Chapter 183

Xu Zhi returned to the palace full of resentment, and after discussing countermeasures with Wang Yue Fan Heng, not only did he not let the matter be resolved, but he became even more troubled.

Wang Yue shook his hand and asked Fan Heng to find a way with himself, although Fan Heng angrily scolded Wang Yue for his unrighteousness, but he was not merciless in the apportionment of money and goods, in view of the fact that there were only more than 100,000 taels of silver left in the inner transport warehouse, in order to make up the 500,000 taels, Wang Yue symbolically took out 50,000 taels, Fan Heng took out 150,000 taels, and the remaining 300,000 taels all fell on Xu Zhi's head.

Xu Zhi turned the eight generations of Wang Yue and Fan Heng's ancestors upside down, and he took the least, only five or six hundred thousand taels of silver in the past seven or eight years, and as far as he knew, Wang Yue had at least one million taels in his hands, while Fan Heng had more, no less than one and a half million yuan fell into his own pocket.

Take Wang Yue's birthday at the end of the seventeenth year of Hongzhi as an example, spending a lot of money for more than ten days, inviting the troupe to banquet guests, and spending more than 100,000 taels of silver for various greetings and entertainments, all of which were filled into the official account of the Internal Affairs Office under various names; And Fan Heng embezzled tens of thousands of taels every year in the winter of Dongchang to change equipment and weapons.

A pair of boots, purchased by the shop outside for less than three dollars, became three taels of silver a pair in the account of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, more than ten times more; There are more than 3,000 people in the Yamen of Dongchang, each of whom changes two pairs, which is a balance of 13,400; No matter what underwear, hats, blades, food, wear, and travel, all these uses, when it comes to the account, they all turn over a few heels and run up, and a lot of silver falls into their pockets.

The silver swallowed in it is now going to be taken out, it is like cutting meat, Xu Zhi is even more wronged, he didn't catch much in total, but he was asked to bear most of the silver, and the anger in his heart can be imagined.

In a secluded alley in Yongfang, outside the Imperial City of Xiyuan, Xu Zhi's outer house is located there, there are not many people who know the Tao here, on the surface it is just an ordinary family's house, when buying this house, Xu Zhi also called his cousin to come forward, in order to prevent anyone from knowing.

Xu Zhi entered the house, came to the firewood room in the backyard with the candlestick alone, stretched out his hand to play in the dark under the ear wall, and after a few rattling sounds, a hole appeared in the ear wall, Xu Zhi bent down and got into it with the candlestick, climbed the steps, reached out on the flat ground and lit the lamp on the wall with a candle, and the secret room suddenly shone brightly.

On the rows of wooden shelves, trays of silver ingots were placed on the shelves, for they had not been touched for a long time, and they were covered with dust and cobwebs.

Xu Zhi looked at the silver in the room, his heart was like a knife, this silver was moved out by himself after so many years of hard work in the palace, and the small silver ingot in the back was still cast in the early years of Hongzhi, almost twenty years have passed, and he is not willing to use it; Xu Zhi's greatest comfort is not to spend silver, but whenever he enters the secret room and looks at these silver, his heart seems to be injected with a force, he will stay here and talk to the silver, and use them as his own children.

Now, these baby bumps in their hearts are going to be sent out, a total of more than 400,000 taels of savings, and they plan to go out of the palace to find a place to buy a Zhuangzi for the elderly in the future, and now, decades of struggle have basically come to naught.

300,000 taels of silver, just sent out for nothing, and the matter is far from over, Liu Jin threatened that the 500,000 taels of silver may not be enough, if Liu Jin wants silver again, Wang Yue and Fan Heng will still let themselves go out, then all their family funds will be gone.

Xu Zhi's heart ached, old tears moistened his eyes, twitched the muscles on his face and scolded angrily: "Fan Heng, Wang Yue, you two old gelding dogs are too unrighteous, obviously they have made the most money, but they hit Lao Tzu with the idea, I will fuck your ancestors of the eighteenth generation." ”

Xu Zhi also knew in his heart that he could only promise them, although the Imperial Horse Supervisor was also a powerful department of the Inner Court, and the nominal boss Rite Supervisor was not allowed to lead the Imperial Horse Supervisor, but the actual situation was not the case, the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Celebrant Supervisor were still small compared to each other, if it weren't for the three thousand feather forest army in his hands, he was afraid that he would not be qualified to follow Wang Yue and Fan Heng at all like the leaders of the other Inner Eunuch Yamen.

Now I regret it a little, I followed these two guys, and in the end, I still suffered by myself, and these two old geldings would never suffer by themselves.

Xu Zhimu stood for a long time, moved his heavy steps and reluctantly looked back at the room full of silver, early tomorrow morning, he will send someone to carry the silver into the palace, since then the house is more than half empty, and his heart is also empty.

