Yan Cigui.

Taohezhai.

Chen Gui unloaded the copper box in the backyard.

Before Fu Guogong came, Chen Gui of course didn't dare to leave, so he just moved a bag and sat beside the box in a daze.

The sun is coming out.

Chen Gui looked at the sunlight that was pouring down, and thought to himself that it was not as dazzling as gold bricks.

When I saw the situation in the box in the flower hall earlier, my eyes were almost blinded by the flash. I subconsciously wanted to close it, but I didn't dare to close it, for fear that it would disappear when I opened it again.

When he came over, Lin Xun also confessed to him.

If it is going to be confiscated in the end, no one should worry about the windfall, just do a good job in business.

If everyone goes into their own pockets, the mansion will not forget Chen Gui's share.

Although the proportion is small, it still accounts for a share, and those who have worked hard before and after running, must not be able to get along well, so they swallowed his benefits inexplicably.

Chen Gui didn't take the initiative to mention it, because he knew the character of the nobles in the mansion, and he was determined not to be missing when the final accounts were divided.

But the third master spoke first, and Chen Gui felt even warmer.

It is said that brothers settle accounts clearly, whether in business or as brothers, it is the most practical way to do it with the family.

Without any other effort, you can naturally save your energy and brains to do the right thing.

Of course, as far as the income from these two boxes is concerned, he insisted on pulling the third master to do the honest alley business, and he really did nothing wrong.

Just thinking about it, the backyard door creaked open.

Chen Gui looked over and saw that Xu Jian had arrived, so he quickly stood up from his chair and bowed respectfully.

Xu Jian saw Chen Gui at a glance, and also saw the big copper box beside him.

"Dug out in the middle of the night, two identical ones," Chen Gui and Xu Jian explained, "I'll send them to the uncle's mansion first, and then I'll send them to you."

Xu Jian's eyes fell on the empty lock.

Seeing this, Chen Gui said again: "There is no key, so we can only open the lock."

Once the lock is disassembled, the lock cylinder is broken, so of course it cannot be buckled again.

Xu Jian threw the broken lock aside and lifted the lid.

The golden light came oncoming.

Xuan Su next to him was stunned, but Duke Fuguo didn't change his face.

Chen Gui saw it in his eyes, and nodded silently: The Duke of the State is indeed the same as the Princess, not only knowing that the treasure was buried in Honest Lane, but also knowing the true face of the treasure.

"The princess left a box?" After Xu Jian asked, thinking of the look in Uncle Chengyi's eyes, she asked again, "Did you meet Uncle when you were moving things?"

Chen Gui told me what happened in the early morning: "Send it to the official, or keep it, the mansion will listen to you."

Upon hearing this, Xu Jian was overjoyed.

"Send an official? Is that what the old lady thinks?" The more he said it, the more he found it funny, raised his brows, and clicked his tongue, "Will the princess send an official?"

The princess is afraid that she will not even take a gold brick to grind some gold chips and send it to Shuntian Mansion.

Thinking of this, Xu Jian bent down, took a piece from it, and weighed it in his hand.

The weight is very large, the six sides are smooth, and there is no mark of the year or place of manufacture in the template used for casting, so naturally it is impossible to judge the source from this.

Just about to put it back, Xu Jian suddenly thought of something and turned the gold brick over.

Facing the daylight, he looked at the corner of one side of the gold brick.

As the angle changed, a half-knuckle-long trace as thin as a hair was exposed.

After seeing clearly, the smile on Xu Jian's face disappeared instantly.

He put down the one in his hand, took another one, and looked at it against the light, so that he had seen almost the entire layer of gold bricks before he gave up.

Chen Gui was quite puzzled by Xu Jian's actions, and followed his example to look at a few pieces.

"Are you looking at this thin mark?" he asked. "It's in every piece. It must be from the mould?"

Xu Jian didn't answer, but asked another question: "Has the princess seen it?"

Chen Gui said: "No."

"Then let her see it too." After Xu Jian finished speaking, she asked Xuan Su to put away the gold bricks.

According to the words, Chen Gui returned to Chengyibo's residence.

Lin Yunyan listened to him and asked, "Is there a thin line?"

Xiao Duan asked Lin Xun to buy a new lock for the box in his house, and moved it to the warehouse first. It would be too much trouble to open it for inspection at this time, and if it is not good, it will attract people's attention.

From this point of view, it is more convenient to go to Taohezhai.

Lin Yunyan left as soon as she said, and a carriage stopped outside the shop.

After entering the shop, she asked the shopkeeper, "Is your master on the top or inside?"

The shopkeeper hurriedly pointed inward.

Lin Yunyan nodded.

Walking to the depths of the shop, she passed by the stairs, and she glanced at the narrow and steep wooden stairs.

If she climbed the stairs again, she would probably ask Xu Jian directly, "Do you want any more legs?"

In the backyard, Xu Jian was a little surprised by Lin Yunyan's arrival.

After thinking about it, I understand.

"Why?" he asked, "You can't see your baby anymore?"

"Grandma put it away first," Lin Yunyan said, "There are so many people in the house, it's inconvenient to open the box once."

Xu Jian went into the house, opened the box and took out a gold brick.

Lin Yunyan took it with both hands, stood under the sun, and shone back and forth against the light. After she saw the trace clearly, her expression became dignified.

She was too familiar with this trace.

In the 18th year of Yongjia in the previous life, that is, in the early autumn of the second year after the death of the empress dowager, Xu Jian, as a deputy envoy, supervised the confiscation of Uncle An Yi's mansion.

If you want to say how serious things An Yibo's family committed to bring about the overthrow, that's really not true.

According to Lin Yunyan's understanding, the root lies in the prince.

Uncle An Yi has some opinions on Crown Prince Li Shao's daily activities.

Some of Li Shao's behaviors are not right or wrong, but they are not dignified enough as the crown prince.

Two years ago, the censors pointed out that the crown prince did his own thing, and the emperor obviously didn't want him to be strict, so the censors just let it go.

After all, he likes to drink and talk nonsense after drinking, that's all.

Uncle An Yi was picky, and the censor didn't say anything. He said that the crown prince couldn't lift his head when he said it several times in the court meeting.

In the end, he became the chicken who made an example to others.

The whole family, young and old, went to jail.

While the court was arguing endlessly about Uncle An Yi's "innocent disaster", Xu Jian copied a batch of gold bricks from the uncle's mansion.

Originally, with An Yibo's family background, it was normal for some gold to be pressed into boxes, but such fine marks were found on two of them.

The angle and movement are very similar to the characters of Li Mi, the fourth brother of the Holy Majesty.

As the fourth son of Emperor Taixing, Li Mi was very irritable and hot-tempered. Unless it was an official document, he never wrote "Mi" when writing his name in private, and only expressed it with "one".

In the 28th year of Taixing, the first prince born to Empress Shen died of illness. Emperor Taixing imprisoned the third son and demoted Li Mi, the fourth son, to common people on the sickbed. After more than half a year, Emperor Taixing passed away, and finally the sixth son ascended the throne. , it is today.

As for Li Mi, who was expelled from the capital, there has been no news for many years.

Civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty would not even think of him.

It wasn't until the traces on the two gold bricks were determined to be the character "汤" written by Li Mi that the commoner prince returned to the sight of everyone.