After the eldest young master Yu returned to the mansion, he went to see his father, the legendary master Yu who vomited blood and fainted, and is still unconscious.

"That Master Yu is not unconscious, he is now sitting in the bedroom talking to his son, he looks very energetic, his face is very ruddy, not at all like he vomited blood and fell into a coma, but like a person who is in good spirits on a happy event."

Jin Yang described them with a puzzled expression.

Hearing this, Yan Yan and Ugly raised their eyebrows at the same time and glanced at each other.

The ugly also probed his divine sense to see what was going on.

Tilt Yan looked at Jin Yang and motioned for it to continue.

Jin Yang nodded and continued: "They have now retreated from the subordinates, and they have also let their henchmen guard the door, and no one is allowed to approach.

Ah! The hook behind the screen turned out to be a mechanism! Ooh! The door to the dark room is actually behind the toilet in the clean room! This was a real surprise. ”

A few of them twitched the corners of their mouths, this is really unexpected, I really haven't heard of getting the dark room there, if you are going to the toilet, suddenly a few people come out from behind, how embarrassing!

I heard Jin Yang continue: "The two of them went in, and there was a tunnel inside, hey, there was a stone door!" Hey? My divine sense can't penetrate the stone gate! This is a formation!

Yanyan, you wait for me to study that formation first and see if I can crack it, this formation should be isolated from the divine sense, and it won't be too difficult to crack. ”

Chouchou said beside him: "No wonder I didn't find this place when I explored the city before, it turned out that there was a formation, I didn't pay attention at the time, and I was fooled by this formation."

Jin Yang, you study it first, don't be in a hurry to crack it, I'll go in first and see what they're doing, in case there are any masters around them, it's easy to startle the snake. ”

Jin Yang nodded obediently, and only used his divine sense to test the formation, and did not touch it.

The ugly divine consciousness is much stronger than Jin Yang, if it twists the divine consciousness into a strand, the penetrating power is several times stronger, then the formation will have no effect on it.

Of course, this also has to be weaker than the ugly or on par with the ugly, otherwise it will not work.

Chou Chou continued: "Behind the stone gate is also a tunnel, and a layer of masonry is also laid, and the passage is very wide, so that three people can walk side by side.

They're now in another door, and inside is one, huh...... The space of almost 100 square meters is full of boxes, and the boxes are full of silver, or official silver! ”

"Cough cough cough ~ cough cough cough ~" Qian Yan was listening while eating skewers, but when she heard this, she wanted to speak, and when she took a breath, she was directly choked by cumin powder and coughed incessantly.

Chou Chou hurriedly stepped forward to pat her on the back, Jin Jin went to the table and poured her a cup of cold spiritual spring water, Jin Yang and Yuan Bao also came over and looked at her with a concerned face.

Qian Yan waved her hand to indicate that she was fine, took the cup in Jinjin's hand, and drank several sips of water before she felt better.

When she calmed down, she sat up straight and said to Ugly, "What's the matter?" How is it official silver inside? ”

It is normal to dig underground dark rooms to hide silver, and many large families will do this, in order to leave a way out for themselves and future generations.

But it's official silver in it, which is not normal.

Thinking of the so-called Lord Huang again, Qian Yan had a guess.

"What kind of recognition of the biological son is this, it can't be a trick for those two old guys to play, right?

The second young master is not the son of Lord Huang Let's not say first, this official silver appeared in the Yu family, and the eight achievements are that they conspired with Lord Huang.

Let's just say that the treasury is so easy to steal, even if it is a prison guard stealing by himself, it is impossible not to alarm others, and it is impossible for the entire government to participate.

It seems that they are taking advantage of the old land-sitting household in Xiangzhou City, and this tunnel is not good to say that it is dug directly to the silver treasury, and it is possible that the official silver has been lost more than once.

It's just that I don't know if those mountain bandits are their accomplices, or if they got in by mistake and carried the black pot for them. ”

After Qian Yan finished speaking, she looked at Chou Chou and asked, "Chou Chou, have all the official silver stolen by those mountain bandits been recovered?" How many are there? Can I reconcile with the lost one? ”

"I'll see." The ugly nodded and looked at the vehicles that were being escorted back.

