The sky collapsed, and in the blink of an eye, I found myself transported to Nanluoguxiang.

Once the footsteps had completely faded away, Li Kaixin emerged from the secret realm.

Although she was puzzled as to why the police wanted to arrest her, she did not stop walking away.

They went straight into the alley on the other side, and under the cover of night, they made a long detour and returned to the transport team's dormitory.

Inside the black market courtyard, the fire in the room was still burning.

The middle-aged policeman stood in the courtyard with his hands behind his back, just about to send two more people to help when he saw the two policemen who had been following Li Kaixin walk in from outside the courtyard gate with their heads down.

The middle-aged policeman immediately stepped forward and glanced behind them: "Where are they?"

The two police officers looked ashamed. After exchanging a glance, the taller one lowered his head and whispered, "I'm sorry, Captain. We followed him to the alley entrance, but before we could even make a move, we lost him."

"What? We lost them!" The middle-aged policeman's voice rose several decibels.

The two remained silent, only nodding in shame.

After the fire was extinguished, the police entered the ruins to search, only to find the cellar empty.

This led them to suspect there was a mole within their ranks, and they subsequently launched a large-scale investigation.

The arrested underlings all believed that their boss had run off with the money along with the core members, and that they were just abandoned pawns.

Only Erzhu and Ergou guessed the truth, but they never went back to that line of work afterward.

......

The next day, before dawn.

Li Kaixin quietly left the dormitory and returned to the place from yesterday. He then slipped into the secret space and began to sort through the spoils he had brought back from the black market.

Li Kaixin first opened the box and carefully counted out the money and small yellow croakers inside.

I have a total of 11,000 yuan, plus what I already had, so I have almost 14,000 yuan in hand.

There are fourteen small yellow croakers in total, and they are quite heavy when held in the hand.

Next, Li Kaixin began to sort through the supplies he had collected from the cellar.

The cleanup yielded results that once again shocked Li Kaixin.

Including his own bicycle, he now owns six bicycles in total. He also has twenty bolts of cloth, twenty-two cotton overcoats, five radios, and three Shanghai brand watches.

More than 10,000 jin of dried fish, and more than 20 bags of grain.

Li Kaixin felt like he was dreaming. The black market in this small town had such a huge fortune. He couldn't even imagine how much richer the black market in Beijing was.

After tidying everything up, Li Kaixin slept for another hour or two in the secret realm before leaving and returning to his dormitory.

In the dormitory, Master Chen, Zhou Zhiming, and Song Hai were rubbing their eyes as they got up.

Seeing Li Kaixin come in from outside, Zhou Zhiming casually asked, "Master, where have you been so early in the morning? I haven't seen you since I opened my eyes."

"I had a bit of an upset stomach, so I went to the outhouse for a bit." Li Kaixin said without much expression as she walked in.

After breakfast, Captain Wang knocked on each dormitory door to signal that it was time to set off.

As soon as we arrived at the parking lot, Secretary Zheng was already waiting there with several commune cadres.

"Comrades, the fish have all been loaded onto the truck. Please be careful on the road."

Secretary Zheng stepped forward and shook hands with Captain Wang.

"Thank you for your concern, Secretary Zheng and all the leaders! Our transport team guarantees that we will deliver these fish to Beijing intact," Captain Wang replied, straightening his back.

He then turned and shouted to the convoy, "Comrades, hurry up and put your luggage away, get ready to depart!"

Upon hearing the commotion, the members of the transport team moved towards their respective vehicles.

Li Kaixin arrived at his truck and saw that the truck bed was indeed full of dried fish strung together with hemp rope.

Zhou Zhiming, who was standing beside him, widened his eyes in surprise and exclaimed in a low voice, "Wow! Master, there are so many fish!"

As he spoke, he put the bundle in his hand on the side of the carriage, then used both hands and feet to climb onto the edge of the carriage and peer inside.

Li Kaixin glanced at him, and although he knew his apprentice's character, he still spoke up to remind him:

"You can be envious all you want, but don't get any funny ideas. If anything goes missing from this car, nobody can afford the consequences."

"Don't worry, Master, I know what's important. How could I make such a mistake!" Zhou Zhiming quickly replied.

"If you know that, hurry up and get off, tie your bags, the train is about to depart."

As Li Kaixin spoke, she bent down to tidy up her luggage.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Zhiming nimbly jumped off the truck and, together with his master, securely tied several bundles to the side of the truck bed.

As soon as it was secured, the car in front started to move slowly.

The two quickly climbed into the driver's seat and started the car.

As Secretary Zheng and the commune cadres waved goodbye, the transport convoy slowly drove away from the small town.

After a morning of work, Zhou Zhiming had a lot to say, but seeing his master focused intently on the steering wheel, he didn't dare to utter a sound.

At noon, the convoy stopped for a rest, and Zhou Zhiming quickly and attentively helped the driver fetch water and cook.

After preparing lunch, I found a topic of conversation and went over to chat with Li Kaixin.

"Master, the skills you showed that night were truly amazing! Could you teach me?" Zhou Zhiming's eyes shone with anticipation.

Without hesitation, Li Kaixin shook his head: "I can't teach you. At your age, you're past the age of building a solid foundation."

He wasn't making excuses; from the experience of martial arts masters, he knew that martial arts training must begin in childhood.

He was able to achieve such skill entirely thanks to the transformative power of the Body Strengthening Pill.

"I see!"

A hint of disappointment flashed across Zhou Zhiming's face, but before Li Kaixin could offer any words of comfort, he quickly perked up and asked instead:

"By the way, Master, how much dried fish did you buy at the black market that day? I didn't have time to ask."

"About two hundred jin (100 kg)." Li Kaixin thought for a moment and replied.

Just then, Wu Tian and Qian Dazhuang walked over from the side carrying lunchboxes.

"Kaixin and Zhiming, you're eating!" Wu Tian came over and greeted them.

Li Kaixin and Zhou Zhiming looked up at the sound and saw that Wu Tian and Qian Dazhuang both had dark circles under their eyes and looked haggard.

Zhou Zhiming was startled by their appearance and quickly asked, "Brother Wu, Brother Dazhuang, what happened to you two? Why are you like this?"

Wu Tian and Qian Dazhuang came over because they were feeling pent up and wanted to talk to someone.

So Wu Tian plopped down next to him and said in a low voice, "Kaixin, Zhiming, thank goodness you two didn't go to the black market yesterday."

Zhou Zhiming's curiosity was piqued, and he asked again, "Brother Wu, what exactly happened?"

"You wouldn't believe it. Yesterday, the black market boss's yard somehow caught fire, and it even attracted the town's police!"

Wu Tian leaned forward, still shaken, and continued, "If we hadn't slipped away quickly, we'd probably be in jail right now."

After he finished speaking, he and Qian Dazhuang looked at each other, their faces showing lingering fear.

Hearing this, Li Kaixin knew that the police had indeed come to the black market last night, but he didn't expect the scale of the operation to be so large, as they had actually wiped out the entire black market.

Thinking about it this way, I can't help but feel a little fortunate that I left early, otherwise I might have been caught.