The Life of a Son-in-Law in a Courtyard House

The next day, Yang Dalin tracked down to the home of the director of the Security Bureau. The Security Bureau only had a deputy director, who lived far away from the top director.

The two seem to belong to different factions and have many conflicts with each other.

During his daytime surveillance, Yang Dalin frequently overheard the other party undermining each other in their work.

It seems these two people don't get along.

Yang Dalin actually quite liked this kind of person.

In the early hours of the morning, without alerting the guards in the slightest, they sneaked into the home of the security bureau chief.

Director Zheng was fast asleep, embracing one of his concubines.

This concubine was nominally his servant.

Actually, she was his concubine.

The first wife slept in the next room.

Director Zheng is really playing games, but since his wife doesn't mind, no one else will say anything.

Just like in Yang Dalin's previous life in 2010, he met a Mr. Zhang who ran a fruit business in Shanghai.

They own two very successful fruit shops in Shanghai.

The first wife is responsible for looking after one family, and the second wife is responsible for looking after another family.

Boss Zhang is in charge of sourcing goods for the two stores.

The relationship between the first and second wives is still very good; the first wife even helps the second wife take care of her children!

This is something you wouldn't even dare to portray on TV. On TV, you only see wives fighting, but reality can truly dazzle you.

Looking at Director Zheng from another perspective, he probably has a knack for managing his wife.

Yang Dalin sneaked into the master bedroom and knocked out Director Zheng's concubine who was in his arms.

He poked Director Zheng's foot with the pistol in his hand.

Director Zheng then slowly came to his senses.

As soon as Director Zheng woke up, he vaguely felt something cold pressing against his temple.

Director Zheng immediately sobered up.

He didn't shout, knowing that if he did, the unseen man would shoot him dead.

He asked in a low voice, "Who are you?"

Yang Dalin, masked and wearing a hat, stood on one side of the large bed in the bedroom, pointing a gun at Director Zheng's temple to make sure the latter couldn't see him, and said, "Director, why ask? You don't need to ask to know that he's your opponent."

I'm here to do one thing, as long as Director Zheng cooperates obediently.

"I promise I won't take the bureau chief's life, and I'll even help you get your deputy bureau chief into trouble, how about that?"

How can I trust you?

"Does the director have a choice?"

You don't.

If you don't agree to cooperate, you and your entire family of eleven will die.

"Agree to cooperate, and your whole family and you will be fine. We can even take advantage of that deputy director who's always trying to trip you up, how about that?"

Director Zheng is hesitant to agree rashly and is currently considering how to change this threat.

Unfortunately, Yang Dalin added, "Director Zheng, don't think too much about it."

Are you thinking that you have at least twenty guards in your compound, so how did I get in?

All I can tell you is that there were only twenty guards, and I got in without alerting them in the slightest.

I even took a stroll around your bureau during the day. Did you touch your female secretary's thigh at 12:05 PM before lunch?

I know everything you do in your department.

So do you think you still have the means to resist?

I don't have time to waste on you. If you agree to cooperate, you live; if you don't, your whole family will die, and I can also let the whole island know that you are from the mainland.

You might die without leaving behind a complete corpse.

Do you think your old man will spare the bodies of your whole family?

I reckon he'll be reduced to ashes!

Damn, that's ruthless. Director Zheng shuddered.

"How would you like to cooperate, and how would you like to take advantage of my deputy director?"

Well, you see, securing one's official position is what officials love most.

At this moment, Director Zheng was still thinking about how to sabotage his opponent.

Yang Dalin smiled but didn't say anything.

The other party agreed to cooperate, that's good.

Yang Dalin said, "Hand over a list of your top-secret spies planted on the mainland."

Ideally, most of them should be people your deputy director personally contacts or is directly in charge of.

As long as those people get into trouble, that'll solve everything.

You don't need to do anything yourself; all you have to do is kick someone when they're down.

I'm sure someone will join you in bringing him down.

You know more about setting traps and framing people than I do. I trust Director Zheng won't let me down.

And don't try any tricks.

I can come quietly, and I can leave quietly.

Even if you agree to cooperate one minute and then change your mind the next after I leave, I can still find you and say I'll kill your whole family, leaving not a single one alive.

If you don't believe me, you'll see when you get up and check on your home.

I'm leaving now. I'll come back to get the list after get off work tomorrow.

After saying that, Yang Dalin climbed out the window and disappeared.

Director Zheng quickly got up and went to look out the window.

They only saw patrolling guards, but no suspicious people.

Director Zheng turned on the light again, first glancing at his concubine, only to find she had been knocked unconscious.

Only then did I feel relieved.

It wasn't that he was too worried about his concubine's life, but rather that he was afraid of the hassle of dealing with her body.

If someone in your family dies for no apparent reason, and your rivals find out, it could cause a lot of trouble.

It's good that the person didn't die.

At this moment, Director Zheng relaxed and realized that the safe in his bedroom was gone.

Several famous paintings, porcelain pieces, a small-leaf sandalwood cabinet, and a large wardrobe made of golden nanmu wood were all gone from the bedroom.

Damn, how did this person move out? Does he have a lot of accomplices?

But it's obviously impossible to do it without alerting the guards below.

Director Zheng left the bedroom and went to the study, only to find that some of the rare and ancient books in the study were also empty.

The rosewood bookcase has vanished.

Undeterred, he opened a mechanism.

There is a hidden secret room behind the bookshelves in the study.

Well, the treasure in the secret room is also empty.

Nothing was left for him.

Director Zheng had no time to grieve; he immediately knocked on his first wife's bedroom door.

The first wife looked like she had just woken up.

"What's wrong, Lao Zheng? Is that little fox not satisfying you anymore, so you've come to me again?"

Director Zheng shoved her head back down and went straight into his first wife's bedroom.

When he turned on the light, he found that in his first wife's bedroom, there was only a bed and all of his wife's clothes next to it.

The bedside table, his first wife's small safe, and the row of wardrobes made of precious wood all disappeared.

His first wife also saw what was happening inside the room and was about to call out.

Director Zheng quickly covered the other person's mouth: "Don't shout."

We've offended a master.

If you don't want your whole family to die, then keep quiet.

His first wife then understood and nodded.

"Could it be that the guards and the master thief colluded on this?"

"No, I personally selected all the guards, and I arranged for their families to be there as well."

Even if one or two of them betray me, they can't all of them.

Besides, moving these large pieces of furniture will make quite a commotion.

Don't mention your safe that weighs several hundred pounds; my safe in the secret room weighs a ton.

And that heavy table in my bedroom, weighing several hundred pounds, is gone too.

It was there before I went to sleep, but now it's suddenly gone?

Moving these things without us being drugged or waking anyone outside, do you think an ordinary person could do that?

What else could this be but a master?