Chapter 133: Should We Finally Get Moving?

"What am I angry about? It's just to make the matter clear. After this, I'm afraid your relationship with the Feng Family will be strained."

"If it's a family like theirs, I have no intention of getting along. If they dare touch Ruxin, I'll see their house shattered and their people dead."

"Tsk tsk, just now you wouldn't even acknowledge the maiden, now you say this—sharp tongue, soft heart."

"I could hit and scold her, but they can't; they never gave birth to or raised my maiden, yet they spend my maiden's dowry. Dare they touch her— not even a single hair strand."

Qiao Mai comforted her for a while then left; having slept poorly last night, she reminded Yuehong and the other, then returned to her room to sleep.

A month slipped by; after the Ruxin incident, the Qiao Family remained calm.

With only twenty days left before the Wang Jiaru's Colleague exam, Yuan Jiaqi was unhurried, seeming confident about the test.

Qiao Mai never left the house again; during the day she either watched in the shop, inspected the vegetable plot behind, or checked the Fragrant Antelope and Plum Blossom Deer, examining the growth of Musk and Deer Antler.

Fragrant Antelope are best harvested for scent in August and September, when they excrete the strongest Musk; the Musk collected then is of the highest quality.

That really disgusted her; it's one thing to flatter the mother‑in‑law, but using her Palace Fan to curry favor with two concubines?

Yinshi is absent; he is slated for his end this year, and is currently at the Fenglin Shuyuan in Fucheng.

Now, in the space there are over 2,500 varieties of Spirit Medicine, each planted on a hundred mu; after sowing these, she no longer tended the medicine fields.

Standing on the Feng Family's roof and looking down, not a single figure moved; the household has few servants, and with the Master resting, the servants naturally went to sleep.

When idle during the day, she stayed in her room, pulling out the Spirit Medicine compendium, the Alchemy Manual, and the Spirit Medicine planting guide to read.

The only way to teach such people a lesson is to leave them penniless.

Ruxin felt uneasy inside; that mother‑in‑law, when she first entered the house, praised her excessively, coaxing her into a dizzy whirl.

She is only at the Qi Refining Ninth Stage, unable to use mental power outside yet, but with her past life's skill and experience, scouting the Feng Family's assets is a piece of cake.

How big is Earth? Over 500 million square kilometers; one square kilometer equals a thousand square meters, about one and a half mu.

She first targeted the Feng Family's public treasury, then the personal petty cash, then the hidden wealth, and finally Xin'er's dowry.

Back then she didn't act on them to avoid trouble for herself; it's been over a month, time to make a move, right?

In the dead of night, a black silhouette slipped out of Qiao Mai's room.

Recalling the few pieces of Double‑sided Embroidery Ruxin sent out, she declared she wouldn't let her belongings be used by people she doesn't like.

Moreover, she harbored a personal grudge—to teach her a lesson—so she placed Ruxin's dowry in a corner of the space, intending to return it if the chance arose.

"You bitch, because of you, after marrying into my family for so long you haven't even conceived a child; you're a disaster star, a broom star; you brought calamity to my household, it's you, you return my family property, you return my family property."

The Feng Family fell into chaos; after the fire was extinguished and dawn broke, they finally realized all their assets had vanished.

The Qiao Family's Plum Blossom Deer have just reached adulthood; to obtain the first batch of antlers, they'll have to wait until next spring.

The first batch grows for about a year then stops; later ones keep growing larger, and can be harvested before the antlers harden.

When Lady Feng woke up, she rushed into Ruxin's room and caused a scene; her usual gentle, dignified demeanor vanished, turning into a shrew, not only berating Ruxin but also striking her.

If in her lifetime her space could reach Earth's surface area, she would be content.

She searched again; the large screen was found in Lady Feng's room, and the two Palace Fans were found in the two Concubine Chambers of Wang Laoyezi Feng.

Her five million mu is only one ten‑thousandth of Earth; contemplating the space's infinite extensibility, Qiao Mai grinned.

Two years have passed; she barely rested properly at night. She decided to give herself a short extended vacation, to relax for a while.

Thus she sowed and harvested, harvested and sowed, exhausted daily like a dog.

Eat, just eat the grass properly.

Wang Laoyezi Feng and Lady Feng both fainted on the spot; Ruxin's dowry vanished as well. Upon learning this, she collapsed on the ground, sobbing breathlessly.

But she really couldn't stand the Feng Family's petty faces.

With a slight step and a breath, a black silhouette shot off into the distance.

Farming with thought consumes the most mental power; after planting at night, she just wants to hide and sleep during the day.

At night, when idle, she browses the internet, reads novels, visits the shopping Platform, and adds liked items to the cart.

She stopped buying or selling anything, and ceased farming, just wanting to be lazy for a few days.

What does she take Qiao Mai for? Her embroidered goods are so coveted they can't be bought; Ruxin actually used her embroidery to flatter two concubines?

The more she thought, the angrier she became; seeing a faint candle nearby, she pushed it through the air, the candle tipped onto the table, igniting the rooms of the Feng Family's matriarch and two concubines, which quickly grew into a blaze.

In a month, the added one million mu were all planted with Spirit Medicine.

Now the space's land area is roughly five million mu.

In the end, everyone inside emerged unharmed; the Feng Prefecture officials all rushed to extinguish the fire. Qiao Mai glanced down, then turned and vanished into the night.

She easily located the Feng Family by familiar routes; honestly, she was too disdainful to make the trip.

When idle, she would lock herself in her room, and as soon as she closed the door, she entered the space.

If she were to steal, she'd steal together—that's how a thief acts. She hadn't intended to rob Ruxin's dowry, but after thinking, she decided to steal others' while keeping hers; otherwise people would surely suspect her.

Seeing them lower their heads to eat grass, Qiao Mai pursed her lips; looks like this silver won't make profit this year, she'll have to raise them for free for a year.

She looked up at the sky, the starry bright moon; though not an ideal time for a crime, she could no longer endure.

When people are idle, they tend to overthink; as she ruminated, she thought of the Feng Family, using her formula to make money, yet daring to come to her home to question her. Swallowing that attitude would truly not be Qiao Mai's way of being.

Those ornaments are still not as good as the ones Miss Wang gave her.

With no war, the soldiers on the city wall returned to sleep; she leapt across effortlessly, her figure weaving among the many buildings.

The trade seeds are all identical single grains, but they gave her a hard time; once she planted Five Orders seeds, she promptly harvested them at maturity, buying several thousand jars in the space, labeling each to avoid mix‑ups.

Even now it's fine; all day she drags her around here and there, and anyone she meets she boasts about, showing off.

Standing beneath the city wall outside the County Town, Qiao Mai rolled her eyes; that hurdle had stopped many, but for her now it's merely a piece of cake.

They say to get rich you must first plant trees; various precious trees, after her consecutive nights of effort, are finally all planted.

Because she planted while the land expanded, the remaining over one million mu she filled entirely with trees.

The Feng Family appears respectable, wealthy, with scholars, yet the household is actually not that great.

Now that trouble has arisen, everything falls on her; at this moment Ruxin recalled her mother's words, and instantly felt overwhelming regret.

She brought an old woman and two Wang Jiaru's Servant Girls forward to protect her, pulling at Madam Feng; at this moment, Ruxin, who bore a grudge against the Feng Family, also stopped crying, spotted an opening, stood up, and began fighting the old woman together.

Lu Ruxin is not pampered like the genteel ladies; at home she does every chore, for she is Lu Sanniang's daughter, and she has a spunky gene in her bones.

The two clashed, and naturally the result was that she gained the advantage.

(End of chapter)