Tomb raiding: Trying to become a little painter

Hangzhou, Wushan Residence.

Wu Xie lay in the courtyard of Wu Shan Ju with Fatty Wang, watching and listening to the sounds of the artificial hill and flowing water. Both of them were a little stuck in their thoughts.

"Naive, do you think the higher-ups are really serious about this?"

"You Nine Gates are probably in deep trouble this time... Sigh, and so are we 'little Karami' in the underworld. We're probably in for a rough time too. Luckily, we were abroad before..."

Fatty Wang lay on a beanbag chair with his eyes tightly closed. He had a face mask on his face, one big and one small, one yellow and one white, which he had bought from a cosmetics store. The mask was sticking to his skin but ended at the edge of his big face.

"Perhaps! But my third uncle and the others... are missing now, but they'll probably be wanted criminals from now on."

"If it weren't for Henian recently providing all the necessary certificates for our tomb raiding, we'd probably be in trouble right now..."

Wu Xie was genuinely terrified when he said this. He was truly grateful to Qin Henian from the bottom of his heart. He never expected that Henian would turn the tomb that he, Fatty, Xiao Hua, and the others had entered into an archaeological pass for a base called "Glorious Cultural Relics".

Even his third uncle has them, but unfortunately, his third uncle worked in the fields decades ago. Even if he has these certificates now, it can't absolve him of his past crimes. Moreover, not all the older generation of craftsmen have died, and many shady characters know that his third uncle has taken many lives on his hands.

Sigh! He'll probably be spending the rest of his life visiting his uncle in prison once his third uncle is found... He might even be dead... Sigh...

"Who knew this policy would be implemented so quickly?"

"It feels like a surprise inspection by the leaders, with everyone at the bottom giving me the green light. Luckily we're going in now, otherwise my head would have been blown up a few times over!"

As Wang Pangzi listened to Wu Xie talking about the current situation of their Wu family, as well as the missing Wu Sanxing and Xie Lianhuan, he couldn't help but "complain".

Beijing.

The Xie family compound, inside the main hall…

On several high chairs made of mahogany, several elderly men with graying hair sat upright, each with sharp eyes, chatting and discussing from time to time. They held blue and white porcelain teacups from the wooden table next to them, and occasionally looked up at the empty main seat in the center of the room, as if waiting for the owner of the house.

Of course, they weren't disappointed; soon, the sound of footsteps approached from outside...

Several pairs of long legs stepped across the threshold, instantly attracting the attention of everyone inside the hall.

"Yuchen! How's that thing your fourth and fifth uncles called to ask you about?"

At this moment, an old man sitting on a wooden chair didn't move his feet or tremble at all. He couldn't quite control his facial expressions and went straight to the point.

"Fifth Uncle is joking. You probably asked the wrong person about what you asked before. You should have gone to the police station or the procuratorate to inquire!"

"After all, our Xie family is just an ordinary business family. Even if the government is providing support now, I, Xie Yuchen, have never done anything illegal or unethical. What do you think?"

Xie Yuchen looked at the so-called relatives sitting in the room. They had been washing away his blood for so many years, only to cause him trouble. Now that he knew the higher-ups were investigating, he wondered what they had been doing all this time!

The business world isn't easy to navigate. Those who used to be so greedy, with their "fat heads and round bellies," naturally don't end up well! Tsk…

Xie Yuchen quickly distanced himself from the situation with a few words, deflecting the other person's words.

"You! Xie Yuchen!! Don't forget, your hands probably aren't entirely clean either!"

"We are all one family. We share the same fate, and we share the same fate. Your uncles and elders here all remember this!"

The others in the hall remained silent. It was the old man who refuted Xie Yuchen's words earlier, setting a trap first and then playing the emotional card.

Of course, if it weren't for the fact that the shops, companies, shares, and brocade buckles owned by everyone present had been investigated and sealed off, and if these combined blows from above hadn't gnawed at their very core, how could they have gathered together at this time today at the old house?

Xie Yuchen saw it very clearly. Over the years, his influence had gradually shifted to the open. It could be said that apart from a few gray areas, he had already reached this level of wealth. Except for his childhood when he had not yet escaped the quagmire, it was now possible to find very few problems with him on the surface.

Therefore, the crackdown that started in the capital did not result in significant losses for him, although there were some setbacks, but not as many as for the rest of the Xie family. The blows he received were merely superficial.

"We are all in this together, whether we prosper or suffer. Why didn't you say that more than ten years ago, Uncle Wu?"

After taking control of the Xie family, Xie Yuchen stopped indulging these relatives. Now, talking about family honor is just nonsense. To be honest, Xie Lianhuan's lineage is down to just him. Who cares about anyone else now?

"That happened so many years ago! Are we talking about that now? We're talking about family honor! What will happen to our Xie family descendants, your younger brothers, sisters, aunts, and uncles if some of our uncles go to jail?"

"We're all family, why make such a fuss!"

At this moment, a tall, thin man sitting on a chair on the left side of the hall spoke up. He looked intently at the young family head standing in the center of the hall and bluntly glossed over the past events, analyzing the facts as he spoke.

"family?"

"What family? My father, Jie Lian, has already disappeared. I'm the only one left in the family. You guys better not try to establish any connection here."

Instead of making a scene with me here, you might as well go and clean up the mess for your own families and yourselves!

Xie Yuchen rolled her eyes and said speechlessly, without any politeness.

boom!

Just as everyone in the hall began to look at Jie Yuchen with hostility after hearing his speech, the Jie family's main gate was suddenly flung open in the distance, and the sound of footsteps approached...

Before long, a group of people wearing dark gray robes and pig-face masks stepped into the Xie family's main hall. The leader was a man wearing a wild boar mask with protruding tusks.

“Everyone, check the photos. Apart from Xie Yuchen, the head of the Xie family, and his men, take everyone else away!”

A muffled voice came from beneath the boar-masked man's mask. The surrounding boar-masked men, acting swiftly, each pulled a photograph from under their robes. After scanning the entire hall, they began to move, each producing a rose-gold handcuff from who-knows-where, rushing to the nearest person and handcuffing them...

Suddenly, a series of clicking sounds echoed throughout the lobby...