PFC Chapter 168 Robbing "Zheng Lu Nian"
Chapter 168 Robbing "Zheng Lu Nian"
After watching them leave, Dongfang Jin emerged from the spatial dimension.
It terrified her. She had just teleported over when she heard that chilling, sinister laughter.
She quickly hid in the space, where she heard everything Ruyi said and looked on in disbelief.
She thought to herself, how could a father and son possibly kill each other? But in the Duke of Wu's mansion, it was indeed possible.
【What a mess】
Dongfang Jin looked at the familiar place: [It's really messy. This place is all empty. How did I get teleported here?]
[Go inside. You forgot about the notebook Cao Baishun had, it mentioned the imperial seal. There's still an imperial seal here that you haven't taken.]
【Oh】
Dongfang Jin strode into the secret room, went directly to the place where the imperial seal was kept, squatted down, and pressed the floor three times according to the records in the book.
"Click," a sound.
The blue bricks on the ground were lifted up, revealing the box inside. Dongfang Jin took it out and threw it directly into his spatial storage.
Where to go next?
Ruyi, [Following that man who left, he thinks he can get away? Dream on. If you don't cut the weeds at the root, they'll grow back in the spring. This Liu family isn't any better; keeping them around will only cause trouble.]
Just as I thought, Zheng Lunian has been a junior duke in the Duke's mansion for so many years, and he knows his own background. How could he not want to get out of there?
I just never expected him to bring the real Zheng Lu Nian to kill. Truly, one is influenced by one's company.
It seems the Zheng family is rotten to the core.
[That's good. Zheng Sihan, that old bastard, is dead. Gu Chenglin's revenge is half complete.]
Forget about your man; he's probably up to something big and exciting right now.
What can he do?
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Gu Chenglin and Helian Lü were currently lying in ambush a hundred meters away from the camp of the Xiongnu Yelü Da.
Helian Lu held up the small iron ball in his hand: "Chenglin, let's see its power."
Gu Chenglin nodded, took the grenade, pulled the handle, and the group threw it in unison to the tents over there.
"Boom, boom..."
After a few sounds, they heard screams of agony coming from the enemy's side, and the group felt immense satisfaction.
Helian Lu covered his ears: "Retreat!"
When the group returned to Longhu Pass, Helian Lu didn't rest at all, and dragged Gu Chenglin back into the firearms camp.
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When Dongfang Jin emerged from the secret passage, he witnessed the fake Zheng Lunian killing the black-clad guard at the exit.
"Hmph, only the dead can keep their mouths shut." After saying this coldly, he tore off the human skin mask from his face, threw it into the fire beside him, and turned to leave.
Upon seeing this, Dongfang Jin remarked, "This imposter is pretty ruthless, isn't he?"
[You have to be ruthless; this guy probably knows too much. He's right, only the dead keep secrets.]
That's true; the more people know, the faster they die.
Just then, snowflakes began to fall. Dongfang Jin looked up at the sky and thought, "It's snowing."
Yes, I'm a little envious of you.
Why would you envy me?
Let's see the snow!
I'll put some in for you.
Sister Jin, what I want is something that just floated down from the sky.
Dongfang Jin...
Sorry, I can't do that. Hurry up, see where that person went!
[It's not far ahead, we've entered that alley, should we go in?]
"Of course he'll go! I'm sure he's packing his things and will leave as soon as the city gates open tomorrow. Then, who will I kidnap?"
She could hear it; this guy had been like a rat all these years, stealing things from outside all the time. He must be a fat sheep.
He went into the third house in the alley ahead; that house has a back door, you can go in from there.
Dongfang Jin walked around the alley and arrived at the back door. He saw a sign on the wall: "Wutong Alley? Well, this is right behind the red-light district. This person really knows how to find a place."
Indeed, Sister Jin, good heavens! There's a secret room beneath this house, and not only that, there's a hidden passage leading directly to the Drunken Red Pavilion across the street.
Dongfang Jin, hearing this, followed suit and entered the courtyard, only to find it empty and deserted. "Where is everyone?"
Listen, that guy's at the Drunken Red Mansion right now. Ugh, it's a bit of an eyesore. He's asking for water, saying he wants to take a bath. Should you go in and collect it quickly?
Is anyone in the courtyard?
No, there's no sign that anyone has ever lived in this courtyard.
[Haha, it's true what they say, like begets like. Even a rat's son knows how to dig a hole. I wouldn't believe this grandson isn't Old Zheng's son.]
That's called being influenced by what you see and hear.
Dongfang Jin quickly climbed into the house through the back window and stuffed everything he could into his spatial storage.
Then, following Ruyi's instructions, we moved the cabinet a little and opened the mechanism.
[This guy is really something. If I didn't know this was ancient times, I would have thought he was from my hometown.]
【How to say? 】
This switch looks a lot like the manual channel changing button on an old TV from the 1980s in our world.
Why don't you consider whether that technology was passed down from ancient times?
[Really? Maybe. Wow, this guy's even richer than Cao Baishun's warehouse.]
Cao Baishun's warehouse contained only weapons and lumps of iron refined from iron ore.
There were plenty of furs, but very little gold and silver.
She wouldn't have come to the capital if she hadn't failed to find Gu Chenglin at Longhu Pass.
It was all because that old bastard Zheng Sihan robbed the grain supplies; otherwise, how would she not know which camp Gu Chenglin went to?
Gu Chenglin, whom she kept mentioning, had already entered the firearms battalion, a place that not just anyone could enter.
Gu Chenglin has been studying hand grenades here for the past few days. He has been configuring them according to the gunpowder configuration method on the computer.
After they finished, they went to the Xiongnu camp to conduct experiments. Tonight's experiment was more powerful than ever before.
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"Alright, didn't you leave all those weapons for them? The food should last them a while."
Seeing these treasures, all her worries vanished. "My goodness! These chests full of gold, silver, and all sorts of jewelry and paintings... don't you think this rat stole them all?"
Zheng Lu Nian has really done a lot of work for this family, so she'll gladly accept it.
"Of course!"
[Little Ruyi, why didn't we have those antique bottles and jars from ancient times?]
"Yes, this is a personal hobby. Hurry up, there's a box of silver notes over there."
Dongfang Jin walked up to the box of silver notes, the smallest denomination being one hundred taels and the largest being ten thousand taels.
Why don't they have some larger denomination banknotes here?
"They're poor. Didn't you notice? There are only about twenty silver notes worth ten thousand taels? Most are between one hundred and one thousand taels."
[That's true, it's easier to make money under the emperor's nose. Yongzhou is too poor. They've collected so many iron towers, but they can't sell them. Not only is it dangerous to keep them, but it's also illegal. They might even get beheaded.]
[Didn't you say you were going to send those iron ore pieces to the palace? Hurry up, we can go home and catch up on some sleep once we're done.]
We don't even know where the palace is!
【Don't we have a lucky carpet? Stand on it, at a high place, and you'll see everything clearly.】
Dongfang Jin: "..." She could say she forgot.
Heh, that's true, but I want to rob these brothels.
It's important to know that brothels in ancient times openly welcomed customers; they were not only intelligence organizations but also the fastest way to make money.
[Grab it! Hey, smoke grenades, get them out!]
[Haha, that's a good idea, Little Ruyi. If you could master poisons, you could make a sleeping potion, which would be much more powerful than this smoke bomb.]
【Then you should quickly practice your skills and farm.】
Dongfang Jin pursed her lips and remained silent.
snort!
Looking at the various dragon lanterns on the street, Dongfang Jin shouted in her heart: "Grandma's here to rob us!"
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