Blowing out the lamp in the secret room, Xu Zhi walked out of the secret room with the candlestick, his figure was much older, silently closed the door of the firewood room, and walked along the path to the bedroom; The breeze blew, the flame of the candle flame jumped a few times, and suddenly, something in front of him emitted a dazzling flash, only for a moment, Xu Zhi felt a chill on his neck, and a voice sounded in his ears: "Don't move, don't make a sound, otherwise a sword will kill you." ”

Xu Zhi was so frightened that he fell down the candlestick in his hand, and a black shadow copied the candlestick with a neat hand, and stuffed it into Xu Zhi's hand, and another voice said with a smile: "Father-in-law Xu, you can take the candlestick, but you can't see the way clearly." ”

Xu Zhi took a cool breath and looked up, a man and a woman stood in front of him, the woman was very beautiful, but there was a bad breath between her eyebrows, holding a short sword resting on her neck, the corners of her mouth were curved upward, and her face was cold; Looking at the appearance of the other person again, Xu Zhi almost screamed.

"You...... You're not...... Song ......" Xu Zhi pointed to the man in black and said.

Song Nan stretched out his hand and sighed on his lips and said with a smile: "Father-in-law Xu, in the quiet night, it's better not to make a loud noise, lest someone slipped and cut your old neck." ”

Xu Zhi exclaimed: "You, what do you want?" ”

Song Nan said with a smile: "Let's go into the house to talk, although the firewood room is not a good place to entertain guests, but I, Song Nan, don't pay attention to these, so I will forgive you for this faux pas." ”

Song Nan stretched out his hand, grabbed Xu Zhi's arm, pulled Xu Zhi into the firewood room, closed the door, reached out and moved two broken chairs in the pile of debris, and sat on the broken chair with a squeaky sound.

"Father-in-law Xu, this is your outer house, do you want me, an outsider, to be polite to you?"

Xu Zhi licked his lips, glanced at the inseparable short sword, and bent down to sit down.

Song Nan said with a smile: "Father-in-law Xu, you and I often meet in the palace, and I have long wanted to visit Father-in-law Xu, but you are in a high position, and we have no chance at all." No, I came to visit in the middle of the night, and I climbed over the wall of your two-zhang high backyard and came in, which was rude, and I looked at Haihan. ”

Xu Zhi calmed down and said in a deep voice: "Song Qianhu, you are indeed extremely rude, you entered my house in the middle of the night and put a knife on our neck, are you still a court official?" It's like a bandit who robs a house. ”

Song Nan said with a smile: "That's right, it's like a pair of snitches entering the house, but even if we are snitches, we are robbing the rich and helping the poor, and we are doing things for the heavens, and your father-in-law Xu is even more unbearable than us, so don't pretend." ”

Xu Zhi said angrily: "Presumptuous, if our family tells the emperor about this matter, you are afraid that the whole family will be beheaded, and you don't know what is dead or alive, but our family has always been kind to others, and we will not hold you accountable, are you short of money, our family can fund you for dozens of taels of silver, don't do such things in the future, but not everyone is as easy to talk as I am." ”

Song Nan patted his leg and smiled: "Affection Father-in-law Xu really treats us as a thief who robs the house, okay, even if it is, but a few dozen taels of silver can't send us away." ”

Xu Zhidao: "How much do you want?" Don't be greedy, I'm just an errand boy in the palace, but I don't have any oil and water, you're looking for the wrong way. ”

Song Nan stretched out three fingers and said, "This number." ”

"Three hundred taels? Cheng, our family still has three hundred taels of silver. ”

Song Nan smiled and shook his head.

"Three thousand taels? This is too much, Song Qianhu, our family knows that you are working errands outside, and there is no oil and water, but you can't be an official during the day and a thief at night, three thousand taels I have to smash the pot and sell iron. ”

Song Nan didn't answer, and shook his head again.

"Thirty thousand?" Xu Zhitou shook like a rattle, and said angrily: "Toad yawns, you have such a big breath, you should kill me." ”

Song Nan shook his head and said, "Wrong, it's not 30,000, it's 300,000." ”

Song Nan got up and stretched out his hand to grope in the recess of the corner of the wall, and the secret door Grara rose, revealing the hole in the secret room, and Xu Zhi opened his mouth and froze.

"Don't say you don't have it, don't say that you are poor, there are always four or five hundred thousand taels of silver here, and I only need three hundred thousand taels, which is cheap for you."

Xu Zhi's face turned pale and said, "You...... How do you know the way...... This secret room? ”

Song Nan said with a smile: "I've been a night owl for several days in a row, and Grandpa Xu really loves silver, and he must come once a day, I don't know if I can't do it." ”

Xu Zhi was dizzy, this guy actually came to his house every night, but everyone in the family didn't notice anything, he must have come to the secret room and was secretly watched by him.

"I not only know that you have hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in this secret room, but I also know how you got this silver, after so many years of being a mouse carrying silver from the inner warehouse, you are not too hard, nor are you too long, your death is coming." Song Nan sneered continuously, and every sentence pierced into Xu Zhi's heart like a cone.