Chapter 400: The Secret Room Account Book
Away from the ruins, Wangzhou City.
In a courtyard in the City Lord's Mansion, Yin Zhongyong was angrily grabbing a maid's hair, and with the other hand, he pressed the maid to the edge of the bed, standing on the edge of the bed desperately doing indescribable movements.
The maid bit her lip tightly, not daring to make a sound, let alone resisting. Drops of hot tears fell silently down the maid's face.
"Senior sister, you will be mine sooner or later!" Yin Zhongyong said excitedly while exercising violently.
After a while, Yin Zhongyong finally stopped moving in a trembling voice.
Drinking ordered the maid in front of him to dress himself and pants, Yin Zhongyong pushed the maid out again.
The maid was pushed out of the room in rags, and just as she was bumped into a person.
"Ah............. Master! I'm ..........." As soon as the maid looked up, she saw that the person she had just hit was actually the city lord Yin Xiwang.
"Hmph, disheveled, what kind of body!" Yin Xiwang was immediately furious. However, he knew his son's temperament, and expected that this time it was his son who was harming the maid.
"Please forgive me!" The maid was startled, and she didn't care about the clothes that had not been sorted out, so she immediately knelt on the ground with a "bang", kowtowing to Yin Xiwang and begging for mercy.
Yin Xiwang didn't say anything, but made a face at the two guards behind him, and then pushed the door and entered Yin Zhongyong's courtyard.
Behind him, two guards stepped forward. A guard slapped his palm on the top of the maid's head who was kneeling on the ground, and instantly shattered the maid's heavenly spirit cover. Then the two guards picked up the maid's body and walked towards the middle of nowhere.
After a short time, the two turned back and stood on both sides of Yin Zhongyong's courtyard gate.
However, this scene was clearly seen by a pair of eyes in a corner not far away.
Yin Xiwang entered Yin Zhongyong's courtyard, where Yin Zhongyong was sitting on a stool drinking peach wine.
"The boy has seen his father!" Yin Zhongyong saw that it was his father Yin Xiwang who came in, and quickly stood up.
"You kid, the third princess is now in Wangzhou City, what are you doing here? Are you afraid that the third princess won't find out? Yin Xiwang's face was still full of anger.
"Father, I'm ............" Yin Zhongyong was speechless for a while, and his face changed greatly. However, in an instant, he returned to normal: "This City Lord's Mansion has blessed the formation, and people outside will not easily find out what is going on in the Mansion.............."
"Hmph, if you don't want people to know, you can't do it unless you do! Although you and the third princess are sisters and brothers, don't forget, the third princess has a more noble identity! If you want to gain the favor of the third princess, be honest with me!" Yin Xiwang said sharply.
"Yes, my father taught me!" Yin Zhongyong nodded hurriedly.
"How's the Lingshi Mine's accounts doing?"
"Father, don't worry, I have done everything seamlessly, although the third princess is extremely shrewd, she will definitely not find any problems!"
"Well, then I'm relieved. This spirit stone mine is the most important resource in Wangzhou City, and it is also the most important vein in the Eastern Continent Kingdom, and it also involves dozens of cultivators, large and small. We've been playing with fire all these years, and I'm worried about ................"
"Father, don't worry, hasn't he been safe and sound all these years?" Yoon Jung-yong comforted.
"I'm worried about .............. The appetite of the Northern Wilderness Realm is getting bigger and bigger, and the requirements are getting higher and higher............. I'm afraid that if we continue like this for a long time, one day we won't be able to satisfy the appetite of the Northern Wilderness............... When the time comes, I'm afraid that those people will turn their faces and deny people!" Yin Xiwang said worriedly.
"Father doesn't have to worry too much, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and the three princesses can't stay in Wangzhou City all the time............... Besides, after a while, I will take down the third princess, and then it will become a family, even if the third princess finds a problem, it will ............." Yin Zhongyong said confidently.
The reason why Yin Zhongyong is so confident is because the royal family of the Eastern Continent Kingdom has always had a rule, that is, the princess of the royal family will not marry. The people married by the princess were all the sons of high-ranking officials and nobles in the East Road country, or people from the Xiuzhen sect in the East Continent country.
Yin Zhongyong almost met the above two conditions at the same time, so ten years ago he had a plan to marry the third princess back to Wangzhou City.
So, Yin Zhongyong managed to worship the third princess and became the third princess's fellow disciple.
The third princess originally planned to stay in Wangzhou City for half a month, but in the past two days, she found something unusual.
It turned out that when Ma Fan cooperated with the third princess to check the accounts, with his years of experience in the management of the spirit stone mine, he keenly found that the number of spirit stones produced by the spirit stone mine in Wangzhou City was extremely inconsistent with the scale of the mine.
Under Ma Fan's reminder, the third princess also found the problem, that is, in the past ten years, the output of this spirit stone mine has been declining every year, although the decline is very weak, but compared with the output ten years ago, it has also dropped by three percent.
