Meng Xiaofan was very familiar with the layout of the mansion, and he took Chen Qi directly to a main room in the backyard.

Meng Xiaofan was about to take out the tools to open the door, but heard a woman's voice from inside the house: "Mu Zhe came back today, I was supposed to see you, but I didn't wait, and I went back to the construction site after dinner." ”

"Is there something wrong?" asked a man.

Woman: "It's nothing, I just want to tell you about the situation on the construction site, the construction site has been seriously reduced recently, the progress has slowed down, and the silver is a little insufficient." ”

Man: "Didn't you just send a group of people a few days ago?"

Woman: "You know, these people are all refugees, they are all hungry, and the work on the construction site is so heavy that some of them will inevitably be unable to bear it. ”

Man: "Your younger brother, it's still not worry-free, although it's nothing to kill some victims, but he can't go too far, after all, there are also a number of victims, who will do the work when they die? Besides, if things get out, it's not good for anyone." ”

Woman: "He doesn't want to save some money, we eat meat, we have to let him drink some soup." ”

Man: "Drink soup? I'm afraid he doesn't eat less meat! Okay, you don't have to talk to him, I don't know what kind of person he is? Tomorrow I'll have someone recruit some more victims to send over, and send some supplies by the way." Now that it's a critical time for the project, you can't let this affect the progress, you write a letter to Mu Zhe, let someone send it over, and tell him not to affect the overall situation because of a little profit, since he follows us, we will not treat him badly. ”

Woman: "Listen to the master, I will tell him." I'm going to see the adults sent by the imperial court today, and everything is going well. ”

Man: "It's smooth, it's just that something has changed." ”

Woman: "What's the matter?"

Man: "The agreed share is about to change." ”

Woman: "Why? Wasn't the sharing ratio agreed before?"

Man: "It's negotiated, but now there is an extra big man, and this big man wants to take fifty percent directly." ”

Woman: "Who dares to ask for so much? The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household agreed?"

Man: "The man who can't afford to offend anyone." ”

Woman: "Didn't you leave it for him in the first place?"

Man: "Those who just plan to honor him are only Yicheng, and now the people in his house come directly to ask for it, so they can't give it again." ”

The woman sighed, "This lord can't refuse to give it all, but now we get a lot less." ”

Man: "Actually, it's quite a lot, and there are nearly 20,000 taels after all." Okay, let's sleep."

With the man's words, no sound came from inside the room after that.

Chen Qi and Meng Xiaofan had been quietly listening to the conversation between the two outside the house, and knew that it was Li Zhixing, the prefect of Yunzhou, and his wife in the house.

Chen Qi and the others were very angry at these people's disregard for the lives of the victims, and they were also surprised by their courage to embezzle the imperial court's silver taels in one go.

Chen Qi whispered to Meng Xiaofan: "We won't steal it, just go in and let them take out all the embezzled silver." ”

Meng Xiaofan said: "It's okay to rob it, if you steal it, you have to go through the trouble to find it everywhere, so we can save a lot of trouble." ”

Chen Qi pressed his right hand on the middle of the door, and then forced, the door latch broke with a "click", although the sound was very small, but it still woke up the people in the house.

"Who ......?"

Before Li Zhixing finished speaking, Chen Qi and Meng Xiaofan had already arrived at the bed, and Meng Xiaofan had a short sword across his neck and said, "Don't talk if you don't want to die." ”

Li Zhixing nodded, and his wife shrunk on the bed shivering.

Meng Xiaofan picked Li Zhixing's neck with a short sword, "Get up and find out all your silver tickets and jewelry, and dare to play tricks to take your dog's life." ”

Li Zhixing said: "As long as there are valuable things in this room, the two heroes can take them all, but there are not many silver tickets, as long as they don't hurt our husband and wife, they can all be presented to the two heroes." ”

Meng Xiaofan asked, "How much is it?"

"Five...... Five or six hundred taels. ”

"Hehe", Meng Xiaofan sneered twice, "Send the food, you are a prefect, you only have five or six hundred taels of silver tickets, what about deceiving ghosts? ”

Meng Xiaofan said, the short sword in his hand was slightly forced, and he made a cut on Li Zhixing's neck, and the blood flowed down the stream.

"A good man spares his life, a good man spares his life, and a good man is troublesome to listen to me. Li Zhixing said in horror, "Since the heroes know that I am the prefect, then they should know that I don't have much money, and there is a large family that needs me to support, and there is not much money left. ”

", you really don't have much money in a prefect's house, but what about the money you embezzled? We have heard all the things you just said outside, and if you manage a canal, you can embezzle 20,000 taels, and you can be less corrupt in normal times? Now you are given two choices, either you will obediently take out 20,000 taels of silver tickets, or my two brothers will kill you two, and then we will find it ourselves. Meng Xiaofan reprimanded.

