Chapter 7 – I Said I Want Some Peace and Quiet

A voice sharp enough to drop icicles rang out above Yu Jingjing’s head: “Comrade, good job. Let’s take them to the police station together.”

Only then did Yu Jingjing take a closer look at the tall man’s face and realize—not only was he handsome, but he also looked incredibly cold.

Especially those eyes, like everyone owed him millions. That kind of gaze made him seem downright fierce.

Sigh, what a waste of such a beautiful face.

“No, no, that’s okay. I’ve got things to do—I’m heading home.”

With the way she currently looked, what was the point of going to the police station? She couldn’t even leave her real name; it’d be a pointless trip.

Lu Yunxiao didn’t push her. “Comrade, what’s your name and address? I’d like to report it to the police as a brave act of righteousness.”

“No need, really! I do good deeds without leaving a name. Haha, I’ll be off now!”

Yu Jingjing quickly vanished to find a place where she could enter her spatial dimension.

Just as Lu Yunxiao and Hu Dong were about to escort the two thieves to the police station, Lu Yunxiao suddenly looked down and saw a beautiful silk handkerchief on the ground. He picked it up.

Hu Dong said, “Could that be the female comrade’s? The one from earlier?”

“Quite likely. If we see her again, I’ll return it to her.” Lu Yunxiao tucked the handkerchief into his pocket.

Soon, the elderly woman whose bag had been stolen arrived. They returned her bag and took the thieves to the station.

After leaving the police station, neither Lu Yunxiao nor Hu Dong looked pleased. Their real mission was far from over—and it was a troublesome one.

Lu Yunxiao casually slipped his hand into his pocket and touched the handkerchief again.

He took it out to look. It was embroidered with beautiful patterns. For some reason, he even brought it to his nose and sniffed it, causing Hu Dong to jump: “Hey, Lao Lu, what are you doing?”

Lu Yunxiao quickly lowered his hand and stuffed the handkerchief back into his pocket. “Nothing.”

“Do you realize how creepy you just looked? Don’t tell me… you’ve fallen for that girl from earlier?”

Although he knew judging people by appearances wasn’t right, with Lao Lu’s standards—if he really was into a girl like that—it would be… quite the peculiar taste.

Lu Yunxiao was already irritated by other matters and had no time for jokes. He waved a hand. “Don’t talk to me. I want some peace and quiet.”

“You want peace and quiet? You always say that. Who is this ‘Peace and Quiet’ anyway?”

Lu Yunxiao shot him a glare that screamed, You know damn well what I mean, and you’re just begging for a beating. Hu Dong chuckled and shut up.

“Oh, Cold-Faced King of Hell… even monks are getting wives these days. You might not find anyone you like at this rate.”

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Yu Jingjing entered her space, changed clothes, and headed to the newspaper office. She spent ten yuan to publish a public notice severing ties with Uncle Yu’s family and Old Madam Yu. The connection had to be cut—she couldn’t risk future trouble.

On the way home, she passed by a junk station. From her past life’s experience reading transmigration novels, the female leads always found treasures in places like these. She didn’t know if she was the female lead, but it wouldn’t hurt to try her luck.

Suddenly, she remembered her system. Little Fortune was a treasure-hunting system. Why hadn’t it prompted her that there were treasures here?

Could it be there really weren’t any treasures in the junk station?

“Little Fortune?”

【Host, I’m here!】

“Is your treasure-hunting function always active?”

【Yes, Host!】

“What’s the range of detection?”

【Roughly fifty to a hundred meters around you.】

“Then you didn’t sense any treasures in the junkyard earlier?”

【Oh… uh… Host, I—I was napping just now, so I didn’t detect anything…】

“Napping?”

Why was the system being inconsistent? And why was it stammering? Was it really just a simple treasure-hunting system? Something felt off.

At that moment, Little Fortune was feeling very nervous, hoping the host wouldn’t overthink it. Anyway, it would never harm the host, and everything it did was for her benefit.

【Host! I’ve detected something! There are treasures inside! Go! Quick, go pick them up!】

The system’s excited voice was like a spell that brainwashed her. Yu Jingjing stopped thinking altogether. Who wouldn’t pick up treasures? If you’re slow, you’re a fool.

She stepped into the junkyard, where piles of waste surrounded her—mostly broken furniture, tattered covers, shattered glass, candy wrappers, and a small amount of scrap metal. Some had been sorted; others were in mixed heaps.

A middle-aged couple was sorting through one of the mixed piles.

Yu Jingjing walked over and greeted them, “Uncle, Auntie, I’m looking for some old newspapers to paste on the walls. How much for your used papers?”

Buying things meant you had to ask for a price. Even though she didn’t really care about the cost, the act had to be convincing.

The middle-aged man pointed to a stack of paper. “Go ahead and dig through that. If you want a lot, it’s five cents a pound.”

To Yu Jingjing, who had thousands in her stash, this was basically free.

So she started digging—pretending to look for newspapers while whispering to her system, “Little Fortune, where’s the treasure?”

【Right in that newspaper pile.】

Yu Jingjing rummaged even more excitedly and finally uncovered a truly precious ancient book. She quickly set it aside and covered it with a few sheets of newspaper as camouflage.

“Xiao Caicai, where else should I look?”

【There, over there, and there too…】

Under the system’s guidance, Yu Jingjing fished out a pair of porcelain cats from the Tang Dynasty, a Qingbai glazed vase from the Song Dynasty, a bronze mirror from the Yuan Dynasty, and even a double-layered makeup box with gold hidden in its base from a pile of discarded ceramics.

Just one junk station yielded so many treasures—it was simply exhilarating.

She paid the couple who ran the station a bit of money and took everything with her.

Once she was a safe distance away, she stored everything in her personal space.

