The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

The rammed earth inside the three-foot-thick horse-head wall was hollowed out to form a long corridor-like secret room, and the entrance was indeed a curtain blocked by a wooden plank similar to a skylight, as Chao Mahan said.

Su Jin poked the candle in first, and looked at a wooden step that was obviously built by man, extending down step by step, and it was obvious that the secret room was below.

Although Su Jin was excited, he still had a mind and didn't step in hastily, because he didn't know what was connected to the other end of the rope.

Su Jin ordered the dynasty to restore the pulled rope back to its original position. There was a sound of click, but there was no abnormality in front of his eyes. Su Jin gently lifted a piece of tile and threw it on the wooden ladder. The piece fell down the stairs in an instant, and there was a shattering sound of hitting a hard object.

This is a trap of flipping the plank. Needless to say, the rammed earth under the plank has also been completely emptied.

Su Jin gently flipped a step with his hand, lit a piece of dead wood and threw it under the black hole. Looking over his head, the scene in front of him made his hair stand on end. The bottom of the wall hole was full of blue sharp knives, and there were actually two A bloody corpse, it seems that it has not been dead for a long time, so there is no peculiar smell. Without a doubt, without knowing the mechanism, this place is a death trap for thieves who dare to enter the secret room rashly.

As for the two corpses, Su Jin was [-]% sure that when they attacked the mountain, some bandits who knew the location of Shen Yaozu's secret room wanted to take the opportunity to fish for money and died here.

Judging from the reflected light, these knives are sharp blades that have been tempered with poison, not to mention the deep hole that is about ten feet high will throw you to pieces. With the last handle, you can only rot and maggot in the hole in the wall.

This guy is a genius, and he is a scheming, persevering, cruel and vicious genius. It will take at least a few months to hollow out this rammed-earth horse-head wall with one person's power, not to mention the design of the trap. Organ, but also to connect the handle of the organ to the big tiger-skin chair that only you can sit on. How much energy and perseverance are needed to complete this.

Su Jin could imagine that Shen Yaozu sneaked in here every night, digging the rammed earth with a small spoonful of disheveled face, carrying it out like ants moving house.Then he designed his mechanism bit by bit, digging a groove in the corner of the hall, burying the bamboo tube, passing the rope through the bamboo tube in the groove and extending it into the wall of the horse head, and designing the pulling mechanism. Everything is done by himself. , To avoid people's eyes and ears, Su Jin asked himself, he would never be able to do it.

The principle is actually very simple. The rope is connected to the support at the bottom of the suspended ladder. When the rope is pulled, the support below the wooden ladder will be stuck, and people will not turn over when stepping on it. Once the rope is restored to its original position, the wooden ladder will be stepped on But if it is turned over, people will fall into the hollow when they are caught off guard, and they will die without a place to bury them.

Su Jin shrank back, sat on the ridge of the roof panting heavily, the cold and fresh air calmed his frightened heart a little.

Shen Yaozu worked hard to build this secret room, there is definitely something worth looking forward to in it, otherwise he wouldn't have spent such a lot of trouble.

Su Jin got down from the roof, closed the door of the hall tightly, and tied it, and checked around to make sure that there was no one else in the hall, then pulled the rope, and Chao Mahan and Wang Chao went up to the roof and slipped into the room. Hole in the wall.

Su Jin brought more than a dozen tiles with him, and before he walked up a step, he used tiles to throw on the wooden boards to prevent other changes, because Shen Yaozu is really unpredictable, who knows what evil he will come up with The trap comes.

Fortunately, nothing unusual happened, the space was too narrow, Shen Yaozu was afraid that he had intentions, so he couldn't design any extra traps.

Walking down more than a dozen steps, you have gradually reached the bottom of the horse head wall. After descending the steps, there is nowhere to go. It looks like you have entered a dead end, but Su Jin knows that there must be an entrance. To lay a useless trap.

Sure enough, Wang Chao whispered softly, and the place that seemed to be the wall was recessed with a push. Su Jin understood that Shen Yaozu could see the property at a glance in order to prevent someone from throwing torches on it, so Only a partition wall was intentionally left between the stairs and the wooden boards. As for the secret door under the stairs, it only needs to be concealed a little, and there is no need to keep it secret. After all, everyone has already reached the bottom of the stairs, and more concealment is useless.

The hole in the wall that only allowed one person to enter was pushed open and slid down. As soon as the three of them climbed into the secret room, they all opened their mouths wide and could no longer make any sound. It's unreal, everything seems to be in a dream.

Su Jin vaguely remembers the scene he saw in the movies of his own son in later generations, and the scene he imagined that he entered countless times is laid out in front of him at this moment, with golden light shining all over his eyes, gold and silver ingots are randomly piled up on the ground like hills, everyone's favorite yellow and white The things here are thrown away as if they were shit and horses. There are no boxes or shelves in the small secret room, and there are only gold and silver, jewelry and jewelry thrown on the ground. No one can imagine, right here There is so much money hidden in the mezzanine of a horse's head wall on the barren hill.

