Chapter 337 The Great Gold Sweep: A Huge Hole Appears in the Roof
Lin Luoxi quietly left Shang Youwei's study again to meet up with Xie Hanchuan.
Unexpectedly, just as she stepped outside the study door, Lin Xingman's voice rang out again from inside the room.
"Master, those dozen or so flowerpots in front of the study are also all made of pure gold..."
"Really? Then I won't be polite," Lin Luoxi, who was about to leave, turned back, her eyes fixed on the row of neatly stacked flowerpots.
"Wow, these flowerpots are all the size of small water tanks. If they were really made of gold, how much gold would it take!"
To verify whether the flowerpots were truly made of gold, Lin Luoxi even pulled out a dagger from her boot and made a cut on a flowerpot the size of a water tank.
Seeing the gold revealed where she had torn it, Lin Luoxi happily praised Lin Xingman in her spatial dimension and immediately put all the dozen or so flowerpots into her space.
Lin Xingman, who was inside the space, never expected that she would help Lin Luoxi find valuable treasures, especially the golden items, simply by using her special skills.
Overjoyed, he worked even harder to help Lin Luoxi find valuables.
Having acquired so many treasures, Lin Luoxi lightly went to find Xie Hanchuan. Before she could share her gains with him, Xie Hanchuan pulled her behind the artificial hill in the Minister of Rites' house.
Xie Hanchuan placed his hand on a protruding rock in the artificial hill, causing the hill to sway slightly.
The artificial hill, about the height of a person, in front of them immediately moved to the left, revealing a passage that could only accommodate one person at a time.
Seeing this, Xie Hanchuan's face showed an expression of "I knew it," and he immediately pulled Lin Luoxi and went into the artificial mountain passage.
"I've noticed that these people really like to hide things behind artificial hills," Lin Luoxi muttered as she followed Xie Hanchuan toward the cave in the artificial hill.
As soon as she finished speaking, her eyes lit up. "Brother Hanchuan, do you think this Minister of Rites has some connection with the mayor of Black Rock Town?"
"I guess there is..." Xie Hanchuan replied to Lin Luoxi with a serious expression, carefully avoiding the switches in the artificial mountain, and slowly walked into the tunnel in the artificial mountain.
The two walked for quite a while in the narrow passage, like in a tunnel warfare guerrilla war, before light appeared ahead.
"This is..." Lin Luoxi looked at the light ahead with great curiosity, but a bad premonition welled up in her heart.
"Come on, look ahead..." Upon seeing the light, Xie Hanchuan didn't hesitate for a moment and quickly pulled Lin Luoxi toward the light.
"Heavens, this is a dragon robe..." The two arrived at the light, which was the end of the passage, which was illuminated by several luminous pearls. It was a room-sized space filled with silver notes and treasures.
Most eye-catching was the golden, gleaming dragon robe on the clothes rack in the very center, embroidered with nine lifelike golden dragons in gold thread…
"What is Shang Youwei planning to do? To seize power?" Lin Luoxi gasped when she saw the dragon robe.
"Hmph! You should know that his daughter is the emperor's most favored Consort Shang, and he has a son who was named the fifth prince of Xiao."
Xie Hanchuan seemed to know a lot about the intricate relationships between these old foxes. Knowing that Lin Luoxi was curious, he immediately explained it to her in detail.
"You mean that Prince Xiao wants to become emperor, and this maternal grandfather is preparing for Prince Xiao in advance?"
Lin Luoxi wasn't particularly interested in this relationship, but she still didn't believe that Shang Youwei had prepared the dragon robe for his grandson.
Throughout history, there have been numerous examples of people who treated their grandsons as puppets while they themselves held true power.
"The human heart is the hardest thing to guess, who knows!" Xie Hanchuan looked at the dragon robe, feeling utterly ironic.
The Xiao family always thought they could sit comfortably in that position, but little did they know that someone was already eyeing their bedside. This can be considered retribution.
Lin Luoxi didn't go for the dragon robe or the gold and silver treasures around it, but instead took the book next to the dragon robe that recorded the names.
After looting the Minister of Rites, Lin Luoxi and Xie Hanchuan didn't let the remaining two old foxes off the hook either. They treated them equally, sweeping them all up before heading back home.
"Let's go, we've had a great day!"
"If it works out, I'll definitely give Xiao Jingchen a good beating." Lin Luoxi wanted to hand over the account books she got today to Xiao Jingchen to handle.
"You'd better not go in person, otherwise, there will be no way to explain the loss of these treasures." Xie Hanchuan felt that even if he gave the account books to Xiao Jingchen, there was no need to go in person.
"Don't worry, we won't go ourselves..." Lin Luoxi said, then pulled Xie Hanchuan along, quickly skimming across the rooftops of the large building in the capital.
Through the roof tiles above the study of the Ninth Prince's mansion, one could see Xiao Jingchen still handling official business.
Lin Luoxi packed the ledgers that Lin Xingman had organized into a box, a playful smile curving her lips.
With a forceful movement, he immediately sent the evidence containing the corrupt officials into Xiao Jingchen's study, just a step away from him.
After witnessing the box fall, Lin Luoxi grabbed Xie Hanchuan and quickly flew into the night. In just a few breaths, their figures disappeared into the darkness.
"ah!"
"Who? Guards, catch the assassin..." Xiao Jingchen, who was focused on handling official business, never expected that something like this would fall from his roof in the middle of the night, giving him a fright.
Upon hearing Xiao Jingchen's words, Jifeng, Leiming, Shandian, Fengbao, and others led the guards and rushed into the room.
Seeing the startled Xiao Jingchen and the large box that suddenly appeared in front of his desk, they immediately surrounded him warily.
The shadow guards, who were hiding in the shadows, rushed up to the roof the moment Xiao Jingchen exclaimed in surprise, but returned empty-handed.
"Your Highness, are you alright?" Seeing that Xiao Jingchen's gaze was fixed on the roof, Ji Feng followed Xiao Jingchen's gaze and looked up.
The once intact roof now has a large hole, the size of which is the same as that of the large box.
"Your Highness..."
"Don't ask me, I don't know either." Coming back to his senses, Xiao Jingchen heard Ji Feng's voice, and his temples throbbed.
He suddenly realized that his subordinate had started calling him "Your Highness" at the slightest provocation, which was really giving him a headache.
"Quickly open that box and see what's inside."
Xiao Jingchen had an inexplicable intuition about the large box he was looking at.
They had a feeling that what was inside the box was the clue they had been searching for but couldn't find.
"Yes!" Ji Feng took two steps forward, drew his sword from his waist, and with a single swing, the lock on the large box was instantly cleaved off.
He used the tip of his sword to pry open the box, revealing a collection of ledgers inside.
"Your Highness, it looks like an account book..." Ji Feng carefully took out one, flipped through it, and his expression changed instantly.
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