After comforting Mrs. Chen, Yun Jiao went to Lady Wu’s place. At this mont, a maid from Jiang Han’s courtyard reported, "The second Young Madam sent the little master to the second young master’s courtyard and then went back to her own family."
The little master was born of the pregnant maid, but after giving birth, the maid passed away, and the little master had been under Ling Wei’s care.
Lady Wu waved her hand, "Ignore her."
She then instructed Housekeeper Lin to bury all the items in the storeroom into a hidden cellar.
Housekeeper Lin entered the storeroom and was startled, more than half of the items were gone, and there wasn’t much silver left either.
He hurriedly went to the main courtyard to report to Lady Wu, and Yun Jiao said, "I moved so of the items away to prevent them from being wasted should the city fall and be taken by Jin Country."
Only then did Housekeeper Lin let out a sigh of relief.
After burying the remaining items, Housekeeper Lin took so silver as instructed, cut it with silver scissors, weighed it, and distributed five taels of silver to each servant in the mansion.
Whenever a servant received silver, Housekeeper Lin would tirelessly say, "Madam and the Eldest Young Madam are worried about the city falling and have given you so silver for yourself. If the city indeed falls, everyone will have to fend for themselves and escape."
So servants knelt and bowed in the direction of the main courtyard, while others wiped tears and walked away.
That night, the Duke Mansion’s kitchen was brightly lit all night. The cooks prepared a lot of cooked food, most of which was sent to Yun Jiao’s room.
Yun Jiao placed this cooked food into the dicine storeroom.
The dicine storeroom was already very full, with Duke Mansion’s treasures and gold and silver taking up more than half the space.
Yun Jiao left two paths, one leading to the dicine cabinet and one to the bathroom.
Yun Jiao then took a mont to visit the White dicine Workshop to instruct them to halt production.
After sending everyone away, Yun Jiao transferred all the finished and semi-finished products inside to the dicine storeroom, unwilling to leave them for Jin Country.
As for the perfu workshop, it had already been stopped when the Capital City was besieged.
At such tis, even if they produced sothing, no one would buy it.
The next morning, Yun Jiao got up, casually styled her hair, changed into a cloth outfit, and then ca out of her room.
She carried a large bundle in her hand, which also contained baked goods like pancakes.
She closed the door and instructed Hui Xiang, "Go to the Madam and ask about the situation at the city gate."
Just as she said this, Da Ya ca over, "Reporting to the Eldest Young Madam, we just received news that Daoist Guo opened the city gate and led the Palace Guard to battle the Jin Army."
Yun Jiao held her forehead, "My heavens, does he have no brains? The Palace Guard only has thirty to forty thousand n left. How can they fight against Jin Army’s two hundred thousand? All they need to do is defend the city!"
The Capital City is easy to defend and hard to attack. If they held the city, perhaps reinforcents would co, bringing a chance of change!
She imdiately instructed Hui Xiang and Cai Ping, "Grab the packed items, we’re leaving imdiately without a mont’s delay."
The blunders and rash actions of the retired emperor and the emperor had handed the Capital City to Da Jin!
As Yun Jiao walked out, she instructed Cai Ping, "Go call Aunt Chen and the others; we’ll leave through the back gate."
Da Ya nodded, "Madam’s intention is also to leave imdiately."
Yun Jiao arrived at the back gate and waited for a while, first seeing Mrs. Chen with her three children co over, carrying bundles and still wearing the sa cloth outfits from yesterday.
Soon after, Lady Wu ca with Ruru in her arms, followed by Lin Qiao, the wet nurse, Housekeeper Lin, Ah Yun, and a few guards.
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