"What's up?"
Ye Mingqian frowned and was unwilling to take a step.
"Brother Chen." Qin Luoying also pulled the corner of Chi Yanchen's clothes nervously.
"The old man has something to tell her."
He gave such a formal reason, and Ye Mingqian had no choice but to follow suit.
"The Mid-Autumn Festival banquet starts in two hours, and Achen has to talk about business at home again. It's really disappointing."
Huo Feixue was lying on the sofa bored.
Qin Luoying looked at the direction in which the two disappeared, with unwillingness and forbearance in his eyes.
Ye Mingqian followed Chi Yanchen through the rockery and garden, and then reached the atrium where Huo Jili's study was located. She couldn't help but ask the man.
"Where on earth are you taking me."
"Study." Chi Yanchen didn't look back.
Ye Mingqian stopped and said, "Will you go in with me?"
"Otherwise? Do you know where those secrets are hidden? What's the difference between you going in alone and looking like a headless fly and getting zero marks in the open-book exam?"
Chi Yanchen looked back at Ye Mingqian. When he saw her standing still, he immediately raised his brows and urged: "We don't have much time, hurry up and leave."
"Huo Jili will only let me in alone." She still didn't move. "If you follow me like this, the guards outside the door won't even let me in."
"Should I follow you in?" Chi Yanchen raised his chin slightly, his eyes full of sneer: "Who gave you the confidence?"
"I have asked people to temporarily cover the surveillance video on Huo Jili's end to the same image as before, but it can only last for ten minutes at most. Don't waste time if you don't want to miss this opportunity."
After hearing this, Ye Mingqian immediately chased after him and asked, "What about my bodyguard at the door?"
"It's ten minutes for the shift change and handover. I also changed the surveillance cameras on the tree. I'll just come out before they come back."
Bodyguards are also human beings, and they also have to eat, drink, and defecate, so they have a fixed amount of time to deal with these things.
But Ye Mingqian clearly remembered that the handover of the bodyguard was on-site.
"Just follow me."
Chi Yanchen took her along and hid behind a bush. After confirming that no one was following him, he pushed Ye Mingqian out.
"You go say hello first and show them what you want to put in."
Ye Mingqian walked to the study room with hesitant steps and handed over the document bag that Assistant Zhu had given her.
"Mr. Huo's things need to be put in the study."
The same process as last time, one bodyguard checked to see if the items were consistent with what Huo Jili said, and the other used a detector to scan her body. Only when there were no other electronic products or pen and paper that could be recorded, she was asked to hand in her phone. .
After closing the heavy security door and stepping into Huo Jili's study again, Ye Mingqian felt complicated.
She looked up and looked around, and found that unlike last time, the cameras in the room did not all turn towards her.
Is this the arrangement Chi Yanchen said?
It's a pity that Chi Yanchen can't get in. It's useless no matter how much time he spends trying to change the situation.
But before she could finish complaining about the man's useless work, she saw Chi Yanchen walking out of the shadows behind a bookcase.
"How did you get in?"
She was too shocked to speak.
"Only ten minutes, looking for old documents."
Chi Yanchen didn't answer her, and pointed to a large mahogany bookcase on the left side of Ye Mingqian.
She put down her sleeves and covered her fingers and opened the glass cabinet door. Inside, there were some world famous books neatly arranged, but there were no old documents as Chi Yanchen said.
"There's a mezzanine."
Chi Yanchen, who had already put on his gloves, opened another bookcase and pulled out the seventh book from left to right. It turned out to be a half-lifelike fake model, and the space inside was a combination lock.
He reached in and pressed a series of numbers. He heard a click and a small door popped open. Chi Yanchen took out the note inside, glanced at it, and put it back intact.
This sequence of actions was so smooth that Ye Mingqian was dumbfounded watching from the next door.
"Work."
The man's reminder brought her back to her senses. She quickly followed the other person's process and found the secret grid in the fourth book. "What's the password?"
she asked.
Chi Yanchen glanced at the number on her cabinet, reported a series of numbers, and continued searching.
Ye Mingqian successfully opened the secret door, and a stack of semi-yellow paper came into view. She took it out and looked through it. It was the Zhou family's previous store contract. The signature on it was Zhou Yun, her mother's.
"I found the Zhou family's contract."
She raised the yellow paper and called out softly to Chi Yanchen.
"Put it back. It's full of old accounts. I used your mother's seal to forge the transfer contract a long time ago. Now the outside world only recognizes that copy."
Chi Yanchen's fingers were like flying, and he found several hidden compartments. His mind was like a sophisticated instrument, remembering the number and corresponding password of each cabinet.
Seeing him like this, Ye Mingqian didn't dare to waste any more time and said nothing except asking about the password.
Huo Jili's study was very large. As time passed by, the two of them still found no evidence of the crime. Those old accounts alone could not shake him. The documents and contracts circulating outside had long been concealed and faked.
One minute left.
Ye Mingqian's palms began to sweat, and she was shaking slightly uncontrollably. She squatted down and opened the bottom layer of the cabinet. It was too late to find other hidden compartments at this time. This was her last chance.
The rows of books were pried one by one, but none of them were fake.
Cold sweat flowed from her forehead, she didn't bother to wipe it, and started counting again without giving up.
"There's not enough time, let's withdraw."
Chi Yanchen didn't gain anything either. Although there was no expression on his face, there was still a little loss in his eyes.
There won't be such a good opportunity to come in next time.
"Half a minute left."
Ye Mingqian refused to give up. When she counted the ninth book, she noticed something strange. Although the weight was about the same as a real book, there was still a slight difference in the feel when pulling it. Her heart was beating wildly, and she pulled out a finger with force. A small door as big as a palm.
"698578."
As soon as the number came out of Chi Yanchen's mouth, she pressed it without hesitation for a second.
despair.
Ye Mingqian immediately took out the information inside, glanced at the contents, and exclaimed: "It has my signature on it."
Chi Yanchen, who had been by her side for a long time, raised his wrist, and the watch on it shot out a red laser that shone on the document in her hand.
"put it back."
He wrote down the number of the cabinet, dodged behind the cabinet he had just come out of, then fastened a soft ring around his waist, and the next second he was hoisted up.
"Go to the door and pretend you just came in."
Ye Mingqian immediately executed it after hearing the words.
By the time she ran behind the security door, Chi Yanchen had been lifted to the highest point by Wia and disappeared through the ventilation window at the top of the roof.
The window closed automatically, and Ye Mingqian subconsciously glanced at the old-fashioned floor clock behind the desk in the distance.
