74 Seek riches in the fire
You must know that Fang Cai, Wu and Jin, are also reading martial arts classics in this stone room, Xie Yixiang was distracted and checked the records of this family, and they disappeared in the blink of an eye. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć She was startled, suddenly came to her senses, and scolded secretly: "What a cunning fat man Wu!"
At that moment, Xie Yixiang hurriedly rushed out of the passage outside the stone gate, and sure enough, at the stone gate engraved with the word "wood" at the end of the passage, Mayor Wu and Jin Zhutou were pulling the copper ring on the stone door from the outside, and they wanted to work together to close the three or four feet thick stone door, so that they trapped themselves and Dai Qi in the stone room.
It should be noted that the five stone doors of "gold, water, wood, fire, and earth" in the depths of the altar are all pushed open from the outside to the inside, in the direction of the passage behind the stone gate, and the copper ring cast on the outside of the stone door is for people to pull when the door is closed, while the side of the stone door facing the passage is smooth and smooth. If Xie Yixiang hadn't arrived in time, and waited until Wu and Jin had pulled the stone gate together from the outside, although they might not be able to trap a top master like Dai Qi, but if they wanted to pull this slippery stone door inward from the passage, where would there be any borrowing power on the door?
The mayor of Wu and the head of the golden catcher did not expect Xie Yixiang to suddenly arrive at the last moment, which can be said to be a failure, only to see Xie Yixiang raise his hand and throw out the sword sheath that was picked up from behind the "Golden Gate", and smashed it down in front of Mayor Wu through the gap in the stone gate. Mayor Wu hurriedly retreated two steps to avoid the sword, but felt that the crimson figure in front of him flickered, and Xie Yixiang's whole person had followed closely behind, rushing straight out of the stone door through the gap and returning to the circular stone room in the middle.
For a while, the golden catcher was holding a short sword, and he was already eager to try, but Mayor Wu didn't know whether to fight or peace. Xie Yixiang saw his hesitation, and immediately preemptively said: "Lord Wu, that day in the back hall of the Yamen of Chilong Town, the exchange between you and me was not enjoyable for some reason. Why don't we take this opportunity to talk to each other again?"
This sentence suddenly woke up Mayor Wu, that day in the back hall of this girl's martial arts suddenly advanced by leaps and bounds, he was no longer an opponent at that time, not to mention that there was an unfathomable Dai Qi in the stone room behind the "wooden door......"? Xia Guan saw that Dai senior was reading and reading hard, and we couldn't be disturbed, and then remembered that there were still two stone doors of 'fire' and 'earth' that had not been opened, so I wanted to investigate first. ā
After that, Mayor Wu added: "Who knew that at this moment, the adult actually came out, and the two of us saw that the gap between the stone door was too narrow, so we wanted to push the stone door wider for the adult." ā
How could Xie Yixiang have the heart to argue with Mayor Wu at this time? She never believed this Mayor Wu from beginning to end, and now that everyone is in danger, since it is not yet time to turn their faces, there is no need to worry about the gains and losses with him. At that moment, Xie Yixiang also smiled and said: "That's better, I'm also depressed when I stay inside, it's better to go with you to see the things in the remaining two stone rooms, so that you can take care of each other." ā
Where did Mayor Wu dare to say the word "no"? He had no choice but to agree, but at that moment, it was still the golden catcher who took the lead in opening the way with a lantern in his hand, and pushed open the stone gate engraved with the word "fire." Xie Yixiang walked behind the two of them and walked through the passage behind the stone gate, but saw that the stone room behind the "fire gate" was actually stuffed with boxes the size of several cases, stacked layer by layer, taking up most of the already huge stone room; a little estimate showed that there were thousands of boxes in this stone room.
I only heard the golden catcher head say to himself: "Behind the 'Golden Gate' is the blade, behind the 'Water Gate' is the elixir, and after the 'Wooden Gate' is the classics, I don't know what is in the box behind the 'Fire Gate'?" But listening to the sound of "bang-la-la" rolling, under the light of the fire, the large pile of things that fell out of the box reflected bursts of golden light, and the boxes were filled with gold bars.
