I unlocked the heroine's chance in the book exile
Chapter 7: Sweeping Zhou Mansion
[Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining today's sign-in item, an invisibility cloak. Note: The invisibility cloak can conceal the body shape and breath. As long as the user does not actively make a sound, he will not be discovered. It can be used dozens of times.]
[Congratulations to the host for completing today's sign-in. Please keep up the good work. After completing the system sign-in nine times, another gift package will be distributed.]
Zhou Jinran didn't expect that what the sign-in system said was actually true. Before that, she had been silently thinking in her mind that she could sign in for things like invisibility cloaks.
Unexpectedly, I actually got it. It seems that this sign-in system is different from those ones that are undercover.
And there will be a gift package after signing in nine times. It seems that this is related to the name of the system. I am afraid that in the future, as long as I encounter a number related to nine, I will be able to get a gift package.
Zhou Jinran happily waved his fists while waiting for dark.
It was late at night and everyone was asleep. Zhou Jinran put on his invisibility cloak and went out of his room.
Although the original owner was not familiar with the Zhou Mansion, after all, the Zhou Mansion never took the two siblings to any banquets or tea parties, and the original owner had hardly ever been to other courtyards.
But Zhou Jinran, who was familiar with the plot, knew the layout of the Zhou Mansion.
This is also the author's arrangement of the scene to highlight the engagement of the heroine and General Jiang, and it also indirectly contrasts the joy of the engagement and the pain of exile. The situation in Zhou's mansion is described in almost extreme detail.
Even though Zhou Jinran was wearing an invisibility cloak, she did not dare to be careless. After all, there were still many masters in this world.
To be honest, if it weren’t for the fact that the Zhou family had not been good people over the years and had never treated the original owner’s siblings with care, and even when the original owner’s father and mother died, they were unwilling to give them any respect.
Zhou Jinran would not come to collect their things now. After all, the things left by her parents were enough for her and her brother.
But when he thought about how the heroine not only didn't treat her brother well after getting the original owner's golden finger, but also wanted to harm her brother, Zhou Jinran felt that he no longer had any psychological burden to collect things.
Starting from the second house, that is, the unscrupulous grandfather's side, Zhou Jinran carefully put all the important and valuable things into the space.
Especially their private vaults, which made them pretend to be poor and harm the merchant girls. They thought that the girls' wealth was an eyesore to them, so they just kept squandering their money.
Since they are pretending, Zhou Jinran will help them.
As for her uncles' and aunts' belongings, Zhou Jinran kept the worthless ones and took away the rest, because those cousins and servants often ridiculed the original owner behind her back.
After collecting the things from the second room, Zhou Jinran entered the courtyard of the first room. Perhaps because Zhou Jinyan was getting engaged today, the servants here were all listless.
It was not at all like the people from the second room who took turns standing guard, which made it more convenient for Zhou Jinran.
Similarly, collect the things in the private warehouse first, keep the worthless ones and take the valuable ones away.
Zhou Jinan, who was in the space, looked at the things that were constantly being sent in and finally believed what his sister said. It was shameless that the Zhou family bought poverty and harmed others.
For the non-existent merit of following the dragon, he actually dragged up the Zhou family's reputation of over a hundred years again and again to tarnish it. I don't know if my great grandfather is getting senile and confused.
If Zhou Jinran were here, he would have to say that he was a fool.
But although he is old and confused, he is very strong.
Of course, Zhou Jinran didn’t know at this time that she had already arrived at the Zhou family’s big kitchen. Because of the banquet, there were still a lot of ingredients here.
Of course, there are many things that have been completed and have not been touched.
Adhering to the principle of not wasting, Zhou Jinran also put the kitchen items into the space.
Anyway, they had stockpiled a lot of pots, pans, and utensils before, so they could cook their own food when the time comes.
"Hey, there's a secret door here."
Zhou Jinran had already packed up his things and was ready to leave, but he unexpectedly bumped into a mechanism.
[Host, the contents inside are a large amount of silver and banknotes, originally allocated by the Ministry of Revenue for disaster relief, but embezzled by the Third Prince, the Zhou family, and the Ministry of Revenue, and then hidden in the tunnel below.]
"Xiaojiu, how come they even embezzled the disaster relief funds?"
[Host, power and wealth dazzle people, this is human nature.]
"Then after the Zhou family is confiscated, will the Third Prince come to take the money?"
Zhou Jinran thought, if that was the case, she might as well collect it and give it to the disaster victims along the way.
[Host, why do you think the Zhou family was raided?]
Zhou Jinran seemed to have heard the system's ridicule. Wasn't he implicated by the Jiang family as written in the plot?
At this time, Zhou Jinran did not agree with her brother, because in her opinion, the right and wrong of the princes was only in the emperor's mind, and most of the princes who made mistakes only received a punishment that was neither light nor severe.
Therefore, Zhou Jinran would never have thought that the main reason for the Zhou family's confiscation of property was because of the third prince, and the Jiang family was just a by-product.