Su Jin quickly estimated the value, but he had never seen so much money before, so he was really not sure. Such a large pile of gold and silver was worth hundreds of thousands of guan. Now it's out.

Chao Mahan's mouth was wide open, and his saliva was about to flow down. The two of them had never seen so much money since they were young, and it was all real money, not even a copper coin.

"Get rich, get rich, my lord." Wang Chao muttered.

"How many sauced elbows can I buy!" Ma Han said with emotion.

Su Jin laughed and said, "It's so much that you can't eat it all your life. You can eat two for each meal, throw away two, or wipe your boots with a soy elbow every day to keep them shiny."

"My lord, all this money belongs to you. You may be the richest man in Luzhou."

"It doesn't belong to me, it belongs to us. According to the rules of the world, whoever sees it has a share. You two are also small rich people." Su Jin smiled.

"No, no, how dare you, sir, don't entertain us, we don't want to spend your money." Wang Chao quickly waved his hands.

Su Jin smiled and said: "Of course you have a share of the money, but I will keep it for you, use it to make more money, and give it to you just to eat, drink, gamble, don't look at the money here, but I can't stand squandering."

Ma Han said: "My lord, we are not people who are open to money. We follow you because you treat us well. The monthly salary of five pennies is enough for us to spend. It's okay if we want to do anything wrong." people?"

Su Jin said: "Listen to me, don't be pretentious, this money is considered to be your shareholding in my Suji, and you will make a lot of money in the future. I will buy you a big house, buy land and marry a wife as a master."

The two nodded their heads like they were talking about each other. This was their dream in life. The young master seemed to be their bosom friend, and he spoke to their hearts with one word.

"My lord, how do we take out so much money? What should the court do if the court traces such a large amount of money?" Wang Chao scratched his head.

Su Jindao: "Wang Chao down the mountain to ask for manpower, others should not be alarmed, just ask the buddies brought by Su Ji to bring a few boxes up the mountain, the gold, silver and jewelry here must be packed in at least five or six boxes, and there are more than a dozen people. It’s enough to carry it down the mountain; Ma Han and I are here to tear down the wall, directly tearing down the outer wall, and there are at most two layers of brick shells on the outside, which can be broken with a poke.”

Ma Han said in amazement: "If the wall is broken, won't the court find out that the property was taken by the young master?"

Su Jin chuckled and said, "The mountain people have their own tricks."

When the sky was twilight, five large boxes were neatly placed in Su Jin's large tent. The boys of Su Ji had blisters on their shoulders, but the rewards for each of them were also very generous, so they were quite satisfied.

After they went up the mountain, they were told that they could only stay outside the hall. Wang Chao Mahan went in with an empty box to pick up horse manure, and swept away the gold and silver in the secret room, and even touched the dust on the ground twice.

As soon as the boys lifted the box, they yelled and couldn't take it anymore. In the end, the four of them lifted it and stumbled down the mountain road. There was not enough manpower, and Su Jin could only make up for it, and his tender shoulders were bruised and swollen.

Yan Biyun and the others looked at the five large boxes that Su Jin brought back after a busy night, none of them knew. Therefore, Su Jin proudly opened the lid of the box himself, and there was a sound of exclamation, and the tent was full of jewels, reflecting the faces of the women. All shine.

"You are..." Yan Biyun is not very interested in money, she has seen more money and things than this.

Su Jin said mysteriously: "Shen Yaozu robbed and searched for several years of treasures, and I got all of them."

Yan Biyun frowned and said, "This is the money of the common people. The bandits are all robbing the common people."

Su Jin laughed and said: "I will take it for Shen Yaozu and use it for the people. I don't know who he robbed, so I can only keep it on my behalf. One day in the future, I will find the owner, and it will not be too late to return slowly."

Seeing that his words were insincere, Yan Biyun knew that he would never let go of the money, so he said: "If the imperial court finds out..."

Su Jin patted his head and said: "I almost forgot the important thing, I will come as soon as I go."

Su Jin got out of the tent, called the head of Weidu and said: "The big villages and checkpoints on the mountain should not be kept, lest the bandits will gather again. This mission is for you to take people to destroy them all. The ones that should be demolished should be demolished, and the ones that should be burned should be burned." , Everything that can be used is moved down the mountain to be counted and compiled, and temporarily placed in the warehouse of the Yangzhou government, pending the inspection of the court."

The head of Weidu secretly praised the special envoy for being careful, keeping these houses and checkpoints will indeed attract bandits to gather again, and it is a fat job to search for supplies, so he immediately took the order and went there with a smile.

At si o'clock in the morning, thick smoke billowed from all over the cottage, and the Bagong cottage, which generations of bandits painstakingly built, was burned down and turned into ruins.

Yan Biyun, Chao Mahan and others knew that Su Jin was destroying the evidence, the walls were destroyed, and everything in the future had nothing to do with Su Jin.