Wudang

Chapter 125

"Daozhang Zhang, the younger one will take the lead?" Xu Zhenggong, the head catcher, asked in a respectful voice.

"Let's go together."

After Zhang Junbao finished speaking, he jumped out of the dark room.

This dark room is about three feet deep underground, so even if you dig above it, you probably won't be able to find it.

Even if someone rummages, it is impossible to dig so deep.

Generally speaking, you can only find the entrance at the bottom of the pool, and then enter from the entrance.

It was an accident that the dark room was directly blasted.

The dark room is built with blue bricks, square and square, about one foot square.

It stands to reason that this darkroom is not too big, but considering that it is three feet deep underground, the difficulty of building it is not comparable to that on the ground. Huang Chang must have spent a lot of thought on this darkroom back then.

Zhang Junbao looked around, it was scorched black, if he moved a little, ashes would fly.

It can be seen that most of them are books, and there are a huge number of them. After these books were burned to ashes, the ash left was so thick that it reached the knees of Zhang Junbao and Zhang Junbao. A little movement could make them fly all over the sky .

"It's only possible to find the ashes." Zhang Junbao murmured inwardly.

Even if there is gold leaf, it must be under the ashes.

If the ashes are not swept away quickly, the gold leaf will not be revealed.

It's just that this is not the result Zhang Junbao wants, he doesn't want people to discover the existence of the gold leaf.

To be honest, he agreed with Ke Zhen to send someone down just now, mainly because he didn't want to be too suspicious.

A dark room was found here, and no one was allowed to come down, and then I would be a little confused on my side.

Exclude other people, even people from the government are not allowed to enter?
So what do you want to do here?
It would be criticized by others, Zhang Junbao agreed after weighing it.

Originally, Zhang Junbao thought that if he had gold leaf, he should be able to avoid the eyes and ears of the people above and keep it in his arms.

But now there is some trouble, this thick layer of ashes shattered his thoughts.

"Zhang Daoist, you have to sweep away the ashes, otherwise you don't know what will be left." Xu Zheng said.

In Xu Zheng's view, there should be something that hasn't been burned clean.

Of course, it is not some martial arts secret book, presumably gold and silver things can definitely be kept, even if they are melted into gold and silver bumps, they are still valuable.

No matter whether this dark room was dug by Pu Shi later or left by Mr. Huang Shanghuang back then, it is normal to store some gold and silver in the dark room.

Zhang Junbao was silent for a while, his eyes wandered over the blue brick wall that had not been blown up.

Seeing that Zhang Junbao didn't make a sound, Xu Zheng didn't dare to say any more, and he didn't dare to walk around casually, waiting for Zhang Junbao's instructions.

He already knew Zhang Junbao's identity, and even the magistrate lowered his profile so much, how could he have any opinion as a small policeman.

Just wait for the trail leader to speak.

He knew what the magistrate was thinking and let himself participate. Once Zhang Junbao found something good here, the government office would at least be able to know what it was, that's all.

Because if there is something good, it is impossible for this thing to fall into the government office, and the Quanzhen Sect will definitely take it away.

I am here just to be a witness. In the future, if the people above ask me, the magistrate will not be ignorant.

As for the things being taken away by the Quanzhen Sect, there is really nothing they can do about it, and I believe the people above will understand when the time comes.

Zhang Junbao didn't see anything wrong on the blue brick wall, which made him very disappointed.

Is it true that gold leaf can only be found in ashes?

I am not alone here, there is also Xu Zheng.

This is the person I promised the government to let them send.

Shoot yourself in the foot?
Zhang Junbao smiled helplessly in his heart.

No matter what, there must be no one on the side of the government office.

If you really want to discover something next, you have to resolve it by yourself.

It would be best if I didn't know anything about it, but if Xu Zhengxian found out, I would have to make up an excuse to get the thing.

Anyway, if there is gold leaf, even if the words on the gold leaf are seen, nothing can be seen with only one piece.

At that time, if I say it is a Taoist scripture, who will dare to say it is not?

Since it is a Taoist scripture, who dares to say more if it is taken away by oneself?
"Troublemaker Xu can clean it up," Zhang Junbao said.

Hearing Zhang Junbao's words, Xu Zheng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Zhang Junbao didn't speak just now, which put him under a lot of pressure.

Fortunately, Zhang Junbao spoke up, and didn't mean to drive him away.

From this point of view, the Quanzhen Sect is still upright, and the master's account is obviously overthinking.

The master once told me to keep a close eye on Zhang Junbao's every move, and if Zhang Junbao discovers anything, he must keep it in his heart.