[Host, the Zhou family's property was confiscated because of the influence of the Third Prince. The current emperor is a wise one, and the one he values the most is the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince has only been in the court for less than two years, and the Third Prince and his men have already started to act up and down. This time, they even embezzled the disaster relief money, so naturally they will suffer.]
According to the emperor, since the Zhou family does not want to recognize orthodoxy and follow the emperor's ideas, they should not accept the salary from the national treasury.
On the one hand, they enjoy the people's tax revenue, while on the other hand, they embezzle the money provided for the people's disaster relief. How can this be justified in the world?
Moreover, the Zhou family actually wants to support the Third Prince, a man whose hair hasn’t even grown all over. Isn’t this a curse for the emperor to die early?
If the Crown Prince had not suggested leaving behind a few younger brothers for him to practice on and find some useful helpers, the Third Prince would have been beaten down by the Emperor as soon as he showed any signs of potential.
So this time when the Zhou family's property was raided, the plot wrote that it was related to the Jiang family, but it was written from the heroine's perspective, which also made the hero feel guilty towards the heroine.
After all, she had just gotten engaged to the Jiang family, and her property was confiscated and she was exiled. She had to find some excuse to shirk her responsibility.
In fact, the main reason was the third prince. It was just that the Zhou family’s property was raided too suddenly, and he was exiled without even being put in jail.
By the way, the reason was that the Zhou family and the Jiang family were engaged, which made the emperor intolerable.
After all, the daughter of the Jiang family was a concubine in the palace. Unfortunately, the son she gave birth to was the third prince.
The Jiang family really doesn't know what's good for them. Except for the male protagonist who is relatively normal, the others are all crazy.
After all, the Jiang family holds military power and leads hundreds of thousands of troops to guard the border, so it can be said that they are very popular among the people.
But on the contrary, the Jiang family has a very bad reputation in the whole of Nanqing, and they don’t even have a good reputation at the border.
The only good reputation he has gained in the past few years came from the male protagonist, but unfortunately, with a family that holds him back, he is destined to get nothing good.
This is because the Jiang family is never satisfied. Not only do they have military power, they also send their daughter directly to the palace to become the emperor's woman.
You have to say that since ancient times, the emperor was afraid that the generals would become more powerful than him, so he would personally order the girls to be sent to the palace as a restraint.
But Emperor Nanqing did not do so. After the daughter of the Jiang family entered the palace, he allowed her to give birth to a son so that she would have a good support for the rest of her life.
But the Jiang family not only did not appreciate the kindness, they not only condoned their family members to act tyrannically in the capital and the border and disregard the people, but also began to slowly plan to become the father-in-law of the emperor when the third prince was still a child.
Now, as soon as Jiang Qingyao comes back, she will make an engagement with the Zhou family with great fanfare, even though the Zhou family does not have any high-ranking officials.
But the Zhou family has so many members. There is a small official in this department and a small official in that place. Their network of relationships is very wide.
They all wanted to use each other's power to build momentum for the Third Prince and help him become the next emperor.
Therefore, with the support of several major events, the emperor showed mercy to the Zhou and Jiang families by only having their property confiscated and exiled.
Didn’t you see that as soon as they left the capital, the Third Prince was directly ordered to have no chance of succeeding to the throne?
After sorting out the system's explanation, Zhou Jinran was still a little dazed.
After all, no matter whether it was the TV dramas or history books we watched in our previous lives, as long as they were about those who held military power, they would not escape the fate of being abandoned after their rabbit had died.
Haven’t you seen that some emperors were afraid of the military power in the hands of generals, so they directly prevented their daughters from giving birth to sons in the harem.
It was rare for her to know that the emperor could do this. Take the matter of the third prince for example, according to general thinking.
I'm afraid it would be nothing more than a salary deduction and house arrest, but this emperor was simple and straightforward and directly deprived him of his inheritance rights.
"So, Xiaojiu, the silver emperor of this place already knows about it, right?"
[The emperor doesn’t know the exact location yet, but it will be soon, because the third prince has been controlled.]
"Then I don't care. At least the emperor sent someone to take it away. It will be much more useful than if I had it in my hands."
In fact, Zhou Jinran was very glad that the emperor of this dynasty was a wise ruler.
After all, it is easier to live a life of mediocrity in prosperous times than in chaotic ones.
From this perspective, it seems that she and her brother are getting closer to a lazy life.
Of course, it is impossible to say that Zhou Jinran resented the emperor for ordering her to have her property confiscated and exiled, and that she seized the national treasury in anger.
First, he ordered the Zhou family to be exiled, and the Zhou family deserved it, and she and her brother were obviously implicated by the Zhou family.
Secondly, the national treasury did not belong to the emperor. It was the foundation of the survival of the entire dynasty at that time. If Zhou Jinran went to collect it, she guaranteed that when she died and went to the underworld, she would go to the eighteen levels of hell and suffer all kinds of torture until her soul was scattered. That would be a special mercy.
Without caring about the money in the tunnel, Zhou Jinran turned around and walked back. He would be exiled tomorrow, so he must have a good rest tonight.
After a busy day, Zhou Jinran went back and fell asleep directly. When she was about to fall asleep, she always felt as if she had forgotten something.
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