Chang Qing frowned, "What's so bad that it's not good?"
"My lord, news has come from Sanyuan Street. Your mansion there suddenly caught fire, and the blaze is very intense," the servant said anxiously.
"What!" Chang Qing's face immediately changed drastically, and he stood up abruptly. "How could the mansion on Sanyuan Street suddenly catch fire?"
"Now is not the time to worry about how it caught fire, saving it is the priority. We must hurry to extinguish the fire," Lord Li also changed his expression drastically and stood up abruptly, saying to Chang Qing.
Huangfu Yue, who was very close to Chang Qing and Lord Li, saw Lord Li wink at Chang Qing. Chang Qing narrowed his eyes slightly, a complex and difficult-to-understand glint flashing in his eyes.
"Lord Li is right, saving the fire is the priority. We must hurry to extinguish the fire now. Lord Li, please accompany me to Sanyuan Street to help put out the fire," Chang Qing said.
"Good." Lord Li immediately agreed and followed Chang Qing out of the study. The servant followed them out of the study as well.
The study was instantly left with only Huangfu Yue. Huangfu Yue stared at the departing backs of Chang Qing and Lord Li, narrowing her beautiful eyes.
How could she feel that there was something fishy about the mansion that had caught fire in Sanyuan Street? There might be some secret.
Earlier, Lord Li had winked at Chang Qing, and a complex and difficult-to-understand glint had flashed in Chang Qing's eyes, which was very suspicious and made one feel that the mansion that had caught fire in Sanyuan Street must have a problem.
She really wanted to follow them to Sanyuan Street to take a look, but she still had to go to the secret chamber to steal the Puppet Gu, and she also had to empty the Chang mansion to act on behalf of heaven... Got it!
Huangfu Yue suddenly had a flash of inspiration and came up with a brilliant plan.
She could let Xiao Hei follow Chang Qing and the others to Sanyuan Street, and through Xiao Hei, she could see the mansion that had caught fire in Sanyuan Street and see if she could discover anything.
Thinking of this, Huangfu Yue immediately said in her heart to Xiao Hei, who was hiding outside, "Xiao Hei, Chang Qing's mansion on Sanyuan Street has caught fire. Do you know that mansion?"
"I know it, but I've never been there," Xiao Hei replied immediately.
"I think that mansion on Sanyuan Street might be hiding something. You go and check it out immediately by following Chang Qing and the others... Be careful, don't get discovered," Huangfu Yue instructed.
"Yes." Xiao Hei immediately took the order and went to chase after Chang Qing and the others.
Huangfu Yue glanced around the study and sighed in her heart, thinking how truly rich people were. This study looked so luxurious and had many valuable items. The white jade vase placed on the bookshelf must be worth a lot of money. She would find an opportunity to sell it in the future.
Huangfu Yue smiled happily and put everything in the study, including paper and pens, into her spatial dimension.
Since she was determined to empty the Chang mansion, everything in the study naturally had to be taken.
After Huangfu Yue had emptied all the items in the study, she walked towards the bookshelf that was blocking the secret chamber door. She soon passed through it, and behind it was a stone door, which she also passed through.
Upon arriving behind the stone door, Huangfu Yue saw a large secret chamber. In the secret chamber was a large Moon Bright Pearl, which illuminated the chamber as if it were daytime. Thus, there was no need to light a lamp to see everything in the secret chamber clearly.
The secret chamber contained quite a lot of gold, silver, jewelry, and many antiques and calligraphy paintings. Huangfu Yue unceremoniously "accepted" them and stored them all into her spatial dimension.
She found a large, strange-looking jar in the north corner and immediately thought of the Puppet Gu.
Huangfu Yue walked to the jar and opened it. With her exceptionally keen eyesight, she spotted a very beautiful and colorful small worm inside – it was seven-colored.
She recalled Xiao Hei's previous description of the Puppet Gu and knew that this seven-colored worm was the Puppet Gu. She immediately closed the jar.
As she was sending the jar into her spatial dimension, Huangfu Yue thought she really wanted to know why such a small Gu worm needed to be raised in such a large jar. Unfortunately, no one could tell her the answer, and Xiao Hei didn't know either.
After storing the jar in her spatial dimension, Huangfu Yue glanced around. There were still many things in the secret chamber.
Among the many items, a golden brocade box that clearly contained something important and looked very luxurious and beautiful caught her attention.
She walked over, picked up the brocade box, and opened it. A large stack of property deeds, land deeds, and banknotes immediately appeared before her eyes. She took out all the property deeds, land deeds, and banknotes and examined and counted them carefully.
There were seven property deeds, ten land deeds, and twenty banknotes, each worth ten thousand taels, totaling two hundred thousand taels.
So rich! This Chang Qing is truly a great magnate... Oops, there's a false bottom here.
Just as Huangfu Yue was about to put the property deeds, land deeds, and banknotes back into the brocade box, she noticed a false bottom inside the box. She immediately opened the false bottom and saw several letters placed inside.
These were clearly very important letters, otherwise, they wouldn't have been placed with property deeds, land deeds, and banknotes, and even hidden in a false bottom. They were obviously more important than the property deeds, land deeds, and banknotes.
She immediately opened a letter, wanting to see what was written and how important it was, only to find that the letter was filled with scribbles.
They were genuine scribbles, looking like talismans, but they were different from the talismans she had seen before. She couldn't understand anything written on them at all.
Huangfu Yue studied them for a while but couldn't figure out what was written. She frowned and decided to give up.
These scribbles were clearly a secret code, and perhaps only Chang Qing could understand them.
Never mind, she wouldn't study them anymore; it was a waste of time.
She looked at the next letter, hoping it wouldn't be more scribbles and would be in a language she could understand.
But she was soon disappointed. She opened the next letter and found that it was also filled with scribbles.
Huangfu Yue squeezed her brows together, sighed helplessly, and proceeded to open the remaining letters. To her surprise, all the letters were filled with scribbles.
It seemed she couldn't find anything from these letters.
Huangfu Yue shook her head, put all the letters back into the false bottom, then put the property deeds, land deeds, and banknotes back, and finally stored the brocade box into her spatial dimension.
Although all those letters were scribbles and completely incomprehensible, she couldn't just leave them behind. She would store them in her spatial dimension first and study them slowly when she had time. Perhaps one day she would be able to understand them and make sense of them.
She always felt that these letters were very important and hid significant secrets.
Huangfu Yue then looked at the other items placed in the secret chamber. However, there were simply too many things, and she couldn't examine each one carefully. If she were to examine each one carefully, who knows how much time it would take.
Huangfu Yue thought that she still had to search other parts of the Chang mansion and couldn't delay any longer. Therefore, she stopped carefully examining and studying the items in the secret chamber and stored everything else in the secret chamber into her spatial dimension.
The secret chamber instantly became as empty as the study outside, not a single hair left.
After emptying the secret chamber, Huangfu Yue lingered no longer. She quickly left the secret chamber, exited the study, and went to search other places.