Exile? A mad, wicked woman empties the national treasury to escape famine.

"I don't know where we are ahead either. I just heard Lingyun say that there's a village ahead, and we'll most likely have to spend the night there."

"By the way, aren't you always fighting outside? Do you know anything about this village?" Finding nothing to say, Ji Yunshu chatted with Xie Moyao casually.

"I don't have much of an impression. We've never traveled this route before when we fought wars. We fought on the border, which is in the opposite direction from the northwest. I only know that the climate here isn't very good, with either drought or floods. The imperial court spends a lot of money on this every year."

Ji Yunshu nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

In the original work, the author did not mention this part in much detail, but simply explained the cause of death of everyone in the Prince's Mansion.

The author also wrote about exiled prisoners who suffered a lot on the way. As for what kind of suffering they endured, it was not written in the original work. The author wrote about the affairs of the eldest prince and Ji Yunyao.

She vaguely remembered that it wasn't long after she left this village that Ji Yunyao and the First Prince started getting together.

With the Crown Prince's backing, Ji Yunyao inflicted a lot of suffering on the original owner of this body during the exile.

The group continued their hurried journey, and after a short while, the carriages finally slowed down.

At the front of the procession, the officials had already lit torches. From Ji Yunshu's direction, one could vaguely see a few houses not far ahead of them.

The room was pitch black, without a single ray of light.

Ling Yun told everyone to get off the carriage and find a place to rest, while he himself took a torch and went to the door of a house, knocking lightly a few times.

"Is anyone home? Uncle Wu, are you home? We're just passing through and would like to ask for lodging for the night."

"Is anyone here? May we go in and rest for a bit, Uncle Wu?"

Ling Yun called out several times, but the courtyard in front of him remained dark and silent.

"Huh, what's going on? Every time we come here before, the old man and woman at this house always let us in to rest. Why aren't they here today? Are they not home?"

Listening to Ling Yun's self-talk, Ji Yunshu also began to look around the village.

This village looks similar to other villages from the outside, with houses clustered together in twos and threes. What's strange is that even though it's only just nightfall, there isn't a single light coming from any of these houses, making it seem like no one lives there at all.

She walked to the door of another house and knocked.

"Knock knock knock, knock knock knock"

"Is anyone home? Is anyone at home? We're just passing through and would like to ask for lodging for the night."

No one responded; it remained as quiet as before.

I go.

Is there anyone living in this village?

Logically speaking, with so many of them coming and making such a commotion, someone should have known they were there. In a normal village, someone would come out to see who it was, but in this village, every house was closed, as if there were ghosts.

"Brother, what do we do now? We can't just sleep outside, can we? And what's going on this time? Every time we passed through this village before, this old man and woman would let us stay at their house for the night."

"They're not home today, are they? It's so late at night, where could two elderly people go?" One of the officers muttered under his breath as he looked at Ling Yun.

I thought I could get a good night's sleep tonight, but I didn't expect that I couldn't even get through the door.

Ji Yunshu keenly sensed something was amiss. The official had said that they always stayed overnight at this house whenever they came here.

So the owner of this house must know Ling Yun and the others. If there were really people in the house, why wouldn't they be allowed to go in?

Is no one home?

Are all these houses empty?

Is this an abandoned village?

"Why don't you go inside and take a look? This village feels really strange," Ji Yunshu said.

She had barely finished speaking when Ji Yunyao's voice rang out from the side.

"Sir, I don't care if there are people here or not, as long as there's a place for people to live. I don't want to live outside."

As she spoke, she stepped forward and began to push open the closed door.

Ji Yunyao has come to terms with it. She's even lived in a haunted house, so why would she be afraid of living in such a strange village?

Anyway, there are so many people here, it's impossible for a ghost to actually take her away.

That person is coming soon, so she needs to make herself look better. She can't let him see her current state, which is neither human nor ghost.

The gate to the mansion was not locked securely. Ji Yunyao pushed it twice and the bolt came off.

Ji Yunyao was somewhat smug. These people were so hesitant and indecisive, but she just pushed the bolt off the door in one go.

Without hesitation, she stepped directly into the courtyard.

Ling Yun frowned, somewhat disapproving of Ji Yunyao's act of forcibly entering someone else's home. However, seeing that Ji Yunyao had already entered the courtyard, he had no choice but to let his brothers follow her in.

Anyway, he knew the owner of this courtyard. He would apologize to his uncle and aunt when they returned.

The others looked at each other, unsure whether to find another place to rest or just spend the night with the soldiers.

They'll just have to make do here. With so many people, there's definitely no place to sleep. If nothing unexpected happens, they'll be sleeping on the floor again.

They were told to go somewhere else and find another place to sleep, but they were a little scared. This village seemed a bit strange; there wasn't a single villager there.

Ji Yunshu didn't care. Resting was out of the question. She planned to take advantage of the night to get a generator and two air conditioners from her space, one for each carriage, so that everyone could squeeze into the carriages to rest.

Sleeping on the floor in an air-conditioned room is more comfortable than sleeping on a bed outside.

However, she couldn't let others see her installing it. After thinking about it, she decided to let everyone on the carriage get off and rest for a while, and then let them come back up to rest after she had finished installing the air conditioner on the carriage by herself.

There were some weeds in the yard, making it look like no one had lived there for a long time. Just as I was about to go inside, the door was suddenly pushed open from the inside.

A burly man with a full beard and a robust build walked out of the house, holding a small, barely visible candle in his hand.

Ji Yunyao was walking at the front, and she was certain that no one was in the house, but unexpectedly, someone suddenly jumped out, startling her so much that she screamed.

"Ahhh! A ghost!" She turned around in a panic, not caring who was standing behind her, and jumped into his arms.

Ah Cai was quite pleased with Ji Yunyao's advances and lewdly groped her buttocks twice. Poor Ji Yunyao was still in shock and busy looking at the thing at the door to see if it was a person or a ghost. She didn't realize that Ah Cai was taking advantage of her.

But this scene was witnessed by Zhou Yanran, who was standing next to Ah Cai. When Ji Yunyao jumped up, she almost kicked her to the ground, kicking her hand so hard it hurt!

What a shameless slut!

They said she was shameless, but now she's running off into a man's arms!