When Gong Changyu saw the locust-like bow and arrow, he quickly stuck to the stone wall of the tunnel, and escaped a catastrophe: "Damn, this Wugang car has been buried here for hundreds of years, and it will automatically fire bows and arrows!" ”

"General, don't go any further, hurry back." Jing Zhigang, who was lying on his stomach on the edge of the door, shouted.

"What a retreat, maybe this is King Min's treasure cave." Gong Changyu said with a smile.

"Impossible. The last King Min was besieged by those chaotic people, just because of the tyrannical expropriation, he couldn't make ends meet, where would there be any treasures at all. It's just that there is a treasure, and after so many years, it has long been sold out by the caretaker of the royal city. Jing Zhigang said, "General, let's leave this place quickly and go to the underground palace." ”

"I'll trust you for a moment." Gong Changyu leaned against the stone wall and cautiously retreated. Just as they were about to leave, the chariot on the slope quickly moved towards the stone walls on both sides of the tunnel, and then a burst of logs and stones tumbled on the ground towards the doorway. The boulders weigh hundreds of pounds, and once they hit them, they will definitely be crushed.

"Be careful, Lord Jing." Gong Changyu flew up, grabbed Jing Zhigang's belt, and dragged him to the corner of the iron gate to hide.

"General, this place is evil." Jing Zhigang straightened his official hat. Before the words fell, the tunnel collapsed, and countless falling rocks piled up at the door, completely blocking the iron gate.

"This is the door of death." Gong Changyu sweated, and then returned along the road with Jing Zhigang. Arriving at the three-way intersection again, they walked towards the tunnel on the left, and soon arrived at the underground palace.

Along the stone steps, the two entered the underneath the dungeon, which was filled with masonry and rotten wood, cobwebs everywhere, and dust two inches thick. Jing Zhigang held the torch, walked to a box covered with black canvas, and lifted the canvas: "General, all the silver I hid is here, do you want to open it and take a look?" ”

"Of course." Gong Changyu picked up an iron chisel casually, pried open a box, and the moment he opened it, he was dumbfounded, the box was full of some stones and sawdust, and there was no silver ingot, he quickly turned it in the box with an iron chisel a few times, but there was still no silver. It's the same with the boxes on top.

"Lord Jing, what's going on?" Gong Changyu asked.

"I'll see." Jing Zhigang counted the boxes, there were exactly 48 boxes, and in frustration, he took the iron drill from Gong Changyu's hand and opened the remaining boxes one by one, but he was even more surprised, it was empty, and there were no stones.

"Lord Jing, you big fool." Gong Changyu was convinced.

"Every time before carrying silver into the royal city, according to the packing standard of one thousand taels and one boxes, I personally affixed seals, six boxes each time, and loaded them eight times." Jing Zhigang carefully looked at the seal on the box, which had his own seal on it, as well as the big seal of the county government, and the boxes were still those boxes.

"Lord Jing, who brought this silver into this underground palace?" Gong Changyu asked.

"I personally escorted it in, there was no problem in the middle link, and tens of thousands of taels of silver were gone."

"Is there anyone but you who knows the whereabouts of this silver?"

"Nope. Every time the porter enters the room with the iron walls above, he has to enter the secret room blindfolded. It's also blindfolded to go out......"

"Master Jing, did you go the same way when you went out?"

"It's not. There is also a dark room in the iron-walled house, which leads directly to the Zheshui River. ”

"Excuse me, my lord, did you open the Duliang antique store?"

"Yes."

"Who are you?"

"It's an antique connoisseur I hired with a lot of money, a native of western Guangdong."

"That's probably the problem." Gong Changyu boldly speculated.

"Why?" Jing Zhigang was a little puzzled.

"Think about it, the Blue Wolf Army infiltrated Wuyou City so easily, and quickly found the treasury silver in the county office, even if it was transported away. Without internal response, how do they know the situation of the city's defenses? Gong Changyu kicked over a box, "There are tens of thousands of taels of silver in this underground palace, all of which are gone, don't you think this is very strange?" ”

"General Gong, it's good for you to make it clear, I can't keep up with your thinking." Jing Zhigang held the seal in his hand and tore it up.

"Let's go, now we'll go to the antique shop." Gong Changyu suggested.

"That's all there is to it." Jing Zhigang nodded in agreement, "It seems that the food money of the dozens of people in the River Fish Pavilion is going to be blank again today." ”

"Don't worry about it for now. Anyway, it's not the first time you've eaten and drunk for nothing. Gong Changyu said with a smile.

"General, you're making fun of your own officer." Jing Zhigang said.

"Let's go, let's go up, Mr. Yin may not be able to wait on it." Gong Changyu said. So the two walked out of the underground palace......

Back in the iron-walled house, Mr. Yin sat at the door and fell asleep. Gong Changyu stepped forward and patted Mr. Yin gently: "Old man, we're back." ”

"Hmm." Mr. Yin opened his eyes and saw Gong Changyu two empty-handed, so he quickly got up, "General, where is the silver?" ”

"I'm sorry. We didn't find a tael of silver. Gong Changyu said with a wry smile.

"Didn't Lord Jing say that there was a lot of silver, why is there no more?" Mr. Yin said.

"Sir, the silver has been exchanged." Jing Zhigang said.

