Chapter 103: What? Lost track?

Jiang Yun Chu took a kerosene lamp, first opened a secret room, then she walked in and saw box after box of things; when she opened them, she saw silver…

Silver ingot.

They were just placed in the secret room.

These grains…

Jiang Yun Chu's eyes narrowed slightly, but if they were just selling grain, it would be impossible to have this much silver; what exactly is the background of the manor lord's family?

As for the second son, she could be certain that this person was telling the truth, without any deceit or concealment.

Well…

Then he doesn't know these matters, and the manor lord's identity is even more hidden.

Looking at the room full of silver and silver notes, Jiang Yun Chu felt somewhat worried.

「Ding: Points reached 3000, unlock advanced exchange space. 」

Advanced exchange space?

Jiang Yun Chu immediately summoned the advanced exchange space, seeing only one thing on it, named space fragment; each fragment is ten square meters, requiring 500 points.

There was also a line of annotation stating that living beings cannot enter.

Jiang Yun Chu's eyes suddenly lit up; truly, when you're sleepy, someone brings a pillow.

She had never used her points; one could even say that while she was properly experiencing this era, aside from a few seasonings, she had used a few points, and all the rest of her points were saved up.

She looked and exchanged fifty square meters of space.

In an instant, she used 2,500 points; looking at the remaining points, it was less than 500.

That is to say… spending money is easy, earning money is hard, which is not without reason.

However, when she called for the space, seeing the empty fifty-square-meter room, she again smiled with brows relaxed.

Great!

All things she could touch were collected into the space; moreover, to facilitate placement and save space, she stacked all those box after box of silver together, instantly reducing the footprint significantly.

This is space, after all—every inch of land is precious; if you can use less, use less.

As for the other secret room, there were few items; besides books, there were only letters.

Jiang Yun Chu did not rush to open it; instead, she collected everything into the space, then confirmed nothing was missed, leaving a few large-denomination silver notes before departing.

The manor lord returned from the mountain, but the closer he got to the manor, the more he felt something was off!

He frowned, took a few more steps, then turned to run when a person appeared, striking his neck heavily; the manor lord immediately fell into unconsciousness.

"What? Lost track?" Jiang Yun Chu asked.

The shadow below nodded, his face somewhat grim: "I feared being discovered by the manor lord, so I kept far behind; all this day and night, the manor lord never noticed."

"But this morning, when the manor lord returned to the manor, the person suddenly disappeared; I searched the area and saw someone else's footprints."

Someone else's footprints.

Who rescued him? Was it the grain buyer? Or someone behind the manor lord?

Rescue him, or silence him by killing?

In Jiang Yun Chu's heart, in an instant, many thoughts passed,

"You've worked hard; go rest first." Complaining about others is also useless.

"After you've rested, report who the manor lord met and what he did."

Moreover, she had previously instructed to follow from a distance; losing the person is also not something to blame others for.

"Yes."

That shadow felt somewhat guilty, clasped his fists, and left.

"Did the people from the Capital Prefecture leave?" Jiang Yun Chu rubbed her forehead; these past days' affairs gave her a headache; she would rather go to the battlefield to fight.

If that really doesn't work, becoming a military doctor would also be good.

Trapped in the inner quarters, to go, she couldn't bear to leave the two children.

Not going means just staying trapped like this.

How does it feel like a modern mother with a child, unable to leave work for the child, and unable to earn money while watching the child?

Su Xin handed Jiang Yun Chu a blanket, covered her legs with it, then nodded: "In the morning, they left; those people were all arrested."

"The people from the Capital Prefecture also said, if the manor lord's family is discovered, they must be reported immediately."

All the accomplices have been tied up, but the principal offender died on the spot, and another hadn't even been interrogated yet before also expiring.

There's still one who was rescued by someone, and we don't know where he is.

As for the other one, he had already left the manor, his whereabouts unknown.

What a strange case: there's no principal offender, but a string of accomplices have been arrested.

"Hmm, any news from Bai Zhi's side?" Jiang Yun Chu leaned back in her chair; her head had been aching these past two days.

She somewhat missed those little ones; being with them, although she also had to match wits and courage, they are pure and innocent beings, and being with the children makes her unconsciously relax.

"There's news; that manor has already been dealt with, the situation there differs from here—those grains were all seized by the manor lord, and Bai Zhi went over and directly subdued the manor lord." Su Xin said, the corners of her mouth still smiling.

Jiang Yun Chu's face also showed a hint of a smile: "Quite her nature."

Letting her secretly investigate would be no better than killing her.

Directly subduing her would make everyone outside confess.

"Any news from that manor?" Jiang Yun Chu asked.

Su Xin shook her head: "No news has come yet."

To save time, they split into three groups: Bai Zhi led people to one manor, Jiang Yun Chu led them to this manor, and another manor—a very small one—had a guard lead people over, but no news has come yet, which is strange.

"Let Old Li Tou come over." Jiang Yun Chu took away the blanket, then stood up.

That man was sliced piece by piece by Old Li Tou into a skeleton; Li Lao Tou chopped the skeleton into bits, and both flesh and bones were thrown into the deep mountains to feed the wild beasts.

Since he was worse than livestock while alive, when he's dead, just feed him to the beasts.

Shadow reported, but Jiang Yun Chu did not object.

Shouldn't he die?

No, if this happened to her, such a death would be too lenient.

She has plenty of ways to make him unable to die if he wishes to die, unable to live if he wishes to live, unable to seek life, unable to seek death.

"Little old man has seen the Princess Consort." Lao Li Tou, since taking revenge, has been somewhat flustered, not knowing what to do.

His wife and daughter are dead, his enemy killed by him, his great vengeance achieved, yet he dare not die.

The Princess Consort had him take revenge; afterwards his lowly life belongs to the Princess Consort.

"Please sit." Jiang Yun Chu pointed to a stool beside.

Lao Li Tou hesitated a moment, then smilingly said, "Princess Consort, if you have any orders, I won't sit."

Jiang Yun Chu raised his head to look at him, then also did not insist.

"This manor, I want to entrust you to manage it; later I will send people over, but for now this side needs management, autumn is coming soon, my people can't come over." Jiang Yun Chu said.

Now fearing that others might insert people elsewhere, her Wang Fu's manpower has always been scarce.

But the manor's manpower is also tight, also needs to dispatch people over, she is pondering how to arrange.