484 Potential Hazards
The mountains and forests are dark, and even if the moon is big tonight, because the trees in this place are old, the moonlight is blocked out, and it is impossible to see what is around.
Lord Wu is old, and his eyes are not very good, Lord Ke is better, and Xu Erlang's eyesight is better.
Today, the mountains around them are veritable mountains. This mountain range covers a very vast area, hundreds of kilometers away. Now they had just entered the mountain, and they did not know whether the place where the treasure was hidden was in the heart of the mountain or where it was.
The carriage was wobbly, and it was half the night when it went.
Master Ke and Master Wu didn't dare to relax their minds, and because they were used to being officials all year round, their backs were straight, and now after some bumps, the bones of their bodies were about to fall apart.
Master Wu couldn't help but mutter, "It's hiding in the deep mountains and old forests, it's quite safe, and it takes time to get it." This time and again, I am afraid that it will not be possible without a day and a night's effort. β
Master Ke sneered, "Lord Wu's words are wrong. According to the power of the family, gold and silver were only taken out of it when it was stored regularly. "Speaking of which, this family is really like gluttony, they are all things that only go in and can't be exported, but it's okay to do this, everything is stored for them, and the family is doing a great thing.
If the family knew about it, one day the accumulation of a hundred years would fall into the hands of others, and I was afraid that they would vomit blood.
As for now, they are all stable. After all, there are kids in the clan who have escaped, and that is the torch they left behind. As long as the descendants are endless, sooner or later they will make a comeback with the heritage left by their ancestors.
The thoughts of the family Xu Erlang and others are naturally too lazy to ponder, Xu Erlang is young and has a good foundation, even if the mountain road is bumpy, he can endure it. But Lord Ke and Lord Wu couldn't stand it anymore, the two adults leaned on the carriage to rest, and after a while, Lord Wu let out a thunderous snoring sound, but Lord Ke frowned several times, but he was not woken up in the end, and he should be tired.
Xu Erlang didn't sleep the whole time, and kept paying attention to the movement outside. Master Wu and Master Ke were also worried about the family's accumulation, so they just rested for more than an hour and woke up one after another.
But it's useless for them to wake up, because they're still on the way. The family is sneaky, I am afraid that the family background left by the ancestors is really hidden in the depths of the mountains.
Lord Wu is not well cultivated, and his temper is not very good, so he wanted to scold his mother at this time, but he finally held back. He thought that if he went back and found gold and silver, he had to give His Majesty a good excerpt, and make the hateful points of the family more detailed. These old elves with more hearts and eyes than a sieve can't be used by the country, and they are only silverfish of the country, and they really deserve to be killed.
The sky slowly brightened, and for the sake of safety, Mohe made people farther away from the carriage of Li Sanniang.
Lisan Niangzi also has a bit of royal means, plus there are many ministers under her skirt, and she is particularly good at controlling men, so she also brought a few men who were desperate for her on this trip.
Don't say anything about bringing more people over, the danger of the family's silver hiding place is too great, and she is not afraid to make wedding clothes for her people when the time comes?
β¦β¦ To tell the truth, Lisan Niangzi is really not afraid.
Just because these men are dead set on her doesn't mean she's dead set on them. The local institutions where the family hides silver are dense, and there are many guards and manpower. She didn't bring more people over, how could she get the money? These are all good cannon fodder thugs, but she can't leave any of them.
Although these men saw each other, they all looked like they couldn't kill each other to monopolize Lisanniang, but because Lisanniang adjusted properly, they didn't make any big trouble.
Li Sanniang's die-hard subordinates, plus these men who are desperate for her, add up to a lot. Looking at the past, there were also twenty or thirty people. And except for Lisan Niangzi and an elderly grandmother, the rest are all men.
Among them, there were two men dressed as martial artists, revealing the aura of military ruffians between the ranks when they walked, and Mohe had some speculation about the origin of the two.
Because these two men are here, and because they have better scouts on their side to track the whereabouts of Li Sanniang and her party at any time, it is okay to be farther away.
Soon the sky was completely bright, and the sun was slowly rising.
But because of the ancient woods here, the sunlight rarely shines in, and it is still dim and depressing, making people breathless.
