What Yao Xu has the most in his life are women and sons. So what if he loves the one he loves the most? If someone dares to cheat on him, this so-called beloved son can be replaced at any time.
The two people who were curled up on the ground were quickly stabbed to pieces by him, and blood was all over the ground, which was particularly creepy to look at.
In just a moment, the entire mansion began to cry and screams came from every courtyard.
"Ah!!! Where's my jade bracelet!"
"The gold ingots are gone too!"
"Why did the Ruyi Hairpin break into two pieces?"
"Where's the banknote?! Tell me! Did you, a lowly slave, steal it?"
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Yao Xu was having a headache because of the noises from his concubines. He wanted to drink some tea to calm his nerves, but the table was empty.
Only then did he remember that he had swept the last set of tea sets in the house to the ground with just a wave of his hand.
Who on earth dared to rob his mansion?
Seeing her cries were futile, one of the usually favored concubines struggled forward, clutching Yao Xu's trouser legs in a pitiful manner. She wailed, "If it were only my own courtyard that was robbed, it would be fine, but I just feel sorry for you, Master. I heard that in the entire mansion, only the Madam's courtyard had two gatekeepers fainted."
"By the way, where is my wife?" After being reminded, Yao Xujing remembered that his wife Yun had never appeared.
"I'm here." Yun stood in the corridor, followed by her nanny and trusted maid.
Yun had been informed by the nanny about what happened in the mansion tonight. A thief who came from nowhere emptied the entire prefectural mansion.
Oh, no, except her yard.
Yun appeared calm on the surface, but inside she felt extremely happy.
I heard from the nanny that two maids guarding the gate of her yard were also knocked unconscious. I guess the thief had no intention of letting her go, but in the end he only knocked out the two maids and did not take any further action.
Yun also heard that her useless husband's study had been dug out three feet deep into the ground, and she must have hated him very much.
So she probably guessed why the other party didn't touch her yard. It was probably because her scolding of Yao Xu at that time touched the other party's heart.
"Madam, you..." Yao Xu's expression was complicated. Even though she knew that this matter was of great importance and had nothing to do with her, it was indeed the only courtyard in the mansion where she was alone that was calm and peaceful, and nothing had happened.
"What? Since when has a concubine who was born as the top concubine been able to get close to the mistress of the house?" Yun glanced at the beautiful girls on the ground, and her heart became more determined to divorce.
The concubine on the ground quickly prostrated herself and said, "That's not what I meant."
"Mei'er didn't mean that." Seeing his concubine crying, Yao Xu couldn't bear it.
If there weren't outsiders present, Yun would have wanted to roll her eyes at him. He couldn't even protect himself, yet he was still acting like a hero in front of his concubine.
Fortunately, she has no children, otherwise she would have been stabbed to death by my sword if she was not careful.
This man is really cold-blooded and ruthless. He kills his son and concubine without any authorization.
"Don't worry, Master. From now on I won't care whether you sleep with me or not." After Yun finished speaking, she asked the nanny to take out the divorce documents that had been prepared long ago and threw them at Yao Xu's feet.
"Yun'er, what do you mean?" Yao Xu cast a look that he considered affectionate.
"After all, you were born into a second-class Jinshi family, and you even forgot how to write the word 'divorce'?" Yun doubted whether he knew how disgusting he looked.
"Yun'er, I won't divorce you." Yao Xu firmly objected, "I promised your brother that I would treat you well for the rest of my life—"
"Bah! Don't mention my brother! I'm afraid he'll be so mad at you that he'll come up here to look for you in the middle of the night!" Yun interrupted him loudly, "I'm moving out tonight! Don't try to stop me!"
Marrying him as a second wife was the most shameful decision Yun had ever made in her life.
Yao Xu wanted to stop him, but she couldn't. The people that Yun's eldest brother left for her were not pushovers, otherwise how could Yun remain the legal wife despite being childless for so many years.
What's more, the most important thing for him now is not to save the Yun family, but to find out who is so arrogant and dares to bully him!
It's not that he didn't suspect the Song and Gu families in Guizhou, but this suspicion was quickly rejected.
Even if the two families were lucky enough to reach Guizhou, they didn't have the ability to do so. Some of them died, some were injured, and they probably don't even have a house to shelter from the wind and rain.
Who was it? Yao Xu suspected that King Yu had hired some martial arts masters to do this.
The kid from the Qi family controls all of the Qi family's businesses in Jiangnan and other parts of Dayue.
As long as he can get the token of the head of the Qi family's business from him, there will be no need to worry about money.
