There was a small private storeroom in Shen Shuyan’s courtyard. She wondered if there was anything inside.
She would know once she looked.
She slipped inside the storeroom and found that there really were valuables stored away at the bottom of the chests.
Since they had left them for Shen Shuyan, she wasn’t going to be polite.
She took everything from the storeroom and didn’t spare any of the other rooms either.
Whether it was tables, chairs, benches, decorative vases, or porcelain, she collected everything.
Only empty rooms remained, looking bleak, as if a cold wind were sweeping across the floor.
After completely emptying Shen Shuyan’s courtyard, she left only the rooms belonging to the two maids.
She decided to be merciful for once and leave those alone.
Where should she go next?
After thinking for a moment, Shen Qingyao decided to visit the highest-ranking elder in the Prime Minister’s Residence.
The Old Madam of the residence was surnamed Jiang. She was a sharp-tongued, mean old woman who had never liked the original owner, her own granddaughter.
To be honest, the old woman seemed to have something wrong with her head. Whenever she was in a bad mood, she had to vent her anger on someone.
The original owner had become her favorite target.
Whether there was a reason or not, the old woman loved going to the original owner’s shabby little courtyard just to scold her.
Even when the original owner had done absolutely nothing wrong, she would still be berated for no reason.
The original owner could only stand there obediently with her head lowered, silently enduring the scolding.
There was no reason to leave anything behind for an old woman like that, someone who loved making trouble for no reason.
She teleported into the Old Madam’s courtyard and followed the same routine as she had in Shen Shuyan’s courtyard.
She went to the bedroom first.
The old woman was sleeping soundly, even snoring.
The snoring wasn’t loud, but it was irritating.
Looking at the old woman lying in bed, Shen Qingyao felt annoyed.
Why was she running around working so hard while this hateful old hag slept so comfortably?
“Sleeping so well, are you? How about I give you a makeover?” Shen Qingyao whispered.
After waiting a moment without getting a reply, she continued, “Since you didn’t answer, I’ll take that as a yes. See? I’m so polite.”
As she spoke, several jars of paint appeared in her hand.
She looked at the colorful paints, then at the old woman’s face, and finally decided to start by painting her eyebrows green.
After drawing the green eyebrows, she colored the eyelids black, painted a red dot on the nose, and drew a little green turtle on the forehead.
The turtle was green, of course.
Then she painted a small yellow flower on each cheek and covered the lips with the brightest red she had.
Looking at her masterpiece, Shen Qingyao was extremely satisfied.
She had gone this far, yet the old woman still hadn’t woken up.
She slept like a pig.
Forget it.
Whether she woke up or not, the next step couldn’t be skipped.
Shen Qingyao took out her little hammer and gave the old woman’s head a solid whack. Then she reached out to check her breathing.
When she found that the old woman was still breathing, she let out a sigh of relief.
Good. Good.
She wasn’t dead.
Shen Qingyao didn’t want the old woman to die so easily.
She wanted to see just how miserable the old woman would become after the Prime Minister’s Residence lost all its wealth.
With a wave of her hand, she collected everything in the bedroom before moving on to the other rooms.
The kitchen, the private storeroom, every room was thoroughly cleaned out.
Nothing was spared.
Just like Shen Shuyan’s courtyard, only the servants’ rooms were left untouched.
Next came the Prime Minister’s courtyard, the Prime Minister’s wife’s courtyard, and the concubines’ courtyards.
Of course, she also visited the courtyards belonging to the original owner’s three brothers.
In short, she didn’t spare a single courtyard or room.
She cleaned them out even more thoroughly than she had cleaned the Imperial Palace.
She didn’t even leave them a single table or chair.
The entire Prime Minister’s Residence was stripped bare.
Oh, no.
She had left them the buildings themselves.
At least they still had somewhere to shelter from the wind and rain.
I’m such a kind person. (づ￣3￣)づ╭❤～
After leaving the Prime Minister’s Residence, Shen Qingyao headed to the Duke’s Residence.
Why the Duke’s Residence?
Because it belonged to the current emperor’s maternal uncle.
That entire family was rotten.
They had committed every kind of evil.
Although they hadn’t done anything particularly terrible to the original owner—after all, they rarely met—the younger generation of the Duke’s Residence were complete scum.
They bullied ordinary people with their power, kidnapped young women by force, and seized commoners’ farmland.
In short, none of them were good people.
There was no reason to leave them a single coin.
She entered the Duke’s Residence and emptied the entire estate.
With so many things stored away, all five villas inside her space were packed to the brim.
There wasn’t enough room anymore, so she had no choice but to pile things elsewhere. (#－.－)
After finishing her looting, Shen Qingyao teleported beneath the city gate and knocked out all a dozen or so gate guards.
This time she couldn’t use the little hammer.
If she knocked them out one by one, she would definitely be discovered.
Even if she were discovered, it wouldn’t really matter.
It would just be troublesome.
And she hated trouble.
Among the mountain of loot she found some knockout incense.
It had come from the Duke’s Residence.
The younger members of that family had used it to drug and assault young women.
Now it finally had a proper use.
She lit the incense, covered her own nose, stretched one hand out of her space, and let the smoke drift toward the soldiers with the wind.
The incense worked surprisingly well.
Before long, the guards collapsed one after another, raising clouds of dust as they hit the ground.
Shen Qingyao extinguished the incense and waited a while before stepping out of her space.
She took out some rope and tied the scumbag emperor and the vicious woman together face-to-face.
Since they loved each other so much, she might as well fulfill their wish.
