The Rise of a Farm Girl

Chapter 81: Emptying the Grand Tutor's Mansion

The night was full of noise, and it ended just like that. No one in the family had a good night's sleep, except Wang Jingru.

On the second morning, Xuanyuan Lei got up early. For the first time since the beginning of the world, Xuanyuan Lei went to the morning court.

Xuanyuan Lei came to the palace. The emperor felt a headache when he saw Xuanyuan Lei. He must have come for the queen.

Although the emperor sat in the palace, he knew everything that happened in the imperial city.

The emperor was very angry when he thought about what the queen did yesterday. She was a queen, but she was still restless in the harem.

It seems that the secret guards around the queen have to be eliminated. The eunuch shouted, "If there is something to report, report it early, otherwise leave the court." No one came out to report anything, and the court was dismissed.

After the court was dismissed, Xuanyuan Lei followed the emperor to the imperial study.

When she arrived at the imperial study, she was scolded by the emperor. He asked, "Can your sister, Princess Jingru, please calm down? Why is she always causing trouble everywhere? Whenever something happens, she comes to me to clean up her mess."

Xuanyuan Lei laughed and said, "Uncle Emperor, I came here today because of the Queen. The Queen is so cruel. It was a close call yesterday. She killed your nephew."

I am your own nephew! You can't just watch your queen and send people to assassinate me all the time!

I don’t know how the Imperial Aunt has so many people at her disposal. If I didn’t know you, the Imperial Uncle, I would have thought that you gave this person to the Queen.

The emperor shouted angrily, "You little bastard, I think you don't want to live anymore. You even dare to tease me."

The emperor was puffing his beard and glaring, but Xuanyuan Lei was not afraid of him at all. He was nothing like the emperor's princes and princesses, who were like mice seeing a cat when they saw the emperor.

This is also the reason why the emperor favors Xuanyuan Lei. Only Xuanyuan Lei dares to quarrel with the emperor, just like an ordinary father and son.

After all, the emperor still told Xuanyuan Lei that he would deal with the secret guards in the queen's palace. But you can't touch the queen, she is your imperial aunt.

I will find someone to watch over her. Let her live a peaceful life in the harem, and she will not be allowed to interfere in matters outside the palace.

As for matters outside the palace, you should handle them yourself. Don't always look for your uncle the emperor when you have something to do. You won't be able to find you even if you want to.

Xuanyuan Lei was very happy to hear this. He bowed to the emperor and left the palace.

Xuanyuan Lei got the answer he wanted to hear, and hurried out of the palace, came to Prince Zhan's Mansion, and discussed the affairs of the Qian Mansion with Prince Zhan.

But after much discussion, the two of them did not dare to take action, because Wang Jingru said that she had to clean up the Qian Mansion first.

That night, Wang Jingru put on her nightgown and jumped in through the back door of the Grand Tutor's Mansion.

Wang Jingru felt like a fish in water when she entered the Qian Mansion. She was now familiar with any place she visited in the mansion.

Because no matter which mansion, they are all similar, Wang Jingru easily found the warehouse. The warehouse of the Qian Mansion is quite large.

The storehouse of the Qian Mansion is three times larger than the storehouse of other mansions.

There are gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, jade articles, and various precious ornaments. There are countless rare treasures.

Wang Jingru's eyes lit up as she watched, and she couldn't wait to put the things into the space. Wang Jingru put all the things in the full warehouse into the space.

This time it took a long time to collect things because there were so many things. It took a full hour, which made Wang Jingru very tired. This Tai Shi Mansion was really rich. After collecting the things in the warehouse, Wang Jingru collected things room by room, even collecting all the tables, chairs and benches that could be used.

As they were collecting, they finally arrived at the Grand Tutor's study. The study was truly rich. The jade articles, calligraphy and paintings displayed in it were all exquisite items. Even the tables, chairs and benches in the study were made of golden nanmu.

What made Wang Jingru even happier was that the bed in the study was also made of golden nanmu.

Wang Jingru was packing things quickly, but she couldn't put the vase away. She got angry. Why was the vase so heavy?

Why can’t it be put in? He walked over and stretched out his hand to lift it up, but he couldn’t lift it up even after pulling hard.

The vase was one meter high. Wang Jingru tried her best but failed to lift the vase. Just when she was about to give up, she twisted the vase gently and it actually turned.

When Wang Jingru saw that she couldn't lift the vase, she turned it around.

