscience.” An Moxue refused decisively.
What a joke! The one thing she has in abundance is money. If it's just a matter of gold, she believes there are few people in the world who have more than her.
"There are too many people here, so I can only find another opportunity to see Duan Qing at night, but I left him some food."
"Safety first, whether you look at it or not is a minor matter."
"I'm going to take a nap, do you want to rest for a while?" I really haven't slept for two days and one night, and I'm very sleepy.
"Don't worry, I'll keep watch." After saying that, Wu Sicheng didn't say anything more and began to cultivate his internal energy by sitting cross-legged.
Meanwhile, a hundred kilometers away, trucks were heading towards Maple Leaf Town.
On the bus, Xiao Nanqi asked, "Political Commissar Zhang, why did you volunteer for this mission? It's very dangerous. You've been doing political work for a long time, it's hard to believe the leadership approved it."
“Commander Xiao, don’t forget, we are the Lion Independent Regiment, the vanguard of combat. Even the cooks alone are better than ordinary soldiers in other units, let alone me, the political commissar of the Lion Independent Regiment who has been here for many years. Your thinking is unacceptable, it’s rigid, and that’s dangerous. You’re not even as old as me, how can your thinking be so narrow? Besides, this is a military operation involving the entire regiment, how could I be left out?” Zhang Jing said with a smile.
Xiao Nanqi felt helpless. They were old partners, and he really couldn't win an argument with Zhang Jing.
However, what he didn't know was that Zhang Jing came for one reason: he had heard that the vanguard team included two members of the National Security Bureau, one of whom was a woman, and that she was very capable.
He wondered if it could be Mo Xue. He had just arrived, and it had been years since he had seen her. He wondered how she had been doing all these years. This was his secret little secret, something he couldn't tell anyone else.
Xiao Nanqi said angrily, "These invaders are always determined to destroy us. We must teach them a lesson this time. Political Commissar Zhang, do you think it's really possible that they've infiltrated our troops here?"
"Based on the current intelligence, it's highly likely that the Central Committee dispatched our regiment, and with such swift action, that the situation here is probably more severe than we anticipated. Otherwise, they wouldn't have launched a joint operation with several surrounding counties and cities to crack down on this crime." Zhang Jing, being older and more experienced than Xiao Nanqi, was not optimistic about the current situation. He believed that while arrests were the primary objective, the subsequent interrogations and investigations were the crucial part. He feared that a single oversight could allow some to slip through the net.
"And the local people here, why didn't they report it? They're just allowed to run rampant."
Zhang Jing smiled and said, "You've never worked with ordinary people at the grassroots level, so your thinking is too simplistic."
As darkness fell, they were getting closer and closer to Maple Leaf Town.
But often, things just get out of control.
An Moxue and Wu Sicheng were still resting at Maple Leaf Temple, but Xu Qingfeng, Wang Wei, and Li Deren from Maple Leaf Town were in a sorry state, hiding because of a surprise inspection in the town.
He hides here and there, never finding a moment of peace.
Wang Wei said, "Captain Xu, this isn't a solution. If we continue like this, we'll be discovered sooner or later."
Xu Qingfeng said, "They might have discovered Commander Wu or Hummingbird, otherwise they wouldn't be searching for people so aggressively all of a sudden. They might be in even more danger than us. We need to find them and discuss how to deal with them later."
“I agree with you,” Wang Wei said.
“Me too,” Li Deren said.
“Then let’s go to Maple Leaf Temple. According to the clues they left behind, the two of them went back to the temple. Let’s leave now; it’s dark, so it’ll be easier to hide.”
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