After shouting “Eighty!” three times, Song Jinyue finally smashed the lock open.
She kicked the door open and barged inside, only to discover that even the drawers and wardrobes were locked!
Carrying the iron hammer, she smashed every lock on the drawers and wardrobes to pieces. From one of the drawers, she found two bankbooks and a thick stack of ration coupons.
The two bankbooks contained a total of twenty-seven thousand yuan.
That bastard Lu Weiguo had been sitting on this much money, yet yesterday he’d tried to dismiss her with a measly eight hundred yuan. He’d even wanted to take her job and send her to the countryside in Lu Manman’s place to suffer.
Just wait.
Song Jinyue never forgot a grudge!
Her scumbag father’s expensive watches?
Taken!
Shen Yurou’s jewelry, cosmetics, and handbags?
Taken!
The clothes and shoes bought with the Song family’s money?
Taken!
The wardrobes, sofa, tables, stools, beds… Anything purchased with the Song family’s money was taken!
She could sell them cheaply on the black market someday. No matter what, she absolutely refused to let these bastards benefit from them!
Song Jinyue swept everything in the room into her storage space, leaving only a few pairs of underwear scattered on the floor for them.
After completely clearing out her scumbag father’s room, she carried her hammer into Lu Manman and Lu Guangzong’s rooms and did the same thing.
She stripped both rooms bare, leaving behind nothing but a few pairs of underwear.
Finally, she arrived at the study.
All the valuable antiques that had once decorated the study had already been replaced with counterfeits by her scumbag father. He had hidden the genuine pieces somewhere else.
Unfortunately for him, Song Jinyue knew exactly where.
When she was ten years old, her scumbag father had brought Shen Yurou and her three children into the Song family home. Furious with him, Song Jinyue had thrown a tantrum while they were out moving their belongings in and had ransacked both his bedroom and the study.
By pure accident, she had triggered the mechanism that opened a secret room.
It turned out that while Mother Song had still been seriously ill in the hospital, Lu Weiguo had already been impatiently plotting how to seize the Song family’s fortune!
Song Jinyue walked familiarly toward the desk, bent down, and pressed an inconspicuous hidden button underneath it.
Click!
The row of bookshelves against the wall slid apart in opposite directions, revealing the secret room hidden behind them.
Song Jinyue switched on the light and walked inside.
Rows upon rows of redwood chests immediately came into view.
She counted them.
Thirty-five chests in total.
Presumably, the genuine antiques that had been replaced by counterfeits were hidden inside them.
Song Jinyue rolled up her sleeves and opened all thirty-five chests in one go.
Two entire chests were filled with glittering gold bars!
Each large gold bar weighed more than three hundred grams, and judging by sight alone, there had to be more than a hundred in each chest!
There were also all kinds of antique porcelain, precious jewelry, fabrics, spices, rare medicinal herbs, valuable collectibles, paintings, and calligraphy…
Looking at the dazzling treasures filling the chests, Song Jinyue’s jaw nearly dropped.
She knew the Song family was wealthy and had never lacked money, but she hadn’t imagined they were this rich.
Some of these treasures could no longer even be measured in terms of money.
Any one of those antique porcelain pieces, rare collectibles, paintings, or works of calligraphy would be worthy of being displayed in a museum in later generations!
Take them!
Take them all!
Everything was going into her storage space!
With a wave of her hand, Song Jinyue swept every treasure in the secret room into her space.
After returning to the study, she conveniently emptied that room as well, leaving behind nothing but an empty shell.
She practically didn’t even spare the mouse holes.
After completely emptying the Song family’s old residence, Song Jinyue suddenly remembered that her scumbag father owned another property in Shanghai.
Before moving into the Song family home, Shen Yurou and her three children had always lived there.
The almanac said today was an auspicious day for moving.
So why stop now?
Time to keep going!
Song Jinyue left the house and headed toward Lu Weiguo’s other property in Shanghai.
Not long after stepping outside, she realized someone was following her.
She deliberately took several turns before entering a deserted alley. Then, in the blink of an eye, she slipped into her storage space.
“Where is she? How did she disappear?”
“I don’t know! I clearly saw her come this way just now. How could she vanish in the blink of an eye?”