I only looked at the silver on those cars before, but I really didn't see how much it was.

It turned out to be a good look, and it really made it find a problem.

The first layer of those silver chests was good silver, but not at all, except for the second layer of bricks covered with silver leaf, and directly below was a pile of stones!

If you don't open the box and take out the layer of silver, you won't be able to see it with the naked eye.

It told the others about this discovery, and Qian Yan frowned, "Are they really a gang?" deliberately cover each other in this way, and the eggs are not put in one basket, so that even if one party is caught, all the money will not be found.

Or this is a trap set by Lord Huang and the Yu family for those mountain bandits, deliberately letting them steal these fake silver, so that they are caught, the silver cannot be recovered, and they can still take the guilt. ”

Gold has other ideas, "It is also possible that they don't know each other at all, but they just happen to have the same purpose, so they shot on the same day, one is to rob openly, and the other is to steal." Of course, there is another possibility. ”

Tilt Yan looked at Gold, "What do you mean?" ”

Jin Jin continued: "It is very likely that the silver in the underground silver vault of the Yu family was not stolen in a day or two, and it is impossible for them to complete this tunnel in a day or two.

No one can predict where the disaster will happen months or even years ago, and Qin Tianjian is not sure.

And Lord Huang had an old relationship with this old man Yu eighteen years ago, and he must have a good relationship if he can give concubines to others.

Of course, eighteen years ago, Lord Huang didn't know what the situation was, maybe at that time, his family was not as good as the Yu family, and the concubine was just to win over the Yu family.

But if it is the same as the rumors, the concubine entered the Yu family pregnant, then it is not a woo, but a feud.

So there is another possibility, back then, Lord Huang had a higher status than Master Yu, and on the surface, he was giving concubines, but in fact, he blatantly let his son and the outer room be raised by the Yu family, and he gave the Yu family some benefits, such as some convenience in business.

Of course, it is also possible that Master Yu is Lord Huang's henchman, and he is a nail arranged here by Lord Huang.

After all, this is a businessman on the face of the old man, he can't be the real person in charge behind the scenes, he can instruct an official in the court, or a high-grade official who can be responsible for disaster relief. ”

Qian Yan concluded: "So the most likely thing is that the two parties stumbled into each other by mistake, Lord Huang and the Yu family wanted to make another fortune through disaster relief, and the mountain bandits knew that there was such a large amount of silver, and they also signed the idea of this batch of silver."

The silver in the Yu family's underground treasury is not necessarily this batch of disaster relief funds, or maybe only a part of it, and the rest has been caught little by little over the years. ”

Chou Chou nodded in agreement with the statement of Gold and Tilt Yan, and said to them: "That's right, the boxes containing silver in there are new and old, and they don't look like they were made in the same batch, and the official seals of the silver in them are not only here, but also from other state capitals.

It is very likely that this Master Yu is a money bag of that Lord Huang, helping him make money, as well as doing business to help him collect money, and secretly helping him get these silver that cannot explain the origin.

This disaster in the south is not just this one, there have been many levee floods before, this disaster relief money cannot be just this batch, and they can't all be greedy, if they are all greedy, he will also die.

After being an official for so many years, I should still be able to carry it clearly, and the loss of this disaster relief fund is a big deal, not as simple as being an official, and it is possible to kill the head directly.

But if he succeeds in disaster relief, he can still be added to the rank of knight, even if he makes some benefits from it, the emperor will not care too much, and will continue to assign him to continue to be in charge of this part. ”

Tilt Yan understood the meaning of ugliness, but she was still a little puzzled, "If they are two groups of people, those mountain bandits can be said to have stumbled by mistake, but how did those silver thieves out of the silver treasury smoothly?"

And how was the silver exchanged? The silver was exchanged for stone, it can't be the mountain bandits, right? Why bother pulling a pile of rocks back to their own base camp?