He knew that the master meant the meaning of the magistrate, and they were afraid that the Quanzhen sect had some secret plots.

"Okay, Daoist Zhang, leave this kind of dirty work to the younger ones." Xu Zheng patted his chest and said.

In fact, if you want to quickly clean up the ashes, the method is very simple, just a few more people to help.

It's just about the dark room, maybe the Quanzhen Sect really has some ideas here, so Ke Zhen dare not have the idea of ​​sending another person.

Let Xu Zheng go down alone just now because he was frightened, afraid of offending the Quanzhen Sect.

Therefore, the matter of cleaning up the ashes fell entirely on Xu Zheng, and the government did not send anyone down.

Just put down some baskets to hold ashes, and then pull them up with ropes to cooperate with them.

Zhang Junbao has been paying attention to Xu Zheng's actions, especially his sweeping action.

Because the color of the gold leaf is different from that of the ash, it is very conspicuous, so if there is something strange, it will be noticed.

Therefore, Zhang Junbao didn't dare to blink his eyes, for fear of missing it.

"Gold." Xu Zheng exclaimed.

He bent down and quickly picked up an ingot of gold ingots on the ground, about twelve taels in size.

Real gold is not afraid of fire, but gold ingots are not deformed.

Zhang Junbao secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Just now he also saw a touch of golden yellow in the dark ashes, but luckily it wasn't gold leaf.

But he felt a little lost in his heart. If it was gold leaf, although Xu Zheng would see it, he could take it away now, so the government office dared not say anything more.

Is there any gold leaf?

Zhang Junbao felt a little lost.

As Xu Zheng kept cleaning, he found a lot of things inside.

Mostly gold and silver, and some swords and such.

It is said that although Master Huang Shang Huang was an official ordered by the court, he also liked to practice martial arts.

The swords here have not rusted after more than a hundred years. They can be regarded as magical weapons, and they should be in Huang Chang's collection back then.

In fact, these gold and silver were not much. Zhang Junbao roughly estimated that the gold was only about a hundred taels, and the silver was more than 1000 taels.

On the contrary, the value of these swords may be higher.

Whenever he found these things, Xu Zheng would ask Zhang Junbao for instructions.

Zhang Junbao didn't dare to be interested in these things, so he left it to the government office.

This made Xu Zheng happy.

He didn't have any idea about gold and silver, basically he wanted to rush into the treasury, after all, with Zhang Junbao present, the silver would be hard to steal, but he was overjoyed to see the swords.

If the errand is done this time, maybe the magistrate can give me a reward?

"Pull!" Xu Zheng put the sword in the basket and asked the people above to pull it up.

'Bang bang bang', due to the excessive movement above, the basket shook violently and hit the blue brick wall.

'Kaka~~' The blue brick wall that was blown up suddenly collapsed from above.

Crash, a burst of ashes was stirred up.

"That's it?" Zhang Junbao's eyes were immediately attracted by the things behind the blue brick wall.

"Mezzanine?" Xu Zheng was stunned.

He didn't expect that after the blue brick wall outside collapsed, a small space appeared behind it, which was also made of blue bricks.

Zhang Junbao rushed to the wall in a flash.

In fact, Xu Zheng was originally thinking, wanting to rush over there.

But when he found that Zhang Junbao took the first step, he couldn't help being startled.

Fighting with Zhang Junbao, courting death?
Taking a deep breath, he slowly walked behind Zhang Junbao, seeing that Zhang Junbao was not approaching with his own hands, he carefully tiptoed to see what was inside.

It was dark inside, and many of them had been reduced to ashes, but he could still see the pattern, and there were still some wooden boards inside, which seemed to be engravings.

Because he can see that there are writing marks on it, so it can't be wrong.

Zhang Junbao picked up several engravings, but none of them were intact, it can only be said that they were not completely burned, and the handwriting could still be seen on them.

Because the previous fire was too fierce, even though it was separated by a brick wall, it was still extremely hot here, and many engraving plates were also burned. It was a fluke to be able to keep more than a dozen pieces.

Zhang Junbao didn't dare to move some engraving blocks, because they were already carbonized.

However, the shape and appearance are well preserved, and the words on it can still be distinguished.

Judging from these contents, Zhang Junbao can be sure that this is the engraving of Wanshou Daozang.

Sure enough, there was an engraving plate that was hidden by Huang Chang, but it was a pity that it ended up like this.

Moreover, this engraving plate itself may not be complete, after all, some old engraving plates have been left outside.

