Chapter 3 Nothing
"Girl, what are you doing..."
Seeing Chen Xue moving the vase decorations in the hall, Mrs. Chen's nanny was full of confusion.
"Their house is about to be confiscated, how can they afford these things?"
As Chen Xue spoke, she took the opportunity to put the vase into the space.
Upon hearing this, Madam Chen's face suddenly flashed with a hint of cruelty, "That's right, we can't let them get away with it."
After she finished speaking, she grabbed a vase next to her and smashed it to the ground. With a loud snap, the vase, worth hundreds or thousands of taels, shattered into pieces.
Chen Xue was stunned for a moment, and then felt a sharp pain in her heart.
Oh my god, I told you not to let the enemy get away with it, you can’t destroy it.
Then, when she saw her mother wanted to smash other vases, she suddenly started and ran over to stop her.
"Mom, don't get excited!"
"What's wrong?"
"I mean, I can hide these things so that no one else can get them cheaply."
"Hide"
"it's useless."
Mrs. Chen sighed, "You don't know those people. When they search a house, they dig deep into the ground. They can find it no matter where it's hidden. It's better to destroy it so that they don't get away with it."
"Don't……"
Chen Xue snatched the vase away with a painful look on her face, "I have a solution."
Seeing this, Mrs. Chen stopped trying to stop them. At this time, she also heard the servants report that the Chen Mansion was surrounded by soldiers, so she had no choice but to run away.
Chen Xue took the opportunity to take away the vase, and even the teapot and teacups on the table, and of course, the tables and chairs were not spared.
If the floors weren't so difficult to dig, she would have wanted to dig them all away. These floors were made of high-quality wood.
After doing all this, she saw a man in black armor with a big sword on his waist rushing in with a group of officers and soldiers.
The man was Guo Qiang.
As soon as he came in, he waved to his men, "Go and drive everyone out and gather together."
Soon, everyone was driven to the front yard of the hall and surrounded by officers and soldiers. Seeing this, Guo Qiang nodded with satisfaction, then took out the imperial edict, read out the notice of Chen family's confiscation of property and exile, and then couldn't wait to let his men plunder.
Guo Qiang asked his men to keep an eye on Chen Xue and others, and he entered the hall first.
However, as soon as he entered the living room of the Chen Mansion, he felt something was wrong. He always felt that something was strange, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
He walked around the hall before he suddenly realized what was going on.
Before, when he was ransacking a house, he would sit in the living room for a while when he got tired of searching, and then continue searching. But now...
Where is the chair?
Where is the table?
The huge living room was empty, with nothing in it.
If he had not been here before and confirmed that this was the living room of the Chen Mansion, he would have suspected that he had raided the wrong house.
"Search, search carefully, they must have hidden something."
Guo Qiang slammed the table in anger, but he hit nothing and almost stumbled and fell to the ground.
"Let's go check out the warehouse!"
He bribed the servants of the Chen Mansion and secretly transported a lot of relief grain into the warehouse. As long as the relief grain was discovered, Chen Yuan would be dead.
There will be plenty of time to search slowly by then.
"Sir, the censor is here."
"What?"
When Guo Qiang heard the report from his subordinates, his face suddenly changed. The censor was not someone he could afford to offend.
Although the censor's status was not as high as his uncle's, it was higher than his, so he did not dare to offend him openly.
After all, the Chief Censor has the power to supervise all officials. If he reports to the emperor, then he's done for.
Thinking of this, he quickly ran out of the door and saw an old man in official uniform comforting Chen Xue and others.
"Don't worry, I know Zhengyuan's character. It's impossible for him to embezzle. I will definitely find out the truth."
After hearing the old man's assurance, Chen Xue breathed a sigh of relief. At least her father still had people supporting him. No wonder he was not beheaded but only exiled. It turned out that there was a group of people protecting him.
"It's just that I can only inconvenience you for now."
The censor knew that exile was the best outcome, but he still felt a little guilty. After all, Chen Xue was only seventeen or eighteen years old, about the same age as his granddaughter. She should have been enjoying herself in her boudoir, but now she was being exiled...
"Why is the Censor here?" Guo Qiang hurried over to interrupt him, "I am being ordered to search the house, Censor..."
Although he didn't say it explicitly, his meaning was very clear: I have the emperor's order, and the censor has no right to stop me.
The Imperial Censor understood what he meant and cupped his fists to the sky. "I have reported this to His Majesty, and His Majesty has agreed that I may monitor the confiscation of General Guo's property and investigate whether Chen Yuan's home is indeed hiding disaster relief grain..."
"In that case, the censor can be a witness."
Guo Qiang sneered in his heart. He came at the right time. If he had just found out that the relief grain was in Chen's house, he would still be targeted.
But with the impartial and strict censor present, once he saw the relief grain in the warehouse with his own eyes, the case of Chen Yuan's corruption would be proven conclusively.
"Master Censor, please come this way!"
With such a mood, Guo Qiang walked towards the warehouse with a smile on his face. He had already obtained the map of Chen Mansion and knew which warehouse the relief grain was stored.
"Um"
"here it is"
A group of people passed by the pavilion in the center of the lake and were stunned.
Because there is no water in the lake, only a layer of silt and some weeds, it looks like it has been abandoned for a long time.
Guo Qiang frowned, remembering that there should be a small lake here with many precious fish in it. Why is there nothing here now?
Not only was he confused, but the censor was also confused.
The confused crowd continued to move forward and soon arrived at the warehouse. Guo Qiang couldn't hide the smile on his face.
"You two, go open the warehouse and let the censor see how much grain Chen Yuan has embezzled."
Guo Qiang randomly instructed two of his men to open the door, and then waited for a surprise to appear.
However, there was no surprise, but there was a shock.
When the warehouse was opened, there was nothing inside, not even food, not even rat droppings. Oh, yes, there was quite a lot of rat droppings.
wrong.
Where is the food?
What about those thousands of bags of grain?
What about such a big bag of grain?
Where did it go?
Guo Qiang was full of questions and even looked around the gate carefully, thinking he had taken the wrong path.
Then, he looked at one of his men next to him, and the man nodded, indicating that he was definitely here.
At the same time, he was also confused.
I remember that he clearly hid the grain in this warehouse. After all, for peace of mind, he personally led people to hide it, and he carried all the bags of grain in.
He had clearly piled them all together, worked overtime for several nights, and even stepped on some rat shit... ahem, in short, he was 100% sure that the relief grain was in this warehouse.
Instead, what about now?
Nothing!
Is this a ghost?
He remembered that there was disaster relief grain here last night, and he hadn't seen any carriage leave the Chen Mansion all day, so it was obviously impossible for it to be sent away.
His subordinates were confused and even suspected that their eyesight was blurry because they had been working too late and staying up late in recent days.
When he wiped his eyes and found that there was still nothing in them, his face turned very ugly.
Things are messed up!
Although he didn't know how the food disappeared, he was very clear that Guo Qiang would not let him go.
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