Volume 3 Spring and Autumn Chapter 535 Shocking Wealth
And when the eldest and second masters returned to Lingshan with the noble son's property, they were really very happy, because although they brought back the family property in a hurry, because there were many robbers who went, and the storage of these properties in the treasury was very neat one by one, so they moved back a lot.
In fact, there are still some in it, but the two of them really can't move the rest of the box, so the second boss should let the big boss leave quickly, otherwise when the government comes, no one will be able to leave.
When they ran back to Lingshan overnight, went out to a tea shop in the council hall, and went out to the jewelry, which was not easy to value, there were eighty or ninety thousand taels of silver ingots alone. This windfall is really an earth-shattering wealth that has never been imagined for the entire Lingshan mountain bandits.
The great lord swelled at that time, and gave five hundred taels of silver to each of the brothers in the stockade, and this point was divided into thirty thousand taels of silver. The remaining 60,000 taels of silver, 20,000 taels for the big boss himself, 10,000 taels each for the second master and 10,000 taels for the third master, and the remaining 20,000 taels of silver are used as the silver deposit of the stockade for daily expenses and untimely needs.
At that time, everyone in the cottage carried at least 1,000 taels of silver, and even if they went to a kiln shop that was not very good, they could go to it hundreds of times. So during that period of time, the people in the entire cottage were all lavish, and in less than a year, these people at the bottom had spent all their money.
Even the big boss, at that time divided into 20,000 taels of silver, after a year, it cost it seventy-seven eighty-eight, the following mountain bandits are all poor Qinglou, but the big boss will not be so wronged by himself, feel that and 10,000 taels of silver in hand, naturally want to go to a better Qinglou, if there is a chance, taste the red head card is not impossible.
Who knows that this green building, all of them are gold cutting holes, and the money on the big boss can't help but consume it so many times, and the three masters are not bad, if you have money, you will go to Jiangning City every three or five times, eat and drink, and then go to the green building to vent your fire.
It can be said that there are sixty people up and down Lingshan, almost every one of them is like this, but there is only one person who does not spend money indiscriminately, that is the second master, He Yan, and he will occasionally run out like everyone else.
In the past year, these mountain bandits, whether they are ordinary mountain bandits below or big bosses, because everyone has spare money, they naturally will not stay in the village obediently, so there are always people who come back to Jiangning City on the runway every other day.
For a while, the second master also went with the flow, went out a few times, and even came back three days later, but the strange thing for everyone is that he never met the second master on the way to Jiangning City or on the way back to Lingshan.
What they couldn't guess was that although the second master, He Yan, went out of the cottage, he did not go to Jiangning, but went to the neighboring Taiping Prefecture, spent 10,000 taels of silver there, bought a house in the core of Taiping Prefecture, and then used the remaining money to buy 1,000 hectares of fertile land, which was planted for those poor peasants who had no land, so as to collect a meager but long-term stable income.
Of course, no one knew about this matter, not even the big boss, He Yan completely hid this matter. Even a year ago, when all the money in the cottage was used up and their harvest was not good, the second master did not say that he would exchange his property for silver to use in the cottage.
Instead, he found another way to collect the "protection fee" of this era from the villages around Lingshan in turn! This can be regarded as solving the problem of survival of the cottage, especially when there are few caravans passing by near Lingshan. Therefore, the prestige of the second master is getting higher and higher in the Lingshan cottage, and even many people respect and fear the second master more than the big boss.
That's why Ali was so afraid of the second master just now, high prestige is one thing, and the other is the ruthlessness of the second master when he takes revenge. When He Yan, the second master, asked Ah Li to hurry up, Ah Li's body shivered unconsciously, and he hurriedly responded.
"Yes, yes, I'll say, I'll say!" Ali nodded and said, "The big boss, the second boss, the third boss, the direction of the valley line sky today is me and Dagen, just now, we saw a convoy of eleven carriages coming in the direction of our valley, obviously passing by our Lingshan." ”
"What!?" The big boss stood up suddenly, and the wine bowl that he had pinched in his hand before was placed on the table with a bang, and asked loudly.
So Ali repeated the words again.
"Ali, what did you say...... But really? Meng Rui, the big boss, opened his eyes wide, stared like two copper bells, and asked in a thunderous voice.
It's really because of their cottage, since the silver ran out before, the big boss took the bandits to unload all the goods of several passing caravans, and even killed many people because of the other party's resistance, since you, the notoriety of Lingshan has spread, resulting in almost no pair willing to take this route after that.
