Traveling through the 1970s: The young wife loves to make trouble

Chapter 293 Audacious
Tao Qiuyi took out two straw mats and placed them on the ground, then sat down first. She then pointed to the straw mat opposite her, indicating that Wei Jingyuan should also sit down.

Wei Jingyuan glanced at the straw mat, then casually placed the cup he was holding on the table next to him. He walked over, picked up the straw mat, placed it next to Tao Qiuyi, and sat down cross-legged.

The first thing he said after sitting down was, "I remember reminding you that the ground is cold, so don't always sit on it."

Tao Qiuyi originally wanted to sit face-to-face with him so they could talk more easily, but he moved over himself and sat next to her.

She could only turn halfway to look at Wei Jingyuan, who, even sitting cross-legged, was sitting ramrod straight. This man truly had what he learned in the army ingrained in his very being.

“I didn’t sit on the ground, there’s a straw mat here.” Patting the edge of the straw mat, Tao Qiuyi said, “That’s not important, tell me in detail about the items we recovered.”

Because of her profession in her previous life, Tao Qiuyi had studied antique appraisal. Anything that can be called an antique is definitely an old object, and since buying and selling them is now prohibited, their price is hard to say.

But those two boxes of gold bars must be worth a lot of money.

No wonder those people said they'd make a lot of money this time.

When the recovered items were mentioned, Wei Jingyuan's expression became serious, and his eyes revealed disgust.

Seeing that Wei Jingyuan didn't look too good, Tao Qiuyi asked curiously, "The army can get some rewards for recovering these items and turning them in, so why are you still unhappy?"

"I'm not unhappy." Wei Jingyuan shook his head. He was indeed not unhappy; he was just somewhat disgusted.

I despise those who resell cultural relics abroad, and I also despise those who buy cultural relics abroad.

Perhaps there was no displeasure, but rather utter disgust in his eyes. Seeing him like this, Tao Qiuyi felt that among the cultural relics recovered this time, there must be something extraordinary.

"May I ask what items you recovered?" Tao Qiuyi asked, adding before Wei Jingyuan could answer. "I can't say, but I don't have to."

“A bronze artifact.” Wei Jingyuan’s expression had changed from disgust to deep loathing.

Even if she didn't ask, he would have told her, because if it weren't for the news the birds brought to Qiuqiu, they would never have known that those people were smuggling and trafficking cultural relics.

“Bronze artifacts.” Tao Qiuyi frowned. Those were artifacts from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, national treasures.

No wonder he hated it so much; she now even wanted to kill those people who trafficked in it.

Before she traveled through time, she had stolen many items for her clients, including several bronze artifacts.

Some of them were smuggled out during the Qing Dynasty, while others were resold around that time. Because the laws at that time were not yet fully developed, there were many people involved in the trafficking of cultural relics.

Of course, there were also many tomb raiders.

As a former soldier, Wei Jingyuan certainly knew the significance of these national treasures to the country. He just looked displeased; he was truly subtle.

"Wei Jingyuan." Tao Qiuyi reached out and gently covered the back of Wei Jingyuan's hand, which was resting on his lap.

The soft little hand rested on the back of his hand, and the warmth it conveyed directly warmed Wei Jingyuan's heart.

He looked down at her small hand; it was small, but dazzlingly white. Covering his large hand, it felt like a child's hand resting on the back of an adult's.

Seeing him staring at his hands, Tao Qiuyi patted them. She withdrew her hand and continued, "Don't be angry. Nowadays, people only care about being well-fed and clothed; they don't have time to care about anything else."

"Don't let other people's mistakes upset you; it's not worth it."

"Our abilities are limited, and we can't manage too many things. But if we encounter them even once, we will never let them take our national treasure away right under our noses." Wei Jingyuan, who had been regretting that she had withdrawn her hand, looked up at her abruptly after hearing her words. He was quite surprised that she would utter such righteous and awe-inspiring words.

He suddenly looked up at her, and their eyes met in mid-air.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Tao Qiuyi was completely bewildered. Suddenly, she remembered another important message that the bird had brought her after the three boys finished their training.

Tao Qiuyi looked grave and asked Wei Jingyuan, "Have you discussed with the troops when to deal with those masked monsters in the mountains?"

Her words were so abruptly contradictory that Wei Jingyuan was stunned for a full minute.

It was only then that I realized that the masked monsters she was referring to in the mountains were those fake soldiers with their faces covered.

“They discussed it and decided to hold back.” Although he didn’t understand why she asked that, Wei Jingyuan answered truthfully. “The masked men have more people, while we have fewer.”

"Several people were injured, and some people were sent out of the mountains to carry out the cultural relics."

As soon as Wei Jingyuan finished speaking, Tao Qiuyi immediately understood. There was already a significant disparity in manpower, and the injured had already weakened their fighting capacity, yet some people had been assigned to deliver cultural relics.

There's no other way but to remain inactive.

"I understand, it's just a lack of manpower. It's alright, the two of us will go into the mountains tomorrow." Tao Qiuyi's eyes shone with excitement as she said this.

She had always wanted to kill those people, but she lacked a reason. Now she finally had a legitimate reason, how could she not be excited?

“Just the two of us.” Wei Jingyuan looked at Tao Qiuyi in surprise.

He naturally understood what she meant by "the two of us going into the mountains."

"They're just small fry, the two of us are enough." Tao Qiuyi scoffed dismissively, knowing her own fighting strength.

Only a fool would engage in a head-on confrontation; a wise person would outsmart others.

She had been keeping her distance from the group of people in the mountains for two reasons: first, she didn't want to reveal her fighting abilities; second, she was also very interested in what they were looking for.

After all, these were the belongings left behind by a warlord when he fled, so there must have been a lot of valuable items.

Not wanting to spend time searching himself, he planned to wait until the group found them before trying to steal them. The birds brought news that evening that the group had finally been found by dusk.

Because it was dark, they couldn't tell the way down the mountain. The group planned to send someone out the message as soon as it was light the next day, and then bring people to transport the goods.

Hearing her confident words, Wei Jingyuan suddenly didn't know how to respond. But his mind worked quickly, and he soon realized that Tao Qiuyi wouldn't go to wipe out those people in the mountains for no reason.

"What happened?" Wei Jingyuan asked, his tone quite certain.

Tao Qiuyi didn't intend to hide anything from him, so she told him all the new information the bird had brought back. Without the slightest hesitation, she also shared her own plans.

"You want to steal it?" Wei Jingyuan was shocked by her audacious idea and couldn't control his voice for a moment.

He had said before that she was daring, but after hearing her plan, he felt that he had been too conservative.

She's incredibly audacious; otherwise, how could she have dared to try and rob over twenty foreigners?

Those people all had guns; she was incredibly audacious.