Chapter 558: Peel Back the Cocoon
Yan Wei talked about the past to Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang.
"You should have heard about what happened when I was young, and I won't repeat it." Yan Wei recalled the past, "Most people in the world think that Fan Ju is defrauding people of money and stealing to accumulate wealth, it is true, but it is not only that, these gold are not all the property, there is a huge amount of wealth, the amount is several times the total number of these gold, once belonged to Fan Ju, but no one has been found, even I don't know where they are." ”
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were both surprised-what kind of wealth is so powerful?
"It was a coincidence, too." Yan Wei said, "By chance, we deceived an old man, also about karma and the like, and as a result, he sued us for something...... Speaking of which, this matter has something to do with him. ”
Zhan Zhao was slightly puzzled, "He? ”
Yan Wei smiled faintly and nodded.
Zhan Zhao frowned and asked, "You said Uncle Xiaoxiao?" ”
"Huh." Yan Wei nodded, "Yes, his name is Wu Yijiao now......"
"What does it have to do with Uncle Woe?" Zhanzhao was a little concerned.
"The Battle of Guancheng...... Yan Wei said slowly, "It's General Youlian's last battle...... He won the battle, which was almost impossible to win, but ......"
"But he lost a qiē." Zhan Zhao said lightly, "The world also thinks that he died of coughing up blood because of overwork. ”
Yan Wei nodded, "Do you know the reason why this battle will be fought?" ”
"For there is a rumor that there is a quantity of gold in the city of Guancheng." Zhan Zhao nodded, "It was left over from the Eagle Dynasty back then, when the soldiers were in chaos and the families were fighting, and the gap in strength between them was not big, whoever could get this wealth would be able to dominate the world." ”
Yan Wei nodded, "Hmm." ”
"But there's not that money in the city." Zhan Zhao Road.
"Actually, there is." Yan Wei sighed, "Just transferred?" ”
Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows slightly, pointed at Yan Wei, and then pointed at himself, "I heard from Uncle Xiaowu, if he transferred the gold away, there is no reason to lie to me." ”
"Who said he took it away?" Yan Wei shook his head, "It was someone else who transferred it." ”
"Who is so capable?" Zhanzhao felt incredulous.
"The person he trusts the most." Yan Wei sighed softly.
Zhanzhao's face was a little ugly.
Bai Yutang was confused, but he didn't dig deeper, he didn't want to find out too much about Wu Yicao's affairs back then, or rather, the fifth master didn't have much interest in things that others didn't want to mention.
"In short, I don't know exactly what happened during the period...... I only know that the last batch of gold was not transported, but hidden, and only one person in this world knows where the things are. Yan Wei said, "But that person died a long time ago." ”
Zhan Zhao asked, "What is the amount of gold?" ”
"The Eagle Dynasty's property is still quite spectacular, and speaking of which, it is also your family's wealth." Yan Wei wanted to laugh a little, "After that person hid the gold, he only left a painting to mark the location of the gold. According to legend, the painting was divided into three parts, each given to a different person for safekeeping. ”
"Treasure map?" Bai Yutang asked.
"It's not a treasure map, it's just a painting." Yan Wei said, "In this world, only one person can understand this painting, in other words, in this world, only one person can find this batch of gold." The man stole the ...... from him In the end, it was left to him and not handed over to anyone else. ”
Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, "You mean, if you find those three paintings, only Uncle Xiao Yu can go through the paintings and find the place where the gold was hidden?" ”
"Hmm!" Yan Wei nodded, "Because these three paintings are completely different from ordinary treasure maps, even if you get them, you can't understand them, so they have become a veritable 'tasteless food and a pity to abandon it', people do everything possible to get the key at a price, but they don't know where the door is." ”
"And then?" Zhan Zhao asked.
"Later, I talked about the old man I mentioned earlier, who was deceived." Yan Wei continued, "He told me a secret. ”
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang can be regarded as hearing the point, although they talked about Wu Yicalamity intermittently before, but the cause and effect are basically understood.
"That old man has a three-headed tattoo on his back." Yan Wei said, "It's the three-headed Jintuo." ”
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang frowned, and asked in unison, "Three heads?" ”
Yan Wei nodded, "The three-headed golden tuo is like a god to him, and he is extremely worshipped. ”
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang thought about it, it was equivalent to some kind of cult.
"So, I found my peers." Yan Wei smiled faintly.
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang understood, "Like you, they are organized liars, but if you are through Guò Fan Ju, they will be able to pass Guò Three-Headed Jintuo?" ”
"He's so much more ruthless than me!" Yan Wei smiled bitterly, "I'm bad enough, the sect of the Three-Headed Jintuo is more than ten or twenty times worse than me." ”
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang frowned - so bad?
"Anyone who joins the church, your net worth and property are theirs, not only that, but you also have to help cheat other people's money, and you are not allowed to leave, as long as you have this tattoo on your back, you will have to work for them for the rest of your life, if you want to run, then there is only a dead end." Yan Wei said, "Such a terrible organization, how can I let him save zài with the world, otherwise I won't have to mix, right?" ”
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were a little speechless, and they had a hunch that the next thing was the legendary - black eats black!
