I was a stepmother in ancient times, and I led my whole family to wealth.

Chapter 156 Did I say I wanted you to take action?

Ruyi said earnestly, "I'm doing this for your own good. There are people hiding in those places you mentioned. At your current level, you'd be easily discovered."

This place can't be left unattended. There are people cooking here day and night, so the guards won't come here.

Dongfang Jin accepted five rooms in a row. [Understood. Where are we going next?]

[Go to Long Er's place, then find a secluded spot to enter the Ruyi Realm. Let Long Er handle the rest.]

"That's a good idea. Wait a minute, I'll get some food for us."

"Don't go! Someone's coming! Let's go!"

Upon hearing this, Dongfang Jin immediately ran outside.

She ran quite a distance, but when she heard no sound, she patted her chest, realizing how terrified she had been.

Hurry, head southeast; we'll probably be discovered soon.

【it is good. 】

When Dongfang Jin met up with Long Er, he saw that Long Er was not only carrying a full bag of things, but also a large bundle on his back.

Aren't you afraid of being discovered?

"Xiao Jin, let's go quickly, I think I've been discovered. I only managed to escape because there were people holding off those guards over there."

Dongfang Jin took the things from his hands and quickly threw them into the Ruyi Realm: "Who are those people?"

Ryuji: "..."

If I had known you had this ability, I would have taken you under my wing. But he couldn't ask; he had to pretend he was blind.

"I don't know. There are three of them, and their fighting skills are no less than mine. Let's go quickly."

Dongfang Jin looked at Long Er suspiciously: "Is it appropriate for you to leave like this?"

Long Er asked, puzzled, "I...I'm carrying something on my back, aren't I?"

"Come on, let's go back and save people. We can't be ungrateful."

Long Er hesitated. There were so many people. Wouldn't taking Dongfang Jin with him just cause trouble?

If I expose myself, this will be a real problem.

Seeing that he didn't understand, Dongfang Jin became anxious: "Hurry up and leave! They're protecting you; you can't abandon them. That's immoral."

"But if I make a move, I'll be exposed, won't I?"

"Did I say I told you to take action?" Dongfang Jin said, taking out a smoke bomb.

"use this."

She stole these two items when she went with her grandfather to visit a military exercise.

This smoke grenade is different from the ones you buy outside; it's made to resemble a hand grenade, but it has blue, yellow, and red markings on it.

The blue one contains blue smoke, which is non-toxic and similar to tear gas; the yellow one contains yellow smoke, which contains toxic fumes that are extremely irritating to the eyes; the red one contains sleeping gas that can knock out a group of people.

“Okay,” Ryuji said, reaching out to lift her up again.

Dongfang Jin...

Come again...

Forget it.

She endured it.

She followed Long Er in a few leaps and arrived at the rooftop not far from the fighting area.

A dozen or so men in black were seen chasing and attacking three men in black. Although the three men in black were handling the situation with ease, the number of men on the other side was increasing.

Dongfang Jin watched the fight and asked, "Is this a case of the many bullying the few?"

Long Er frowned: "There weren't this many people just now."

Dongfang Jin...

It's nighttime, so quiet. How could such loud fighting not attract attention?

Thinking it over, he handed the smoke bomb in his hand to Ryuji: "Pull down this ring and throw it over there."

Long Er didn't ask where the thing came from. After listening to her, he took the sphere from her hand, looked at the pull ring, and then looked directly at the dozen or so people.

He shouted at the three men, "Retreat!" After shouting, Long Er pulled the ring and threw what he was holding out.

The three men were quite sensible. Upon hearing his shout, just as the men in black were staring blankly at Long Er, they immediately used their lightness skills to leap far away. Then they heard a loud bang.

Dongfang Jin was dumbfounded. Wasn't that a smoke grenade? How did it turn into a hand grenade?

She steadied herself; she remembered that when she stole it, it was smoking.

