The chief innkeeper invited the boss to sit in a guest room. A waiter served him tea, but he was not interested in the tea. He slapped the banknotes on the tea table and said, "All in cash."

The chief shopkeeper first took a look at the numbers on the three banknotes, then calmly took the banknotes one by one under the lamp to examine them carefully.

The boss knew that the old man didn't believe him, but they had agreed to use courtesy before force. The boss thought he was a very reasonable and trustworthy person, so he endured the anger and took a sip of the teacup. As for whether the tea was good or bad, the boss said that he was not a rich man and could not tell the difference.

The chief shopkeeper had been in charge of Mr. Qian's bank in Fengjing for many years. He could tell at a glance whether the banknotes were real or fake. He looked at the three banknotes again and again, but no matter how hard he looked at the way the boss was dressed, he didn't look like someone from the Hua family.

The three of them finished a cup of tea and asked the shopkeeper, "Are you ready?"

The chief shopkeeper said, "Sir, where are you from?" The banknote was stamped with the seal of the Hua family. If this person was not from the Hua family, he must be someone from the palace.

The boss said, "I'm here to withdraw some money. Do I need to register my household registration with you?"

The chief shopkeeper smiled politely and said, "That's not what I meant."

"What do you mean?" The boss patted the coffee table. "Hurry up and get the money. I have something else to do later."

"Please wait a moment," the chief shopkeeper asked the boss to wait.

Seeing the shopkeeper walking out quickly, the boss scratched his head. He had such a bad temper. Was he going to get the money without even telling him?

The chief shopkeeper ran to the backyard and called out the big boss Qian who was drinking tea with a few monks. He handed over three silver notes and said, "Master, these are the silver notes of the Hua family. You need to withdraw all the silver."

Boss Qian knew everything about the Hua family. If Hua Yingzhou didn't trust him, he wouldn't have put the money in Huixin Money House. "Someone from the palace?" asked Boss Qian.

The chief shopkeeper shook his head.

Boss Qian said, "Is that someone from the Hua family?"

The chief shopkeeper still shook his head. Could he say that these people looked like bandits and none of them looked like good people?

Boss Qian looked at the banknote in his hand again and said, "This banknote is real."

The chief shopkeeper said, "According to the date, this should be the banknote that Marshal Hua sent to the palace, but Concubine Hua has never asked for it before."

Boss Qian thought there was something fishy going on here. You said the things that were sent into the palace were stolen. Then how did this person get into the palace? And how did he get out? It wasn't stolen. This was completely different from Concubine Hua's usual habits. Did he give the money or not?

The chief shopkeeper whispered, "Master, this is strange."

"How about this," Boss Qian folded up the banknotes and handed them back to the chief shopkeeper, saying, "Go tell the man that 40,000 taels of silver is too much. We don't have that much cash in our bank right now. Ask him to let us transfer cash from other branches."

The chief shopkeeper asked, "How many days will it take?"

"It will only take one day," said Boss Qian. "Tomorrow I will try to find someone from the Hua family to ask."

"Yes," the shopkeeper got the approval from his boss and turned to walk towards the front yard.

Boss Qian looked up at the sky. He didn't know since when, the clouds began to accumulate in the night sky, blocking out the stars and the moon. It was a dark and windy day. Boss Qian shuddered and told himself not to scare himself.

Young Master Gu was sitting in the carriage at this time, looking at the door of the bank that had been closed for a long time, and said, "It seems that this money is not easy to take."

Gu Xinglang also stuck his head out of the car window to look and said, "It would take them a long time to count such a large sum of money, right?"

Gu Xingnuo shook his head slightly and said, "I didn't hear any movement in the treasury."

Gu Xinglang was amazed. They were sitting here, but his elder brother could hear the noise in the bank’s warehouse?

"Didn't you hear that when the bronze door on Fulai Street opens, there will be three major earthquakes?" Gu Xingnuo asked Gu Xinglang.

Gu Xinglang shook his head. He knew that the street they were on was called Fulai Street.

Gu Xingnuo looked at Yu Xiaoxiao who was sleeping on his lap, and whispered to Gu Xinglang, "The treasury of Huixin Bank is equipped with two copper doors, which are a thousand pounds heavy. Every time the bank opens the doors, the ground on this street will shake twice."

Gu Xinglang said, "How is this possible?" What's wrong with a copper door weighing a thousand pounds? How heavy is the gate of Wangxiang Pass? He has never felt that the ground will shake when the gate of Xiangguan is opened.

"Of course, this is just a saying of people," Gu Xingnuo smiled and said, "But when the door opens, we should be able to hear the sound of the door rubbing against the ground. I have tried it before, and I can hear the sound very clearly."

Gu Xinglang was speechless looking at his elder brother. How much did his elder brother need money to run to Huixin Money House to listen to the sound of the vault door opening?

"How good is Xiong Xiong's martial arts?" Young Master Gu asked Young Master Gu.

Gu Xinglang only saw how his wife dealt with the former pirate leader. He had never seen Xiong Da's majestic appearance. "Yes, it should be okay," said Gu Sanshao uncertainly. This man was able to escape from the hands of the Li father and son. Although Zhao Qiu Ming might have helped, it at least showed that Xiong Xiong was not a helpless person.

"Then let's wait here," Gu Xingnuo said.

Gu Xinglang said: "What if his martial arts skills are not good enough, what are you going to do, brother?"

Gu Xingnuo said: "It doesn't matter if the money is gone, as long as the life is still there."

Gu Xinglang looked at his elder brother and felt that his elder brother's words were contradictory.

The big boss slapped the shopkeeper to the ground, pointed his finger at the shopkeeper's nose and said, "I have tolerated you until now, and you are taking advantage of me, aren't you?!"

The chief shopkeeper said, "Sir, you can't be unreasonable!"

The boss said, "You don't have money now?"

The chief innkeeper said, "Sir, please give us a day to prepare."

The big boss sneered, "Why do you run a bank without money? Are the things you Huixin produces silver bills or straw paper? Damn it, are you bullying me because it's my first time in the capital?!"

Boss Qian knew the seals of all the noble families in Fengtian and the six kingdoms. The shopkeepers of all sizes in the money houses knew them, and Young Master Gu almost knew them all as well. However, the big boss had no such knowledge. The big boss now determined that these three silver bills were the private money that Young Master Gu had embezzled from somewhere.

After hearing what the headmaster said, the chief shopkeeper was even more certain that something was wrong. The Hua family would let someone who had never been to the capital do the job of delivering money to the palace? No matter how he thought about it, it was impossible. "Your banknote is wrong!" The chief shopkeeper shouted while sitting on the ground.

The guards of the bank heard the manager shouting that there was something wrong with the banknotes, and they rushed into the guest room together.

A note to readers:

The first update is here.