frightfiction Chapter 1066 Two brutal kicks turned the painting to ashes
Chapter 1066 Two brutal kicks turned the painting to ashes
The large lock on the room furthest to the side was also pulled open by Leng Rongyue. Strangely, the room next to it, where the dowry was kept, was only filled with some tables, chairs, and miscellaneous items...
However, the room was quite clean, especially the floor.
Leng Rongyue and Xiao Jingyu both felt something was off, so they began to search carefully...
Upon closer inspection, I actually found something...
There is a large cabinet against the wall, and there are some minor scratches on the floor tiles at the base of the cabinet, indicating that the cabinet has been moved.
Xiao Jingyu used both hands to forcefully move the cabinet away...
Sure enough, there was a hidden door behind the cabinet.
The space inside the hidden door was small, only about ten steps square.
Dozens of boxes were neatly stacked against the wall inside.
Leng Rongyue opened one... and unsurprisingly... it was silver!
Received!
After the two came out, Xiao Jingyu put the cabinet back in its place.
If you tap elsewhere... the sound will be solid.
The two then left, locking the door behind them as before!
"Shall we go and congratulate the newly crowned Princess Yi?"
Leng Rongyue said with a smile.
Xiao Jingyu naturally agreed!
Time was of the essence, and Xiao Jingyu was too lazy to go through the gates and walk around. He directly led Leng Rongyue over several walls and rooftops, and in the blink of an eye, they landed in Shui Simiao's courtyard.
The courtyard was full of women, and Xiao Jingyu, to avoid suspicion, didn't wander around, so he found a secluded spot to wait.
Leng Rongyue then walked directly towards the main house.
I added some food to the room first, just in case someone wakes up and starts shouting, which would be a hassle!
Leng Rongyue is so busy packing things tonight that she's almost numb!
She couldn't be bothered to look at the furnishings in the room anymore; her principle was simple—she would accept anything except people!
Leng Rongyue went in swiftly and came out just as quickly!
After meeting up with Xiao Jingyu, they went to find Shui Simiao's dowry.
Although a concubine is still a concubine, as a concubine in the royal palace, she has a slightly higher status than an ordinary concubine.
Although Shui Simiao was born out of wedlock, her father was the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.
The Ministry of Revenue is a fertile field, and Mizusawa Asahi, as the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, will not be too poor!
Moreover, his daughter was to marry Prince Yi as a concubine, so the dowry couldn't be too small!
If they give too little, it will be embarrassing for both the Vice Minister's Mansion and the Prince Yi's Mansion!
Leng Rongyue guessed correctly.
Looking at this room full of dowry, it's estimated that when Shui Simiao married into the Prince Yi's mansion, she brought with her at least fifty or sixty loads of dowry!
“Your Highness Prince Yu, you can afford such a large dowry... If her father, Lord Shui, relied solely on his salary from the imperial court... I'm afraid he couldn't afford it, could he?”
At this point, Leng Rongyue pointed to the chests and cabinets in the room and winked at Xiao Jingyu, "How about... we visit Minister Shui's residence sometime?"
"OK!
Jingyu is always ready to oblige!
Just then, the sound of the fourth watch gong came from outside.
"We need to hurry!"
The two quickened their pace and hurried toward Xiao Jingyi's study.
Without even checking the situation in the study, Xiao Jingyu gently pushed open the door, applied the spray drug, and then the two of them swaggered into Xiao Jingyi's study.
There were only three people in the study at this time.
Xiao Jingyi was lying on the bed;
The servant boy, Chang Gui, was crookedly sitting on the footrest in front of the bed;
The physician, Wen Chang, was slumped in a chair to the side.
Leng Rongyue only glanced at the inner room where Xiao Jingyi was lying before putting away all the furniture and decorations in the study.
After knocking for a while, and hearing only solid sounds, Leng Rongyue and Xiao Jingyu went straight into the inner room.
With the tables and cabinets all put away, one side of the room was now empty.
Neither Leng Rongyue nor Xiao Jingyu would show kindness to Xiao Jingyi indiscriminately!
Regardless of whether the ground was cold or not, and regardless of whether Xiao Jingyi was cold lying on the ground, Xiao Jingyu walked over, first pulled the servant Changgui, who was lying slumped on the footstool, aside, and then directly pulled off the quilt, dragged Xiao Jingyi off the bed, and threw him onto the open ground to the side.
With the bed empty, Leng Rongyue simply stored it away in her spatial storage.
Although I was somewhat disgusted that this bed had been used by Xiao Jingyi, this mother-of-pearl inlaid Thousand Merit Canopy Bed was indeed a fine piece of furniture, and it looked worth a lot of silver. It would be good to exchange it for silver later and use it for disaster relief and helping the poor!
Seeing that only the physician Wen Chang was still sitting crookedly in the chair, Leng Rongyue had a slight thought. In the blink of an eye, the chair disappeared, and Physician Wen Chang fell to the ground with a thud, then collapsed to the side!
Leng Rongyue took away the last painting on the wall, revealing a small hidden compartment more than two feet high and one foot wide behind the scroll.
Leng Rongyue thought that a hidden compartment that could be discovered so easily usually didn't contain anything very precious or secret.
Whether Leng Rongyue guessed wrong or not, the door to the hidden compartment opened, and inside there was nothing but a scroll standing at an angle.
The scroll was unfurled, and this time it was Leng Rongyue's turn to lose her composure...
Leng Rongyue was so angry that her brows furrowed, her beautiful eyes widened, and she bit her lower lip tightly with her silver teeth.
The cold, melting moonlight!
This painting...it's clearly a portrait of myself—
She wore a simple, elegant dress, and a veiled hat with the veil partially lifted, revealing her face...
This...this is exactly how I looked in the main hall of Shuntian Prefecture!
What a Xiao Jingyi!
Enraged, Leng Rongyue kicked Xiao Jingyi hard on the ground... Not satisfied, she kicked him twice more!
Xiao Jingyu peeked over and saw clearly who the person in the painting was.
Before Xiao Jingyu could speak, Leng Rongyue placed the painting directly against the only candle in the room.
The painting quickly caught fire... Soon, only the top and bottom rods of the scroll remained, while the painting itself turned to ashes!