At this moment, Shen Wangshu, accompanied by Liu Ce, was out in the wilderness.
Treasure hunting.
Of course, Shen Wangshu, pregnant and physically weak, was just sitting in a chair.
In her arms were all the food she’d been fed at the police station.
Bread, roasted sweet potatoes, chocolate, milk, and so on.
Who told her to always swipe instant noodles every time she went there? The others couldn’t stand it, so one person would feed her something, another would feed her something else.
Liu Ce was swinging his shovel, drenched in sweat. In front of him, he’d already dug a deep pit two meters wide and two meters tall.
All his own handiwork.
He’d been digging from afternoon to evening, and now it was already night.
He looked up at Shen Wangshu not far away: “Classmate Shen, is there really something here?”
Shen Wangshu said without hesitation: “Mm, there is.”
Liu Ce had no choice but to keep digging. When Shen Wangshu reported her second case, she’d said that a certain place had a lot of leftover ammunition buried there from years ago.
If she’d said that to anyone else, no one would believe it.
So Liu Ce didn’t dare report it up the chain.
If it was true, he’d verify it first and then report it.
If it was false, and he reported it early, then Shen Wangshu would be marked as filing a false report, which wouldn’t look good.
Liu Ce’s sweat dripped onto the soil. He swung the shovel down, and a loud clang rang out.
That loud clang made Liu Ce’s whole body stiffen. A chill shot up from the soles of his feet, turning his sweat into cold sweat.
When the wind blew, he shivered from the cold.
Shen Wangshu spoke up: “Don’t worry, the ammunition is still much further down.”
Liu Ce blurted out instinctively: “I don’t believe you.”
The sound of the shovel striking metal made him very nervous.
He carefully dug further down, uncovering some rotted wood fragments, and then countless silver ingots.
Liu Ce: “!!”
Shen Wangshu: “Congratulations, congratulations.”
Liu Ce couldn’t believe it: “Didn’t you say it was ammunition?”
Shen Wangshu nodded: “Yeah, it is. It’s still further down.”
Liu Ce tossed aside his shovel to rest, and also took out his phone to report it up the chain, asking the bureau to send more people.
Then he asked: “Don’t tell me you calculated this too?”
Shen Wangshu smiled: “Officer, you’re overestimating me. I can’t calculate something like this. Besides, feudal superstition isn’t something to endorse.”
Liu Ce: “…”
Liu Ce: “Then you’d better give me an excuse, otherwise what reason am I supposed to use when I report this?”
Shen Wangshu continued smiling: “This mountain is the Si family’s ancestral burial ground.”
“Once, in the study, I saw an old diary.”
“It said there were lots of gold, silver, treasures, and antiques left behind from a hundred years ago, as well as some stockpiled ammunition.”
Shen Wangshu pretended to be very surprised: “I didn’t expect it to actually be true.”
Of course, all of this was a lie.
The Si family had no idea these things were in the mountain.
In her previous life, these things were accidentally dug up by the Si family a few years after Shen Wangshu died.
They kept the gold, silver, treasures, and antiques for themselves, turned over all the ammunition to the state, and even received national praise.
It elevated the Si family’s business to another level, and Si Yingchu successfully latched onto an even higher branch.
Becoming a certain madam that everyone envied.
Liu Ce made a phone call, requesting backup, and also asked them to bring four takeout meals.
By the time Liu Ce’s colleague arrived with the four takeout meals.
Shen Wangshu got two portions of very generous takeout.
She looked slightly surprised.
Liu Ce sat directly on the ground, snapped apart his chopsticks, and ate in a very down-to-earth manner.
Liu Ce said with his mouth full: “You’ve been eating all afternoon, so you must be hungry.”
Shen Wangshu thought for a moment: “You and Gu Shaohua aren’t fated to be together.”
Liu Ce, hearing this out of nowhere, had a mouthful of rice stuck in his throat, unable to go up or down. He patted his chest and gave Shen Wangshu a gloomy look.
Shen Wangshu said very seriously: “But fate is also about human will overcoming heaven. As long as you protect yourself well within the next year, anything is possible.”