The current situation is a huge loss for Daomen.

Even if the engravings here are incomplete, they must at least account for more than half of the engravings in the Wanshou Dao Zang. Today, less than [-]% of the scriptures can be identified.

Zhang Junbao carefully inspected the ashes, but found no gold leaf.

What about these engravings that have not been completely burned?
Hope there is still.

Zhang Junbao rolled his eyes and felt that it was necessary to check these engravings one by one.

But not here, but to bring them back.

"This is an engraving of my Taoist classics." Zhang Junbao said, "Xu Butou, what do you think?"

"Ah, yes, yes." Xu Zheng nodded hurriedly, "It is indeed a Taoist scripture."

Xu Zheng was half a man in the rivers and lakes, but as a head catcher, he had contact with a lot of things and knew a little more, so-called well-informed.

The scriptures of Taoism are no strangers to him, so he can confirm the content on these engravings with a little glance.

Zhang Junbao nodded.

Xu Zheng was stunned for a moment. He thought Zhang Junbao had more to say, so why didn't he say anything?

What do you mean by what you just said?
Just when he was a little doubtful, Zhang Junbao's voice came from next to his ear: "Look again, maybe there are also behind several other brick walls."

Xu Zheng immediately got excited.

He thinks this is very likely.

Of course, it refers to the mezzanine darkroom, which may not necessarily be the engraving, and there may be better things hidden in it.

So without Zhang Junbao's command, he began to work hard to demolish the surrounding brick walls that were still in good condition.

After a lot of tossing, Zhang Junbao and Xu Zheng both looked dejected, and there was nothing.

Even the floor tiles on the ground were lifted, and then I tried to dig it down. It didn't dig three feet, but it was more than one foot, and I didn't find anything unusual.

Take it for granted, there is only one mezzanine.

"Daozhang Zhang, do you think we can end it?" Xu Zheng asked panting.

Just now he checked the place carefully again, and made sure that there was nothing missing, and he found everything he needed to find.

Of course, he was responsible for digging the ground all by himself, which consumed a lot of energy and made him very tired.

Although most of the things here have been burned, some have been recovered.

Gold and silver are not too much. In his opinion, the most important harvest is the dozen or so weapons, each of which is worth no less than a thousand taels of silver.

It's worth a thousand taels. It's more difficult for the magistrate to reward him directly.

Xu Zheng was already ready to cut the meat, he thought he would pay a few hundred taels, and believed that the magistrate would be able to pick one because he was an old man for many years.

Most of these weapons will be resold by the magistrate's master. No matter what he says, he is a member of the government office, so he gets the moon first if he is close to the water.

Thinking of this, Xu Zheng's mood improved again.

Put it outside, even a thousand taels of silver may not be able to buy such a good weapon.

Zhang Junbao glanced around again, and finally nodded.

After the two came up, Ke Zhen already knew the situation below, so he couldn't help but immediately stepped forward and asked, "Daozhang Zhang, although the engravings below are seriously damaged, some of them can still be salvaged, so~~~"

"Don't worry about this matter." Zhang Junbao raised his hand to stop Ke Zhen's words, "These are engravings of Taoist scriptures, so we will take them back."

"Ah?" Ke shocked and exclaimed, "Zhang Daochang, this is not in accordance with the rules, and it should be taken over by the government."

As soon as these words came out of his mouth, Ke Zhen was startled, is he old and confused?
Why are you arguing with Zhang Junbao about this? Do you have the qualifications?
This kind of rule is for weak people, and it is useless for someone with an unusual status like Zhang Junbao.

Sure enough, Zhang Junbao looked at him with a somewhat cold gaze.

"However, the engraving of Taoist scriptures is different from other things, so it should be handed over to the Taoist priests." Ke Zhen added hastily.

"That's the reason." Zhang Junbao nodded slightly and said, "The gold, silver, and weapons here must naturally be collected by Mr. Ke."

Of course Ke Zhen complied.

There are only a few blocks of Taoist scripture engravings left, and they were burned beyond recognition. Even if a set of engravings is extremely precious, it is worthless at present.

Let the Quanzhen Sect take it away, I believe that the people above will be like this, selling the Quanzhen Sect is a good relationship, it is considered a good relationship.

Why should I fight with Zhang Junbao?

Wouldn't it make yourself unhappy to add trouble to others?
Gold, silver and weapons are not bad. I can take the opportunity to keep some of them, so I can take it as compensation for being frightened tonight.

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I wish you all a happy new year and an auspicious Year of the Rabbit!

(End of this chapter)