Chapter 57 The Palace is So Big and So Many Things
Seeing that the old man was about to leave, and remembering that he had not yet paid the bill, Li Yaoguang quickly called out to the person who had already stepped out of the door.

"Wait, Doctor Wu, how much are these medicines? I'll give you..."

Doctor Wu paused and immediately became anxious, "Give me what? I don't want it."

"But……"

"But what but? I'm leaving soon anyway, and I can't take these medicines with me. Instead of leaving them here to waste, I might as well give them to you for free."

"That won't work, Doctor Wu. I..."

"Oh, I won't tell you anymore. Aren't you looking for a frame? Those kids are unreliable with their beardless mouths. I'll go find it for you myself."

As he spoke, the man left. His speed seemed like he was fleeing in panic. Li Yaoguang was dumbfounded, but he knew that the old man was afraid that he would take the money.

But when he looked at the precious poison in his left hand, the jade ring in his right hand, and then at the piles of medicine in front of him that he had put so much thought into, Li Yaoguang's heart was warm.

As a frequent customer of Jishidiang, she also knew how expensive medicine was in those days. Ordinary people could not afford to get sick easily. All these medicines were probably not cheap and would cost a lot of money. How could she get them for free?

Thinking of this, he regretted that he had come in too haste and had not thought of bringing some silver with him. It couldn't appear out of thin air now, right?

Give me a banknote? If something goes wrong, the banknote will be just a piece of waste paper. If I give it to someone, won't I be betraying the person who is sincere to me?

After thinking about it, Li Yaoguang made an estimate and decisively took out twenty gold cakes that she had stolen from a bad shopkeeper and secretly stuffed them into the medicine cabinet. When Doctor Wu brought a pair of baskets, she did not dare to ask others to fill the baskets herself, and she filled the baskets and left in a hurry, for fear that the other party would find out about the gold she left and would not want hers. However, she did not expect that the old man would find out in the end.

After Li Yaoguang left, although the old doctor was reluctant to let him go, he still ordered several of his apprentices and boys to pack up overnight, taking their gold and silver jewelry and the precious medicinal materials on the counter and preparing to leave. Naturally, the medicine boys discovered the twenty gold cakes hidden behind the counter.

When the medicine boy came to the old doctor with the golden cake to report, Doctor Wu looked at the golden cake in the boy's hand, glanced in the direction where Li Yaoguang left, and then looked towards the imperial palace. In the night, with the cold wind howling, the old man's deep sigh drifted away with the wind...but he didn't know that the person he was looking at and the direction he was looking at would meet him on a narrow road shortly after he sighed deeply.

Li Yaoguang left the clinic and returned to his home. He didn't even have time to take a breath. After putting the medicine into the space, he entered the marquis' mansion.

However, she could never be so cruel. After Marquis Zhenwei and his entourage took away a small part of the mansion's half-year grain reserves, most of which were left. She still kept two dou of grain from the warehouse, and took ten dou in total. She learned from Mrs. Zhou that there were not many people left in the mansion, so she thought that these grains would be enough for them to eat until the new year.

If the Hudi invaded the city, they would not be able to keep anything, not to mention the food.
If it was a false alarm, the people in Zhenwei Marquis's mansion would definitely follow the Zao Xin Emperor back to the capital, and Zhenwei Marquis would take care of the food problem.

The so-called doucang is actually a mat of fixed size woven with bamboo strips or rattan mats, which is used to surround the grain inside like a cover on a cylinder. A cylinder holding a thousand pounds is called a doucang.

In order to prevent the so-called warehouse from taking up space, she moved all the things in the dubbing room upstairs to a recording studio downstairs for storage. The top was completely empty and the warehouse was not fenced off. She just spread mats on the floor and piled grain on top. This way, she could store a lot of food. Besides, both the first and second floors of her house were more than three meters high, so she was not afraid of not having enough space with so many things piled up.

After collecting the ten-dou warehouse, he found that the second-floor warehouse was still spacious and could still be filled. So when he left the mansion and looked for a way out of the city at night, he saw the majestic palace in the inner city that occupied a large area... Then he thought of the old emperor who had run away with his wife and ministers... Li Yaoguang paused. It is said that this should be the place where all the good things in the world are gathered, right?

Logically speaking, the emperor was in such a hurry to escape, maybe he was just like the other dignitaries in the Duke of Korea, and he didn't have time to take away many things and money, right?
Li Yaoguang absolutely refused to admit that he was greedy, and even made an excuse: If Hu Di really attacked and Kyoto was destroyed, all these treasures would go to Hu Di.

So she decided to break into the palace.

Li Yaoguang was not familiar with the imperial palace, but he thought its layout was similar to that of the homes of the wealthy and powerful families. The five elements, eight trigrams and feng shui were all the same. The only difference was that one was bigger and occupied more space.

Under the cover of night, Li Yaoguang relied on the fact that the emperor had left, Kyoto was empty, and the palace would be even emptier. Didn't you see that the defenses on the four corner towers of the palace were loosened?

She was very brave. She avoided the conspicuous main gate of the palace and rode her balance bike around the palace wall, observing as she walked. When she reached the northwest, she saw a number of tall trees growing at the corner of the palace wall in front of her, almost sticking to the wall. Li Yaoguang exclaimed, "Wow!" and thought to herself that the management of the Dajing Palace was not strict, which was a good thing for her.

She saw the opportunity not to be missed, so she parked the car and rushed up, climbing up the tree and looking around. Unfortunately, it was pitch black inside and she couldn't see clearly. However, when she was sure that there was no one inside, she sat on the wall with confidence, took out the ladder that had brought her great merit, and successfully entered the palace wall.

When I really came in and stood inside the palace wall, I walked around and found that I was actually in a garden of quite a large area.

Well, the garden of the palace should have nice scenery, but it’s not the place I’m looking for.

Li Yaoguang, who was anxious to stock up on food, did not dare to delay and wanted to get straight to the point. However, the palace was so big and she was not familiar with it, so she had to go around and leave it to fate as to what she could get.

I never thought that she, who is known for her fortune, sometimes has such good luck.

She walked around the garden, crossed the small bridge, passed through the corridor, wandered through the deep alleys, and climbed up several levels of palace walls with great effort. Finally, she found the place by accident.

"Kunning Palace?" The first courtyard he saw upon entering looked quite grand. While there were no guards or palace servants, Li Yaoguang took out his cell phone and quickly turned on the flashlight to shine on the door. He found that the three characters "Kunning Palace" were written on the plaque. After turning off the lights, Li Yaoguang rubbed his chin and said, "Kunning, Kunning, it can't be the residence of the empress dowager, right?"

Never mind, let’s go in and take a look first.

After entering, Li Yaoguang found that he had guessed wrong. This Kunning Palace was actually the residence of the current queen. This could be seen from the items he saw in the house, as well as the leftover clothes, books and other items.

As for the Empress Dowager's residence, she only realized after she had picked and chosen everything and looted this place, and left the Kunning Hall and went to the Funing Hall in front, as well as the Baoci Palace and Qingshou Palace on the left and right sides of the Funing Hall, that this was where the Empress Dowager Dajing should be living.

As for why there are two empress dowager palaces, haha, that's easy to understand. It is estimated that many emperors were born from concubines. Their biological mother was the empress dowager, so their stepmother was naturally also the empress dowager. Haven't you heard of the term "two empress dowager palaces"? There's nothing to be surprised about.

Now that the Empress Dowager and the Queen have come out, there is no need to tell who lives in the Funing Palace. There must be treasures there.

(End of this chapter)