flstandardbreds Chapter 344 Heavenly Punishment
Chapter 344 Heavenly Punishment
"Master, please go to the warehouse and take a look. Something big has happened."
When the steward saw Ke Wenhai was there, he did not tell Hua Cailiang that the warehouse had been emptied, but only urged Hua Cailiang to go over and take a look.
At this moment, Hua Cailiang finally realized that there must be a problem in the warehouse. He stopped being polite with Ke Wenhai and turned around and left the study.
"what happened?"
Hua Cailiang walked quickly towards the warehouse while asking the steward.
"I just went to the storehouse to get some ginseng for medicine, but when I opened the door, I found it was empty. Not to mention ginseng, there wasn't even an empty wooden box."
Hua Cailiang, who was walking hurriedly just now, suddenly stopped.
He thought he heard wrongly.
"What did you say? It's empty there."
"The warehouse of our City Lord's Mansion is empty. All the items inside are missing. I have sent people to call all the guards who patrolled last night and the guards who were on duty to the door of the warehouse to wait for questioning."
Hua Cailiang only felt a chill running from the soles of his feet straight to his forehead, making him stand there as if petrified, unable to react for a long time.
His mind went blank and he had no idea why this happened.
The storehouse of the City Lord's Mansion is very large, with a total of twenty-six rooms, which store all the wealth of the Hua family over the years. How could so many things be emptied out overnight?
"What about the basement?"
"I checked and the locks of the basement are intact. As for the situation inside the basement, I don't know yet. I have sent someone to ask Madam for the key."
Hearing this, Hua Cailiang finally breathed a sigh of relief. His heart, which had almost stopped beating, started beating again, but at a faster speed, which made him feel a little uncomfortable in his chest.
The warehouse was emptied, and although he felt painful, those things were nothing compared to the gold and silver in the basement.
As long as the basement is intact, it's fine.
Hua Cailiang hurried to the warehouse, and Mrs. Yang had already come with her people.
Mrs. Yang's hand holding the key chain was shaking slightly, and the key chain in her hand made a crisp clinking sound.
The door of the warehouse was wide open. Just as the steward had said, the inside was empty with only blue bricks lying on the floor.
"What on earth is going on? How could such a large warehouse be completely cleared out overnight?"
When Mrs. Yang saw Hua Cailiang coming over, her voice trembled and she even sounded like she was crying. Her eyes were red and she looked like she was about to break down.
"Don't worry about the warehouse yet. Give me the key."
Hua Cailiang didn't have time to say much to Mrs. Yang. He took the key from her hand and strode towards the basement.
Hua Cailiang strode on the blue bricks in the warehouse, his heart in his throat and his mind went blank.
He carefully checked the locks on the two doors and found no signs of having been pried open.
Using the key to open the three mechanism locks one by one and pushing open the stone door, Hua Cailiang walked towards the basement while looking at the marks on the bluestone slabs.
The bluestone road was clean and there were no strange traces left.
He silently comforted himself that the three locks were very strong and not everyone could open them.
The basement, which usually only takes a moment to reach, seemed to have become much longer this time because of the bluestone road. Hua Cailiang walked for a long time before finally reaching the basement door.
Hua Cailiang rubbed his eyes, thinking he was hallucinating. The basement that was once full was now empty.
Mrs. Yang, who followed closely behind him, couldn't help but screamed when she saw that the basement had also been emptied. "Oh my God, what happened? Why were the warehouse and basement emptied overnight?"
Madam Yang felt her body go limp and she fell to the ground.
Just now when she was standing outside the warehouse, she was able to hold back her tears and not let herself cry. But now when she saw the empty basement, the string in Mrs. Yang's heart finally broke, and she burst into tears loudly.
All the hard work over the years was wiped out overnight. Mrs. Yang wished she could die immediately.
Hua Cailiang stood at the door of the basement and didn't say anything for a long time. The manager behind him was also scared to death.
There were so many things in the warehouse and the basement, how could they be emptied overnight? Could it be that they provoked some ghosts or gods that they shouldn't have provoked, and that caused the trouble?
"Master, I have called the guards who were on patrol yesterday. Do you want to ask them?"
The steward went up to talk to Hua Cailiang, but Hua Cailiang just stood there without responding a word.
After a while, the crying Mrs. Yang reached out to pull Hua Cailiang, wanting him to quickly take out a set of rules.
As a result, she pulled and Hua Cailiang fell down.
When the steward came forward and took a look, he saw that Hua Cailiang was so angry that he had fainted without knowing when.
"Someone come quickly, someone come quickly, the master has fainted."
For a time, the entire Hua family was in chaos.
At the same time, the news that the Hua family’s warehouse and basement were emptied overnight quickly spread throughout Ningchuan City.
On the streets and in the alleys, wherever there are people gathered, everyone is talking about it.
"In my opinion, God must be dissatisfied with the Hua family's bullying in Ningchuan City, so he deliberately punished them. Otherwise, who would be so capable as to move away all the property of the Hua family overnight."
An old man sitting by the wall in the sun pulled his slightly thin cotton jacket together, looking gloating.
"I think so too. If it was just an ordinary thief, even if he had great skills, it would be impossible for him to empty the Hua family overnight under the strict guard of the City Lord's Mansion. Only the gods in heaven can do it."
Another old man echoed.
"Is it true that Ningchuan City is going to change?"
"Maybe you saw it on the day of winter sacrifice to heaven. The Qin King's sacrifice to heaven was the most grand since the founding of Ningchuan City. God finally opened his eyes and saw how miserable the lives of us poor people were. God was punishing the Hua family by sending down a divine punishment."
"That's right, that's right, the Hua family is not far from destruction."
"I don't know if the King of Qin is a kind person. If he is a wolf like Hua Cailiang, then our happiness will be in vain."
"I don't think so. On the day of the winter sacrifice to heaven, the King of Qin had all the offerings boiled into meat porridge and distributed to the people. Based on this, I don't think the King of Qin would be someone who exploits the people."
"Speaking of meat porridge, it was the most delicious meat porridge I have ever eaten in my life."
"Yeah, now that I think about it, I still have the taste of meat in my mouth."
"I hope that next year when the King of Qin holds a winter solstice ceremony to worship the heaven, he will also cook the offerings into meat porridge and distribute it to the people."
Ordinary people gathered in groups of three or five to talk about the biggest gossip in Ningchuan City. All kinds of rumors were spreading, and almost everyone felt that the theft of the Hua family's warehouse and basement was a punishment from God.