Liu Ce took a sip of water and smiled nonchalantly: “What? I’m going to get into trouble within a year?”
Shen Wangshu didn’t answer. She suddenly shouted: “Wait, don’t move.”
Not far ahead, a colleague had dug up something that looked like corroded metal.
Shen Wangshu rushed over in three quick steps, snatched the thing from his hands, and tossed it far away.
A huge boom rang out.
Everyone looked at each other in shock.
They immediately moved away from the pit.
The person who went back to investigate said: “Holy shit, who threw that? It blew up a whole stretch of graves.”
Everyone looked at Shen Wangshu.
Shen Wangshu blinked innocently: “It’s fine. I’m sure my adoptive parents’ ancestors will forgive me.”
What she’d blown up was the Si family’s ancestral grave.
Who knew which of the Si family’s ancestors had bad luck, getting their ashes blown right out of the ground.
Just then, it started to rain.
Even if they notified the Si family to come, they wouldn’t make it in time.
The ashes got soaked by the rain and seeped into the soil. By then, there’d be nothing left to pick up.
Shen Wangshu heard a woman’s sinister laugh in her ear: “How ruthless. Good thing I didn’t provoke you at our first meeting, or I’d have died without knowing how.”
Some personnel were left behind to handle the aftermath, while Liu Ce drove Shen Wangshu back.
Halfway down the road, they happened to run into the Si family’s car.
Through the car window, Shen Wangshu saw that only Si Zhiyong was there. His face was grim, and Yin Energy swirled above his head—it looked like he hadn’t slept well for days.
Liu Ce broke the silence. “Last time, Shaohua called the police, saying your adoptive parents’ home was involved in surrogacy.”
“But your adoptive parents said you had a boyfriend and often stayed overnight at his place, and they even produced evidence.”
Liu Ce didn’t elaborate further.
Shen Wangshu spoke up. “Mm, I understand.”
Back then, she had signed many contracts, and she hadn’t even had time to read the terms.
When Miao Shuhui had coaxed her into signing the contracts, she’d said it was for a kidney transplant, and that she didn’t want outsiders to know Si Yingchu was in poor health, so her check-ups hadn’t been done at a regular hospital.
Before Shen Wangshu was reborn, she had trusted the Si family far too much.
Because whenever she traveled with the Si family, all sorts of misfortunes would happen.
Over time, the Si family’s servants called her a jinx, a bad-luck charm.
Only Miao Shuhui and Si Zhiyong treated her with a normal attitude.
That made her grateful.
Which was why she had been willing to give away her spiritual providence in her words.
“We’re here.”
Liu Ce’s words interrupted Shen Wangshu’s thoughts.
His gaze fixed on the Gu family’s gate, looking like he wanted to say something but held back.
Just then, the Gu family’s gate swung open, and a tall figure walked out.
He raised his hand, palm pressed to his ear, as if on a phone call.
Then Shen Wangshu’s phone rang.
Liu Ce immediately honked twice.
Gu Lingyun looked over, then jogged toward them.
Gu Lingyun glanced at the two people in the car, looking from Liu Ce to Shen Wangshu.
Then he blurted out something neither of them wanted to hear.
“Why did he bring you back? You two dating?”
Liu Ce widened his eyes. “I bring someone back and we’re dating? Then what about you racing girls up Langya Mountain every day?”
Gu Lingyun’s face darkened—Liu Ce really knew how to hit a sore spot.
Liu Ce changed the subject. “By the way, is your sister home? I need to see her about something.”
Gu Lingyun replied curtly, “She’s home. Go find her yourself.”
He looked at Shen Wangshu. “You—get out. I have something to ask you.”
Liu Ce, afraid Gu Lingyun might bully Shen Wangshu, said, “What do you want with Shen? She’s coming with me to see your sister.”
“Mind your own business.” Gu Lingyun opened the car door, reaching to pull Shen Wangshu out.
But before his hand could touch her, Shen Wangshu curved her lips into a smile, her eyes crinkling at the corners. “Gu, I’ve done a quick calculation—you’re about to lose some money.”