The abandoned concubine who transmigrated woke up shouting "Long live the widow!"

After dinner, Jingxue took out her revised purchase order and gave it to Qin Jing. It included some new items, such as hair dryers, and some new cosmetics with different functions than before.

Qin Jing took it and glanced at it. "Okay, sister-in-law, let's go to the warehouse tomorrow!"

He didn't explicitly mention receiving the goods because Jingxue had warned him to keep it a secret from Ye Muchen.

"Sister-in-law, my caravan will be bringing back a lot of dried seafood this time. I'll send you some over later!"

As a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, Jingxue is also passionate about seafood. Seafood is mostly considered a cold food and can interact negatively with some other foods, so it is not suitable for everyone to eat seafood.

"Oh! Hot pot restaurants can also offer seafood broth. Although seafood is considered 'cold' in traditional Chinese medicine, when paired with lamb, they neutralize each other and taste delicious!"

"Ok!"

After talking for a while, Ye Muchen and the other two went to Mingyuan Pavilion.

Over the next two days, Jingxue was busy teaching the chefs at Mingyue Tower how to cook, and of course, she also paid for all the goods Qin Jing had ordered.

When Qin Jing saw the new gadgets Jing Xue brought out, he couldn't stop smiling. He kept fiddling with the flashlight, and Jing Xue naturally had to tell him how to use it.

Meanwhile, Jingze's wet nurse used the materials Jingxue brought back to make a set of down-filled clothes.

That evening, Jingxue put on a down jacket and pants, and then put on a night suit. When she left the manor, if it weren't for her hair and face being exposed, the guards would have almost thought that an assassin had entered the manor, because Jingxue's figure looked like a man's.

After leaving the mansion, Jingxue put on the mask that had been prepared in advance and covered her hair.

Tonight, she went to the residences of Hu Yucheng, the Minister of Revenue, and Li Wenqing, the Imperial Censor, and stored all the gold and silver treasures in the two residences into her spatial storage.

Of course, they're all on the ground. She already took away the two boxes that were under Li Wenqing's house.

There was nothing in Hu Yucheng's house underground, so everything was in the above-ground warehouse.

After Jingxue left, Anjia went to report to Ye Muchen, "Your Highness, the Princess Consort has left the manor again!"

"Oh! I understand!"

“Your Highness, today the Princess Consort is dressed rather strangely; you can’t even tell she’s a woman without looking closely,” said Anjia.

"Oh?" Ye Muchen put down the book in his hand.

"Perhaps it would be safer to disguise yourself as a man! It's alright, you can go back now! See when the princess returns and then report back."

"Yes! I'll take my leave!" Dark Armor bowed and withdrew.

Ye Muchen remembered what Jingxue had said: she wanted to take the initiative. He wondered what this girl was going to do, but whatever she did, he would stand by her side.

Jingxue returned to Jingning Garden in just over an hour.

Anjia looked at Jingxue flying in from outside the wall and thought to himself, "Did the princess come back so quickly because she didn't get anything done?"

But he immediately went to report to the prince, and Ye Muchen didn't say anything.

The next day, when the officials left court and walked to the palace gate, they saw several ministers who had come out earlier gathered together with some unfamiliar servants.

Walking at the back, Ye Muchen looked at Ye Musi beside him and asked, "What's going on?"

"I don't know, let's go take a look!" Ye Musi said and the two of them walked over.

Several more ministers gathered around.

A voice came from the crowd: "Has anyone reported to the authorities?" It was Hu Yucheng's voice.

"This is outrageous! Who would dare to be so audacious as to commit theft right under the emperor's nose? What is the Jingzhao Prefecture doing?" It was Li Wenqing.

The Ye brothers exchanged a glance, and Ye Musi said loudly, "Stop crowding around, what happened?"

As the crowd dispersed, Ye Muchen saw Hu Yucheng, Li Wenqing, and two butler-like figures surrounded in the middle.

