When the police officer heard that Tian Xingzhu actually had such a large sum of money in her possession, he abruptly looked up. While he knew this young woman was an educated youth sent down from Beijing, he still marked the information about her massive wealth as a high-priority detail.
In truth, before arriving, Tian Xingzhu had been debating whether or not to tell the Public Security Bureau the actual amount. But then she realized that even if she didn’t disclose it or understated the figure, the police would find out anyway the moment they went to the post office to investigate. There was simply no point in lying. Furthermore, Tian Xingzhu knew that while this was a huge sum—far beyond what any ordinary family could possibly have saved—and would inevitably raise suspicions, Nanjiang County was thousands of miles away from Beijing, and communication between the two places was currently inefficient. It was unlikely they would go to the trouble of mobilizing a major investigation in Beijing over this money.
Secondly, although her parents’ monthly salaries could never have added up to this amount, she knew that the wealth left by her father's previous wife was their family's legitimate asset—or at least, it was legally her father’s. If they really did investigate, the results wouldn't negatively affect her family. After all, that woman had been dead for many years, and as her spouse, her father’s legal inheritance and ownership of the money and property she left behind wou…
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