On the wedding day, my wife was abnormal

They were the Yuan family guards responsible for protecting this secret granary.

"Damn it, this underground place is suffocating me!" The burly man with the thick beard, who was leading the group, took deep breaths of the fresh air as soon as he stepped out of the cave.

“Yeah, boss.” The short, weasel-faced guy behind him chimed in, “We’ve been stuck in this godforsaken place for almost half a year now, and we don’t know when this will ever end.”

"It'll be soon." The burly man with the thick beard smiled smugly. "I just received the news from the capital today."

"Our patriarch and the Wang family have almost driven that arrogant little girl to the brink of despair."

"At most, we'll be able to return home in triumph in another half month!"

"Boss, really?" The short man with a pointed mouth and monkey-like face lit up with excitement.

"Of course it's true!" The burly man with the thick beard patted him on the shoulder. "When the time comes, let alone gold and silver treasures, we brothers can have our way with all the pretty young ladies in the capital, no matter what we want to do with them."

"Hahahaha!"

His words drew unrestrained lewd laughter from all the guards around him.

In their view, they were destined to win this war.

While they were still dreaming of rising through the ranks and enjoying the company of all the beauties in the capital.

Dozens of black figures, like ghosts, silently lurked around them.

The black crow peered coldly through the gaps in the leaves at the fools below who were still laughing and talking loudly.

A mocking smile curled at the corners of his mouth.

Young women in Beijing?

He felt that the female ghosts in the underworld might be more suitable for them.

He made a throat-slitting gesture to the guards behind him who were poised to attack.

call out--!

call out--!

call out--!

Dozens of poisoned crossbow bolts streaked across the night sky like shooting stars, whistling out from the darkness!

The shot hits the Yuan family guards below with pinpoint accuracy!

"Uh……"

The smile on the bearded man's face froze instantly.

He looked down at the crossbow bolt still buzzing in his chest, his eyes wide open!

"Puff-"

With a thud, his massive body collapsed to the ground.

The other guards also fell one after another into pools of blood.

The entire process took less than ten breaths.

The black crow emerged from the darkness.

He walked up to the hole and peered inside.

Beneath the cave was an enormous underground space.

Countless grain sacks were piled up together, forming mountains of grain.

That amount is far more than three million shi (a unit of dry measure).

"What a Yuan family." Xuan Ya looked at the enormous grain reserves before him, and a cold killing intent flashed in his eyes hidden beneath his black iron mask.

"Pass the order."

His voice sounded particularly cold in the silent night.

"It was burned down."

"Yes!"

……

at the same time.

Similar scenes are playing out simultaneously in thirty-six secret granaries across the Jiangnan region.

The Yuan and Wang families spent decades building up a massive granary.

Lin Zhen's long-planned, thunderous attack caused everything to crumble.

The towering flames illuminated the entire night sky over Jiangnan as if it were daytime.

……

Imperial Palace, Imperial Study Room.

Murong Yan sat quietly on the phoenix throne, a symbol of supreme imperial power.

Today, she is still wearing that same ultra-black phoenix descending to earth dress.

A five-zhang-long, dark gold train lay casually on the cold gold bricks, and the lifelike phoenix supporting the sky on the hem of the skirt had its eyes slightly closed in the dim light, as if waiting for the show to begin.

Standing before her was Zhang Jianzhi, the current prime minister, who looked anxious.

"Your Majesty!" Zhang Jianzhi held a copy of the grain sales data that had just been compiled from the nine gates of the capital. His thin face was full of solemnity.

"Yesterday alone, our nine grain sales points in the capital sold a total of 300,000 shi of grain!"

"Now, the Ever-Normal Granaries in our capital are completely empty! Even the imperial granaries within the palace are running low!"

"Your Majesty, we really have run out of food!"

Zhang Jianzhi's voice even carried a hint of a sob.

Why is it that even at this point, this young empress still appears so calm and composed?

Doesn't she worry at all?

"Minister Zhang, don't be anxious." Murong Yan shook her head with amusement as she looked at his almost tearful appearance.

She turned her head and looked at the man sitting next to her, who was resting with his eyes closed.

"My husband, it's your turn."

"Hmm." Lin Zhen slowly opened her eyes.

He stood up from his seat and walked to the huge map of the territory.

In front of Zhang Jianzhi, he slowly rolled up the map.

Once revealed, it is a smooth wall made from a single piece of white marble.

Zhang Jianzhi was stunned by Lin Zhen's inexplicable actions.

Just when he was completely baffled...

Lin Zhen made his move and gently tapped three times on the seemingly ordinary white marble wall.

"Boom, boom, boom."

Three muffled sounds echoed in the imperial study.

Immediately afterwards, under Zhang Jianzhi's horrified gaze...

The wall, made from a single piece of white marble, has a hole in the middle!

A unique aroma, the kind that only aged grains emit, wafted out from the dark space!

“This…this is…” Zhang Jianzhi stared at the scene before him, his eyes filled with horror!

He pointed to the endless, dark space, his voice trembling.

"Your Highness, this...this place, could it be...?"

“That’s right.” Lin Zhen smiled, looking at Zhang Jianzhi’s as if he’d seen a ghost, a smug smile spreading across his face. “It’s all grain.”

"It's all...it's all grain?"

When Zhang Jianzhi heard Lin Zhen's words, he felt as if his brain had been hit hard by a heavy hammer.

He staggered back a few steps and collapsed onto the ground.

He stared blankly into the bottomless darkness, his usually composed face now devoid of expression.

How could such a huge granary have appeared out of nowhere inside the palace?

Judging from the scale, the amount of grain stored here is probably extremely alarming.

"Minister Zhang, what are you still standing there for?" On the phoenix throne, Murong Yan looked at Zhang Jianzhi's distraught appearance, a playful smile curving her lips. "Why don't you hurry inside and see if my resources are enough to have a good game with those two old foxes?"

"Yes..." Zhang Jianzhi seemed to wake up from a dream after hearing Murong Yan's words.

He scrambled and crawled towards the black space.

When he stepped into that space and saw the grain mountains stretching out like a mountain range, he was completely dumbfounded.