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Zhao Ruogang's house is located on the bank of Yudai River in the north of the city, on the edge of Yuexiu Mountain. It is a good place with mountains and rivers. It is not a big place, but it is elegant and clean. ??????

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?c?n? Ni Liang arranged a warning before asking the prince to get out of the car. Zhao Bing looked around and saw that the house was empty. Everything that could be moved had been moved away. The yard was also messed up by the soldiers who searched, and the garden was in a mess.

The grass and trees were all uprooted, the water in the pond was washed dry, and the lotus flowers in the pond were withered. But the owner had fled and the servants were scattered. Only the cats and dogs who lost their owners were wandering in the house, and they ran away quickly when they saw people.

, it was like walking into a ghost under the cold moonlight.

"Song Jie, Zhang Qi, you two tell me where he can hide his things!" Zhao Bing turned around and found everything he could find, as Lin Zhiwu said, and returned to the front hall.

Said to two people dressed as guards.

"Your Highness, my subordinates have also checked. There are no walls in the house, and no secret room is found. There are no traces of movement on the floor tiles. There should be nothing hidden in the house." Song Jie answered first.

"Your Highness, my subordinates have walked around the yard. They have explored the stables, gardens, rockeries and ponds. Some places have been dug up three feet by the soldiers, but no new findings have been found yet." Zhang Qi was also puzzled.

said.

"Haha, I don't believe that he can take away all those things. They must be hidden in this house. If you can't find them, you can only say that they are in vain." Zhao Bing said with a smile.

Zhao Bing knows that no one can beat a thief when it comes to finding things. When they break into a house, they have to be careful not to let anyone discover them, and they also have to find valuable treasures as quickly as possible, and no one will put the most valuable things away.

In the open. This requires keen observation and the ability to quickly find clues to find things hidden in hidden places. These two people are not actually members of the Guards, but are two spies recruited by the Secretariat. They did exactly what they did in the past.

He is one of the top businessmen in the industry, and he has a certain reputation for his ability to walk around, walk in and out of doors, and pull off sheep's business.

"Your Highness, we are short of time, please allow us to search again." The first time the prince came back empty-handed after doing some errands, which really made them embarrassed. They saluted in unison. This time, the two of them did not rush to search everywhere, but just stood there.

They were looking around on the high steps in front of the hall. Zhao Bing also followed their gazes, and suddenly their eyes fell on several lotus vats in front of the hall at the same time.

Zhao Bing still knows a little about this thing. Although there are lotus flowers and fish in it, it seems to be used to decorate the courtyard. But its real purpose is to store water. It can be said that it is a fire prevention facility. As long as it is usually used

Fill it with water, and if a fire breaks out, you can get water to extinguish the fire at any time, so it is also called a peace jar. The texture of the lotus jar is usually made of ceramics. Of course, rich people also use copper castings, and the Forbidden City in Beijing is even more gilded.

At the same time, it also plays a role in showing off wealth.

Since the lotus vat has a practical function of storing water, it is usually made wide and closed to increase the capacity as much as possible. But the vat in front of the hall here is very new. It also seems to be much smaller than the ones elsewhere, and the number is also small.

No. Because according to the Chinese principle of symmetry, the objects placed in front of the hall are all in pairs, but there are only three here, and one is missing on the left, which seems very strange. Zhang Qi picked up a lantern and went over to check.

, Sure enough, there were traces of the missing location, but there were no broken pieces, which meant that someone had moved one of the tanks away.

'Boom, boom...' Song Jie tapped a jar next to him with his palm, which made a muffled sound unique to metal knocking. It was obviously made of metal. He pulled the edge of the cylinder again and tried to move it, but the cylinder failed.

Not moving at all.

"There is something wrong with this tank." Zhao Bing also noticed it and turned around and said, "Wang De, look at the checklist. Is there a lotus tank in it?"

"Your Highness, no!" Wang De took the account book and looked through it under the lantern.

"Your Highness, you can't be wrong! These are rough guys. Since there has been no movement in the mansion, the soldiers guarding them were withdrawn after dark, and there are soldiers patrolling the streets outside. If a few people are carrying such a

A large vat will not escape inspection when walking on the street. It can only be that the Zhao thief took one with him when he left the city. But the person who fled did not take anything else, but took away a newly made lotus vat. Then

It can only mean that this tank is very valuable!" Zhang Qi said with great certainty.

"Could it be that boy who made these jars out of the gold he collected?" Zhao Bing said with some surprise. According to common sense, money is hidden in the most secret places. Who would put gold in the courtyard and let it be exposed to wind and rain?

, and Lin Zhiwu, who ransacked the house, must have thought the vat was too heavy and threw it here.

"Your Highness, this vat is made of gold, but it's just covered with layers of copper inside and out to hide it from others!" Song Jie took out his dagger and scraped the edge of the vat a few times, then licked it with his tongue and said excitedly

.

"Haha, I didn't expect that someone would do this a hundred years later!" Zhang Qi also said with a smile.

"Oh, are there any other allusions to this?" Zhao Bing asked curiously, patting the vat.

"Your Highness, it is said that during the reign of Emperor Xiaozong, there was a rich man in Yangzhou with a fortune in the millions and a large amount of cash. This attracted the prying eyes of many Taoist priests. Many people also sneaked into his house to make a fortune, but no one

He succeeded. But it was not because his family was heavily guarded, but because he cast the silver into ten large silver balls weighing 300 kilograms. Even if he found it, he couldn't take it out, so no one wanted to take advantage of his family anymore!" Song Jie said.

Narrated.

"So that's how it is, but this guy can be considered a weirdo. If you follow this line of thinking and search, you should carefully check any places that have been modified or newly built in the house." Zhao Bing's ability to draw inferences from one instance to another is amazing, and now he has found the gold.

, the silver is still there, maybe it was made in the same way. And he calculated that the diameter and height of the cylinder were about two feet each, and about one centimeter thick. Excluding the copper wrapping, it was calculated according to the calculation of one pound of gold per inch.

The conservative estimate is that it is more than 100 catties, and the three jars are about 4,000 taels. This alone is worth the trip. If you turn it into silver, you will make money...

After some searching, it was discovered that the screen wall at the entrance was newly renovated, and this thing was related to the feng shui fortune of the owner. It was not unusual for new people to rebuild it after moving in. However, how could Zhao Bing let it go and ordered people to tear down the screen wall after making the same mistake as before?

Sure enough, he won the lottery again. The inside was actually built with smelted silver bricks, then sealed with a layer of adobe bricks, plastered with dust, and finally covered with whitewash.

After Zhao Bing was overjoyed, he couldn't help but sigh that these officials were really good at collecting money. They had amassed so much wealth in just four months. He also lamented that Guangzhou was so rich that the income from this place was as much as a year in remote Yuanzhou County.

Then I felt that I had "too little knowledge". I had seized some money on a Tatar warship at sea a few months ago, so I felt complacent that being a pirate was a very promising industry. I didn't expect that being an official would make me rich more quickly.

It's only now that I feel like this prince is acting like a prince...
Chapter completed!