Before heading home, she stopped by the house of someone who had gone on the business trip with her parents. This person had been her parents’ research assistant. During the explosion, all of them had been in the lab, and none survived. His body, like her parents’, had never been found.

The assistant’s name was Wang Gensheng. He had a mother in her late sixties, a wife in her thirties, and two children around ten years old.

After his death, the factory gave the family 2,000 yuan in compensation and a job position as an ordinary production line worker. His wife had already taken the job, and the kids were attending school. Only his elderly mother, Zhao Lanxiang, was still at home.

Yu Jingjing brought a bag of fruit to visit and introduced herself.

“Ma’am, I’m Yu Chang’an’s daughter, Yu Jingjing. I came to see you.”

At this point, she couldn’t outright say she was there to investigate the explosion—mentioning it would only cause pain for the old lady.

Zhao Lanxiang quickly invited her inside.

“Oh, so you’re the daughter of Team Leader Yu. You didn’t need to bring anything—just coming is enough.”

“Grandma, I’ll be heading to the countryside the day after tomorrow. I just wanted to visit before I go.” The old woman, touched, started chatting with her about her son and Yu Jingjing’s parents, recalling memories of them before the accident.

She even showed Yu Jingjing some of the things her son had written, but Yu Jingjing didn’t discover anything unusual.

However, the old lady did say, “My son was coming home very late every day back then. He told me they were working on an extremely important pharmaceutical experiment. If it succeeded, it would’ve had great significance for our country. But before the research could be completed, they were gone.”

“Could it have been the work of foreign agents? Maybe they didn’t want us to succeed?” Yu Jingjing wondered aloud.

The old lady shook her head. “I don’t understand any of that. The factory and Public Security said the explosion was due to a chemical reaction during the experiment. Who knows what really happened?”

Yu Jingjing didn’t get the answer she was hoping for, but she strongly suspected espionage—a deliberate act to sabotage a major medical research project and block their nation’s progress.

Back at home, she rested for a bit and decided to take another look at her mother’s handkerchief. But when she reached into her jacket pocket, it was gone.

She searched all the pockets in that outfit and even checked the pants—nothing.

She thought it might have been misplaced while changing clothes in the space, but after thoroughly going through everything, she still couldn’t find the handkerchief.

Where did it go? Could it have been lost?

If not inside the dark alley, then it must have been outside. She recalled chasing the thief and suspected it was lost then.

No—she had to get it back.

She rushed back out and searched the area where she had chased the thief. She combed through the place several times but couldn’t find it. Someone must have picked it up.

The alley was quite secluded. Besides the thief and herself, only the two young men who helped catch the thief had been there. Could one of them have found it?

If she couldn’t find it now, she could only hope to run into one of them again and ask.

After returning home, she went straight into her space. The fridge in her kitchen still had snacks from before she transmigrated. She took out a cup of spicy and sour vermicelli, poured boiling water in, and after eating, returned to her bed to rest.

Someone knocked at the door. She got up and opened it—it was Auntie Ling with Xiao Kui, followed by another woman and her daughter.

Ling Ailing said, “Jingjing, Xiao Kui and I brought the money for the job placement. These two are my cousin and niece. Her eldest son is about to get married and needs a house, and her daughter is being forced to go to the countryside. Since you’re selling a job and a house, this solves their urgent problems.”

Yu Jingjing quickly invited them in and had Ling Ailing’s cousin take a good look at the house.

They were very satisfied and agreed on a price of 1,800 yuan. They would go to the housing office the next afternoon to complete the transfer.

Ling Ailing stuffed 1,000 yuan into Yu Jingjing’s hands and even gave her some ration tickets. “Child, if we had more ration coupons, I’d give you more.”

“Auntie, I’m fine—you should keep them for yourselves.” Ling Ailing’s family likely needed them more.

But Auntie Ling refused. “Don’t be so polite. Your mom helped me a lot at the factory back in the day—you shouldn’t be so formal with me.”

“In that case, I’ll accept.”

Her cousin also bought a job for her daughter in the accounting department of the pharmaceutical factory and paid 800 yuan.

“We’ll go to the factory tomorrow morning to handle the job transfer paperwork.”

“Sure.”

After the four of them left, Yu Jingjing put the money and tickets into her space. She also picked some apples and pears from her orchard and brought them to Ling Ailing’s home.

“You’re too generous. Why bring more things?”

“Auntie, I bought them today—they’re really delicious. I thought you might like to try some.”

She handed the fruits over and quickly returned home.

She also sent some to other kind neighbors who had helped her.

Tonight, Yu Jianmin would try to steal her money and property deeds. She needed to prepare. Also, those people hadn’t delivered the goods she paid for all afternoon, so she would go pick them up herself—and give them a little payback.

It was still early, so she went into her space for a bath.

Her little villa had a luxurious bathtub. She filled it with warm water, got in, and relaxed. Soon, the water turned a bit murky.

She knew the blackened water was toxins being drawn out from her body. Clearly, the spiritual spring water was truly effective. After her bath, she felt refreshed and invigorated.

She went to the orchard, climbed a tree, and plucked a durian. She ate over half of it in one go.

Around midnight, there was a faint sound near the window. Since it was summer and hot, she didn’t close the windows.

Lying on the bed with her eyes half-closed, she saw a flickering light at the window. A faint scent of knockout incense began to waft into the room.

She was already prepared—having taken the antidote, she wasn’t afraid of such a weak drug. She quietly waited for Yu Jianmin to make his move.

Thinking the time was right, Yu Jianmin climbed in through the window. A tree outside made it easy for him to sneak in.

He even brought a damp cloth to cover his mouth and nose, just in case he inhaled the knockout incense and passed out.

The room was pitch black and completely silent. He figured that girl must be sleeping like the dead by now.