Chapter 15: Conspiracy

After Li Jing came out, the first thing he did was to instruct no one to go down, and to stay at the mouth of the well, at this time everyone was asleep, the compound was dark, and the well was in the corner, next to the steep stone wall, and there was no one nearby. Li Jing knew very well that even if he took the gold, such a large fortune was not something that the current power of the Li family could have, from the imperial court to the gentry and pirates, I don't know how many people would be red-eyed, and these things must not be transported back to Meihuawu, which would only bring disaster to the Li family.

He stood in the courtyard and thought about it calmly, and said, "Sister Weiwei and Sister Yueyue, you come with me." The two daughters glanced at each other and didn't speak, Li Jing is the eldest grandson after all, and the weight of speaking when there is a big event is not as small as the second uncle, usually they can mess around, but they can still distinguish the weight. Obediently followed behind. walked all the way to the door of the second uncle's room about ten steps.

"Stay here and don't let anyone else approach"

Seeing that the second daughter agreed, she walked to the door of the second uncle and knocked lightly, at this time the second uncle had already heard the movement in front of the door, and the people who fought all the year round were very alert even if they were sleeping, and when they heard the footsteps and talking of Li Jing and his two daughters, they had already woken up and lit the oil lamp.

"Is it Brother Jing'er, come in"

Li Jing pushed the door and walked into the room, and saw the second uncle sitting on a chair with an oil lamp on the table, sitting down opposite the second uncle with a solemn expression.

"Brother Jing, you won't really find the treasure, right" The second uncle is also a character who rolls around in perennial risks, he is old and refined, and when he saw Li Jing's expression, his first reaction was not excitement, but his heart sank.

"Well, it's Wu Ping's treasure, there are 300,000 tons of silver, all of which are ten taels of ingots, and more than 20 boxes of jewelry, jade, ancient calligraphy and paintings."

"Where was it found?"

"In the abandoned ancient well in the most corner of the west courtyard, on the wall of the well on the water surface, there is an iron door in the masonry on the wall of the well, and there is a circular stone chamber more than ten zhang into the corridor, all of which are inside."

"Who knows what to do with the bricks that were extracted."

"Only I went down to the well, my four maidservants, two scholars, and Weiwei and Yueyue. They saw me on the ground and opened the secret passage to go in, but they didn't know what was inside. ”

"Brother Jing, you found the thing, it should belong to you, what do you want to do with it"

"I think so, this matter must not be leaked out, this batch of things, silver must not be transported back to Meihuawu, I am afraid that it will cause trouble to the family, I am going to go to Nanjing this time, directly transport things to Nanjing, our family has a house store in Nanjing. Silver is directly deposited in Nanjing's largest money bank, more than 300,000 taels for merchants who run the sea, it should not be so eye-catching, the 20 boxes of jewelry, jade, calligraphy and painting, I am ready to open an antique jewelry store in Nanjing, and slowly sell it. ”

Li Jing continued: "After getting the silver ticket, give Weiwei and Yueyue, 10,000 taels of dowry each, 10,000 taels to the second uncle and second aunt, 10,000 taels for my father and mother, and 100,000 taels for my grandfather, and the family will not care." The remaining few people are my house slaves, and everyone is mine, although the windfall has a share, but there is no need to divide it, I will give them a good care for their life, second uncle, what do you think. ”

"Brother Jing'er, okay, the second uncle didn't misunderstand you, the 300,000 taels of silver that I just got in my hand were given away half of it, I am not greedy for money, I am a person who does big things, and I am relieved that the family will be handed over to you in the future." You and your two sisters have grown up together since childhood, and they have a deep relationship, this time they found this treasure with you, although the second uncle is their father, you want to add makeup to them, and the second uncle can't object. But your second aunt and I shouldn't take it anymore, you gave 100,000 taels in the public middle school, how much is your grandfather's share? ”

"Second uncle, don't shirk, you just look down on your nephew when you shirk"

"Okay, your second aunt and I haven't hurt you in vain since we were children, and my second uncle accepted it."

