Chapter 239: Old Fox
This uncle has become Zhuang Siyan's breakthrough, but Old Man Luo sealed this mouth again with a word.
"Hey, I also went, it was the first two years, I made a big deal, I went out with money and people, and I didn't come back."
Zhuang Siyan turned his head and looked at him bitterly, and didn't pick up the words for a while.
The Locke family has seen all the rooms they can see, but they haven't found any clues, and Zhuang Siyan didn't stay there, so he came back after a lunch.
When he came back, he locked himself in his room and began to draw on paper with a pen.
She almost wrote down the topography of Luo's Mansion after walking through it, and after sketching out the general shape, she began to wonder if Luo Ke would bury the silver in the ground when he rebuilt the courtyard.
Soon denied himself.
If that batch of silver was really in Luo's Mansion, after so many years, it was impossible for Old Man Luo not to think of this, and it could be heard from what he said that he was also very concerned about the reconstruction of Luo's Mansion.
Maybe he wouldn't have doubted it if he hadn't heard about the silver back then, but now that this matter has been spread, maybe he has already been moved, and it is not certain whether he has dug it or not.
Thinking of this, Zhuang Siyan suddenly realized that the messy surface of the Luo Mansion may not be caused by outsiders at all, or it may not be the Luo family.
They are just using the power of outsiders to cover up their intentions, so have they dug up anything?
There is also the very business-doing and shrewd Uncle Luo, who was also very coincidental when he died.
Two years ago? The first two years were when Zhuang Changyuan's affairs were exposed, and Ling Tiancheng began to focus his attention on them, could it be that Luo Ke guessed that he would have such a day at that time, so he arranged everything in advance?
So is Uncle Luo really dead, or has he escaped elsewhere in the name of death, is that batch of silver also related to him?
Zhuang Siyan marked out this line and showed it to Wen Qing to check, and the next day she went to Luo's Mansion again.
Old Man Luo did not come out to receive her warmly like yesterday, but said that he was unwell and needed to rest, so he called a new housekeeper of Luo's Mansion to take Zhuang Siyan around.
Zhuang Siyan didn't mind, and while walking casually, he gossiped with the new housekeeper: "The old patriarch was fine yesterday, why is he unwell today?" ”
New housekeeper: "The weather is cold, and it has cooled down again in the past two days, and the patriarch is a little old, and there are some people who can't get up from the cold." ”
The lines are so fluent, it's right at first glance.
What is too much of a comparison of lines is that the place where Old Man Luo took her yesterday can't take her there today, so he only took a cursory walk around a few courtyards and sat in the main hall caused by Zhuang Siyan.
Fortunately, Zhuang Siyan also used the identity of an official, otherwise it would not be new to look at the housekeeper's appearance and drive her out.
There is a problem with Luo's Mansion, Zhuang Siyan has already seen it all yesterday, she didn't plan to rewatch it again when she came today, she just wanted to talk to Old Man Luo, since he is gone, it confirms this even more.
But this time, there were two people when Zhuang Siyan came, but when she went back, she was the only one.
When the housekeeper sent her to the door, he asked as if he had suddenly remembered something, "Mr. Si, why is that entourage of yours missing?" ”
Zhuang Siyan said "oh": "Something happened at home just now, he went back to see first, and the housekeeper stayed." ”
When I went back, I saw Ah Si, who had an accident, was in Old Man Luo's house at this time, and hid under his bed.
Under the bed of the old man, the smell was really bad, although the old man Luo was a big family, and the bedroom was often cleaned up, but he still choked his nose.
In addition, Ah Si was sturdy, and he climbed out quickly while he was out of the stall, so he heard him ask the housekeeper who had come back outside.
"Gone?"
The housekeeper responded: "Let's go, patriarch, I think this Mr. Si is very strange, what do you think she is going to do when she comes to our house?" ”
Old Man Luo snorted: "What to do?" It's not for the batch of silver, I don't know if there is silver. If you want to say that Luo Ke is a kid, he has a lot of hearts and eyes, for so many years, he has so much silver hidden in his hands, and he can't hide it, even we don't say it, and now that others are dead, they leave a bane here.
If you can really find the silver, it's fine, if you can't find it, the eyes that got the news outside can make the Luo Mansion die without a place to be buried. ”
The housekeeper is the confidant of Old Man Luo, and then his words said: "Looking at the current situation, most of it is true. ”
Old Man Luo was silent for a while, sighed again, and then gritted his teeth and said: "Even if there is really this silver, Luo Ke will leave it to his wife and children, and he will not think of the Luo family." ”
The housekeeper chuckled: "Patriarch, as long as the silver comes out, it is Mrs. Luo's, or yours, and it's not up to you to decide."
Oh yes, the people who followed them replied, in addition to our people staring at Mrs. Luo, there was also Wang Ziming staring. ”
"Wang Ziming? What does this have to do with him? From Old Man Luo's voice, I could hear that he was surprised and angry.
The next thing was the Wang family's scolding, and Ah Si heard it for a while.
