Chapter 24: The Underground Palace
At night, Ning He and Gongye Ziyi, each changed into a coarse cloth clothes, accompanied by the moonlight, and slipped to the southeast city of Ying'an.
There is a very famous street in the southeast city of Ying'an, called Chengqi Street, a whole street on both sides of the house courtyard, are a jade workshop, there are some finished jade shops.
Jingshan jade is not the best in the world, but what a lot of material.
The ore veins on the mountain are basically only roughly sorted, and the high-quality jade raw materials are picked out, and each family directly collects them in their own hands, and the ordinary or inferior ones are transported to Chengqi Street.
Some directly sell raw materials to workshop shops, while others set up their own workshops and shops, carve and decorate jade, and use materials to make it more valuable, and then sell them all over the world.
Although Ying'an County has the most private mines and the largest ones, it is He Lan's family and Chengjia, but their goods flow less to the county, but go out.
In the past, it was mostly sold to the Li Dynasty, where jade was not produced, but it was extremely jade-like.
Now it is also sold to Haixi, where the tribes on the Shuoshuo grassland also like jade ornaments.
And when they did this business, the world was undecided, and the workshop and everything were left in the mountains, and they didn't change places later.
However, Xiao Guang and Linghu Anyan's family have a lot of business here.
Ning He and Gongye Ziyi have also come here several times, and they are no strangers.
"Right here??"
Looking at the Wang Ji Yufang across the courtyard from the Linghu Anyan workshop, Gongye Ziyi asked Xiang Ning He in surprise.
This jade workshop was the original owner's house that Ning He bought for her, and she had also come to He Lanzhen once, and just a few days ago, she didn't think there was anything unusual.
"Let's see." Ning He nodded, pulled her onto a roof, and quietly sneaked into the backyard of Yufang.
None of these jade workshops are small.
In addition to the storefront on the street, there are two courtyards inside.
As soon as you enter, there are side rooms on the left and right, and there are single rooms of different sizes that are separated, which is the place where the jade is carved.
In the second courtyard, there is an open space that divides large pieces of jade, adjacent to the hall and the warehouse.
In the dead of night, it was quiet, and even though the two of them had reached the roof of the warehouse, they didn't find anything unusual.
There are people who are active, and these jade squares have their own nursing homes, patrolling and inspecting at night, for fear of being remembered by the thieves, and stealing some small pieces to go.
This made Gongye Ziyi look at Ning He frequently, wondering if the news he got was not accurate.
"Learn from the teacher, all of them will be knocked out."
Ning He observed for a while, but decided to be direct, tilting his head and signaling to Gongye Ziyi.
Gongye Ziyi's eyes darkened, and he pointed to himself, "I'll go?" ”
Ning Kaba's eyes, "Otherwise? Aren't you coming, eating dry rice? It's just about 20 people, don't say you can't do it. ”
"Who said my aunt can't do it!" Gongye Ziyi snorted, floated to the ground, and quietly heard that the cat was in the shadow of the courtyard wall, waiting for a team of five guards to pass by, and suddenly rushed out, both hands turned into hand knives, and one person slashed at the neck, and all five people were put down in an instant.
Just wanted to turn his head to Ning Hexian on the roof, but found that the calf was gone, and he immediately wanted to curse.
Unexpectedly, Ning He walked from behind her, flicked his brain and collapsed, startling her, like a frightened kitten, he popped out far away, and a pair of short knives also appeared in his hand, pulling up a posture.
"Let's go." Ning He beckoned, walked to the door of the warehouse brightly, and said to her: "The knife lends me down, the crack in the door is too small, and my sword can't reach in." ”
Gongye Ziyi, who wanted to be furious, was suddenly silent when he saw this, handed him a short knife, and quietly watched him cut the door lock and pry the door latch open.
"Who!" There were many people in the door, and there were many of them, and when they heard the movement outside, they gathered at the door, and the next moment they saw that the thigh-thick latch was gently picked up with a short knife, and the door was opened, and they were stunned and did not forget to shout.
But before they could see the faces of the people, pieces of rubble flew over and knocked them unconscious.
"You're poisonous! You can do it so easily, what are you calling me for? ”
Gongye Ziyi also looked at the dozen or so people lying down in the warehouse in surprise, and then became more and more annoyed.
She knew that Ning He was much more powerful than her, this has always been the case, among the others, Qin Yu is the best in terms of talent, and Ning He has always been the strongest in terms of martial arts.
But she didn't know that this calf was so powerful now.
She didn't see it clearly, Ning He had already observed the other party's position clearly, and she also made a move, knocking everyone out without any false hair.
If she had known, she would have moved, she would be Wangwang!
"Don't be, hurry up and look for it, there should be an authentic here."
Ning He didn't respond, walked in by himself, and looked around.
