Chapter 12 It's Really a Puppet

Prince Jing gave some persuasion, but when he saw that Miss Ling still insisted on keeping those candidates, he had no choice but to let her go.

The two of them took their chosen candidates and searched around General Mingwei's mansion.

It is said that Li Lingmu, the Mingwei general of the previous dynasty, fought for many years and snatched a lot of trophies from foreigners. In addition, he embezzled a lot of military pay and resold military rations, and his family had countless wealth.

When the previous emperor ordered his execution, he originally thought that the Jin Yiwei would seize countless properties from his house.

But the Jinyi guards in the previous dynasty searched countless times. In addition to finding letters from General Mingwei colluding with foreign enemies to rebel, they only found less than 30,000 taels of silver.

The previous emperor believed that Li Lingmu knew that the news of his rebellion had been leaked, and transferred the money and valuables in advance. After questioning to no avail, he could only angrily behead more than a hundred members of his family.

However, many people speculated that the property was not transferred, but was hidden too secretly to be found.

If General Mingwei got the news in advance and quietly moved all the valuables, there would be no reason not to secretly protect his family and even his legitimate son who was a few years old would be beheaded.

The current Holy Emperor should have the same idea, thinking that all those properties are still hidden in this mansion.

Xu Shi saw that the treasury had no money and almost couldn't even pay military salaries. More than a hundred people in General Mingwei's mansion died, and even the side branches were implicated and almost died.

Those who survived have long since disappeared.

The property in General Mingwei's mansion would be a waste if it were allowed to be hidden in the house.

It would be better to find it and replenish the national treasury, whether it is used to provide disaster relief or to provide military pay to the soldiers on the front line who protect their homes and the country, it is a hundred times better than letting it continue to be hidden in this house.

Prince Jing and his ten royal guards almost turned the entire mansion upside down, but apart from the bulky and worthless furniture, not even half a copper was found.

Ling Chu inherited the original owner's ability in Xuanqing Contemplation and was able to use hexagram techniques to find the approximate direction.

She didn't use the system to scan from the beginning. First of all, she didn't want Master Ning and the Jinyi guards to think that she could find the money without any effort, so as to avoid their suspicion.

Secondly, he didn't want Prince Jing to lose too badly and hurt his self-esteem.

So at first, she just took out the copper coins and turtle shells, pretended to do calculations for a while, and then started searching with others.

After watching for half an hour, Ling Chu didn't get any results. He took out the copper coins and turtle shells and started calculating again.

However, what surprised her was that after three consecutive calculations, the hexagrams showed empty.

Ling Chu frowned. Could it be that she was not the original owner and that she had no master of this inherited skill, so it was not accurate?

Prince Jing did not give up and led his men to search for a long time. Finally, they found more than one hundred taels of silver in a remote courtyard.

Seeing Ling Chu test several times, he frowned and asked curiously, "Why, you didn't figure out the hexagram technique? It seems that you are not good at this skill."

Prince Jing was relieved and said proudly, "It seems you are going to lose to me."

Ling Chu glanced at him and said nothing, but secretly thought in his heart that it was impossible to lose. She hasn't used her trump card yet, how could she lose?

Holding the copper coins and the turtle shell in his hand, he continued to calculate and secretly opened the system with his consciousness.

However, the next moment, Ling Chu frowned again. The system showed that General Mingwei's mansion didn't even have half a copper coin.

The most valuable things are the bulky furniture that even Jin Yiwei has abandoned.

However, Ling Chu discovered that there was a secret passage under a wing of the general's mansion.

It is not surprising that there are secret passages, many wealthy families will have them.

But what made Ling Chu feel strange was that she found that the secret passage was quite long. It not only led directly to the outside of General Mingwei's Mansion, but also bypassed three large houses next to it and connected to another large house with four entrances.

She didn't know who owned the four-door mansion, so she didn't use the system to scan it.

Although Ling Chu thought this secret passage was strange, he didn't pay much attention to it.

There was no money found in the house, no help, and I don't know if Commander Ning would still intercede for her.

Ning Chuyi saw that after waiting for such a long time, Miss Ling and Prince Jing had gained nothing, so she couldn't help but lead someone to look for them. Seeing Ling Chu staring at the hexagrams on the ground and frowning, it was obvious that he had encountered some kind of problem.

"Is there something wrong with this hexagram?"

Ling Chu raised his eyes and glanced at him, "There is nothing wrong with the hexagrams, but...the hexagrams show that there is nothing valuable in the general's mansion."

Prince Jing shook his folding fan and said nonchalantly, "Is it because you haven't mastered the hexagram technique yet?"

Ling Chu glared at him. The system showed that there was nothing valuable in the general's mansion. "Then the prince didn't find anything of value either?"

Prince Jing choked. Although he had found more than a hundred taels of silver, the money could not have been embezzled by General Mingwei. It was probably someone's private money.

"Tsk, tell me, is that Li Lingmu mentally ill? He colluded with foreign enemies and embezzled so much money. Now that he has received the news and knows that his betrayal of the imperial court has been exposed, he transferred the money in advance. Why didn't he transfer the money to his family? Transfer?

Even if he is dead, he has caused more than a hundred members of his family to be beheaded. I don’t know if he has so much money hidden..."

"Uh uh uh... let go..."

Before Prince Jing could finish his words, he suddenly covered his neck with his hands in pain.

Everyone was shocked for a moment. How come the Prince of Jing looked like someone was holding his neck with both hands?

Ning Chuyi felt something was wrong. Seeing that the Prince of Jing was almost out of breath, he flashed to his side and tried to save him.

However, no matter what he did, it was in vain.

Other Jinyiwei also surrounded him. The Prince of Jing was of noble status, and he couldn't let him get into trouble under everyone's noses.

But so many people couldn't save him. They watched him suddenly hang in the air, with a painful expression and his feet suddenly kicking in the air.

It looked like someone was pinching his neck from behind and lifting him up in the air.

But the problem was that there was no one behind him.

This was really a puppet.

Everyone was so shocked by the scene that their hair stood up, and many people even felt a gust of cold wind around them.

Even though these Jinyiwei were knowledgeable, they were still nervous. They could only bite the bullet and go forward, punching and kicking the Prince of Jing, and even slashing with swords.

But they didn't hit anything except the air, and they almost hurt other Jinyiwei.

Ling Chu was originally lowering her head to pick up the copper coins and tortoise shells on the ground. When she looked up and saw the strange scene in front of her, she quickly made a seal with both hands and untied her yin-yang eyes.

It was indeed a puppet.

An unusually tall and strong ghost, with red eyes, angrily pinched the neck of the Prince of Jing with both hands, lifted him up, and shouted frantically, "I am wronged, I did not collude with foreign enemies, I did not embezzle military pay, and I did not resell military rations. It's all you, you killed my wife and children, you all deserve to die..."

Ling Chu frowned. If she guessed correctly, this ghost should be the former Mingwei General Li Lingmu.

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