The caravan that Ali said this time is still the only one in the past three months, the last caravan that came was three months ago, and it was actually not a caravan, but the villagers of a surrounding village got together, used a donkey cart to pull a cart of surplus grain and wanted to go to Jiangning City to sell it, change shoes and silver, and buy some necessities that were not in the village to take back.
Who knew that it was a coincidence that he walked to the door of the thief's den, and there was no accident, all the grain of this donkey cart was moved into the valley by the mountain bandits, and even the donkeys were snatched away, becoming a delicacy in the belly of the mountain bandits.
Since then, there have been no caravans or pedestrians passing in front of their valley, which is why the big boss Meng Rui is so excited.
"It's true, the big boss, even if you give the little bear-hearted leopard guts, the little ones don't dare to deceive the three masters!" Ali said flatteringly.
"Are you sure it's eleven carriages?" The second master asked on the side at this time.
"Yes, the second master, Dagen and I deliberately counted the two sides separately, they are indeed eleven carriages." Ali nodded and replied with great certainty.
"How many people have you noticed?" He Yan, the second master, continued to ask.
"At that time, we did deliberately observe and pay attention to the actual number of people on the other side, about fifty people!"
"More than fifty?" He Yan, the second master, repeated softly, and then said to himself: "Eleven carriages, more than fifty people, then it is equivalent to five people in a carriage, and the coachman who goes out, and there are four left, which is about the same as the staffing of the merchants." ”
"Second brother? What's the problem? The big boss looked at the second master suspiciously, now he has become more and more dependent on He Yan, as long as it is suggested by He Yan, he will generally choose to believe it. Seeing He Yan's expression just now, there seemed to be some questions, so I asked more.
He Yan shook his head and said, "It's nothing, I just feel a little puzzled, I haven't had pedestrians passing by for months, why did I suddenly come here with such a big fat sheep this time." ”
"Haha, maybe we're here to run, it's been more than three months since it wasn't for the second brother's clever plan, so that we can have food provided by the surrounding villages all year round, so that we can have no worries!" The big boss Meng Rui said with a smile.
"I hope so!" Although the second master usually has a fierce expression, at this time, it is rare to show a happy smile.
"Let's go, take the Erlang and set off quickly, it was not easy for a caravan to pass by in front of our valley, but we must not let them go over so smoothly, second brother, how do you say that, the wild goose will fly over and get his hair down!"
"The goose has been plucked!"
"Hahahaha, big brother, don't think that if you talk a few more words to your second brother, you will become a scholar, in our cottage, the second brother is the most educated!" The third master of the family said ridiculously at this time.
"Go, go, we are the best for you to fight, if you encounter hard stubble, you have to play well, a caravan of more than fifty people, how can you have a few good hands to press the field!" The big boss Meng Rui said to Qiu Quan.
"Don't worry, big brother! This caravan really lost this shop after this village, I know the importance of the matter, and it will not collapse at the critical moment! Qiu Quan nodded and said.
Then the three of them got up and came to the open space outside the conference hall, and the big boss Meng Rui shouted at the top of his throat: "Brothers, copy the guys, there is a big fat sheep underneath, and there is no chance to go to Jiangning to continue to eat and drink spicy food, but it depends on this one!" ”
As soon as Meng Rui's words were finished, many people screamed out in an instant, all holding weapons in their hands, obviously hearing Meng Rui's sentence of copying.
"Big boss, how big is the fat sheep this time?" A mountain bandit asked aloud.
"No matter how big it is, it's better than before, and I don't know anything else, I only know that there are more than fifty people on the other side this time, and eleven commercial vehicles!" As soon as Meng Rui's words were finished, the surrounding mountain bandits instantly began to discuss.
"So much! Is this either not billing, and eating half a year? ”
"Will it be like last time, everyone can also get more silver taels!"
"After all, what happened last time was rare, and this time let the cottage have some silver, so that we can drink and eat meat."
"It's really possible, after all, eleven cars are on the car, and there can't be eleven cars without anything valuable!"
"Okay, be quiet, give me silence, I warn you, when we go down, don't make a sound, otherwise if you make a sound, the caravan will be scared away before it enters our encirclement, hum......" Meng Rui, the big boss, warned.
