Chapter 48: Hidden Gold
The night is like a curtain, but the lights of the Prime Minister's House shine like day.
The verandah, where people come and go on weekdays, is particularly quiet at this time, and the whole corridor is extraordinarily long. Occasionally, a servant from the Prime Minister's House walked by, and the cloth shoes rubbed against the bluestone slabs, making a rustling sound like the autumn wind sweeping away the dead leaves.
Pushing open the closed wooden door of the side hall, the old door frame creaked, although the Xiangfu looked warm, but there was always a smell of dampness in this side hall, Su Kexin took a few breaths and sneezed heavily.
"You're the only one who's used it for three years. You still dare to stand, and you won't kneel down for me!" Xiangye said coldly.
Aunt Liu, who was standing in the middle of the side hall, trembled unconsciously under Xiangye's roar, she fell to her knees suddenly, and cried: "Xiangye, what a sin I have committed, let you bring me here, is it this little slut who is sowing discord again, Xiangye, you can't believe her words." ”
Su Kexin glanced at Aunt Liu contemptuously, and suddenly sneezed again.
"I don't believe what anyone says, I only believe what I see. Xiangye said.
Aunt Liu still shouted unknowingly: "What did you see, you want to bring me here for interrogation!"
"What did I see, I saw gold, thirty thousand taels of gold buried in the ground!" Xiangye's voice gradually increased.
Aunt Liu's face turned pale instantly, and her lips trembled, as if she understood what Xiangye was talking about.
Time turned back two hours, Su Kexin had just returned to the Xiangfu from the manor, thinking about the giant guards she had placed in the Xiangfu for Su Yuanhan to train, but she didn't expect that as soon as she walked into the wing, she heard Xiao Nian'er's shouting.
Xiao Nian'er shouted that the house had collapsed, Su Kexin only thought it was funny, she knew that Xiao Nian'er had been secretly watching the servants rebuild the Prime Minister's Mansion, as for the collapse of the house in Xiao Nian'er's mouth, it was mostly a joke.
However, Xiao Nian'er didn't give up, she had to go to Su Kexin to take a look, Su Kexin couldn't resist Xiao Nian'er, so she followed her, who knew that this look, but Su Kexin discovered the most hidden secret.
Xiao Nian'er is right, it is true that the house collapsed, but it was not the house on the ground that collapsed, but a cellar built under the ground by someone who did not know it.
Presumably, in the process of rebuilding the Prime Minister's Mansion, someone dug the ground by mistake, causing this one-person-high cellar to be exposed.
"Mother, what is in this house, why is it all Huang Cancan?" Su Yuannian said curiously.
Su Kexin sneered twice, she rubbed Su Yuannian's black hair, and said softly: "These are all gold, and for the vast majority of people, these are treasures." But for someone, I'm afraid it's a talisman. ”
No matter how elf Su Yuannian is, she is just a child, she lives in the mountains with Su Kexin on weekdays, and rarely comes into contact with the earthly world, even if she lives in the earthly world these days, she doesn't worry about money, and it's normal not to know gold.
When she said these words, Su Kexin's cold eyes swept over the servants present one by one, and everyone's faces were different, even if Su Kexin didn't know what to say, everyone knew whose life talisman these gold that were buried deep in the ground.
"Go and get Xiangye back, by the way, send two people to inform Aunt Liu, I remember that she set off in the morning to go to the suburban garden, and now I'm afraid I'm going to trouble her to come back." Su Kexin said, "If Aunt Liu asks, she will say that Xiangye has something to look for her." ”
In fact, almost all the servants in the Prime Minister's Mansion are Aunt Liu's henchmen, but now the sudden appearance of Su Kexin is quite valued by Xiang Ye, taking this reorganization of the Xiang Mansion as an example, Xiang Ye let the old and young in the family go to the other garden, just so that Su Kexin's mother and son can live freely in the Xiang Mansion.
Based on this alone, the servants in the Prime Minister's Mansion did not dare to disobey Su Kexin's orders.
After sending people out, Su Kexin took the children back to her room. Xiangye is out on business, even if he rushes back immediately after receiving the news, it will take two hours before he can return to Xiangfu, Su Kexin wants to take advantage of this time to rest for a while.
However, just as Su Kexin was about to enter the ashram to meditate and practice, she suddenly heard a commotion in the courtyard.
"Mother, I got it, you're right, someone did come to steal the gold!" Su Yuanchen said happily.
Su Kexin rubbed her brows and walked out of the quiet room.
Although Su Kexin believes that most of the servants in the Prime Minister's Mansion dare not protect Aunt Liu, it is not excluded that Aunt Liu left a few henchmen among the servants, and now a large amount of private gold has been found in Aunt Liu's yard, which is almost ironclad evidence that sentenced Aunt Liu to death, if you want to save Aunt Liu, the best way is to steal the gold.
Su Kexin asked Xiaoyin to secretly guard the gold early in the morning, if someone came to steal it, there was no need to show mercy, as long as it didn't bite to death.
Therefore, when Su Kexin rushed outside the cellar to Su Yuanchen's joyful call, she saw the four servants lying on their backs on the ground, breathing like a gossamer to prove that they were still alive.
"Miss, the master is back. ”
Su Kexin was about to interrogate these servants who stole gold, but heard the housekeeper report it. Su Kexin counted the time and felt that Aunt Liu was almost time to arrive, so she simply let them interrogate together.
"What are you doing in a hurry to find me back! I have something important to do, if I don't have a reasonable explanation......
Su Qingtian's face was stinky, and on the way back, the person sent to inform him didn't dare to say what happened in the house, he held his breath in his heart, and when he saw Su Kexin, he naturally broke out.
"Dad, don't be angry first, look at this, this gold is a reasonable explanation?"
Su Kexin took a step to the side, revealing the gold in the cellar behind her.
In an instant, Su Qingtian gasped, his eyes widened, and he couldn't believe what he saw.
"How can this gold be hidden here?" Su Qingtian said incoherently.
Su Kexin said softly: "Look here, this is Aunt Liu's yard, if you want to know more detailed things, I'm afraid you have to ask Aunt Liu." ”
"What about her, send someone for me to get her back. ”
"I've already sent someone to invite it, presumably Aunt Liu is almost there. ”
Although the words were said and done, until Su Qingtian checked the amount of gold in the cellar, Aunt Liu had not returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion.
"What about her, how could it take so long to come back from the other garden!"
Su Kexin's heart is not good, Aunt Liu's henchmen who are placed in the servants can risk death to steal gold, so won't she secretly inform Aunt Liu. If Aunt Liu knew in advance that something was going on in the house, would she obediently go back to the house and be arrested?
The more Su Kexin thought about it, the more she felt that it was not good, but at this moment, the servant outside the porch shouted loudly.
"Aunt Liu is back. ”