I Made a Fortune By Raiding Houses In Ancient Times

Chapter 12 I really saw a puppet

Prince Jing gave some advice and saw that Miss Ling still insisted on keeping those candidates, so he had no choice but to let her go.

 The two of them took their selected candidates and searched around the palace of General Mingwei.

The Mingwei general Li Lingmu is said to have fought for many years and snatched a lot of trophies from foreigners. In addition, he embezzled a lot of military pay and resold military rations, and his family had countless wealth.

 When the late emperor issued the order to be executed, he originally thought that Jin Yiwei would seize countless properties from his house.

However, those Jinyi guards searched countless times, and besides finding letters from General Mingwei colluding with foreign enemies to rebel, they only found less than 30,000 taels of silver.

The late emperor believed that Li Lingmu knew that the news of his rebellion had been leaked, and transferred the money and valuables in advance. After questioning to no avail, he could only angrily behead more than a hundred members of his family.

However, many people speculate that the property was not transferred, but was hidden too secretly to be found.

If General Mingwei had received the news in advance and quietly moved all the valuables, there would be no reason not to secretly protect his family and even his legitimate son who was several years old would have been beheaded.

The current Holy Father should have the same idea, thinking that all those properties are still hidden in this mansion.

Perhaps it was because the state treasury was running out of money that it almost couldn't even pay military pay. More than a hundred people in General Mingwei's mansion died, and even the side branches were implicated and almost died.

Those who survived have long since disappeared.

 The property in General Mingwei's mansion would be a waste if it were allowed to be hidden in the house.

It would be better to find it and replenish the national treasury, whether it is used to provide disaster relief and rescue the people, or to pay military salaries to the soldiers on the front line who protect their homes and the country, it is a hundred times better than letting it continue to be hidden in this house.

Prince Jing and his ten royal guards almost turned the entire mansion upside down, but apart from the bulky and worthless furniture, not even half a copper was found.

Lingchu inherited the original owner's ability in Xuanqing Contemplation and was able to use hexagrams to find approximate directions.

She didn't use the system to scan from the beginning. She didn't want Master Ning and the Jin Yi guards to think that she could find the money without any effort, so as not to make them suspicious.

 Secondly, he also didn’t want Prince Jing to lose too badly and hurt his self-esteem.

 So at first, she just took out the copper coins and the tortoise shell, pretended to measure it for a while, and then started looking for it with others.

After seeing it for half an hour without any gains, Ling Chu took out the copper coins and turtle shells and started calculating again.

However, what surprised her was that after three consecutive calculations, the hexagrams showed empty.

Ling Chu frowned. Could it be that she was not the original owner and had no master of this inherited skill, so it was not accurate?

Prince Jing did not give up and led his men to search for a long time. Finally, they found more than one hundred taels of silver in a remote courtyard.

Seeing Ling Chu test several times, he frowned and asked curiously, "Why, you didn't figure out the hexagram technique? It seems that you are not good at this skill."

Prince Jing was relieved and said proudly, "It seems you are going to lose to me."

Lingchu glanced at him and said nothing, but secretly thought in his heart that it was impossible to lose. She hasn't used her trump card yet, how could she lose?

Hold the copper coins and the turtle shell in his hand and continue to calculate, secretly opening the system with his consciousness.

 However, the next moment, Ling Chu frowned again. The system showed that General Mingwei's mansion did not have even half a copper coin.

 The most valuable items are the bulky furniture that even the royal guards have abandoned.

However, Ling Chu discovered that there was a secret passage under a wing of the general's mansion.

 It is not surprising that there are secret passages, many wealthy families will have them.

But what made Lingchu feel strange was that she found that the secret passage was quite long. It not only led directly to the outside of General Mingwei's Mansion, but also bypassed three large houses next to it and connected to another large house with four entrances. She didn't know whose house the four-door mansion belonged to, and she didn't use the system to scan it.

Although Lingchu thought this secret passage was strange, he didn't pay much attention to it.

There was no money found in the house, and no help could be given. I don't know if Commander Ning would still intercede for her.

Ning Chuyi saw that after waiting for such a long time, Miss Ling and Prince Jing had gained nothing, so she couldn't help but lead people to find them. Seeing Ling Chu staring at the hexagrams on the ground and frowning, it was obvious that he had encountered some kind of problem.

 “Is there something wrong with this hexagram?”

Ling Chu raised his eyes and glanced at him, "There is nothing wrong with the hexagrams, but...the hexagrams show that there is nothing valuable in the general's mansion."

Prince Jing shook his folding fan and said nonchalantly, "Is it because you are not good at hexagrams?"

Lingchu glared at him. The system showed that there was nothing valuable in the general's mansion. "Then the prince didn't find anything of value either?"

Prince Jing choked. Although he found more than a hundred taels of silver, the money could not have been corrupted by General Mingwei. It was probably someone's private money.

"Tsk, tell me, is that Li Lingmu mentally ill? He colluded with foreign enemies and embezzled so much money. Now that he has received the news and knows that his betrayal of the imperial court has been exposed, he transferred the money in advance. Why didn't he transfer the money to his family? Transfer?

Even if he himself died, he also caused more than a hundred members of his family to be beheaded. I don’t know if he had so much money hidden..."

 “Uh uh uh…let go…”

Before Prince Jing could finish his words, he suddenly covered his neck with his hands in pain.

Everyone was shocked for a moment. Prince Jing looked like someone was holding his neck with both hands.

Ning Chuyi felt something was wrong. Seeing that Prince Jing was out of breath, Ning Chuyi reached his side in a flash and tried to save him.

However, no matter what he did, it was all in vain.

Other royal guards also gathered around him. Prince Jing's status was so important that he couldn't let anything happen to him in front of everyone's eyes.

 But so many people failed to save him. He also watched helplessly as his whole body suddenly hung in the air, with a painful look on his face, and his feet suddenly hung in the air and kicked wildly.

 It looked like someone was pinching his neck from behind and lifting him up into the air.

 The problem is that there is no one behind him.

This is really stupid.

Everyone was so shocked by the scene in front of them that the hairs on their bodies stood up, and many people even felt that there was a cold wind around them.

 These Jin Yiwei are well-informed and have a drum in their hearts. He could only step forward and punch, kick, and even slash Prince Jing's surroundings with swords.

 But it didn’t hit anything except the air, and it almost hurt other Jin Yiwei.

Lingchu was lowering her head to pick up the copper coins and turtle shells on the ground. She looked up and saw a strange scene in front of her. She quickly formed a seal with her hands and untied her Yin and Yang eyes.

　　　It is indeed true.

An unusually tall and strong ghost, with red eyes, angrily pinched Prince Jing's neck with both hands, lifted him up, and shouted crazily, "I was wronged, I did not collude with foreign enemies, and I did not embezzle military pay. I didn’t resell military rations, it was all you. It was you who killed my wife and children. You all deserve to die..."

Ling Chu frowned. If she guessed correctly, this ghost should be the Mingwei general Li Lingmu.

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