Then she hung them from the city wall.
Watching the rope sway gently back and forth, Shen Qingyao smiled in satisfaction at her handiwork.
After that, she tied the Empress Dowager together with the two men dressed as eunuchs and hung them from the city gate as well.
The woman was still wearing only her dudou, while the two men had nothing on at all.
The five of them hung from the city wall together.
Although unconscious, their bodies still trembled instinctively.
Standing beneath the wall, Shen Qingyao looked up at them with a satisfied smile full of relief.
After dealing with everyone who had wronged the original owner, Shen Qingyao returned to her space and appeared directly inside the hamburger restaurant.
Liang Xinxin, who was still tied up like a rice dumpling, had already fainted.
Shen Qingyao untied her and changed her into a maid’s outfit from this era.
The modern hair clip in her hair absolutely couldn’t be left behind.
After removing the ropes, she teleported to a ruined temple outside the city.
Inside, seven or eight beggars were sprawled all over the floor, snoring loudly.
The air inside the ruined temple reeked of sour sweat and filth.
Shen Qingyao nearly threw up.
Curling her lips into a smile, she tossed Liang Xinxin into the middle of the beggars.
Satisfied with the arrangement, Shen Qingyao finally left the ruined temple.
She returned to her space once again.
After being busy for half the night, she was exhausted.
She yawned, changed into a clean, cool set of pajamas, lay down on the soft bed in her villa inside the space, and quickly fell fast asleep.
“Ah! Aren’t those people hanging from the city gate?”
A shrill scream shattered the quiet of the early morning.
The gate guards who had been knocked unconscious were awakened by the noise.
One soldier frowned, rubbed his aching head, and stood up.
“It’s barely dawn. Why are you making such a racket?” one of the soldiers grumbled.
Then he casually looked up and nearly jumped out of his skin when he saw the people hanging from the city gate.
What was going on?
When had these people been hung up there?
Why couldn’t he remember anything?
His temples throbbed violently.
He stood up and kicked the soldier still lying beside him.
“Wake up! Get up!”
The kicked soldier frowned and slowly opened his eyes.
Since he was lying on his back, the first thing he saw was the five people hanging from the city gate.
Mother of heaven!
Did he get out of bed the wrong way today?
Why was he seeing people hanging upside down from the city gate?
No.
He had to be seeing things.
He hurriedly shut his eyes, convinced he was still dreaming.
After keeping them closed for a while, he opened them again.
The five swaying figures were still there.
“What’s going on?” the newly awakened soldier asked groggily as he got to his feet.
“How should I know? I woke up and saw them too!” the first soldier snapped, rolling his eyes.
Asking him?
He thought too highly of him.
He wanted to know what was happening too.
One after another, all the gate guards woke up.
Every single one of them was stunned by the five people dangling from the city wall.
More and more townspeople gathered outside the city gate, pointing at the nearly naked people hanging above.
“Who are they? Why are they hanging from the city wall?”
“Who knows? This is absolutely disgraceful! Truly disgraceful!”
“Now isn’t the time to talk about propriety! Shouldn’t we get them down first?”
“That’s right! Hurry and bring them down! It’s too embarrassing to look at!”
…
Only then did the soldiers come to their senses.
They hurriedly climbed up the city wall.
Working together, they pulled the five people back onto the wall.
The soldiers couldn’t help stealing repeated glances at the Empress Dowager and the Empress.
The two women had excellent figures.
Their skin was also incredibly fair.
It was obvious they had grown up in wealthy families.
Only one of them was a little older.
These people definitely came from important backgrounds.
How could ordinary girls have such fair skin?
None of the soldiers had ever seen the emperor or the empress.
Naturally, they didn’t recognize the Empress Dowager either.
The soldiers exchanged helpless looks, unsure what to do.
“Captain, what should we do with them?” one soldier asked a bearded man standing nearby.
The man’s name was Li Kui, the commander of the city gate guards.
“You’re asking me? How should I know? I don’t even know who these people are,” Li Kui replied in his rough voice.
Li Kui had a splitting headache.
Although he didn’t know who these five people were, his instincts told him they definitely weren’t people to be trifled with.
Someone must have taken revenge on them.
Who knew what powerful person they had offended for someone to do something so vicious?
Li Kui was a smart man.
He immediately made a decision and ordered the soldiers to quickly find some clothes to cover the five people.
The soldiers obeyed without hesitation.
They ran to the small room where they stayed temporarily and each grabbed a piece of clothing.
Li Kui remained where he was, undoing the ropes binding the five people.
Inevitably, his eyes kept drifting toward Shen Shuyan.
She was young, with flawless fair skin that had been carefully cared for since childhood.
Her skin is so white…
What a figure…
For a moment, Li Kui couldn’t look away.
Suddenly, his nose started to itch.
He reached up and touched it, only to feel something sticky.
He immediately realized he had a nosebleed.
He quickly looked around.
Seeing that his men hadn’t returned yet, he tilted his head back to stop the bleeding.
He vigorously wiped his face with his sleeve.
After wiping for quite a while, he felt confident there was no blood left on his face and finally relaxed.
When the soldiers returned, each was carrying a piece of clothing.
As soon as they saw Shen Shuyan after she had been untied, they couldn’t help taking a few extra glances.
This woman is really fair.
She has such a good figure.
The soldiers were thinking exactly the same thing as Li Kui.
Li Kui coughed awkwardly.
“Stop staring. Hurry up and cover them with the clothes.”
The soldiers nodded and quickly draped a garment over each of the five people.