"Vicious devil! How dare she slander my big brother's integrity in the Imperial Examination?"
"This vile wench! If our dear Jin doesn't return, even at the expense of my old life, I'll kill her!"
"Great Auntie, calm your anger. It's not worth letting this lowly woman ruin your health."
Yun Jiaoyue was awakened by the hateful curses and resentful voices. Then she experienced a surge of unbearable pain radiating from her spine.
The pain, as deep as her bone marrow, forced her to open her eyelids heavy with drowsiness.
She saw a middle-aged noblewoman, close to her forties, wiping her tears not far away. There were also three young women comforting her, telling her not to be heartbroken.
The half-asleep Yun Jiaoyue stared at these women dressed in retro style, confused, and surveyed her surroundings.
Just yesterday she asked her captain for leave to visit her family and took a long-distance bus. After the bus entered the forest, it overturned on a steep mountain road a thousand meters high. Without a doubt, she should not be alive now.
Realizing this, Yun Jiaoyue's mind was suddenly filled with unfamiliar memories.
Despite her disbelief, she acknowledged the fact that her soul had transmigrated!
She had transmigrated into the power struggle novel she'd been reading recently and assumed the identity of a character detested by others, who shared the same name as her – Yun Jiaoyue!
This Yun Jiaoyue was the eldest daughter-in-law of the Qi family, the richest family in Qingzhou of the Great Qi Empire. She had adored the Qi family's eldest grandson, Qi Changjin, since she was a child. Before their marriage, she resorted to all means to marry him.
Qi Changjin had proposed a favorable marriage in the capital, but it had to be called off due to Yun Jiaoyue's dirty tricks. The entire Qi family despised Yun Jiaoyue for this. After the marriage, they punished her daily through beatings and scoldings.
The original body went through extended periods of abuse, which had distorted her personality over time. Surprisingly, after Qi Changjin topped the college entrance examination, she threatened to have her family bribe court officials in Beijing, scandalously accusing Qi Changjin of cheating in the imperial examination.
It was a case of karma; the original body was beaten to death on the same day her husband was arrested and taken into custody for questioning, under orders from her mother-in-law to administer forty strokes with a heavy rod.
She found herself, soul transmigrated to this body at this moment.
"The head lady! Court Daiwei is here!"
The stewardess purposefully rushed into the room, trembling, "Our eldest master is in a horrendous state. He was carried back on a stretcher!"
"Lady, you must go and see him!"
Upon hearing that her beloved son was beaten, the original body's mother-in-law, Lady Xiao, had a rush of darkness before her eyes and fainted away!
After getting harsh pinches on the philtrum, she barely mustered up the spirit to be assisted towards the front hall of the Qi family.
No one noticed that the mistress of the bed, Yun Jiaoyue, had already awakened.
With the bedroom empty, Yun Jiaoyue struggled to get up from the bed. A slow rising action, her red dress rubbed against her covered in bloody bruises on her back, causing her to shudder uncontrollably in pain.
Yun Jiaoyue's face was ashed. She didn't expect that she, a renowned military medic from the 21st century, to one day personally experience the torture from middle ages.
However, Court Daiwei was here?
Yun Jiaoyue abruptly remembered when Qi Changjin, the eldest grandson of the Qi household, who after achieving top scholar in his first civil service examination, was frame-up for examination rigging, leading to the confiscation and banishment of his entire family.
In the subsequent years, Qi Changjin's mentality deteriorated. Even following the revocation of his accusation, his flourishing officialdom, and even becoming the Prime Minister; he inevitably became the most wicked and scheming villain in this political intrigues novel!
If the officers are here... does this mean even the Qi family is going to be exiled?
Subconsciously, Yun Jiaoyue moved towards the desk where the White Jade Platter was placed. The original Yun Jiaoyue may have died, but she was still alive!
This body had already suffered the punishment of flogging, with numerous injuries densely packed on her back. If they were to be exiled, without any supplies on her, she might really die early in this different world!
Bearing the acute pain in her body, Yun Jiaoyue picked up the fist-sized jade plate and stuffed it into her sleeve.
Then she thought it was too risky to hide it in her sleeve. When the government raided the house, her outer clothing might be stripped off and confiscated.
Thinking that the jade plate was small, she twisted her hair into a bun with a wooden hairpin and put the plate into her jet-black hair.
The Qi family were the richest in Qingzhou, and the number of wealth and treasures they possessed was countless. It was a shame that she couldn't move or hide most of these treasures and could only take some smaller pieces to hide on her person.
If only she could have a convenient storage space.
Just as she had this thought, Yun Jiaoyue suddenly felt a lightness at the top of her head. The pair of jade plates she had just stuffed into her bun were gone!
She felt around in her hair and confirmed, the precious items had really disappeared!
The next second, she felt as if she was experiencing a hallucination.
A space appeared before her eyes!
In the space, there were various military infrastructures like the medical room, operating room, warehouse, and even an agricultural breeding base!
Her just-hidden jade plates were lying in the half-open warehouse.
Unbelieving, Yun Jiaoyue pinched herself hard, turning her arms blue.
It wasn't a hallucination!
Since the jade plate could be placed in the warehouse of the space, wouldn't it mean she could also collect all the gold and silver treasures in the Qi family's treasury and store them there?!
Seize the house! Before the people from the Imperial Inspector’s House arrive, she would raid the Qi family’s house first!
Yun Jiaoyue acted immediately and decisively when it came to clearing out the storeroom.
She found painkillers and iodine in the medical room. After taking the medication, she reached behind her back and gave her wounded, festering skin a basic cleanse.
She applied some topical antibiotics and picked up a regular broom from the yard to use as a crutch.
Step by step, she walked toward the storeroom of the Qi Family that she remembered.
Everyone from the Qi Family, except her, had gathered in the hall due to the officials from the Ministry of Justice's visit. This presented a perfect opportunity for her to move the property.
Two locks were hanging on the storeroom door. Yun Jiaoyue detached her earring and straightened the hook of the earring to pick the locks.
With a soft click, the storeroom was unlocked. Yun Jiaoyue gently pushed the door open.
True to their fame as the richest family in Qingzhou, the Qi Family's storeroom was brimming with countless treasures.
Silk textiles occupied one side of the wall! Several chests of gold, silver, and jewelry! Calligraphy tools! Rare medicinal herbs!
Yun Jiaoyue sighed heavily. She was physically exhausted and incapable of gathering everything at once.
If only these treasures could obediently enter a spatial warehouse, it would save her a lot of effort.
The next moment, everything disappeared before her eyes. Other than floating dust particles, the room was empty!
Looking at the spatial warehouse, all the items from the storeroom had been transferred there!
Before considering the other uses of the space, she quickly exited the storeroom, worried that the Justice Ministers would arrive soon for confiscation.
Before leaving, she locked the copper lock on the door, restoring its original state.
With the mentality of not letting go of a single piece of property, she visited every room in each courtyard of the Qi family's residence, and put all the valuable ornaments and jewellery into the storage space at once!
After collecting all the valuable items, Yun Jiaoyue really could not carry on due to exhaustion.
She walked into the front hall and took a temporary rest in the porch.
Yun Jiaoyue happened to see the elderly Lady Qi, with her hair turning white, kneeling in front of a high-ranking official from the Ministry of Justice.
She was humbly and painstakingly trying to please the official, pleading, "Chen Sir, considering my Qi family's annual donation of tens of millions of taels of silver to the court, please intercede on our behalf!"