The couple whispered to each other from a distance, and the activity in the yard didn't come to an end until late into the night. Finally, a familiar figure emerged from the house.
"Clean up the scene and send it back before dawn, being careful not to disturb anyone."
The group agreed and got into the truck, which soon drove away.
Estimating the distance, I quickly pulled out a small electric scooter. Using the moonlight, and also to avoid startling the other party, I didn't turn on the headlights.
"I knew Chen Hongjun had changed his mind."
"Go! Chase after them!"
This was a novel tool, and Qin Qinghuai quickly figured it out. The two of them put on their helmets.
"Honey, sit tight, I'm going to chase after her now."
"No need to rush, just follow them from a distance. I've put a tracker in the car; they can't escape my grasp."
The electric scooter stumbled.
"Wife, is that how you use that phrase?"
The truck roared out of the city and headed straight for the suburbs, leaving the electric scooter far behind. A gentle breeze brushed against his cheeks, and Qin Qinghuai had to admit, this feeling was quite intoxicating; he felt as if he had become one with the air.
"Could their hideout be up in the mountains?"
"Isn't that a coincidence? She's least afraid of mountains," Jian Dan said, somewhat excited. Qin Qinghuai turned back and smiled.
"Didn't that just happen to fall right into your hands?"
"Ha ha!"
The couple chuckled in hushed tones, but it was quite noticeable in the quiet of the night in the wilderness. Luckily, there was no one else around; in the dead of night in this desolate place, anyone who heard them would be terrified.
The truck stopped at the foot of the mountain, and the people on it quickly got off to unload their belongings. Perhaps because it was getting light, they moved much faster than before.
The two men put away their electric scooter from a distance and, in the pitch-black night, slowly followed, lying in ambush beside the vehicle. They could still hear Chen Hongjun's voice, completely different from his previous gentle tone, now sharp and even ruthless.
"Hurry up, hurry up!"
"Are you done over there? Make sure the door is closed!"
"You guys get out of here right now, and the cleanup crew is here. Hurry up and get back to the good work."
Just before getting on the bus, he gave me a stern warning.
“Keep your mouths shut. What you should and shouldn’t say is important. If even a little bit leaks out and it delays important matters above, don’t blame me for disregarding our years of brotherhood.”
Above? Something big?
Watching the truck roar away, kicking up a cloud of dust, I simply muttered to myself.
"No, who is he? He's just the director of a steel factory. How can he talk so arrogantly? Anyone who doesn't know better would think he has some big shot backing him up."
Qin Qinghuai also sensed something was wrong, and his brows furrowed.
"It's certain he has someone backing him, but we don't know if it's that person in the office?"
"Maybe, what you mean by having a connection with that person in the military?"
"I'm more inclined to believe it's the same person or the same group of people. There aren't that many coincidences in the world. Someone over there is looking for trouble, and someone over here is eyeing your yard. It's obvious that this has been premeditated for a long time, and they may have been eyeing it for quite some time."
"They only managed to take some precautions this time because they discovered they'd caught someone. If they hadn't, we'd just be being played like fools. Did you always think this person was a decent guy?"
"Yes, he did help me when I went to the countryside. I didn't think too much about it. I just thought that he was a close relative and someone my grandfather had helped. I didn't expect much from him. I just wanted him to look after these two courtyards so that they wouldn't belong to someone else when I came back. I felt embarrassed about that and was afraid of causing trouble, so I often sent him things."
"Tch, you were right back then, and look how things have turned out."
Qin Qinghuai had many more thoughts on this.
"You're telling me, when you left, was he definitely a good person?"
"What do you mean?"
Jian Dan was still a little incredulous; was her judgment of people really that inaccurate?
"You mean he's had this idea for several years, and my leaving has actually made things easier for him?"
As the car's tail disappeared and a sliver of light appeared on the horizon, Qin Qinghuai pulled his wandering thoughts back.
"I'm not sure, but I can't rule it out. That was when you were most heartbroken. Even if you were rational, you probably wouldn't have been on guard against him. Even if he didn't push you to go to the countryside, it was probably just going with the flow. Think about it, isn't it?"
"Uh...it seems so, but isn't that normal? Even if he has a good relationship with the old man, he's still a junior to me, so we don't usually exchange more than a few words."
"You,"
Qin Qinghuai shook his head; his wife was ultimately too naive.
"Both your maternal grandfather and paternal grandfather are gone, but you forgot, your father is still alive. Your father knows about his affairs. It is said that back then, your maternal grandfather did more than just help and support him. It seems that for a while, he even considered taking him in as his godson. It just didn't work out, so you don't know about it."
Do you think this kind of relationship is as simple as just being familiar with each other?
Even if it didn't work out, shouldn't a normal person, given the circumstances back then, show more concern than others for the descendants of the elderly person who had supported them for so many years?
"Yeah?"
At that time, Jian Dan had just transmigrated. The original owner had very few interpersonal relationships, so she didn't think much about it. Moreover, she ran into Zhu Yan when she went out. Although they both had their own little thoughts at the time, Zhu Yan gave Jian Dan a lot of warmth without saying anything.
Later, after she sorted things out and went to the countryside, she no longer had the energy to think about these unimportant people, and she didn't even think about them anymore.
Moreover, simplicity is not a strong point when it comes to interpersonal relationships.
"He was acting strangely back then? How come I didn't notice?"
"...Never mind, let's not talk about him for now. Let's go up the mountain first; it's almost dawn."
"Ah, right!"
This is something simple and interesting. Fortunately, the place where they put their things is not far from the foot of the mountain. They probably thought that no one would dare to come here. After all, the West Mountain is known for its steep terrain and wild animals, so most people would not dare to come here. Therefore, they put it in a cave halfway up the mountain.
Even after cleaning up the traces, this was no problem for Jian Dan. Soon, he moved the things at the entrance of the hole aside, and with a flashlight, he could see everything inside.
"Ha! You're absolutely right, this is the real hideout. The stuff in the basement isn't even a fraction of what's there, is it?"
Even the couple who were clearly there to steal were surprised for a long time. The cave was quite large and contained a lot of stuff. The boxes they had seen in the basement of the courtyard were placed to one side, and the footprints on the ground were still fresh. So many people had spent half the night moving things, but compared to this, it only accounted for less than one-tenth of the goods stored in the cave.
"With this, who would believe they're working for the country?"
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