The next day, Bantu issued an order, imitating the old story of Cao Cao's battle of Chibi, every three small boats were tied to a fast with iron chains, covered with wooden planks, and each group of boats had two firecrackers and two crossbowmen; The crossbow arrow is extremely powerful, can shoot through the body of the wild boar at a distance of 100 steps, the end of the crossbow arrow is tied to a 30 zhang long flexible thin line, the end is tied to float, after shooting the water monster, it can be tracked to the water monster's lair, and prepared pork soaked in poison, and thrown at the water monster when the water monster is infested.

Although the boats were running too slowly, they were much smoother in the rapids in the river. The divers rowed to the vicinity of the wreck by boat, and the other boats dragged a 40-zhang trawl net to search nearby; Dozens of chickens, ducks and geese were thrown into the river, and the crossbowmen and firecrackers stared at the water, and all the personnel held their breath and waited for the two monsters to appear.

After waiting for a long time, there was no trace of the water monster in the river, and many of the ducks and white geese that had fallen into the water had swam to the shore, fled ashore, and went on their own. The hen who fell into the water saw her dying and struggling in the river, but there was still no movement in the river.

Chen Shuiya had an idea, grabbed the three live chickens on the boat, cut off their necks, and threw them into the river, and the others followed suit when they saw it, and also cut off the necks of chickens and ducks and threw them into the heart of the river.

Suddenly, the river was violently turbulent, two monsters full of fangs suddenly burst out of the river, the body was huge, full of spikes and scales, I saw the two monsters out of the water together to a group of boats rushed over, set off two splashing waves, the momentum was terrifying, suddenly dozens of fire guns and crossbow arrows shot out instantly, the body of the two monsters instantly inserted more than ten crossbow arrows, angry roars echoed endlessly between the mountain walls on both sides, but the monster impact momentum did not decrease, overturning the connected boats in the river, The people on the boat were at a loss, and they had already fallen into the river.

After the two monsters fell into the water, they rushed to the sailors of the two rivers, and instantly bit off the bodies of the two, and in an instant, the blood flowed from between the lips of the two water monsters, and the blood flowed like a note, and the two water monsters were hit by crossbow arrows and did not love to fight, and the thick tail swung and sank into the river and disappeared without a trace, only to see more than ten floating floats on the river surface successively Fei Express drifted towards the river bank in the distance, and disappeared in the river in front of the cliff on the shore. Zhang Xunshui jumped angrily on the boat, "The crossbow arrow is too short to tie the ground!" ”

The two water monsters swam to the river under the cliff and disappeared for a long time, "The power of the crossbow arrow is amazing, the wild boar in the forest can penetrate it, although the scale armor of the two water monsters is hard and slippery, they will also be injured lightly, this thing has grown up for hundreds of years, and has been human, I am afraid that at this time I will have to recuperate in the nest under this cliff," Zheng Yi said after a moment of silence.

"I have never seen the giant monster in the river hurt people before, it must be the deep water net that disturbed him, and also scared away the big fish in the deep water, the water monster has no food, so it came out to hurt people," Lao Jiangtou stood on a group of boats, said to Xun'er, the boatmen on the boat suddenly realized in their hearts, and said that they had never seen a water monster before the treasure hunt, and occasionally there was a cochineal fish and river row about eight feet in the river, and they were shocked by the behemoth.

Bantu pondered for a moment, "I can't find the water monster's nest for the time being, the water monster must be injured a lot, now everyone can rest assured to continue to pull the net to explore, the wreck needs to dive deep into the water, take these glowing fluorites down the river, be sure to fish up some hidden treasures, in order to count," Benny commanded, and then his own soldiers sent a few pieces of fluorite purchased with a lot of money to the four people who went into the water.

The four of them still entered the river in groups, Ye Xun still followed the queen of the river into the river, dived into the depths of the river, with fluorite illumination, everyone successfully reached the bottom of the river, and saw that a giant ship of more than 20 zhang was lying quietly at the bottom of the river, with swaying and ethereal aquatic plants growing on it, and the two groups explored from both ends of the big ship, and the old river head first opened the cabin and entered the cabin closest to the stern.