Li Zhixing hurriedly said: "A good man spares his life, I really can't take out so much now, the 20,000 taels you said can only be obtained after the completion of the project, and now you can't take out so much even if you kill our husband and wife." ”

Chen Qi said: "Since they want money and don't want their lives, then they will be fulfilled, and after killing them, even a silver ticket will not be found, and we will admit it." ”

"Okay," Meng Xiaofan said, "Since you don't tell the truth and make my brother angry, then we don't need to waste time, taking the life of you, a dog official, can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people." ”

After Meng Xiaofan finished speaking, he was about to use a short sword to kill Li Zhixing, and Mrs. Li, who had not spoken at this time, said urgently: "Good man spare his life, we can take out all the silver tickets in our hands now, and only ask to spare the lives of our husband and wife, as for how many...... We don't know very well, but we definitely won't deceive the two heroes anymore, if you don't believe it, you can search later. ”

After Mrs. Li finished speaking, she said to Li Zhixing: "Master, it is important to save your life, so you will give all the valuable things and silver tickets to the two heroes." ”

Li Zhixing sighed, "Well, the matter has come to this, and I will no longer hide it, all the valuable things and silver in the family are willing to be dedicated to the two of them, just in exchange for the lives of our husband and wife." ”

Meng Xiaofan said with a smile: "It's not over if you say this a little earlier, we only want money, although you really deserve to die, but in the future, someone will come to take your dog's life, and today my brothers and sisters will not have dirty hands." ”

Chen Qi said: "Since you are willing to give up your wealth to save your life, then show sincerity and dare to play tricks to kill you." ”

"Yes, yes......" Mr. and Mrs. Li replied quickly.

Meng Xiaofan put away the short sword, Li Zhixing got up from the bed, walked straight to the dresser opposite, picked up a box that seemed to be with the dresser, and then gently pressed it where the box was placed. With Li Zhixing's press, a bookcase against the wall on the east side slowly turned over with the wall, revealing a small door, and inside was a dark room.

Li Zhi walked to the door of the dark room and said to Chen Qi and Meng Xiaofan: "All my belongings are here, please go inside and get them." ”

Meng Xiaofan took an arrow step and went directly into the dark room, he casually lit the fire sickle he carried with him, and then lit the candles in the dark room, Chen Qi waited for the lights to turn on, and pulled Li Zhixing into the dark room together.

This dark room is very large, surrounded by wooden shelves, on which all kinds of antique calligraphy and paintings are placed, and more gold and silver ingots.

"You dog official is not less greedy!"

Even though Meng Xiaofan often followed Meng Bufan to steal, it was the first time he saw so much gold, silver and jewelry, and his eyes lit up.

Although Chen Qi didn't have much concept of money, he couldn't hide his excitement. "Now we can save more people. ”

After the excitement, Chen Qi said to Li Zhixing: "It's inconvenient for us to take all these things away, you better take out the silver ticket." ”

Li Zhixing said: "The silver ticket is placed outside, I'll go get it, and by the way, bring some bags for the two of you." ”

"Go, go, go. Meng Xiaofan said excitedly.

"Yes. Li Zhixing turned around and walked out of the dark room.

Meng Xiaofan took the antique porcelain on the shelf and looked at them one by one, "It's really a good thing, but it's a pity that I can't take it away." ”

Chen Qi stepped forward and said: "If you like it, pick a few things to take away, let's take less gold and silver, and take more silver tickets."

Meng Xiaofan said happily: "Thank you, brother!"

"I ...... Not good!"

Chen Qifei walked towards the door of the dark room, but he was still a step late, and the door of the dark room was already closed. The door of the dark room closed much faster than when it was opened just now, and when Chen Qi heard the strange noise and rushed to the door, there was only an instant, and the door was completely closed at this time.

Meng Xiaofan scolded: "Dog officer, when the master goes out, I will not spare you." ”

After Meng Xiaofan finished scolding, he was still angry, looking left and right, wanting to take something out of his anger, but every item in the dark room was a treasure, and he was reluctant.

Chen Qi smiled: "Don't be angry, he always has to open this door." ”

"Why?"

"There must be a mechanism to open the door here, and the reason why he trapped us inside was to get out of our control, and the other was to arrange people outside to capture us, so he would take the initiative to open the door and let us out after the outside was arranged. ”

"Then we'll wait for the door to open too much. ”

Chen Qi said with a smile: "We can't wait, although we don't need to find the mechanism to open the door, but we still have to find which treasures to take away, pack up, and when the door opens, we will rush out directly." ”

"Okay, but wait until the door opens to make this dog official look good!"

Meng Xiaofan said indignantly, and then began to work with Chen Qi. The two found a shirt in the dark room and wrapped all the gold ingots first, and Meng Xiaofan took off his coat again and used it to wrap silver and a few antiques he found.

After these things were done, the two began to rummage in the dark room again, and finally found a thick stack of silver tickets in a dark compartment on a mezzanine.

Meng Xiaofan counted the stacks of silver votes, looked at Chen Qi with wide eyes, and laughed, "Fifteen thousand taels ......"

Chen Qi also said happily: "Put it away, now we can do anything." ”

Meng Xiaofan nodded, put the silver ticket into his arms, and then kicked the two packages on the ground, and said, "With these silver tickets, can we still take these things?"

"Of course you have to take it, wouldn't it be cheaper if you don't take it. ”

"Then are we going to destroy everything we can't take?"

"This is not necessary, these things are treasures, it is a pity to destroy them, although we can't take them away today, but it will definitely not fall into the hands of this dog official, and there will be a good fate in the future." ”

As soon as Chen Qi finished speaking, the door of the dark room opened.