Jia Lian's heart was full of suspicions, and he wanted to ask the reason, but Jia Chen was unparalleled in his wisdom and scheming, and he must have a subtle and complicated plan, so he didn't ask more, but he was a little embarrassed, and said with a dry smile:

"Brother Xian, should I report this matter to my father first and ask his opinion?"

Jia Chen smiled indifferently and said:

"Don't tell your uncle about this yet, I guess he won't necessarily agree, let's only cut it first and then play it for the sake of safety."

If it was before, Jia Lian would not hesitate to report to his father Jia Yu, but after getting along with each other for a few days, Jia Lian found that his father's strategies and methods were far inferior to Jia Chen.

Now listening to Jia Chen's answer, Jia Lian nodded thoughtfully, and took Jia Chen's words as a guideline, and did not disobey them.

"Okay, the virtuous brother is far-sighted and incomparably intelligent, and what he said must be reasonable, so do what the virtuous brother wants!"

Jia Lian readily agreed.

After that, he instructed a confidant to return to the Shenjing Rong Mansion to report the news, saying that Jia Yu was terminally ill and his time was running out, and he needed to take care of the aftermath as soon as possible.

After the entourage left, Jia Lian asked softly:

"Brother Xian, can you dig those big boxes out of the cellar? To be on the safe side, I think we'll have to move to an unknown place. ”

Jia Chen smiled:

"The hero sees the same thing, Second Brother Lian and I want to go together!"

Jia Lian asked:

"And where should we hide?"

Jia Chen whispered.

Jia Lian nodded again and again, called one of his subordinates, asked the other party to come over, and whispered:

"You go and call a few stern people, move the boxes out of the cellar together, bury them all in the backyard of the Jinling ancestral house, and block them with water tanks.

Take a few more people to guard day and night. ”

"Yes!" The men do what they do.

Jia Chen said:

"You also need to find a few large boxes that look exactly the same, put them in a room in the backyard, lock the door, and pretend to be guarded to confuse the line of sight and prevent others from knowing the exact location of the boxes."

Jia Lian exclaimed: "This is wonderful! ”

At this time, it was nearly three watches, and Jia Lian was still refreshed and in good spirits.

He sent people to dig a pit in the backyard of Jinling's ancestral house, and then led a few of his men to sneakily carry the boxes out of the cellar and transport them back into the dug pit.

In order to keep it secret, Jia Lian promised to give the subordinates who participated in burying the box a heavy reward of 50 taels each.

The subordinates benefited, all of them were beaming and energetic, and they were all cautious when burying the boxes.

After burying all the boxes, Jia Chen instructed everyone to lay a layer of green bricks on them, and put a few large water tanks on the green bricks.

Jia Lian instructed his subordinates to carefully remove and dump the soil dug out of the ground, and erase all traces left on the ground.

The men poured the excess dirt into the pond.

Jia Chen instructed them to carry a few identical empty boxes, deliberately pretending to be very heavy, and moving them into a room in the backyard, so as to spread suspicion and confuse the public.

Jia Lian said with a fierce face:

"You brothers supervise each other, if anyone dares to steal or leak news, I will kill him!"

"Please rest assured, we are all the second master's people, and our lives are in the hands of the second master, who dares to think crookedly?"

His subordinates spoke out and swore allegiance.

Jia Chen and Jia Lian went to see Jia Yu together and told each other the good news of digging up the treasure.

Jia Yu's old face smiled like a chrysanthemum, laughing like he was crazy.

Jia Lian didn't want to hide it, so he still told Jia Yu about his plan with Jia Chen.

Jia Yu was a little confused at first, but he was immersed in the ecstasy of making a fortune, and he didn't mind at all, agreeing to pretend that he was seriously ill and dying.

Some time later, the Rong Mansion received a letter from Jia Yu that he was critically ill.

In fact, Jia Yu was not Jia's mother's biological son, but was born to Jia Daishan's first wife.

After the death of this wife, Jia Daishan married Jia's mother and gave birth to Jia Zheng.

Because of this, Jia's mother helped Jia Zheng seize the power of the Rong Mansion.

When she heard that Jia Yu was seriously ill and dying, Jia's mother pretended to be sad, cried and wiped her tears.

In fact, she doesn't have deep feelings for Jia Yu, if Jia Yu can return to the west as soon as possible, it will just eliminate the threat to the second room, and she can also take advantage of this to let Jia Zheng take the title and inherit the official position of a first-class general.

Jia Mu immediately summoned Jia Dairu and asked the other party to write a memo, telling Emperor Chongrui that Jia Yu was about to die, so as to imply that Emperor Chongrui issued a holy decree to transfer Jia Yu's first-class military officer position to Jia Zheng.

In fact, what Jia Mu didn't know was that her reactions were all expected by Jia Chen.

This is part of Jia Chen's strategy to deprive Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang of their power.

Jia's mother was old and unwilling to go to the south of the Yangtze River, so she sent Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang to Jinling to deal with Jia Yu's funeral.

Because she didn't love Jia Yu, Jia's mother simply asked Jia Zheng to bury Jia Yu in Jinling.

When Mrs. Xing heard the news, her eyes turned black and she almost fainted from crying.

As Jia Yu's wife, she led Jia Yu's little wives to follow Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang to the south by boat and rushed to Jinling.

Wang Xifeng, as Jia Yu's daughter-in-law, naturally couldn't stay out of the matter, and also went with the ship.

Also accompanied by Jia Yu's second son Jia Cong, his own daughter Jia Yingchun, and Jia Zheng's sons Jia Baoyu and Jia Huan also followed.

As Jia Yu's sons and nephews, they must appear at Jia Yu's funeral according to etiquette and customs.

In order to pretend to be like, Jia Yu ordered people to build a Nanmu giant coffin, and bought a large number of paper people, paper horses, broken paper and other things, arranged the mourning hall, and pretended to prepare for the future.

Jia Chen found Jia Yu and Jia Lian and suggested:

"Those boxes are still not safe enough to be buried in the backyard, so they are simply hidden in the Nanmu giant coffin, and no one would have thought that there is treasure hidden in the coffin."

Jia Yu and Jia Lian both deeply agreed, acted according to the plan, and ordered someone to transfer the treasure to the Nanmu giant coffin overnight.

After some time, the Jia family's fleet rushed to Jinling City.

Only Mrs. Xing, Jia Cong and Jia Yingchun were really worried about Jia Yu's life and death, and the others were just going through the motions.

Mrs. Wang, who has a snake heart, is even more gloating, hoping that Jia Yu will return to the West as soon as possible.

Jia Lian saw Mrs. Xing crying bitterly, and when there was no one around and only Jia Chen was by her side, she comforted softly:

"Madam, the eldest master's illness is faked, so don't expose it."

Mrs. Xing was stunned, wiped her tears and snot with a handkerchief, I don't know what their father and son are colluding to do?

Jia Chen deliberately leaked the news:

"Madame, don't tell outsiders that there is a treasure hidden in the coffin of the master."

Only then did Mrs. Xing realize that it was they who colluded to make money from the Jia family's public office in Jinling, so Jia Yu deliberately pretended to be sick.

Seeing that Jia Yu is so "sick", which of them dares to force him to hand over the silver?

In fact, Jia Chen deliberately revealed this confidential information to Mrs. Xing, which was part of the strategy to seize this treasure.

(End of chapter)