She would be able to leave tomorrow, so Lin Shuang was in a very cheerful mood.
She rode her bicycle so fast it felt like flying an airplane.
Because of this, Lin Shuang rode off her intended route.
Just as she was about to turn her bike around, Lin Shuang suddenly spotted a familiar face.
She thought to herself that he was quite something.
Taking away his clothes was meant to break his composure.
Unexpectedly, he wasn’t affected in the slightest and looked like he was discussing business with someone.
It seemed that the heavy truck was too noisy, so the driver inside couldn’t hear Shen Lingfeng talking down below, and simply opened the door to step out.
Being far away, Lin Shuang couldn’t hear either, but she was proficient in lip-reading.
As she read his lips, a bright glint flashed in Lin Shuang’s eyes.
Seeing that the truck was about to start up—
Lin Shuang noticed no one was around, so she quickly stashed her bicycle into her space.
Using her momentum, she vaulted over the railing, did a slide-tackle to cling onto the truck’s chassis, and then entered her space.
The truck rattled violently all along the way, making Lin Shuang suspect the driver was an amateur.
Fortunately, she was concealed inside her space, so she didn’t feel any of the discomfort outside at all.
Forty minutes later, the vehicle brought them to a stop in front of a mountain cave.
Lin Shuang stepped out of her space and crawled out from under the vehicle. Hearing footsteps, she quietly rolled into the roadside bushes. Pushing aside the foliage, Lin Shuang saw the driver and Shen Lingfeng moving wooden crates off the truck together.
The crates were large enough to hold two of her, and required one person on each side to lift, with stops in between to catch their breath before continuing.
She couldn’t tell if the two were simply too weak, or if the items inside were too heavy.
Lin Shuang was curious about what was actually inside.
If it were gold and jewelry, given Shen Lingfeng’s personality, it would be impossible for him to bring someone else along.
However, it was also possible that he trusted this person immensely.
Lin Shuang suddenly became curious about this man.
After waiting bore through until evening, Shen Lingfeng finally finished moving everything.
“Younger Uncle, you must be thirsty, have some water.”
“Thank you for your hard work today.”
So he was his younger maternal uncle!
No wonder, then!
Just as Lin Shuang was feeling a sense of disappointment, she suddenly heard a “thud” as Shen Lingfeng’s younger uncle collapsed to the ground.
Lin Shuang immediately sensed that something was wrong.
Looking at Shen Lingfeng again, she sure enough caught sight of his smug face.
There was nothing left to misunderstand.
The water had been spiked.
The things inside were definitely not simple.
Only dead men could keep secrets.
However, there was no blood or foam coming from Shen’s younger uncle’s mouth.
He was likely just unconscious.
Without a doubt, life would never be easy for Shen’s younger uncle again.
Yet Lin Shuang still underestimated how cruel Shen Lingfeng could be.
Digging a hole to bury a living person!
If Shen’s younger uncle wanted revenge, he would have to wait until his next life.
Lin Shuang felt like her brain wasn’t quite her own—at least at this moment.
Seeing the vehicle drive away, she went to dig up the hole and fed him some spirit spring water.
By leaving him in the pit, he would know what happened to him once he woke up.
Lin Shuang then brought out her tools, used the principle of leverage to pry open the heavy boulder blocking the entrance, and entered the cave. After winding through twists and turns, she finally saw dozens of crates stacked inside.
A rough count suggested it was enough to fill three truckloads.
Lin Shuang eagerly spot-checked a few crates, finding gold bars, antique calligraphy and paintings, stacks of US dollars, bundles of ten-yuan “Big Black Ten” banknotes, and precious clothing fabrics.
She hit the jackpot!
Could this be the entire fortune of the Shen family?
Wasn’t it agreed that they were moving to Hong Kong, so what kind of play was this?
Regardless! As long as Shen Lingfeng suffered a loss, she was happy.
Lin Shuang swept everything away without hesitation.
After coming out, she restored the cave entrance to its original state.
After waiting a while longer, the person in the pit slowly woke up.
