A Foodie Transmigrated into the Palace

Chapter 1321: Chapter 1319: Disaster Strikes

When the three overly plump young ladies awoke from their affluent and prosperous dreams and realized something was amiss.

The Tang Residence was already empty.

The servants had all fled, and all the valuables were gone as well.

The entire Tang Residence was swept clean, like fallen leaves in the autumn wind.

The early winter morning was already very cold.

Eldest Miss Tang Ying woke from her beautiful dream, called out a few times, and found no one responding.

"Huh?"

"Where on earth has everyone gone?"

She called a few more times and still no one came to serve her, so she had to wrap her fat body in a quilt and go out to find someone.

"Where is everyone?"

She was furious.

"Where on earth has everyone gone?"

"Someone! Someone!"

Wrapped in the quilt, she searched nearly every corner of the courtyard but didn’t see a single maid.

She couldn’t even find her personal maid, and even the rough maids responsible for fetching water and cleaning were nowhere to be seen.

Even the stove in the little tea room next door was cold.

Tang Ying was completely stunned.

"What’s going on?"

"How did everyone disappear overnight?"

Clearly, last night her main maid was still serving her well, even drawing the curtain and moving the lamp for her before she slept.

How come by morning, they were all gone?

She seemed to understand something and ran as fast as she could to the row of servants’ quarters, still wrapped in the quilt.

With all her strength, she kicked open one of the rooms hard.

The chaotic scene before her left her shocked.

The room looked as if it had just been robbed, completely empty.

The floor was covered with the broken pieces of crude teacups and teapots, cabinet doors were wide open, and belongings were thrown everywhere on the floor and bed.

The bed was also empty, and all the valuable bedding and clothes had disappeared, leaving only worthless scraps scattered over it.

Tang Ying was stunned for a full fifteen minutes before gradually coming to her senses.

"Is this... have we been robbed or..."

She kicked open several more doors one by one, finding similar scenes inside each.

In shock, after thinking for a long time, she finally used her not yet completely useless brain to reach a correct conclusion.

"They actually all ran away!"

She twisted her fat body and rushed back to her room as fast as she could.

She discovered that many things were missing from her dressing box, her cabinet, and the furnishings in her room.

Even those rarely opened trunks had long been emptied inside.

’Boom!’

The blow came too quickly, causing her head to buzz.

Just as she was at a loss for what to do.

A burst of footsteps suddenly came from outside, accompanied by urgent cries.

"Big sister! Big sister, save us!"

"Big sister, save us!"

The two sisters, Tang Wen and Tang Xi, staggered in, covered in bruises, crying like pouring rain.

Tang Ying was startled.

"What happened? How did you end up like this?"

Tang Wen panted heavily, sobbing and sniffling as she spoke.

"It’s... it’s those damned concubines!"

"They barged in like madwomen this morning to steal my things, and after they grabbed everything, they even beat me up!"

"Now my place is empty, my bracelets, my jewelry, and even my silver, it’s all gone!"

"Ah!"

She finished and burst into tears, as if wishing she could follow the silver and leave.

Tang Xi was even more aggrieved.

"I’m just like second sister, we... we have no idea!"

"Big sister, what on earth is happening? Why is everyone in our residence acting like lunatics!"

Tang Ying swayed, her face pale.

"It seems..."

"It seems something serious has happened in the residence!"

"Look, mine is the same!"

"Ah?!"

Tang Wen and Tang Xi screamed in unison, rolling their eyes as they fainted.

Tang Ying, overly stimulated and too fat, couldn’t catch her breath and fainted as well.

...

When they woke up again.

The three of them were confined in a dark and narrow small room.

"Wuuu..."

"Ahhh!"

"Wah! Where is this, it’s so dark!!"

"It reeks!"

The three chattered noisily, wailing like ghosts.

Tang Ying was, after all, a bit older.

Though she was still quite foolish, her mind hadn’t completely lost sense, and she irritably scolded them.

"Stop yelling!"

"There’s probably no one here. Yelling won’t get us out; save your energy!"

Tang Wen cried and whimpered.

"Big sister, I’m so scared. I’m hungry, I want to eat roast chicken!"

Tang Xi quickly added.

"I’m hungry too, I want to eat pig’s trotters, greasy pig’s trotters!"

"Eat, eat, eat! All you think about is eating!"

Tang Ying looked desperate.

She rubbed her stomach; she was also very hungry.

She too craved roast chicken, roast duck, roast goose!

But the last strand of reason in her mind told her they must figure out where exactly they were?

Moreover, what happened in the residence?

She threw the questions out there, and sure enough, the other two stopped crying.

Tang Wen recalled and started hesitantly.

"I know nothing. All I know is I haven’t seen father for a long time."

Tang Xi pondered and added softly.

"I haven’t seen father for a long time either, and... I..."

"The people around me suddenly became unkind, even asked for silver when I wanted pig’s trotters!"

"How can you need silver to eat in your own residence!"

Tang Ying thought along those lines and indeed her eyes lit up.

The people around her hadn’t asked her for silver.

But things in her room seemed to be missing from time to time.

The gold hairpins and silver bracelets in her dressing boxes, the antique vases on the Duobao Pavilion, the fine cloths in the trunks.

And her spices, silk handkerchiefs, jade pendants, sachets, and so on.

These things were once limitless, scattered all over her room.

But now...

They seemed to have suddenly dwindled, as if... some things vanished out of nowhere.

She hadn’t noticed before, but thinking about it now, chills ran down her spine.

"We haven’t seen our father in a long time!"

Tang Wen and Tang Xi didn’t care about their father; they were more concerned about their stomachs.

"Big sister, when can we eat!"

"Big sister, whoever locked us up, aren’t they afraid our father would seek trouble?"

Just as they finished speaking, before Tang Ying could respond.

Suddenly footsteps came from outside, followed by the sound of a key turning in the lock.

The iron door creaked open, and a blinding light shone in from outside.

"Get out!"

A rough male voice commanded.

"Little gals, hurry and get out! Don’t make me use force!"

After that, a whip lashed inside.

"Ah!"

Tang Ying screamed, a line of blood appearing on her arm instantly.

"What are you doing?!"

"Ah woo woo!"

The other two screamed and cried.

"Doing what?"

The rough voice scoffed maliciously.

"Of course, selling you for silver!"

"Selling?"

"For silver?"

They were all greatly shocked.

That person continued.

"That old Tang Jincai owed me five hundred taels of silver, and hasn’t paid up!"

"I have no choice but to sell his daughters to pay the debt!"

"Hurry up and get out!"