CHAPTER 278: CHAPTER 275: GOING CLAMMING WITH A BASKET

For genuine luxury homes like the National Guest Mansion, even a typical residence of about 130 to 140 square meters costs around seven to eight million, far more expensive than her little villa, so naturally, the level of property management also differs greatly.

There are indeed quite a few valuable things in her home, yellow flower pear wood ornaments and furniture, which she brought from the Great Tang, and several Great Tang ceramic vases she purchased are also placed there.

Most importantly, her safe contains a painting by Gu Yewang that was gifted to her by Xiao Chong! If this painting is put on the international market, it can easily fetch a price of over a hundred million.

However, not many people know she possesses this painting, only Lu Shouyue and a few old professors.

Lin Wanwan believes that with Lu Shouyue’s character, he wouldn’t casually reveal her information, and the old professors don’t know her identity, so even if they spread the news, they wouldn’t know where she lives.

Therefore, the probability that a thief is casing for the painting is still low; it’s more likely they’re after the yellow flower pear wood.

In the gambling or wood market, she is somewhat famous, and it’s not out of the question that those with the means found her through some method.

Since suspicious individuals were discovered, Lin Wanwan naturally had to contact the property management to explain. Although they might not be able to do much, it’s better than nothing.

Still, the feeling of being watched is really unpleasant; she harbors many secrets and is not particularly cautious, so she can’t afford to be watched.

She must find a way to solve it!

The following morning, Lin Wanwan went to her neighbor next door and asked them to pull her into the community villa’s property owner’s group chat.

Then she posted the video in the chat group, asking everyone if they recognized the person.

Most people living in this villa area are from the relocating senior citizen team, many of whom are wealthy and have leisure.

Upon seeing the video Lin Wanwan posted, they got excited and kept sending voice messages in the group.

So Lin Wanwan took the opportunity to propose spending money to strengthen security, and as soon as money was mentioned, people couldn’t chat properly anymore.

Lin Wanwan knew it would be like this, but she continued to incite everyone in the chat, using alarming language. She searched numerous news stories online about burglary turning into home invasion homicides and forwarded them to the group.

Old people just fall for that!

The group suddenly became silent.

A long time later, an elderly resident living by the community wall broke the silence and spoke up: "I agree to spend money to enhance security; the guard Lao He now has blurred vision and can’t watch the main gate properly."

"I agree too."

"Count me in."

"..."

Looking at the messages in the group, Lin Wanwan smiled.

In the end, she volunteered to contact the property manager at the property management office and then selected a reputable security company to independently hire a ten-person security team.

The wages for these new security personnel were partly covered by the property management, with most of the amount paid by the owner’s committee. The committee set up a public account, publishing the breakdown of costs each month in the group, and everyone dutifully made their payments.

After settling this matter, Lin Wanwan still didn’t feel particularly safe. There’s a saying, "no guard lasts forever against a thief’s presence," and over time, there’s bound to be a lapse.

Lin Wanwan thought about it and decided to carefully retrieve the painting from her safe and take it back to her "safe box" in the Great Tang!

Modern thieves have countless methods to open a safe, but in the Great Tang, not even the most brilliant Divine Thief could open a box that’s wooden on the outside but is actually a modern Tiger Head brand safe!

Moreover, the tribe members of Lin Family Manor in the Great Tang are much more reliable than paid modern security!

After dealing with this matter, Lin Wanwan temporarily put aside the business of thieves.

Today is the sixteenth, and the high tide in Mao County is always on the second and sixteenth of the lunar calendar, making it a great time to forage by the sea.

Coincidentally, today the school also has a day off, and Lin Wanwan agreed to take Qingyu to the sea yesterday.

The best time for sea foraging is from the time of the snake to the end of the goat, and the mother and daughter changed into Hu clothes, wore modified sun hats with only two eye holes exposed, and with their maids and bamboo baskets, they excitedly arrived at the beach.

Xiao Yixun, being an albino with no melanin, naturally couldn’t stand the sun, so there was no way he could join them at noon, leaving him to stay at home and watch Lin Wanwan and her daughter leave happily.

The sun was high in the sky, and there were already a lot of people on the beach.

There are always the most people around two days before and after the high tide, not just from Lin Family Manor but also from Lu Family Manor and Dafeng Village.

"Wow, so many people!" Qingyu was very excited, took off her wooden clogs, tossed her socks aside, and ran barefoot onto the beach.

Lin Wanwan held her hand, and the pair walked on the sand, step by step, enjoying the massage-like sensation of wet sand under their feet, blissfully.

When the women and children of Lin Family Manor saw Lin Wanwan and others, they warmly greeted them.

"Teacher Lin, have you eaten yet?"

"Teacher Lin, you’re here to forage at the sea too?"

"Little Qingyu, don’t go too far, it’s dangerous."

It was words like these, and Lin Wanwan made some simple cloud responses, then started bending down, head bowed, to search for seafood.

The fishing resources during the Great Tang were still very abundant, and after each high tide, you could pick up a lot just by coming to the seaside, completely different from the nearly exhausted beaches of the modern era.

The best thing to pick up is clams; where there are holes in the sand, you’re sure to find clams if you dig there.

But Lin Wanwan doesn’t particularly like eating clams, so she’s not interested in digging for them.

She walked with Qingyu and a group of maids straight to the rocky area.

The rocky area was densely covered with mussels and cockles, as well as many young shellfish.

Lin Wanwan wasn’t very interested in mussels, but was quite interested in such large cockles.

Qingyu was looked after by Hua Nong and Yun Shang, while Lin Wanwan herself started picking cockles, throwing handfuls into her bamboo basket.

In modern times, cockles this large would fetch close to a hundred dollars a pound in the market, even when directly shipped from fishing docks, it would still cost fifty to sixty.

But at the Great Tang seaside, you can pick as many as you want, no one cares, and they’re not worth much even if taken to the markets to sell.

"Oh! Mother! Mother! There’s a big crab here! Come quickly to catch it!" Qingyu suddenly shouted.

When Lin Wanwan walked over and took a look, there indeed was a big mud-covered green crab basking in the sun on the beach; sensing danger, it quickly scuttled sideways.

Lin Wanwan stepped forward to press down on its back with her foot, then quickly used a long-handled crab clip she bought from a modern fishing gear store to clamp it and tossed it into the bamboo basket, placing the lid on top.

"Haha! We can eat blue crabs we’ve caught ourselves today! Qingyu is amazing, such sharp eyes!" Lin Wanwan praised Qingyu with a smile.

The little one, delighted from the praise, became even more focused on looking for sea goods, soon discovering another big blue crab, and as usual, Lin Wanwan went to clamp it.

In half an hour, the mother-daughter team had caught six big blue crabs, a bass, three octopuses, and countless stone crabs, garnering a bountiful harvest.