Chen Jianqiu threw the gold bar in his hand to Holmes.

Holmes's hand trembled a little, and he took the gold bar in his hand, looked at it several times, and repeated it:

"It's an Aztec gold bar! It's the gold bars of the Aztecs! ”

While looking at the gold bars, he told Chen Jianqiu the origin of these gold bars.

November 8, 1519

A Spanish explorer named Colster took his party to Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztecs.

They kidnapped the Aztec emperor Montezuma II and ruled the empire under his command.

Half a year later, Cortés' subordinate Alvarado slaughtered more than 600 Aztecs, and thousands of Aztecs gathered to lay siege to the palace.

Cortés sent Montezuma II to pacify the populace, and during the chaotic rally, Montezuma II was struck by a stone thrown by the angry populace and was mortally wounded.

Montezuma II died.

The Spaniards claimed that he died of his wounds, while the Aztecs preferred to believe that the Spaniards had killed their emperor.

The Spaniards realized that danger was looming, and they decided to break out that night. Loaded with plundered treasure, these conquerors tried to slip along a road, only to be discovered.

The boats of the Indians surrounded the Spaniards, and a terrible battle began.

Many Spaniards were forced to throw their treasures into the water to lighten their loads, and many others fell into the water during the scuffle and died with the gold because they were carrying gold.

More than 1,000 Spaniards and many more indigenous people were killed on this night, which later came to be known as the "Miserable Night".

The Indians, descendants of the royal family of Montezuma, transported the gold from the canal, along with some other royal possessions, to the southwestern part of the United States before the arrival of new invaders.

They thought they would one day be able to make a comeback with this property, but smallpox and the harsh natural environment caused them to wither.

These people did everything they could to hide the legacy, including bringing in groundwater to hide the gold at the bottom of the cave.

"I was still speculating about the meaning of those obscure fables, and they were all true." Holmes was so excited that he almost burst into tears.

Chen Jianqiu sighed a little.

These Aztecs are so pitiful, they are dead, and the money is gone.

Let me Chen Jianqiu protect these treasures for you.

He glanced around at the others.

The reaction of the crowd was basically what he expected.

The two young men were still a little confused because they didn't know all the news and couldn't understand English, but they knew that listening to their young master would be over.

Sean leaned next to Holmes, also looking incredulous;

Mr. and Mrs. Danny embraced; Hanif was a little nervous, and he wondered if he should discuss it with Chen Jianqiu and let him choose again.

"Boss, should we go down and salvage all those treasures now?" Sean asked, rubbing his hands together.

"Yes, you can catch it today, as long as you catch it, it's yours." Chen Jianqiu said to the black man with a smile.

"So, what about me?" Hanif looked at Chen Jianqiu with blank eyes.

"The same goes for you." Chen Jianqiu nodded at him.

The two were a little hesitant at first, but with Chen Jianqiu's words, they jumped into the lake desperately.

In less than two minutes, the sound of "help" was heard in the lake.

It was Hanif who shouted "help", and within a minute of his descent and before he could touch the bottom of the lake, the icy water made his calves cramp.

Chen Jianqiu slowly jumped into the lake again and dragged Hanif up.

And Sean, he didn't even see a shadow on the lake.

Chen Jianqiu frowned.

This is a bit troublesome, this black guy may not be able to see it on the surface of the lake, let alone the lake where he can't see his fingers.

But when he thought about it, he couldn't see it anyway, it was purely up to his luck.

Suddenly, he noticed bubbles not far away from the bottom of the water that had flipped sharply to the surface, some of which looked like the hallucinogenic gas before, and some of which were not.

It seems that Sean should be drinking water underneath.

Chen Jianqiu stabbed down and touched the bubbling place.

He put his hands around the bottom of the lake twice, and sure enough, he touched a body that was still warm, but if he didn't pull it up, it was estimated that it would be cold soon.

Chen Jianqiu held the black man in his hand, and with the other hand, he fished a handful at the bottom of the lake, and suddenly felt heavy in his hand.

He surfaced, threw Sean like a sandbag to the shore, and climbed up on his own.

Teresa gave Sean first aid, and the black man woke up after spitting a few mouthfuls of water, rolling his eyes and scratching his hands in the air:

"Tentacles! Yes! Don't catch me! Yes! Big octopus ......"

Chen Jianqiu didn't bother with the incoherent Sean, and looked around at everyone: "Is there anyone else who wants to go down?" ”

The crowd stopped squeaking.

Hanif rubbed his head and said weakly: "Boss, we are too reckless, we all listen to you, this lake is too weird. ”

He thought that the gold under the lake was at his fingertips, but who knew that he would almost die in one go.

Who is this man in front of him?

Chen Jianqiu glanced at what he had just fished up, which was a gold necklace and some broken gold.

He returned to the lake.

A moment later, when he returned to shore, he was full of gold bars in his left and right hands.

Chen Jianqiu threw the broken gold and gold bars to Holmes: "This trip can't let everyone come for nothing, let's share it for everyone, don't forget Adam's, I'll deal with it over there in the stone fortress." ”

Hanif shook his head: "It's useless for us to take this gold, and we don't plan to divide the money and break up." No matter where you appear in the west, you will be targeted. ”

Everyone else nodded, but the two Chinese lads were still in a state of bewilderment.

"Since you all understand, then I won't say anything more, and I'll deal with this gold under the water later." Chen Jianqiu asked Holmes to put away all the gold he fished up first, "We Chinese have an old saying, called 'make a fortune with a muffled voice', so everyone can rest assured." ”

As Hanif said, it is not necessarily a good thing to suddenly find gold in the west, and sooner or later people will be targeted, not only at the gold, but also at the ground under your feet.

You can't just take a box of gold bars to the state bank in Santa Fe to exchange dollars.

Wait, banks?

Chen Jianqiu thought about it and had a plan.

The rest of the gold should sink to the bottom of the lake first, and you can take it whenever you want.

There is no other place to be safer than here.

"Let's go, let's go back to the top." Chen Jianqiu asked everyone to extinguish the lights in the cave, and then slapped Sean awake who was still rolling his eyes.

Then he walked shirtless to the entrance of the cave.

It was too cold in the cave, and he had to find a place to make a fire.

Downey and Li Sifu were sitting by the campfire.

Li Sifu's English is not good, and with a strong accent, Donnie and him are half a pound and a tael, but because the two are of the same age and have rich body language, they actually have a very happy chat.

Suddenly, the rope hanging into the hole behind Li Sifu's buttocks moved.

Li Sifu was startled and raised a torch to shine on the cliff.

He saw a sculpture-like carcass of a man's upper body.

Chen Jianqiu jumped up directly from below, crossed Li Sifu, and trotted to the edge of the bonfire.

"It's cold, it's cold." He sat down by the campfire and roasted his wet clothes by the fire.

The people behind also climbed up one after another.

Chen Jianqiu, who was roasting on the fire, suddenly wanted to drink some wine to warm up his body, however, only Adam had a bottle of Erguotou in the team.

"Let's go back to the lake." Chen Jianqiu quickly stood up.

"But ......" Danny looked at the dark sky and the sickly Hanif and Sean who was still rolling his eyes, and was about to say something.

As soon as he turned his head, he found that Chen Jianqiu, who was shirtless, had already walked towards the cave.

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