Xu Erlang accompanied Master Ke and Master Wu to sit in the carriage for a night, and his body bones were also a little stiff, so he came down to move.
Lord Wu and Master Ke also jumped out of the carriage after him, the two of them had not suffered this kind of suffering for many years, and now they had not rested much all night, and they were still sitting on the bumpy carriage, plus they had been carrying the spirit of wine, both physically and mentally tired to the extreme, so their complexions were not very good-looking.
They rested for a while, ate some more dry food from their servants, and set out on their way again.
Only this time, before it was on the road, the carriage was stopped. A guard in front of him ran over, "My lord, there is a fight in front, and the Li family should have met the manpower arranged here by the family." β
Xu Erlang replied and asked them to calm down. No one knows how many people the family has arranged here, and how many people are still guarding the land where the silver is hidden, and not many people know. They are waiting to pick peaches, and these tentative jobs will be handed over to Lisan Niangzi and her party.
However, if those people were too late, he might want to help.
"You guys are secretly helping, don't miss your tracks."
The guards were given orders.
The carriage stopped for about a moment before the guard came running again, this time with a look of excitement. "My lord, the people of the Li family captured the two captives and pried their mouths open. This side is very close to the place where the silver is hidden, and as for the silver vault of the Li family, there are about 100 people guarding it. There are also arrangements for organs and the like, but the two captives caught belong to peripheral personnel, and they don't know the specific situation. β
After the guards went down, Lord Wu sighed, "It turned out to be the place where the Li family hid silver. "There is some truth in the ancients saying that thieves are difficult to prevent. Originally, they thought that it was the poor family that was the first to be targeted by Lisan Niangzi, but they didn't expect that it was her mother's family.
Then this woman is very ruthless, and she will never be able to do this kind of thing on ordinary people.
She didn't worry that she would get all the money away, and then the descendants of the Li family who were lucky enough to escape would have no capital to make a comeback? Or is she relying on the fact that she is now the only one left in the Li family and has not been in prison, and feels that she knows the righteousness, and those loyal servants of the Li family will let her take the silver? She thinks this is a low difficulty, so does she have a strategy for this?
Thinking about it this way, it seems to make some sense.
If it doesn't make sense, I won't talk about it now, but whoever has such a girl on the stall, it's quite miserable.
Perhaps because there was someone to guide the way, the journey was much smoother after that. After walking for about half an hour, Lisan's carriage finally stopped in front of a towering mountain.
The mountain is so tall that it almost doesn't fall into the clouds.
And the mountains are overgrown with weeds, and they are really not eye-catching when you look at them. However, if you look closely, you can see that the surrounding area of this peak is obviously much "cleaner" than the peaks next to it. Even the moss on the walls of the mountain peaks is much less. There are even traces of human activity hereβit's not that the guards are negligent, after all, for hundreds of years, no one has ever been here, except for the Li family, right?
Although the rules were strict before the beginning, it was said that the caretaker could not go out for the rest of his life after entering the mountain. But rules are dead, people are alive. And because the Li family comes over once or twice a year at most, the people who stay inside are depressed, and there are always people who want to come out to breathe.
Besides, even the beasts in the neighborhood have to be dealt with regularly. Otherwise, the master's family will send silver over, and they will be ambushed by wild beasts on the way, and it will be nothing to lose some property, but if there are casualties, who is it? No one can afford this consequence, can they?
For all these reasons, people in the peaks also come out on a regular basis to "walk around". But as loyal servants of the Li family, they are also cautious, and whether they deal with wild beasts or other traces, they will be eliminated afterwards. So for so many years, this silver vault here is also well preserved, and it has never been discovered by outsiders.
In front of the peak, Li Sanniang personally came forward to call the door, and with the guidance of the two captives earlier, they quickly called the stone gate open.
But the person who opened the door inside was obviously stunned when he saw so many strangers coming, and immediately wanted to close the stone door.
But this is obviously impossible, after all, a few men around Lisan Niangzi are waiting for this moment.
The stone door was pushed open, and several people seemed to have an argument, and they seemed to start a fight again. Then an old man who seemed to be in charge of the matter came out of the mountain, and all the movement stopped.
But the smell of gunsmoke at the scene was still very strong, and it was obvious that the old man did not approve of a girl's family "inheriting" the Li family's industry.
