Starting from 40, holding the Star Mall to lead the motherland

Chapter 39 Debt-Free
As the night deepened, a stillness fell. Most of the houses in Zhang Garden had turned off their lights and gone to bed, with only a few still keeping their lights on. A ghostly figure moved through the quiet and gloomy Zhang Garden.

To familiarize herself with Zhang Garden's terrain, Han Hui sneaked in three times, changing her attire each time to avoid arousing suspicion. This morning, she obtained information on every resident of Zhang Garden over the past five years. She provided brief introductions to powerful owners and tenants, while providing more detailed descriptions of wealthy businessmen and residents.

Among these owners was a wealthy businessman named Lan Yinghui, whose sister was the second wife of a high-ranking official in the Kuomintang (KMT) Party. This second wife had given birth to three sons and one daughter, while the official's first wife had only two daughters. Of the homeowners in these records, only Lan Yinghui's profile matched my memory.

After determining the target, Han Hui came to look for the treasure at night.

I only saw it from the outside during the day, but when I climbed over the wall I found that this three-story building covered an area of ​​more than 300 square meters, with front and back yards also covering more than 300 square meters.

Han Hui wanted to live in this kind of house, but it was impossible for the time being. She couldn't explain where the money came from. Not to mention, you need power to afford it.

According to my memory, there was a lot of treasure, so it couldn't be on the second or third floor. I just searched every corner of the first floor, but the metal detector didn't respond.

There shouldn't be any problems with things produced by the system, so this batch of treasures is probably not in the small villa.

The front yard is about 100 square meters, with grass on both sides and concrete paving in the middle and in front of the house. The backyard is over 200 square meters. On the left is the swimming pool, and in front of it is a flower bed that runs along the wall. On the right is a rockery and a small pond. However, the house has not been lived in for a long time, and the backyard is very desolate.

Han Hui searched the front yard first, but when she found nothing, she moved to the back garden. She scanned the swimming pool and the small pond under the rockery, but there was no response. Finally, at the far end of the flowerbed, the detector flashed red.

Since this was a treasure hunt, and the treasure could be anywhere, Han Hui bought tools like an axe, a shovel, and a rake. After digging more than two meters down into the flowerbed, she found a large camphorwood box.

Han Hui spent half the night digging out more than twenty boxes. After she finished, she sat on the ground, panting heavily, exhausted.

After putting the boxes into the space, she was about to leave when she heard a noise outside. Although the sound was very soft, her hearing was amazing, so she immediately hid in the space. However, the person outside was not targeting this villa and quickly passed by.

After leaving Zhang Garden, Han Hui did not go home, but first found a very secret place and slipped into the space.

After counting, there were twenty-eight boxes. Han Hui opened them all, looking grim. Ten of them contained gold, all filled with large yellow croaker; sixteen contained antiques, including porcelain, jade, and calligraphy; and two contained something black, like ointment. Han Hui didn't recognize what they were, but they must be very valuable to be there.

Thinking about her life as a guerrilla, Han Hui packed fifty large yellow croakers into a cloth bag and went to the bookstore where Wang Chuan worked. As before, she knocked three times on the door, three times each time.

People doing underground work were very alert, and Wang Chuan woke up when Han Hui knocked the second time.

As usual, he put the cloth bag at the door and hid it. He only left after seeing Wang Chuan take the cloth bag away.

Wang Chuan picked up the bag and realized it was heavy. He carried it into the house. When he untied the bag and saw what was inside, he was so shocked that he immediately turned off the light. He realized that he had overreacted and that turning on the light again would be inappropriate.

After thinking for a moment, Wang Chuan returned to bed with the bag in his arms, dumped the contents onto the quilt, and counted them, finding there were fifty. The organization was short of funds, and this sum of money was a timely relief.

One large yellow croaker weighs 312.5 grams, so fifty of them would weigh over thirty kilograms. Wang Chuan tied the bag tightly and left through the back door. He looked like a frail scholar, but carrying over thirty kilograms of large yellow croaker was no problem at all, and he walked briskly along the road.

More than ten minutes later, Wang Chuan arrived at the back of a house, knocked on the door with a code word, and immediately slipped in. After welcoming the person in, Qi Han lowered his voice and said, "Comrade Li Jian, you shouldn't come here so often at this time."

Wang Chuan gently placed the cloth bag on the table and said in a very soft voice, "Comrade Lao Qi, these are the large yellow croakers that the Dragon Guardian just sent. There are fifty of them in total."

Qi Han's eyes widened when he saw the golden patch. After a long while, he said, "Are you sure it was sent by Comrade Dragon Guardian?"

Wang Chuan handed him a piece of paper with a dragon painted on it. "Both the painting and the words are the same as last time."

Qi Han said in a deep voice: "Comrade Wang, we must contact him."

The Dragon Guardian has been of such great help to them, they need to know who he is.

Wang Chuan also wanted to, but he couldn't see anyone. "Comrade Li Jian, the Dragon Guardian can send us guns and big yellow croaker, which means he is on our side. Since he doesn't want to show up, he may have some difficulties or inconveniences. We should respect him."

Qi Han calmed down now. It wasn't that he was impatient, but the Dragon Guardian's mysterious methods. If he absorbed them, he could do more. But Wang Chuan was right to worry. Perhaps the Dragon Guardian had some unavoidable situation and was acting secretly.
After thinking for a while, Qi Han said, "Wang Chuan, you will be in charge of the Dragon Guardian line for the time being. I will arrange for other people to handle the other matters. I will report this matter to my hometown as soon as possible and wait for their instructions."

Wang Chuan had no objection.

Han Hui returned home, washed up briefly, and went upstairs. After entering her room, she locked the door and lay down on the bed, then her consciousness entered the space.

The gold exchange rate for wealth is 1:1, and Han Hui was reluctant to part with it. She remembered that she had exchanged silver jewelry and some jade ornaments for 5000 wealth points last time, so she found a jade carving of good fortune and longevity with excellent water content from a pile of antiques.

After clicking on the exchange button, Han Hui saw the 30000 wealth points displayed on the mall and thought she was seeing things. She rubbed her eyes and looked again, and sure enough, it was 30000 wealth points.

Upon seeing this, Han Hui took out a green jade bowl from the antiques and exchanged it for 15000 wealth points; she exchanged it for an exquisite Ru kiln, which could be exchanged for 3000 wealth points; and she exchanged it for a pearl necklace with round pearls of similar size, which could be exchanged for 2800 wealth points.

After many experiments, Han Hui realized that high-quality jade jewelry had the highest exchange rate, followed by natural pearls, and finally porcelain and bronze artifacts. Food, on the other hand, had the lowest exchange rate. It was a rip-off.

There were twelve antique jade ornaments in this batch. Han Hui took four larger ones to exchange and got back 10.6 wealth points.

Once the money arrived, Han Hui didn't have to pay it back, the system deducted it directly.

Han Hui muttered to herself, "It seems I need to find more good jade artifacts in the future, so that I can accumulate more wealth."

Once you have money, you can buy life-saving items in the mall, and you won’t have to worry about going out in the future.

(End of this chapter)