Xia Yu soon received a reply:
“I want landscape photos, not selfies!”
Xia Yu knew exactly what the girl wanted, but he was just teasing her.
“There are no landscape photos,” Xia Yu replied.
“How come there are no landscape photos at all? Brother, are you really traveling?”
“Who says you must take photos when traveling?” Xia Yu retorted.
“Look at Aunt An, she even took many photos when she went out for the Qingming holiday.”
After saying that, You Xue sent Xia Yu four photos.
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Among them were two landscape photos, one with An Siyao in the scene, and one group photo with An Siyao, Xu Youxiang, and the Feng sisters.
Initially surprised upon hearing that You Xue mentioned An Siyao’s photos, Xia Yu now understood everything after seeing the Feng sisters in the picture.
An Siyao wouldn’t have taken these photos herself; it must have been the Feng sisters.
“Wait a second, how do you have these photos?”
Xia Yu noticed a blind spot. In this world, there were no features like Moments or QQ Space. Photos could only be sent privately or posted in groups. That meant their relationship must be quite close.
You Xue proudly sent Xia Yu a screenshot.
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It was a screenshot from the group chat backend, showing five people in the group: An Siyao, Feng Yujia, Feng Yumo, Xu Youxiang, and You Xue.
This little girl had actually infiltrated the enemy’s ranks.
“I’m going to Aunt An’s place during the summer vacation. I want to learn piano!” You Xue told Xia Yu.
“Okay, okay,” Xia Yu didn’t mind. It was good that You Xue could get along well with An Siyao.
Come to think of it, he still didn’t know whether You Xue had any musical talent.
Judging from Liu Manman’s experience, You Xue had no talent for guzheng or dizi, and probably no talent for piano either.
He should find time to visit You Xue and check what kind of bonus the girl had.
In about two days, he could return home. Then he would first visit An Siyao and then decide what You Xue should learn.
After ending the conversation with You Xue, Xia Yu received a message from Xu Youxiang.
Xu Youxiang sent him a photo.
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It showed her and An Siyao walking toward a bathroom.
“What about the following shots?” Xia Yu asked immediately.
“The following shots require you to make a choice. Do you want An Siyao on my left or Xu Youxiang on my right?”
“I want both!”
Then he was blocked by Xu Youxiang.
It wasn’t a big issue. Xia Yu, with Programming level 4, could easily remove himself from her blacklist anytime.
But if he removed it now, he would probably be blocked again. He decided to wait until the next day.
The next day, Xia Yu didn’t immediately choose a body to go deliver the money to Yin Shulan. Instead, he first walked around, took some photos to fool You Xue.
Then, he removed himself from Xu Youxiang’s blacklist.
“I want Xu Youxiang on your right!”
Shortly after, Xu Youxiang sent Xia Yu a photo of herself after taking a bath.
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This photo was quite different from what Xia Yu imagined. Although it was indeed a photo taken after the bath, it was taken about eight or nine hours later. Her clothes were neatly worn, formal attire, not even pajamas.
Xu Youxiang typed a message:
“The ‘after’ photo you wanted—is this late enough?”
Her message failed to send because Xia Yu blocked her again.
“???”
After blocking Xu Youxiang, Xia Yu put down his phone.
It was time to take action.
Standing by the window, Xia Yu used his telescope to find a seemingly single and inconspicuous woman.
After a friendly negotiation with the woman, she agreed to hand over control of her body to Xia Yu for 10,000 yuan per eight hours.
Xia Yu controlled the body to the place where he had hidden the money, retrieved a briefcase containing 500,000 yuan in cash. Beside the briefcase lay 10,000 yuan in cash, the woman’s payment.
After placing the 10,000 yuan in cash into the woman’s pocket, Xia Yu took the briefcase, boarded a bus, and after a three-hour bumpy ride, arrived at the town where Yin Shulan lived.
He came to the open space near the electric railway tower.
By then, it was completely dark. Xia Yu took out a flashlight for illumination.
He soon found the flag planted by Yin Shulan.
After pulling out the flag, Xia Yu dug a couple of times and unearthed a jar.
Opening the briefcase, he took out a black bag and placed the money-filled bag into the jar.
Then, he filled the hole with soil, holding the empty briefcase and the flag Yin Shulan had planted, and walked back.
At this moment, it was 9 p.m. He boarded the last bus and returned to the original town.
Throwing the briefcase and the flag into the river, Xia Yu returned to his own body.
It was already midnight, marking the arrival of the next day.
Xia Yu logged into Yin Shulan’s body again, got up from the bed, rode the borrowed bicycle from the neighbor, and headed toward the town.
He was in such a hurry to go because he feared the woman he had previously transacted with might break her promise and return to take the money.
Throughout the process, he had never let the woman see what was inside the black bag in the briefcase, but he couldn’t rule out the possibility of the woman recklessly wanting to check it out.
From the town where Xia Yu was to this town, it would take at least two and a half hours, a sufficient amount of time for Yin Shulan to reach the town.
Even if the woman asked her friends here for help, without the flag’s positioning, she couldn’t clearly describe the location. The open space there was not generally small.
When Xia Yu arrived at the open space, everything was normal, and the anticipated accident did not occur.
Xia Yu dug out the jar from the location remembered and took out the black plastic bag.
“Is there money in the bag?” Yin Shulan excitedly asked Xia Yu.
In a well-lit place, Xia Yu opened the bag for Yin Shulan to see.
Seeing the red bills inside, Yin Shulan was so excited she nearly shouted.
Holding the bag, Xia Yu didn’t immediately return to the village but instead checked into a hotel room in the town and stayed there for the night.
Fifty thousand in cash wasn’t light, and it was already this late. He decided it would be better to return the next day.
“Don’t sleep. Wake up and count the money,” Yin Shulan urged Xia Yu once they were in the room.
Xia Yu was too lazy to count and casually said, “This hotel might have cameras. Do you still want to count it now?”
“Then forget it.”
Crawling onto the bed, Xia Yu slept soundly through the night, while Yin Shulan couldn’t fall asleep at all.
In the morning, Yin Shulan raised a new concern: “Are these all real notes? Banks will use those machines to check the money. Just being able to fool people won’t work.”
Holding a bag of money, Xia Yu directly went to the bank, opened a bank card for Yin Shulan, and deposited the money.
“Now are you reassured?” Xia Yu asked.
Yin Shulan trusted the money that was not magically produced from the bank card but was genuinely deposited. She didn’t say a word anymore and left everything to Xia Yu’s discretion.
Xia Yu went to a motorcycle shop and bought an ordinary motorcycle.
Only ordinary motorcycles were available here.
After buying the motorcycle, feeling that it didn’t match his old-fashioned clothes, Xia Yu entered a clothing store and bought several sets of clothes.
Wearing goggles, the elderly-looking Xia Yu hopped onto the motorcycle and sped away under the astonished gazes of passersby.
Twenty minutes later, he drove up to his doorstep and found three people in the courtyard: two middle-aged men and a middle-aged woman.
The middle-aged woman was tugging at her beloved granddaughter.
“What are you doing!” Xia Yu directly drove his motorcycle into the courtyard and made an emergency stop.
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