By comparing the mine ten years ago with the current mine cave, the third princess soon found that the scale of the mine has hardly changed in the past ten years, and the trend of the spirit stone mine has also shown a relatively regular stability, and no signs of the failure of the spirit stone mine have been found.
The third princess knew in her heart that this spirit stone mine had always been presided over by the city lord of Wangzhou City, and if there was a problem, this Yin Xiwang would definitely not be able to get rid of it. In order not to startle the snake, the third princess decided to conduct a secret investigation of the spirit stone mine.
However, for so many years, the accounts of the Wangzhou City Spirit Stone Mine have been in the hands of Yin Xiwang, and it is almost impossible for him to quietly investigate.
After thinking about it, the third princess finally decided to find a helper.
That's Ma Fan.
Although Ma Fan has not been with him for a long time, the third princess already has an inexplicable trust in Ma Fan.
"The third princess is preparing to conduct a secret investigation?" After Ma Fan heard the third princess's intentions clearly, he asked bluntly.
"Yes, you reminded me this time. Under your reminder, I looked through the production records of the spirit stone mine in the past ten years, and finally found some problems. ”
"And how are you going to investigate secretly?" Ma Fan looked at the three princesses in front of him, and the glamorous image of the three princesses who saw the true face of the three princesses that day came to his mind again.
"This is a huge task, after all, the most direct evidence now ---- the account books are not with me, of course, I am talking about real accounts, not fake account books that have been designed."
"You want the account books of the City Lord's Mansion?" Marfan asked.
"Yes! However............. "The third princess is in trouble, and she really doesn't know how to get this real account book."
"As long as you can find out where the account books of the City Lord's Mansion are kept, I will definitely be able to find them for you!" Ma Fan patted his chest and said with an oath.
"Really?" The eyes of the three princesses lit up.
"The little ones don't dare to talk nonsense!" Marfan nodded and said with great certainty.
"Wait for my news!" The third princess said.
After Ma Fan retreated, the third princess found a way to contact the eyeliner she had planted in the city lord's mansion.
This eyeliner was placed in the City Lord's Mansion by the third princess a few years ago, and the original purpose was to grasp more information, but now it really comes in handy.
A few hours later, the third princess's eyes reported back about the location where the account books in the city lord's mansion might be hidden.
One place is under the lotus pond in the city lord's mansion, and there is a secret room underneath, but it is all protected by the formation, so the eyeliner can't confirm the specific situation inside.
Another place is the bedroom of the city lord Yin Xiwang. There is a secret room underneath this bedroom, but it is still blessed with a formation.
If there are no two places, then there is only one last possibility, and the account books are hidden in Yin Xiwang's storage bag.
With Yin Xiwang's status, it is absolutely impossible to have a storage ring. But Yin Xiwang has a storage bag that he always carries with him.
"That's a problem.............. When I went out this time, I didn't bring a cultivator who was proficient in the formation with me........... And Yin Xiwang's storage bag, outsiders can't know what is inside..............." The third princess frowned. After thinking about it for a long time, I finally decided to tell Ma Fan about the result.
"Don't worry, the third princess, it's just a formation, I'll try to crack it............" Ma Fan looked at the third princess's frowning brows, and for some reason there was a thought in his heart that he wanted to share his worries for this woman.
"You............ Can you even break the formation? The third princess couldn't believe it at first, but she suddenly remembered that before the attack in the Dark Coffin Gorge that day, it was Ma Fan who first discovered the existence of a formation in front of the passage, so she reminded her in time, which prevented her side from being suddenly attacked.
"The third princess just rest assured, if there are really real account books in these two secret rooms, I will definitely get them for you!" Ma Fan Dao.
The third princess looked at the handsome bookkeeper in front of her, and she couldn't understand it for a while.
However, it doesn't hurt to let Ma Fan try, what if this guy really has any unexpected gains?
Ma Fan returned to his room, laid out an isolation formation, and then took out the miniature flying saucer from the Mixed Yuan Ring.
After realizing the consciousness connection with the satellite flying saucer, Ma Fan's consciousness moved, and the flying saucer quietly flew out of the window, quickly rose to a height of 1,000 meters, and then released telemetry rays.
Almost instantly, the miniature flying saucer sent back telemetry images of the entire City Lord's Mansion.
Ma Fan accurately found the location of the lotus pond in the city lord's mansion and Yin Xiwang's bedroom, and then consciously controlled the miniature flying saucer to continue to detect these two places.
"Formation?" Ma Fan quickly sensed the blessed formations in these two places.
"Hehe, it's just a Xuan-level sixth-order formation, and this level formation can undoubtedly only play the role of "there are no silver three hundred taels here"! Ma Fan smiled.
The telemetry rays easily passed through the protection of the formation and entered the secret chamber.
At this time, the protective formation of the secret room was unaware of this invisible ray.
The miniature flying saucer soon revealed the inside of the two secret chambers.
The secret room under the lotus pond is hundreds of square meters, which is filled with a large number of gold, silver, jewelry, jade, and spirit stones, in addition to countless antiques, calligraphy and paintings. But Ma Fan did not find any traces of the account books.