"The sect of the Three-Headed Jintuo is very low-key and mysterious, and I didn't know where to start at first, but who knew that God helped me, and the organization fell apart, and there was infighting because of the uneven distribution of spoils." Yan Wei continued, "Later, I found out that the reason why the three-headed Jintuo has three heads is because they are three different people who have the final say, and the three forces in the sect are on an equal footing, and then they fell out, and as a result, they were divided into the left, the middle and the right, and the three sects were divided. ”
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang instantly understood something and asked, "So the three-headed tattoo has become a single-headed tattoo?" ”
Yan Wei nodded, "At that time, it was equivalent to dividing the family, in addition to dividing the property and dividing the people, those disciples chose for themselves, which one you want to follow, so they washed the other two tattoos on the body, and you will follow whichever one is left." ”
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang understood.
"Did the old man get his tattoos washed later?" Zhan Zhao asked.
"I don't know, at such an age, maybe I died when we split up." Yan Wei shook his head, "After they divided their families equally, they each hid underground and continued to do evil, but ...... It is better to rob others than to rob yourself. ”
Bai Yutang nodded, "The person on the left knows what treasures are in the hands of the person on the right, so they will find the person on the right, and the person in the middle also knows what the other two have...... So later it became his own people and robbed his own people? ”
"Exactly!" Yan Wei smiled, "So a sect is like a country, it is first divided and then disintegrated, the tree falls and the fox is scattered, the monkey is the monkey, and it is inhuman." ”
"What does that have to do with that batch of gold?" Zhan Zhao then asked.
"I listened to what the old man said, and the three portraits fell into the hands of the three bosses of the three-headed Jintuo." Yan Wei said, "I estimate that when the family was divided later, it was divided into three parts, and it also became the focus of contention. This gang has been fighting among themselves for many years. Although the scale has become smaller, it has become more murderous, and it often comes to disturb my business, plus ......"
"Plus." Before he could finish speaking, Zhan Zhao sneered, "You want those three paintings, don't you?" ”
Yan Wei also smiled and nodded, "Back then, I was a liar, insatiable, and I would do anything for money." ”
"You took advantage of the other party's disintegration, so you ate them one by one and snatched the baby?" Zhan Zhao asked.
Yan Wei nodded, "I didn't just grab the treasure, I also grabbed those three paintings!" ”
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were surprised.
"The three-headed Jintuo has a rich family background, and that Jintuo statue is the best proof that they have survived." Yan Wei said, "I later melted down the golden statue and cast it all into gold bricks, so that golden Buddha should not exist!" ”
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang secretly sorted out the clues, it turned out to be such a process.
"The deception case in Jiangsu and Zhejiang twenty years ago, and what happened to the official ships you shot?" Zhan Zhao asked.
"After Fan Ju became bigger, I soon suffered the same fate as the Three-Headed Jintuo Sect, betrayed by my own people and hunted down by enemies." Yan Wei said lightly, "The tree is a big move, and in the end, the court didn't let me go, and Fan Ju also fell apart, I took some people and changed my face to become the boss of Yan who sold rice." I was not young when I went into seclusion, and after experiencing the changes of the world, I had no ambition for a long time, and I just wanted to spend my old age in peace. Most of the people who left with me back then were a little older, just like me, but young people would not be reconciled! Twenty years ago, the cases in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were done by those young people who stayed behind back then. With the peace of the world, liars are getting harder and harder, not like troubled times! No one cares about troubled times! But now there are people and horses in the hands of the imperial court, and the army can come with tens of thousands of people, and no sect in the rivers and lakes can stop it, let alone a group of shady liars. The two boatloads of gold that were stolen by the emperor include the property I left back then, and they also cheated them later, otherwise how could there be such a large amount? ”
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both nodded.
"Originally, this matter was none of my business, but twenty years ago, those former subordinates of mine suddenly came to me with a fleet." Yan Wei was helpless, "They robbed the imperial court's fleet, killed officers and soldiers, and robbed gold, but ......"
Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, "But? ”
"Someone is the first to strike!" Yan Wei said, "I don't know if these official ships have been robbed by people unknowingly earlier, or if they have been manipulated at all, and the ships they took such a big risk to snatch back are actually empty!" ”
"Empty ship?" Zhan Zhao wondered, "Is all that gold gone?" ”
Yan Wei nodded, "That's right! And then I heard from some of my former subordinates that they weren't really there to grab gold, or rather, not just to grab it. ”
Bai Yutang frowned, "Could it be that those paintings are also on the ship?" ”
"Not bad!" Yan Wei nodded, "No matter who it is, someone will strike first!" My subordinates pounced, but they were also charged with robbing and killing the official ship, which was to raid the house! When they came to me, I was in a dilemma, if I didn't help them, then the result might be known to the court, and these were also my brothers who had been in trouble together, so I helped sell the boats, and gave them the money from the sale of the boats, so that they could leave and find another way to make a living. ”
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang's narration roughly sorted out a timeline, and in addition, they also deduced that the black strange ship that Lin Ziwen and they encountered back then, and the strange man who painted them back then, may have something to do with the gold that disappeared in this incident, and the three hard-to-find paintings that have been appearing in this case may be the three paintings in the legend!
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang have a general understanding, but there are still many details that they have not understood, especially about the Jin family...... What does this Jin family have to do with this case? In addition, in addition to real gold, there is also a strange batch of fake gold, what are these fake gold for?