As the drone operated, it took about half an hour to knock everyone unconscious.
Naturally.
This included the chickens and ducks raised in the back kitchen.
She first located the scoundrel's storehouse.
A heavy lock hung on the door.
She didn't care at all, pulling out a pair of pliers to snap it right off and toss it aside, then swaggered into the storehouse of the Xia Estate. The young lady's dowry was in there, along with many precious paintings, calligraphy works, and treasures. The gold was even more incredible.
Rows upon rows of shelves were filled with gold.
She gave a wave of her hand.
Collect!
Store it all with full force!
She gathered everything into her own Dimension.
She wouldn't even leave a single hair behind for Xia Yunfei.
As for the young lady's dowry, she was sorry, but she was commandeering it. The headdresses and jewelry alone filled a full ten chests, and the luminous pearls were as big as light bulbs. She waved her hand.
She took it all.
After finishing, she began groping around inside the storehouse, hoping to find a hidden mechanism. Normally, storehouses were connected to secret rooms or hidden chambers that held even more treasures.
She had read plenty of stories about ransacking corrupt officials' homes; she had rehearsed these scenarios a thousand times in her mind.
Sure enough.
While feeling along the wall, she discovered a protruding object.
With a gentle press.
A door opened in the northwest corner of the storehouse.
Si Jiuyue smiled. It really paid off to read more novels—there really was a secret room.
She tossed a stone inside first.
There was no reaction whatsoever.
Only then did she cautiously step into the secret room.
The moment she entered.
She was stunned.
Inside were ten chests filled entirely with all sorts of gold, silver, and jewels, along with egg-sized luminous pearls that illuminated the secret room brightly. Her mouth dropped open; she had never seen so many valuable items in her life.
The next moment.
Wiping the corner of her mouth, she thought: store it!
Looking at the gold, silver, jade necklaces, and jade bracelets all obediently flying into her Dimension, she was overjoyed.
After clearing out the gold, silver, and jewels.
She casually opened a cabinet, and good grief, inside were several hundred thousand taels of silver banknotes.
Collect!
She took everything.
After finishing the storehouse.
Si Jiuyue headed over to the large kitchen.
You have to hand it to them, there were quite a lot of things.
There were seven or eight sides of pork, some freshly slaughtered mutton, half-prepared chicken and duck weighing around three hundred catties, plus twenty bags of white rice, ten bags of millet, and even seventy or eighty catties of polished round-grained nonglutinous rice.
A large pot of pig trotters was still simmering on the stove.
It smelled quite fragrant.
A roasted chicken was waiting nearby, too.
She tore off a chicken leg and then swept all this food into the Dimension.
Next, she went to the stables.
The stables housed six prized horses, and with a wave of her hand, she simply took them as well. These horses didn't look cheap; they seemed very valuable.
One particular unconventional brown horse caught her attention. It had a tuft of white hair on its forehead that looked somewhat like a crescent moon.
It was quite pretty.
Just as she finished collecting the prized horses, the big wolfhound at the gate let out a few whimpering barks at her.
Good grief!
You asked to make a sound yourself, so don't blame her.
Si Jiuyue waved her hand.
The big black wolfhound flew from the ground straight into the Dimension, looking completely dazed.
The poor dog didn't even dare to open its eyes.
It didn't dare bark anymore, either.
It was scared out of its wits!
Next up were the various private vaults and that idiot's study, but she didn't enter any of the servants' quarters. Working people had it hard enough; she wouldn't make things difficult for ordinary workers.
After finishing her collection, she searched around.
As a result, she couldn't find a trace of Xia Yunfei.
Damn it!
Consider him lucky.
Then see you on June 15th.
When that time comes, just watch Si Jiuyue beat this scoundrel to a pulp!
After clearing out the Xia Estate, Si Jiuyue hurried off toward her next destination.
The next stop.
Was the Right Prime Minister's Estate.
This fellow was a massive corrupt official, a mega-embezzler on the scale of Heshen. She suspected that even the national treasury wasn't as valuable as his estate.