During that era, possessing a large amount of gold and silver was already a recipe for disaster, let alone having a notebook containing evidence of his embezzlement of village grain and bribery over the years.
There's no time like the present, so she decided to take care of the matter immediately.
Seizing the opportunity of chaos at Widow Qiu's house, she promptly left the village. She retrieved a bicycle from her space—one she had acquired from the Shen Family in Beijing—and headed straight to the county.
She didn't go to the commune because she feared Xu Wenchang might have accomplices there; after all, some entries in the notebook were particularly cryptic, and she suspected only he himself knew who those individuals were.
Even though the rural dirt roads were difficult to navigate, the moon was bright that night. Coupled with Yunyi's keen senses, she was hardly affected at all.
