Chapter Seven: Going to the Countryside 3
[Host, take seven steps back; there's a hidden compartment there.]
The leader who received a box of gold bars is no longer the leader he used to be.
With its head held high and chest puffed out, it proudly began to act as a treasure-hunting system for its host.
Gu Zuozuo was amused by its impassioned tone. Who created this system? It's so ridiculous.
He took seven steps back and stopped in front of a wall, his eyes scanning up and down, trying to find the mechanism.
[Host, there's a rope at your feet that's the same color as the ground. Pull on that!]
Gu Zuozuo looked down. She had just discovered the rope, but she hadn't connected it with the mechanism. After all, who would leave the mechanism switch out in the open?
Who designed this?
Gu Zuozuo tugged hard on the rope, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
If you say this person isn't smart, he knows not to put all his eggs in one basket; if you say he's smart, he makes all his schemes public, without any intention of hiding anything, which seems like overconfidence.
It just doesn't seem like that man's style to be so simple.
When the rope was pulled, a square hole appeared in the wall.
There weren't many things inside: three boxes and two notebooks.
Upon opening the boxes, one of the three sets contained a complete set of imperial green jadeite jewelry, a set of pearl jewelry, and a set of white jade jewelry.
Necklaces, rings, bracelets, earrings, hairpins.
So beautiful! Human craftsmanship is truly one of the most amazing things in the vast universe.
Although some things are cruel and heartless to make.
Gu Zuozuo's eyes widened in surprise. In later generations, these three sets of jewelry would probably be worth hundreds of millions.
Without a second's hesitation, I put it away; this is something that could be passed down as a family heirloom!
Looking at the two black leather notebooks, Gu Zuozuo's eyelids twitched; she had a gut feeling that this was a good thing.
Sure enough, once opened, the names, times, locations, and amounts were all clearly and plainly recorded.
This is……
As he turned the pages, Gu Zuozuo's brows furrowed deeper with each page he read.
Looking at the names, some familiar and some unfamiliar, Gu Zuozuo felt a chill run down her spine. There were quite a few officials on these names; if this got out, it would cause a major upheaval in the officialdom.
One of these two books is a ledger of Zhu Qiang's bribery, and the other is a record of his secret antique transactions with the Japanese.
He was responsible for secretly hiding the country's rare antiques and then selling them to people from the island nation at high prices.
"No wonder his family and this place are so rich; that's how they built their relationships!"
It seems that most of the items confiscated from the homes of wealthy businessmen in the city ended up in the pockets of people connected to Zhu Qiang's network.
Why do you humans like to record your bad deeds?
Isn't this like taking off your pants to fart, completely unnecessary?
Gu Zuozuo put away the ledger, took one last look at the empty basement, and spoke with a mocking tone.
"They probably wanted to leave some leverage over others."
In later television shows and novels, if a villain has an account book, the account book owner is most likely to be the first to die.
Judging from the relationships between the people in the ledger, the original owner's family's misfortune was not caused by one person, but by a group of people who reached out at the same time.
The Gu family is so wealthy that even though they have donated all of their wealth on the surface, many people still believe that the Gu family must have an even bigger treasure hidden away.
So even though Gu's parents disappeared, the original owner was always under their watchful eyes and constantly monitored, not daring to make a single wrong step.
After confirming that he had emptied the entire basement, leaving not a single thing behind, Gu Zuozuo scratched his chin.
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