"Does anyone have that much ability?" Mr. Yin said.

"There are only two possibilities, either there is a ghost in the county office, or the shopkeeper of the antique shop is a spy of the Blue Wolf Army." Jing Zhigang stretched out two fingers.

"Lord Jing. Haven't you thought about the third possibility? Mr. Yin smiled.

"Nope." Jing Zhigang said that he couldn't help but think of the only son who defected to the Blue Wolf Army.

Jing Zhigang's son is called Jing Dapeng, 20 years old, he doesn't like to study, he doesn't like to practice martial arts, he is proficient in eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and he goes to Duliang Gambling House the most, and he loses a few thousand taels of silver overnight, which is not a matter at all. Because of his mother's doting, all the calligraphy and paintings that could be sold in the palace were stolen and sold by him, and he won the true biography of Jing Zhigang. Jing Zhigang let his son study and gain fame, but Jing Dapeng didn't have him at all. For this reason, Jing Zhigang used family law to beat him to the point that his skin was torn apart, and he was forced to sever the relationship between father and son.

Jing Dapeng left the palace in a fit of rage, rented a room at the "Wulingchun" inn on the side of "Xuanfeng Building", and fooled around with a rich fourth aunt who had a dead husband. As soon as Jing Zhigang left the palace, he would take a group of fox friends and dog friends home to rummage through boxes and cabinets to find silver. As soon as Jing Dapeng saw that the Blue Wolf Army had entered Wuyou City, he actually took the fourth aunt and his group of friends to defect to the Blue Wolf Army, which caught Jing Zhigang off guard.

Therefore, when Gong Changyu recovered Wuyou City to pursue the defeated blue wolf army, he stopped Gong Changyu in time, which was selfish. Jing Dapeng was in that blue wolf army, letting his son have a way to survive and giving him a chance to introspect. What made Jing Zhigang even more unexpected was that a month later, Jing Dapeng gained an inch and actually became a brigade commander under Shi Xianda, and took Shi Xianda to besiege Wuyou City.

"Lord Jing, Ling Lang participated in the Blue Wolf Army, this is an indisputable fact." Mr. Yin said, "Now there is no silver, and it has nothing to do with Ling Lang." ”

"Old man, tens of thousands of taels have evaporated from the underground palace, it shouldn't be the power of one person." Gong Changyu analyzed, "The Blue Wolf Army entered my Baocheng Mansion in March, absorbing a lot of unemployed vagrants into the team, and planning to turn Wuyou City into a second stone city. This is what the general is most worried about, we want people without people, we want silver without silver, we want grain and grass without grain and grass. After the blue wolf army entered the city, they robbed a lot of silver taels and grain and grass, and the general was not good at collecting grain and grass. Most of the rice shops in the city have been looted, and within seven days, there will be a famine in Wuyou City. ”

"There is no end to it, General. The old man has a plan, he can give it a try, and maybe he can solve the problem of food shortage. Mr. Yin said.

"Sir, please." Gong Changyu extinguished the torch and walked out of the iron-walled house.

"We started with those rich people and bought a batch of rice from Chenzhou as soon as possible...... Mr. Yin said. The three of them left the palace, got on an ox cart, and went to the county office......

Sure enough, three days later, many citizens had no rice left in their homes, and the famine seriously threatened the people of Wuyou City. Jing Zhigang sent someone to find Gong Changyu to discuss. In order to save the disaster, Gong Changyu decided to adopt Mr. Yin's strategy, reached out to the rich to ask for money, and used silver to help the victims.

Gong Changyu is a general of the imperial court, and he can't do the business of robbing homes and houses, killing the rich and helping the poor. Gong Changyu brought 100 soldiers to the county government, posted a proclamation in a high-sounding manner, declaring that he wanted to worship the god of water, and invited all the gentry in Wuyou County to the Weixi River Fish Restaurant for a banquet, but in fact he wanted the nobles to raise donations.

Gong Changyu announced in public: Those who donated money will be given a plaque of "Kindness and Charity" on the spot to show recognition. Those who do not donate money will be issued a plaque that reads "For the Rich, Not Benevolent", stipulating that it should be hung on the door of the house and not allowed to take it off, and the local security guards are also instructed to inspect it.

"General Gong, now that we don't have any silver, can we make up the donation?" A gentleman asked.

"Yes. As long as you donate the money to the county government within three days, General Ben will not give you a plaque that reads "For the Rich and Unkind." Now you're all lined up. Those who brought money stood on the right, and those who did not bring it stood on the left. Gong Changyu waved his hand, Zhu Rongchu moved out a table, sat down at the door of the River Fish Restaurant, took out a roster, opened it, and began to roll call.

"Deng Qian!" Zhu Rongchu took the pen and ink and shouted.

"Yes." A middle-aged man with lips as long as Zhu Bajie and big ears raised his hands and ran up.

"Deng Yuanwai, how much do you donate?" Zhu Rongchu asked with a smile.

Deng Qian looked back at the hundreds of people in the lobby, all of them looking at him. He scratched his head and thought, I only brought five taels of silver today, I can't donate them all, or I have to walk back to Deng's shop.

He fumbled through his money bag for a long time, then took out some silver, put it on the table, and muttered, "That's all, quartermaster." ”