Chapter 552 Treasure Hunt
The three of them looked up at Daji, and Bai Shanbao was the first to invite, "Together?"
Daji: ...
He was just a close bodyguard and didn't want to make any decision, so he looked away and stood aside.
The three of them understood what was going on and immediately closed the door. They looked at the empty alley, and after making sure that no one was there, they ran to the hole and went in.
Daji just stood there and waited until they all got in before he jumped over the wall and flew in. He would not drill a hole.
The first time they entered Yan's house during the day, it looked quite nice at first glance.
Manbao said, "It's better looking than both of your two houses."
"That's the home of a corrupt official. Now there's no one at home. What's the point?" Bai Shanbao asked, "Where should we go?"
"Go to the flower garden." Koko, who had been quiet all the time, suddenly said in Manbao's mind.
Manbao's eyes lit up and he said, "Let's go take a look at their garden first."
"Most of his garden has been turned into a vegetable garden. What's so nice about it?"
"Let's go and take a look," Manbao ran first. It was very dark last time and there was only a torch for lighting, so she didn't see much.
When they looked at it again, they found that the vegetable patch they had seen before was hidden behind several big trees. The flowers must have been pulled out and the flower bed was expanded for planting.
There were pieces here and there. Obviously, the Xiao family only pulled out some flowers and plants, and left the tall trees alone.
The pulled out flowers and plants were discarded at random, and most of them died, but some flowers survived tenaciously by clinging to the soil nearby.
There are many flowers that Manbao has never seen before.
It was spring now, and flowers and plants began to sprout again. Manbao turned around and found a stick to dig up the flowers and plants.
Bai Shanbao quickly pulled her back and said, "How long will it take you to dig up all these flowers and plants? If you like, we can come back with baskets and hoes and dig more later."
Bai Erlang pulled at it and asked, "What kind of grass is this? I can't tell it's there even though it hasn't bloomed yet."
Bai Shanbao went up to take a look and frowned, saying, "It looks like a hollyhock."
"Huh?" Manbao also came closer to look at it carefully and said, "It does look like a hollyhock, but I've only seen it in books. I heard that its flowers are bright red and very beautiful. It has another nickname, 'Yi Zhang Hong'."
Koko said: "Collect it."
The implication is that this thing is not in the encyclopedia.
Manbao stretched out her hand to dig, and saw Daji standing beside her. She rolled her eyes, withdrew her hand and said, "Come back next time when you have time."
Koko is looking forward to it: ...
But it also scanned Daji, and Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang were no longer ignorant children. If they dug it up and then lost it out of thin air, they might not think too much about it.
Koko made no request.
Manbao looked down along the vegetable patch and found many kinds of plants at the edge that she had never seen before, or had seen in books but had never dug up. She was very happy.
Daji: ...Who would have thought that they sneaked in just to look at the flowers and plants?
Bai Erlang hadn't expected this either. He felt bored, so he stood up and said, "I want to go somewhere else to play. What's so interesting about these flowers and plants?"
Manbao stood up and said, "Okay, let's go look somewhere else."
Then they went to the lotus pond in front of the Yan family's house. The lotus leaves were green at this time. Manbao stared at the bottom of the lotus pond and said, "I heard from Xiao Erlang that they would go down to the pond in winter to pick lotus roots to eat and sell."
Bai Shanbao said, "Digging up a few flowers and plants is fine, but digging up lotus roots is not good. What if we get caught by County Magistrate Tang?"
"I just said that, I didn't say we were going to dig them," Manbao said, "I'd be satisfied if I could pick a couple of lotus pods to eat in the summer."
Bai Shanbao also wanted to eat lotus seeds, and he laughed and said, "I hope the Yan residence hasn't been sold by then."
The three of them walked along the corridor, mainly to take in the scenery along the way.
Governor Yan was indeed a corrupt official. He built a beautiful garden. Although it had been abandoned for two years, the rockery, flowing water, and flowers and trees planted on the roadside made one imagine how beautiful it must have looked when the grass and trees were trimmed.
The three of them walked around like they were on a picnic. Manbao was particularly interested in the flowers and plants along the way. Keke kept reporting the unknown species he had discovered along the way. Manbao wrote them all down and planned to find time to do it again himself.
But Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang were more interested in the things in the house. After walking through most of the garden, they arrived at the residential area in the backyard.
Bai Shanbao casually pushed open a door and walked in. It was empty inside. The table was missing its matching chairs. He wondered if they had been moved away by the Xiao family.
Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang took a look inside and shook their heads in disdain, saying, "There's nothing here. Was this confiscated during the house search, or did the Xiao family move away?"
"The Xiao family's house is so small, they can't just move all the tables and chairs into their own house, right?" Manbao mentioned the rumor. "It's said that some tables and chairs made of fine woods, like huanghuali and sandalwood, were also confiscated and taken to the warehouse."
Bai Erlang exclaimed, "The Yan family is really rich."
"Of course, what about corrupt officials?" Manbao said as a matter of course: "If corrupt officials don't have money, then no one in the world will have money."
The three of them were talking as they moved to another room, which was obviously a side yard. Bai Erlang spotted a wooden horse with a missing leg. He looked at it and said, "Is this the child's room?"
Bai Shanbao: "Next door is the main courtyard, which should be where the young master, who is not even eight years old yet, lives."
Generally, when children turn eight years old, they will move to the front yard to live. Of course, this is the general education method of the family, and it is possible that each family may have differences.
For example, a family that particularly loves their children.
Bai Shanbao glanced at Bai Erlang.
But everyone became excited. This was the room of a child about their age. They wondered if there might be any treasures left behind, so everyone started rummaging through the room.
The things in this room should not be very valuable, so they are relatively well preserved. The bed in the inner room still has a frame, but the bed board and curtain are gone. They guessed that the Xiao family had moved away.
If the bed was to be moved during a house search by the imperial court, the entire bed would be taken away. Generally, the beds that were taken away during a house search were either well-made or made of fine materials.
Of course, in most cases it's a combination of both.
Apart from the bed frame, the table and chairs in the inner room were missing, but most of them were still there.
Manbao, Bai Shanbao, and Bai Erlang began to flip through the books curiously. "The Xiao family has searched all these places, so there shouldn't be any treasures left. Let's look for something interesting, shall we?"
"What's something interesting?" Bai Erlang asked, "Silver?"
Manbao and Bai Shanbao turned to look at him. Bai Erlang asked warily, "Why are you looking at me like that? Did I say something wrong? Young Master, besides silver, who else would hide something in the house that the searchers and the Xiao family couldn't find?"
The next chapter will be around 6pm
(End of this chapter)
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