But the size of the inside and outside of the food box is almost the same, and it doesn't look like there is a mezzanine. Besides, this is too child's play, how can anyone hide the deadly treasure in the commonly used food box? Even if it is not discovered by the careful maids, it is easy to bump into it and lose it.

Taking a step back, even if you really hide the Night Pearl, just ask Li Mobai to get the food box back. Why make such a fuss?

This Hou Ye's mind is too elusive. Zhang Wenxin has clearly realized the difference between himself and the Hou Mansion.

Murong Yanchang was confused, and his incoherent words were incomprehensible.

Pang Zi had no choice but to state the matter on her behalf, she sighed first, and her usual commanding spirit was also mixed with a hint of impatience:

"Alas! Son, ask your heart, I know that you will bring some gifts when you return to the door today. If you don't have enough money, you can tell me directly, how can you steal from your own treasury?

Not to mention the eight hundred taels of gold, the night pearl in the dark pavilion, but the tribute from Fanbang, given by the first emperor, has long been recorded in the palace, if it is bought and sold or lost, it is a blasphemy of holy relics, and the crime is the same as deceiving the king, this is a big crime of killing the head and being exiled......"

For the sincerity of his expression, two tears were squeezed out of the corners of Ponzi's eyes, and he gently wiped them with a silk handkerchief.

"Wait."

Zhang Wenxin finally understood: "Stepmother, do you mean...... The treasury of the house was stolen, and eight hundred taels of gold were lost, and there was a pearl of the royal night? ”

Pang Zi took the veil: "Exactly." This is no joke, take it out. ”

Zhang Wenxin stood up straight and said calmly: "I see. We didn't steal. ”

"You ......"

Murong Yanchang jumped like thunder: "It's the opposite!" It's the other way around! ”

Murong Yanchang really couldn't wait to call the family and lock the two of them. However, there was a night pearl among the lost items, which forced him to dare not expand the situation.

Although the family outside the door heard him scolding a few times, the master did not call, and they did not dare to approach rashly.

Under the eaves, Zhang Wenxin felt that it was still necessary for him to explain, so he said: "My husband and I just brought a box of snacks and went to Chang'an Fang today. As for the vault, it has not been there at all. ”

Murong Yanchang endured his anger and regained some of his senses: "Empty mouth and white teeth, how to prove it?" ”

Zhang Wenxin smiled: "It's easy, but it can't be done here, you have to go to the vault." Before I went, I had to work with the little guy at the door and tell him what he saw again. ”

Summoned the porter, Xuanping Hou let Zhang Wenxin ask him a few words, but he didn't say anything. At the end, I slapped a few times below, got up and left.

Ponzi straightened his sleeves and followed. Halfway through, Zhang Wenxin saw a maid passing by with a food box of about the same size, so he asked the family to take the plates inside and asked for the food box.

The vault is not far from the ancestral hall, and the house is guarded on all sides. When they saw that their master was coming, the two men who guarded the door stepped aside. Pang Zi took out the key to open the door, and several people entered the house one after another.

The walls of the vault were thicker than usual, dimly lit, and the windows were small, with a few doors only a foot square, all open on the front wall. The window can't climb into people, and the only entrance is the door. The door is made of iron plates, and the iron door and copper lock show no signs of damage.

The vault was stacked with silk, strange in the darkness, and on the other side were several chests of various sizes, with copper coins, silver, and some old-fashioned jewelry.

A few mahogany boxes were empty, and Mrs. Pang said that the eight hundred taels of gold ingots were originally hidden in these boxes.

Zhang Wenxin smiled and compared the food box with those boxes: "Eight hundred taels of gold, how can this food box fit?" ”

Murong Yanchang's face changed slightly, he hadn't considered the details. However, he was not a willing to give up, snorted coldly, and said: "This food box is too small, if you change it to a big one, you can hold ......"

Zhang Wenxin didn't argue, and said, "Then please ask your father to let someone bring a big one." ”

Murong Yanchang really gave an order to the outside world and sent a servant to run to fetch it.

The servant quickly went and returned, and when he brought the biggest one, he bowed his head and retreated.

Zhang Wenxin looked around a few times and found that there were no gold ingots in the vault, so he muttered for a while. This Hou Mansion Zhong Ming Ding Food, is it just gold and jade, ruined in it, slapping a swollen face and becoming fat, in fact, this is all there is to it?

was about to use silver to make do with it, but at this time, Mrs. Pang, under the instruction of Murong Yanchang, walked to a row of Duobaoge with incense burners, porcelain, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and after some groping, the Duobaoge was divided from the middle and made way for a door.

The mechanism is flexible and should be activated frequently, with only a slight grinding sound.

Zhang Wenxin picked up the food box, followed the person in front of him in, and after a glance, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

This house is the real vault.

Several cabinets are full of all kinds of curiosities, which are dazzling. I can't wait to give birth to a few more pairs of eyes to see enough.

On the other side, Murong Yanchang had already opened a few boxes casually, and Huang Chengcheng's gold suddenly shone brightly. There was a box that was opened incorrectly, but it was slowly a box of evenly rounded pearls, as big as a bird's egg.

Zhang Wenxin blinked his eyes, which were almost blinded, settled down, and began to fill the food box with gold ingots piece by piece. Holding it in his hand heavily, but not being able to keep it for himself, is really a great torture.

Murong Xi was very happy to see her demonstration, as if he was afraid of being robbed, so he let her do his work.

