The Cycle of Reincarnation in the Four-Courtyard House: A Journey Through the Heavens

"How did Sisi's studies go today?"

Li Xiao smiled and patted the little girl's head.

Since the Li family recognized Li Mingzhi, Li Xiao suggested that his aunt, who graduated from Beijing Normal College, come to their home every day to teach the children to read and write.

Li Feng is older; he attended a private school in his hometown of Handan County for two years, while Li Qian has never been to school.

At this time, Beijing was occupied by the Japanese, and for the safety of his younger siblings, Li Xiao naturally could not let them go to school outside.

Since becoming unemployed, Li Mingzhi has been doing nothing but taking care of her children and doing housework.

Now that Li Xiao asked her to take He Yuzhu with her to read and write with the other children, she was naturally very willing.

So now Li Feng, Li Qian, Liu Qianqian, and He Yuzhu are studying Chinese and math with Li Mingzhi at home every day.

Except for He Yuzhu, all the other children studied very diligently, while He Yuzhu was punished by his mother with a ruler almost every day.

This brat always gets sleepy whenever he studies, which makes Li Mingzhi so angry that she uses a ruler to discipline him, making the little guy cry and howl every time.

Liu Qianqian smiled sweetly and said, "These past few days we've been learning Tang and Song dynasty poems with my aunt!"

After she finished speaking, she recited several newly learned Tang poems to Li Xiao without pausing at all, clearly showing that she was very dedicated to her studies.

Li Xiao smiled and patted her head, then took out a few candies from his pocket and handed them to her.

"Sissi is doing well, keep it up!"

"Yes, I will definitely study hard!"

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That night, after everyone in the family had fallen asleep, Li Xiao left his bedroom.

He was dressed entirely in black, wearing a black knitted hat and a black medical mask.

When he reached the courtyard wall, he easily leaped over the three-meter-high wall with a slight push of his legs, and then disappeared into the darkness.

Constantly dodging the patrolling Japanese soldiers, Li Xiao quietly arrived at the Prince Gong's Mansion once again.

Indeed, Li Xiao's goal was the treasures that Jiaqing had overlooked when he confiscated Heshen's property.

This time, instead of climbing over the wall, he went directly into his own virtual supermarket.

His spatial supermarket also possesses an incredible ability—void walking.

As Li Xiao walked through the Space Supermarket, the surrounding area was also changing.

No matter what obstacles there are in the outside world, they cannot stop Li Xiao from walking in the Space Supermarket.

Moreover, he can use his control over this space to see the outside situation clearly and go precisely to any place he wants to go.

In his previous life, Li Xiao often lived in Beijing when he wasn't on missions. He had visited the Prince Gong's Mansion four or five times and was very familiar with its layout.

Although the buildings here are somewhat dilapidated now, their general layout is still not much different from that of later generations.

Li Xiao's spatial supermarket covers an area of ​​over 300,000 square meters, which is more than enough to cover the entire palace.

Inside the space, Li Xiao observed the surroundings and easily arrived at the front of a building in the backyard.

This building was later known as the Treasure Pavilion, a place that Heshen used specifically to store his treasures.

The building has 111 rooms, each used to store different types of treasures.

What's even more ingenious is that when Heshen built the treasure pavilion, he adopted a double-layered brick and stone wall design with a gap between the walls, and built a passage inside the wall leading to a secret treasure cellar, which was not discovered when Emperor Jiaqing confiscated his property.

At this moment, Li Xiao easily used the void to walk directly into the narrow wall.

He followed the narrow passageway inside the wall downwards and soon found a very hidden underground space.

Looking around, the basement was surrounded by shelves made of camphor wood, which were filled with all kinds of gold and silver ingots, large pieces of top-quality jade, enamel clocks, and various pearls and other rare treasures.

Li Xiao also discovered Qianlong's personal jade pendant here. He sighed to himself, "Heshen is really bold. It is said that this jade pendant was a beloved item that Qianlong wore close to his body. One day, it disappeared for no reason, which saddened him for a long time."

"Unexpectedly, Heshen secretly got his hands on Emperor Qianlong's personal jade pendant!"

In this basement, there were also more than twenty large boxes. After Li Xiao opened them one by one, he exclaimed, "Wow!"

These large boxes were filled with pearls the size of pigeon eggs, emerald rings of glassy quality, jade pendants, and various top-quality rubies and sapphires, filling an entire nanmu wood box.

In the other boxes, there were oval-shaped silver winter melons and gold bricks weighing several kilograms each, which almost dazzled Li Xiao's eyes.

He roughly estimated that the gold inside weighed at least six tons, and the silver weighed even more, exceeding thirty tons.

With a wave of his hand, Li Xiao immediately emptied the basement. He then carefully searched the entire Prince Gong's Mansion for a while, but apart from the "Fu" character stele hidden inside the artificial hill in the backyard, there were no other treasures.

He wasn't particularly interested in the "Fu" character stele written by Emperor Kangxi, so he just let it remain standing there.

As for the golden nanmu pillars in this house, they are even more immovable; if you move them, the whole building will collapse!

Li Xiao left Prince Gong's Mansion with satisfaction and prepared to return to Nanluoguxiang along the original route.

As he was about to cross the road from a secluded alley, he suddenly heard the roar of a car engine.

Li Xiao quickly retreated back into the alley and hid in the thick darkness of the night.

Before long, at least three hundred Japanese military police officers in uniform ran onto the road.

The Japanese military police, armed with Type 38 rifles, blocked off the entire street ahead.

A few minutes later, more than a dozen Japanese military trucks roared past Li Xiao on the road in front of him.

The trucks were all covered with thick tarpaulins, so Li Xiao didn't know what was inside them for the time being.

However, this aroused his curiosity, and after all the Japanese military police had left, he secretly followed them.

He took a bicycle from the space supermarket and followed the convoy at a distance. After riding for about twenty minutes, he followed the Japanese convoy to the vicinity of the Beijing Railway Station.

Li Xiao saw the convoy stop at a large warehouse near the train station. After the warehouse door opened, the convoy slowly drove inside.

Li Xiao quickly circled around to the side and rear of the warehouse. He could see from afar that the warehouse was heavily guarded, with soldiers stationed all around it, and searchlights constantly shining from the watchtowers.