Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 2292 Sure enough, there is something 8.0

When Shen Haolin, Shen Cha and Ying Wu returned to the Duke's Mansion, Xue Ruitian and the others had not finished their work yet. They had only appraised three or four of the more than 20 boxes of antiques. The appraisal master was so exhausted that he was taking a rest nearby.

When they saw Shen Haolin, Shen Cha and others coming back, they all stood up and greeted them.

Xue Ruitian came over, looked at the two boxes that Ying Wu was holding, and raised an eyebrow at Shen Haolin and Shen Cha.

"You really found it?"

"That's right. It wasn't a wasted trip." Shen Cha smiled proudly, looked at the sky, and then looked at the boxes on the trucks. "It's too late. Let the old gentlemen go back and rest first. This thing won't be lost if it's kept in the Duke's Mansion. It won't be too late to deal with it tomorrow after you have rested well."

Xue Ruitian had previously advised the masters to go back, but they would not listen. When they saw the more than twenty boxes of treasures, their eyes lit up and they refused to go back no matter what and insisted on finishing the viewing.

But they are old and their physical strength is not enough to support them to stay up late. They are already listless now. If they insist on going on, they will probably get sick from exhaustion.

Jin Jing winked at the shadows who came over to help, and they each supported one of the masters and sent them back to the camp.

"What's that in Lao Wu's hand?" Jin Jing and Jin Miaomiao came over and looked at the two boxes Ying Wu was holding. "Did you dig them out from that house?"

"Hmm!" Shen Cha thought for a moment, and arranged for Shadow to guard the twenty or so boxes. He then pulled Shen Haolin and called on the others to walk towards the flower hall. "Let's go back and talk. The things in here will surely surprise you."

"Shocked us?" Xue Ruitian shook his finger to show that he didn't believe it. "You know we just looked at three or four boxes. The old gentlemen initially concluded that they were all genuine goods, which means..."

"The goods sold to those shops are all fakes." Shen Cha looked at Xue Ruitian and chuckled. "From this point of view, it's not the shops that are cheating, but the caravan itself. When negotiating the deal, they used the real goods to fool people, and when the goods were actually delivered, they used fakes to deceive people, right?"

"More or less. Not all of them are fakes. About 30% are real and 70% are fake."

"They do this business, selling fakes to people to replace the real ones, so where do they sell the real ones?"

"Black market!" Xue Ruitian raised his eyebrows slightly. "The second brother just delivered the confessions of the caravan gang. Don't say the second brother is smart. He didn't expose their true identities. He just tried them for being dishonest and cheating in business. He did find out a lot! They said that the price given by the shop was too low, far below their original expectations, so they wanted to sell this batch of goods on the black market."

"They have all decided to sell on the black market, so they don't have to deal with these shops at all." Shen Cha looked at Xue Ruitian, "Why are they going through all this trouble? Or do they have other intentions?"

"bingo!"

Several people entered the flower hall. Merlin and several shadows had already cleaned up the place in advance. Knowing that Shen Cha might be cold, they specially lit a charcoal basin, but placed it far away. Its main purpose was to warm up the entire flower hall.

"Ginger tea!" Merlin hurriedly brought ginger soup from the kitchen, placed a bowl in front of each person, and placed the last bowl in front of Shen Cha.

Before Shencha picked up the tea, she smelled a strong scent of ginger. She frowned and looked at Meilin in confusion. "Boss, this bowl has extra ginger on purpose. Mr. Mo said you should warm up quickly."

".All right!"

Shen Cha looked at Xue Ruitian and Jin Jing who were grinning, then looked at Shen Haolin and Jin Miaomiao who were staring at her as if waiting for her to finish the bowl of soup. She pouted helplessly and could only wait until the ginger soup cooled down a little and was ready to drink before she pinched her nose and drank the whole bowl.

"Very good, very good!" Shen Haolin took a piece of candied fruit and fed it to Shen Cha, and then helped her wipe the sweat off her forehead. "You're sweating, and the cold you just caught is forced out."

"Yeah!" Shen Cha looked at Jin Miaomiao, "Aren't you accompanying Xiao Ye?"

"I saw she was asleep, so I came out to look for you. I wanted to go to that yard, but I heard that the Marquis was inspecting the goods in the front yard. I was very interested in that, so I ran over to take a look. It was really...eye-opening! But..." Jin Miaomiao looked at the two boxes, one large and one small, on the table, then looked at Shen Haolin, Shen Cha and Ying Wu, "What is this?"

"You can open it and take a look." Shen Cha looked at Xue Ruitian and Jin Jing, "When they renovated that yard, I'm afraid they didn't think there were treasures hidden there!"

"What treasure? Haven't all the things in that yard been moved back?"

Jin Miaomiao picked up the small wooden box, opened the lid, and saw the silver bills inside. She couldn't help but shout.

"Oh my God!" She widened her eyes in surprise, stretched out her hand to take out all the banknotes, looked at each one, and then handed them to Xue Ruitian and Jin Jing, who were also shocked. "Why are there so many banknotes? I just did a rough calculation, there are at least three million taels." She looked at Shen Haolin and Shen Cha, "Is there so much money hidden in that yard?"

"Are you shocked already?" Shen Cha took the hand warmer handed over by Merlin, leaned his head on Shen Haolin's shoulder, and raised his chin towards Jin Miaomiao, "Take a look at that black gold box, it will shock you even more."

Jin Miaomiao looked at Shen Cha, then at Shen Haolin who nodded at her, then looked at the black gold box at hand, turned to look at Ying Wu who was standing at the door drinking ginger soup, and seeing that he nodded as well, she took a deep breath and opened the lid of the box.

"I go!"

Seeing the golden and neatly stacked gold bars inside, Jin Miaomiao suddenly felt that the silver notes were not valuable at all, and these gold bars were the most important.

Xue Ruitian, Jin Jing, and Merlin also saw the gold bars in the box. They were so shocked that their jaws dropped. Jin Jing even subconsciously wanted to drop the silver bills in her hand, but immediately came to her senses, quickly held them tightly, and raised her chin.

"Their reactions were even greater than Xiaoyun and Laowu's." Shen Cha and Shen Haolin whispered, "Speaking of which, they are all well-known and well-off, so why are they so surprised?"

"Xiao Cha, just because you are not short of silver doesn't mean you have seen so much silver, or have held so much silver in your hands." Xue Ruitian reached out and touched the gold bars, clicking his tongue twice. "To be honest, this is the first time I have seen such a large box of gold bars. Even if the late emperor and Your Majesty give you rewards every year, it is impossible for them to give so much!"

"It's not just you. I'm afraid everyone in this room is seeing this for the first time." Shen Haolin raised his eyebrows slightly. "I have to say that these two people left a lot of good things for Cha'er and Jiu'er, even though this was not their original intention."