Blinding My Dog Eyes

She carefully lifted the lid, flashed her flashlight inside first, and then climbed down.

The entrance was extremely small, just large enough for a slender woman to squeeze through.

However, once down below, the space suddenly opened up. Lin Jingyue switched on her flashlight, and looking at the dozen or so chests before her, the corners of her mouth practically split up to her ears.

No hesitation—store them all immediately!

Afterward, she climbed back out, restored the cabinet to its original position, strode out the door swaggering, packed away her sleeping powder, and returned in triumph.

Back home, she hit the pillow and fell fast asleep.

She didn't wake up until noon the next day. The house was already empty; Zhao Runzhi had prepared lunch and left it on the table, so she just needed to reheat it.

Lin Jingyue ate a little first, then went back to her room, bolted the door from the inside, and entered her spatial dimension.

"Holy crap!"

Before she could even defend herself, she was knocked flat on her back by Big Ash.

Lin Jingyue's forehead was marked with a row of dark lines. "I told you not to tackle people!"

Big Ash bounded in circles around her. Lin Jingyue got to her feet and rushed excitedly toward the pile of chests.

Oh yeah!

Over this period, she had accumulated a total of thirty-seven chests, ranging in size.

She started by examining the nine chests dug up on the first day, guessing they contained either gold or antiques.

Sure enough, once they were all opened, there were two chests of large gold bars, one chest of small gold bars, and the rest were entirely antiques, calligraphy, and paintings.

Rare single-edition prints from the Song Dynasty, ancient texts from the Tang Dynasty, cultural relics from the Han Dynasty...

The sheer variety dazzled the eye. Lin Jingyue was quite satisfied. She continued opening the remaining chests, which also contained gold and antiques.

When she reached the chests retrieved that very night, a wave of anticipation washed over her. She first looked at the small box obtained from beneath the water vat. Upon opening it, she found it packed full of solid gold.

Uninterested, she snapped the lid shut and rubbed her hands together in eager preparation for the remaining chests.

When she opened the first chest, the sight almost blinded her.

Accustomed as she was to jadeite, she was still deeply shocked. It was a whole chest of uncarved jadeite pieces, either translucent and emerald-green or glossy and lustrous. The lowest grade among them was the waxy variety.

Ice-variety jadeite was the most abundant.

There were even two massive chunks of imperial green jadeite. In the twenty-first century, a single imperial green bracelet could sell for tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions; this jadeite could easily yield at least ten pairs of bracelets!

Truly a testament to immense wealth. Lin Jingyue took a deep breath and closed the chest.

Next, she opened the second chest. The contents were a bit disorganized, but that didn't hinder her ability to identify them.

They were all authentic, highly valuable jewelry, dating back to at least the Ming Dynasty: filigree enamel bracelets, filigree-inlaid gemstone headpieces, pure gold paired hairpins, pearl-tasseled hair ornaments... they were everywhere.

The third chest blinded Lin Jingyue's eyes all over again. It was an entire chest of diamonds—uncut diamonds!

There were priceless ten-carat pink diamonds, extraordinarily rare ten-carat blue diamonds, as well as diamonds already mounted onto rings, necklaces, and various other pieces of jewelry, the majority of which were the size of pigeon eggs.

From the fourth chest all the way to the eleventh, every single one was filled with gold—gleaming large and small gold bars, until Lin Jingyue was completely numb to the sight.

Following that were antiques, jewelry, and ancient books, calligraphy, and paintings, all even more precious than the chests she had acquired earlier.

When she reached the final chest, Lin Jingyue almost choked and stopped breathing altogether.

Holy mother of—

Half a chest full of the large-denomination "Great Unity" banknotes, visually estimated to be at least over one hundred thousand yuan!

Over one hundred thousand yuan!

In an era where having a thousand yuan made someone a big deal, what did one hundred thousand yuan even mean?

In an instant, a thousand thoughts raced through Lin Jingyue's mind, cementing her conviction that old woman Song must have someone backing her up, or at the very least, that she was far from simple.

The money in this chest must have been partially misappropriated; otherwise, it would have been filled to the brim.

Lin Jingyue fell silent.

If it were twenty or thirty thousand, she could have tucked it away without the slightest psychological burden. But such a massive sum proved it was illicit money. In other words, the source of these funds... had been scraped together through all sorts of shady channels.

Whatever, she would stash it away for now. After the college entrance examinations, when the times improved, she would find a way to donate a portion of it to the state for scientific research.

Everything else belonged to her.

Awesome! By then, she might even earn a good reputation, or reap other benefits as well.

Having secured so many wonderful treasures, Lin Jingyue felt quite pleased, though she still harbored a trace of dissatisfaction. Another motive for her treasure hunt had been to see if she could dig up any incriminating evidence against old woman Song, but alas, there was none.

Well, of course not. If she weren't cautious, she wouldn't have remained safe and sound for all these years.