So what if King Yu's second uncle remarried the daughter of the second richest businessman in Jiangnan? Compared with the Qi family, the Zhou family's money is not even enough to give them a snack.
After the Yun family moved out, the entire mansion was completely empty, and not even the sound of coins dropping to the ground could be heard.
The beginning of the month was the day to distribute the monthly salary. After the mistress of the house left, the people below turned to Concubine Yu for help.
Now that there is no mistress in the mansion, among the concubines who have sons, only Concubine Yu’s son is the oldest.
Concubine Yu has been oppressed for many years. Suddenly, she straightened her back and regarded herself as the future wife of the prefect.
But before she could have this beautiful dream for long, the housekeeper came to tell her that there was not a penny left in the mansion. Because the masters had to use fresh vegetables and meat every day, the leftovers in the kitchen were not enough for everyone in the mansion to have a meal, and the servants were still waiting for their monthly salary.
This was the first time Yu had encountered such a situation and she didn't know what to do, so she hurried to the study to discuss it with her husband.
Yao Xu, who was already dizzy from what happened at night, became completely furious after she pestered him like this.
"If you don't have money, can't you go to the shop to buy it?! And don't you know how to move the rice stored in the farm in the suburbs?!"
Yu was scolded so badly that she immediately asked the housekeeper to go to the shop and the farm to collect money and move rice.
But their trip was in vain after all.
When the butler and the servant went to the silk shop, they found it was empty, without even a piece of cloth left.
In the pastry shop, all the high-quality pastries that sold well were gone, and the remaining low-quality pastries were used by the masters to reward their servants.
The situation of the other shops was similar. Without exception, all the money was gone. Every shop was like a swarm of locusts, leaving not a single cent.
The housekeeper then rushed to the farm without stopping. No matter what, he couldn't let the masters go hungry so early in the morning, otherwise it would be these servants who would be in trouble.
Unfortunately, the situation in the village was not much better. Except for the farmhands' own rations, all the fine rice and grains in the granary that were ready to be sent to the government office had disappeared.
This left the butler and the servants completely dumbfounded.
In order to maintain his image as a good official, Yao Xu did not own many shops and farms in Xinzhou. Most of his property was managed by his confidants in the capital.
Several shops in Xinzhou and farmlands in the suburbs were looted. Upon hearing the news, Yao Xu vomited blood.
The culprit, Song Wan, was driving a cart and distributing the last cart of grain.
In the dozen or so villages outside Xinzhou City, Song Wan threw a twenty-liang silver ingot and some cloth, rice and flour looted from shops and farms into the yard of every household.
"Now Yao Xu has become the poorest person in Xinzhou City." Song Wan was really happy just thinking about it.
She didn't know why, but she particularly hated Yao Xu. Song Wan didn't feel guilty at all for taking all his money.
"I guess he's so angry that he's about to vomit blood." Gu Yanji's words hit the nail on the head.
"I wonder if that beautiful woman has successfully divorced?" Song Wan, who was still unsatisfied, suddenly wanted to go back and take another look.
"I remember that Yao Xu's wife was a second marriage." The Yun family of Zezhou once produced a brave general, but unfortunately he died young in the rebellion when he came to support Jinzhou.
"Then what kind of luck does he have?" Song Wan was even more confused.
In the last days, marriage can no longer constrain relationships between men and women, but at least the more powerful a person is, the more worthy he is of the opposite sex.
"Yao Xu was a second-class Jinshi back then. He also had a younger sister who was a concubine in the palace, and his father was the Minister of Revenue at the time. Although he lost his wife and had no children at an early age, they were still a good match in terms of status alone." Putting aside other things, Gu Yanji spoke calmly.
"How can they be a good match?" Song Wan suddenly felt that Gu Yanji was not as likable as before. "A widower with a bunch of concubines is paired with a beautiful woman. Why does the beautiful woman always suffer the loss?"
Gu Yan was anxious just to mention the prospects, and had no intention of standing on Yao Xu's side. He didn't even have time to hate her.
But obviously, Song Wan misunderstood him.
"So you're still going to beat him up?" Gu Yanji immediately made his position clear in a roundabout way, "While it's still early."
Song Wan almost forgot about this and was only concerned with throwing silver. "Beat him! Of course I have to beat him!"
Gu Yan smiled anxiously and held her hand. Apart from the thin layer of calluses on the palm, the rest of her hand was soft. "But before you beat me, you should replenish it more."
Song Wan was very satisfied with his self-conscious attitude. She had been busy all night. If it weren't for the support of her mental strength, she would have been so tired that her eyelids would have been fighting each other.
"Then use a little more force, don't be like yesterday, tickling me." She found that as long as he was stronger, she would absorb it extra quickly, as if she had returned to the state when she first absorbed it on Qingyun Mountain.
