The four people were stunned, watching this woman who entered the kitchen without any politeness. They saw her rummaging through the pile of firewood in front of the stove, and finally picking up a piece of firewood as thick as an arm.
Bang.
The little maid sitting in front of the stove tending the fire was hit with the stick and fell down.
Before the others could react, the stick in Jiang Jin's hand swung toward the female cook closest to her.
Bang.
The cook who had spoken earlier raised the kitchen knife in her hand: You...
Bang.
The maid washing vegetables was scared half to death and opened her mouth to scream.
Bang.
Looking at the four people who fell one after another, Jiang Jin was very satisfied. Smiling, she picked up the kitchen knife that had fallen to the ground and stored it in her spatial dimension.
Only then did Jiang Jin look at the lunch cooking on the stove.
There were no iron pots in this era. Tableware was mainly pottery and bronze, and the kitchen was filled with these two types of vessels.
Jiang Jin wasn't picky either; she stored everything she saw into her space.
Whether it was already cooked or still steaming and boiling, she put it all into her space. Even the fresh, unprepared ingredients were stored away.
Especially that chicken soup. She specifically opened the lid to take a look—it was so fresh, making her mouth water with craving. Wu Heng's meals were truly quite good.
Bowls, chopsticks, basins, knives, cutting boards, rice vats, flour vats, water vats, and even the firewood were all stored in her space.
After thinking for a moment, she stripped the clothes off the fire-tending maid and put them on herself.
After she left, the kitchen only had two burning sticks of firewood left in the stove and the four unconscious people lying on the ground.
Jiang Jin sped up her movements. Just as she was about to pass the kitchen, she caught sight of a large amount of firewood and supplies in the room next door through a small window out of the corner of her eye.
Joy colored the depths of her eyes; this must be the storage room.
She quickly entered the room. Besides bundles of firewood, there were also about a dozen gunny sacks of rice and two sacks of flour, adding up to an estimated several hundred catties.
There were also a few vats of vegetable oil and salt. Although not much, it was better than nothing, so she stored it all in her space.
On the ground were a few large woven bamboo baskets containing ceramic bowls, basins, chopsticks, and other tableware.
There were also farming tools like pickaxes and hoes, which were used for digging ditches, weeding, or planting flowers.
Collect, collect them all. By the time she left, the storage room was completely empty.
She walked through two corridors and arrived in front of a row of houses. If she guessed correctly, this should be the place where grain was stored.
She walked forward a bit and saw three young and strong men in uniform guarding the front of the houses.
The three also saw Jiang Jin, and the leader asked, Why did a maid like you come here? Don't you know you're not allowed here?
The expression on Jiang Jin's face was very calm: I know, I came here on purpose.
Hearing her words, the three men were baffled. The tall man standing in the middle picked his ear: What did you say?
Jiang Jin had already lifted her feet and walked towards them.
The three furrowed their brows, not understanding what was wrong with this fire-tending maid.
However, the three didn't take her seriously. At first glance, this maid was young and looked thin and weak.
The tall man took a step forward. Without even drawing his sword, he just swatted at Jiang Jin with his hand: You're asking for death!
Jiang Jin wouldn't be polite to him. She pulled out a stun baton from behind her back and pressed it against his abdomen.
Seeing their companion suddenly start trembling, the two men behind him couldn't help but ask strangely, What's going on?
Zhou Laowu, you haven't taken a fancy to this maid and want to show off in front of her, have you?
Hehe, then you're trembling wrong. Women don't like this kind of shaking.
Due to the angle, the 13-year-old Jiang Jin was short and small, and her entire body was completely blocked by the tall man.
After waiting for a while without receiving a reply, the two finally realized something was wrong.
The two exchanged a glance, and the man with small eyes stepped forward to support the tall man: How are you...
Before he could finish his sentence, his body, just like the tall man's, began to shake violently.
The remaining square-faced man was terrified. Not daring to touch the two, he drew his sword and bypassed the tall man to attack Jiang Jin.
Jiang Jin held the stun baton in her right hand and slightly shifted her body to dodge his sword. At the same time, her left hand pulled out another stun baton from behind and struck the square-faced man attacking her.
When the stun baton touched the square-faced man, a severe pain shot through his body, and he began to shake violently uncontrollably. His eyes were full of panic—was this sorcery?!
A few breaths later, Jiang Jin retracted the stun batons.
Due to inertia, the bodies of the three men twitched a few more times before falling to the ground with a bang.
Putting the stun batons into her space, Jiang Jin came to the front of the house, but unfortunately, the door was locked with a large padlock.
She went to the window of the house, which was pasted with window paper. Papermaking technology had made great progress at this time, and paper was gradually being used to paste windows.
Of course, it was mainly used in wealthy households. It was too expensive, and ordinary commoners could not afford it.
A dagger appeared in her hand. She lightly slashed at the paper on the window, and the paper fell away, revealing a hole more than ten centimeters in diameter.
Through the hole, Jiang Jin saw rows of wooden granaries against the wall inside the room.
The wooden granaries were fully packed with unhusked rice, with a lot of rice exposed at the top. Jiang Jin saw it very clearly.
In the middle of the room, there were also many bulging coarse gunny sacks piled up, which should also be filled with grain.
A smile appeared on her face. She reached her hand through the window, and instantly, the grain inside, along with the wooden granaries, entered her space, leaving only an empty room.
Her space could not retrieve items through physical barriers, but it could retrieve them through thin air. As long as there were no obstructions, she could freely collect anything within a 20-meter radius.
She moved very quickly and used the same method to store all the grain from the other eight rooms into her space. After confirming there were no omissions, Jiang Jin prepared to leave.
At this time, noisy sounds came from outside. It must be that the incident in the kitchen had been discovered.
Jiang Jin thought about it. Since it was already chaotic, she might as well make it more chaotic and simply burn down this granary.
Anyway, she had just collected firewood from the kitchen into her space. Good things shouldn't be wasted on outsiders; what she collected herself, she would use herself.
There was another benefit to burning the granary: others wouldn't know the granary had been robbed, they would just think it burned down.
Doing as she thought, she took out several bundles of the collected firewood, splashed some oil on the house and the firewood, and then took out a lighter from her space to light the fire.
The fire instantly ignited and grew stronger and stronger...
Only then did Jiang Jin leave in satisfaction.
The mansion quickly fell into chaos, just as she had expected.
Jiang Jin didn't forget to fan the flames, shouting whenever she saw someone.
Hurry, hurry up! I don't know what happened, but the courtyard over here is on fire! Put out the fire quickly, someone come and put out the fire!
Oh no, the houses are going to burn down! Everyone, hurry up and put out the fire! The master's grain is stored inside, hurry up everyone!
...
Looking at the billowing thick smoke, no one had the mind to pay attention to Jiang Jin, this fire-tending maid. They all swarmed to put out the fire.
She strolled through the Cao mansion without any resistance, occasionally shouting a few times to make the courtyard even more chaotic.
Meanwhile, she wandered around various courtyards and even storehouses to collect supplies.
Everyone was either fighting the fire or on their way to fight the fire. She strolled around very smoothly and didn't even run into Wu Heng, the person in charge. Originally, she had wanted to give him a stun baton combo meal.
She collected quite a few more good things before she was satisfied and prepared to head back home.
The estate was in utter chaos. The vital granary had caught fire, and nearly everyone had rushed off to fight the blaze. Since she had already taken out the gatekeepers earlier, she slipped out with effortless ease.
Unfortunately, on her way back to the private courtyard, she spotted a patrol of over a dozen soldiers in the distance. The squad was a mix of Han Chinese and Jiao-men.
