She Rebuilt Her Fallen Country With Storage Space-Chapter 197: Killing Three Birds with One Stone, Stir It Up!

Chapter 197: Chapter 197: Killing Three Birds with One Stone, Stir It Up!

Xiang Ying returned to her own tent.

Tao Xue had already lulled the children to sleep.

She lay down and directly entered the space.

It was easy to arrange for drones to quietly enter the locked granary and move back the things that needed to be taken.

After doing so, Xiang Ying thought for a moment and hatched a plan.

She controlled the drone to fly over to the Governor’s Mansion, reaching the courtyard where Lu Hong resided.

The day after next, during the porridge distribution, the Imperial Envoy would soon discover that there was no grain in the granary.

So as the current supervisor, the Sixth Prince would inevitably be implicated.

Therefore, Xiang Ying prepared to search and see if she could take away something personal of Lu Hong’s and discard it in the granary.

She did this to make Lu Hong suspect that the Sixth Prince, in an effort to exculpate himself, had thrown his belonging into the empty granary.

Lu Hong had always maintained neutrality, but to Jie Chen, his inaction already represented a tilt towards the Sixth Prince.

Thus, Xiang Ying decided to give Lu Hong a push.

Unexpectedly, when the drone arrived over Lu Hong’s courtyard, it found him, coincidentally, coming out with his steward.

"What exactly did Chuchu go to that day, have you found out?" Lu Hong asked his steward.

Xiang Ying let the drone descend a little and followed behind eavesdropping.

The steward shook his head: "I’ve privately interrogated the maid who serves the miss over and over; all say they don’t know what happened. The miss herself also said that she was indeed stunned and locked in the cellar that day, and she knows nothing else."

Lu Hong pondered: "Strange indeed, recently Chuchu has been unusually well-behaved, quite different from before."

"And I intended to thoroughly investigate this matter, yet the Sixth Prince advised me to keep the peace, truly odd."

The steward bowed: "Could it be because the Sixth Prince feels that this matter, if publicized, would tarnish his reputation, and thus he refuses to announce it?"

"After all, the Sixth Prince himself suffered no loss, and that female prisoner didn’t make a scene, and after being taken as a concubine, she seems quite willing."

Lu Hong held his hands behind him, thought for a moment, then instructed: "Keep a close watch on that female prisoner, inform me of any suspicions."

"Yes."

Watching the two of them leave, Xiang Ying behind the screen let out a cold laugh.

Lu Hong wasn’t too foolish, knowing to suspect the Sixth Prince.

Xiang Ying decided to find an opportunity to make them completely turn against each other.

She used the drone to enter Lu Hong’s room, searched everywhere, and finally spotted a jade pendant on the desk.

Deciding that it would be the one.

The drone tossed the jade pendant back into the empty warehouse; having done all this, Xiang Ying went to harvest her crops on the plantation layer.

She transported the newly grown soybeans, corn, wheat, and all kinds of fruits using the elevator to the fourteenth floor.

All new items inserted were automatically tripled in replication.

Xiang Ying, seeing the fourteenth floor nearly full, felt a bit embarrassed.

She now had so much grain that she was running out of room for storage.

Unlocking the fifteenth and sixteenth floors required feeding one hundred thousand cartoon people.

But Xiang Ying had just checked, and now there were only fifty thousand, including thirty-odd newborns.

There was still a long way to go for one hundred thousand people.

She continued to give the surplus food to the cartoon people to eat.

It was also nighttime on their side, but after the patrolling soldiers found out, they quickly woke up many people.

Having done all this, Xiang Ying finally took a warm bath in the space and went to sleep.

The next day when she woke up, she thought of something.

Her cartoon people had food to eat, but most of the people in Mei City were going hungry.

No matter what, the competition between her and Jie Chen with the Sixth Prince indeed affected the local people.

Xiang Ying had taken the grain away, and on the day of the porridge distribution, the people would still be hungry.

She thought for a moment and made a decision.

"Aren," Xiang Ying lifted the curtain and called the young boy over, "I have a task for you, do it secretly, and don’t tell Jie Chen."

