An 80s female translator was spoiled rotten by a rough and jealous man.

Chapter 173 Missing?

Commander Wang's personal driver contracted acute gastroenteritis and was granted two days of sick leave. Considering that Battalion Commander Huo had not been in the unit for some time, Xiao Li took over his shift.

Xiao Li explained the situation to Meng Youyou a day in advance and asked her if she needed to apply to her supervisor to arrange another driver to pick her up the next day.

Meng Youyou declined, thinking that everyone in the army had their own duties, and some people rarely had a day off, so she shouldn't bother others to pick her up and drop her off. She was just going to teach at the university, it wasn't a big deal.

Anyway, there are public buses and military shuttle buses, it just requires one transfer, but it's actually quite convenient.

After thinking about it, Xiao Li realized that when the translator Meng first went to teach at Fanzhou University, she also traveled by public transportation, so she didn't insist anymore.

Early in the morning, Xiao Li drove Commander Wang to a meeting in a neighboring city. The meeting didn't end until evening, and then they drove towards Panzhou City under the cover of night.

After parking the car in the camp parking lot, Commander Wang got out and said to him, "You've been driving all day, go back and rest early." Xiao Li saluted and then returned to his dormitory.

On the right side of the first floor were his comrades on duty tonight. As if suddenly remembering something, Xiao Li casually asked, "Has Translator Meng returned?"

……

Huo Qingshan stayed behind to oversee the anti-drug squad, and Lu Feng took some time to contact him and discuss the situation on their end.

The siege of the manor progressed relatively smoothly. Chen Biao was captured, Xu Penggang and Jiang Zheng disappeared, and the rest of the group was leaderless and in complete chaos. Apart from a period of fierce resistance at the beginning, they were gradually brought under control.

Lu Feng and his group found Chu Yao at the manor.

As Lu Feng spoke, he walked into Xu Penggang's bedroom. Xiao Han came forward to report on the search progress: "Captain Lu, the bedroom and study have been searched, but no suspicious items or suspected secret passage entrances were found."

Lu Feng's gaze lingered and wandered around the bedroom. Xiao Han then suggested, "The second floor has been almost completely checked. Why don't we send more people to check the basement?"

Suddenly, Lu Feng's gaze stopped, lingering on the lower right corner of the carved sandalwood cabinet. He raised his chin slightly and asked, "Did you just move the vase?"

Xiao Han followed the gaze and saw a pair of enamel-painted gilt double-eared vases. The vases were tall and round, and looked very beautiful. Even as a layman, Xiao Han could tell that these things should be antiques and quite valuable.

They quickly waved their hands, saying, "We dare not touch such valuable collectibles, for fear of bumping or damaging them. We just shone a flashlight on them and craned our necks to look inside the bottle. The bottle was empty; there was nothing hidden inside."

Upon hearing this, Lu Feng raised an eyebrow, walked over thoughtfully, squatted down, moved the two vases aside, and reached out to knock on the empty cabinet back panel... "Knock knock knock".

It wasn't until the back panel was removed and the entrance to the secret passage surfaced that Xiao Han was amazed and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Captain Lu, how did you find it?"

"I'm not telling you." Xiao Han was speechless: "..."

I just feel like their Marine Corps is getting more and more mischievous.

Lu Feng didn't explain the reason. All the vases, porcelain plates, jade ornaments, bronze Buddha statues, and even the Four Treasures of the Study on the cabinet were facing outwards. Any items that could be considered a pair were arranged in a highly consistent and symmetrical manner.

Apart from the pair of gilded double-eared vases, one has a phoenix head facing outwards, while the other has a phoenix tail.

Lu Feng knew in his heart who had deliberately left the traces, and it was enough for him to know.

……

Li Yasong's words came true; they did indeed encounter Xu Penggang in the tunnel.

To be precise, Xu Penggang's neck wound had ruptured due to strenuous exercise, and he was bleeding profusely and covered in cold sweat. He was weakly leaning against the tunnel wall to rest.

Li Yasong pulled out a pistol from his waist and stepped closer to the man. Xu Penggang, perhaps hearing the noise, suddenly opened his eyes, his face revealing undisguised terror. "What do you want to do?"

"What do you think? What are you planning to do to me? I'm just returning what I'm giving to you now," Li Yasong's voice was icy cold.

Xu Peng sneered, "So you really are his bloodline? My sister wasn't wrong, Wen Xiao is really capable, managing to hide for so many years!"

Hearing this, Li Yasong didn't want to wait a second longer. He lost control of his emotions and almost roared, "Qian Zhilong! This is what your Qian family owes me. Besides you, Qian Xue and Qian Zhihu will also suffer the same fate as you sooner or later."

After saying that, he raised his gun and pointed it at Xu Penggang's forehead. Just as he was about to pull the trigger, Jiang Zheng, who was hidden behind him, stopped him. The man warned in a deep voice: "Afraid that the commotion will be too small to attract the cops? You don't want to live, but I do!"

Upon hearing this, Li Yasong regained a sliver of rationality, but still retained a degree of stubbornness: "I will never let Xu Penggang go. Jiang Zheng, have you forgotten how he treated you that night?"

Jiang Zheng pulled off the pendant from his neck and showed it to Li Yasong. His smile was dangerous, like that of a bloodthirsty wolf: "If there's a more torturous yet quieter way, why not take it?"

……

Before leading his men into the tunnel, Lu Feng gave Huo Qingshan a final message, saying that there might be no signal inside, and he would make his own decisions should any unforeseen circumstances arise outside.

It was during this period that Huo Qingshan received news of Meng Youyou's disappearance.