Chapter 59: Emptying the Dog Official’s Warehouse]
"Ugh!" The two of them swallowed the bitter liquid involuntarily, then looked at Chen Fenghe in horror: "What... did you give us to eat?"
Before he could finish his words, the two men's legs went limp and they fell to their knees, spitting out large mouthfuls of black blood.
Chen Fenghe sneered: "Do you know how to speak now?"
After saying that, the two began to have cramps in their hands and feet and felt cold all over.
Chen Fenghe took off a silver hairpin from her bun, quickly poked two small holes in their bodies, and then directly put them into the space.
When I came out again, it was already the wilderness outside the city.
It was pitch black all around, and the two men were still somewhat conscious, looking at everything in front of them in horror.
Clearly... they were still in the room just now, how come they were suddenly in the wilderness?
But soon, the pain all over their bodies and the black blood flowing from their mouths and noses left them no time to care about anything else.
They looked up at Chen Fenghe in horror, then knelt down and begged for mercy, "Mercy...Mercy! It was the County Magistrate... No, it was... It was the Fifth Prince who sent... sent us here!"
Chen Fenghe looked down at them and sneered, "It's too late to confess now..."
After saying that, she directly entered the space again and returned to the city.
What she fed them was the same venom from the last bamboo green snake, but it had been purified, making it more toxic and taking effect faster.
The small holes made on their bodies with silver hairpins also imitated the wounds caused by the fangs of poisonous snakes.
In this way, when people find them, they will conclude that they died from being bitten by a poisonous snake.
Chen Fenghe returned to the room and checked on Qin Mengyue and the three little ones. The smoke wasn't very toxic, so they should be able to recover after a good night's sleep.
After she confirmed that everything was fine, she re-entered the space, put on her night clothes, and then went directly to the back of Guan Lai Hu's cell in the county jail.
Lai Hu's skin ulcer symptoms have started again. He curled up in the corner of the cell in pain. He knew he shouldn't scratch, but he scratched his body because it was too itchy, leaving festering wounds all over his body.
Chen Fenghe directly threw the antidote pill into the prison through the back window.
Upon seeing this, Lai Hu hurriedly picked it up and saw a note with the word "antidote" written on it. He quickly took out the antidote with trembling hands and swallowed it. By the next day, the symptoms on his body had indeed disappeared.
However, what awaits him is still execution in the autumn, but he can live a few more days.
After delivering the antidote, Chen Fenghe went directly to the county magistrate's warehouse through the space.
Since he was so blatant in wanting to kill them, it was only natural to empty his warehouse and teach him a lesson.
As soon as I went in, I saw everything glittering with gold. There were three or four boxes of gold ingots, more than ten boxes of silver ingots, and countless other small pieces of silver and strings of copper coins that had already grown verdigris!
Chen Fenghe couldn't help but smack his lips. Putting aside the gold and silver ingots, these copper coins were probably extorted from the poor! Corrupt officials!
In addition to gold, silver and copper coins, other jewelry, jade, antique calligraphy and paintings are also displayed!
No wonder there's a saying that goes, "Three years as a clean magistrate earns you 100,000 silver coins." This official's treasury is even richer than the former Crown Prince's East Palace's!
Young Master Shen Fenghe waved his hand and put all the gold, silver and jewelry into the space.
Then, she went to the boudoirs of the dog official's eleventh concubine. Most of these concubines were not awakened, and those who were awakened were knocked unconscious by Chen Fenghe.
This dog official was not stingy with his concubine. She collected all the gold, silver, jade bracelets and earrings into her space!
Only after the houses of the eleven concubines were all emptied did she go to the main courtyard where the dog official lived.
The official was drinking and chatting happily with his most favored concubine, boasting smugly, "Eleventh Prince, just wait until you can come to the capital with me someday! As long as I follow the Fifth Prince's instructions and get rid of those two women tonight, he will immediately recommend me to the capital and give me a three-level promotion! When the Fifth Prince becomes emperor, your master might even become prime minister! Tell me, isn't following me a blessing you've earned in eight lifetimes? Huh?"
Before he could finish his words, he was suddenly grabbed by the hair and dragged to the ground, then kicked hard on the head and face. He was about to scream "Ahhh" in pain, but Shen Fenghe stuffed a piece of cloth into his mouth!
The eleventh concubine was so frightened that her face turned pale and she collapsed on the ground. Just as she was about to scream, the dagger in Shen Fenghe's hand was already against her throat.
"This matter has nothing to do with you. Don't scream and I won't kill you. Otherwise, don't blame me for having no eyes for the knife in my hand!" Chen Fenghe threatened lightly.
The concubine didn't dare to make a sound. She covered her mouth with her hands and shook her head desperately to show that she was obedient.
Chen Fenghe turned around and attacked the dog official again, beating him until his face was bruised and swollen, two of his front teeth were knocked out, and his arm was broken, before he stopped.
She turned around and knocked the concubine unconscious, looted all the valuables in the dog official's room, and then took the dog official, who was also knocked unconscious, into the space. Then, she tied him up in a disheveled state and hung him at the gate of the yamen.
After doing all this, she went back to sleep.
The next morning, Yuan Xun came over and asked if he had heard anything last night.
Chen Fenghe shook her head in a deliberately blank manner and said, "No. My mother-in-law, the children, and I went to bed early yesterday. But what happened?"
Yuan Xun said, "I'm glad you're okay. I heard there was a thief at the county yamen last night. The county magistrate's storehouse, all his concubines, and his own room were all looted of their valuables. The county magistrate was also beaten, his hands and feet tied, and hung at the yamen gate. Someone came early in the morning to beat drums to protest and saw what happened. Word spread quickly, and many people came to see it. The key point is... according to the county magistrate's eleventh concubine, there was only one thief, and no one knows how he got away with so much valuables. It's very similar to the thefts that happened all over the capital a while ago, even to the Shangshu Mansion in the imperial palace..."
Chen Fenghe pretended to be surprised: "There is such a thing? That's really strange..."
Yuan Xun said, "Because of this incident, the county magistrate has sealed off the city and is searching the entire city for the bandits. So, we will rest today and set off again tomorrow."
After hearing this, Chen Fenghe asked, "In that case, can we wait until the martial law ends today and then go shopping in the city? Winter is coming soon, and we're heading north. Everyone is still wearing thin clothes, so we need to buy some thicker clothes for the winter. Also, Mr. Yuan, you see, I have three little ones, and my mother-in-law is weak. I'm planning to buy a cart so that we can travel more easily. Is that possible?"
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