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  These days, Xiang Tianliang was very annoyed with his pager.

  Modern communication tools can facilitate people's lives, work and social interactions, but they have greatly reduced everyone's private space, which inevitably increases troubles, because sometimes you have nowhere to hide.

  Xiang Tianliang's usual workplace is the archives room. The archives room doesn't have a phone, so people who want to find him without others knowing will use a pager to contact him.

  Dozens of messages, almost filling up the storage, but not a single one has been replied to until dawn.

  The latest one is from Li Ya Juan: Go home for dinner and talk about something.

  Home, this word makes Xiang Tianliang's heart warm and full. The dormitory is just a stopover, he now has two homes. He often lives in those two homes, Liu Qingqing and Li Yajuan. Liu Qingqing often takes the drama troupe to perform outside, Li Yajuan's place is the home he visits most frequently.

  "Sister, I'm back." As soon as he entered the house, he shouted towards Tian Liang and fell onto the sofa.

  Li Yajuan walked out of the bedroom and smiled: "Director Wang invited you to dinner, didn't he ask you to stay overnight?"

  "Hehe, you gave orders through the pager, how dare I not come back?" Xiang Tianliang pulled Li Yajuan over, one hand lifted her pajamas, and began to grope around on the mountain.

  "It's okay, I can call you, right?" Li Yajuan stuck to Xiang Tianliang's chest, "Wang Daohong has been transferred back from Qinghe Prison."

  "Oh?"

  Li Ya-jun said: "This afternoon I received a call from him, very arrogant to tell me that he is now the deputy director of the Municipal Smuggling Office and also the commander of the Municipal Public Security Bureau's Anti-Smuggling Brigade. He also said that last time you beat him up, he still hasn't forgotten, hoping that you haven't either."

  Xiang Tianliang heard this and smiled slightly, "Sister, is your ex-husband very vengeful? Vice Secretary Zhang Haifeng transferred him back to expand his own power. Is Wang Daohong not afraid of harming Zhang Haifeng?"

  "In fact, he's mostly just bluffing, and those who are brave don't dare to come, so you have to be careful with the hidden calculations." Li Yajuan said, "But he has one sentence that I think makes a lot of sense."

  Xiang Tianliang climbed up the mountain with his hands in Li Yajuan's hand and smiled: "What words make sense?"

  "Wang Da Hong said, the trap you set up on New Year's Eve is likely to be your conspiracy. You didn't throw away the thing at all, or you threw it away but still kept a copy in your own hands."

  Xiang Tianliang smiled and said, "It's not just Wang Daohong, I'm afraid there are many people who won't believe it, including Xie Zixu, Yu Zhonghao, Xiao Jiannan and even you."

  Nodding her head, Li Yajuan said: "I didn't believe it anyway. Last time, if Wang Daohong hadn't hidden in the cabinet to eavesdrop, you would have told me already."

  Xiang Tianliang nodded, "I'm not that stupid. The things I've grasped are like bombs to some people, but to me, they're talismans, a means of promotion. How could I easily give them up?"

  "I knew it, you sly rascal, you wouldn't let go of the meat that's already in your mouth." Li Yajuan scolded with her mouth, but her hands reached out to grab the big chunk of meat from Tianliang.

  Hehe, a smile towards Tian Liang, "Sister, without this big bad guy, how can this withered tree meet spring?"

  "Big bad egg...... I, I cut it off, see if you can still be bad...... Hehe......" Li Yajuan's palm struck the giant that was charging towards Tianliang with its head held high.

  "Sister, if you really break up with him, who will be responsible for your happiness in the second half of your life?"

  "It's my treasure, I'm not willing to part with it." Li Yajuan smiled and looked at Xiang Tianliang, "I just don't understand how you handled those things back then?"

  "Hehe, you really want to know?"

  "Of course."

  Xiang Tianliang smiled and said, "On the eve of the Lunar New Year, what Ye Nannan's husband Qiao Annan got was actually fake, that's why Director Lao had a heart attack."

  Li Yajuan nodded, "I already knew this from your hint, and according to the situation at that time, what you brought back from the bank was fake, which means the things in the bank were also fake."

  "That's right, the things in the bank aren't real. On New Year's Eve morning, I went to the bank and took out fake stuff under your sister-in-law's nose." Xiang Tianliang smiled and said.

  Li Yajuan thought for a moment and asked inexplicably: "Then where is that thing really?"

  "Hehe, think about it again."

  Li Ya shook her head and said, "I really can't think of it."

  Toward the bright side, Li Yajuan let go of him and reached for a cigarette from the box on the coffee table, putting it to his mouth. It was specially prepared by Li Yajuan for this would-be smoker. She picked up the lighter and lit it for him.

  He took a few puffs and looked at Li Yajuan, asking: "Sister, do you still remember the time I went home? It was when my sixth uncle injured the town mayor because of family planning."