"I want to keep this matter absolutely confidential, and I can't leak the news, otherwise I'm afraid there will be a big disaster."

"How do you want to do it".

"Second uncle, you have a message with the flying pigeons in the family, you ask grandpa to send him to personally manage the family children and the family house, and transport enough wooden boxes by boat. Tomorrow will start to let the Feilai Mountain start training, no docking, and when the wooden box arrives, it will be said that it is the goods sent to Nanjing together, and the wooden box will be loaded by a few of us in person, and after nailing, first put the second uncle in this room, and those jewelry boxes will also be changed to the wooden box and put in your room. ”

"Well, you can, but each box should have some cotton cloth and other light items, otherwise it is easy to feel that it is silver, so let your grandfather, put two-thirds of the cotton cloth in the box, and set aside one-third of the silver."

"Second uncle, I want to wait until the box is changed, remove the iron door, throw it into the stone room, block the front section of the road with mud, and then build the bricks back and dig moss from elsewhere to stain it. Try to be as seamless as possible. ”

"Okay, you've thought about it very carefully, that's it, you go back to sleep first. Call your sister in and I'll tell them a few words, and let other unrelated people go to sea for training tomorrow morning. ”

After Li Jing agreed, he went out to call the two sisters in, and then called the four maids and the scholar back, and after telling them not to make a noise, they would all go to sleep.

The next day, early in the morning, after eating, the second uncle instructed that the eldest young master's body had not recovered from illness before, and the rest of the trial voyage would not be accompanied, and Boss Zhang had basically mastered it, and he would train around the island in the past two days, and he could also train in the open sea appropriately, but don't leave too far, wait for the freight from Chaozhou Mansion to come, and after loading, he will set sail for Nanjing.

Everyone did not suspect him, and got on the ship and began to leave the port for training. I won't be ashore for a few days.

Seeing that the boat had gone away, the second uncle took Li Jing, Bai Yu, and the sword, and personally transported the silver and treasure chests to the second uncle's room to hide them, and the four maids were responsible for the statistics, and the two sisters were responsible for stacking them. It took five days of busy work to transport all of them, and then several people dismantled the iron gate and threw it into the stone room, built a wall about one meter away from the Yongdao crossing, and then filled it with mud, and then built the bricks on the wall of the well and re-smeared it with moss.

When these were done, everyone was tired enough, and the second uncle was left with Bai Yu and the sword to guard, and Li Jing, his two sisters, and the four maids began to play around the island with metal detectors and shovels. Li Jing didn't plan to find the treasures of the Southern Song Dynasty, but he had been looking for it for half the night before, and suddenly stopped looking for it, causing others to be suspicious.

They were at the top of the mountain, and sometimes on the seashore saw the Flying Mountain passing by, and they waved a shovel to say hello. Everyone on the boat saw that these young masters and young ladies in the family were still not giving up, digging everywhere, and shook their heads one after another, half-grown children, too much energy and nowhere to vent.

In the past few days, the treasure has not been dug up, but all kinds of weapon fragments, such as broken knives, broken swords, rusty iron spearheads, iron chains, armor pieces, and scattered copper coins, but they are carried back a few baskets every day, after all, this was the battlefield of tens of thousands of people in the war that year, and some broken weapons and armor are too normal.

On the third day, they were all ready to call it a day, but on the beach of a bay, the detector suddenly sounded wildly, Li Jing didn't believe that he was unlucky, and found the treasure of the Southern Song Dynasty, but he dug it down and found that it was a bronze cast Furlong cannon, and five portable rear gun chambers. It's not something they can do. I can only wait to go back and call someone.

These cannons should have been buried when the pirates fled, and they were going to be dug up later, so it seems that there should be more than one cannon here. It's a pity that they never returned, judging by the inscription on the cannon, it is Latin, which should be original European. Li Jing decided to go back first, and wait for the people to dig it out when they have all their hands, the bronze rust resistance should still be usable, and it is just equipped on the Feilai Mountain.