Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Treasure Has No Owner
There are still a few old clothes in the boss's wooden box!
A scarlet robe embroidered with gold thread, a few yellowish southern silk robes, and a rich belt inlaid with various colored gems and pearls. A few antique jade pendants are not vulgar at first sight.
There is also a hosta and a jade bracelet, a white jade Buddha bead is extremely smooth, and the sunlight shining in through the mouth of the cave actually emits a layer of oily pale pink luster!
"It's ...... This is mutton fat jade! ”
In later generations, Song Wen was very interested in collectibles such as ancient jade and Tianyu, but he was too shy to collect all kinds of information to masturbate.
Eighteen sheep fat jade Buddha beads are as big as lychees, take a closer look...... On each jade bead, there are lines as thin as cow's hair, carved with lotus swastikas and tiny Sanskrit characters.
The silk thread that wears the Buddha beads is already a little loose and rotten, but a few seal characters on the pendant plate of mutton fat jade hanging at the bottom can still be vaguely recognized...... On the smooth and smooth jade plaque, one side is engraved with the four words of Lianfeng monk, and on the other side is the words of the Buddha.
Li Yan nodded: "Bai San's guy is also a smart person, this kind of thing is the treasure of the wealthy and powerful at first sight, and there is no place to sell it in his hands, let alone say it, once it is discovered, I am afraid that it will cause death...... Boy, you're really worth all the money! Otherwise, I am afraid that you will not be able to make him reveal this secret willingly......"
Song Wen smiled faintly...... "I'm afraid he doesn't know what the thief is hiding in this box, and this thing of human nature can't be scrutinized in detail......"
After packing up their things, everyone went out of the cave and carefully looked at the location and details of the village, while Song Wen took out a pen and paper and a small bamboo tube filled with ink and hastily drew the nearby terrain.
Li Yan said curiously: "That master of yours actually taught you so much?" Why are your drawings different from other people's? ”
"Draw inferences, I'm smart!"
"I'm ......"
However, Li Yan does agree with this sentence...... In half a year, a little turtle man has gone from being penniless to having a lot of money, raising dozens of little brothers plus himself, an old bird in the rivers and lakes, and he has also made friends with a big man like Liang Shicheng, who is known as a hidden appearance...... If he is not a smart person, everyone in the world will be stupid to death.
Gathering the remaining 20 or so displaced people, Song Wen bluntly explained to them that he could fund them for food, seeds and farm tools. It is also possible to give them a sum of money every year...... But the premise is that they can't go out to show off, and they can help themselves to take care of this hidden valley.
The homeless people are afraid of robbers and the government, and they can't wait to know that there is such a good thing!
This box of old clothes was not cared about by Song Wentai, and Lin Chong and Li Yan were not even more knowledgeable, so they couldn't see the way. Song Wen thought about catching a thief and asking about it, but unfortunately those thieves had already been frightened, and after being released, they fled and ran away, and their shadows disappeared.
With a few craftsmen, Song Wen and his entourage turned to Qingshan Cottage with great satisfaction. The rest of the displaced people also hid their food and began to clean up the tattered cottage, after all...... With a backer, they are happy to have a few days of peaceful life.
Three days later, a low-key carriage and five or six knights dressed as quacks in hats suddenly stopped outside the valley in the evening.
Several men dressed as homeless people began to quietly touch them from all sides, and then gathered together and quickly knelt down on one knee in front of the carriage, and the gray-clothed man in his thirties at the head whispered: "Subordinates, see the second proprietor!"
The curtain of the carriage did not move, and a slightly old voice came from inside the carriage...... "Well, what's the matter?" ”
"Back to the second proprietor, the horse ridden away by the fugitive slave died in the mountain, and the meat was cut off by the homeless, and we found it according to the hoof!"
"What about people?"
"There was a group of vicious thieves before this generation, and it should be more than lucky!"
"If you live to see people, you must see corpses when you die......"
Suddenly, a thin man in rags hurried out of the mountain, then came to the front of the carriage and knelt down on one knee and said directly: "My lord, I have found the body of the fugitive slave!"
"Oh? Any clues to the missing items?"
"No, the slave was stabbed to death, his clothes were stripped of his body, and there was nothing left......
The gray-clothed man who had just told him hurriedly answered: "The previous group of seven or eight bandits and more than twenty subordinates were actually killed and dispersed by a group of rangers of unknown origin!" Several bandits and the big boss were all killed, and the remaining bandit minions were all dispersed with broken arms! ”
There was silence in the car for a while, and then he whispered, "Was the thing taken away by that group?"
The man in gray shook his head: "The rest of the homeless people are confused, they don't know about the box at all, and the fugitive slave doesn't seem to have been caught by the gang of thieves in the village, and should have been killed on the way."
There was a sound of slapping the table in the carriage, and it seemed that the owner inside was very angry...... "Xu Sanhai Zhou Yan...... You two stay, be sure to check if there is any trace of anything in this den of thieves! The rest of the people all went to the surrounding market towns and counties to find out what the unknown rangers were...... The contents of this box are very important to the proprietor! Do you understand? ”
The five men bowed their heads and saluted...... "Subordinates receive orders!" ”
The carriage quickly turned around and disappeared at the end of the dirt road, escorted by several knights. The man in gray seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and looked at the thin man behind him with a little dissatisfaction...... "Zhou Yan!" You and I don't interfere with the river water, I am responsible for investigating in the village, and you go around to find clues. How is it? ”
The thin man named Zhou Yan didn't say anything, just raised his head and looked at Xu Sanhai, who was a little impatient, and said softly: "Yes, but ...... If you can't find any clues within three days, you have to leave the village and let me pretend to be a homeless person who wants to join the gang to investigate in the village! How is it? ”
"Hmph, so be it...... After three days, no matter what we gain from each other, our two teams will hand over their turf exchange to investigate and see if there is any darkness under the lights......"
"Deal!"
In the past three days, Song Wen took Lin Chong and Li Erlang like a contractor to run all around his Zhuangzi, streams, slopes, woods and buildings.
In the end, Song Wen reluctantly found that the place he bought was really useless except for the benefit of remoteness......
All the fields that can be cultivated add up to 200 acres! More than half of the land is extremely barren and sloping fields. The five tenant farmers now understood that they had met a generous proprietor this time, and that they would have thirty or forty acres of land to cultivate in one household...... But the harvest has been miserable in recent years.
More than 70 orphans and teenagers cowered in a few barns, and Li Erlang's subordinates were leading a few tenant farmers to build new thatched huts.
The two carpenters looked at each other, and always felt that they had been cheated by these murderous rangers this time......
There are not even a few serious houses, just a few poor tenants and dozens of beggar dolls, what are these people trying to do?