These old men of wealthy families swear swearing, but they are much more energetic than these rough people in the rivers and lakes, and they can say anything, and even the eighteenth generation of their ancestors have dug out of the cemetery and greeted them one by one.
Before Old Man Luo returned to the room, he bypassed him and went out from the door again, and then followed the housekeeper directly.
Probably because the tree fell and the monkey Sun San, the housekeeper said one thing in front of Old Man Luo, and when he turned his face and said another thing to others.
It's still silver, but it's not the same as Old Man Luo.
He decided that the silver was in the house, so he took his cronies and found someone to control the wind at the door of Old Man Luo, so he went to the yard and began to dig.
Starting from Fengyuan, after turning over Luo Ke's original study again, he began to plow the ground.
It was really dug by them, and there were some scattered pieces of silver hidden in the mezzanine of the walls of the people.
As soon as they dug the wall open, the silver fell out, and it was only about a hundred and ten taels, but this amount was enough for the steward to see the money.
If he really can't dig a point, maybe he will die after digging Fengyuan, but now that there is white silver in front of him, it is difficult to stop him with a knife.
So Ah Si followed behind them, watching them take advantage of Old Man Luo's sleep at night and almost dig down the entire Luo Mansion.
In addition to the housekeeper, there are other people in Luo's Mansion, these people used to be raised by Luo Ke, and the money and land were all purchased by him, but now that Luo Ke is dead, although the land is still theirs, but the living money is much less.
At first glance, when they heard that there was silver, everyone would be tempted, and they could dig up a piece of land in their own circles.
Ah Si took a turn in Luo's Mansion, and when he came out at dawn, he reported to Zhuang Siyan: "That silver may really not be in Luo's Mansion, it has been hollowed out there, and no one has found it." ”
Zhuang Siyan looked at his somewhat dark eyes and laughed: "Are you still there watching them dig the ground all night?" ”
Ah Si hung his head a little shyly: "What if they dig it out?" ”
Zhuang Siyan laughed: "How is it possible, you really don't know what you do when you are Old Man Luo?" Even if he didn't know before, then now in the middle of the night, the whole house is digging the ground and planing the walls, there is always a sound coming out, is he not deaf, will he not be able to hear? ”
Speaking of this, he asked Ah Si again: "By the way, did you go to see him again before you came back, what is the movement, that old man." ”
Ah Si said: "Lying on the bed and sleeping, as if dead, motionless, I'm afraid that it really won't work, go over and see, people are fine." ”
"This old man is not simple, you should follow him carefully and see what he is going to do next."
Ah Si received the order, and he didn't care about resting, so he went to Luo's Mansion again.
Here, Zhuang Siyan had already opened the account book that he brought back from Luo's Mansion.
Luo Ke is too careful and cunning, he will not hide the silver in a place where others can think of it, even if others can think of it, it will not be so easy to find.
He is such a shrewd person, his family was not rich since he was a child, but his uncle grew up and sent him to study, and later he had success in his career.
Even if he is a person who knows how to repay his kindness, I am afraid that he will only repay his uncle, and it makes no sense to say that even the entire family should bring it.
He has raised Luofu for so many years without complaint or regret, buying fields and building houses for them, is it just to make them embarrassed for their wives and children today?
It doesn't make sense, and Luo Ke's temperament is cooler than normal people, and he won't be so good to people easily.
It is likely that these people have been being used by him for so many years.
Now Zhuang Siyan can only use these to peel off another layer of Luo Ke's skin to see what he is hiding.
Those farm houses are all over the inside and outside of Yang City, and there are dozens of houses and shops in Yang City alone, and the strange thing is that there are very few of his clansmen who live outside, and they can't go out of Luo Mansion.
There are countless fields outside Yangcheng, and there is even a mountain inside the field with large fruit trees planted on it.
The others are not in Yangcheng, but they get most of the property here, and they don't use their own names, and they are evenly distributed to the leaders of the clan.
The advantage of doing this is that even if he checks his accounts from above, nothing will happen, as long as it is not a major crime of the Nine Clans, his people will be safe and worry-free, and they will be able to keep these things.
It is estimated that Luo Ke also said it in the open back then, so those people were still very obedient to him.
But these places are very likely to be the places where he hides the silver, but there are too many, and Zhuang Siyan's family has to check and plane piece by piece, not to mention how old and then there will be results, I am afraid that as soon as she makes a move, others will not be able to sit still, and when the time comes, there will be a fire, but she will not be able to do anything.
She still firmly believes that Mrs. Luo will know the news, and Old Man Luo may have guessed a little, but now that everyone is busy looking for it, he is still waiting for the final result.
Zhuang Siyan finished flipping through the account book, put it away again, got up and called Qing Ran outside, and went out with him.
"Let's go, let's go see your brother, there has been no news for the past few days, is it too annoying to look at the pair of orphans and widows every day, why don't you just find a place to sleep?"
Qing Ran replied decently: "He didn't dare." ”