Gu Yan was anxious… Yesterday she said his strength was like a cat scratch, but today it just became a tickle.
He tightened his grip amusingly, increasing his strength to maintain a level that wouldn't hurt her.
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After Song Wan and Gu Yan hurried back to the city, the streets had changed a lot. At least there were inexplicably fewer beggars on the streets.
Every household looked out and talked about it. Song Wan listened carefully and found that they were all talking about the burglary in Yao Xu's mansion.
"Have you heard that all the money in our prefect's house was stolen?"
"And, the shop was also emptied out. My eldest daughter-in-law's second aunt's husband's aunt's little daughter wanted to buy a piece of red cloth for her wedding dress this morning, but she couldn't find any!"
"Is this true?! My Lord, who dares to steal?"
"Of course it's true. I heard that the mansion couldn't even pay out the servants' monthly wages today!"
A few old women were discussing when they saw soldiers coming out for patrol. They quickly packed up their leftover melon seeds and candies and went home.
After returning home, Mrs. Zhang looked through the crack in the door and waited until the soldiers left before calling her two daughters-in-law and son. She repeatedly told the four of them not to tell anyone about the twenty taels of silver that had inexplicably appeared in the house last night.
Zhang Da was a simple and honest man. He scratched his head and asked, "Mom, do you think this silver belongs to the prefect?"
Mrs. Zhang raised her hand and slapped him in the face. "Pah! Pah! What prefect?! This is the God of Wealth who took pity on our family and gave us aid. Don't go out and say anything nonsense!"
Zhang Da wanted to say, "But——"
Mrs. Zhang put her hands on her hips and rolled her eyes at him, "But what but? Even if it's from the prefect, so what?! Taxes have been increasing exponentially over the past few years. Consider this little bit of money as compensation from him!"
When talking about the taxes that were getting heavier every year, Zhang Da fell silent.
After listening to the family's whispers, Song Wan remembered that this was a wonton shop. She had eaten a bowl of wontons when she visited the Lantern Festival yesterday. It was delicious.
Later, I accidentally heard an old lady complaining that selling wontons on the street these days requires paying several kinds of taxes, which is simply not enough to make a living.
So Song Wan ended up throwing some silver into her house.
She thought simply that with these twenty taels, this wonton shop should be able to last until she comes next time.
"Let's go, let's go beat someone up." After listening to what was said in the corner, Song Wan contentedly asked Gu Yanji to lead the way. She wanted to go to the prefect's residence.
When Song Wan flew to the roof of the study, she happened to meet a secret guard. Under the other's shocked gaze, she twisted his neck with a whip.
It was his bad luck that he saw her and Gu Yan’s anxious faces.
It would be less satisfying to just beat someone up than to scare him first and then beat him up, so Song Wan changed her mind temporarily.
Song Wan used the whip to wrap the man up to ensure he wouldn't fall, then said to Gu Yan anxiously, "Hold him for me first. I'll go scare the guy named Yao out, and then you put him down upside down. Remember not to fall yourself."
She was like a grown man who was going out to earn a living, and she was telling her young wife who stayed at home not to hurt herself while cutting vegetables.
Gu Yanji was stuffed with a whip and a dead person was tied to the end.
He was quite helpless in response to her worry and could only chuckle and say, "Okay, I will try my best not to hold you back."
Song Wan nodded. "I believe in your strength, and I just left a spiritual force in your body. It will save you at the critical moment."
Gu Yan was surprised and asked, "You left that ability in my body?"
Song Wan didn't deny it. "Yes, in fact, you yourself possess an inexhaustible supply of spiritual power, but it's a pity that you can't use it."
Gu Yanji is not a psychic and will never be able to control this kind of mental power. Since he has gained benefits, Song Wan will definitely protect him well as a way of repaying him.
"You don't want it?" Song Wan frowned, referring to the mental power remaining in his body.
"No, I like it very much." Gu Yanji curled the corners of her lips, "But I want to know, are you only keeping it in me, or are you keeping it in other people too?"
"Of course you can't be the only one who has it." Song Wan said as a matter of course, "I kept it for my mom, dad, A Yue, my sisters-in-law, and my second aunt's family."
Gu Yan was anxious... her heart, which was half jumping for joy, suddenly shattered.
Song Wan continued, "By the way, I'll keep your family too."
Gu Yanji felt as if another sharp arrow whizzed by and pierced into his heart.
"So I'm the last one?" From the only one to the last one, this change made Gu Yan's heart sink with anxiety.
"Yes." She admitted it straightforwardly, without noticing anything unusual about him.
