Chapter 7 A huge fortune
At six o'clock in the afternoon, Xiang Chu got off work on time.
He left one set of the military uniform and leather shoes he was issued and returned to the newly assigned officers' dormitory with the other set and his personal belongings.
The Military Intelligence Department was newly established, and there were not many officers. There were two people in a dormitory, which was much better than the 12 people in a dormitory in the military academy.
Xiang Chu and Dai Zheng lived in the same room, but Dai Zheng lived in a villa outside the compound and simply disdained to live here.
"It's just right that this guy isn't here!"
Xiang Chu was secretly delighted and opened the window. Outside the window was a tall paulownia tree, and outside the paulownia tree was a 2-meter-high wall with barbed wire on it.
Outside the wall is a dense forest, and outside the forest are rows of small restaurants. There are many diners and it is quite lively.
Xiang Chu was starving. He felt his pockets and found that he didn't have a single penny. He simply took a shower in the dormitory bathroom, changed into a brand new second lieutenant's uniform, put on the Browning pistol that he had seized from a Japanese spy yesterday, and went out to the cafeteria to eat.
His identity is extremely special and he never knows when disaster may strike, so he never leaves his weapons.
There were originally very few people eating in the cafeteria, but suddenly hundreds of people came in, most of them were from the Operations Department, and some were from the Intelligence Department.
Zhao Xihe, Li Dongqiang and Sun Ruize were among them. They were all exhausted and had lost their previous enthusiasm.
Xiang Chu waved to the three of them. After they finished their food, they came over with their plates and started complaining.
Zhao Xihe: "Alas! This is really not a job for humans."
Li Dongqiang: "That's right! There are no members of the Red Party."
Sun Ruize: "Xiang Chu! I really envy you."
Xiang Chu smiled and said, "Ruize! How about we switch?"
"Don't regret it! I'll go talk to Captain Liu right away."
Sun Ruize picked up the plate and ran to Liu Zhengxiong's table.
However, he soon returned to Xiang Chu's table in frustration.
Sun Ruize shook his head and smiled bitterly:
"Captain Liu said we need to find a supervisor for this matter."
Xiang Chu didn't want to be stared at by Li Maocai every day, so he smiled and said:
"Didn't you send Dai Zheng a gift? Go find him."
Sun Ruixiang slapped his head and said with a smile:
"That's right! I'll go to the dormitory to find Dai Zhengtong right away."
Xiang Chu shook his head and said, "Dai Zhengtong doesn't live in the dormitory."
"Yes! Not in the dormitory."
Zhao Xihe also echoed.
Sun Ruixiang looked at Zhao Xihe with a confused look on his face.
Zhao Xihe lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "Brothers! Today, I accidentally heard Captain Liu say that Dai Zhengyi, the director of the same department, gave him a newly confiscated villa of a wealthy businessman. It is said that the safe inside has not been opened yet, so there must be a lot of money."
Li Dongqiang sneered and said, "How is that possible? We have so many experts in the Intelligence Department, it's impossible that we can't even open a safe."
Zhao Xihe held up five fingers and said in a mysterious voice, "That safe has five levels of passwords. We hired countless locksmiths for three days but still couldn't open it."
Sun Ruixiang was worried about his job change and asked anxiously, "Where is that villa? Why don't we go take a look after dinner to see if Dai Zhengtong has a mistress right after graduation?"
Zhao Xihe said unhappily, "No. 49 Yihe Road. Captain Liu asked me to bring some people to get some new furniture from the logistics department tomorrow. I'm doing this crap right after graduation. Alas!"
Li Dongqiang: "Ruize! Don't go. I heard from the intelligence department that after that guy reported in, he put on a new military uniform and went back to his hometown. The intelligence department chief gave him three days off."
"what?!"
Sun Ruize was stunned for a moment.
He does not mean that!
Xiang Chu decided to take action overnight to obtain this ill-gotten wealth and then hand it over to the organization.
In order to protect his respectable and lovely comrades from hunger and cold, he decided to take immediate action.
Back in the dormitory, he changed into an old Zhongshan suit, took special lock-picking tools, and carried an empty backpack.
He put on the special sheepskin overshoes over his leather shoes and put on sheepskin gloves, and everything was ready.
You can't go through the main gate, there are people guarding there 24 hours a day, and the inspection is even stricter at night, and you have to register when entering and leaving.
He opened the window, checked to see if there was anyone around, stepped out through the window, landed on a paulownia tree, then used the branches of the paulownia tree to climb over the wall, jumped onto a big tree outside the wall, and jumped down.
His movements were done in one go, taking less than 5 seconds.
He took off his shoe covers and gloves, walked through the streets and alleys, and arrived at Villa No. 49 Yihe Road an hour later.
This is a two-story European-style villa with a tall spire. It is not very big but very exquisite.
The whole villa was dark and silent, and it was obvious that no one was there.
The gate of the villa was locked and surrounded by two-meter-high walls, but fortunately there was no barbed wire.
Xiang Chu put on gloves and shoe covers again, tied a mask, ran up, and jumped over the wall behind him.
He landed lightly in the courtyard, then tiptoed close to the wall and listened carefully.
After making sure that there was no one there, he walked along the wall to the door, unlocked it, turned the doorknob, and slipped into the living room.
After some searching, I found an exquisite, thick copper safe on the wall of the master bedroom on the second floor.
The safe is built in the middle of the main beam, serving as the main beam. If the safe is forcibly removed, the villa will collapse.
The safe has five turns of the safety knob and a key lock, so it is not easy to open.
Xiang Chu took out a flashlight, looked at it carefully, a smile appeared on his face, and he was grateful for his master's teachings.
He was about to take action when he suddenly saw that the numbers on the five circles of the safety knob were in a regular pattern, pointing to due north from the inside to the outside.
It was obvious that the old fox Dainong was very cautious. Even though he didn't know whether there was money or not, he still wanted to prevent anyone from opening the safe without permission.
Xiang Chu wanted to do it without anyone noticing, so he first memorized the position of the safety knob and then unlocked the door.
With his extraordinary hearing, he turned the knobs and opened the five safety locks one by one.
Then, he took out the lock-picking tool, inserted it into the keyhole and turned it gently, removing the last restriction.
He twisted the safety door tightly and pulled it outwards, and the heavy safety door finally opened.
Because it was so thick, the inside of the safe was not as big as imagined, but it contained hundreds of large gold bars, dozens of small gold bars, more than a dozen stacks of US dollars and British pounds, some legal tender, jade artifacts, etc.
This is a huge fortune!
Xiang Chu didn't have time to count them all and stuffed everything into his backpack.
The big backpack was bulging, without a single silver dollar left.
Then he closed the safe, restored it to its original position, carefully removed all traces, walked the same way he came, and quickly left the villa.
He traveled quickly all the way, and after more than two hours, he finally arrived at the Longxing Teahouse on the bank of the Yangtze River.