Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 827 A Lot Of Gold

Song Jue stood at the door of Chifu's cellar, poked his head and looked inside curiously.

Regarding Shen Cha's statement, basically everyone disagreed, and even Shen Haolin questioned how crazy Chi Er had to be to build a cellar with gold bricks, and how many people had to be tricked.

Therefore, based on the principle of hearing is believing and seeing is believing, everyone decided to go to the Chi Mansion to see for themselves whether it was what Shen Cha said.

Unlike the cellars of other mansions, the cellar of Chi Mansion was very large. Song Jue, Shen Haolin, Shen Cha, Song Qiyun, Bai Meng, and ten shadows went in together, but it was still empty.

"Hmm..." Song Jue and Song Qiyun stood by one of the walls, and at the same time reached out and knocked on the wall, making a sound that was completely different from ordinary walls. Song Qiyun frowned slightly, "I have also entered this cellar before, and I don't seem to have noticed it. Something different, but the sound is definitely different from a normal wall, isn't it?"

"It seems to be." Song Jue nodded. "This voice sounds a bit crisp. If it is an ordinary brick wall, the voice will be muffled."

"You know a lot!"

While teasing his brother, Song Qiyun, like Bai Meng, pulled out a dagger from the boot, and scraped vigorously on the wall. After scraping off a layer of skin on the surface, a little different color was revealed inside.He took a closer look, stretched out his hand to touch it again, and looked at Song Jue beside him with surprise. He never expected that Shen Cha would really hit the mark.

"Is it gold?" Song Jue stretched out his hand to touch it, felt the coldness coming from his fingertips, sighed softly, took the dagger in Song Qiyun's hand, and scraped vigorously on other parts of the wall a few times, and saw the Revealing a light golden color, he sneered, turned around and looked at Shen Cha who had been standing at the door, "Xiao Cha is really good, it really is made of gold bricks, but such a big cellar is all made of gold bricks... ..."

"It's more than the value we estimated. Chi Er... or the rest of the Chi family, I'm afraid they won't be able to reach this level just based on the surface or the money earned from Chi Er's smuggling salt and iron business." "Shen Haolin also scratched a few pieces, which were gold bricks without accident, "Aside from these known channels, they should have other businesses, but they haven't been exposed."

"Perhaps the Chi family is in Tantai's house...well, no, the position with Mrs. Teng is much more important than we imagined. Maybe..." Shen Cha looked at Shen Haolin and then at Song Jue, "Are they The main source of Mrs. Teng's accumulation of wealth, in other words, the Chi family is Mrs. Teng's small treasury, the kind that no one knows except Mrs. Teng herself."

"This is also an important reason why Chi Hong can be unscrupulous in front of Mrs. Teng." Song Jue agrees with Shen Cha's words, "The old man Qian who was caught by you has told the Yu family that the people around Mrs. Teng have treated Chi Hong Very dissatisfied, but Mrs. Teng never took this kind of remarks to heart, and adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards Chi Hong, did she do this only because of the deep love between sister and brother?"

"Sister and brother love is one aspect, and the most important thing is the conflict of interests." Shen Haolin nodded, "Their siblings have been separated for so many years, and it is really not certain how much affection they have, but it is Mrs. Teng's heart disease to find her younger brother. , and gradually evolved into an obsession. After this heart disease and obsession were resolved, she found that her younger brother and the family that adopted him were very useful, and this value far exceeded her expectations. She thought of something else, and used her younger brother and the family that adopted him to achieve her dream." He reached out and knocked on the wall of the cellar, "This cellar and these gold are the embodiment of the value of the Chi family."

"Without these things, even if it's my own brother, Madam Teng would not let him be so arrogant." Shen Cha picked up Shen Haolin's words, and waved to the others, "Let the brothers demolish this place, see How much gold is there? Let's see how much Chi Hong or the Chi family is worth to Mrs. Teng."

To demolish such a large cellar, a few shadows alone are not enough. Bai Meng specially transferred a hundred or so people from the imperial army, and hired a few craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry to guide them, so as not to demolish the cellar. The whole mansion was destroyed.

These people worked for a full four hours, until it was getting dark, and they ate up the entire cellar. However, to their surprise, the amount of gold was not as much as expected. Half of the entire cellar was dismantled. Real wall tiles, the other half is real gold.These gold stacks look very spectacular.

Everyone couldn't help sighing that Second Master Chi was able to accumulate such a large amount of wealth in such a short period of time. His ability to make money is really extraordinary. I am afraid that many people in Xijing City have been deceived by him.

As for why half of the real wall bricks are used in this cellar, a few craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry briefly explained to everyone that the texture of gold is relatively soft. Possibly saved until now.Moreover, the craftsmen also said that this cellar should be newly built, no more than half a year old by visual inspection.

"Not more than half a year? So, the Second Young Master Chi has already started preparing for his escape half a year ago? Part of it has been converted into the 1 million bank note, which is currently in the hands of no one, and the other part has been transformed into Gold, use this cellar as cover."

"It seems like this should be the case." Bai Meng nodded, "but there is one more problem."

"That's right." Shen Cha clapped his hands lightly, "What happened to the Chi family half a year ago made them replace all their properties with these so quickly." She looked at Song Jue, then at Bai Meng, " Was there anything unusual about the Chi family at that time?"

"Abnormal?" Song Jue thought for a while, "I seem to remember..." He looked at Bai Meng and asked a little uncertainly, "Is it because Chi Ge is old and sick? And it's very serious. I even went to a few imperial doctors in the Imperial Hospital. , was finally rescued?"

"Yes!" Bai Meng nodded, "If you want to say that their family is abnormal or something major has happened, it is this. Because Chi Ge is old and seriously ill, Chi Hong deliberately rushed back from other places. When he came back, the Chi family They have already started preparing for the funeral." He frowned slightly, "So, the time when Chi Ge was seriously ill was almost the same time as when Chi Er sold his shop..." He looked at everyone, "It seems that they My plan is that if Chige can't stand it any longer, they can take the gold and go to Yancheng to seek refuge with Madam Teng."

"This is possible, otherwise, there is no way to explain why he sold his property on such a large scale." Shen Cha picked up a gold brick and weighed it in his hand, "Commander, please go and find out what happened at that time. Who is the person who built the cellar for Chifu, ask them the specific time when they built the cellar."

"Okay." Bai Meng nodded, "Is there anything else you want me to do?"

"Send Your Majesty back to the palace." Shen Cha shook the gold brick in his hand, pulling Shen Haolin and Song Qiyun out.

"Okay!" Bai Meng looked at their backs and asked, "Why are you going?"

"Go to Dali Temple and meet that Second Young Master Chi!"

(End of this chapter)