Wu Ying picked up the medicine box and gold ingots from the ground, but was stunned by Shang Xi Ye's "try putting them down" look and stood there, not knowing how to react.
Shang Xiye glanced menacingly at the crowd of onlookers who were there to watch the drama unfold, then turned his wheelchair and left.
We were halfway there.
Ji Fengyao, who was skipping and hopping happily ahead, suddenly turned around and saw Wuying carrying a pile of junk while Shang Xiye turned her wheelchair around. She quickly ran back and put everything Wuying was carrying on Shang Xiye's lap.
"I already told you, put it on the prince so he can run faster," Ji Fengyao whispered to the two of them.
Shadowless: "..."
Shang Xiye: "...Runs fast?"
"Ah, all the best and most valuable things inside are with me," Ji Fengyao said, waving the hand holding the storage ring. "I was the only one who went in just now. If they take inventory now and find that something is missing, they'll definitely call us back for questioning. They won't find anything, but it'll be a hassle. Let's go home and eat early; I'm starving."
Upon hearing the last few words, "I'm starving to death," Shang Xiye loosened her grip on the gold ingots in her bosom, which she had been resisting immensely, and instead spread her sleeves to cover up those shameful, nouveau riche gold ingots.
Wuying pursed her lips tightly, unable to suppress a burst of inward laughter, and pushed her silly and adorable master, walking with a brisk pace.
In fact, Ji Fengyao was overthinking it. In the eyes of the guards and Eunuch De, she didn't take much, so they didn't even send anyone to the national treasury to count it.
Back in the Imperial Study, Eunuch De reported the good news to the Emperor with great relief, saying, "The Ninth Princess Consort doesn't know her stuff. Besides a few medicinal herbs, she only took a few large gold ingots."
Hearing this, Emperor Shang Xiche's anxious heart finally settled down, and he continued to worry about his hidden illness.
Unexpectedly, a major incident occurred in the palace that very night: a group of powerful masked men in black broke into the national treasury, taking whatever they could find, and looting a great deal of gold, silver, and rare treasures.
The emperor awoke with a start and went to the national treasury to order an inventory. In addition to a large amount of gold and silver, many strange and unusual items were missing. He was both heartbroken and completely baffled.
Why go through all that trouble to rob the national treasury? Why not take more rare treasures, gold and silver, and instead take those strange and unusual things?
Is it because they don't know its value?
The robbers didn't know their value...
Shang Xiche immediately thought of Ji Chenhai and his son. His face darkened, and he said sternly, "Go and investigate what Marquis Anping and his son are doing?"
Gao Chengwei immediately dispatched his trusted confidants, including his cousin Gao Lang, to leave the palace and head straight for the Marquis of Anping's residence.
The Anping Marquis's residence was quiet. Except for Ji Fengming, everyone else was sleeping soundly and vulgarly, the kind of sound that wouldn't wake you even if you were tickled.
Gao Lang asked the informant who had been keeping watch nearby, and the informant said that Ji Fengming had gone out drinking and carousing with a guard from the Ninth Prince's mansion.
When Gao Lang arrived at Cuihonglou, he found Ji Fengming and Xiao Chen indeed drinking and carousing together.
The two were surrounded by brightly dressed girls, who were already flushed from drinking and had clearly been there for quite some time.
Noticing that someone was staring at them, Ji Fengming became even more unrestrained while drinking, embracing a beauty on each side and drinking cup after cup with their hands, his laughter audible from afar.
This trick was originally Black Owl's specialty, but now that he sees Ji Fengming like this, he doesn't want to act like this anymore. How greasy!
However, one must act like one when drinking with courtesans. He leaned against the beauty beside him, leisurely pouring himself a drink, occasionally taking a sip fed to him by the beauty.
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