Eat the whole family? I emptied the storehouse of the Marquis' Mansion and married the crippled

Ye Jintang stepped forward and pulled out two books, flipping through them casually. There was nothing hidden inside.

I pulled out two more books, still very normal books.

Three books, four books, when Ye Jintang found the tenth book, he finally felt that there was something unusual about the book in his hand.

The book is obviously very thick, but it feels light in the hand.

The book was packed very sturdily. She opened the lock on the book and tried hard several times before she was able to tear off the thick cover.

The pages inside were covered with a layer of glue on the surface, covering the entire inner pages.

Ye Jintang took out the dagger he carried with him and stabbed it hard in the middle of the book. With a dull sound, the thick pages were pierced.

As she expected, the middle of the book was hollowed out.

There was a brand new account book inside.

There is no name but it shows the month and date, where the silver came from, through whose hands it passed, and how it finally ended up in the pockets of Governor Song and Prefect Zhao.

"I didn't expect Governor Song to be so particular about his work. He remembers everything clearly."

Ye Jintang was afraid of being discovered, so he just waved his hand and emptied all the things in the house.

Just as she was about to go out, she heard a series of hurried cat meows outside the door.

This is the secret code between her and Zhou Cong.

"what happened?"

Zhou Wuwei lowered his voice and said, "Master, someone came in from outside, and he sneaked in from the small corner door in the backyard."

"Did you see who it was?"

"The one limping should be Governor Song. The other two servants are Changdong who is by Governor Song's side, and I don't recognize the younger one."

"Where do they go after they come in?"

"Heading towards the prison."

There is a large prison in the yamen for detaining prisoners, but it has not been used for many years.

Prefect Ye said that placing the prison inside the government office was unlucky, so within two years of coming to Yuezhou, he moved the prison outside the city.

"Master, there are three of them, and they also brought in four large boxes."

When he heard about the box, Ye Jintang's eyes lit up. It seemed that the rumors he spread worked. Governor Song, like a venomous snake, was frightened and started to act.

Ye Jintang immediately took the Zhou brothers to the prison to check the situation.

As soon as they reached a rockery, they saw Changdong and another servant coming out of the prison pushing a wheelbarrow.

Governor Song stood at the prison gate, leaning on a cane and sweating profusely.

"Hurry up and move all the remaining boxes here. Be careful to avoid people and make sure you don't get discovered by others."

"Yes."

Changdong responded, panting, and pushed the wooden cart away.

Zhou Cong followed quietly, while Ye Jintang and Zhou Wuwei hid in the rockery and stared at Governor Song.

After a while, Changdong came with four boxes on a wooden cart.

Governor Song patted the box and warned, "Be careful not to spill the things in the box."

Governor Song didn't want to go to jail, but he was afraid that Changdong wouldn't be able to put the box away properly, so he used his crutches and followed Changdong very slowly into the jail.

After a long time, Changdong ran back and forth twice before he finally crawled out of the prison.

Looking at the exhausted Governor Song and the heavy wooden boxes, one can guess with just a little guessing that the wooden boxes must contain disaster relief silver, as the only thing that could make the injured Governor Song come in person.

Ye Jintang laughed in her heart. Yesterday she was still worried about how to find the disaster relief money.

Unexpectedly, Governor Song rushed to deliver it to her today.

"Did Zhou Cong count how many boxes there are in total?"

"There are 50 large boxes and 10 small boxes in total."

Ye Jintang handled a lot of silver these days. She roughly estimated that a large box could hold about 3000 taels of silver.

By this calculation, this batch of silver should be around 15 taels.

This was the amount he got after splitting it equally with Prefect Zhao.

How much disaster relief silver did the imperial court allocate in total? How could two big rats carry away 30 taels?

Each box weighed at least 200 kilograms. Changdong and the servant moved 50 boxes. When they finished moving all of them, Changdong's arms were shaking.

"Changdong, hurry up. The two of you will clean up all the traces in a moment. Don't leave any clues behind."

"Yes."

Changdong was in great pain at the moment. After moving so many boxes, he felt like his arms were going to break.

It was not until almost noon that Governor Song and his party left.

"They finally left. Governor Song was very careful. He only hired two servants to carry so much silver. He wanted to tire them to death."

Ye Jintang walked out slowly from behind the rockery and rubbed his legs which were standing a little stiff.

"Let's go to the prison and see if Governor Song only puts a few boxes of silver in the prison."

Ye Jintang believed that a person who dared to embezzle disaster relief funds must have a very wealthy family background.

"Master, I will go ahead."

Zhou Wuwei drew his sword and walked in front with a defensive look on his face.

He was afraid that there might be an ambush in the dungeon, so if there was any emergency, he would walk in front so that he could deal with it more easily.

The dungeon had fallen into disrepair for a long time, with moss and weeds growing on the ground. Faint light filtered through the ventilation windows and scattered throughout the dungeon.

The cells in the dungeon all had wooden doors, some of which had rotted and had strange mushrooms growing on them.

The first floor was not so creepy because there was sunlight. But when I went down to the second floor, an unpleasant musty smell hit me as soon as I reached the door.

Zhou Wuwei took a tinder and lit the oil lamp in the cell.

They followed the wheel marks on the ground and slowly walked towards the second floor.

Soon Ye Jintang saw a cell full of weeds.

Ye Jintang found it amusing that there was hay in the damp and dark cell. Wasn't this just a case of trying to cover up one's own guilt?

The Zhou brothers stepped forward and pushed aside the weeds to reveal the box inside.

"Master, the things in these two cells look like they have been there for several years."

Ye Jintang followed Zhou Cong's gaze and saw many boxes of different sizes placed in the innermost cell.

The weeds covering the box had already rotted away, and only a corner of the box could be vaguely seen.

"Open one and take a look."

Ye Jintang vaguely guessed that there should be silver inside.

But after opening it and seeing the white silver inside, she still felt uncomfortable.

Governor Song was only a minor official of the ninth rank. How could he save so much money with just his salary?

I don’t know how many bad things he had done to accumulate so much money.

Ye Jintang looked at so many broken boxes and wondered if she could just take the silver inside and not the broken boxes.

Firstly, she didn't want to dirty her own space, and secondly, she was afraid that Governor Song would be suspicious and come to check the silver.

Just as Ye Jintang was thinking, she suddenly felt that the pile of silver in the wooden boxes that she had just touched with her hands appeared in the space.

Because there was no box to put them in, the gold ingots of all sizes were scattered all over the floor.

Ye Jintang was filled with joy; it turned out that she could play like this.

Afterwards, Ye Jintang put all the money that Governor Song had accumulated over the years into the space.

Only the official silver with a stamp was left. This was the disaster relief silver embezzled by Governor Song, and she didn't dare to take it.