The other people present instantly quieted down, the three masters were still very prestigious and majestic among the bandits, and the big bosses, needless to say, were the leaders of the cottage from the beginning. And the second master, He Yan, although he was tied up on the mountain by the bandits to work as a coolie at the beginning, but with his own ingenuity, he frequently had to give some good advice to the big boss, so that the whole cottage became better and better, and the life of the mountain bandits became better than before. Love Book House
Therefore, the second master is also extremely majestic among the mountain bandits, and the third master is the enemy, which is the best skill among the sixty-three people in the entire cottage, and it is said that he was also born in a martial arts family, but because of the middle of the family, he originally wanted to come to the big city of Jiangning to ask for a living, and then he was the same as the second master, passing by Lingshan and being tied up.
Of course, the difference with the second boss is that at that time, the second boss was obediently arrested, and the third boss had more than a dozen people injured before he was controlled and tied up to the five flowers. However, the big boss is neither the smartest nor the most capable of fighting, but he has an advantage, that is, he knows people and makes good use of them.
The two people who tied He Yan and Qiu Quan to the mountain had great power and newcomers, promoted the two of them to the second and third masters, and formed the golden triumvirate of Lingshan with themselves. One is responsible for overall management and control, the other is responsible for advice, and the other is responsible for force and execution, and the cooperation between the three is intimate.
"Second brother and third brother, the three of us will each take twenty people, first in the afternoon, and then see if we rush out together or divide them into three parts to surround them." The big boss Meng Rui is not useless, he is still very good in command and overall situation, otherwise he would not always be the big boss in the cottage.
He Yan and Qiu Quan nodded, under the leadership of Ah Li, all the people in the entire cottage took their weapons and ran quietly but quickly to the exit of the valley, the reason why all the people were dispatched was because the other party's caravan was more than fifty people, and their mountain bandits were only seventy in total, so it was naturally more certain to dispatch them all.
On the other hand, what they do is that they have a share in the audience, and you must at least contribute this strength, and when the time comes to share the spoils, you are qualified to reach out and take it, so whether it is the cook who is usually responsible for cooking or the personnel who are responsible for going to the city to purchase supplies, they are all holding their respective weapons at the moment and following the large army. Now the entire cottage has all been dispatched.
Outside the valley, Cao Yi and the others had discovered the sentry of the mountain bandits, and had already deduced that a person had gone back to report the news, so the entire caravan had slowed down, and even in the end, Cao Yi ordered all the personnel to rest under the two towering trees.
Eleven or two carriages formed a circle, surrounding everyone, this is a defensive behavior that the merchant lounge will definitely put up, since Cao Yi and they are pretending to be a caravan, they naturally will not show too many flaws in this.
"Childe! A large group of people approached and were watching us! Ji Taixiang's words suddenly came to mind, and at the same time, most of the mountain bandits had already approached, and they were together with Dagen at this time.
"Three flavors are in charge!" Big Root whispered hello.
"Hmmm! Big root, how's it going? The big boss looked at the caravan that stopped in the distance and asked suspiciously.
"I guess they don't know anything about our mountains, they were slow and seemed to be tired, and then the whole caravan went straight to the bottom of the two big trees from the road outside and began to rest." Dagen replied with a fifteen-ten face.
"En......" The big boss nodded, they could see at a glance that the defensive form of the other party was still on guard, but they just stopped at the door of their bandits' den to rest, so there was only one possibility, that is, this caravan did not know that they were mountain bandits, that is, it was possible that it was a caravan from other places.
"Second brother, what do you think?" The big boss Meng Rui turned his head and asked He Yan.
He Yan squinted his eyes slightly, stared at Cao Yi's caravan for a long time, and finally said slowly: "I'm not sure about the rest, but the goods on all the carriages are quite heavy and heavy!" ”
"Oh? Second brother, how do you see that? Qiu Quan on the side asked curiously. The surrounding mountain bandits were also very curious, and they didn't understand how the second master found that all the carriages were full of goods, and if they encountered that kind of goods had been transported and were only returning, then there was basically no oil and water to fish.
"Big brother, third brother, you see, the wheels of all the carriages." He Yan pointed to Cao Yi and said as they circled the carriage.
"Wheels?" Meng Rui stared carefully for a moment, and suddenly realized: "Second brother, are you talking about the wheels sinking into the grass?"
"Well, yes, you should have seen it, you have fallen into the mud on all the carriages, and you have seen that the traces of the wheels of the carriage are still there, very obvious, you can see from the degree to which the wheels are sunken, all the boxes on this carriage are full of things, and this thing is quite heavy, otherwise it would not have weighed the wheels so hard." He Yan explained.
"That's right! As soon as the second brother explained this, I understood that if you look at the wheels, it is true that the things on the carriage should be quite heavy. The three masters said with emotion.
