Yun Manman looked into the pitch-black passage, which seemed to be a secret tunnel, and felt a little displeased. Why did they insist on making things like this?
She lit the oil lamp in her hand and jumped straight down with it.
The farther she went, the chillier it became. After winding around bend after bend for about thirty meters,
the space suddenly opened up before her, so vast she could barely see the end.
Yun Manman hung the oil lamp on the wall.
She tore a small opening in a sack on the right and discovered wheat inside. Only a small portion of the sacks held rice, and there were roughly five hundred sacks in all.
Looking at the armor, sabers, and swords in the middle,
she frowned slightly, then went straight over and opened a chest on the left. Inside were gleaming gold bars, and there were a full fifty chests or so.
"Is that bastard planning a rebellion? Could those letters I couldn't read be correspondence with foreign enemies?"
Yun Manman knew things were not that simple, but she chose not to probe these muddy waters.
Yet she was unwilling to leave these things behind. She kept feeling that she had to take them away.
Yun Manman put everything into her space.
It seemed Master Wang must have had powerful backing to act so arrogantly in the county town, but now was not the time to think about that.
Yun Manman followed the secret passage straight ahead and discovered a door at the end.
She quickly drew back the hand she had reached out to open it with. Looking through the window, she saw eight guards outside, all trained in martial arts.
Yun Manman abruptly looked up at the roof.
Sensing four presences above, all clearly powerful, she slowly backed away and retraced her steps through the secret passage.
After leaving the front courtyard, Yun Manman headed toward the storeroom marked on the map.
Before the two guards at the entrance could react, Yun Manman knocked them unconscious with knife-hand strikes.
Looking at the lock above,
Yun Manman wrenched it open with her internal energy and tossed the broken lock into her space too. It could be sold for silver, so there was no sense wasting it.
She pushed the door open to find a rather cluttered interior. Chests were piled on the right, while shelves on the left held paintings, calligraphy, jade, and jewelry.
Yun Manman went over and opened the chests. They were all filled with silver ingots, roughly thirty-odd chests, without a single piece of gold.
After emptying the storeroom completely,
Yun Manman tossed the two guards inside and tied the storeroom doors shut with dead knots using belts taken from several of the men.
Only then did she head toward the granary courtyard. Four guards stood at its entrance.
There were indeed two hidden guards above as well. Yun Manman held her breath. Why did that bastard have people guarding every place?
She could clearly sense that those two had steady auras and powerful martial arts, just like the people on the roof above the secret chamber earlier.
But she thought nothing of martial arts at that level. Curling her lips, she shot four silver needles from her hand at once, her body leaving an afterimage in the darkness like an arrow loosed from a bow.
As the four figures fell to the ground, Yun Manman swiftly flew onto the roof. The two men froze for a moment at her sudden appearance.
"Who's there?"
At the same time, they unleashed powerful internal energy straight at Yun Manman.
Two knives appeared in Yun Manman's hands. She twisted swiftly and charged forward, flashing between the two hidden guards. Two streaks of blood already marked their necks.
Yun Manman caught the two men as they were about to fall and tossed them facedown onto the roof. Since they liked being on the roof so much, they could stay sprawled there after death too.
Only then did Yun Manman fly down. Looking at the three large locks on the warehouse door, she raised her eyebrows and thought, This place is even more tightly secured than the storeroom. Could there be another setup like the one earlier inside?
Impatiently, Yun Manman destroyed the locks with her internal energy, put them into her space, and swiftly pushed the door open.
Inside, it was almost identical to the secret passage earlier. Grain and rice filled the front, a full two hundred sacks, while gold filled the back-only thirty chests this time, with none of the sabers, swords, or armor from earlier.
"Oh well, I suppose this counts as striking it rich!"
Still, for a mere wealthy merchant to have so much money and grain at home-she could count today as ridding the people of a scourge.
Yun Manman began looting her way through the rear courtyard, taking all the valuable, useful furniture from every room. She left only the beds and old clothes, taking everything else.
Yun Manman reached the room of Master Wang's first wife. Two maids stood guard outside.
Yun Manman took them down, pushed open the door, and entered the bedroom. Voices drifted from inside; they had not realized someone had come in.
"How could Master be so foolish? Sending those hidden guards out to find beauties for him? I'm going to find him and make him summon them all back at once."
"Madam, you can't go now. Have you forgotten how you were injured last time?"
Yun Manman looked at the two people behind the screen. The plump one was presumably that bastard's wife, while the other was probably her confidante.
"But my heart keeps fluttering terribly. I'm just worried that if those hidden guards aren't there and something happens over there..."
"Rest easy, Madam. Master left plenty of hidden guards watching that place.
"The household guards are there too. Nothing will happen. You should get some rest."
Yun Manman did not want to listen to this nonsense. She swiftly shot out silver needles and took both of them down, then stepped into the room and glanced at them.
All right, I don't know either of them.
She surveyed the room. As expected of the first wife-what a luxurious room!
I've never seen such an exquisite dressing table. This jewelry is nice too. Take it!
Is this her private stash?
A woman actually has this much silver stashed away.
Not a good woman. Take it!
Yun Manman put everything in sight into her space, leaving only the bed and some worn clothes, which she found somewhat distasteful and did not take.
Seeing something peeking out from under the pillow, she went over and opened it, discovering that it was all correspondence.
The writing was just as unreadable to her as the letters earlier. Without bothering about it, Yun Manman put it straight into her space.
Looking at the completely empty room, she finally left her signature, thoroughly satisfied.
"Daddy was here!"
Yun Manman left the courtyard and went straight to the kitchen.
By the moonlight, she saw that the chopping board was empty. Bamboo baskets covered the floor behind it. She lifted their covers and her eyes went wide.
Well, damn. This was all freshly butchered meat.
Yun Manman put it all into her space. After putting away the cupboard, she began trying to collect the stove's contents, but after all that effort, only the pot lids went in.
The two pots remained firmly fixed to the stove.
Somewhat helplessly, Yun Manman went over and wrenched the pots straight off the stove before finally putting them into her space.
By the end, even Yun Manman herself was getting tired from collecting everything.
She reluctantly took the horses in the stable into her space too, then flew toward the rear courtyard where she had started.
After landing, Yun Manman looked at the scene inside.
Those injured beauties had not gone to treat their wounds. Instead, some were dancing while others played the zither.
And four more beauties were being... by that bastard.
The girl hanging there was still in the same place. Blood from her head ran down her pale face, making her look as frightening as a female ghost.
Silver needles shot from Yun Manman's hand again. Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh-the women singing and dancing slowly collapsed onto the carpet.
The activity behind the gauze curtains continued, with no notice at all that the singing and dancing outside had stopped.