Chapter 34 Twenty Boxes of Gold Nuggets
Hearing that this was advice, Bai Yangfan had no objection and instead said, "Thank you for your reminder, but since you're so kind, I think you'll definitely help me keep this secret. After all, I have a secret for you, don't I?"
The woman's proud back as she walked away looked like a proud queen. Although he was threatened, Lu Jingheng felt his heart was full of smiles.
It's interesting to see a woman who refuses to admit defeat and shows her claws at every turn.
He knew who Hu Damazi was and that he was a big bandit, but he didn't know why he built his tomb here.
The bandits' things naturally did not fall within the scope of what he was looking for. Bai Yangfan just took them, and no one knew about it. He could pretend not to know.
But the person outside must take it back, because that is the new clue he found.
After sending Bai Yangfan back to the vicinity of Liujia Village, Lu Jingheng took the captured man directly to the county town through the mountain path.
To thank Bai Yangfan, the blind bear and his family of three brought her a wild rabbit.
Bai Yangfan touched the big black bear and muttered to it to go back. The big black bear looked back at her and ran into the mountains with all its might.
When he got home, Bai Qihang was very happy to see the wild rabbit. He felt that the food he had eaten these days was better than in previous Chinese New Years, so he diligently followed Bai Yangfan to help.
After preparing the wild rabbit, braising it, and cooking a pot of rice, the brother and sister ate and drank their fill, washed up and went to bed contentedly.
After running in the mountains for a whole day, I was so tired that I fell asleep as soon as I lay down on the bed.
Lu Jingheng was in a terrible situation. After a long interrogation, the man kept gesticulating and babbling, but they didn't understand a single word. They hired a translator, but he was only half-baked and still couldn't get any useful information out of him.
The next day, Lu Jingheng brought his men to the cave and searched carefully, but still found no clues.
Go back and continue the interrogation.
Several days passed, and nothing valuable was found out.
He dragged his exhausted body back to the educated youth station in Liujia Village and fell asleep immediately. The educated youth had long known that he was a lazy person who was unwilling to work, and they were used to it.
No one noticed when Lu Jingheng came back or when he left.
There was no point paying attention. He didn't want to earn work points, so what could you do about it? Besides, his meals weren't counted towards theirs; he cooked and ate all by himself.
Basically, he would get up to prepare food only after everyone went to work. He would directly use money to replace the firewood used, and would also fetch one or two loads of water.
As for rice and grain, he used all his own, and sometimes gave them all the leftovers.
Anyway, the educated youth both loved and looked down on Lu Jingheng.
Everyone is happy to see that he can get a bargain, but when they see that he doesn't like to work, they look down on him.
In particular, he was good-looking and popular with girls, which aroused the indignation of the male and female educated youths in the educated youth camp. The male educated youth knew that they were not as good-looking as him and no girls liked him.
What about the female educated youth? They thought he was just a show-off, and that he would fool these brainless young girls from the countryside. Of course, this was just sour talk, but the main reason was Lu Jingheng's indifference to them and his contemptuous arrogance.
The sent-down female educated youth are better than the village girls of Liujia Village, right? Why does Lu Jingheng look down on people? Why doesn't he like them? Isn't it foolish to find a village girl to marry?
What else can I say to such a blind person?
Bai Yangfan didn't know what kind of life Lu Jingheng was living, but she was really scared these days.
Why?
It’s all because of Hu Damazi’s pile of boxes.
Knowing that he had made a fortune, Bai Yangfan was very happy. He went into the space and arranged the boxes neatly. He counted them and found that there were twenty-one in total.
Opening them one by one, she was dumbfounded.
Oh my goodness! They were all golden nuggets, neatly stacked, and every box was equally full.
Bai Yangfan was stunned by the glittering gold nuggets.
Later on, I thought, it didn't make sense. Hu Damazi was a bandit, so how could everything he got be gold nuggets? Shouldn't it be some miscellaneous stuff?
Twenty-one boxes of gold, is that a small amount? It's definitely not something that a wealthy family could have in their warehouse!
I picked up a piece of gold and weighed it. It must have weighed at least one kilogram. It looked nothing special from the front, but when I turned it over and took a look at the back, I was completely dumbfounded.
The words "Supervised by the Central Bank" are clearly engraved on the back of the gold bar.
Central bank? When was this central bank established? It was obvious that this batch of gold was not the private property of a wealthy family, but rather something that had once been stored in a bank.
Could it be that Hu Damazi got the stolen goods from a bank he robbed?
Bai Yangfan was getting nervous, thinking this was a possibility. Hu Damazi was a bandit to begin with. To him, robbing a wealthy family was no different than robbing a bank; it was just a matter of robbing in a different location.
However, according to common sense, bandits are generally unlikely to rob a bank. After all, their equipment does not meet the requirements and they suffer heavy casualties.
Moreover, transportation of twenty-one boxes of gold is also a problem. Hu Damazi must be crazy, otherwise how could he rob the bank of gold?
Could there be some special reason behind this? If so, where would Hu Damazi keep this secret?
After carefully recalling all the details in the small room, I didn't find any text or marks left by Hu Damazi anywhere else.
There was nothing but these boxes.
If they weren't in that small room, could they be in these boxes? Bai Yangfan took out the gold nuggets one by one and carefully examined the empty boxes.
After checking, she put the gold nuggets back in their original place. When she moved to the seventh box, she actually found something.
The upper part of the box was filled with gold bars, while the lower half was filled with a miscellaneous assortment of antique paintings and calligraphy, jade bracelets, and gold ornaments. There was also a letter wrapped in kraft paper at the bottom of the box.
After taking out those things and putting them aside, Bai Yangfan took out the letter, slowly unfolded it, and found that it was written with a fountain pen.
The handwriting looked strong and resolute, not like it could be written by an uneducated bandit.
Destined person:
Hello!
Anyone who sees this letter is a friend of mine, Hu Damazi, Hu Yizhou. The twenty-one boxes of gold here were not robbed from a bank; I hijacked a caravan of merchants from a neighboring country and stole it from them.
I miscalculated.
Big miscalculation.
That wasn't a caravan at all, but an islander disguised as one. My men perished trying to keep the gold. We placed the gold in this trap, so even if the islanders found their way outside, they couldn't break it.
Whoever finds this gold, please hand it over to the country, please! My companions and I risked our lives, but we got to keep what belongs to us.
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