Chapter 308: Digging Up the Silver
In the evening, He Jiongming took Qian Lancui into an inn on the side of the road to rest. He Jiongming asked for the best room in the inn, and Qian Lancui picked out twenty yuan and asked for the cheapest room.
The diners with ulterior motives in the inn hall found out that Qian Lancui was not in the same group as these military masters, and their eyes began to roll on her. Qian Lancui's face turned pale with fright, and she followed closely behind He Jiongming.
He Jiongming glanced at the hall and took Qian Lancui back to his guest room directly.
When the door closed, Qian Lancui's heart fell back into her stomach, "Thank you."
It seems that she wants to rely on herself, He Jiongming's gloomy eyes rolled with black ink, and then she asked according to her wishes, "Why did the girl go out alone at such a young age?"
Qian Lancui was overjoyed, and immediately replied, "My mother sold me to a sick man who was about to die, Chongxi, I didn't agree, she and my brother beat me, I ...... And he ran out."
He Jiongming appropriately showed a surprised and angry expression, "The girl went to Puxian to join her family?"
Qian Lancui lowered her little head, extremely pitiful, "...... No. I don't have any other relatives except my mother. I went to Puxian because my family lived there for a while, and there was a cave in the mountains where I could hide. I plan to hide until the sick man dies, and then I will go home and kowtow to my mother and confess my mistake."
This little girl escaped with all the belongings of the family, how could she go back. He Jiongming played with the coarse porcelain cup of the inn and said gently, "Counting nine cold winters, it is inconvenient to hide in the mountains. If the girl can be trusted, she might as well stay with her and go home when her anger is gone."
Qian Lancui was overjoyed, and immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "Thank you to Engong, thank you to Engong."
He Jiongming lowered his eyes, "Isn't the girl afraid that I am a villain and throw you into the fire pit?"
Qian Lancui raised her head, "Even if she is thrown into the fire pit, the slave is willing."
"Huh." He Jiongming was in a very good mood and smiled.
The master laughed, and Dai Xia, who was standing at the door, also laughed.
This is the ugliest and youngest of the playthings that the prince fancies. That's right, left and right are just a boring thing, what do you have to do with that poisonous girl who wants someone's life at any time.
He Jiongming entered Hezhou, first went to the state city to meet Taishou Qu Cun, and then rushed to Dongshan, more than 100 miles outside Hezhou City. Nominally, he went home to reunite with his family, but in fact he went to Dongshan Pass to dig up the 150,000 taels of silver that Zheng Yonggui had buried in the mountain pass.
Among these silvers, 20,000 taels were in early August last year, when He Jiongming's identity of pretending to be An Ziyuan was exposed, and he secretly entered Lingchuan to meet Zheng Yonggui, Zheng Yonggui honored him. The remaining 130,000 taels were allocated by He Jiongming to Zheng Yonggui for him to recruit troops and horses. Who knew that a month later, the valley where the soldiers were hiding outside Liyang City was broken by Shen Ge, and Zheng Yonggui asked Jiongming to congratulate him, and secretly hid the silver two.
Soon after He Jiongming escaped from Anzhou City, he received the news that Zheng Yonggui had been escorted to Xuanzhou. After many inquiries, he learned that Zheng Yonggui did not give up the silver, so He Jiongming ventured into the dungeon to see Zheng Yonggui and personally inquired about the whereabouts of the silver.
Unexpectedly, things went much smoother than he expected.
Add these 150,000 taels, He Jiongming can recruit strange people on the rivers and lakes for his own use, kill Shen Ge and Shen Shangzhi, and then take Lin Ruyu to leave Daxia, go to Tubo incognito, and live happily.
Thinking of the feeling of kneading the beauty in his hands, He Jiongming felt that the cold wind in the valley had become warmer.
"Boom!"
The pickaxe broke through the ground on the slope of Xiangyang Mountain, dug more than a foot down, and then touched the iron box buried in the ground by Zheng Yonggui, making a pleasant sound. When the iron box was dug out, the lid was opened, and the light of the silver reflected in the eyes of the people.
He Jiongming stepped forward and touched the cold silver, and the corners of his lips curled, "Dig out all the boxes and move them to Donggu Wenjiazhuang."
Donggu Wenjiazhuang is more than 20 miles away, and it is He Jiongming's secret stronghold in Hezhou, and even the Zheng brothers don't know about it.
"Yes." Dai Xia was also elated, "Is the general going back to Wenjiazhuang, or going to Dongshan?"
He Jiongming slowly unbuttoned his shirt, put his hand into his neck and forced, from his neck
A layer of skin was lifted on the child, and then the chin, behind the ears, and the whole face, which was so strange that people didn't dare to look at it directly.
After the mask was removed, He Jiongming's originally delicate and cold face was revealed, because the mask had been worn for a long time, his face was densely covered with a layer of small pimples, and Dai Xia's heart was full of diaphragm, and he hurriedly lowered his head.
He Jiongming took out the handkerchief, wiped the medicinal juice on his face little by little, and his mood became even happier, "Go back to Wenjiazhuang and take Zheng Changming over to meet his mother, wife and children."
Dai Xia immediately understood, "You want to threaten Zheng Changming's wife and children so that he will listen to you?"
Isn't that obvious, and now I want to figure it out? He Jiongming, who had a small pimple on his face, glanced at the fool beside him, "Send a letter to Fu Yougui and let him act according to the plan."
"Yes." Dai Xiagong sent his son into the carriage bound for Wenjialing.
Luo Er, who was hiding in the dense barren grass a hundred zhang away, glanced at the scorpion in the box and found that He Jiongming had already begun to move. He cautiously looked around, and saw that Dai Xia and a group of people were still in the same place, so he also divided into two routes, continued to follow He Jiongming all the way, and stayed here all the way to stare at Dai Xia.
Seeing Dai Xia leading people to dig out fifty boxes, Luo Er couldn't help but be shocked. This is a standard box that can hold 300 catties of silver, and 50 boxes is 15,000 catties! Zheng Yonggui buried a full 150,000 taels of official silver in Dongshan, Hezhou!
Luo Liu asked in a low voice, "Second brother, I'm afraid these aren't the silver that the imperial court allocated to repair the Wolong Causeway, right?"
"Quite possibly." Luo Er lowered his voice, they had already dug up the silver, and they were afraid that they were going to attack Zheng Changming and his family. Luo Er made a gesture, and several people hid in the wild grass and disappeared.
After loading boxes of silver into the car, Dai Xia Ye was also tired and sweating. After pouring a few mouthfuls of water, Dai Xia instructed his subordinates, "You two go to Qi County to bring Zheng Changming over, you go to Raozhou to inform Mr. Fu, just say that Gongzi's business has been done, let him act according to the plan." You go to Zheng's house in Dongshan and "invite" Zheng Changming's mother, wife and children to Wenjiazhuang. Give Lao Tzu a little bit of spirit, no matter who makes a mistake, you have to use your own head to carry it!"
"Yes!" The three of them immediately turned around and rode away.
Seeing that their soldiers were divided into four routes, Luo Er and the others also followed in four ways.
When He Jiongming's secret guards arrived at the village at the foot of the east mountain in Hezhou, they found that the Zheng family had gone to the courtyard empty. The secret guard inquired around the village, but no one knew where the Zheng family had gone, and the dark guard realized that something was wrong, and immediately rode back to Wenjiazhuang to report to the prince.