As she turned, the floor against the wall automatically separated, revealing a hole one meter square. Wang Jingru looked inside and saw pitch black. She took out a night pearl from the space and shone it inside. She saw stone steps, and she walked down along the steps.

After going down the stone steps, there was a long corridor in front, and on both sides of the corridor were stone houses. Wang Jingru pushed open the first stone house, and found it was full of gold bars.

Wang Jingru was really excited today, so excited that she almost flew.

He quickly put all the gold bars in the room into the space, and the gold bars were stacked up in the room. There was not even a box. This Master Qian was really greedy for money.

After collecting all the gold in this room, Wang Jingru was still not calm, so she pushed open another stone room. This stone room was full of silver, silver ingots, and silver bars.

Wang Jingru is now numb and doesn't know how to describe this Grand Tutor. He actually has such a hobby that he even collects things and has to fill a whole room with them.

After collecting this stone house, she will go to the next one. It is like opening a blind box. Wang Jingru is very much looking forward to what will be inside the next stone house.

So Wang Jingru pushed open the next stone house. Inside the stone house, Wang Jingru was speechless. You are a prime minister, why do you collect so many copper coins?

Copper coins were not valuable, but a room full of them was piled up like a small mountain. Wang Jingru knew that Master Qian was stingy, but she didn't expect him to be so stingy that he would even collect a room full of copper coins.

Wang Jingru's principle is that no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. Moreover, this mosquito is not just one, but a room full of them. So all the copper coins in the room were taken away.

Wang Jingru looked forward and saw only a stone house. She pushed open the stone door and was shocked to find that it was full of weapons.

It was filled with weapons. Wang Jingru took a look and saw that there were probably several thousand weapons of various kinds, including swords, spears, halberds, axes, hooks and forks, and many other kinds that Wang Jingru did not recognize.

But it didn't stop him from putting everything into the space. After putting everything into the space, Wang Jingru looked around and checked if there was anything missing. After finding nothing, he quickly left the Taishi study.

After leaving here, she went to take over the next room. Wang Jingru stayed in the Taishi Mansion for half the night, from 10 o'clock in the middle of the night until almost dawn before she finished taking over the entire Taishi Mansion.

Among them were several servants in the mansion who discovered her and were all taken into his space.

At the same time, he was discovered by Qian Ming'an, the eldest son of the Grand Tutor's Mansion. Just as he was about to call the secret guards, before he could make a sound, he was taken into the space by Wang Jingru.

Wang Jingru successfully took over the entire Taishi Mansion. Now the Taishi Mansion was empty, without even a decent bed. There was only a tattered bed, which Wang Jingru disliked and did not want.

After Wang Jingru returned home, she fell asleep immediately. She slept until after 3 o'clock in the afternoon. She was very tired this time. She was very thirsty as soon as she opened her eyes.

As soon as Wang Jingru moved, the maid heard the sound and came in, helping Wang Jingru to wash up. Wang Jingru asked the maid to pour her a glass of water. After drinking the glass of water, Wang Jingru said she was alive again.

She quickly dressed and washed up, her stomach was already growling. Wang Jingru wolfed down her food. After finishing the meal, she finally felt alive.

I was busy packing things yesterday and hadn't entered the space to see what was there. So I sent the maid out, lowered the bed curtains, and entered the space.

She was anxious to see the treasure, but when she entered the space, there was an uproar in the Grand Tutor's Mansion. The first people to discover that something was missing were the servants and maids, as well as the cook.

Because they got up the earliest, the mother-in-law went to the kitchen to cook and found that even the pot was gone, not to mention the bowls, plates, and chopsticks. The rice was gone, and even the firewood for the fire was gone.

The old woman was so frightened that she screamed and broke out in a cold sweat, and hurried to knock on the housekeeper's door.

The housekeeper was woken up and he found himself lying on the ground. When he opened his eyes, he found that even the bed in his room was gone. Only the bedding on the floor was left in the room.

There was nothing else left, the room was completely bare. When the housekeeper came out in his underwear and covered with a blanket, he heard what the old woman said and almost fainted on the spot.

The horse servant in the mansion went to feed the horses and found that the hay was gone. He looked into the stable again and found that there was not a single horse there.

There were more than a dozen horses in the mansion, and all of them were gone. The servant was so scared that his legs were shaking.

