Jie teaches the Immortal Sweeping Heaven’s Cultivation of All Heavens

After leaving the restaurant, Liu Dong strolled around the entire capital city.

The capital city was far more prosperous than the town where he lived; the streets were packed with people.

The world doesn't care about young ladies as much as it did during the Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties. Young ladies from wealthy families can stroll around the streets without covering their faces, though they are always accompanied by a number of servants.

The scholars showed off to their hearts' content, fantasizing about which noble lady would take a liking to them.

Liu Dong sensed the gaze, turned her head, and saw a girl of about sixteen or seventeen years old looking away.

There were two girls, around seventeen or eighteen years old, beside her, talking about something, probably teasing her.

The girl blushed with embarrassment and glanced shyly in their direction.

Liu Tong pretended not to notice anything and walked away.

His keen hearing allowed him to hear the conversation between the three girls.

Those three were all princesses; the girl was the Ninth Princess, and she had taken a liking to Liu Dong.

The other two were the Fifth Princess and the Sixth Princess, who urged the Ninth Princess to gather information about Liu Tong and propose him as her husband.

Liu quickened her pace, shaking off the three women and their men.

Liu Dong lost interest in shopping; the women in the capital were truly terrifying.

He's not like someone who gets knocked over and forced to live with someone else's family as a live-in son-in-law.

Liu Tong turned onto the street where the Liu residence was located and sat down in a nearby teahouse.

From the second-floor window, one can see the main gate of the Liu residence.

At dusk, Liu Muxi left the yamen and entered through the main gate.

Liu Muxi's appearance hasn't changed much. Although she's in her thirties, she still looks young, like she's in her twenties.

My skin is even better than before.

After confirming that it was this person, Liu Dong left the teahouse.

In the middle of the night, Liu Tong entered the Liu residence and easily found the main courtyard.

The main problem is that this family has very few masters. Besides Liu Muxi, there is only Princess Zhaohua and their daughter Liu Bao'er.

Princess Zhaohua was constantly traveling and didn't even know she was pregnant. She miscarried a boy during that time.

Due to the miscarriage, Princess Zhaohua's body will not be able to conceive again in the short term.

It took her five years to fully recover and get pregnant again.

This time, the princess was very careful when summoning the prince, and she gave birth to a daughter.

Liu Muxi was somewhat disappointed; he had hoped to have a son.

However, the princess should still be able to have more children; she will have a son sooner or later.

Liu Muxi dared not find another woman to have his child.

Over the years, he has witnessed Princess Zhaohua's methods.

If he harbors even the slightest disloyalty, Princess Zhaohua will absolutely not forgive him.

He won't die, but he'll definitely suffer a fate worse than death.

Liu Muxi regretted getting involved with Princess Zhaohua in the first place.

But it was too late for regrets. He had already boarded the ship of Prince Cheng's family, and there was no getting off.

Over the years, through the machinations of Prince Cheng's mansion, his official rank rose higher and higher, and at a young age he became a fourth-rank official, wielding considerable real power.

And his ambitions grew ever larger.

He desperately hoped that Prince Cheng could seize that position, so that as his son-in-law and a meritorious official, he would surely gain more power and a higher official rank.

Thinking about it that way, he stopped regretting it.

Liu Dong looked at the two people lying on the bed, unable to figure out how to deal with them.

Liu Muxi was, after all, his blood brother; he couldn't just kill him.

Then...

Following the example of the Great Sage, Liu Dong shaved the heads of Princess Zhaohua and Liu Muxi completely and placed their hair on the dressing table.

Liu Tong easily found their family's storeroom.

Liu Dong didn't take much, only double the amount of the property Liu Muxi had stolen from Qin Shi and a little more. Half of this property was given to Qin Shi as compensation—of course, a good reason had to be found for this.

The other half was left to Qin's two children.

Liu Hu will be getting married in a few years, and this property will be used as his dowry.

As for the extra penny, it was naturally a reward for Liu Tong's hard work.

Liu Xiang returned to the inn with great joy and went straight to sleep.

The next day, Liu Dong got up when the sun was high in the sky and heard people discussing the strange events that had happened to the Liu family.

The princess and her husband had their heads shaved, and the storeroom has disappeared...

How could such a big thing be kept secret?
The main event was so bizarre that even the emperor in the palace heard about it.

The emperor summoned Liu Muxi to his presence and admired her bald head.

As a reward for his own amusement, the emperor issued an edict to the Dali Temple, ordering them to catch the thieves who had stolen from the Liu residence.

Princess Zhaohua also ordered her subordinates to capture the thief at all costs.

She wanted to cut people into a thousand pieces.

That bastard shaved her head!

She doesn't dare to go out for social events anymore. Even when she goes to handle business, she has to wear a hat and endure the strange looks from her subordinates.

Princess Zhaohua's mood was predictable. The servants around her dared not speak loudly, for fear of incurring her wrath.

Meanwhile, Liu Dong happily enjoyed the delicacies of the capital.

Having made a windfall, one naturally wants to spend it all.

Liu Dong loves food and spends most of her money on food, using the rest to buy gifts for the Liu family.

Liu Dong entered the calligraphy and painting shop, intending to buy a piece of calligraphy or painting for his father.

The shop assistant introduced Liu Dong to famous calligraphers and painters; these so-called famous artists were all powerful and influential officials from the capital.

These people have varying skill levels, but those who draw well don't command the same market value as those who draw poorly.

The buyers are not buying the paintings or calligraphy themselves, but rather the works of the artists.

Trying to please the artist through calligraphy and painting.

With the upcoming scientific expedition, the calligraphy and paintings of several examiners are selling the best.

The shop assistant mistook Liu Dong for a scholar taking the imperial examination and tried his best to recommend the calligraphy and paintings of several examiners to him.

Among them, there was one examiner whose painting caught Liu Dong's eye.

When I asked about the price, it wasn't particularly expensive.

After all, this examiner did not hold a high official position, and even if he was an examiner, he did not have much real power.

Liu Dong noticed familiar handwriting among a pile of scrolls nearby and asked the shop assistant, "How much is that painting?"

The shop assistant, Jianhua, picked up the painting and calligraphy, smiling as he said, "Sir, you have excellent taste. This painting is the work of Lord Liu, a former third-place scholar in the imperial examinations. Lord Liu was proficient in all the arts—music, chess, calligraphy, and painting—and was a renowned talent. Even the Emperor praised his work..."

Liu Tong: "So?"

The shop assistant chuckled, "That's why the price is a bit higher than others; this painting costs eight hundred taels of silver."

Liu Dong: "Hehe."

He threw the calligraphy and painting back.

The Liu family has a lot of calligraphy and paintings like this.

These were all practice pieces made when Liu Xuan was still "alive".

Liu Dong came up with a way to get rich.

They could take Liu Xuan's calligraphy and paintings and pass them off as Liu Muxi's works—after all, they were painted by the same person—each piece of calligraphy and painting costs eight hundred taels of silver. The Liu family has at least thirty or forty pieces of calligraphy and paintings. If they sold them all, how much money would that be?
Liu Tong acted immediately upon thinking of it, writing a letter and asking someone to send it home to Liu Huan.

This matter must not be known to Liu's father.

Those calligraphy and paintings were preserved because Liu's father wanted to commemorate his eldest son.

If she knew her two younger sons had sold the things… (End of Chapter)