Chapter 2190 Treasure Hunt 2
Governor Duan couldn't help but turn his head to look at his personal guards, wanting to shake his shoulders. How exactly were they searching?
Manbao crawled out from under the bed. Governor Duan subconsciously looked at her hands and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that her hands were empty. As a result, she stood up and started to pull the bed out.
Daji comes forward to help.
After the bed was moved out, Manbao climbed onto the bed and jumped to the innermost part. After stomping his feet on the ground, he picked up a piece of wood scattered on the ground and scraped the ground, revealing a layer of wood underneath.
She pried open the wooden board, then reached in and slowly took out a jar.
This kind of jar looks very familiar. It is used for wine jars and pickle jars. It has a big belly and can hold a lot of things.
Manbao opened the jar and took out a silver ingot. Governor Duan could tell at a glance that it was an official seal worth ten taels.
She continued to take things out. There was gold, very small, about five taels, but there were several of them. Finally, she grabbed a dozen gems and a handful of pearls.
Governor Duan no longer wanted to talk.
Bai Shan exclaimed, "The person living in this room must be a small leader."
Governor Duan said weakly, "This is the residence of the third-in-command of the bandits. Further ahead is the second-in-command, and the large house in the middle is the bandit leader's."
Manbao immediately put the things into the jar and said, "Let's go and take a look."
Bai Shan turned his head left and right, "Where's Ji Lang?"
Bai Jilang screamed in the bathroom and everyone ran over immediately.
He was riding on the neck of a Bai family guard, his hands clutching at the beams. As soon as he saw them come in, he said, "Here, here, there's a small box."
Unfortunately, his arms were too short to reach it.
In the end, Daji went up to help him take the small box down.
It was not a very big box, but he hollowed out the upper part of the beam and pillar and stuffed the box inside. The box should be made of similar wood, so the color was similar. If you didn't look closely, Daji wouldn't be able to tell there was a box inside.
Not to mention that the searchers only looked from the bottom up and swept the beams with something, making it even more difficult to find.
Bai Erlang opened the box with great interest, and was stunned to find that it was filled with clothes, which were tattered.
Manbao vaguely smelled something else, so he reached out and pressed it, and it was hard.
Bai Erlang also reacted and immediately took out the clothes that were stuffed tightly. Everyone then saw that there was a box wrapped in the clothes.
He took the box out, sniffed, and said, "It smells."
As soon as he opened it, he was immediately disappointed. "It's spices. What kind of fragrance is this?"
Governor Duan couldn't help but say, "This is storax, a spice that only grows in the Suhe area. Do you know how expensive storax is? A tiny piece, the size of a fingernail, is worth one ounce of gold."
The three were stunned when they heard this. They looked at the golden incense in the box and asked, "How many fingernails does this cost?"
Regardless of how many fingernails it was, Governor Duan grabbed Bai Erlang's hand and closed the box. He said to Bai Shan sincerely, "Today, I have finally witnessed the treasure hunting abilities of Mr. Bai and Mr. Zhou. I will have someone make a note of this and write down the 30% of the account later..."
Bai Shan reached out and pressed the box, smiling and saying, "You're too polite, Governor Duan. These are nothing but the private money hidden by some bandits. The bulk of the money is the treasure hidden by all the bandits together, and that's what's most important."
Upon hearing this, Governor Duan reluctantly withdrew his hand and forced a smile, saying, "Indeed, these things were found by Master Bai and Lord Zhou. They belong to you all. Keep them well, please."
Manbao gave Bai Erlang a wink.
Seeing that her eyes were twitching, Bai Erlang paused for a moment. When she blinked more and more violently, he chose a small piece of incense from the box and gave it to Governor Duan.
Governor Duan poured out the money and the gems that were given to everyone who saw them from his purse and stuffed them into his sleeve pocket, then carefully put the spices into the purse.
Although it is only one piece, it should be able to be sold for dozens of taels of gold. With this calculation, the money for several days of medicine will be enough.
Governor Duan thought about it, then turned and gave the three of them a friendly smile. His morning lethargy was gone, and he said enthusiastically, "Come on, let's go look in the next room. You don't know, but the second-in-command of this bandit is very cunning and scheming. The bandit leader relies heavily on him. He might have even more things in his room."
As for Erg, they had seen him before and he was indeed very cunning, so they ran over to look for him.
But after searching through them, they found that all the rooms were very clean and there was nothing inside. Some of the things had been taken away by the soldiers.
After finding everything, Manbao couldn't help but ask Keke, "Apart from what you found in the yard this morning, is there nothing else in this house?"
Today, when Manbao was running around in the rooms looking for something, he specifically told Koko not to tell her and let her find it herself. When he heard her ask, he said proudly, "Yes, there is nothing hidden in this room, and you didn't search the previous room thoroughly either. There are still a few silver ingots in the woodshed."
Manbao didn't care much about the silver ingots in the woodshed next door. She could have gone back to get them, or the soldiers would have found them when they searched later. What surprised her was that Erge had no hidden valuables.
Could it be that the place in the yard is his private storage, not the possession of the horse thieves?
But there must be a lot of things that Koko specifically marked as treasures. They must be very valuable, right?
Manbao thought as she walked towards the yard. Following Koko's instructions, she walked under a big tree, then looked down at the ground beneath her feet that was dug into pits and asked, "Under here? Didn't they dig deep enough?"
Koko said: "No, it's not underground..."
Not underground? Manbao's eyes lit up, and before Koko could finish, he shouted, "I know, it's inside the tree!"
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang heard this as soon as they left the house. They were surprised and ran over immediately, "Is this true?"
Governor Duan couldn't help but hurried forward, and then everyone looked at the big tree in front of them. It was a banyan tree, who knew how many years it had grown. The trunk was particularly large and the leaves were very lush. After a closer look, everyone realized that this tree alone almost took up half of the yard.
Governor Duan stroked his chin and said, "This house is much further forward than the others. It seems he deliberately included this banyan tree within the wall."
Why would it be nice to leave such a big tree on the road for people to enjoy the shade and chat? Why did he specifically include it in the fence?
Governor Duan couldn't help but exclaim, "Lord Zhou is amazing. You have a keen eye for identifying hidden treasures. No matter how treacherous a person is, nothing can escape your gaze."
Manbao knew that this was not his own achievement, so he lowered his head shyly and said modestly: "No, no, it's just average."
See you at 9pm
(End of this chapter)
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