Chapter 829 The Bride Who Died of Fright 16

A man and a ghost swaggered into the national treasury.

Ning Yan moved incredibly fast, collecting everything in a flurry, and soon the national treasury was completely empty.

After leaving the national treasury, Yin Ponu took Ning Yan to Emperor Fan's private treasury. Ning Yan didn't hold back and used an invisibility talisman to steal everything from the emperor's private treasury. In fact, within the imperial city, everything that could move, except for living people, was taken by Ning Yan.

After leaving the palace, the two went to what is now the Yin Prince's Mansion.

The two went straight to the study.

"The secret room is in the study. Aren't you afraid the Yin family will discover the mechanism?"

"Don't worry, because after I put the things in the secret room, I sealed the hidden door. I'll have to work hard to dismantle the door later."

Ning Yan: "...You're amazing! But there's no need to go through all that trouble. I have a teleportation talisman here. We can go straight into the secret room and come out after I've finished collecting my things."

"Thank you for your hard work, Madam."

Ning Yan took the Earth Escape Talisman, asked for the location of the secret chamber, tore open the talisman, and the next second, she appeared in the underground secret chamber.

Compared to Si Yutang's secret chamber, this place is insignificant, containing only more than forty boxes of various sizes. However, at that time, he was just a general who had to support his army with silver, so it was already quite remarkable that he had managed to accumulate such a fortune.

Emerging from the secret chamber, Yin Ponu said again, "Every blade of grass and every tree here belongs to me. I don't want to let the Yin family benefit from this. Madam, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you."

Ning Yan nodded and picked up everything in the mansion, not even leaving behind a potted plant or a grain of rice.

But this is not the end.

Yin Ponu also visited the homes of all his enemies.

When he was fighting on the front lines, the supply of food and provisions in the rear was insufficient, all because of the tampering by those officials in the Ministry of Revenue.

Moreover, he was the one who paid the soldiers' wages in the later stages, while the Ministry of Revenue stubbornly refused to pay them.

There were also some people who simply disliked him and would frequently impeach him in court, causing him to be fined multiple times. These people either disliked him and did it on purpose, or they were instructed by Fan Tao to kick him when he was down.

If he were dead, that would be one thing, but now that he's alive, he'll definitely seek revenge.

As a result, at the morning court session of Fan State the next day, not only was the emperor absent, but more than a dozen ministers also requested leave and were unable to attend the court.

In the imperial harem.

The emperor was furious when he woke up. He was the emperor of a country, and everything in his palace had been stolen without anyone noticing!

He suspected that the commander of the Imperial Guard had been bribed, and immediately ordered his men to go to the homes of the various commanders to bring them back.

However, before the eunuchs could arrive, a commotion broke out outside his palace. "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please do justice for me! My Yingyue Palace was completely robbed overnight, and I even had to borrow these clothes from a palace maid."

Ning Yan even ransacked the rooms where the palace maids lived, so she borrowed the outfit that the palace maid on duty last night was wearing.

"Your Majesty, my palace has also been robbed..."

When the emperor summoned the people in, he saw that almost all the concubines in the palace had arrived. His expression changed drastically. He no longer cared that he was only wearing a bright yellow undergarment. He pushed aside the annoying beauties and hurriedly went to his private treasury!

The private vault door was still locked, thank goodness.

But when he ordered his men to open his private treasury, the chief eunuch in charge of the keys came to report, wearing only an undergarment, that the keys were lost.

The emperor had a bad feeling, so he snatched the long sword from the guard and slashed at the lock.

The lock snapped open, and the emperor stepped inside. All his rare treasures, precious jewelry, antiques, and paintings were gone. The thief hadn't left him a single hair. He was furious!

"Guards, immediately seal off all four city gates and conduct a full-scale search to recover my stolen treasures! Anyone who provides clues will be rewarded with a seventh-rank official position!"

After leaving the private treasury, he immediately headed towards the national treasury. Just then, someone from the Ministry of Revenue arrived. "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, something terrible has happened! The national treasury has been robbed! None of the officials have come to court, so I have no choice but to come directly to report to Your Majesty!"

emperor:……

The emperor could no longer withstand the shock and fainted.

Today, Fancheng is in chaos. The imperial palace has been robbed, and even the dragon throne in the Golden Palace is gone.

The national treasury was robbed.

The residences of all the ministers in the capital were completely robbed, leaving nothing behind. No, that's not right. There were still some things left, such as the undergarments they were wearing. But those who didn't sleep in undergarments, well, sorry, they were truly robbed of everything except the fur on their bodies.

Ning Yan and her companion stayed obediently at the inn, but were questioned nine times in one day, and searchers came again and again. The search intensified, especially after the innkeeper learned that she had gone out with a man the previous night.

However, she returned in disguise, placing her return time at the end of the 7 PM hour, and saying that the shopkeeper wasn't downstairs when she returned, which fooled everyone.

Song Yanzhao was a little apprehensive. His wife had done something too big. The entire city of Fancheng and the capital were under martial law. Moreover, such a big thing had happened as soon as they arrived in Fancheng. He wondered if the emperor would lose his mind and arrest them all.

The emperor didn't want to lose his mind; he was still unconscious. The imperial guards in charge of the investigation were anxious because their house was also among those to be searched. If they couldn't find anything, their family would be unable to make ends meet.

The commander of the Imperial Guards was a middle-aged man in his thirties. However, his father had offended Yin Ponu, so he could be considered to have inherited his father's legacy.

A human and a ghost did something big in Fancheng. They stayed at the inn for three days, but the closure of the city gates triggered a series of reactions. For example, vegetables from the countryside could no longer be transported in, so not only ordinary people, but even the palace could not get vegetables.

Even before there was a single clue about the stolen goods, the city gates were opened.

The current prince in the Yin Prince's Mansion is Yin Sheng, the nephew of Yin Ponu. He changed his name after being adopted by his uncle. His original name was Yin Gou Dan, the second son of his elder brother.

Despite his name, he was born weak, and it's said that a humble name makes a child easier to raise, so that's why he was given this name.

This kid is lucky; he was personally chosen by that old codger Fan Tao as the heir to the Yin Prince's Mansion.

Now in his forties, he has acquired a pampered air about him, but this air has been completely lost due to the recent theft of the Prince's mansion. Anyone who has been starved for three days will lose their air.

This also proves that those noble qualities are all built with money; without money, they will be reduced to their original state.

"Your Highness, my family isn't much better off than ours. We can't borrow any more money. Why don't we sell some of the servants in the mansion? At least we can buy enough food. We can't let all the dozens of people in the mansion starve to death."