Filling the Entire System Storage

[What? There's actually gossip this juicy?! I really want to dig in! But I came here today to find the stolen goods You Fengzhe hid! Damn it, I can't have both gossip and silver!]

Jiang Nuan wrestled with the dilemma briefly, but soon made up her mind.

She was going to find the silver!

She could feast on gossip anytime, but if she missed this chance to find silver, it would truly be gone.

[Come on, Guagua, let's go find the silver!]

Jiang Nuan said this to Guagua in her mind, only to open the door and find Jiang Yehua standing right outside.

"F-Fourth Brother, what are you doing here?"

Jiang Nuan asked, feeling a little guilty.

A faint smile curved Jiang Yehua's lips. "Shouldn't I be asking you that? Instead of staying in the palace this late at night, you've turned up at the Pure Brahma Temple. Why exactly is that, Nuannuan?"

Although he knew why Jiang Nuan had come, watching her rack her brains to invent an excuse was rather amusing. Jiang Yehua decided to give his ninth sister's nerves a little teasing.

Jiang Nuan had no idea what he was thinking. Her mind spun furiously as she tried to come up with a reasonable explanation.

Suddenly, she remembered the injured girl in the guest room. "Actually, it's because she's my friend. We were supposed to meet today, but she never showed up. When I learned that she'd last been seen at the Pure Brahma Temple, I wanted to come here and look for her."

Jiang Yehua remained silent, giving no indication whether he believed Jiang Nuan's flimsy excuse.

Just as Jiang Nuan was wondering whether she should patch up her lie a little more, Jiang Yehua nodded.

"So that's how it is."

Seeing that Jiang Yehua believed her, Jiang Nuan regained her smile and returned to her earlier question. "Fourth Brother, you still haven't answered me! Why are you here so late at night?"

Thank goodness her Fourth Brother had come, or her future fourth sister-in-law might have lost her life here tonight!

"This afternoon, Imperial Father's investigation yielded results. You Fengzhe, the Deputy Minister of Revenue, had embezzled funds, but the stolen money remained unaccounted for. Tonight, we received a lead suggesting it might be at the Pure Brahma Temple, so Imperial Father sent me with soldiers to investigate."

Of course, part of the reason was that a certain little imp who had no idea how high the heavens were or how deep the earth was wanted to come here alone to collect money. Did she think this place was a bank, where she could come and go as she pleased?

To keep her from running into danger, they had simply brought soldiers to surround the Pure Brahma Temple.

Jiang Yunsheng felt that whatever Jiang Nuan wanted to do, he should let her do it freely. He would be there to catch her if anything went wrong, after all. He did not want to restrain her too much; otherwise, he could easily have used her inner thoughts to stop her beforehand.

He had even chosen Jiang Yehua, whom Jiang Nuan liked very much, to lead the soldiers.

Hearing this, Jiang Nuan did not know whether to laugh or cry. She wanted to cry because her Imperial Father had already discovered the source of money she had just found, and laugh because it was fortunate he had found it, or things would have gone badly tonight.

With the soldiers searching every inch of the place, the silver You Fengzhe had hidden was soon discovered.

Not daring to act on their own, the soldiers immediately reported it to Jiang Yehua.

"Come on, let's go take a look together."

Holding Jiang Nuan in his arms, Jiang Yehua had a soldier lead the way.

After they walked through a stretch of secret passage, a door appeared. The soldiers had already searched the room beyond it and found nothing dangerous.

Jiang Yehua set Jiang Nuan down and gestured for her to go inside.

Jiang Nuan: ???

"Fourth Brother, what do you mean?"

"There's nothing dangerous inside, but there are a few rather interesting little things. Hurry in quietly and pick out some you like."

Jiang Yehua gave her a faint smile.

Jiang Nuan: !

Could there really be such a wonderful deal?

Jiang Nuan tapped her fingertips together and asked uncertainly, "Fourth Brother, is that really all right?"

"Don't worry. Even Imperial Father doesn't know how much is in here. No one will notice if you take a little. Heaven knows, earth knows, you know, and I know."

Jiang Yehua explained this to Jiang Nuan.

Jiang Nuan's gaze landed on the dumbstruck soldier beside them.

The soldier immediately lowered his head to stare at the tips of his boots.

"Why is the wind so loud tonight? How come I can't hear a thing?"

Watching the soldier's clumsy performance, Jiang Nuan's eyes curved with amusement.

"Thank you, Fourth Brother. I'm going in, then."

Once Jiang Yehua nodded, Jiang Nuan immediately bounded into the room holding the stolen goods.

The moment she entered, the roomful of gleaming silver and glittering gold rooted Jiang Nuan to the spot!

Besides the great quantities of gold and silver, shelves stood nearby, displaying all sorts of precious calligraphy, paintings, porcelain, and more.

[Good heavens! They say even an upright prefect can amass a hundred thousand taels of snow-white silver in three years. How much silver must be here?! There's even more than the previous dynasty's treasure we found in the Lotus Palace last time!]

[Host, strictly speaking, what we found in the Lotus Palace last time wasn't the previous dynasty's treasure. It was the private stash of one of its favored consorts. That consort particularly loved collecting valuable things like gold and silver, and had to count them every night before she could sleep.]

Guagua explained this to Jiang Nuan.

[All that was just one favored consort's private stash?! That's terrifying! How much must the previous dynasty's treasure contain, then?! If only I could find it.]

Jiang Nuan indulged in a little fantasy. Unfortunately, Guagua had yet to dig up any gossip about that treasure.

After savoring that small morsel of gossip, Jiang Nuan wasted no more time. She opened the System Space and began piling gold and silver into it, clunk after clunk, only stopping when the ten-cubic-meter space could not hold even one more fragment of silver.

Looking at the storeroom, which had lost only a twentieth of its contents, Jiang Nuan wished the System Space were a little bigger.

Still, this was already pretty good. She had originally thought she would get nothing at all.

Not wanting to keep Jiang Yehua waiting, Jiang Nuan finished filling the System Space, picked up a few gold ingots, then gathered a Cloisonné Headpiece Set she thought was beautiful into her arms and walked out of the hidden chamber.

Looking at the things Jiang Nuan had taken, Jiang Yehua nodded.

From Jiang Nuan's inner thoughts, he knew she had some sort of System Space where she could put things. What she carried in her hands was merely a disguise.

Jiang Yunsheng had tacitly approved this as well. He could not give Jiang Nuan a large sum of silver outright for fear of arousing her suspicions, so he had to resort to this roundabout method.

"Go fetch some men and have all these things deposited in the imperial treasury."

Jiang Yehua gave the order to the soldier beside him. After the soldier left, he turned to Jiang Nuan and said, "It's late now. Let's make do here for the night and return to the palace tomorrow."

Jiang Nuan nodded.

[Host, host, stay! Tomorrow is the day Huijue hands the goods over to those buyers. Let's stay and catch them all in one net!]

Under Jiang Nuan's influence, Guagua now hated evil as fiercely as an enemy too.

After hearing this, Jiang Nuan became even more determined to stay, as she had already wanted to do.

Meanwhile, Jiang Yehua pondered whether to drag his good friend Zhou Youjia over now. After all, as the man at the Court of Judicial Review responsible for this case, there was no reason Zhou Youjia should be sleeping soundly at home while Jiang Yehua toiled away here.

And so Jiang Yehua dispatched his subordinates that very night to drag Zhou Youjia over.