Chapter 49: The Enemy Digs and Digs

He walked quickly forward, bent down, picked it up and took a closer look.

Oh my goodness! Why is there so much gold inside this plain-looking blue brick?

Li Yaoguang hadn't reacted yet and subconsciously reached out to pull away the bricks.

As she knocked faster and faster, gradually, the thing hidden beneath the blue brick surface gradually revealed its true appearance.

Li Yaoguang looked at the heavy floor tile in her hand. No, it was a gold brick? It was a gold brick, right? She was so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth. Her heart was pounding. She was so excited that she couldn't believe it. How could she be so lucky?
Is she dreaming?

Subconsciously, he pinched his face hard and found that it really hurt. Li Yaoguang's eyes burst into ecstasy like a nouveau riche. He instantly turned into the money-grubber in many film and television works, holding the brick in his hand and taking a bite.

After seeing the teeth marks on it, Li Yaoguang confirmed, "Hahahaha, this is a gold brick, it's a gold brick! Hahahaha..."

Li Yaoguang felt that she was so lucky. She quickly put the gold brick into the space and placed it on the bedside table in the bedroom as a souvenir. She turned around and continued to run into the house. Just as she raised her foot, she suddenly realized something and stopped immediately.

"According to the law of treasure hunting and the ancients' thinking of hiding money, if there is gold in one floor tile, then what about the floor tiles of the entire yard?"

Realizing this, Li Yaoguang was shocked. She quickly put away her phone and ran back to the place where she had fallen. She quickly picked up another blue brick from the gap and took out a bone-chopping knife from the kitchen. Li Yaoguang fiddled with the blue brick for a while, and then the golden light blinded her eyes again.

What are you waiting for? There are tiles all over the yard, no matter if they are all there, just do it first.

Then, under the hazy moonlight, a little person stuck his butt out, holding a bone-chopping knife, prying around in the huge yard. If the situation had not allowed, she would have played a song called "I'm digging and digging in the big garden" to accompany it...

The charm of money is irresistible. In order to save time, Li Yaoguang worked violently. He failed several times and the bricks he pried open were split, revealing golden colors at the edges and corners. This made Li Yaoguang more convinced that the whole piece was gold, and he worked even harder.

It took more than two hours, and Li Yaoguang, who was as tired as a cat, finally collected all the bricks in the yard.

With so many harvests, to be honest, Li Yaoguang's legs became weak. Just at this moment, the voices of patrolling people outside the yard were heard. Li Yaoguang felt guilty and dared not delay any longer, let alone think about collecting other things.

This cowardly girl was extremely content. When the voices faded away, she quickly summoned the stairs and slid out from the place she had just entered. With a pounding heart, she avoided the few night patrols in the mansion. Finally, she returned to the place she had entered at the beginning and climbed out using the ladder.

Standing outside the courtyard wall of the Duke of Korea's Mansion, after the ladder was retracted, Li Yaoguang wiped the sweat off his forehead, drank the last bit of milk in fear to calm his nerves, then turned around and rushed towards the direction of the Mansion.

In her opinion, since she had already done it on the first day, she might as well do it on the fifteenth as well to take revenge. It was still early anyway and there were still several hours before dawn!
As for the Hanguo Mansion that she had left far behind, and the yard that was in a mess after she pried it open?
Haha, God knows how that happened. Maybe some thief broke in and did it?
Thanks to the fact that Kyoto is a city that never sleeps and has no curfew, and thanks to the fact that the old emperor is not at home, the patrols that used to be intensive have now been relaxed, allowing her to successfully return to the Zhenwei Marquis's Mansion without any hindrance or questioning. The success of her first crime gave Li Yaoguang confidence and experience. Although she knew that the ghosts in the Zhenwei Marquis's Mansion could kill people, she was still very careful.

Avoiding the corner gate he usually took, Li Yaoguang deliberately chose a place that was far away but closest to the storehouse of Zhenweihou Mansion, set up a ladder and started working again.

