Chapter 26, Official Silver?
Putting the small box and dagger on the table, Chu Xun, Tang Shu and Qi Tianning sat next to the table.
Below the small box is a dagger, and gems are also inlaid on it.
It is not just these two things, but there are too many people in broad daylight and there is too much noise. They take these two things away first, then bury the soil, and then find out at night.
"No key." Qi Tianning said, "Just open it like this?"
"No need." Tang Shu said, taking off the hairpin on his head, and then tinkering at the keyhole for a while. In less than a few words, the lock opened.
Qi Tianning was already numb about the surprise that Tang Shu brought to him.
Tang Shu can open a chain, which is very powerful.
Chu Xun was not surprised at all. Who made his wife come from a big background?
Tang Shu put the lock aside and was very excited. She opened the wooden box bit by bit.
There is actually nothing in the wooden box, just a very exquisitely made wooden hairpin and a cowhide roll.
Tang Shu did not go to see the hairpin, but picked up the cowhide roll directly.
Judging from her 20 years of film viewing experience, this cowhide scroll may be a treasure map.
But after opening the cowhide roll, I found that it was a blood book on it.
It's really a blood book. When you open it, you can smell a trace of blood. Although the red letters on it are already a little black, they should be blood. I just don't know if it's human blood or animal blood.
The above content is very simple, it is about a person's love, hate, and love.
The person who wrote the blood book was abandoned all the time, and then wrote the letter of decision, cursing the other party that he would not get the person he loved and would live alone for the rest of his life.
This hairpin is the token of love given to the person who writes the blood letter.
"I think this kind of letter is unreasonable to write on a cowhide roll." Tang Shu said.
"Why is it unreasonable? Maybe someone couldn't find the letter paper in time, so he wrote it on the cowhide roll." Qi Tianning felt that nothing was wrong.
Tang Shu was unwilling to give up, "I heard that some processed cowhide rolls can hide the real content on it."
Hearing this and looking at Tang Shu's unwilling expression, Chu Xun immediately understood and couldn't help laughing.
"You can try it." He said.
"What are you trying?" Qi Tianning was a little confused, "What's the problem?"
But what answered him was the fire note taken out by Tang Shu.
I tried both, roasted in fire and soaked in water, but the blood book is still the same.
Tang Shu was suddenly a little discouraged.
It turned out to be just a blood letter.
Qi Tianning was speechless, what are you sorry for? Do you really think there is something on it? What? Treasure map or something?
Chu Xun touched her head.
"There is probably something down there," he said.
"Well, I also hope there are many things, it's even better if it's treasure."
"If it was a treasure, it would not be left until now." Qi Tianning said leisurely, "It was probably what anyone left behind when the war was fought."
Tang Shu was silent. If he didn't say it, she almost forgot that this was a battlefield before.
So they won't dig up human bones by then, right?
...
At night, all the workers had left. They were all villagers from Huajiang Town or nearby. They were recruited to dig rivers and would not stay here overnight, but would go back or live directly in the town.
At night, there were no outsiders except those ten assassins.
And of course, this kind of job of digging something is to be handed over to outsiders.
The assassins no longer have any tempers now, so they do whatever they want, and they are also very excited about digging for treasures.
I don't know if the person who sees me has a share.
After digging almost to the knee of an adult, they found that something in the pit was shining with light from the fire, or silver.
When several people were excited, they moved faster.
Then they dug out a box of silver from it.
"Is this real silver?"
“There is still next to it.”
"Dig quickly, you'll get rich, you'll get rich."
They were so excited.
Qi Tianning, Chu San and the others were excited to watch from the side.
There is so much money buried here.
Chu Xun and Tang Shu felt something was wrong. Chu Xun took a ingot of silver to look at it, but found something amazing on it.
"This is the official silver."
The people who were excited to dig money stopped their movements and looked at Chu Xun one after another.
"Official silver?" Qi Tianning also came over to take a look. When he saw the words above, his pupils shrank, "Ten years of Jiajing, was that seven years ago?" It was amazing.
"Master, Jiajing has been ten years, no."
"What is it?" Tang Shu was very curious. Why were Chu Xun and Qi Tianning's expressions so serious?
However, it is indeed wrong to find the official silver here.
"In the ten years of Jiajing, Jiangnan was flooded. The imperial court allocated one million taels of silver to provide disaster relief, but a total of 500,000 taels of silver were stolen and stolen." Qi Tianning said, "The Minister of Revenue, who was responsible for disaster relief, was accused of stealing himself and found 100,000 taels of silver from his home, but the remaining 400,000 taels of silver was unknown. The Minister of Revenue did not admit his crime until his death, and the whereabouts of the silver were still unknown."
I see.
"Do you suspect this is the official silver that was stolen at the time?"
"In the tenth year of Jiajing, there was only one official silver theft case." Chu Xun said.
"But the disaster relief bank sent to Jiangnan appears here." Tang Shu said deeply, "It turns out that there are many unjust, false and wrong cases."
Chu San and the others dare not speak.
If this is heard by the emperor, I wonder if the emperor will be furious.
Qi Tianning felt that Tang Shu was not only not timid, but on the contrary, her courage was amazing.
"Suspend for now, Chu San, go and invite Lord Sun and Lord Wang over." Chu Xun said, "This is also within the jurisdiction of Jiangning Prefecture."
"yes."
Chu San got the order and left immediately.
"Then do you think those two things have something to do with them?" Tang Shu asked in a low voice.
Although it is not in the same soil layer, the box and dagger are found on the official silver.
Chu Xun shook his head lightly, then looked at the ten assassins. Without saying too much, just that expression and look were like a giant beast. It grew into a bloody mouth, waiting to swallow them. The assassins were afraid and even wanted to escape.
"You are all smart people."
Chu Xun's voice was cool and not loud. He couldn't hear it clearly on this night when the north wind was howling, but the ten assassins could hear it clearly. They just felt that the wind was now passing by like a knife. As long as they dared to resist or showed a little strangeness, the knife would cut them into pieces.
"What should be said and what should not be said, it should not be taught, right?"
“Yes, yes.”
One of the assassins was so scared that they nodded repeatedly, not daring to act rashly.
Tang Shu didn't say anything. Looking at Chu Xun, it turned out that this man was still very shocking when he threatened others.
Chapter completed!