But Li Sanniang and her party dared to come here rashly, and there was no barrier in their hands.
Speaking of the big truth, Lisan Niangzi has never met an opponent. Her crooked tricks sounded so convincing that if the treasury had not been handed over to her, it would have been seized by the Governor's Mansion one day. When the time comes, outsiders will be cheaper, and the Lijia's century-old accumulation will fall into the hands of outsiders, then they will be sinners. Are they worthy of the ancestors of the Li family who entrusted them with important tasks, and worthy of the oath they made at the beginning that "the silver treasury is in the people, and the silver treasury is dead"?
Lisan didn't put all her hopes on reasoning.
The people of the family have always been unreasonable, and they only recognize one creed, that is, what is good for them is right. You have to hold what you can grasp, and only when something comes into your own hands is your own.
It's okay if you can't be reasonable, Lisan Niangzi also prepared a backhand.
Her back hand has not been shown so far, but one of the guards who blended into Lisan's team found a box of high-risk items in the carriage.
That's six "shells". It is also inaccurate to say that it is a shell, because each shell has a lead on it, and it is not known what it is for.
Could it be that this Lisan Lady is going to blow up this mountain?
At that time, the movement will be big, I am afraid that if Lisan Niangzi can't pretend to be gold and silver here, the soldiers and horses of the state capital will come over.
The guards didn't know, but they also knew that this thing was dangerous, so they took advantage of the confrontation between everyone and the people guarding the silver vault, and took out the explosives and secretly threw them away.
Those few black and slippery things, few people in this era know them, but if Jin Niang sees them, I'm afraid she will be surprised, isn't this a grenade!
Although the appearance is not the same, the effect should be similar.
There is a smell of gunpowder, and there is a lead on it, if this is lit and thrown out, the lethality is simply amazing.
This is also the retreat that Li San Niangzi prepared for herself, and she will not use it unless she has to.
This is also what she used her body to get from a family.
The son of the family is the eldest son of the Sheng family, and he is not inconspicuous at home, but he has his own idiotcy. The man didn't know where he learned the formula for gunpowder, so he tossed it himself.
The Sheng family has gold and silver, and they also know the power of firearms. They want to get something to save their lives, so they naturally have to support the preferences of their young sons.
The youngest son of the Sheng family also competed, and improved the turret on the warship like this. Originally, it existed as a killer weapon, but before the fort really played a role, it buried the life of the family.
And because Xu Erlang sent someone to arrest the son of the family suddenly, the family was completely defenseless, so except for the luck of not being at home, all the others were arrested and imprisoned.
The descendants of the Sheng family are naturally among them, but as soon as the Sheng family researched the "grenades" in the hands of Li Sanniang, she got them, and the time he got them was only two days before the family was arrested. So now that this grenade has not flowed out, no one can say. However, the Sheng family must have a formula, but I don't know if the formula has been preserved, and it has not been discovered by the government. If you don't find out, hehe, Governor Xu has killed the family like this, and the rest of the family can't retaliate, and the Sheng family will definitely do something.
It's far away from these things, just say that the scout who followed Li Sanniang and her party far away, saw his companion suddenly throw something over, and picked it up with doubts, he smelled the smell of gunpowder and felt that something was wrong, and then handed the object to Mohe, who naturally knew the importance of the matter, and quickly went to inform Xu Erlang.
Xu Erlang, Lord Wu, and Master Ke took this "black ball" and looked at it, and after studying the role of this thing, Lord Wu couldn't help but scold, "The family has a rich accumulation, and they want people and things, if they are right-minded, they don't know how many good things they can do to benefit the people, and how many pillars of talent they can cultivate for Daqi." It's a pity that those people's hearts and livers are blackened, and their minds are crooked. All day long, he only thinks about exploiting the people and coercing officials, and he really does all kinds of evil, and he should be killed and killed. β
Ke Dadao, "I don't know if this thing has leaked out." If not, it's okay, if there is, I'm afraid that Tongzhou City is in danger. β
There is no doubt about the power of gunpowder, it is the existence that can blow up mountains, if it is thrown into the pile, how many casualties will it cause? If he is thrown into the governor's mansion by someone with a heart, the lives of Xu Erlang's family will be in danger.