You must know that since the founding of the country, this dynasty has always been very strict with the officials under its rule, even if it is an eight-grade official like Mayor Wu, the monthly salary is only two taels of silver; as for small officials such as Jin Zhutou, they are not even in the establishment of court officials, and they are afraid that the monthly salary is less than five yuan, so although his surname is "Jin", there may not be "gold" available on weekdays. Seeing the box full of gold bars at this moment, the golden catcher immediately exclaimed, and the short sword in his hand did not stop, and he stabbed all the more than a dozen boxes in front of him like crazy, and suddenly spilled gold bars and jewels all over the ground.
It turned out that these chests were not all gold, but also jewels such as pearls, agate, and jade. Xie Yixiang was a little disappointed, she didn't expect that this "fire gate" was actually storing these yellow and white things, but it was a bit ironic, could it be that she was warning the world not to be greedy for wealth, otherwise she would set yourself on fire? Or is this money a hot thing?
At this time, the gold catcher stuffed the gold bars into his arms one by one, pressing the belt around the waist of his trousers to break, and the gold bars in his arms suddenly fell all over the ground, but he seemed to have no idea, and continued to stuff the gold bars up and down his body, vaguely crazy. As for Mayor Wu, he was much more "Sven", and he didn't care about those gold bars, but went to pick those valuable agate jade stones and put them in his arms.
Xie Yixiang shook her head slightly, and said in her heart: "The wealth in this stone room is only worth the tax income of the imperial court in ten or twenty years, even if it is given to you for nothing, with the strength of the two of you, how much can you carry in the end?" Fortunately, Xie Yixiang grew up in the family of Xie Fengxuan, the first general of the dynasty, although he was not extravagant and wasteful since he was a child, but it was also a day of fine clothes and food, and he never worried about money, so he naturally didn't know the value of this money. So at the moment, she didn't care about the room full of gold bars and jewelry.
At that moment, Xie Yixiang wandered around in front of these boxes, originally planning to find the stolen military salaries of the imperial court, but suddenly thought: "The wealth stored in this stone room is obviously the accumulation of thousands of years of operation by this mysterious family, and the amount should not be underestimated. There is a saying that 'the gold of troubled times, the antiques of prosperous times', and the collection in this stone room is indeed deeply true. In comparison, storing gold is naturally much more cost-effective than silver, not to mention that if these chests contain silver, according to the ability of this mysterious family, it will not take thousands of years, and this stone chamber can be filled in hundreds of years. Therefore, even if it is true that this mysterious family robbed the military salary of the imperial court, most of them will not be piled up here, but the official silver of the imperial court must be exchanged for gold bars and jewelry first, so as to reduce the quantity and facilitate storage. ā
Thinking of this, Xie Yixiang calculated again that although it had been several months since the imperial court's military salary had been robbed, and with the death of Dongting Hujiang Wangcai and Fang Dongfeng, the case was basically closed, but after all, the limelight had not passed. In addition, the silver ingots of the military salaries were all cast with the marks of the imperial treasury, so the robbers must not have dared to exchange them in the market during this time. If this mysterious family robbed the military salary, most of it was stored somewhere else at the moment, and it would be quietly disposed of years or even decades later. At this moment, if you want to find it from the stone room behind this "fire gate", most of them are begging for fish.
However, Xie Yixiang thought about it, with such a huge fortune in front of him, it could really be said that he was stacked with gold and jade, and the wealth was rivaled by the country. Why not confiscate it to fill the treasury to compensate for the loss of the imperial court's military salaries?
As everyone knows, this is the wonder of money, since ancient times, there have been people who are unvirtuous, believing that "everyone has a price", and no one in the world can not be bought by money. Poor people can even kill people for a full meal; ordinary people will even abandon their wives and daughters and forget their ancestors for tens or hundreds of taels of silver; even Du Zimei, a "poet saint" who has lived a poor life and is clean and self-conscious, if he really has the money to build "tens of thousands of mansions" and the ambition of "sheltering the poor people in the world", I am afraid that he will also give all his hands, and even sell his soul.
Therefore, it is in response to the sentence "Money can make ghosts grind", even the children of self-proclaimed officials like Xie Yixiang, when she thought that if she exchanged the wealth in front of her for rice, it would be enough for all the people in the world to eat it for decades, so that the world would no longer suffer from famine, why was she not moved?
Looking at Wu and Jin beside him, who were desperately stuffing gold and jewelry into their bodies, Xie Yixiang suddenly had a trace of killing intent in her heart, and said secretly: "Although the wealth that these two people can take away, but the tip of the iceberg in this stone room, it is enough to save hundreds of poor families, it is better to ......."
Between thoughts, she reached out and pressed the chaos on her waist.