Hua Fushu had heard her master and Qin Youran mention the Silver Minting Office. This was a coin-making factory run by the royal family, and it had always been under the jurisdiction of the imperial court. She wondered, "How could the imperial silver be here?"

It is unbelievable that official silver produced by the imperial court would appear in a bandit’s lair!

Ye Zelin smiled and said, "The Ministry of Revenue once allocated 100,000 taels of silver, which was the official silver issued by the Silver Manufacturing Bureau. I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it."

Hua Fushu was shocked. "Are you saying this is the 100,000 taels of silver that Cheng Wenbo lost?"

Ye Zelin opened the other two unlocked large boxes, both of which contained official silver from the Silver Manufacturing Bureau. He was absolutely certain that this was the 100,000 yuan water conservancy fund. "Yes, that's the silver!"

Ye Zelin had roughly guessed why the 100,000 official silver coins appeared in the bandit camp.

One is that Cai Yuanchang's men were robbed by bandits from Qingyun Mountain when they were transporting official silver to Luocheng. The other is that the bandits from Qingyun Mountain were colluding with Cai Yuanchang. He did not believe the first reason and was more inclined to the second reason, that there was collusion between the bandits from Qingyun Mountain and Cai Yuanchang, or that they had some kind of cooperative relationship.

In fact, any intelligent person would have guessed that Sai Yuhuan and other bandits had been entrenched in Qingyun Mountain for five or six years. As a local governor, Cai Yuanchang oversaw the military, political, and financial power within Dongting County, possessing both the necessary troops and the necessary authority. He could have eliminated Sai Yuhuan and other bandits before they could establish a firm foothold in Qingyun Mountain, but he allowed them to remain in the area until now. There must be something fishy going on. Even if Cai Yuanchang had no collusion with the Qingyun Mountain bandits, he was guilty of dereliction of duty by allowing them to dominate the mountain.

Putting aside Cai Yuanchang's collusion with the Qingyun Mountain bandits, there are also unclear points in today's attack. Cai Yuanchang's men undoubtedly wanted to take their lives, but Sai Yuhuan's men captured them and should have known their identities, but they did not want their lives. This is the unclear point.

He felt that, at least in this matter, Cai Yuanchang and the bandits from Qingyun Mountain were not on the same side.

What was Sai Yuhuan's purpose in capturing them? Was he plotting something?

Hua Fushu didn't think as deeply as Ye Zelin. Looking at the ingots of silver, she really wanted to carry one with her to make up for the grievances she suffered today.

Seeing her eyes fixed on the official silver and her hand restlessly reaching out towards it, Ye Zelin quickly slapped her hand away, "Don't move, this is official silver."

"I won't move." Hua Fushu reluctantly withdrew her hand. Under the pressure of Ye Zelin's majesty, she didn't dare to move again.

Ye Zelin looked at Hua Fushu and asked with concern, "Did you get hurt anywhere?"

Hua Fushu rolled up his sleeves and took a look, saying, "It's nothing serious, just a few scrapes."

A patch of his arm was bright red, the skin and flesh separated. "What about you?"

Ye Zelin pursed his lips, and Hua Fushu seemed to hear some sound. He hurriedly covered Ye Zelin's mouth to prevent him from speaking, and moved his eyes forward.

Ye Zelin nodded without saying anything.

Ye Zelin also heard the footsteps, and both of them were a little nervous.

The footsteps suddenly disappeared, and both of them breathed a sigh of relief. The next moment, the curtain covering the secret door was suddenly lifted.

We're about to be discovered!

A small figure came in, blinking its big eyes at Hua Fushu and Ye Zelin, pointing its little finger at them and asking curiously, "Brother and sister, who are you? Why are you here? Are you playing hide-and-seek with Mom and Dad? Dad said he was playing hide-and-seek with someone."

Hua Fushu also used her almond-shaped eyes to look at the person who suddenly came in. He was a little boy, about five or six years old, wearing white pajamas, and had the same almond-shaped eyes as her.

Hearing him talk about his father and mother, he couldn't help but look at Ye Zelin.

Who are his father and mother?

Seeing that they were silent, the little boy said, "I'll ask Dad to go."

Hua Fushu quickly took the little boy's hand and said kindly, "Little kid, don't call your dad yet. Call your dad over, or hide-and-seek won't be fun anymore."

The little boy thought what the older sister said made sense, so he gave up the idea of ​​looking for his father. He said, "I won't look for my father anymore. I will hide and let my father find me."

Hua Fushu smiled and said, "Yes, that's right. Ask your father to look for us. He will definitely not be able to find us."

The little boy seemed to have found a like-minded companion. He said, "My name is Yue Zheng. What's your sister's name? Do you know my father and mother?"

Worried that the little boy might get suspicious and shout to attract others, Hua Fushu was happy to talk to him, "Yes, I know him. I'm playing hide-and-seek with your father because he knows me."

Yue Zheng remembered what his father had said to him before, and said, "Dad said I have a sister and a brother, but I have never seen them. You are the brother and sister Dad was talking about, right?"

Hua Fushu felt that this child was very innocent and believed everything she said. She nodded and said, "Yes, I am your sister."

Ye Zelin continued: "I am your brother."

Yue Zheng really believed that Ye Zelin and Hua Fushu were the brother and sister his father had mentioned, so he even called them, "Brother, sister."

"Be good." Hua Fushu touched Yue Zheng's head. She knew that the child really regarded her and Ye Zelin as his brothers and sisters. She didn't want to lie to him. If she hadn't dragged the child along, what would he do if he attracted people here?

She turned around and said to Ye Zelin, "Ye Zelin, let's give it a try."

Instead of hiding here and waiting to be caught, it is better to rush out and fight for a chance of survival.

Ye Zelin understood what she meant and agreed, "Okay."

Hua Fushu blew out the fire bell, put it back on his body, and came out of the secret room. Ye Zelin also came out after him.

Hua Fushu looked around and suddenly realized that this was a house similar to an ancestral hall, with candles lit at night.

The table where they hid was an incense table with three tablets on it. Two of the tablets were about the same size, and the other was smaller. From left to right, these three tablets were engraved with "The spirit tablets of my comrades in Beiling", "The spirit tablet of my late father Qing", and "The spirit tablet of my late brother Xuanji Jinyu".

Hua Fushu's gaze fell on the first tablet on the left. She frowned slightly. Ye Zelin was already looking at her. "What are you looking at?"

Hua Fushu calmed down and felt that he had gone too far. What was so good about a memorial tablet? "No."

Ye Zelin looked around and saw a red tasseled spear on a weapons rack. When he looked back with the spear in hand, Hua Fushu had already knocked the little boy unconscious and was holding him. "He's just a kid, why did you knock him unconscious?"

Hua Fushu said, "It saves trouble."

“…” Ye Zelin didn’t know what to say to her.

The two walked out of the house and were soon surrounded by a group of people. Qi Yuyan, the fourth in command, looked at the little boy in Hua Fushu's arms and was shocked, "Yue Zheng!"

The fourth boss took a step forward, and Hua Fushu said coldly: "Don't come over here, or I'll kill him!"

Ye Zelin cooperated and pointed the gun at Yue Zheng, "You step back."

"Don't move, I'll back off."

The fourth in command was really afraid that Ye Zelin's gun would stab Yue Zheng, so he took a step back. Yue Zheng was the only son of the eldest sister and second brother, and the only living member of the Huo family except Sai Yuhuan.