1970s: A hot-tempered wife who accompanied a soldier to the military compound and made a fortune.

Chapter 736: Time and fate
Just when she was about to lose patience, she noticed something different down there. Although it was still dark, it clearly lacked that firmness.

She immediately perked up.

I opened the cabinet door and rummaged around inside.

She eventually found the mechanism inside the bottom drawer of the cabinet. She pressed it first, but nothing happened. Then she turned it to the left, but it wouldn't budge.

Thinking that it might have been destroyed because of the passage of time, I casually turned it in the opposite direction and heard a click, followed by the kind of sound that comes from not being used for a long time and lacking lubrication.

Just look at the bottom panel, it splits in two and slides open to both sides.

The steel plate underneath was exposed, and apart from a hole in the middle, nothing else was found.

She didn't understand what this meant, so she found a stick and stuck it down. The hole was about an inch deep, which puzzled her for a moment.

Releasing my mental energy to probe again, I discovered two small notches on either side of the bottom of the hole, which suddenly reminded me of an ancient key.

A thought suddenly struck her: there must be a matching key to open the secret room below.

This put her in a difficult position. Who knew where the key was? It was very likely that even the man surnamed Yao didn't know there was a secret hidden underneath.

Somewhat unwillingly, he released his mental energy again to probe downwards, since he had withdrawn his mental energy after discovering the anomaly earlier and had not yet determined the situation below.

Continuing to explore downwards is truly exhausting.

Suppressing her urge to give up, she continued downwards, thinking that if it was still pitch black after exploring a few more meters, she wouldn't bother.

Whatever lies below, it's not for her.

Just as she was about to give up, she suddenly noticed light. Below was a small, secret room, about ten square meters in size, but it wasn't very high; she estimated she would have to bend over to get down.

There were three layers of wooden crates inside, each made of different types of wood, presumably placed there at different times.

The boxes varied in size; I roughly counted about twenty. In other places, there were some burlap sacks and several large vats.

She tried to remotely access the space, but the things there remained untouched, which puzzled her.
When I visited Jiang Huiwen's house before, I stood in the neighboring yard and accepted her gifts. Why can't I do it this time?
It's really frustrating to see something you can't have but can't eat it.

The most strange thing is that all you can see are boxes, sacks, and large vats, but you can't see what's inside.

They had no choice but to turn their attention back to the mechanism, but where could they find the key to open the secret room?

She couldn't help but examine the cabinet more carefully again, but after several attempts, she found nothing.

She sighed, thinking: It's fate, it seems we're truly not meant to be. Oh well, I can't delay any longer, after all, I still have to go to another place tonight.

Just as I was about to leave, I stood up too forcefully and accidentally pushed the drawer down.

Upon closer inspection, I realized that one of the wooden strips supporting the drawer had broken off when I pressed down on it.

Just as she was about to push the drawer back, she noticed a thin steel bar protruding from the broken section. For some reason, she was momentarily stunned and reached out to straighten the steel bar, thinking that even if the wooden strip broke, the steel bar would still support the drawer.

She subconsciously didn't want others to discover the secret of this drawer.

However, she used too much force, and the wooden strip was completely broken off in one go.

(End of this chapter)