(Happy New Year to everyone! Enjoy your New Year holiday.)
Soleil had been hiding in the bookshelf for quite a while and finally figured out from the outside noise that Tax Bureau officials seemed to be here to inspect something, but were stopped by the monks.
She immediately sighed with relief, packed the stack of books into her cloth bag, and crawled out from her hiding place.
This chaotic situation was no big deal for her; as nimbly as a cat, she flipped out of the window, ready to slip out of the back hall.
Just then, she suddenly saw someone in the distant corridor reporting to an official in Tax Bureau uniform, "Captain, we found nothing..."
The clergymen nearby looked disdainfully at the Tax Bureau people.
She hesitated for a moment, then quietly came up behind the Tax Bureau employee standing furthest away and whispered, "Check the upper side of the cabinet bottom, there might be a secret compartment."
