Chapter 74: Robbing — It Doesn't Seem Like a Bad Idea Either

Wanting a broken stone like this — it would be more practical to take the box that held the jade.

Mo Junyan saw that she was slow to reach out her hand, and knew she did not like it.

In the past she had loved jade objects most; he remembered that every time he saw her before, the hairpin in her hair was always made of jade. While other officials' daughters hung pouches and beaded ornaments at their waists, she wore only a single jade pendant.

He had thought she cherished jade wares, never imagining that she actually disliked these.

"Your Highness, if you wish to bestow a reward, why not exchange this jade for silver? We are just ordinary folk — silver would be far more practical."

"Very well, as you wish."

The smile on Chi Nan Yi's face widened. Who was it that said Prince Li was cruel by nature and killed without blinking? It was simply a rumor — His Highness Prince Li was actually quite easy to talk to!

When Chi Nan Yi came out carrying a box full of silver notes, she saw Chi Huai Qian standing there, craning his neck and peering constantly toward the main gate.

"Little sister!" Seeing her come out, Chi Huai Qian hurried to meet her. "What took you so long?"

Chi Nan Yi shook the box in her hand. "Naturally, there are good things."

Chi Huai Qian's eyes lit up. If his little sister said they were good things, then they must be exceedingly, exceedingly good.

On the way back, Chi Huai Qian put more strength into wielding his whip than usual.

After returning to the Chi Family, Chi Nan Yi poured out the silver notes from the box.

"Little sister, did you go rob a silver bank?" Chi Zhiqiu said in astonishment. "So much silver — where did it all come from?"

"Rob what silver bank? These silver notes were all earned by me."

"Earned? There must be a thousand taels of silver notes here — how do you earn that much?"

"Eldest brother, if I had earned this silver, you could certainly be suspicious. But the one who earned the silver is our little sister — let alone one thousand taels, even three thousand or five thousand taels, with our little sister's intelligence and talent, she could surely earn them all."

Hearing this, Chi Nan Yi laughed inwardly — these three Chi brothers were thoroughgoing sister-cons.

"I treated Prince Li's illness. The Prince rewarded me."

Hearing her say this, a trace of worry flashed across Wen Zhilan's face. She took Chi Nan Yi's hand and said hesitantly, "Yi'er, is His Highness Prince Li, is he…"

She did not finish, but Chi Nan Yi already understood her meaning.

"Mother, are you trying to ask whether His Highness Prince Li has intentions toward me?"

"Mm. He rewarded silver before, and now he rewards again. We are a small household — your father and I have never seen so many silver notes in our lives. But if this silver is to be exchanged for you, Mother would rather be poor for a lifetime…"

"Mother, what are you thinking? The Prince rewarded silver before because of the locust plague relief, and this time he rewards again because I helped treat him. It is not what you are thinking."

To think a mere few thousand taels of silver could be used to exchange for her — that was simply sheer fantasy.

Hearing her say this, the atmosphere in the Chi Family finally eased.

"That's good, that's good."

Chi Zhiqiu said with a smile, "As long as this silver wasn't stolen by Yi'er, all is well."

How could she possibly rob someone…

At this thought, Chi Nan Yi could not help blinking.

If she did it by robbing, it didn't seem like a bad idea!

Early the next morning, Chi Nan Yi came to the town again and delivered the pills to Bai cao tang. Just as she came out, she saw a familiar figure enter the Liu ji yao pu across the street.

It was actually Gao Han.

At this moment, the sleeve of one arm hung limp, completely covering his hand and arm. He held a long sword in his right hand, and his face was deathly pale.

It looked like his left hand had not been saved.

To sustain such a severe injury and still come out to buy medicine himself — she truly had not expected that he would so quickly go from being Mo Junheng's right-hand man to becoming a doormat.

Seeing him finish buying medicine and leave, Chi Nan Yi's eyes darted. She told Chi Huai Qian to go buy the things the household needed, while she herself used the excuse of going to the shops to tail Gao Han.

As long as she followed him, she would surely find Mo Junheng's private estate.

The pain in Gao Han's left arm left him no leisure to think of anything else, and he entirely failed to notice someone tailing him from behind.

Arriving before a residence, Gao Han entered through a side gate.

In the past, the guards at the gate would all bow and scrape when they saw him. Now that Gao Han had been dismissed from their master's side — ostensibly to recover from his injuries, but in reality removed from the Crown Prince's personal guard and reduced to an ordinary guard — the way they looked at Gao Han naturally held no respect whatsoever.

Chi Nan Yi took in this scene and thought to herself: him ending up like this was entirely his own just deserts.

In the original host's memory, Gao Han had always been the Crown Prince's personal guard, greatly valued and employed by the Crown Prince. So on ordinary days he treated the other guards with a nostrils-to-the-sky arrogance, bossing them around — those who didn't know better would have thought he was the Crown Prince himself.

A tiger fallen to the plains gets bullied by dogs. He probably never imagined he would see such a day.

"Serves him right."

Chi Nan Yi circled around to the back courtyard and tossed a pebble into the yard.

Listening to the footsteps, Chi Nan Yi could judge how many guards were lying in ambush in the back courtyard.

"A few of you stay here, a few of you come out with me."

"Yes!"

As the back gate swung open, a dozen-odd guards rushed out and searched in all directions.

Chi Nan Yi hid within her space, watched them search the entire vicinity, and the moment they returned to the yard, tossed another pebble in.

After several rounds of this back and forth, the lead guard in the back courtyard was thoroughly enraged.

"Damn it all, who is the reckless fool who dares to cause trouble outside the master's yard? Today we must catch him! All of you, follow me!"

"Yes!"

Counting the footsteps, Chi Nan Yi's lips curved upward.

Very good — they had all come out.

As the footsteps faded away, Chi Nan Yi stepped out of her space and vaulted over the wall into the yard.

The private estate had many guards; though the back courtyard was empty, the front courtyard had close to a hundred.

Chi Nan Yi threaded her way cautiously through the estate, using her space from time to time to evade patrols.

"With this space, how is it any different from using cheats?"

Just then, a cry of pain reached the ears.

She knew this voice all too well.

Chi Nan Yi's gaze fell upon the largest courtyard.

I suppose that must be Mo Junheng's residence.

Dodging patrols all the way, Chi Nan Yi came to the back of the room and slipped into the space.

"Damn it, what the hell is this rash? I've used so much medicine, why won't it get better? Where's that quack doctor of moxibustion?" Mo Junheng said angrily: "Get him to come over to me! Even such a minor ailment can't be cured—how dare he serve the emperor?"

"Your Highness, Imperial Physician Wen is looking through medical texts." Gao Feng's words fell, and then Mo Junheng said even more angrily: "Medical texts, medical texts, to look at an illness you have to flip through medical texts—what use is keeping his lowly life? Once we return to the capital, I will exterminate his nine clans!" He exerted a bit of strength, his stomach began to cramp again.

Mo Junheng panted for a long time before gritting his teeth and saying: "How is Zhao Anqi?"

General Zhao seems to have improved somewhat.

"Improved?" Mo Junheng startled: "Could it really be that village woman who cured him? What's that village woman's name?"