Chapter 450 The children discover a hidden mechanism under the bed
Lin Luoxi wasn't afraid of any leverage Lin Luodan might have, she just found it annoying.
Ignoring Lin Luodan's murderous glare, Lin Luoxi led her people to continue the search.
In no time, they found over a hundred bags of salt.
"So much salt, I wonder when we'll ever finish eating it..." Lin Luoxi murmured, looking at the mountain of salt bags in front of her.
“Princess Changping, you don’t know this, but this little bit of salt isn’t even enough to feed the people of Yancheng for a few days,” Huang Jiangguo replied respectfully from the side after hearing Lin Luoxi’s words.
"What?" So much salt, and it's not enough? Are you going to use it as a meal?
"Move everything away!" As for what to do with the salt, let's wait for Xiao Jingchen to give instructions!
The people Lin Luoxi brought were very fast, and they quickly moved the mountain of salt.
“Princess, what about this person…” The soldiers gestured to Lin Luodan, who had been captured.
"Just send her to reunite with Li Daikui." Lin Luoxi said this, ignoring Lin Luodan's terrified expression, and turned to leave gracefully.
Huang Jiangguo took Lin Luoxi to ten places in total, and the salt and money they found could fill half of the city lord's mansion.
If Huang Jiangguo hadn't been by her side, Lin Luoxi would have liked to stew some salt in her own space.
However, they are all kept in the city lord's mansion, and she can go and get one or two bags to put into her space whenever she wants.
It's the perfect ingredient for curing meat during the Chinese New Year when making preserved meat.
The situation was similar for Xie Hanchuan; none of the people he took out returned empty-handed.
Money and salt were all packed in bags. No wonder the people of Yancheng were so poor that they wore patched clothes. It turned out that all the money had ended up in the hands of these corrupt officials.
The items confiscated from the house were registered and moved into the city lord's mansion, awaiting Xiao Jingchen to send people to handle them.
"Phew, I guess we moved half of Yancheng's wealth into the city lord's mansion today..." Xie Hanchuan said as he gulped down tea after returning home.
Their operation was so large-scale and so hated that they didn't even dare to drink water outside, fearing that the remaining corrupt officials would secretly poison them.
"I don't think it's that simple!"
Don't be fooled by how much stuff they brought back; that's just the surface. Yancheng used to be such a wealthy place; it couldn't possibly only have salt and this kind of money.
"Honey, have you noticed something unusual?" Xie Hanchuan perked up immediately when he saw Lin Luoxi's suspicion.
"It's hard to say, let's send someone to investigate first." After a busy day, their stomachs were rumbling.
They started cooking in the courtyard where the city lord was staying.
"Mom, my younger siblings and I found a hidden mechanism in the bed in our room."
While they were eating, Xie Zhili looked at Lin Luoxi and said something indistinctly.
"Really?" Lin Luoxi paused in her eating. Could the truth they wanted to know be under the bed?
After quickly finishing their meal, Xie Hanchuan and Lin Luoxi let the children play in the yard. They quickly went inside and started groping around on the bed.
"Mom, there's a trap here..." Xie Zhili, who was playing in the yard, saw Lin Luoxi looking for something and ran in to tell her.
"Rumble..." Xie Zhili pressed the mechanism, and the headboard of the originally flat bed slowly rose up until it revealed the steps leading down.
"Eldest brother, you stay here with your younger siblings and keep watch. Don't let anyone get close."
"If anyone tries to get close, just loudly announce that your parents are resting..."
After giving Xie Zhili a few instructions, Lin Luoxi and Xie Hanchuan slipped into the basement with steps.
The steps were very long, and Lin Luoxi and Xie Hanchuan walked up them for quite a while before reaching the ground.
"I knew I was right." Lin Luoxi's eyes sparkled as she looked at the piles of gold bricks, silver ingots, luminous pearls, and pearl necklaces that filled the basement.
"Wife, where did they get so much gold? Could it be that there's a gold mine in Yancheng?" There was just too much of it, so much that one couldn't help but think of that possibility.
"Hmm, that's possible." Just like the golden cave in Bear Ridge.
The two exchanged a glance, their eyes sparkling with the light of money.
Lin Luoxi waved her hand, storing all the gold and silver jewelry into her spatial storage. After that, she and the others pulled Xie Hanchuan back into the house.
The two split up and began to examine the account books they had seized from Li Da Kui and the corrupt officials, scrutinizing every detail and leaving no suspicious place unchecked.
"I found it."
After two days and one night, Lin Luoxi finally found something wrong with the two ledgers.
"I found it too." Xie Hanchuan reconciled the locations he had found with Lin Luoxi.
The two of them found the same place.
"Walk!"
Lin Luoxi and Xie Hanchuan exchanged a glance, then took the children out, claiming that they had been too busy these past few days and needed to relax.
The family rode in a horse-drawn carriage, stopping and starting along the way, heading towards a mountain called Black Wind Village, which was infested with bandits.
"Mother, are you sure there are bandits on this mountain?" Xie Zhili looked at the quiet mountaintop. They had all started their picnic here, and no one had come down to rob them.
The children had all figured out how to deal with the bandits, but after waiting here for ages, they didn't see a single bird in sight.
"Yes, but it's probably because we made too much noise in the city that those people are hiding in their shells to avoid trouble and dare not make any moves."
"Besides, this mountain might be so quiet that there isn't even a bird here, which is unusual..." Xie Hanchuan saw the disappointment on Xie Zhili's face and quickly explained it to him.
The children are so eager to fight the bandits, we can't dampen their enthusiasm.
"Really?" Xie Leyao's eyes sparkled when she heard Xie Hanchuan's words.
"Ah!" Xie Leyao had barely finished speaking when a bunch of venomous snakes emerged from the bushes.
"Daughter, you scared me..." When Lin Luoxi saw the venomous snakes swimming up to Xie Leyao, she knew that this was her daughter's doing!
"Hehe... Mother, I'm sorry..."
"Go, drive the people out of the woods!"
Xie Leyao smiled apologetically at Lin Luoxi before giving orders to the venomous snakes with a stern face.
"Hiss..." The venomous snakes obediently darted quickly into the forest.
"Ahhh..."
In no time, screams of agony filled the woods.
"Father was right after all." Xie Zhichu's eyes lit up with excitement when he heard the screams coming from the woods.
"Mother, we want to go play..." Xie Zhiyan heard the noise coming from the woods and looked at Lin Luoxi and Xie Hanchuan with bright eyes.
"Okay, go ahead, be careful..." Lin Luoxi nodded, eating a crab full of crab roe, and agreed.
"White Tiger, you go with them too. Protect them if necessary."
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