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Zhao Ruogang's house is on the bank of the Yudai River in the north of the city, on the side of Yuexiu Mountain, it is indeed a good place by the mountains and rivers, the place is not too big, and it is elegant and clean. Ni Liang arranged the guard before asking the prince to get out of the car, Zhao Yu looked around to see that the house was empty, everything that could be moved was removed, the yard was also turned into a mess by the soldiers who raided it, the grass and trees in the flower garden were uprooted, the water in the pond was also washed dry, and the lotus flowers in the pond were all withered. It's just that the master has fled, the servants are scattered, and only the cats and dogs that have lost their owners wander in the courtyard, seeing people fleeing quickly, as if walking into a ghost in the cold moonlight.

"Song Jie, Zhang Qi, you two talk about it, where can that guy hide things!" Zhao Yu turned around, as Lin Zhiwu said, he found all the places he could find, and returned to the front hall and said to the two people dressed as guards.

"Your Highness, my subordinates also checked, there is no wall in the house, no secret room has been found, and there are no traces of movement on the floor tiles, so they should not be hidden in the house." Song Jie replied first.

"Your Highness, my subordinates have gone around the courtyard, and the stables, gardens, rockeries, and ponds have all been explored, and some places have been dug up by the soldiers, and no new discoveries have been made." Zhang Qi also said in confusion.

"Hehe, this king doesn't believe that he can take all those things away, and he must hide them in this mansion. If you can't find it, you're in vain. Zhao Yu said with a smile.

Zhao Yu knew that no one could beat the thief when it came to finding things, and they had to be careful not to let people find out about the burglary, but also to find the valuable treasure as quickly as possible, and no one would put the most valuable things in the open. This requires a keen sense of observation, which can quickly spot clues and find things hidden in hidden places. These two people are actually not from the pro-guard team, but they are two spies recruited by the bureau, and they used to work high and high, entering through the door. The hand-in-hand business is a top business in the industry, and it has some reputation.

"Your Highness, time is short, please allow us to look for it again." The first time the prince went on an errand and returned empty-handed, it really made them unbearable, and they all saluted. This time, the two of them did not rush to look around, but just stood on the high steps in front of the hall and looked around. Zhao Yu also followed their gaze, and suddenly the eyes of the two fell on several lotus jars in front of the hall at the same time.

Zhao Hao still knows a little about this thing, don't look at the lotus flowers and fish in it. It is like decorating the courtyard, but its real purpose is to store water, properly said to be a kind of fire prevention facility, as long as the water is usually filled, once a fire occurs, you can take water nearby at any time to extinguish the fire, so it is also called a peace tank. The texture of the lotus jar is generally ceramic, of course, the rich also use copper casting, and the Forbidden City in Beijing is gilded, and it also plays a role in showing off wealth.

Because the lotus jar has the practical function of storing water. Generally, it is made into a wide mouth to increase the capacity as much as possible. But the jars in front of the hall here are of new color, and they seem to be much smaller than the others, and the number is not right. Because according to the principle of symmetry in China. The items in front of the hall are all placed in pairs, but there are only three of them here, and one is missing on the left, which is very strange. Zhang Qi leaned over with a lantern to check. Sure enough, there were traces of the missing place, but there were no broken fragments, which indicates that someone had removed one of the cylinders.

'Tom, tom...... Song Jie struck a cylinder on the side with his palm. It emits a muffled sound characteristic of metal percussion, apparently made of metal. He grabbed the rim of the jar again and tried to move it, but the jar didn't move.

"There's something wrong with this tank." Zhao Yu also took a look, turned his face and said, "Wang De, look at the copy list, if there is a lotus jar among them!" ”

"Your Highness, no!" Wang De took the account book and looked through it under the lantern.

"Your Highness, you can't be wrong! These are all rough benzene guys, since the house has not been touched. The guards of the army withdrew after dark, and the outside were all soldiers patrolling the streets, if a few people carried such a large tank on the street would not escape the inspection, it could only be that the Zhao thief took one away when he went out of the city, but the person who fled for his life did not take anything else, but took away a newly cast lotus jar, which can only show that this tank is very valuable! Zhang Qi said with great certainty.

"Could it be that the boy made these jars out of the looted gold?" Zhao Hao said with some surprise, according to common sense, money is hidden in the most secret place, who would put the gold in the courtyard and let the wind and rain blow, and Lin Zhiwu, who copied the house, must have felt that this vat was too heavy and threw it here.

"Your Highness, this vat is made of gold, but it is wrapped with a layer of copper inside and outside to hide people's eyes and ears!" Song Jie took out the dagger and scraped it vigorously on the edge of the cylinder a few times, then licked it with his tongue and said excitedly.

"Hehe, I didn't expect that a hundred years later, someone would do this!" Zhang Qi also said with a smile.

"Oh, what's the allusion to this?" Zhao Yu patted the cylinder and asked curiously.

"Your Royal Highness, legend has it that there was a rich man in Yangzhou during the period of Xiaozong, with millions of family assets and a large amount of cash saved. This attracted the prying eyes of many Taoists, and many people had sneaked into his mansion to make a windfall, but no one succeeded. But it was not because his family was heavily guarded, but because he cast the silver into ten large silver balls of three hundred catties, and even if he found it, he couldn't bring it out, so no one beat his family's idea anymore! Song Jie recounted.

"I see, but this kid is also a wonder. Then follow this line of thought, and carefully inspect all the places in the house that have been altered or newly built. "Zhao Hao's ability to draw inferences is amazing, now that the gold has been found, there is no shadow of the silver, maybe it is also concocted in the same way. And he also calculated that the caliber and height of this cylinder are two feet up and down, about one centimeter thick, excluding the wrapped copper skin, according to the conservative estimate of one pound of gold per kilogram, there are about four thousand taels of those three cylinders. This item alone is worth the trip, and when it comes to silver, it is earned......

After some searching, I found that the shadow wall at the entrance was newly rebuilt, and this thing is about the owner's feng shui fortune, and it is not uncommon for the newcomer to rebuild it after moving in. But with the past, how could Zhao Hao let it go, and ordered someone to open the shadow wall, and sure enough, it was won again, and it was all made of smelted silver bricks, and then sealed with a layer of adobe bricks, plastered with ash, and finally covered with whitewash.

Zhao Yu couldn't help but sigh after being overjoyed, these officials are really skilled, and they have gathered so much wealth in just four months, and they also sighed that the wealth of Guangzhou is comparable to the annual tax payment in a remote and remote county. A few months ago, he seized some silver money on a Tartar warship at sea, and he was complacent that being a pirate was a very promising industry, but he didn't expect to be an official to get rich quickly, and only now did he feel that this prince had some taste......

[It's about to be 515, I hope to continue to hit the 515 red envelope list, and the red envelope rain will be able to give back to readers and promotional works on May 15. A piece is also love, and it must be better! (To be continued.) )