  "How could I forget, it was just before the Spring Festival holiday, the newly arrived Vice Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee Zhang Haifeng wanted to see you, you received Ye Nan's notification and hastily returned from Binhai to Qinghe, and immediately went to the Municipal Party Committee to meet with Zhang Haifeng."

  Toward the sky bright nodded and said: "Yes, after seeing Zhang Haifeng, I strongly felt his depth and old tricks. Originally, when preparing for the worst-case scenario, I had planned to hand over the last bit of things to him, but now that plan has been completely dispelled. At the same time, I secretly congratulated myself on my own precautions."

  "Prepare for a rainy day?"

  Xiang Tianliang smiled and said: "Right, you recall a bit further back. Before your sister-in-law made an appointment with me at the dock tea house, what did we do?"

  "Oh... I remember now. You took me with you to the bank, withdrew something, brought it back home for a check, and then deposited it back into the bank the next day."

  "Hehe, yes indeed."

  Li Ya-jun said: "Oh, I see, that night you carried out a switch plan."

  "It can be said that way, but that night, there was someone watching outside your house. It's really hard to move real things out of your house, but I had already prepared fake ones."

  Li Yajuan smiled, "I said, you bought some film and tapes and put them in my house a few days ago, what were they used for? It turned out that those were the raw materials for making fake things, and they were prepared for implementing the switch plan."

  "Yes, too many people are on the lookout, I won't secretly prepare, even if just one guy finds out, it's all over."

  Li Yajuan thought for a moment and said: "In other words, the next morning, when we went to the bank and put things back in the bank, both real and fake things were in the car."

  "Hehe, you're absolutely right. Of course, the fake stuff is in the original package, while the real thing is hidden on me. I'm wearing a windbreaker, and that little thing is hidden on my body, it's completely invisible."

  "You're such a sly brother, you even fooled me." Li Ya Juan said with a smile, "After we arrived at the bank, you had me go up alone to deposit the fake stuff, while you used those ten or so minutes to transfer the real thing away. From then on, the real thing disappeared from our and their sight, and what we and they were left thinking about was the fake stuff stored in the bank."

  Xiang Tianliang nodded and extinguished the cigarette butt in the ashtray, then slowly said: "Actually, within those ten or so minutes, where could I have transferred the real thing to at the parking lot in front of the bank? Moreover, at that time, I clearly discovered that there were at least four pairs of eyes staring at me. That should be Yu Zhonghao and Xiao Jiannan's people, who had been guarding your house for a night and followed me all the way to the bank, not giving me any chance to transfer the real thing."

  "Oh... I remember now, that janitor is the one who was chatting with you." Li Yajuan exclaimed.

  Smiled towards the bright sky.

  "Xiao Xiang, am I right?"

  "Not wrong at all."

  "Right under everyone's nose, you handed over the real thing to that janitor, isn't that very dangerous?"

  "Hehe, the thrill is what makes it fun." Xiang Tianliang said with a smile. "I was very particular about where I parked my car. The people who were monitoring me could only see my upper body, and their hands couldn't reach my lower body, let alone see what was hidden in my windbreaker that had quietly fallen to the ground. Half of their attention was on you because you went into the bank to make a deposit or something, they wanted to see if it was real or fake, but they didn't think that the real thing was right next to my feet. The janitor didn't even bend down, and in the midst of talking to me, he easily picked up the real thing."

  Li Yajuan asked with a smile: "Can you talk about that janitor?"

  Xiang Tian nodded and smiled: "I can tell you that he was one of my grandfather's apprentices, living in Qinghe. I can say that more than half of the kung fu I have today was taught by him, and he is also one of the people I trust most. However, he left the Xiang family very early on, content with being ordinary, and hid himself away in the city."

  Li Yajuan smiled and said, "I won't ask anymore. Secrets are secrets. If I keep asking, the secret won't be a secret to me anymore."

  "Sister, you're very wise. Actually, I don't know where he lives either. Only my grandfather and Third Uncle know where he lives and what he does. That is to say, now except for him alone, no one else knows. The secret is hidden in some secret place."

  "Xiao Xiang, you're really thoughtful." Li Yajuan sighed.

  Looking up at Li Ya Juan's face, he suddenly said: "Sister, I want you, I want your secret."

  Li Yajuan nodded and immediately helped them undress, "Xiao Xiang, in front of me, your sister, what secrets do you still have?"

  "Heh heh, anyway, in this bottomless cave of yours, there are secrets that can never be fully dug up..."

  He hugged her and rushed in quickly...

  Li Yajuan burst into tears.

  The fierce battle was interrupted by the ringing of a phone at the end.

  "Alas, they're looking for me, what do they want to do?" Tian Liang sighed, this should be the seventh message received today.

  Li Yajuan took over the pager and said with a smile:

  "Sister, help me take a look, what kind of people are they, and why did they come looking for you."