A glint appeared in Aren’s eyes: "Okay, what is it, killing or arson?"

Xiang Ying slapped his forehead.

"I could never let you go kill and set fires; just do as I say..." she whispered conspiratorially with Aren.

Soon, the day for opening the shed to dispense porridge arrived.

Xiang Ying had the drone follow behind Jie Chen early on.

The sheds were set up, and the people, having heard that the official was releasing grain, queued up.

In front of everyone, the Imperial Envoy nodded to Lu Hong, "Open the granary."

Lu Hong waved his hand, and several government officers stepped forward, pulling open the doors to the grain storehouse.

Unexpectedly, the storehouse was completely empty.

The several hundred dan of rice and flour had vanished without a trace.

The Imperial Envoy took a couple of steps forward in shock, then turned back to demand, "Where is the grain?!"

Lu Hong was also stunned and turned to look at the Sixth Prince, "Your Highness, where has the grain gone?"

The Sixth Prince was dumbfounded, "How would I know?"

The imperial envoy was frantic, "These past few days, the granary was under the watch of Your Highness, and you don’t know where the grain has gone?"

The Sixth Prince was also perplexed.

He hadn’t taken action yet. How had the grain been moved?

He had planned to move all of it after the porridge distribution. What was going on now?

A flicker of emotion darted across the Sixth Prince’s narrowed eyes. Suddenly, something came to mind, and he turned sharply towards Jie Chen.

"It was you who sent someone to steal the grain!"

Jie Chen responded indifferently, "On that day, I handed the keys over to Your Highness in front of the imperial envoy and Prince Wang. How could it possibly be me who sent someone to steal it?"

King Yong frowned, "Indeed, even if Jie Chen did take it, with so much grain, how could it possibly have been hidden from so many of us?"

The Imperial Envoy looked sternly at the Sixth Prince, "Your Highness! Do you realize how many lives in the City County depend on this grain? How can you be so negligent in your duties! It disrespects the trust Your Majesty has placed in you!"

Feeling wronged, the Sixth Prince retorted angrily, "I don’t know how the grain disappeared; you should be asking Jie Chen!"

Before Jie Chen could speak, the imperial envoy already defended him.

"When Vice General Jie was responsible for these granaries, we all came to inspect them, and there was not a single issue. How is it that under Your Highness’s care, the grain sprouted wings?"

Suddenly, one of the Sixth Prince’s attendants pulled out a jade pendant from inside the granary.

"Your Highness, I found this item. It might have been left by the thief."

The Sixth Prince took it and pointed straight at Lu Hong, "Well done, Governor Lu, stealing right under my nose!"

It was Lu Hong’s turn to be stunned. He looked carefully and confirmed it was indeed his Jade Pendant.

Lu Hong said frantically, "If I were to misappropriate this grain, why would I wait until now? I had the opportunity to move it long ago. This is a set-up!"

Upon saying this, he suddenly realized something and glared at the Sixth Prince.

"Your Highness, don’t tell me you’re trying to shift the blame onto me after taking the goods?"

"The idea that I would frame you? Are you worthy of that?!" the Sixth Prince retorted.

The two argued fiercely and uncontrollably.

Xiang Ying covered her mouth and snickered behind the screen.

Fight, yes, fighting would be even better!

But the most exciting part hadn’t arrived yet.

King Yong scolded, "Enough, both of you squabbling in front of all the townspeople, what does this look like?"

Just then, a government officer hurried over.

"Report—! My lord, we found a trail of scattered rice grains outside the city. By following the trail, we discovered a cave filled with grain, precisely what’s missing from the granary!"

"Besides that... we also found..." He hesitated.

Lord Envoy shouted, "Speak up!"

The government officer bowed, head lowered, "We also found quite a few stockpiled weapons."

The Sixth Prince’s face turned stiff.

Wasn’t this going to lead back to him?

Jie Chen glanced at Skinny Monkey and Acid Scholar behind him.

Both shook their heads obliviously, apparently unaware of this affair.

A hint of peculiarity flashed in Jie Chen’s cool eyes.

Was it Xiang Ying’s doing, again?