Gu Yan looked anxiously into her clear eyes, and suddenly felt that if he wanted to get married, he had a long and arduous journey ahead of him.
Song Wan thought that it was his male pride that was getting in the way. After all, she was much better than him, making him seem useless.
So she decided to comfort him a little, "Actually, you are still quite powerful, it's just that you ran into me, otherwise I wouldn't be the last one to use mental power on you."
So it was because of this, but even so, Gu Yanji found that she didn't feel much better.
"So, don't be discouraged." Song Wan felt like she had given him all her patience. She had never been so patient with anyone other than women and children. "When we get back, I'll teach Song Qi and the others some exercise techniques. Will you practice with them then?"
Although she thought that with Gu Yanji's strength, her tricks would not have much effect on him, but there is a saying that goes, people tend to think about random things when they are idle.
Gu Yan was so anxious that he didn't know what to say. He had a premonition that if he really started training with Song Qi and the others, then in her heart, he would be no different from those secret guards.
This wouldn't do, so Gu Yan hurriedly interrupted her thinking and said, "Yao Xu will be out soon."
Song Wan's attention was finally diverted. She loosened her hand and covered her face with a face towel. "Then I'll go down first."
Then he leaped down, lighter than the wind.
In the study, Yao Xu became more and more angry after listening to the reports from the housekeeper and the secret guards who went out to investigate.
He paced back and forth, his voice sharp, "What do you mean by no trace at all? What about the city gate? Was there any strict inspection? With so much silver, could it all have flown away?"
Song Wan leaned against the door, listening to every word, and thought to herself, he really has grown legs, but they are horse legs.
Yao Xu was tired of scolding, and his stomach suddenly started to growl, echoing throughout the study, and then his face turned pale and blue.
Now there is not a penny left in the mansion. He has been busy all night and only ate two rough cakes. How can he not be hungry?
The butler and secret guards kneeling below lowered their heads even more, fearing that they would be the next targets to be killed as a warning to others.
After the noise stopped, Yao Xu continued to speak, but this time his voice was a little weaker, "Does this have anything to do with King Yu at this time? And was the kid from the Qi family taken away by King Yu's people?"
The secret guard immediately reported the information he had found, "Master, we have not found any connection between this incident and King Yu."
As the saying goes, a passing goose leaves traces. Unless you are a great immortal, you will always leave more or less traces after doing something.
They checked and found that although King Yu had also been tracking the news of the boy from the Qi family, and there were several times when the two sides almost collided head-on, before entering Xinzhou City, they had already arranged for a fake boy from the Qi family to get on the carriage to Yizhou.
King Yu was indeed fooled and sent out 80% of his men to chase after him.
No matter how powerful the remaining 20% were, it was impossible for them to sneak into Xinzhou City silently, turn the place upside down, and then escape without leaving any trace.
"Who did it? Didn't you find out anything?" It was still the same few words over and over again. Yao Xu began to doubt whether it was right for him to spend so much money to train them.
When he thought of the silver, his heart ached again.
He couldn't figure out how the other party had emptied the entire mansion without leaving a single penny.
"Master, do we think it's possible that this was done by people from the Guizhou region?"
"Do you think I'm stupid?" The more Yao Xu listened, the more he felt he had wasted his money. "Gu Yan was so anxious, it's good enough that he can stand up now. Why would he come to Xinzhou? Is that possible?"
"But..." the secret guard wanted to say something.
"But what buts? Do you think that someone who was nearly pierced through the heart by an arrow and who the imperial physicians determined would not live more than three months could suddenly get up and run into the mansion to steal silver? Or that sickly, dying prince of the Gu family, who takes three breaths after two steps, don't tell me you can't even beat him!"
Of course, the secret guard did not mean this. He just had a reasonable suspicion. After all, there were still young men who had not escaped from Chunfeng Tower. According to him, there were indeed two strange men who were obviously not from Xinzhou who went to Chunfeng Tower that day, and then something happened in Chunfeng Tower.
And according to the description, he doesn't look like King Yu's man, but rather looks a bit like the young general of the Gu family.
Song Wan, who was listening with great interest outside, couldn't stand it anymore. It would be fine if you were angry and violent towards your own subordinates, but why did you insult others with words?
Are you proud of poisoning others? It seems that you owe them a lesson.
When Song Wan was ready to attack, the person inside suddenly spoke again.
Despite the roar, Yao Xu still listened to what the secret guard said. He paced back and forth, not stopping. "Well, find a few more people, disguise yourself and go to Qiandi secretly. See how many of those two families are still alive. Remember to kill them all, leaving no one alive!"
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