NCCnovel Chapter 218 Take, Take, Take
Chapter 218 Take, Take, Take
Yun Duo nodded and walked into the storeroom. Cheng Yuheng stayed outside the door, hiding in the darkness and silently guarding Yun Duo.
Yun Duo opened the door of the warehouse and saw all kinds of jewelry, silks, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, cloths of various colors, precious medicinal materials, weapons of excellent quality... Everything was placed in different categories on rows of wooden shelves, and the front of the shelves were marked with detailed classifications.
There was a charcoal pencil and an account book hanging in front of each row of shelves. Yun Duo didn't have time to look through them, but he could guess that they were some kind of entry and exit records.
She collected them all into the space without any hesitation. Yun Duo looked at so many good things and was filled with anger towards the governor of Zhongzhou.
Such a small prefect actually has so many good things! This is just a storehouse in the palace. If it is their private storehouse, wouldn't it be even more amazing? These wealth are probably far more than his salary as a fifth-rank prefect. Now that we know that this prefect Wang is not a good person, don't blame her for robbing the rich to help the poor.
In less than a cup of tea, she put all the items into the space. When she came out, Cheng Yuheng was guarding outside. During this period of time, Cheng Yuheng had restored the outside to its original state to avoid being discovered by the patrol. Cheng Yuheng put the guards who had been dealt with back in their original places. They looked like they were leaning against the wall and dozing off.
After leaving the large warehouse, the two walked towards a row of locked houses according to the route map. This should be the room where daily necessities were stored in the mansion.
The guards here were very lax, with only two guards sitting on the ground leaning against the wall to sleep. They broke the necks of the two men effortlessly.
There are no Yin-Yang locks here, but five rooms side by side, and each large iron door has two iron locks side by side. This means that two people must hold the key at the same time to enter.
Cheng Yuheng opened the first door. After Yun Duo entered, Cheng Yuheng, who was guarding outside, gently closed the iron door. Yun Duo took a flashlight and shone it around. This warehouse was filled with common items used in daily life in the mansion, including newly made tables, chairs, benches, wooden furniture, precious wood, new pots and pans, and all kinds of commonly used tools in the mansion... There was also a pile of rainproof oilcloth neatly placed in the corner.
In order to save time, Yun Duo did not look carefully at what was there and just put everything into the space.
When Yun Duo opened the door of the second room, a faint smell of cotton wafted out, making her sneeze.
She walked into the house, looked around, and found that this house was much more spacious than the warehouse in front.
On the wooden shelf against the wall, ready-made cotton-padded clothes and quilts were neatly stacked. A large cloth bag filled with cotton was piled high on one side. On the other side, all kinds of ready-made clothes were placed neatly on the shelf.
In addition, there are some semi-finished dresses embroidered with various exquisite patterns, placed on the wooden table in the middle of the room.
In a corner of the room, there were a bunch of large boxes stacked together. The boxes were locked and had banknotes on them. It was too dark at night and Yun Duo didn't read the words carefully. Yun Duo guessed that these boxes might contain various precious fabrics, or clothes and bedding that had been finished and were ready to be sent to various courtyards.
Unlike other warehouses, this room has windows on both the front and back walls, allowing for ample light and air circulation. In the middle of the room is a rectangular wooden table surrounded by several wooden stools. This is obviously the workplace for making clothes and bedding.
Yun Duo looked at everything in front of him excitedly and put all the items into his own space.
The clouds in the third and fourth rooms were put away without any detailed inspection.
When she got to the fifth room, Yun Duo opened the door and went in. She was delighted to see that there was food everywhere, a large room, and a row of stairs leading to the underground.
Yun Duo took the flashlight and went underground first. There were only refined rice and flour here. Yun Duo put them all into the space without hesitation. Then she went back to the ground along the stairs. Yun Duo found that there were only half of the refined grains here, and the rest were brown rice, brown flour, grains, beans and the like.
After putting everything into the space, Yun Duo walked out and made a gesture to Cheng Yuheng who was guarding the door.
The two did not speak but tacitly avoided the guards and continued to look for places where things might be hidden.
Yun Duo followed Cheng Yuheng, who took Yun Duo to find a larger courtyard based on the layout of the government office and the route map drawn by the drone.
Cheng Yuheng whispered to Yun Duo, "This might be the prefect's wife's courtyard. Let's go take a look."
What they collected in the big warehouse were all jewellery, but they did not see any gold, silver or banknotes or the like. They must have hidden these in a more secret place by the prefect or his wife.
The two men entered the yard quietly. Several maids and old women on night duty were sitting there drowsy, and Cheng Yuheng pressed their sleeping acupoints.
They entered the room and pressed the acupoints of the woman who was sleeping on the bed. It was obvious that Magistrate Wang was not with his wife, but was probably sleeping in one of his concubines' room.
Yun Duo quickly entered the house and put away the jewelry box and the box containing banknotes on the dressing table into the space. She then looked at the furnishings in the house and saw that there were quite a few good things, so she put away all of them except the step-out bed for sleeping.
After doing all this, Yun Duo left the house and joined Cheng Yuheng who was guarding outside. Cheng Yuheng pulled Yun Duo to the door of a locked room and whispered, "Duo'er, I just found this warehouse in the yard. I have opened the lock. This should be a small warehouse. You can collect the items inside and we will leave. Forget about the small items. Don't tire yourself out."
Yun Duo nodded and agreed, then went into the house. In order to save time, she didn't take a close look at what was in the house and just cleaned up everything... There was only an empty room left.
He came out quickly and made an OK gesture. Cheng Yuheng was very familiar with this gesture now.
"Let's go! Let's go to the study first and see if there is anything important there." Yun Duo thought that in the TV dramas she watched in modern times, important objects were usually placed in the study, and she wondered if it was the same for this prefect.