Chapter 14 Moving the County Magistrate’s Mountain of Rice and Mountain of Gold

Chen’s mansion was not as grand as those of the officials in the capital. It was just a three-courtyard house, and after passing a small garden, you would reach the backyard.

On the left side of the backyard was a tiled house built with blue bricks. The tiled house was about the size of five or six bedrooms, with tall small windows all around.

Chu Chenyin recognized it immediately as the granary.

She strode to the door of the granary, and saw five large locks on the door.

This County Magistrate Chen was stingy about everything, but he didn’t skimp on locks, which showed how much he treasured his grain.

“General Fu, the granary should be here.” Chu Chenyin turned around and said to Fu Yanting.

Fu Yanting strode over, drew a long sword from his bosom, and directly slashed at the five locks.

The sword in his hand was a famous sword that had been passed down for hundreds of years, incredibly sharp and able to cut through iron like mud.

With a clang, the five locks fell to the ground together.

Chu Chenyin bent down and picked up the broken locks, seeing the wooden core inside, she couldn’t help but exclaim, “County Magistrate Chen is really stingy, he actually couldn’t bear to use copper to make locks, he actually used these fake ones to scare people.”

Fu Yanting walked to her side and pushed open the door. A faint aroma of rice wafted out.

Chu Chenyin followed behind her and slowly walked inside.

Unlike the grain in the Fu family and Chu family, which was stacked in bags, the grain in this warehouse was actually piled into mountains of white rice, grain by grain.

The granary was not large, but it was very high, about ten meters tall. There were only two mountains inside, one mountain of rice and one mountain of flour.

When the door of the warehouse was opened, you could see the flour rising in the wind.

Chu Chenyin tilted her head and looked up at the towering mountain of rice, she was momentarily stunned.

Next to the two mountains of rice was a bamboo chair and a rattan table. There was a teacup on the table, with tea still in it, indicating that someone had been drinking tea there recently.

Chu Chenyin picked up the teacup and exclaimed, “County Magistrate Chen’s hobby is really unique, he actually sits in his own home every day and looks at the mountain of rice and the mountain of flour.”

“There’s also a mountain of gold.” Fu Yanting walked to the other end of the granary and pushed open another door.

As the door creaked open, a golden light shone on Chu Chenyin’s face.

Chu Chenyin looked up, and inside the door was a mountain of gold, only five or six meters high, but still very impressive.

Chu Chenyin’s eyes gleamed, she strode to the side of the mountain of gold, gently touched the gold bricks, and smiled, “This trip was worth it.”

Fu Yanting, like her, reached out and gently stroked the gold bricks, slowly saying, “There’s nothing in the warehouse except gold. It seems that County Magistrate Chen has exchanged all his family’s wealth for gold bricks and piled them into a mountain of gold for his own enjoyment.”

Chu Chenyin smiled with curved eyebrows and raised lips, “He really lives a life of luxury! But his good days are over!”

She closed her eyes and silently chanted, placing her hand on the gold.

Not long after, the mountain of gold was moved into the space with her thoughts.

The gold was placed in the third layer of the space, and the rice was placed in the fourth layer.

Chu Chenyin discovered something strange. Both the third and fourth layers of the space, although they didn’t seem very big, could never be filled. It was as if the space was constantly expanding with her stockpiling, getting bigger and bigger.

Chu Chenyin was overjoyed and no longer hesitated. She moved all the remaining flour into the space.

These three mountains looked great in her space.

Chu Chenyin clapped her hands and returned to County Magistrate Chen’s granary.

Fu Yanting saw her return and looked cautiously outside the granary, “Let’s get on the carriage quickly, or the pursuers will be here soon.”

“Okay, have Marquis and Lady Fu finished packing?” Chu Chenyin followed him out of the granary.

Fu Yanting replied as he walked, “They’re done. My younger sister also brought a lot of food, we’ll have enough for the journey.”

Chu Chenyin smiled, “Good, let’s leave immediately.”

To be honest, the Fu family was the best team she had ever met.

Not only Fu Yanting, but even the Fu family’s coachman was very clever and quick-witted.

Before leaving, he even swapped his clothes with those of the servants in Chen’s mansion, and he put on a set of women’s clothes.

Marquis Fu and Lady Fu, as well as his younger brother Fu Xingcheng and younger sister Fu Jianghong, all changed their clothes, wearing the clothes of Chen’s mansion, transforming from refugees into merchants.

The family got on the carriage and rushed towards their next destination, Mengru Town.

Chu Chenyin roughly calculated the time. They had been away from the capital for three days, and the fire meteor would arrive in seven days.

Once the fire meteor arrived, those people in the capital would either die or flee, and they wouldn’t have the time to chase them anymore.

They had to escape the pursuit of these people within seven days, and then they could continue north safely.

Compared to the three carriages they had when they left the capital, they took four carriages from Chen’s mansion this time.

One carriage was driven by Laifu, with luggage in the back, one for Marquis Fu, Lady Fu, and Qing’er, one for Fu Xingcheng and his younger sister Fu Jianghong, and the last one was for Chu Chenyin, Fu Yanting, and the coachman.

Marquis Fu and Lady Fu probably saw that they were newlyweds and hadn’t even had their wedding night, so they let them share a carriage.

Coachman Liu was driving the carriage outside, and Chu Chenyin and Fu Yanting were sitting inside.

The space in the carriage was not large, but it was definitely more comfortable than being squeezed together with the Fu siblings.

Chu Chenyin leaned against the carriage and gradually felt drowsy.

They had been on the road for several days without rest.

“Are you cold?” Fu Yanting came to her side and asked softly.