In the morning, Xia Yichu didn't emerge from her spatial dimension until almost nine o'clock. She needed to be cautious and avoid being discovered.

Li's parents both went to work, leaving only Li Weijie and the nanny at home. The nanny wasn't allowed to go upstairs by the Li family, and she didn't stay at their house; she went home to sleep after finishing her work.

Xia Yichu locked the door from the inside and began searching the room. It was a suite with a custom-made wardrobe. Li Weijie might be sleeping next door, so Xia Yichu didn't dare make any noise and cautiously looked around.

She searched every corner but found nothing. Could the secret room not be in the room? But last night she saw Li Zhiyong on her social media platform looking at the balcony door, which seemed quite nervous.

"If I can't find it, does that mean I'll have to stay here for a few more days?"

Suddenly, Xia Yichu heard the sound of a car downstairs. She immediately unlocked the door, glanced at the room and saw that it was almost the same as before, then hid under the bed and went into her spatial dimension.

She'll be under the bed when she comes out. She can hear the sounds outside from inside the space, but she can't see outside.

As soon as she entered the space, Li Zhiyong opened the door and then locked it from the inside. Checking the room, nothing seemed amiss.

They opened the wardrobe again, pushed aside one of the wooden panels, and revealed a small, secret room inside. It was about ten square meters in size and contained several boxes.

"So the secret room was inside the closet. No wonder I couldn't find it."

Xia Yichu came out of the space after hearing a sound. She saw Li Zhiyong's feet enter the secret room under the bed and also saw the box inside.

Li Zhiyong stayed for about half an hour before coming out. Fortunately, nothing was stolen, and it was a false alarm.

When he went to work today, he thought about the balcony door that he hadn't closed last night, and his heart started racing. He had a feeling that something bad was going to happen, so he immediately ran home.

"Weijie, get up quickly. Someone from head office is coming to inspect our work today. Don't oversleep, you must be there before eleven o'clock, understand?"

After checking that everything was alright, Li Zhiyong closed the wardrobe, locked the bedroom door, and went out to wake his son up.

"Okay, Dad."

"Hurry up, I'm waiting for you downstairs so we can go to work together."

"Um"

After Li Zhiyong went downstairs, Li Weijie turned over and fell asleep again. Li Zhiyong waited downstairs for more than ten minutes, but his son still hadn't come down. He knew his son must have fallen asleep again, so he went upstairs to call him once more.

"Weijie, hurry up, we're going to be late!"

"Dad, aren't you annoying?"

"Just go to sleep! Wait until I get fired from the bank, then we'll see if you'll have any good days left."

Upon hearing this, Li Weijie regained his senses and immediately sat up. Li Zhiyong saw his son get up and told him to go downstairs and wait for him.

Xia Yichu needed to return to her spatial dimension and couldn't act rashly right now. She had to wait for Li Zhiyong to leave before she came out.

"Dad, let's go!"

"Hmph! You're always out fooling around, can't you be a little more ambitious? Huang Shaosong is your classmate, and he came back from training as a mid-level teller. We asked you to go to training, but you wouldn't go, and you even complained that it was too hard. This is an opportunity that so many people would wait for."

Li Zhiyong only has one son, Li Weijie, whom he spoiled rotten from a young age. He couldn't endure any hardship. He couldn't read or write, but he was good at everything from eating and drinking to having fun.

"Dad, when you become the bank manager, get me a director position, no problem. You'll surpass Huang Shaosong in no time. My family has a good background, why should I work so hard?"

"Alright, alright, hurry up and get in the car."

Only after the car drove away did Xia Yichu emerge from her spatial dimension. She opened the wardrobe, went inside, fiddled around for a bit, and pushed aside the wooden planks. She was going straight for the evidence; she wasn't greedy now that she had money, and besides, these were accounts receivable, which she didn't want to take.

Among eight boxes of various sizes, she searched diligently before finally finding evidence of Li Zhiyong's embezzlement in a small box. It was an account book; a quick glance revealed that Li Zhiyong had embezzled at least several million yuan. Too many people were involved, and they were all important figures.

An hour later, Xia Yichu left the Li family home to go to the station to take a bus to the provincial capital.

"Young lady, I have trouble walking, could you please give me your seat?"

Just as I boarded the bus, a woman in her fifties or sixties approached me. She wanted to take the evidence to the provincial anti-corruption bureau as a precaution, fearing that powerful figures in the county might have connections there.

"cannot"

"How can you, a young girl, have no respect for elders or care for the young!"

The old man wouldn't let it go and started pulling at Xia Yichu. She was the youngest on the bus, easily embarrassed, and seemed easy to bully.

"That kind person helped me report it to the police. Someone robbed me in broad daylight. Oh dear, I can't take it anymore, I have a heart condition, my heart hurts so much."

After finishing her speech, Xia Yichu leaned back in her chair, looking as if she couldn't breathe.

"You, you, you, don't try to scam me! I just tugged at you lightly. And besides, I didn't take any of your money."

People on the bus were pointing and whispering about the elderly woman. Actually, she did have a seat; there were a few small stools in the aisle. The ticket for a stool was four yuan cheaper than a seat, and the elderly woman specifically bought a stool ticket to save four yuan.

She goes home twice a month, saving sixteen yuan each way. She also frequently encounters young girls taking the bus alone, forcing them to give up their seats for her.

"Hey Granny Zhang, can you please stop making a scene?"

The driver and ticket seller both know her. Although they disapprove of what she's doing, they pretend not to see it since she's offering her a seat. Now that she's causing trouble, they definitely have to do something about it.

"Never mind, I'll sit back down now."

"No, you've made me so angry my heart is hurting terribly. I'm getting off the bus to go to the hospital. You have to pay my medical bills, or you'll have to pay me a hundred yuan."

Xia Yichu held onto the old woman, not letting her leave; she had never been one to be bullied since she was a child.

"Don't try to extort me. You want to pay me a hundred? Why don't you just rob me?"

"Oh no, I can't take it anymore, I need to go to the hospital."

"I can't go to the hospital, I'm in a hurry. Granny Zhang, you'd better hurry up and pay up to settle this." A middle-aged man in the car said.

"Yes! Yes! I have to go back to work!" another man added.

The passengers on the bus all said they were in a hurry and urged Granny Zhang to pay compensation. This infuriated her; she could tell Xia Yichu was faking it, and she didn't believe anyone else couldn't see through it.

"I have no money."

"Old Zhang, hurry up and pay up, or I'll dump you halfway down the road," the ticket seller said impatiently.

"I really have no money."

"Brother, pull over and let her out."

With no village or shop in sight, Granny Zhang began to panic. She needed to rush back to the provincial capital to cook for her son and grandson.

"No, no, no, one hundred is too much, I really don't have it."

"Alright, I'll make the decision. You give the young girl fifty yuan."

The ticket seller noticed that Xia Yichu was making noises, but her complexion didn't look sick at all.

"I…"

I agree.

"Old woman Zhang, what are you saying? The young lady has already agreed. Give me a straight answer, or forget it and tell my brother to let you off the bus."

I agree.

Left with no other choice, Granny Zhang reluctantly agreed to pay, painfully handing over fifty yuan to Xia Yichu under the ticket seller's watchful eye. She then returned to her small stool, her eyes fixed intently on Xia Yichu.

This was the first time she'd been cheated; it had taken her a long time to save up that fifty yuan. Xia Yichu gave her a defiant look, completely disregarding her.

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