"Where is my treasure?"
Emperor Xuan roared, and his voice echoed in the stone chamber.
"Your Majesty, please do not worry. I have found a night-shining pearl, which proves that this is undoubtedly the place where the treasure is hidden."
"Just a night-shining pearl?"
“…Maybe we can find another one.”
Emperor Xuan felt terrible, "Huo Huaijin!"
Huo Huaijin was also confused. He was shocked when he heard Emperor Xuan's roar. "Your Majesty!"
"Hurry up and call everyone down except the guards!"
"My lord, I obey the order!"
Huo Huaijin stood up and flew straight up. The ministers above were looking anxiously at him. Yan Beixi grabbed him and asked, "General Huo, have you found the treasure?"
How could Huo Huaijin answer?
He gave a bitter laugh and said, "Prime Minister Yan, not yet. His Majesty has ordered everyone to go down and search for the treasure."
Yan Beixi was stunned. That meant it hadn’t been found yet. There was no treasure in such a big mountain. Where could the treasure be?
His heart suddenly turned cold, and he waved his hand: "Everyone, follow me down to find the treasure!"
"Hey, hey, hey, Lord Prime Minister Yan, you are old..." Before Huo Huaijin could dissuade him, Yan Beixi took the lead and grabbed the ladder to go down.
Dong Kangping was so nervous. The treasure worth more than one billion taels of silver was the apple of his eye, and yet they said there was no treasure underneath!
How could this not happen?
They must not have searched carefully enough. I will go look for it myself!
So he was the second one to go down.
Immediately afterwards, Minister Yan Shidao, Yan Haochu and other ministers filed down, each of them looking nervous and uneasy.
Emperor Xuan was standing at the bottom of the cave like an ant on a hot pot. He paced back and forth anxiously. When he saw that most of the people had come down, he roared again:
"Everyone, listen up! Search carefully for me! See if there are any secret doors!"
"Turn this place upside down for me, and I will definitely find the treasure!"
So, everyone groped on the wall and crawled on the ground to look for the gap. Some people flew into the air and held torches to carefully examine the cave wall.
"Your Majesty, I have found an agate!"
"Your Majesty, here is a piece of silver!"
"Your Majesty, gold dust, gold dust, there must have been gold bricks hidden here!"
“…”
Emperor Xuan's face turned even darker. These discoveries only proved that this cave had indeed buried treasures, but now they were gone... Could it be that such a huge amount of treasure had grown legs and ran away on its own?
This is Confucius Temple, which is located in Jinling City. Who the hell could move a mountain of gold away silently?
Do you think that everyone in Xiyu Tower is blind and eats for free?
Emperor Xuan would never believe that anyone had gotten there first.
Fu Xiaoguan didn't believe it either.
Even if someone really opened this treasure, how much could he take away?
But now the situation here is very clean, even cleaner than after a locust swarm.
He began to recall carefully, hoping to find some clues.
He got this news from the Fourth Prince, who said that the key to unlocking the treasure was in the hands of the Grand Elder of the Moon Worship Sect's Cemen. Eunuch Jia said that the Grand Elder of Cemen had long been killed by Official Fu... killed by Official Fu... Could it be that the key fell into Official Fu's hands?
This treasure...
Fu Xiaoguan's heart skipped a beat, remembering how the fat man had spent billions of gold to buy land in the Wu Dynasty - could it be... that the fat man had done it?
His heart suddenly rose to his throat, but he felt it was unlikely.
Even if the fat man really had the key, he wouldn't be able to move all the gold away.
How does he take it out?
Even if he moved some every day, how long would it take him to move the mountain of gold bars and silver ingots?
Where could he move to?
No matter where it is piled, the volume will not change unless he can build another such huge mountain.
It was impossible for Xiyu Tower not to notice something unusual. Fu Xiaoguan gave up the idea and thought that maybe there really was a secret door.
As for this secret door... He raised his eyes and looked around. This secret door couldn't be on the stone wall. If he chiseled through it, the mountain would be pierced. So this secret door must be on the ground.
If the Chen Dynasty wanted to make the treasure safer, they would probably dig a huge hole underground, just like the imperial tomb.
Thinking of this, he began to search carefully on the ground.
An hour passed in everyone's anxiety. Fu Xiaoguan found a corner of the mountain, and then his eyes suddenly lit up -
He knocked on a stone slab and heard a hollow "dong dong" sound. There was nothing underneath!
He was overjoyed, took out his dagger, and carefully pried the stone slab open...
A hole big enough to accommodate two people appeared in front of him!
He held up the torch and looked inside. A stone staircase meandered down along the cave entrance.
"His Majesty……!"
Fu Xiaoguan roared loudly, and Emperor Xuan was startled and walked over hurriedly.
"I think the treasure is down here!"
Emperor Xuan was overjoyed. There was no other place except below!
"Someone, come down and take a look!"
Everyone gathered around, with Fu Xiaoguan leading the way, followed closely by Huo Huaijin holding a spear, then hundreds of soldiers, Emperor Xuan also followed, and finally the civil and military officials.
The stone steps were not long. In just half a cup of tea, Fu Xiaoguan reached the end of the steps. There was a door in front of him.
He walked over, reached out and pushed the door, and it opened. A gust of cold wind blew in his face, making him shiver unexpectedly.
He walked in again, and then he heard a voice -
He frowned, that was the sound of flowing water!
This is an underground river!
He held up the torch and took a look, and was suddenly shocked!
He did not go any further because there was no road ahead.
Emperor Xuan came to his side, looked at the scene in front of him, and opened his mouth in shock.
They were standing on the bank of a dark river!
There is actually a small boat on the shore!
Normally, this small boat should have decayed after being in this damp underground river for more than two hundred years, but it didn't.
Fu Xiaoguan reached out and knocked on the boat. It was intact, with only a few scratches.
So the question is, where does this underground river lead to?
Emperor Xuan didn't think too much about it at this moment. He just knew that there was no possibility of treasure hidden in this place.
What about the treasure?
"Where's my treasure?!"
Emperor Xuan roared, and his voice echoed underground.
No one could tell him where the treasure was.
At this moment, the place was surprisingly quiet.
Dong Kangping's heart sank into a valley, feeling cold.
Yan Beixi slowly closed his eyes, knowing in his heart that the treasure had been taken away by someone else.
"Huo Huaijin, get on the boat and row out to show me where it leads!"
"I obey your command!"
Huo Huaijin pushed the boat into the river, drifted downstream, and disappeared.
Fu Xiaoguan looked around with a torch in hand, and then his sight fell on the stone wall of the dark river.
His eyes suddenly widened, he took a step forward, and reached out to wipe away the light moss on it.
There are many words carved on the stone wall:
I left quietly,
Just as I came quietly.
I waved gently,
Farewell to the clouds in the west.
…
I left quietly,
Just as I came quietly.
I waved my sleeves,
There is no mountain of gold left.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