Ye Xun'er probed together as he entered the cabin, and saw that in addition to the large pile of Qinggang sticks, there was a one-foot-square box inside, picked it up, wiped off the mud and sand on it with his hands, and saw that it was wrapped in brass with four corners, and a rusted copper lock was added, and the copper sheet on the lid of the box was engraved with the words "Generalissimo Yongchang's Mansion".

Lao Jiangtou took the box and put it on his side, pulled the head of the thin rope on Xun'er's back, tied the two Qinggang sticks firmly together, and pulled the string vigorously, it turned out that today was launched, and the four people under the water all brought several slender brown ropes, one end of the rope was tied to the boat on the river, there was a hanging float on the river, and a small copper bell was hung on the float, and the treasure was tied underneath and pulled hard, just like the bait was bitten by a fish.

Jiang Mian Bantu stared at the float without blinking, and suddenly heard a crisp bell ringing, "Things are out of the water, pull the rope quickly," the Qing soldier next to him immediately pulled the rope, and the rope was put away foot by foot, only to see two large wooden stakes of about four feet tied together and raised the river surface.

Jiang Zhongtian saw that the wooden stake was pulled up little by little, and took off the thin rope on his back, picked up two Qinggang sticks and tied them up, signaled that the air of the Xun'er pig urine cannon was running out, and motioned to float up with his hand, and pulled down the rope vigorously, and the copper bell floating on it sounded crisply again, Bantu and the others were happily looking at the wooden stake out of the water, and when they heard the copper bell ring again, they impatiently ordered to pull up the string.

Jiang Zhongtian watched the wooden stake rise slowly, pulled Ye Xun out of the cabin, and floated onto the deck, but he didn't see Li Yu and Chen Shuiya, and hurriedly walked to the adjacent general Anxi cockpit, because the two had been down to this warehouse, knowing that there was nothing left in it except for the rotten beds, tables and chairs, and seeing the green light flashing with fluorite inside, it could be seen that Chen Shuiya and Li Yu were searching in this cabin.

Ye Xun'er knew that this cabin was the place where his grandfather used to rest and command the battle by boat, and he wanted to go down to the cabin to watch, and was pulled by Jiang Zhongtian, and pulled Ye Xun with a wooden box to swim to the treasure cave, and exchanged gas twice in the middle, and when he arrived in the cave, Jiang Zhongtian hid the wooden box in the stone crevice, and filled the pig urine cannon with gas, stopped for a while, turned around and went into the water again, and swam back to the big boat with Ye Xun'er.

When they went to the ship and searched for a while, they found a cabin in the bow, and when they went down, the cabin was slightly narrower than the previous two cabins, and it was about the size of a square foot, and the two of them doubled it, and turned out a large pile of porcelain dishes and pots and pans, as well as two rusty cast iron stoves, and understood that this must be the place where the fire was made on the ship for cooking.

Xun'er turned over a kitchen cabinet again, gently pulled the two small doors that were opened, the cabinet door fell down instantly, reached out to look inside, felt out a teapot-like thing, reached out to brush off the sediment on it, and saw that it was a jade carving eight immortals pattern square holding pot, carved with the ornamental pattern of the eight immortals crossing the sea, the edge is embellished with seawater grape patterns, the shape is exquisite, and the workmanship is exquisite.

Xun'er touched it again, and found out a set of double ear jade cups and square jade cup holders, the whole set of tea sets from the whole Hetian sheep fat jade, should be the best jade in the previous dynasty.

Ye Xun took off the fish skin water pants from his body, tied the trouser legs, put the whole set of jade eight immortal pattern square pots into the trouser legs, wrapped them around his waist, and pulled Jiang Zhongtian to float out of the water, and Jiang Zhongtian also found a jade bowl with gem dragon pattern in the collapsed cupboard, and carried it in his arms.

