Chapter 168 Official Silver
After thinking about it over and over again, Yuan Ziyu still couldn't figure it out. In the end, he gave up his guess and just focused on finding a way out.
After walking along the tunnel for about a quarter of an hour, Yuan Ziyu felt something was wrong!
She seems to be back to where she was!
Just now, as she walked along, she came across forks in the road from time to time. She was not familiar with the cave, so she just randomly chose a path and walked down it.
However, after going around in circles, it seemed that she was back to where she started!
In order to confirm her guess, Yuan Ziyu walked towards the direction where she could feel the heat. Sure enough, after a while, she returned to the cave where she had fallen before.
"Huh!" Yuan Ziyu sat down on the ground in a very ungraceful manner. This cave was simply a maze!
Yuan Zi looked worriedly at the slope she had fallen down. It was too steep, and without a rope, she would not be able to get out by herself.
However, she didn't dare to shout loudly. This cave was obviously built by humans. Who knew if there was anyone else here? If she shouted so loudly, her identity would be discovered. If it was the owner of the cave, it would be fine if he was an ordinary person, but if he was a powerful person, wouldn't it bring disaster to the family!
Besides, she would never believe that someone with an ordinary identity could have built such a large project in Yuetan Mountain.
The most important thing now is how she gets out!
Yuan Ziyu sighed deeply. Why did she fall down?
Since the original route is blocked, we can only try to find a way out through that cave!
Yuan Ziyu rested for a while, encouraged himself, and then walked towards the cave entrance again.
This time, she walked very slowly. Every time she came to a fork in the road, she would think carefully about which path she had just taken, and then change to another one!
However, after all this effort, she was back to where she started!
I don’t know what the person who built this cave was thinking. It would have been fine if there was only one fork in the road, but there are three or four of them. How can you choose?
Yuan Ziyu felt like he was about to collapse!
But no matter how devastated she was, she had to keep looking for a way out. Even though she had the Qiongjiang Pavilion and wouldn't be hungry or cold, Huo Xifei and the others were still outside, and they must be very anxious. She could imagine how Qingying and Qingzhi were crying!
With this momentum, Yuan Ziyu began to circle for the third time. This time, she not only paid attention to the fork in the road, but also paid attention to the wall of the cave.
Finally, when entering a cave, Yuan Ziyu discovered that there was a crack in an inconspicuous corner of the cave.
She hurried over and looked at the crack carefully in the light of the fire. The crack was not wide, and if she turned sideways, she could get in. Moreover, she found that the crack was facing upwards.
Yuan Ziyu leaned sideways into the crack, looked up, and vaguely felt that there seemed to be light above.
Seeing the faint light, Yuan Ziyou felt happy. The light meant that he could get out!
Afraid that he had seen it wrong because of his haste, Yuan Ziyu quickly extinguished the fire and looked up again.
Yes, there is light!
Yuan Ziyu was immediately overjoyed. No matter what was on top, it was at least a hope. Even if there was someone on top, he could take shelter in Qiongjiang Pavilion.
Thinking of this, Yuan Ziyu began to think about how to climb out of this crack.
After trying, Yuan Ziyu found that because the crack was very narrow, he could climb up by supporting himself with his feet as long as he had enough physical strength.
She certainly has no shortage of physical strength.
Yuan Ziyu took a bottle of spiritual spring water and drank it, then took a deep breath, supported himself on both sides of the crack with his feet, and slowly moved up bit by bit.
The crack was not short. Yuan Ziyu had to drink spiritual spring water three times to climb up from the bottom of the crack before he could hold on. Finally, he finally reached the top of the crack.
There is a slight breeze blowing!
Yuan Ziyou felt happy, because the wind meant there was an exit!
After listening carefully to the noise outside and making sure that there was no one outside, Yuan Ziyu tiptoed out of the crack. Because his clothes were torn in several places when he rolled down the cave just now, this time when he crawled out of the crack, the crack was extremely narrow, and the corner of his clothes was completely torn and remained at the exit of the crack. However, Yuan Ziyu did not notice it.
As soon as she crawled out, Yuan Ziyu realized that this was still a cave, but the things in the cave really scared her!
I saw that half of the cave was filled with wooden boxes, and these wooden boxes were all made of golden nanmu!
Not to mention the things in the box, these wooden boxes alone are worth a lot of silver!
Out of curiosity, Yuan Ziyu walked forward and opened one of the wooden boxes.
As soon as the box was opened, Yuan Ziyu took a breath of cold air. The box was full of gold!
Immediately afterwards, Yuan Ziyu hurriedly opened another box, which was also full of gold!
Next box, another box of gold...
Finally, Yuan Ziyu roughly counted and found that there were fifty boxes of gold and one hundred boxes of silver in the cave.
There was obviously less silver in several boxes. If my estimation was correct, some of it must have been used!
But who put so much gold and silver in this cave?
Yuan Ziyu looked at the boxes, squinted her eyes and thought about it, and suddenly she remembered. If her memory was correct, at the end of last year, the tax silver sent from the south to the capital seemed to have been intercepted. It was said that it was done by a group of bandits!
And the bandits should be the ones that Brother Xi and his men wanted to catch in Qingtan Mountain a few days ago.
I don’t know why, but after catching those bandits, I couldn’t find the official silver.
And the official silver that was robbed...if she remembered correctly, it should have been sent from Yunzhou!
In order to confirm his guess, Yuan Ziyu took out a gold ingot and looked at the bottom of the ingot. Sure enough, there was a word "official" printed on it, and there was a small word "cloud" next to it!
This batch of gold and silver is indeed the government silver that was robbed last year!
If that's the case... Yuan Ziyu pursed her lips. She would accept it without hesitation. Anyway, this batch of official silver was now ownerless!
Yunzhou has always had harsh taxation, and the flood the following year was the worst-hit area in Yunzhou, with almost two-thirds of the people in the entire Yunzhou losing their lives.
Now that this batch of official silver is in front of her, she will naturally collect it. If a flood really happens next year, she will disguise the official silver and use it on the people of Yunzhou. After all, it is taken from the people and used for the people. If there is no flood, she will find another excuse to let Brother Xi "discover" this batch of official silver!
Now that he had made up his mind, Yuan Ziyu no longer had any psychological burden. With a wave of his hand, he put the 150 boxes of gold and silver into the Qiongjiang Pavilion!
It immediately occupied a quarter of the space in Qiongjiang Pavilion!
For the first time, Yuan Ziyu felt that his Qiongjiang Pavilion was too small. It seemed that he had to find time to plant something so that the Qiongjiang Pavilion could be bigger.
(End of this chapter)
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