“Useless! You can’t even keep an eye on one person! Hurry up and find her! Brother Biao specifically asked for this woman. If we lose her, Brother Biao won’t let us off!”
After saying that, the men hurriedly ran farther down the alley.
They had been sent by Brother Biao to keep an eye on Song Jinyue.
Although Lu Guangzong had told him that Song Jinyue wouldn’t be sent to the countryside for another few days and promised that he would definitely deliver her into Brother Biao’s hands before she left, Brother Biao hadn’t completely trusted him.
He had sent several men to keep watch near the Song family residence, monitoring Song Jinyue’s every move to prevent her from leaving Shanghai early.
Only after the sounds outside had completely disappeared did Song Jinyue emerge from her storage space.
She had heard every word those men said.
She’d just been worrying about finding someone to take the blame after she emptied the family fortune.
And now, the perfect scapegoats had delivered themselves right to her doorstep.
The corners of Song Jinyue’s lips curled upward.
She continued toward the property Lu Weiguo had purchased.
Once she found the house, Song Jinyue easily forced open the lock and stepped inside to begin another round of looting.
Her scumbag father sometimes traveled far from home and wouldn’t return for several days. Whenever he was away, Shen Yurou would occasionally come here and stay for a couple of days, claiming she wanted to reminisce about the past.
But according to Song Jinyue’s guess, Shen Yurou was probably coming here to secretly meet her lover.
Ever since Song Jinyue began suspecting yesterday that Lu Guangzong wasn’t actually her scumbag father’s biological son, she had carefully compared their appearances.
Sure enough, the two didn’t resemble each other in the slightest.
Her scumbag father had been handsome enough for her mother to fall for him based on his looks, so there was naturally no need to question his appearance.
Lu Guangzong, on the other hand, was ugly as hell.
He had to be the child Shen Yurou had with her secret lover.
Song Jinyue wondered what expression her scumbag father would make when he discovered that he’d been cheated on and had spent more than ten years raising another man’s son.
Hehe.
She was rather looking forward to it.
Song Jinyue smashed open the locks and entered the rooms.
Like a goose passing by and leaving behind its feathers, she refused to leave behind anything valuable, sweeping everything worthwhile into her storage space.
As for the pots, bowls, plates, and other kitchenware they’d used?
She didn’t want them.
They were filthy.
So she smashed them all!
She even stripped a layer off the walls, leaving the entire place looking like a bare, unfinished shell.
Song Jinyue nodded in satisfaction as she admired her handiwork.
Then she slipped away without anyone noticing.
In an era without surveillance cameras, doing something bad didn’t even make her feel guilty.
Just as she returned to the area near the Song family’s old residence, she ran into the same thugs who had been following her earlier.
They had searched everywhere along the road but hadn’t managed to find Song Jinyue, so they had no choice but to return and continue watching the Song residence.
The moment they saw her coming back, they all breathed a huge sigh of relief.
Song Jinyue pretended not to notice anything unusual and calmly walked back into the house.
After watching her enter with their own eyes, the thugs exchanged glances.
“That scared the hell out of me. I thought we’d lost her.”
“We’d better keep a close eye on her this time. We can’t make another mistake, or Brother Biao won’t let us off!”
They were still talking when a shrill scream suddenly came from inside the Song residence.
“Oh no! We’ve been robbed! Someone help! Catch the thieves!”
Song Jinyue rushed out of the house in a panic, shouting desperately that thieves had broken in.
Hearing the commotion, the neighbors quickly came outside.
One middle-aged woman saw Song Jinyue looking utterly distraught and immediately grabbed her arm.
“Jinyue, what happened? Don’t panic. Slow down and tell us what’s going on.”
“Auntie Zhang, thieves! Thieves broke into my house! The locks were smashed, and everything inside was taken! Those things were all keepsakes my grandparents and mother left me. Now that they’re gone, how am I supposed to live?”
As Song Jinyue spoke, tears streamed down her face.
She looked as though she had suffered such a devastating blow that her body swayed unsteadily, nearly collapsing onto the ground.
Fortunately, Auntie Zhang and another woman quickly supported her from both sides and kept her from falling.
“Jinyue, don’t panic. We’ll report it to the police! We’ll go right now and ask the police comrades to help catch the thieves!”