Chapter 5 Qu Family

Qu Weiwei ordered a braised pork, a vegetable soup, and a bowl of eight-treasure rice. This little dwarf is only five years old and usually eats very little. She definitely can't finish all this.

Looking at the tempting braised pork, Qu Wei couldn't resist and picked up a big piece, taking a big bite with a blissful expression.

It's so delicious! The layers of pork belly are beautifully colored and not greasy at all. Taking a bite is pure bliss.

This might be the best braised pork she'd ever eaten. She ate a bowl of rice, a large plate of braised pork, and a bowl of vegetable soup with gusto, and her little belly had become quite round.

Satisfied, she wiped her mouth with a tissue, then looked outside. She was now full of energy; she didn't want to let any of the food go to waste.

She carefully left the room, passed through the main hall, and returned to the front yard. The main gate was still ajar, with only a small opening, but enough for her small frame to squeeze through.

After going outside, he followed the wall the butler had climbed and searched house by house. When he reached the third house, he heard a noise; it was the butler climbing the wall.

The courtyards here are no longer inhabited, so many of the gates have been pried open. After the things inside the courtyards were looted, the gates were left ajar.

The gates to the third and fourth courtyards were tightly closed, making it impossible to see inside. What was going on inside?

However, since Butler Hu climbed over there unharmed, there must be no one inside. Qu Weiwei ran to the fifth courtyard, gently pushed open the half-closed door, nimbly slipped inside, closed the door, and bolted it in so that she wouldn't be seen doing her work halfway through.

She had just discovered that the tool shed in the space had everything, including several ladders of all shapes and sizes, which is why she thought of climbing over the wall to collect the grain, just like Butler Hu did.

After listening to the wall for a while without hearing any sound, he took out a ladder that was about the same height as the wall from his storage space, carefully climbed up, and looked at the situation below. It was roughly the layout of a courtyard, but all the doors inside were tightly closed and locked.

The fact that it was locked meant there was something inside. Seeing the sky beginning to lighten with the first hint of dawn, Qu Weiwei quickened her pace and climbed onto the wall as fast as she could.

Looking towards the Qu residence, Qu Weiwei noticed that several courtyards had already collapsed. Amidst the flames and cries for help, she heard the voice of the First Madam, Zhang Sumei.

I wonder if the First Madam knows about the grain in this courtyard. No, I have to hurry. I can't wait until the First Madam comes to her senses and comes over here.

The little girl moved even faster. After getting off the wall, she took out a master key from the tool shed and opened the lock.

Because this place supplies the Qu family, the grain inside is all newly harvested grain from June. As soon as you open it, you can smell the wheat.

Qu Weiwei happily collected all the grain inside; these piles must weigh at least tens of thousands of kilograms.

After harvesting the grain, Qu Weiwei looked around the house again, her little feet constantly stomping on the ground. Sure enough, she stepped on another mechanism.

This is an underground secret chamber with more than a dozen steps. The chamber is very spacious, much more spacious than the outside. Judging from its width, it seems that the space under two houses and their courtyards has been completely excavated.

The entire secret chamber was about 25 or 26 meters long and wide, and about 3.5 meters high, enough to stack three layers of large bags. This spacious place was completely filled, leaving only the stairs. The small area next to it was either not yet filled or was originally like this, to make it convenient for servants to get the food.

Qu Weiwei secretly clicked her tongue in amazement. How much food would it take to fill this place? Never mind, it was almost dawn, and she had to hurry, otherwise, if she were discovered, it would definitely cause a lot of trouble later.

After harvesting all the grain, she was exhausted again, but this time she didn't dare stay down there. Instead, she went up another staircase and came out through a secret passage. She found that there was also a lot of grain in this yard. All of what she had just seen was wheat, but this yard had more than six hundred bags of fresh rice.

This area belongs to the north, so there are quite a few people who eat noodles. Besides wheat, the harvest they just brought in also includes some soybeans and sorghum.

There are now over six hundred bags, all filled with rice. These bags are even bigger than the bags of wheat that were used to pack wheat. Those bags could hold two hundred grains each, so these bags must hold even more.

After packing everything up, they went back to the fourth courtyard from the underground chamber, hung a ladder in the fourth courtyard, and climbed back to the fifth courtyard.

This courtyard has been looted. The entire courtyard has been smashed to pieces, and everything usable has been taken away. Only the stone tables, stone benches, and the well, which could not be taken away, remain.

Qu Weiwei walked to the back of the courtyard, found an empty room, cleaned it up a bit, and then returned to her spatial dimension from the room.

This place doesn't belong to the Qu family, so she wanted to take a nap first and then go out to see what to do. She had just glanced over the wall and saw that everyone who could move had already escaped, but she didn't know how many could have escaped under the current circumstances.

I wonder how much sleeping pills He Youyou was given, and why she still shows no signs of waking up.

By now it was broad daylight, and what could be heard was not only human voices, but also the sirens of police cars.

The Qu family was the richest family in Pingcheng, and the Qu mansion was filled with many wonderful things. It was such a pity that all these treasures were burned to ashes overnight.

The First Madam stood at the door, completely stunned. She hadn't expected to be tricked as well. Fortunately, when Master Qu instructed her to pack her luggage, she had already prepared all her dowry and sent it out. Otherwise, she would be devastated right now.

However, the thought that those vixens were all dead filled her with a sense of satisfaction. She had long disliked these seductive vixens, and now they were all dead.

The whole morning has passed, and the police department has only found out that someone deliberately set the fire, but they haven't been able to find out who it was.

A total of 63 bodies of various sizes were carried out from the Qu family mansion. Thirteen of them were children, and the rest were all adults. They were all burned beyond recognition and could not be identified at all.

Zhang Sumei didn't care who those people were; she simply handed the matter over to the police and left with her son, daughter, and personal nanny.

The onlookers were all talking amongst themselves, thinking that it must be because the Qu family was too wealthy and attracted attention that they brought such a terrible disaster upon themselves.

All sixty-odd people were burned to ashes overnight, along with their belongings and the magnificent courtyard.