It was easy to fill, and Zhang Wenxin closed the lid of the food box. There was no one in the treasury, so they had to let Murong Yanchang and Pang Zi move it in person.

Murong Yanchang snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves, and went to pick up the food box. At the first mention, the food box seemed to take root, but it didn't move at all. He was no longer careless, riveted enough strength to lift it again, and the food box only moved a little, and wiped a lacquer mark on the ground. Mention it again, only to hear a crisp sound, and as soon as the mahogany handle was loosened, it was about to fall off.

Seeing this, Pang Zi came to help, and the old couple worked together, moving and lifting, and the food box finally left the ground, but the gold was too heavy after all, and there was a faint gap at the bottom of the food box.

The old couple sweated and sat down on the box to rest.

Zhang Wenxin had achieved his goal, and said briskly: "Eight hundred taels of gold is so heavy, how can I, or my husband, easily mention it?" Even if your hand doesn't break, you can't stand it. The vault was stolen, and I am afraid there was another reason. As for the pearl of the night...... I believe that with my father's wisdom and martial arts, he will definitely find it. The daughter-in-law retired, which does not prevent your second elder from looking for beads. ”

As he spoke, he took Murong Xi's hand and walked towards the outside of the vault.

The loss of the Night Pearl is a matter of great importance, and it is impossible for Xuanping Hou to report to the official even if he is killed. Zhang Wenxin suspected that even if there was no Night Pearl, just the theft of the eight hundred taels of gold, it would be impossible for Xuanping Hou to report to the official.

The back house of the dignified Hou Men and the wang clan allows officers and soldiers to come and go at will, after all, it is too embarrassing.

"Come back!"

The two of them had already left the dark pavilion and were about to leave, when they heard Murong Yanchang shout.

Zhang Wenxin stopped and turned around: "Dad, what else do you have to order?" ”

Murong Yanchang's throat rolled, and he suppressed a sullen stomach: "I heard that before you passed the door, you did a quick catch?" ”

Zhang Wenxin nodded: "Yes." ”

In fact, she also wants to continue to be her catcher in the future.

Murong Yanchang put on a straight face, still calmly put up the shelf, and said: "The ugliness of the family should not be publicized, since you have some means, you should thoroughly investigate this theft case, that imperial night pearl, you must find it." ”

is clearly begging someone to investigate the case, and he also puts on a high-minded posture.

However, Zhang Wenxin saw a lot, didn't care, thought for a while, and said: "It's not difficult to find the beads, but it's hard to say whether the beads are still in the house." In case the thieves have transferred the beads, and I can only go out of the gate, and I do not step through the door, where can I find out? ”

Murong Yanchang sighed as if he accepted his fate: "Benhou allows you to come and go at will for the time being, and you don't need to ask anyone for instructions." ”

Zhang Wenxin's eyes flicked down and said, "That's very good." But...... If I find the Pearl of the Night, how are you going to reward me? ”

"Presumptuous!"

Mrs. Pang was almost resting, and when she saw that her conscientious eyes fell on the eight hundred taels of gold in the food box, she almost took the case: "The night pearl is related to the lives of the people in the mansion, and since you have entered the door, it is naturally incumbent on you." Don't say that the beads have not been recovered, that is, they have been recovered, and the family is in the same breath, so how can we talk about rewards or not? ”

Murong Yanchang was a little more generous than Pang Zi, and he knew the priorities clearly, and reluctantly agreed: "If you find the Night Pearl, Benhou will be rewarded, but these eight hundred taels of gold will not work." ”

Zhang Wenxin shook his head lightly: "Dad, you misunderstood, gold is good, but a gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way." If it is not a sincere gift from the other party, but a person who takes advantage of the danger of grabbing it, it will be cumbersome to hold it in his hand. It's better for me to leave the house at any time, and come and go freely. ”

The gold never took a step away, but Pang Zi breathed a sigh of relief as if he had regained it, and he was also glad that Zhang Wenxin did not have a lion to open his mouth.

Murong Yanchang thought about it for a while, and returned the price on the spot: "Okay, just as you wish." But...... Before the time of the day, you must return home. ”

"Thank you, Dad."

Zhang Wenxin thought that he would be able to enter and exit openly in the future, his eyes were a lot more lively, and he didn't delay for a moment, and immediately started to investigate: "Before the theft, where was the Night Pearl placed?" ”

Pang Shi silently opened a cabinet against the wall, Murong Yanchang pointed to a space in the cabinet and said, "The wooden box containing the beads is hidden here, and now the beads and the wooden box are gone." ”

There are still a few compartments in the cabinet, and each compartment has one or two wooden boxes, and I don't know what kind of rare treasures are hidden.

Zhang Wenxin was thinking about it, and then heard Murong Yanchang say: "The entire vault, Ben Hou and his wife have seen it, the beads, together with the wooden box, and the eight hundred taels of gold outside, are indeed missing, not misplaced." ”

Zhang Wenxin walked to the cabinet and touched the compartment where the beads were placed before, there was a thin layer of ash in the lattice, but the center was spotless, vaguely the outline of a wooden box, the size of a palm.

She asked, "When was it stolen, and is it possible to be sure?" ”

Being asked back and forth, Pang Zi was full of displeasure, but he had to be patient, and replied originally: "Usually at the beginning of each month, I will receive money from the shop, and set aside a month's allowance from the master's money. All the surplus will be put in......"