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So, a moment later.
Suddenly, lightning flashed and thunder roared across the clear blue sky, and the thunder continued to rumble. Everyone in the Hall of Mental Cultivation was puzzled and looked out through the now-empty rooftops at the azure sky.
Suddenly, two thick bolts of lightning struck down towards the Emperor and Zhou Jingshu!
Before anyone could react, the emperor in his yellow robe and the chief minister in his purple official robe had already fallen to the ground.
Their bodies and faces were covered in black soot, and wisps of black smoke were even rising from their mouths.
"emperor!!"
"Quickly, quickly, summon the imperial physician! Quickly, summon the imperial physician!!"
No one cared about the situation in the Hall of Mental Cultivation or the nature of the lightning strike. Everyone in the hall rushed forward and tightly surrounded the emperor, who was charred by the lightning.
Meanwhile, the other Premier Zhou, who was also lying on the ground, was completely ignored, and was even trampled on several times by his colleagues.
The emperor was struck by lightning and knocked unconscious; who would even think of him now?!
Even his son, Zhou Yao, the commander of the Imperial Guards, was surrounded by the emperor along with other ministers.
Seeing this scene, Nan Qing simply snorted and then controlled her five-colored lotus platform to fly out of the palace.
She's going to empty that treacherous official's house too!
"Xiao Ba, go find Tian Dao and make him list all the places where that treacherous minister keeps his silver, as well as all his properties. I want him to become penniless too!!"
"Oh, and list all those treacherous officials who colluded with him too. If we're going to play this game, let's play it big!!"
[Hehe, okay, host, I'll be right there~]
Although Xiao Ba was timid at first, it became quite happy in Nan Qing's spirit tablet after the palace was emptied.
So when he heard that Nanqing wanted to continue playing this game of moving things around, he quickly went to find the Heavenly Dao.
Meanwhile, on the other side was the Crown Prince's residence.
A figure with a black mask covering his face was kneeling on one knee, telling the person behind the desk what was happening inside the palace.
Although his expression couldn't be seen, one could tell from his slightly trembling voice that even a secret guard like him, who had fought his way out of a sea of blood, felt utterly terrified by such a bizarre scene.
"Those two bolts of lightning struck the Emperor and Chief Minister Zhou, and they are both unconscious. It is said that the Imperial Hospital cannot even find a single silver needle or usable herb, and the entire palace is in complete chaos."
After saying this, the guard knelt quietly on the spot, waiting for his master's next instructions.
Even when Jun Beichen, standing behind the desk, heard about everything disappearing without a trace, including the bizarre event of the emperor being struck by lightning, he was not shocked in the slightest.
He patiently finished writing the calligraphy on the table before putting down his brush. Jun Beichen looked at the calligraphy without raising his head and simply said:
"The plan remains unchanged."
"yes!"
After the guards withdrew, Jun Beichen sat down, tapping his right fingertips on the armrest of the chair.
Everything vanished in an instant? That's quite interesting...
As for the old man being struck by lightning?
Ha, it's a bit too late to get struck by lightning now.
Little did he know that both the things he found interesting and the lightning that struck too late were the work of the same person.
Meanwhile, Nan Qing was having a great time.
Guided by Xiao Ba, she flew directly to the sky above the Zhou residence. She was too lazy to check each room one by one. Anyway, the Heavenly Dao wasn't even putting on an act anymore, so she didn't want the cheat code to be too overpowered.
So with a wave of her hand, she directly collected all the roof tiles of all the houses in the Zhou family mansion into her space. Then, starting from the main gate, wherever she went, it was like a locust swarm passing by, or a goose plucking feathers as it flew by.
It wasn't just the gold and silver treasures in each room, but also the tables, chairs, benches, and the like.
Even the things that Madam Zhou and the young masters and ladies of the Zhou family were still clutching tightly in their fear, were all taken away.
Including what they wore on their heads and what they hung on their bodies, not one was left.
If it weren't for Nanqing's feeling that it was inappropriate, they probably wouldn't have kept those clothes either.
The premise of not bringing misfortune upon family members is that the benefits should not extend to family members.
Chief Minister Zhou effectively sidelined the emperor in the court, accepting bribes and selling official positions.
His daughter also manipulated the court in the harem, seduced the emperor, and committed countless misdeeds.
Including Madam Zhou and the other young ladies and gentlemen of the Zhou family, which one of them didn't bully ordinary people at will and kill servants wantonly because the Zhou family was in power?
Even though she doesn't intervene, these people will all be reborn as animals in their next life.
Finally, Nan Qing also looted all the secret rooms beneath the Zhou residence.
How could the list of locations provided by the Heavenly Dao possibly have missed anything?
But this week, Jing Shu was really greedy...
Nan Qing identified the location of the secret chambers and, sitting on the lotus platform, entered those chambers directly from the ground.
There were 50 boxes full of silver in a secret room. She recognized the size of the silver ingots; they were all 20 taels each. There must be at least 100 ingots in each box, right?
If each box contains 100 silver ingots, then one box is worth 2,000 taels; 50 boxes would be worth 100,000 taels!
Moreover, there were ten boxes of gold next to it, all of which were full.
Nanqing was furious with herself after this calculation. When she was empress, she once lost 10,000 taels of silver at a gambling den, which scared her to death.
Because she knew that a string of candied hawthorns cost 5 copper coins, and a meat bun only cost 2 copper coins.
It is said that there is widespread famine in other places and countless people have starved to death, yet so much silver is hidden in a secret room in the Zhou family mansion.
Aaaaaah, that damned traitor!
With her anger about to explode, Nan Qing directly followed the list given by the Heavenly Dao and confiscated all the shops related to Chief Minister Zhou, including all the warehouses.
All of this was plundered from those people, and it should all be returned!
So now it's not just the palace that's bustling, the whole capital is bustling, because many people are watching things disappear right before their eyes.
Even some jewelry shops, grain shops, and restaurants saw all the items—whether it was hairpins or ornaments being held for a closer look, rice or soybeans being examined closely, or even the dishes being served by the waiters in the restaurants—vanish completely in an instant.
Nanqing only disliked the dishes that were already on the table, so she didn't clear them away and left a few tables for them.
So while Nanqing was still frantically collecting money, the entire capital city descended into chaos.
However, not long after, some observant people noticed that only some shops under the name of the current Grand Secretary Zhou had items that had disappeared, and many people had also heard that even the roof tiles, the main gate, and the stone lions at the entrance of the Zhou residence had all disappeared.
So before Nanqing could even finish acquiring all those shops, the capital was already buzzing with discussion.
Almost all of them say that the gods in heaven knew about what the Zhou family had done, and that the Bodhisattva was punishing the Zhou family.
The incident did not affect ordinary people, so everyone was only panicked for a moment before joining in the gossip. The ones who were truly alarmed were the ministers who had some connection with Zhou Jingshu.
They were also afraid that their belongings might suddenly disappear like those in the Zhou household...
However, many officials in the capital waited and waited, but nothing strange happened in their residences, which put their minds at ease. Some even moved their gold and silver valuables overnight.
It wasn't that Nan Qing didn't want to take them in, it's just that she was really tired of it...
So after taking over those places connected to the treacherous minister Zhou, they went straight back to the general's mansion.
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