Upon seeing them, Hu Yucheng hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Your Highnesses, my residence and that of Imperial Censor Li have been robbed!"

Yemus said, "Have you checked how much property was stolen? Then report it to the Jingzhao Prefecture as soon as possible. There's no point in gathering here!"

“Your Highness, the treasury in my residence and Minister Hu’s residence has been completely ransacked, with an estimated amount of tens of thousands of taels of silver! Such brazen thieves appearing right under the emperor’s nose must not be just one or two people, but a whole gang of bandits. I’m afraid the Jingzhao Prefecture is powerless to handle this. I would like to request the Ministry of Justice to send people to apprehend them!” It was Li Wenqing who spoke.

He was only concerned with his own money and didn't realize that his words had offended someone. Not far away, Xia Xun, the Prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture, cursed inwardly, "Serves him right! This old bastard thinks the Jingzhao Prefecture isn't qualified enough. Why didn't those thieves just rob his house clean?"

Hu Yucheng stepped forward and said, “Your Highness, this matter is indeed unusual. My household has servants and guards, but it was still robbed silently. The Cangbei delegation is about to arrive. If the thieves are not apprehended as soon as possible, the consequences will be too serious.”

Ye Musi also knew that Hu Yucheng's words made sense. "You should report the case to the Jingzhao Prefecture according to the rules. I will personally supervise the case and apprehend the thieves as soon as possible!"

“Yes!” Li Wenqing and Hu Yucheng replied.

When Ye Muchen heard the news, his first reaction was that Jing Xue was probably behind it. How could he help her this time?

Because of the theft, Ye Musi was in a hurry to go to the capital, so the two parted ways.

The news spread quickly, and the Jingzhao Prefecture received the report and began sending people to the Ministry of Personnel and the Censorate to investigate the scene, but unfortunately they found no clues.

The doors and windows were intact, and no suspicious people had entered or left; the valuables had almost vanished without a trace.

Prefect Xia Xun of the Capital Prefecture was at a loss and could only consult Prince Rui, who was in charge of the case. Ye Musi had not expected things to turn out this way, so he could only order the patrol battalion and the yamen runners of the Capital Prefecture to strengthen patrols and conduct thorough checks on suspicious persons.

Especially at the city gates, both pedestrians and carriages are subject to strict inspection.

The most upset person was Censor Li Wenqing. When he returned to his residence and saw that the storeroom had not been disturbed anywhere, he had a very bad feeling.

After the yamen runners from the Jingzhao Prefecture left, he immediately ordered his servants to dig up the place where the gold was buried, but there was no trace of gold there, only tree roots.

Li Wenqing was so angry that he was trembling and couldn't speak. This was something no human could do; he felt like he had been stolen by a ghost!

He flicked his sleeves and went back to his study. The steward next to him quickly told the servants to fill in the hole so as not to upset the master.

Hu Yucheng wasn't much better off than Li Wenqing. His wife was crying incessantly beside him, saying that the money was for their sons and daughters' weddings.

He was in a terrible mood after getting into this mess. He scolded his wife a couple of times and then went to the side courtyard.

Upon seeing Hu Yucheng's attitude, Madam Hu wiped away her tears and ordered a carriage to be prepared to go find her eldest daughter, the Second Princess.

Prince Duan, Ye Musen, did not attend court today because he caught a cold and was unaware of the matter.

When the Second Princess heard her mother finish her tearful account, she felt that her own family was really unlucky, how could they have been completely robbed?

“Mother, please don’t cry! Didn’t you say that the Fourth Prince is in charge of this case? I believe he will recover the valuables,” the Second Princess consolation advised.

"Shu'er! You don't understand, how can we solve a case without a single clue?" Madam Hu said, her voice trembling with tears.

“That’s the savings your mother painstakingly accumulated after you got married! The shops in the north of the city can only bring in a thousand or eight hundred taels of silver a year, and the estate only has some grain left, enough for everyone in the manor to eat.”