The flames soared into the sky... and the house collapsed instantly... the destructive power was incredible!

Oh no, she killed someone.

Staring at the other one in his hand, he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

By the time she came to her senses, she had already left the Duke of Wu's mansion and arrived on White Tiger Street.

Long Er asked excitedly, "What is that? Can you make it?"

Even by the moonlight, Dongfang Jin couldn't ignore Long Er's excited face.

"Would you believe me if I said I didn't know this thing was a grenade?"

"Do not believe."

"What I gave you was a smoke bomb, the kind with a sedative."

Ruyi, [Master, those are hand grenades; the smoke grenades are still on the warehouse shelf.]

Dongfang Jin asked in shock, "How come my house has something as lethal as a hand grenade?"

Ruyi also looked at the things in her hands, saying, "Master, the things in your hands are different from those on the warehouse shelves."

The smoke grenades here are all marked, and the bottom is different colored, with the word "smoke grenade" written on them.

The one you have is a uniform green without any color markings. I just looked at the one I just copied.

There were no markings on it, and it smelled like gunpowder. The pull ring and smoke grenade were also different.

Dongfang Jin stared blankly at the grenade in her hand. Where did she get this?

Could she have stolen it? Why do you remember her?

Also, didn't those people notice that she took these things?

At this moment, Long Er pointed to the Jade Pavilion behind them: "This is the property of the Duke of Wu, would you like to..."

Dongfang Jin gritted her teeth: "Go!"

Next, Long Er led Dongfang Jin to sweep through all the properties of the Duke of Wu's mansion on this street.

This includes the properties of several families who were on good terms with the Duke of Wu's family.

On the way back, the two didn't say anything, and Dongfang Jin felt that the return trip was twice as fast as the departure trip.

Unbeknownst to Long Er and Dongfang Jin, their carefree departure from the capital had caused quite a stir in the city.

An explosion occurred at the Duke of Wu's residence at dawn, alarming the entire capital.

People from the surrounding area and those with martial skills from various prefectures came to watch the spectacle, but most of them were young people.

The collapsed house over there belonged to Zheng Sihui, the youngest brother of Duke Wu.

This younger brother treated him like a son and doted on him. The courtyard where he lived was the second best in the mansion.

The house that collapsed in the explosion was the room of his thirteenth concubine.

When Duke Wu, Zheng Sihan, arrived, Zheng Sihui's men were carrying people out. There were eight dead men in black; you could tell from their clothes that they were secret guards.

There are also six people seriously injured and unconscious, and five injured but conscious.

Four people died inside the house: one man and three women.

Duke Wu looked at the people kneeling on the ground and asked them a question in anger. The servants stammered and finally kowtowed desperately, begging for mercy.

But their lives were coming to an end.

After the guards following Duke Wu reported the identities of the four dead men to him.

The Duke of Wu was so angry that he swayed slightly, and finally only said one sentence: "Clean it up."

Then he turned and left.

After witnessing this, the spies from each household in the shadows all left to report to their masters.

Emperor Shengde looked at the people in front of him: "Are you sure that person is Long Er?"

Changsun Lan nodded: "Although he didn't make a move, I can still guess what he meant by his shout and what he threw."

Helian Shuo looked frustrated: "Unfortunately, we have searched the Duke of Wu's mansion several times, but we still haven't found any evidence."

Emperor Shengde ignored him and looked at Changsun Lan, continuing to ask, "Can that thing really cause a house to collapse instantly?"

Changsun Lan nodded: "In just a moment, if it weren't for Long Er's shout, and if it weren't for our superior lightness skills, we probably would have fallen for the trick of taking things."

Long Yi then spoke up: "Do you think the person next to the second brother might be that guy from Lingwu Village?"

Changsun Lan stopped crossing her legs and said with certainty, "Yes, it must be. Only she could produce that thing."

Besides, she's the only one who can get Long Er and the others to work; even Gu Chenglin is no match for her.