Chapter 294

Ahead stood personnel armed with loaded guns; all sorts of security equipment had been installed overnight. Adults, children, and pregnant women all went through different gates.

"Baby, are you scared?"

"No!"

【I'm not afraid of this. I'm afraid my actions have offended the property owners here!】

Su Yu was worried. She got out of the car and followed a sharp-looking woman in police uniform inside for inspection. The woman had her turn out her pockets, do a few movements, and then let her go.

"Sister, excuse me, where should I wait for my mommy?"

"Just by the entrance over there!"

"Okay, thank you, Sister!"

"You're welcome!"

Su Yu stepped over the threshold and saw Xie Xin Yi.

"Auntie!"

"Ah, baby, you're done with your inspection too?"

"Mm-hmm, has Mommy come out yet?"

"Not yet."

Su Yu was a bit worried. She seemed to hear commotion coming from inside.

Soon, the door was opened, but the one who came out was not Ji Yan — it was Yang Ruoning and Guan Xianxian.

The two of them were handcuffed and escorted into a vehicle. Xie Xin Yi held onto Su Yu, not letting her go closer.

The two waited a while before Ji Yan finally came out.

"Mommy, are you okay?"

"Mommy's fine!"

Su Yu and Ji Yan stayed in the RV waiting for the others.

Xie Xin Yi thought about Yang Ruoning and Guan Xianxian being taken away in handcuffs. "What's going on with those two? They got arrested?"

Su Yu's gossipy little eyes fixed on Ji Yan. Ji Yan patted her head. "They brought some jewelry of unknown origin and wanted to leave."

【Didn't Wulongcha say the jewelry was in the underground tunnel? How did they get it?】

Su Yu was utterly baffled, and Ji Yan wasn't sure either. She had only watched the inspection staff search out some jewelry from Guan Xianxian and Yang Ruoning.

They couldn't explain where it came from, and their luck wasn't great either. The staff in charge of testing discovered that the jewelry matched the pieces from the underground tunnel as a set.

The person in charge had them detained on the spot.

Both Guan Xianxian and Yang Ruoning tried to resist, causing a commotion in the inspection room.

"So greedy. Don't they know what should and shouldn't be taken?"

Guan Xianxian was one thing — she's not part of this circle, so being a bit shortsighted is normal. But what was Yang Ruoning's deal? Her family was well-off. Even if she'd changed her identity now, she shouldn't have been coveting those things. Wasn't she afraid of bringing trouble upon herself?

Xie Xin Yi stroked her belly, thinking about the current situation.

Ji Yan received a message from the bodyguard team that their vehicles had all passed inspection.

"Xin Yi, do you want to go back with us, or rest at the hotel arranged here?"

"Let's go back together. Things here won't be wrapped up anytime soon. I'll go back and discuss it with my parents."

Su Yu felt a bit guilty hearing this. "Auntie, I'm sorry. If I hadn't been playful, you could have stayed here and kept vacationing."

Jingdu was seriously hot!

Xie Xin Yi, now heavily pregnant, still had to travel — all because of her moment of impulse.

"Don't overthink it, baby. This might actually be a good thing!"

With antiquities discovered, this place would definitely be developed, and development meant a tilt in resources.

Xie Xin Yi thought about Yang Ruoning and Guan Xianxian trying to leave with jewelry. "Some people might even be grateful to you, baby!"

When Xie Xin Yi woke up this morning, she learned from Ye Shu that a hidden tunnel had been discovered here. He had contacted a classmate who worked in politics here. "Inside information: some of the valuables in the hidden tunnel were stolen, and the higher-ups are tracing where they went. If you hadn't discovered it in time, who knows who would have pocketed those things."

Ji Yan didn't know this news. "Nobody wants to take a loss."

If no one had discovered the hidden tunnel, those things would have belonged to individuals. Now that it had come to light, those things belonged to the country, but the people living here could all share in the benefits.

"Mommy, should we tell Uncle?"

【I hope they quickly find out who stole them. We can't make enemies for the family for no reason!】

"Your dad has already contacted him!"

"Okay!"

Su Yu watched the buildings outside the window rapidly recede, feeling down. She had just come out for a vacation — how did she get into trouble again!

Ji Yan stayed by Su Yu's side. Xie Xin Yi was a bit drowsy from waking up early; after asking Ji Yan, she lay down on the RV's bed to catch up on sleep.

Su Yu fell asleep in this quiet atmosphere. When she woke again, they were just getting off the highway. Right at that moment, a cup of milk tea teleported into their vehicle from outside the window.

【Wulongcha, you're finally back? I haven't seen you all day!】

Su Yu had thought Wulongcha wouldn't show up at all today! They were about an hour or so from home!

Wulongcha lay on Su Yu's little bed. 【I went through the hidden tunnel once and eavesdropped on the staff's meeting.】

【What did they say?】

【Nothing much, just about how to develop it. The hidden tunnel was probably a safeguard left by someone who once wanted to rebel, for their descendants. I'm not sure exactly which era it was.】

When Wulongcha left, the staff were cleaning up jewelry, porcelain, and things like that.

【They didn't say how they'd handle that place? The people who were vacationing there and forced to move out because of this — will they hold a grudge against me, and then resent our family and try to trip us up?】

【Probably not. I saw their first draft of the compensation plan, and it's quite good. The people living there will definitely be unhappy about being told to move, but the property owners should be very happy.】

【If I'd known, I wouldn't have meddled!】

Su Yu buried herself in Ji Yan's arms, feeling some regret.

Wulongcha actually felt that the earlier it was discovered, the better: 【In the plot, this might be Guan Xianxian's golden finger! Now it's also Yang Ruoning's ATM!】

【Yang Ruoning's ATM? She didn't sell some of the things, did she? That's illegal!】

【No one knows there are that many antiques like jewelry, porcelain, and calligraphy and paintings there—so who would know she broke the law?】

【They were caught—I saw it with my own eyes. Can they trace Yang Ruoning's reselling?】

Wulongcha had gone to check before: 【Yang Ruoning refuses to confess no matter what. If no evidence can be found, then it's innocent until proven guilty.】

【But they were trying to leave with jewelry!】

Wulongcha swayed to indicate that was correct: 【Their two testimonies are that they argued and started fighting, Yang Ruoning shoved Guan Xianxian, and then Guan Xianxian discovered that hidden passage. The two found ownerless jewelry scattered on the ground and, in a moment of greed, wanted to take it away.】

Su Yu tilted her head: 【Wait, isn't the mechanism on their side very simple?】

The mechanism in that study of Su Yu's house was all up in the beams. If she hadn't wanted to get the gold ring from the nest, Su Yu wouldn't have let Su Yi go up, much less discovered the hidden room behind the bookshelf.

【The mechanism on their side was destroyed, and no fingerprints were left behind.】

【6!】

To say Yang Ruoning wasn't deliberately covering things up—Su Yu wouldn't believe it!

【You said it's Guan Xianxian's golden finger, so in the later parts of the plot, are there any key clues we can use?】

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