"Huh! Big brother, second brother, look, the box in the third carriage from the left is not properly placed, and it is about to fall, hahaha...... "Qiu Quan found a box that almost fell off because of the problem of placement, and was secretly having fun over there.
"Dropped...... It's about to fall off...... Fuck me! From the beginning to the end, it was Qiu Quan who let out an exclamation, and the last "fuck" was so angry because the box really fell and fell to the ground. It is precisely because all the things inside fell out and scattered on the ground that it caused such a gaffe of hatred.
When Qiu Quan shouted the sentence "fuck", almost all the other colleagues of the surrounding bandits gasped and made a uniform sound, and then everyone covered their mouths and was silent. Because the box fell to the ground, and all that fell out was white and silver.
It was now noon, and the sun was just fierce, and the outer box of the outer carriage was just shining by the sun, and the silver ingots of the white flowers fell into the green grass, and the silver-white light was even more dazzling and eye-catching.
"This ......" The three of the big boss Meng Rui, the second boss He Yan and the third boss Qiu Quan glanced at each other, and they all saw the surprise in each other's eyes, isn't this the biggest surprise.
They haven't had pedestrians passing by in Lingshan Cottage for three months, let alone caravans, and the occasional caravan this time turned out to be a whole box of silver ingots, with a gross estimate of at least a few thousand taels of silver.
Looking at the size of a silver ingot, it should be about fifty taels, this box fell to the ground, not a hundred, but sixty or seventy, so a box of thousands of silver is definitely there, the key is that now there are thousands of such boxes in just one box, you must know that there are seven or eight such boxes on a carriage, and there are eleven such carriages in the entire caravan.
As for how many taels of silver there were in total, the three of them didn't dare to think about it at all, and they didn't need to calculate it carefully, and they would find that if each box was silver, there would be at least a hundred thousand or two hundred thousand silver.
"My God, isn't it a joke...... the big boss Meng Rui looked at the so many silver ingots that fell to the ground in disbelief, and said slowly.
The other two leaders, He Yan and Qiu Quan also nodded with deep sympathy, looking at the members of the caravan, they should have heard the sound of the box falling to the ground, so they were squatting on the ground at this time to sort out the silver ingots.
"This ...... With so many silver taels, why am I a little panicked......" Meng Rui said slowly.
"Haha, me too! Second brother, what about you? Qiu Quan echoed, and asked He Yan by the way.
He Yan shook his head, his expression was a little solemn, and he turned his head to ask Qiu Quan: "Third brother, do you see those people in the caramill have any hard ideas?" ”
Qiu Quan stared at it for a moment, and then said: "I can't see it just like this, I don't see any murderous or fierce aura, but some of them look full of childishness. ”
"So, is it right for us to grab it?" He Yan looked at Meng Rui and Qiu Quan and asked.
"This depends on the third brother, after all, he is the most skilled, and he can see it clearly than us." The big boss Meng Rui replied.
"Uh...... I think we can try it, it's a rare opportunity, if this carriage is full of silver, or only half of it, then it is also a huge amount of wealth, enough for us to go on an adventure. When Qiu Quan spoke, his eyes radiated a fine light, and he licked his lips after speaking.
"Besides, there are only fifty of them, and we have seventy, which is twenty more, so I think we can try it!" Qiu Quan turned his gaze to Meng Rui.
Although the second brother He Yan was the one who made suggestions in the cottage, it was the eldest brother Meng Rui who made the final decision, so Qiu Quan looked at Meng Rui with expectant eyes.
Meng Rui was in a fierce confrontation in his heart at this time, robbing, not grabbing, grabbing, not grabbing...... These two words kept circling in his mind, and then he remembered the pleasure and joy that had come when he had twenty thousand taels of silver.
Meng Rui bit it, and punched his right hand heavily, with a hint of excitement and excitement in his firm tone: "It's done!" ”
"Second brother, third brother, each of you take twenty people, go around to their left and right sides, and when the time comes, we will surround them on three sides, don't give them a chance to break through, if necessary, you can kill those horses!" Meng Rui said resolutely.
He Yan and Qiu Quan took the order and left with twenty people each, they were very familiar with the environment here, and knew how to avoid being discovered, sneaking to the sides to surround them.
At this time, Cao Yi, who was being noticed by these mountain bandits, was behind the carriage and sat on the grass to "rest".
"Taixiang, how are you feeling now?" Cao Yi asked.
"They seem to be scattering, and they're running in the right and left directions of where we're now!" Ji Taixiang's voice came.
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