So they found the housekeeper. The housekeeper realized that something was wrong and hurried to the room where the eldest son lived. He knocked on the door for a while, but there was no one inside. When he pushed open the door, he found that the eldest son's room was empty, without even a quilt left.

The eldest son also disappeared, and hurried to the old lady's yard. The old lady had woken up from the cold, although there was a mattress on the ground and a quilt covering her body.

But after all, it was on the ground, and it was freezing cold. When the old lady saw the bald house, she felt dizzy.

At this time, the housekeeper knocked on the door, and the old lady forced herself to call the housekeeper in. The housekeeper saw the situation in the house, which was the same as his house, and it seemed that their house had been robbed.

The butler did not go over to help the old lady up because he was afraid that what he would say would scare the old lady into fainting.

The housekeeper said that the old lady's house had been robbed, and everything in the pot was gone. The eldest young master was not in the house either. The eldest young master's room was also bare, without even a quilt.

Even the old slave's room was robbed, and I didn't even have a coat to wear. Fortunately, my quilt was a bit rotten and was left behind.

The old lady then looked at the housekeeper who was covered with a quilt. The two were talking when the ladies and concubines in the mansion came running towards the old lady crying.

Because they didn't even have a quilt, they were all shivering with cold and their faces turned blue.

They wanted to ask the old lady for the decision. After all, she was the oldest person in the house. What could the old lady do? She could only ask the housekeeper to report the case to the authorities, hoping that the thief could be found quickly.

Officials arrived quickly, and someone also passed the news to the palace to the queen. When the queen heard about it, she became extremely anxious and quickly asked the nanny beside her to help.

The queen sent 20,000 taels of silver to her parents' home. At the same time, she went to the emperor, crying and wanting to go home to visit her parents, and the emperor agreed.

The queen hurriedly went back to pack her things, got on the sedan chair and rushed out of the palace to the Grand Tutor's Mansion.

When the Queen arrived at the Grand Tutor's Mansion, she realized what it meant to be robbed. The thief was so bad that he stole the bed, table, chairs and benches, and even left behind a piece of firewood.

The emperor also personally ordered the Dali Temple to investigate the case. People from the Dali Temple arrived quickly, but it gave the Dali Temple a headache because they could not find any clues at all. It was the same as the loss of things in Prince Wen's mansion and the theft in the home of the Vice Minister of Works.

The Dali Temple had no way to investigate. In fact, the emperor had a vague guess, but he had no solid evidence. The things lost in these mansions were all because the people in these mansions had offended Wang Jingru.

So the emperor has always suspected that it was Wang Jingru, but Wang Jingru did not have so many subordinates around her. After all, she was just from the countryside and it was impossible for her to have such great abilities!

Could it be that she had some magic weapon on her that she didn't know about? However, he also sent secret guards to investigate secretly, but found nothing unusual.

For this reason, the emperor specially sent secret guards to follow Wang Jingru for a period of time, but found nothing. Since it was not Wang Jingru, it must be someone around him, but these people around him did not seem like people who could do such a thing.

Later, the emperor thought of Wang Jingru. She must have a powerful master who has been protecting her in secret and never shows up. Perhaps this master is a hidden master.

If this was true, he really couldn't afford to offend him, so the emperor had been hesitant to take action.

But the emperor had no other choice, as he had not found any clues. He could only ask the Dali Temple to investigate, just in case they could find anything!

People in the streets and alleys were saying that the Grand Tutor's Mansion had done all kinds of bad things and offended God, and God was punishing them!

God took away everything in their house. The story became more and more bizarre, with various versions. The story had spread so widely that even the towns near the imperial city knew about it.

Besides, there was chaos in the Grand Tutor's Mansion because the eldest master was missing, several servants were also missing, and the old lady was ill.

The Queen was in charge of the overall situation in the mansion. Twenty thousand taels of silver notes were not enough to do anything. There was a shortage of everything in the mansion: clothes, bedding, rice, noodles, grain, oil, everything was missing. Even beds, furniture, and dressing tables were missing. The mansion was empty, and soon, the twenty thousand taels were spent.

The Queen had no choice but to return to the palace to ask the Emperor for help. However, the Emperor was afraid of offending that man, so he refused to take out any money. The Queen had no choice but to return to her own palace to raise money.

After selling some jewelry, she finally collected 50,000 taels of silver, which was then sent to the mansion. Now that the old lady had the silver, she forced herself to take charge of the situation.

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