Relying on her familiarity with the Zhenwei Marquis Mansion, she went straight to the storage room after entering. She was not afraid of the locked door. What was the use of the pneumatic pliers she bought in the space specifically for matching specific sounds?
She took it out and broke the lock in two or three moves, then threw the padlock away. As long as she couldn't be caught on the spot, she wasn't afraid of being held accountable afterwards.

It was not until Li Yaoguang entered the storehouse of the Marquis' Mansion that he discovered that, in fact, the Marquis Zhenwei Mansion was just as his uncle had inadvertently said. The mansion was no longer as dilapidated as it used to be, and even had some of the decadence of the Jia Mansion. In addition, the masters might have packed up their valuable gold and silver jewelry and took them away when they left, so there was really nothing good in the huge storehouse.

Those bowls, cups, plates, cloths, furs, furniture... Due to space limitations, she picked up the ones she liked and stuffed the valuables in. She didn't want the bulky furniture and simply gave up most of them.

After leaving the warehouse, the petty-minded girl visited the courtyards of the old lord, the marquis' wife, and the second lady, but did not gain much. She only got some things that were not easy to take away. The most hateful thing was that in the second lady's courtyard, the antique shelves were filled with things that even she could tell were fakes at first glance. It was really something.

What do you expect to gain from a mansion like this?
Li Yaoguang, who was furious, mustered up the courage to sneak into the warehouse where the public silver was stored. After finally opening the many doors and getting in, he only got a small box of silver coins and ten large boxes of copper coins. Li Yaoguang was dumbfounded again.

Damn it, that amount of silver is at most two hundred taels, and the copper coins seem to be a lot but there is not even a single treasure. It is obvious that they were left by the Marquis' Mansion just to stabilize the servants who stayed behind in the mansion and to provide expenses for these people to reassure their hearts. There is not even a penny left over, which shows that the Marquis' Mansion is very tight.

There were some grains in the grain warehouse. Thinking that they were the rations for the servants in the mansion, Li Yaoguang did not do anything too extreme. He only took the warehouse under the kitchen and got some dry goods, wine, sauces, etc. He also took the private warehouse locked by two managers and got some good things such as abalone, bird's nest, shark's fin, etc., but not much.

Li Yaoguang was so angry after the plundering at the Marquis' Mansion that he ran his legs off, but the harvest was not even a hair more than what was collected at the Duke's Mansion.

He resigned himself to his fate and wandered back to Green Garden. He put away everything that his aunt and the others had not had time to take away, such as summer clothes, beddings, and other things, as well as his little cousin's belongings, into the space. When Green Garden was empty, Li Yaoguang sighed and walked out of the Marquis' Mansion. He took one last look back and left in the light of dawn.

It will be dawn soon, and she still has a lot to do.

She was very glad that although the old emperor was gone, most of the shops in Kyoto were still open for business. As soon as the market opened, she would go to the grain store or grocery store to buy more rice, flour, grain and oil, and also buy two pieces of meat, two lamb shanks and other sundries, and take them back to spend the winter with her aunt and the others during the New Year. Oh, and she would also need medicine.

Having dealt with Jishidiang many times, Li Yaoguang relied on the kindness of the eldest lady and knew that a pharmacy like Jishidiang was on call 24 hours a day and would open to see patients when they came for treatment. So she shamelessly knocked on the door of Jishidiang at dawn, greeted the familiar pharmacist who had not even opened his eyes, left half of the deposit, and told him the time to come back to get the medicine. Then Li Yaoguang waved goodbye to the silent pharmacist and happily went to Wa Lane.

There are many grain stores in Wa Lane, and the prices there are much cheaper than in the inner city. It is more cost-effective to go there for bulk purchases. It is also close to the Niuma City Cart Shop, so it is convenient to rent a car there.

Thinking this, Li Yaoguang started walking, and ended up walking on West Street. From a distance, under the dim sky, she saw a familiar figure. It was...

(End of this chapter)