The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 174 Meeting the Joyful Meeting (8)

As the guard said, he went in and called someone out, and asked him to take me to Brother Fat.I was full of doubts along the way, and I always felt that Brother Fat seemed to have expected that I would return to him soon.When I arrived at the gate of the county police prison, the man took me straight to a cell, and the man inside was Brother Fat.

He was not surprised when he saw me, just nodded casually, and continued to peel a large pomegranate in his hand. To my surprise, he gave me half of the pomegranate after peeling it open.I was flattered, and quickly waved my hand to signal that I would not eat, and he ate it by himself unceremoniously.

I was about to speak, but he raised a finger at me, motioning me to keep quiet.I looked at him suspiciously, but saw him pointing his finger at a wall of the cell again. I immediately understood that he was eavesdropping on the conversation in the cell next door.At this moment, I heard Ji Mingmei's voice saying: "Mr. Zhou, do you know that someone is pretending to be you outside."

Ji Mingmei and Wang Honger were imprisoned opposite Zhou Xunshan. At this time, Ji Mingmei was standing in front of the prison door and talking there.However, after a long while, Zhou Xunshan still did not make a sound.Ji Mingmei had no choice but to say again: "He stole 1000 taels of gold from the security team but didn't take it away. Instead, he used it to frame us, and we were arrested and sent to the county police prison."

Hearing this, Zhou Xunshan seemed to be breathing heavily and became very emotional, but he still didn't speak.

After a while, Ji Mingmei said again: "Why don't you say a word? Hey, don't you know how to speak? Ah!" She looked very surprised, and suddenly called out, "That fake Zhou Xunshan said that he has been Haven't spoken yet. Could it be that you really haven't spoken for 20 years?"

Hearing what she said, I also turned my head to look at Brother Fat.He is in charge of the guard of the county police cell, so he naturally knew about this, so he nodded to me, indicating that what Ji Mingmei said was true.A person who has not spoken in prison for 20 years has been missed by people outside the prison.Then who is he, and why did he enter this prison?

I asked Brother Fat with my eyes, but he turned a blind eye to me and peeled the pomegranate by himself.Ji Mingmei babbled a lot on the other side, but Zhou Xunshan remained silent.At this moment, Wang Honger suddenly said: "You and I haven't seen each other for 20 years, so you don't have anything to say to me?"

Sure enough, she and Zhou Xunshan are old acquaintances, I heard that and took a look at Brother Fei.His face was calm, as if he knew about it a long time ago, I thought to myself, brother fat is really deep in his thoughts, he has actually seen many things long ago, but he didn't say anything.I suspect that although he said that he wants us to investigate this matter, in fact everything is under his control.

Wang Honger was still talking, Zhou Xunshan was still unmoved.But Wang Honger did not take offense, but sighed a long time, and said: "You and I are married, although you have never cared about me, I will never forget you. I have been planning to rescue you for the past 20 years." .”

When I heard this suddenly, I almost couldn't stand still.Wang Honger is actually Zhou Xunshan's wife!And what she said just now also confirmed our guess, she and Zhuo Yue have worked so hard to do so many things, and it really is to save Zhou Xunshan from going out.It's just that she and Zhuo Yue didn't take the gold, but they didn't know how to rescue Zhou Xunshan.

Ji Mingmei, who was on the opposite side, was also very surprised when she heard this, and said, "You...you are actually husband and wife!"

She didn't seem to recover from it for a long time, and asked after a while, "You want to rescue him? But, you didn't take the gold away. How did you coerce the security team to release him?"

Zhou Xunshan still didn't speak, but Wang Honger snorted coldly, and replied: "Who said we didn't take the gold. Now the gold is in Zhuo Yue's hands!"

My eyes widened when I heard it next door, Zhuo Yue really wanted to steal gold again.But his ability to steal as soon as he said it, is too incredible, right?Ji Mingmei was also stunned: "He wants to steal the gold again?"

Wang Honger laughed, not without pride, "Who said he needs to steal gold again? Those stolen 'big yellow croakers' never returned to the security team!"

So what are those "big yellow croakers" we saw in the pit?I was puzzled when I heard this, when Brother Fat heard this, his expression changed drastically, and he quickly ran out of the cell.As soon as I saw him run away, a thought flashed in my mind, those "big yellow croakers" in the pit were all fake!

Thinking of this, I hastily followed him and ran out.Brother Fei didn't run back to the security team, but ran to a room in the county police prison.Only then did I know that he was worried about leaving the gold in the security team, and actually hid it in the county police prison.

There were guards outside the room. They saw Brother Fat coming in a hurry, but they didn't dare to ask any questions, so they helped him open the door.The box containing the gold was locked in the cabinet in the room. The fat man tremblingly took out the key, opened the door, and took out the box.He didn't open the box immediately, but weighed it in his hands.

Gold is heavier than other metals, and it's easy to see which is heavier in the case of the same size.We have all seen those "big yellow croakers". If there is a deviation in size, it is easy to be seen at a glance, so its size should be fine.In this case, if it is fake, it will definitely weigh less than 1000 taels of gold.

A catty is 16 taels, and 1000 taels of gold is more than sixty catties, which can be easily felt in the hand.Brother Fat weighed the box in his arms, and said to me suspiciously: "It's not light."

As he spoke, he put the box on the table, then stretched out his hand to open it, and took out a "big yellow croaker". As soon as he got it, his face was ugly, and he couldn't help shivering, and the fat on his face also trembled.Seeing this, I hurriedly asked, "Is the weight wrong?"

"It's not right at all." Brother Fat's face was dripping with cold sweat, "But the weight of the whole box is not wrong, why did the weight of the gold bars change?"