A few of the wolf swordsmen who were caught said that they had entered the city before and had seen the person Ning He was looking for, and they didn't dare to stay in the city, for fear that they would be caught by Ning He and killed them easily, so they fled to the area of Pingliu Village.
A few more people gathered nearby, planning to do a vote in Pingliu Village, and get some more property so that they could go to Yuzhou Mansion and become a new person.
They didn't sneak into the city on their own, but they took the same way as they used to deliver goods, and paid to enter the city through a tunnel outside the city.
As for the goods in their mouths, they are actually dirty, they robbed the goods, basically will not sell the stolen goods in Xiling Mansion, they are generally shipped across places, close to Xiling Mansion and rich Ying'an, including Jing'an County, and Yonghe City have also been shipped.
But they don't know the specific location of the tunnel crossing, the location of the joint outside the city, the shipment or the entry into the city, they all go there first, and then someone takes them to the tunnel crossing with a closed carriage to hand over into the city, which is very hidden.
"Why don't you look for it outside the city?"
Gongye Ziyi asked while looking for it.
Except for so many people in this warehouse, it seems abnormal, everything else is quite normal, and the jade raw materials are piled up everywhere, and it is very troublesome to rummage.
Ning He walked deep into the warehouse, patted it on the wall, and said, "I looked for it when I came back from outside the city, and I turned around two or three times, and those things didn't point out a serious place." ”
"A boxy city, so easy to hide, so difficult to identify?"
"Who knows, at the beginning, they swore that they could find it when they talked about the place, and they all started to stare at it after a few turns."
Ning He said as he pulled away a basin-sized jade material in his hand, and a ray of bright light suddenly reflected from a small gap in the ground.
Gongye Ziyi was blocked by his figure, and he didn't notice it, and still asked, "Then how did they decide that they were here?" ”
"Come on." Ning He turned around and beckoned to her, and when she came to her side, he said, "I guess." ”
Those people only said that it was that place, and it should be near Chengqi Street, because during the day, someone occasionally heard a very loud hammering sound, guessing that it was caused by decomposition and chiseling of large pieces of jade.
"I remember Zhen'er's girl said that Wang Laosan's family is dead and wants money, not only the yard is expensive, but the jade materials and jade are more expensive than others, but the business is very good, there are many businesses all year round, so I want to come here to find out."
Looking at Gongye Ziyi's big eyes, Ning He explained again.
Gongye Ziyi smiled angrily: "Aren't you afraid of finding the wrong place?" ”
Ning He: "It's okay, it's a big deal to pretend to be a Jiangyang thief, anyway, we are not serious people, do you care about that?" ”
Gongye Ziyi knife has all his thoughts, "Don't kidnap your aunt and grandmother, okay!" ”
Ning He pursed his lips, went down with his knife, and traced along the gap to find the periphery, and soon found a handle hidden in the jade pile.
The handle is carved from a piece of jade with a lot of impurities, and it looks normal on all sides, and it is normal to touch it along with the gap between another piece of jade, only to find that it is hollowed out inside, and you can buckle your hand and use it as a handle.
"There's one over here, too." Gongye Ziyi, on the other side, also made the same discovery.
Ning He looked at it, the two of them were seven feet apart, and there were places for people to reach out on the left and right of the handles, which was obviously not open by one person.
But it's just the work of three or four people, and it's not difficult for him.
Signaling Gongye Ziyi to get out of the way, he exerted force in his hand, and a thick wooden board that was square was lifted by him.
Without rushing to uncover it all, Ning He first looked down.
The bottom is about two feet deep, straight up and down, there are no ladders or anything like that, only some slings for carrying things.
It was brightly lit, as bright as day, and the sound was very noisy.
Ning He motioned to Gongye Ziyi to find a few pieces of jade to jam the wooden board, and the whole person fell down along the gap, hooked the sling shelf with his foot, and continued to investigate inward.
After finding that no one was staring at him, he leaned back and pulled up his body, let Gongye Ziyi go out and wait for him outside, and then slid directly down the wall.
There is only a wide entrance above, but below is a vacant space about three zhang wide, one side is recessed into the 'wall', and the other side is vertical, and there is nothing to cover the front.
Ning He took the opportunity to look out, and saw that in this underground space, I am afraid that there are not ten acres of land.
On the left-hand side of the passage is a small bazaar-like existence, with a few shops, more of which are scattered in rows, and a small gambling house in the corner.
On the right-hand side are rows of iron cages, each of which has a number plate, and there are three or five people in the majority, and there is only one person in the few, all of whom are young girls.
Facing it are several small courtyards, all of which are closed, and I don't know what is going on inside.
Now as far as he can see, not counting those caged girls, there are nearly two or three hundred people, which is beyond his expectations.