Chapter 5 Nothing
"Search, search them all. There must be a secret room here. The thing must be hidden in the secret room."
Guo Qiang's face turned pale as he rummaged through the warehouse, trying to find a mechanism, believing the silver was hidden in a secret room.
Several men hurriedly groped around, trying to find a mechanism.
"Knock on the wall. If it's empty, it means there's a secret room."
"That makes sense." Guo Qiang's eyes lit up, and he turned around and praised, "Well done. When we find the secret room, this general will reward you..."
Before he could finish the rest of the words, Guo Qiang was dumbfounded because the person who spoke just now was Chen Xue.
She actually helped me find the secret room of her family's treasure house!
Was she hallucinating, or was she going crazy?
He couldn't figure it out, but he knew this method was fine, so he simply ignored it and turned around to look for the secret room.
“I, I found it!”
Suddenly, Guo Qiang's confidant exclaimed, it was the subordinate who had arranged to store the relief grain in the Chen family warehouse.
"where?"
Upon hearing this, Guo Qiang ran over happily. Beside him, Chen Xue's heart skipped a beat. She remembered that in the original owner's memory, there was definitely no secret room in the treasure house. How could they possibly find it?
Could it be that it really exists, but the original owner doesn't know about it?
Thinking of this, Chen Xue's face looked a little unhappy and she hurried over.
The confidant opened his palm, and on it lay a white pearl the size of a grain of rice. It had obviously fallen to the ground, but Chen Xue hadn't noticed it.
Seeing this, Chen Xue immediately breathed a sigh of relief. She thought she had found the secret room, but it turned out to be just such a small pearl that she was too lazy to pick it up.
"roll!"
Guo Qiang's face suddenly turned as dark as the bottom of a pot. If the censor had not been there, he would have wanted to chop his confidant to death with a knife.
Are you just here to amuse yourself?
The confidant was kicked and felt very aggrieved, "General, didn't you say that there was nothing in the treasury? Now I have found it..."
"roll!"
Guo Qiang was so furious that he almost exploded because he didn't do his job seriously and even argued.
However, since his men found a pearl, albeit a very small one, it also means that there was something here before, but it was moved away.
Thinking of this, he sneered, "Continue searching!"
Beside her, Chen Xue complained again, "I've already said that our family is very poor. We can't even afford to eat."
Guo Qiang ignored her, but the censor believed her. He sighed and felt a little regretful. "Oh, if I had known that Zheng Yuan was so honest, I should not have doubted him. I would have stopped His Majesty even if it meant my death."
"Your Excellency, it's not too late now." Chen Xueshi said, "As long as Your Excellency continues to investigate the truth..."
“Ahem!”
Guo Qiang coughed, interrupting their conversation, and then said to his men, "Take her away and send her to the front yard."
Chen Xue was the first to speak, "Wait, I can take you to our other warehouses."
"hehe!"
Guo Qiang was about to say something sarcastic, even if you were not here, I would know where your warehouse is, but when he thought that maybe the warehouses he knew were just superficial, he swallowed his words.
"Why"
He was a little curious. Why did Chen Xue do this? Shouldn't she try her best to stop them?
"It's almost noon."
Guo Qiang was completely bewildered when he heard these inexplicable words. Putting justice above family ties, what's the difference between this and what happened at noon.
Chen Xue continued, "Wait for you to go find the warehouse. Who knows how long it will take? It's almost noon. You should finish searching sooner so I can have lunch earlier."
lunch
Guo Qiang's mouth twitched. You still want to eat lunch? Do you want a last meal before execution? It's not certain whether you can live until tomorrow, and you still want to eat.
There's no hope!
He shook his head, feeling a little sorry for Chen Yuan. The only daughter in the family had a mental problem. Tsk tsk tsk.
Sure enough, with Chen Xue leading the way, their efficiency was much higher.
However, the opened warehouse was still empty, which made Guo Qiang somewhat suspicious whether Chen Xue did it on purpose and took them to the empty warehouse.
"etc!"
Guo Qiang suddenly stopped and pointed at the rooms on both sides, "What are these rooms used for?"
"My parents' room, and other empty rooms." Chen Xue answered honestly.
"Let's go in and take a look!"
Guo Qiang sneered. He would not go to the treasure house. It might be empty again, or maybe hidden in their room.
Even if we can't find gold, silver, or jewelry, other valuables will do. After all, it's so hard to raid a house, and if we don't find anything, it's simply a fantasy.
It's impossible that even the room they live in is empty, that's too far-fetched...
Guo Qiang widened his eyes and stared at the room. Seeing that there was only a table, a few stools and a bed in the room, he began to doubt his life.
Is this the room?
Is this a room where people live?
Where is the quilt?
Where is the pillow?
Who sleeps without a pillow?
Who would sleep only on the bed board? Even an ordinary family wouldn’t be so outrageous!
"Zhengyuan, this is really..."
The censor opened his mouth, not knowing what to say. He had been shocked, moved, sympathetic, and heartbroken several times.
Seeing this scene now, although I am still shocked, I quickly accepted it.
"No wonder Zheng Yuan even contributed 10,000 taels when the imperial court was looking for donations for disaster relief a few days ago. It turns out he collected the money by selling his belongings. This is simply..."
Seeing that Chen Yuan would rather sleep on his own bed to raise money for disaster relief, the censor was deeply moved and wanted to rush to the palace immediately to ask the emperor to re-examine the case.
Hearing that the censor actually helped her explain, Chen Xue touched her nose. This reason was really reasonable.
Reasonable ass!
Guo Qiang cursed in his heart at this moment, wondering if this Chen family member was mentally ill. Who the hell was so stingy as to sleep on his own bed board?
This is definitely not Chen Yuan’s room.
He kicked open the door of the next house in desperation, and found that the next house was even cleaner than this one.
There wasn't even a bed frame inside. The empty room looked like it had just been built and no one had moved in yet.
"Go, kick the door open!"
Guo Qiang was furious and ordered his men to kick open the doors of all the rooms. Standing in the yard, he could see the situation in all the rooms at a glance.
It turned out that they were all empty.
He began to doubt his life.
Is this the Chen family?
Did he go to the wrong door and rob the wrong house?
In fact, this is not the home of a third-rank official, but the home of a beggar. No, at least a beggar has a quilt in his home.
He returned to the front yard angrily and saw that his men had gathered together. He was immediately furious.
"What are you all standing there for? You've already copied everything."
"I've finished copying."
Guo Qiang was stunned for a moment, then thought of something and asked happily, "Where's the stuff?"
"No."
Everyone shook their heads, "The Chen family doesn't have anything valuable."
"right."
Someone echoed, "Even if it's a chicken coop with duck tongues, there's only chicken feathers on the ground, not even a chicken leg."
"Yes, yes, I have raided so many houses, but this is the first time I have found one so poor."
"It's more than just poor. This is practically a new house, as if the Chen family just moved in."
After hearing everyone talking at once, Guo Qiang summed it up in four words - nothing.
By the way, it’s not a complete loss.
There was also a vase fragment in the hall, and a pearl the size of a grain of rice found by the confidant.
Thinking of this, he felt anger rising in his chest, and then a mouthful of blood spurted out.
"Puff~"
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