I walked over and took out a "big yellow croaker" from the box, feeling the weight.I didn't think of it before, so I didn't pay attention to its weight. At this time, I felt it with my heart and found that it was indeed much lighter than gold. It might be faked with yellow lead, because only lead has a weight close to gold.

Normally, one "big yellow croaker" is ten taels, and 1000 taels is one hundred in total.But only 98 of them appeared in the pit. This is because there were two "big yellow croakers" left in the warehouse and the ditch respectively.The gold bar that "turned" into a real big yellow croaker was naturally not put in, so now there are 99 "big yellow croakers" in this box.

Of the 99, only the one left in the ditch is true, and the weight is obviously different from the rest.These fake gold bars were taken out and put on the table. The overall weight was quite different from more than [-] catties, but it was almost the same after they were put into the box. This is why the security team never noticed that the gold was fake.

"The box." I pointed to the box on the table and said, "The weight is on the box!"

Hearing this, Brother Fat picked up the box and weighed it in his hand, then nodded to me with a pale face.I took the box from him and saw that it was several times heavier than ordinary boxes, and probably some of the boards were also made of yellow lead.In this way, the weight of the box plus the "gold bars" is not far from more than sixty catties.

Brother Fat and I looked at each other and smiled wryly.Zhuo Yue and Wang Honger were very thoughtful, the "big yellow croaker" they left in the ditch was real, because Brother Fat could tell the authenticity of gold bars, so this big yellow croaker was for Brother Fat to see.When the security team found the pit, because there were too many gold bars at the bottom of the pit, and they needed to climb to the bottom of the pit, naturally Brother Fat would not go.

As for the strong men in the security team, how many of them have seen the real "big yellow croaker"?They only subconsciously feel that since the one in the ditch is real, the one that appears here is also real.They didn't bring a box with them when they went, and there happened to be another box at the bottom of the pit at this time, so they naturally packed the gold bars into the box and brought them back.

After returning to the security team, Brother Fat was busy interrogating us, but only briefly checked the weight of the entire box.He had already counted the number of gold bars when the strong men were packing them, and felt that the overall weight of them was 1000 taels of gold, so he sent them directly to the county police prison for custody.

As a result, this batch of fake gold was concealed like this, and no one even noticed that it was fake.

Brother Fat and I calmed down at this moment, each figured out the ins and outs of it, and we were all very depressed.After a while, Brother Fat asked in a hoarse voice, "How did the gold in the warehouse get out, have you found out?"

I shook my head, "The door of the warehouse has been locked all the time, and there are people patrolling outside the door. It is impossible to transport the gold away without anyone noticing. I haven't figured out the modus operandi, but I'm more What I don't understand is that since Zhuo Yue and the others have already stolen the gold, what are they doing with a batch of fake gold? Isn't this superfluous? Could it be... is it just to frame us?"

"Perhaps." Brother Fat was noncommittal, then he let out a long sigh and walked out without saying a word.I also followed him, since the gold is still in Zhuo Yue's hands, and Wang Honger said that he would use this to coerce the security team to release them, so now there is no other way but to wait for Zhuo Yue to deliver the letter.

We all walked out of the room one after another, and the two guards outside the door looked inside, and saw that the "gold" was spread out on the table, and we didn't close the door.One of them hesitated for a moment, and asked from behind: "Commander, do you need to put away the contents?"

Brother Fat didn't turn his head back and said, "No need?"

"Then...do you want to lock the door?" The guard was loyal to his duty and was still asking.

"No need! No need!" Brother Fat got angry, "Get out, get out of here!"

The guard shrank back from being scolded, but he still had the courage to say: "But the things are still inside, if no one is guarding and the door is not closed, then...won't anyone be able to enter?"

Brother Fat was impatient to explain to him, and was about to scold him again.But when I heard this, I was so startled that I froze in place, a bolt of lightning struck my forehead, and I immediately figured out how the real gold was stolen!

I grabbed Brother Fat and panted, "Don't...don't scold me, I know the truth about the gold theft."

Brother Fat stared blankly, and said dumbfounded: "Why did you suddenly understand how the gold was transported away?"

"Let's go, go to the warehouse again, and I'll explain it to you." I said to him quickly.Brother Fei didn't hesitate when he learned that I had learned the truth, and immediately took me out of the county police prison, and hurried all the way to the security team.

When we arrived at the security team, we immediately went to the warehouse.Brother Fat opened the door and turned on the light, and I walked right up to the gold box, kicking it aside without even looking at the box.Beneath the box, a handful of loose loess lay in honor of the stolen gold.

The soil quality of this loess is obviously looser than that of the surrounding area, and it is obvious that it has been dug up by people, but it was filled in later.Brother Fat squatted down in doubt, picked up some soil with his hands, rubbed it in his hands, then stomped on it with his feet, and asked me, "You mean someone dug a tunnel and sneaked in from the outside?" Came in and carried away the gold? But although the soil is loose, it is still solid."

It seems that he is very confident about his weight.I shook my head and said, "The tunnel is not so easy to dig. Besides, it takes time and effort. It cannot be made by one or two people. This can't be a tunnel. This is a place where gold is hidden."

"Where is the gold hidden?" Brother Fat still didn't understand.

"Don't you understand?" I pointed at the pile of soil and said, "When you found out that the gold was stolen, it was not actually stolen, but was always in the warehouse. Zhuo Yue dug a hole under the box and put the gold It’s all buried in. The water and fish in the chest, the stream in the storehouse, it’s all there to mislead you into thinking the gold has been stolen.”

"So?" Brother Fat's face became even more ugly.

"So you all went out to recover the gold that was not stolen. At this time, there was no one in the security team. He came back here again as if he was going to his own home, went to the warehouse to dig out the gold, and then Then put the box back to its original position, and Shi Shi ran away. Thus, the gold was stolen from the warehouse without anyone noticing it."

(End of this chapter)