"Open the bookshelf!" Seventeen said to the guard who was standing there dumbfounded, no matter how much the woman in purple threw a tantrum, she was determined to move it.
The guards pulled the bookshelf aside, revealing a wall. Seeing that Seventeen remained unmoved, the woman in purple had no choice but to get up from the ground.
Seventeen hurriedly went to the wall and knocked on it, looking for a hidden compartment. But after knocking for a long time, he couldn't find one.
Seventeen was somewhat dejected. He turned back to look at the woman in purple and saw that she was staring at the wall with a somewhat nervous expression.
"That's right, there must be something wrong with this wall, otherwise why would she be so nervous?" Seventeen thought to herself.
Seventeen then touched the entire wall again, but still couldn't find anything strange about it.
Seventeen found it strange. The woman was clearly very concerned about the bookshelf and the wall, so why couldn't he find anything suspicious?
"My lord, why don't we knock on this wall and take a look?" At this moment, one of the guards suddenly said, "People from my hometown have a habit of hiding things in the walls."
When the Seventeenth Prince heard this, his eyes were still focused on the woman in purple, and he saw that she was indeed terrified.
"Alright, bring a hammer and pry this wall open!" said the Seventeenth Master. He wouldn't rest until he caught Lou Zhiting, this parasite who was harming the area.
“My lord, this mansion belongs to our master. How can you damage it like this?” the woman in purple said. “Sisters, let’s fight him.”
Seventeen immediately ordered his guards to stop the crazed women and drive them out of the study, forbidding them from hindering his demolition of the wall.
The guards found large iron sledgehammers and began hammering at the wall. It took more than a dozen blows before cracks began to appear. Seventeen found the wall increasingly strange, though it was far more sturdy than ordinary walls.
As the wall cracked open, one or two gold ingots suddenly rolled out from inside, and they were both gleaming gold ingots!
What a Lou Zhiting! He actually buried the filthy silver directly in the wall! If that guard hadn't mentioned the custom of his hometown, I would never have guessed!
The guards immediately quickened their knocking on the wall, and gold ingots rolled out with each knock.
Seeing that all was lost, the woman in purple standing at the door slumped to the ground in despair, tears streaming down her face.
The Seventeenth Prince ordered his guards to knock down the entire wall, and finally counted the gold and silver ingots they found inside, totaling 20,000 taels of gold and 100,000 taels of silver.
"What else do you have to say? Your master is a benevolent ruler who loves his people like his own children, and he is incorruptible?" Seventeen said, glancing sideways at the woman in purple sitting on the ground.
The Seventeenth Prince ordered that the silver embezzled by Lou Zhiting be packed into boxes, and then confined all of Lou's family members to the mansion. Of course, the concubine who had initially come forward to accuse Lou Zhiting was secretly released by the Seventeenth Prince.
Others were already struggling to survive, so they wouldn't care about her. If Lou Zhiting was convicted, their fate would be exile or being enslaved by the Imperial Household Department.
Meanwhile, Duolong subjected the men in black to severe torture, but they remained silent no matter how much he beat them, as if they had taken a mute drug.
Just when Seventeen and Duolong were in a difficult situation, Lou Zhiting's wife suddenly sent someone to tell her that she had something to say, but on the condition that her two children be released.
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