And unless this has been changed before, otherwise this little time is not enough for them to toss again, after all, after discovering this, they have been under the ugly nose, and there is no opportunity and time to change silver. ”

The ugly also fell silent, and it couldn't figure out what the hell was missing, unless there was a black hand in it.

If it was said that Lord Huang exchanged the silver, and the silver had an accident in his hand, he would be the first to get out of it.

Besides, where can he go in exchange? At least there aren't that much in this underground vault, and it doesn't make sense, according to the amount of money pulled back, there shouldn't be more silver in it.

And a lot of the silver in the ground has been weathered and faintly blackened.

Although it is not said that the newly draped disaster relief silver must be brand new and shiny, since it is the same batch, it must be the same.

I can't say that there is all kinds of silver in the treasury.

Alas? Wrong! Qian Yan thought again, they seemed to have heard those people say that the silver did not seem to be allocated from the treasury, but from Xiangyang and Fancheng.

In other words, if it is raised, it is not necessarily official bank, but it may also be raised in the private sector, and most of them are donated by some large merchants and large families.

Although it is temporarily placed in the treasury of the government, it is not necessarily official silver, after all, official silver is only in official circulation and cannot be used as ordinary silver.

At least private merchants can't use it, they use official silver after it has been melted down by the government, and most of it is broken silver, or there is no mark on it.

This is also to distinguish the difference between the two, once the official bank is stolen or robbed, as long as someone uses it, the clues can be quickly discovered.

Just as the banknotes in the later banks were numbered, if the bank was stolen, the clues can be found according to the banknote number.

As long as criminals use these banknotes, they can find them out, which is also a means of preventing theft.

In this way, Chou Chou said that the underground bank of the Yu family is full of official silver, and if it is the money raised by the people, it is impossible to exchange it into official silver, and it is not allocated by the imperial court.

It is very likely that it is the official silver that Lord Huang has stolen together to dig tunnels for many years, and I don't know how many years it took to accumulate.

If you throw some of them every time, you really can't find them for a while, although it is said that it is recorded, but if the person who made the record is also their own person, this is not easy to say.

As long as you fill in some more losses or something every time, just like the cashier and accountant are the same person, it's not just how you want to do it, and you can't check it at all.

Qian Yan said to Chouchou: "Chouchou, take a look at the silver taken away by those mountain bandits, is there an official seal on the surface of the layer of silver?" ”

Chou Chou nodded, and quickly retracted his senses and said: "Some of them are there, some are not, they are some relatively scattered silver taels, and some are not very regular silver bars and silver cakes. ”

Tilt Yan: "It seems that those mountain bandits are very likely to have nothing to do with Lord Huang and the Yu family, and those silver may have been transferred before they were raised and transported, or on the way to be transported."

Since those mountain bandits didn't have time to drop their bags, it was definitely not that they hid it, if the silver was exchanged before it was transported or during transportation, then the black hand would be someone else. ”

Sighing, Qian Yan continued: "It seems that those mountain bandits don't know that the silver they stole at such a big risk is actually not one percent of the real amount. ”

While it's true that each box has a layer, it's really less than one percent compared to the real amount.

Originally, they thought they had stolen tens of thousands of taels, but it turned out that they might not have 1,000 taels of silver in their hands, which is equivalent to collecting the money from selling cabbage and bearing the charge of selling white powder.

Thinking like this, Qian Yan actually felt a little sorry for those mountain bandits.

If the government can't find out the whereabouts of the silver, it is very likely that they will have to bear this charge, and they will be beheaded directly, and the lightest will have to be exiled.

Ugly: "You don't have to sympathize with those people, they all have human lives on their hands, saying that they only rob money and don't hurt people, that is, the people they hurt before are dead, and there is no proof of death."

Those who escaped from them dare not say that they are ruthless, and they are afraid of reprisals later, you should know that public opinion can be controlled.

As for the old and weak women and children in the village, those old people are not good people, and the livelihood of this robbery is fundamentally ancestral, except for the innocent children, everyone else knows about it. ”

Qian Yan nodded, in this case, she deserves it, she can't control those young children so much, she can't pity the murderer's child and let the murderer be punished.