Seventy: The Delicate Military Wife Empties Her Enemy’s Fortune to Raise Her Children
Seventy: The Delicate Military Wife Empties Her Enemy’s Fortune to Raise Her Children Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Sure enough, these scoundrels were involved in reporting her parents!

Tang Wan crouched in the corner, gritting her teeth in anger, but she didn’t act rashly.

Qin Tiezhu’s wife chuckled, “I was just thinking, that Tang Zhou boy isn’t bad-looking.

Fair-skinned and clean-cut. There’s a family in my hometown village that can’t have kids, and they want to adopt a sturdy boy. We could even make some money out of it.”

“Forget it. He’s the son of a capitalist. They wouldn’t want him anyway.

What I’m looking forward to now is Deputy Director Su becoming the factory director and promoting me to team leader.

By the way, Qin Su and his wife are so stingy. I’m their own cousin, yet they didn’t even help me in the factory. Serves them right to die!

It’s a shame the stuff I hid in their house wasn’t found, otherwise…”

Hearing this, Tang Wan couldn’t listen anymore. She took out some supplies she had prepared before her time travel.

She had never used them before and wasn’t sure how effective they were, so she used a generous amount. Then she took out a bamboo tube, poked a small hole in the window paper, and gently blew in the knockout powder.

After waiting for a while with no movement inside, Tang Wan used a wire to pick the lock and walked in boldly.

Qin Tiezhu’s house had a two-bedroom, one-living-room layout. The cramped space housed six people: the couple in one room, and their children in another.

Tang Wan was in luck—when the knockout powder took effect, Qin Tiezhu’s wife had just taken out some money to count.

This saved Tang Wan the trouble of searching. She grabbed the cash and the metal box without counting and threw them into her space. Then she started looting the rest of the house.

Unbelievable.

Although the Qin family appeared destitute, she found gold bars hidden in a metal box under Qin Tiezhu’s bed. Aside from that, there wasn’t much of value.

Still, Tang Wan was furious. In one go, she emptied the entire house—tables, chairs, thermoses, shoehorns…

She left only the two beds with the sleeping people. Even the blankets on the beds were taken, though she thought she might sell them later rather than use them herself.

She also cleared out the kitchen: 100 pounds of coarse grain, 30 pounds of fine grain, and several jars and containers.

Thinking about what Qin Tiezhu had done, Tang Wan grabbed a stick and struck his leg hard.

“Ahhh!”

Qin Tiezhu let out a pig-like scream. Just as he was about to regain consciousness, Tang Wan pressed a silver needle into an acupuncture point, causing him to pass out again.

Even though people in the residential area heard the noise, no one came out, assuming someone was having a nightmare.

After leaving the Qin family, Tang Wan thought about what Qin Tiezhu had said about Deputy Director Su. The original owner didn’t have much of an impression of him, but she remembered he also lived in the residential area.

Since he was the deputy director, he must have lived in one of the best houses—a standalone courtyard.

Thinking of his sinister schemes, Tang Wan was filled with rage. If she didn’t empty his house, she wouldn’t be Tang Wan.

She quickly reached Deputy Director Su’s courtyard. This guy, hoping for a promotion and a raise, was dreaming!

After blowing in the knockout powder, the house soon fell silent. Tang Wan picked the lock and entered, her eyes lighting up.

Deputy Director Su came from a poor background and didn’t need to hide things as cautiously as her family. The spacious four-bedroom, one-living-room layout was full of valuables.

The living room alone had a bicycle, a sewing machine, and a radio. Tang Wan unceremoniously took them all.

Even enamel cups and aluminum lunchboxes weren’t spared. Soon, the living room was empty, and Tang Wan moved to the nearest bedroom.

Inside were a couple, likely the deputy director’s eldest son and daughter-in-law. They often bullied her mother, so Tang Wan showed no mercy.

What a pity they didn’t have anything particularly valuable. But Tang Wan was determined to teach them a lesson.

The other two rooms belonged to Deputy Director Su’s children—a pair of twins still in high school. When Tang Wan spotted their textbooks, her eyes sparkled.

Winter wool coats, corduroy clothes, plastic shoes, cloth shoes…

Take them all! Everything must go!

Finally, she reached the room belonging to Deputy Director Su and his wife. Their household was better off than Qin’s, and Tang Wan even found several pieces of Dacron fabric in their wardrobe.

There was also a stash of cotton, likely prepared for when their twins graduated from high school. It seemed they might have to send one child to the countryside for labor.

Tang Wan showed no mercy, even emptying the wardrobe and dresser. Still, she hadn’t found any cash, which left her frustrated.

It wasn’t until she accidentally kicked over the shoe cabinet and noticed a slightly protruding brick in the corner that her luck changed.

Pulling a flashlight from her space, she pried out half a brick to reveal an empty cavity. Reaching inside, her hand touched a long box. Her excitement soared.

Opening it, she found a collection of colorful tickets tied together, a bundle of large-denomination bills, and, most importantly, a passbook.

Goodness gracious! Deputy Director Su had savings of 10,000 yuan.

In this era, 10,000 yuan was a fortune. If it was obtained legitimately, Tang Wan would eat her hat.

Clearly, this was a case of a thief shouting, “Catch the thief!”

An idea sparked in Tang Wan’s mind. Before leaving the room, she yanked the watch off Deputy Director Su’s wrist and smashed his leg with a stick, rendering him unconscious once more.

Then she headed to the kitchen.

Impressive! As expected of the deputy director’s family, their kitchen was wealthier than hers had ever been.

Two hundred pounds of coarse grain, fifty pounds of fine grain, rice, flour, eggs, cured meat, brown sugar—all packed away. She pried open the cabinets and emptied them of oil.

There were even milk candies and biscuits, which she gladly pocketed.

Although she disliked the dishes and cutlery, she figured they could be sold. She even took the kerosene lamp from the kitchen.

After confirming the Su family home was completely emptied, Tang Wan clapped her hands and prepared to leave. That’s when she noticed fresh soil under the large tree near the back door.

Considering how people hid valuables in this era, Tang Wan rubbed her hands together, pulled a shovel from her space, and started digging.

She didn’t have to dig deep before hitting a wooden box. Without even opening it, she tossed it into her space, leaving the soil as it was, and turned her attention to the neighbor’s house.

Deputy Director Su wanted to frame her parents?

Tang Wan decided to give him a taste of his own medicine. She wrote two anonymous letters, included the hidden list of names she’d found in her father’s study, and placed the passbook with Su’s name in a box.

Then she detoured to the home of the Textile Factory Revolutionary Committee’s director, who happened to be a thorn in Su’s side.

Placing the items in a conspicuous spot in their house, Tang Wan wasn’t satisfied. She left another copy of the anonymous letter at the union director’s doorstep.

After all this scheming, Tang Wan was drenched in sweat but immensely satisfied. As dawn broke, she quickly ran back to the guesthouse.

The sky was still dark, and Tang Wan stealthily climbed back in through the public restroom window. Luckily, everyone was still asleep, and she sighed in relief as she headed to her room.

Just as she passed the room shared by Lu Huaijing and Tang Zhou, the door suddenly opened.

Their eyes met, and Tang Wan’s heart nearly leapt out of her chest.

Why on earth was Lu Huaijing up so early?

“You’re up this early?”

Lu Huaijing glanced at his watch—it was only 5:30 a.m. Moreover, Tang Wan’s clothes looked suspiciously like she’d just come back from outside.

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