The two of Xun'er floated on the river, and a disciple of the Mo family saw it, and hurriedly pulled the two of them onto the bow of the boat, Zheng Yi saw that he was wearing obscene pants, and hurriedly asked the disciple to dry his body and change into clean clothes, and at the same time beckoned Bantu and others to come over and check out the water utensils.

At this time, Chen Shuiya and Li Yu had already taken off their water clothes and sat on the bow of the boat, the two of them explored the cabin of the ship, took four wooden stakes in the treasure cabin, and pulled them out of the water. Hearing that Jiang Zhongtian and the others had come out of the water, he hurriedly arranged for the boat to come closer to retrieve the jade pot and jade bowl of leather pants.

Seeing that it was getting late, Bantu hurriedly arranged for the personnel to stop the operation and returned to the tent on the shore.

When he arrived on the shore, Bantu ordered his soldiers to lock the treasures in a large wooden box, tie them to the carriage with ropes, and escort them to the Chongqing treasury with a hundred cavalry by the guard Wang Jinbao to inspect the treasures.

It turned out that Zhang Xianzhong's tool for hiding the treasure was to split the wood in half, hollow out in the middle, load it with gold and silver, and then buckle the two halves into a wooden tube, and the two ends were killed with iron hoops, and the wooden tube was called "Qinggang stick".

The water is engraved with the words "Yuanling County has completed the levy and relieved the division to charge the soldier salary of 50 taels of silver, and the silversmith Jiang Guotai of Chongzhen has been 8 days of the tenth year", and the soldiers have 14 ingots of silver, totaling 700 taels; "Xiangtan County Grain Transportation Officers and Military Officers Fifty Taels of Monthly Silver" Seven ingots of silver for soldiers, totaling three hundred and fifty taels; "Huanggang County Silver Forty Taels" two small silver ingots, two weighing about three catties; Among them, the most valuable belongs to the seven gold ingots taken out of the Qinggang stick, the lower part of the ingots is engraved with the words "Changsha Mansion Apocalypse three years old for the palace pure gold fifty taels of Yang Xujiang Zhao", a total of three hundred and fifty taels of gold ingots of the Ming Dynasty Apocalypse Changsha Mansion Sui Gong; The above total, according to the price of silver in the current dynasty, is equivalent to 13,800 taels of silver.

A full set of jade eight immortal pattern square pot was cleaned up by the jade Fang family of the Exploration Bureau, when it was brought to Ban Tu and others, Ban Tu's eyes lit up, this jade pot material, shape, carving work are good, it is a rare Hetian mutton fat jade carved during the Northern Song Dynasty Renzong.

Bantu immediately arranged for the prefect of Chongqing to recruit skilled craftsmen at a high price, compared with a full set of jade eight immortal pattern square pots, as soon as possible carefully carved a Nanmu brocade box, dedicated to the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and according to the secret fold on the treasure hunt news, to the court to report the good news.

That night, Ye Xun slept groggyly, and the exhaustion of the whole day made him sleep very soundly, and he had a long dream, dreaming that his mother was making him sweet brown sugar glutinous rice cakes, and the mellow sweetness made him addicted; He dreamed that his father was walking on the Ancient Tea Horse Road with his horse in his arms, followed by a long team of horses carrying jade and tea, and the jingling of horse bells was sprinkled all the way.

Then, he was shaken awake, and Jiang Zhongtian's smiling face shook in front of him, "Silly boy, I'm dreaming, saliva is flowing on a pillow, get up quickly, let's go get something," Jiang Zhongtian said, handing him a set of fish skin water clothes and water to lean.

Xun'er woke up from a big dream, put on her clothes with sleepy eyes, took a mask to cover her face, and followed Jiang Zhongtian out quietly.

It was already midnight, the lights on the green camp boat on the river flickered, and in the cold, wet and dark night, there was silence all around, only the crickets in the grass were still singing indulgently, and the Qing soldiers had already fallen asleep.

The two of them went into the water one after another, and quietly swam towards the treasure cave under the water, the wind and waves on the river surface were not large, and the river gently slapped against the stone wall of the river bank, making a loud noise, and the sound of swimming was muffled without a trace.