Lin Shuang, with a few blades of grass sticking out of her head, said with pleasant surprise, “You’re finally awake.”
“Do you have a grudge against that handsome young man? Why did he bury you alive?”
Thinking of something, she added, “It was me who saved you.”
“Hehe,” Lin Shuang scratched her head, “I just wanted to try my luck—what if, right?”
She played the part of an honest, simple-minded girl to perfection.
“I didn’t expect you to actually come back to life.”
Bo Jin took a long time to digest all the information.
Realizing that he had just been betrayed by his nephew and nearly buried alive, his eyes were instantly filled with gloom.
“Thank you for saving me.”
“By the way, there are no households around here—why would a young girl like you run all the way out here?”
Lin Shuang had already prepared her answer to this question.
“To dig for ginseng!”
“Yesterday, my neighbors said his niece dug up a fifty-year-old mountain ginseng on this mountain and sold it for six hundred yuan!”
At this point, Lin Shuang embarrassedly scratched her head again.
“I’m an orphan, so I thought I’d come dig one up too. I don’t care about selling it for six hundred yuan—as long as I can sell it for one hundred yuan, I’ll be satisfied.”
Bo Jin had long been sizing up the young girl.
She looked very pretty, but the clothes she wore were quite old, though notably clean.
Therefore, he didn’t doubt her in the slightest.
He fell silent for a moment. In truth, Bo Jin was considering whether to just tell his savior about the treasure in the cave—sharing even a tiny portion would ensure this young girl would be provided for the rest of her life, saving her from running out here to dig for ginseng and risking an encounter with wolves or jackals.
On second thought, the young girl was already pitiable enough. If Shen Lingfeng tracked her down through clues and she had no one to protect her, it would be dangerous.
Money was nothing in the face of life.
Just like his current situation.
In the end, Bo Jin said nothing.
What Lin Shuang wanted was precisely for him to say nothing.
As long as Bo Jin appeared alive, Shen Lingfeng would always suspect him first.
With a scapegoat standing in the eye of the storm, Lin Shuang didn’t have to worry about Shen Lingfeng’s people tracing back to her.
In reality, Shen Lingfeng was secondary; a twenty-year-old young man whose connections, to put it plainly, were given by his parents.
Lin Shuang guessed the primary threat was the power of his biological father connected to the cave—after all, that man looked like someone who walked in the shadows.
Ordinary people were bound by societal rules.
Those hidden in the dark, however, acted without regard for rules or bottom lines; killing her would be as easy as stepping on a bug.
Lin Shuang, of course, didn’t know that Shen Lingfeng’s solo action this time—
Was precisely because he had a disagreement with his biological father, Liu Kang, that he made a temporary decision to leave himself a retreat route.
Hong Kong might not necessarily be a paradise; it could also be hell.
Once he lay low there until the trouble blew over, he would return to make a comeback.
This place was always his hometown after all.
“So your name is Bo Jin? That name sounds really nice!”
Lin Shuang glanced at the wild grass by the side of the road and said without a trace of guilt, “My name is Lin Xiaocao.”
Bo Jin felt sympathy once more for this young girl with a tragic background.
“Do you happen to need an uncle? How about I become your uncle?”
Lin Shuang hadn’t expected this young man to have a habit of wanting to play an elder.
Lin Shuang really wanted to nod and agree—after all, having one more friend meant one more path.
Furthermore, she had just saved him, so it was impossible for a scenario like the farmer and the snake to play out.
However, the moment she thought of Shen Lingfeng, Lin Shuang just wanted to back away completely.
Anyone related to Shen Lingfeng was someone she wished to keep at a respectful distance.
Not to mention, her original intention in saving him was merely to find another enemy for Shen Lingfeng.
“Better not!”
“My neighbors all say that I’m…” a star of misfortune, born with a jinx that brings bad luck to people.
Lin Shuang caught herself in time, but Bo Jin could figure out with his little toe that the young girl had undoubtedly been misled by others.
Forget it! As long as he knew in his heart that she was his niece, that was enough.