Chapter 127 What else can there be?
"What?" Tao Jiang couldn't believe his ears. He could hardly eat and sleep well when he was robbed. Otherwise, he would not be able to rush to get rid of the charge and take himself out.
Now that he heard Li Fan say it lightly, his first reaction was that Li Fan was crazy. He could also think that the money was in Weishan Lake, but Weishan Lake was so big, where would he look for it?
If the thief waits for a year or two, and then calms down and then raises the silver, there will be no trace at all.
"Don't joke, Chengfenglang. Weishan Lake is so big, how can you know where the silver is hidden?"
Li Fan glanced at Tao Jiang lightly and said, "What if I could find the money?"
Hearing Li Fan's words, Tao Jiang was stunned at first, looked at the County Magistrate Peng next to him, and said, "If Chengfenglang can find the tax silver, it will prove that the postman has nothing to do with the bandits. Instead, the County Magistrate Peng misled the official and was very suspicious!"
"Ah!" County Magistrate Peng was stunned. He didn't expect that his most determined ally would get involved with Li Fan in the blink of an eye. The key was the letter in his study.
County Magistrate Peng couldn't help but feel anxious. He grabbed Tao Jiang's sleeve and said, "Mr. Tao! Don't listen to his nonsense. Weishan Lake is so big, where can he go to find tax silver?
This is just an excuse to distract us from our relationship. Lord Tao should not be fooled!"
Tao Jiang no longer cared about it, and the matter was already very obvious. Li Fan got the handle, and it was not easy to throw dirty water on the postman. It would be better to believe Li Fan once, what if he found the tax silver?
Tao Jiang shook his sleeves and wanted to get rid of the magistrate Peng. With a "sheep!", his sleeves were actually pulled off by the magistrate Peng.
Tao Jiang's face suddenly sank and said coldly: "Mr. Peng! I am a bank magistrate and has nothing to do with Magist. Please respect yourself!"
Hearing Tao Jiang's words, County Magistrate Peng sat on the ground, staring at the tortured officers around him with his eyes blank.
Just as Li Fan and Tao Jiang were about to walk out of the yard, he suddenly realized, got up and ran out, and just took a few steps and was stopped by the postmen guarding the door.
"Bold! This county is the Weishan parents' official. How dare you stop me?"
The postman was unmoved and said with a blank expression: "Please stay with the magistrate. My master said that you are forbidden to leave the yard half a step before he comes back!"
"Bastard! I am the county magistrate. The whole Weishan County should listen to this county. You are a dog, otherwise"
No matter how the magistrate Peng shouted, the postman guarding the gate had no intention of dodging. With his body without any strength, he could not escape the postman's guard, so he had to sit on the ground decadently.
When Li Fan came to the shore of Weishan Lake again, almost all the fishing boats on the entire lake arrived. More than a hundred fishing boats were ready and were waiting on the shore.
"Set out!" With the order, hundreds of fishing boats began to move along Weishan Lake, and the connected fishing nets were dragged between the two boats in shallow areas.
Tao Jiang followed Li Fan onto a big boat. As soon as he got on board, his feet stepped into the wet mud and sand. Tao Jiang wanted to have anger on the spot, but when he saw Li Fan's indifferent look, he couldn't help but say angrily: "Mr. Li! Can't you find a clean boat?
Look at the fact that our official boots are covered with mud and sand, isn’t it a loss of the court’s moral integrity!”
Li Fan looked at the lake without looking at Tao Jiang at all, and said, "These mud and sand were specially prepared by me. Without these mud and sand, even if the tax silver is found, there will be no way to salvage it in a short time!"
"What?" Tao Jiang was completely confused. He couldn't understand at all. Is mud and sand related to salvage of silver?
News that all the fishermen in Weishan Lake were dispatched to find tax silver soon came, and even the water bandits' nest on Weishan Island in the center of the lake also received the news.
Zhao Tianhu was shirtless, with a thick linen wrapped around his shoulders, and a trace of blood was seeping. He lived on the water all year round, and he could dive underwater for thirty feet. It was this skill that saved his life. Although he was caught in an arrow on his shoulder, he still escaped from the shooting range of the postmen.
"What? The government troops cast nets to make money on the lake? Haha!!! Are they crazy about money? Don't say it's a hundred fishing boats, even a thousand can't find a place for me to hide silver.
Let our people cooperate with the government army, and I want to see how the government army looks when nothing is found!" Zhao Tianhu said loudly.
The other thieves also laughed. Although they didn't know where the Tibetan silver was, they also understood that it was purely a delusion to find tax silver with the fishing net.
Li Fan stood at the bow of the boat, looked at the intersection of the river and Weishan Lake, and then looked at the direction of Weishan Island.
It is impossible for the pirate to throw the silver in the center of the lake, where the water is too deep and there is no possibility of being caught if it is thrown down.
The water is shallow and in the direction to Weishan Island, there are not many places where silver can be hidden.
Li Fan reached out and pointed to the lake in the distance and ordered: "Let the fishing boats spread out and move forward there."
When the fishing boat heard the order, it started to move one by one. The fishing net was dragged between the two boats, and the boat couldn't speed up at all. The unlucky fish were trapped by the fishing net and jumped onto the water from time to time. Several of them actually jumped onto the boat.
The fishing boats sailed one by one by one by Li Fan, and there was no net of anything. Li Fan was not in a hurry and directed everyone to move towards the next location.
After two hours, the sun was a little tilted westward, and Tao Jiang could no longer sit still. He couldn't help but walk to Li Fan and asked, "Li Fan! Where is the tax bank you mentioned? If you can't find it, it will be dark!
If there are too many people and miscellaneous things, if the tax and silver are damaged, you will bear all the responsibility!"
Li Fan did not even look back and stared at the water surface in front of him and said, "What are you anxious about by Lord Tao? There is still the last place I haven't found. If the tax silver is there, we can catch the silver before dark!"
"There are lake water everywhere! What are you fishing for? I see you are cheating me, I want to take this ginseng." Tao Jiang was halfway through his words, and a big fish suddenly emerged from the water on the lake in the distance, and then several fish jumped out.
"There is there! The tax silver is there! Let the fishing boats put the fishing net deeper, and don't miss anything!" Li Fan said with joy and ordered loudly.
Tao Jiang looked confused, looked at the water surface that was no different from other places, and said, "Is the tax silver really hidden there?"
Li Fan was happy and didn't mind resolving Tao Jiang's doubts: "The fish were driven to this shallow area and escaped in panic, so it was easy to hit something underwater.
When they jumped out of the water, they must have encountered something that could not be avoided under the water. If fish could not get around under the water, what else could there be besides the silver box?"
Tao Jiang's eyes lit up and he said loudly: "Since the tax silver is under the water, please send someone to salvage it!"
Chapter completed!