Chapter 553 Found
Manbao asked curiously, "How do you hide your silver?"
Bai Erlang rolled his eyes and whispered, "Hide the silver somewhere secret, in the closet, under the bed, anywhere."
Unlike Manbao and Bai Shanbao, Bai Erlang is very wary of his mother, so he habitually hides his money.
He lowered his voice and said, "I even secretly dug a hole under the bed and exchanged several pieces of gold with my father and hid them in it."
Manbao and Bai Shanbao cried out in surprise, and then they looked at the ground with shining eyes, where only the bed frame was left.
Bai Shanbao: "I wonder if the wife of the Yan family looks like your mother."
Bai Erlang also rubbed his hands, "Let's give it a try."
Anyway, I will just read and write when I go back, which is so boring.
When everyone heard this, they immediately rolled up their sleeves and got to work. The three of them worked together to move the bed frame about ten feet away, and then began to grope on the ground under the bed.
Daji, who had been watching silently, said: ...
The three of them searched for a long time, but they didn't find the silver. Instead, they got their hands and bodies covered in dust. Manbao couldn't help but ask Keke, "Keke, is there anything hidden in any hole in this room?"
"have."
Manbao's eyes lit up and he quickly asked, "Where is it, where is it?"
Koko: "There's something in a hole about one foot square on the wall to the left of the host."
Manbao immediately turned around and touched the wall. This wall was the one he had been leaning against before. Maybe the bed had been there for a long time, so there were still some marks on the upper and lower parts.
Manbao touched down thoughtfully, and Keke instructed her, "Go down a little to the right, and then a little further..."
Then Koko stopped talking. Manbao touched the place where it stopped and knocked on it. He didn't hear anything, but it didn't seem to be loose either.
Bai Shanbao came over to take a look, touched it, and said, "This brick seems to be bulging a little."
As he said this, he looked around, took the wooden stick he had just brought from the garden and poked the brick, and it really moved.
He and Manbao looked at each other and became excited. They shook it with the wooden stick even faster. Once the brick was loose, the more it was shaken, the more it would move outward, and soon it bulged out a lot.
Manbao shook it directly with his hands, and Bai Erlang also came over to watch.
Under the gaze of four pairs of eyes, Manbao took out the brick, and then Bai Shanbao touched the other bricks and found that they were also loose. He and Bai Erlang immediately took out the two nearby bricks together, and something wrapped in a roll of oil paper was revealed.
Manbao quickly took the item out and curiously touched the tightly wrapped oil paper. "What's inside? Why is it hidden so tightly?"
"Take it apart and take a look." Bai Shanbao helped to take it apart.
Although Bai Erlang was excited, he was also a little disappointed. "It can't be something valuable."
Gold, silver and jewelry cannot be wrapped like this.
The two men tore open the oil paper, and a booklet was revealed.
Manbao curiously flipped through the pages and read, "On the fifteenth day of the first month of the ninth year of the Dazhen reign, one thousand taels of silver were presented to Jiedushi Huang, and one thousand five hundred taels to the King of Yizhou. On the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the ninth year of the Dazhen reign, ten percent of the autumn tax was taken as a reward to Jiedushi Huang, and thirty percent to the King of Yizhou..."
When Daji heard this, his face changed drastically. He snatched the booklet from their hands, wrapped it in oil paper and stuffed it into his arms. He pushed the three children aside, quickly restored the bed, moved the bed frame back and put it away, and even checked the previous traces.
Only then did they drag the three frightened children away.
After dragging him all the way to the garden, Daji touched the booklet in his arms, knelt down and looked at Bai Shan, "Master, you should understand that such things are not for us to read."
Bai Shanbao was no longer a child, so he naturally knew it. However, he was still a young man, so he was very courageous. Therefore, he said, "We can't see it, but we can give it to County Magistrate Tang."
"No," Daji said after a pause, seeing the three of them looking at him suspiciously. "Master, Miss Man, Master Tang, the old lady also knows some high-ranking officials and knows some things. It's impossible to say that the King of Yizhou was innocent of the flood in Yizhou three years ago, but wasn't he innocent?"
"It's not because there's no evidence..."
"The young master isn't in the court. How do we know if it's because there's no evidence or because he's a royal relative?"
Bai Shanbao stopped talking.
Manbao asked, "Then what do you say we should do?"
"Master and Miss Man, please give the things to me and I will take care of it."
"You?" Not only Bai Shanbao and Manbao, but even Bai Erlang looked at him suspiciously.
"Yes," Daji said, "I will take the things back to the old lady, and the old lady will give them to an adult. It will be up to that adult to decide what to do."
Manbao and Bai Shanbao looked at each other for a while before saying, "It's fine to give it to you, but you have to show it to us first."
Bai Shanbao: "Yes, you have to show it to us first."
"No, Master and Miss Man shouldn't touch things like this. Just reading those two lines of words was already very inappropriate."
Daji is not stupid. He follows Bai Shanbao and Manbao day and night and knows them best. However, the two young masters do not have the ability to remember everything they see, but their memory is not bad. If they recite it deliberately, and the two of them read it together, they may be able to remember most of it by checking for omissions and filling in the gaps.
This kind of thing is not something they should be able to see or interfere with.
Daji ruthlessly rejected their request.
Bai Shanbao couldn't help but pinch his waist, ready to use his status to pressure others, but Daji lowered his eyes and said, "Master, Miss Man, we have been here for quite some time. Zhou Silang should have bought lunch and returned. If we don't go back soon, Mr. Zhuang will find out when he comes back tonight..."
Manbao was startled and remembered that she had forgotten lunch with her fourth brother.
Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang were also a little scared, so they turned around and ran towards the wall. Forget it, they would just ask Daji to come and see it after dinner, there was plenty of time anyway.
The three of them ran to the big cave. Bai Erlang ran the fastest, so he got out first. Bai Shanbao let Manbao go second.
As soon as Manbao came out, she saw her fourth brother leaning against the wall with a stick in his hand, grinning sinisterly at her, while Bai Erlang stood helplessly by the side, spreading his hands towards her.
Bai Shanbao also came out, and then Daji flew down from the wall.
As soon as he saw Daji, Zhou Silang couldn't help but nag at him, "You're such a fool! Why didn't you stop the three of them from making trouble?"
Daji smiled at him and explained, "I am a servant. I just need to follow my master."
Bai Shanbao reached out his hand almost immediately, "Then give me the booklet."
Zhou Silang asked, "What booklet?"
"We are from..."
"Master," Daji interrupted him and asked, "It's already past noon. Aren't you hungry?"
The next update will be around 8pm
(End of this chapter)
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