Mingyi scanned several rooms in the front yard and found only some fabrics and antique calligraphy and paintings; she had no use for them and only collected the antique calligraphy and paintings into the space.
Finally, I found the study room of the male owner of this family. The study room was a little empty. The empty space on the shelf should have been the most valuable things in the study room. But now it is empty, but other antiques are still there. Take them away. Walk.
After groping around, I found a hidden compartment, and when I opened it, I found a box inside. I took out the box and opened it, and there was a stack of silver notes lying inside, about ten thousand taels.
A wealthy family left in a hurry, and there were banknotes in the secret room that they didn't have time to take away.
Based on these clues, she doesn't believe these are the only things.
I rummaged around and looked around, and my eyes fell on the mythical beast Qilin placed on the top of the shelf. Qilin has a long history of attracting wealth and promotion, attracting children, and bringing down evil spirits in the house. Most of the time Qilin is placed in the study, it is to attract wealth and promotion. The Qilin that attracts wealth and promotion must be placed on the side of the Yima.
This unicorn is not, and it is facing the door of the study.
So. there's something wrong with it.
Mingyi brought a chair and climbed up, and tried to take Qilin away, only to find that it was born on top and could not be moved away at all.
Twisted to the left, the Qilin remained as motionless as a mountain; turned to the right, the Qilin was twisted, and a dull but not harsh sound came. Mingyi followed the sound and saw that the bookshelf on the right was moved away, and a stone door at the rear was opened.
"Secret room?"
Mingyi jumped off the chair and walked to the entrance of the secret room to explore for a while. The space inside was already flowing. She also felt a sense of crisis in her heart and walked down the secret room.
Going down the steps, there is a spacious secret room inside, where countless gold and silver jewelry, gold bars, gold, and silver are placed.
so much! !
Enough for her to recruit troops.
Mingyi was so excited. She had no money and no power to worry about before, but now she is here. Money is all money, and she has never been troubled by money in her life.
Collect it, collect it, collect it all.
She walked out of the secret room again, closed it, and covered up the footprints and other traces of rummaging in the study before leaving.
She ran back to the courtyard and saw her brother diligently cleaning the house. She rushed towards him.
"Brother, let's not clean up for now. Let's go to the backyard and take a look, okay?" Mingyi decided to take her brother with her. The backyard is the territory of women's families, and there should be some valuable things left behind.
Cheng Mingli wiped his sweat and saw that there was sweat on his sister's face, so he wiped it off for her, "What are you doing in the backyard?"
"Let's go find something fun." Mingyi took out a silver hairpin from his pocket, which was actually brought out from the space. "Brother, look, does it look good?"
"It looks good." Cheng Mingli took out the jewelry hidden in his arms and said, "Here you go."
Mingyi was surprised that her brother actually gained something. She collected it generously and took out a small silver nugget and handed it to him, "Thank you, brother. I will keep the silver and use it when I have the opportunity."
"good."
Cheng Mingli took it and hid it in his underwear.
"Let's go to the backyard to find interesting things." Mingyi grabbed her brother and ran, passed through the arch, and walked into the second entrance of the house. She searched room by room. In the servants' room, she could find scattered copper plates and silver nuggets.
Many fine jewelry, fabrics, and ready-made clothes were found in the rooms of the owners; clothes that were not suitable for them were discarded, and fabrics and precious jewelry were the most abundant.
They searched separately. Cheng Mingli was helpless when searching. He always felt that he had broken into the girl's room in the boudoir. When he rummaged through it, he also found some bellybands and other things, which was quite frightening.
“See no evil, see no evil.”
Quickly throwing them away, Cheng Mingli then focused on rummaging through the makeup box, dressing table and other places; he found a lot of jewelry, gold and silver jewelry, and he divided the silver and gold jewelry into two large packages.
The purse was found in the servant's room. The workmanship is not very good, and the material is only cotton, but it can hold things without being conspicuous.
After cleaning up and entering the second courtyard, Mingyi and Cheng Mingli entered the third courtyard.
Compared to the second courtyard, the third courtyard had more jewelry that the elderly liked. Mingli found a lot of gold and silver in the makeup box, including gold melon seeds, which could be used as money.
"Sister, look, I found so many." Cheng Mingli held a large bundle and smiled happily.
Mingyi also held a large bundle, which was also filled with gold and silver; however, for the convenience of future use, she also hid part of it in the space.
"Brother, let's go back to the yard quickly; grandparents and the others should be here soon. Let's hide these good things." She didn't want to divide them, because the expenses she would need to recruit soldiers and horses would be huge, and this little thing was completely not enough.
Fortunately, she has collected a treasure trove that can support tens of thousands of troops for about five years; five years is enough time for her to make a lot of preparations.
"Yes, go back first." Cheng Mingli nodded repeatedly.
The brother and sister each carried a bag back to the small courtyard. They first chose two side rooms as rooms to live in; then, they gathered together to unpack the bags and found almost all the things they found.
Cloth, gold and silver, jewellery.
Counting the gold and silver naked seeds, golden melon seeds and silver melon seeds, they couldn't tell how much silver they were, so they gathered them together and waited for their parents to come and ask again.
"Brother, I'll collect some for myself, do you want it?" She grabbed two handfuls of naked seeds and melon seeds and stuffed them into her pockets, and most of them went into the space; otherwise, how could her small pocket hold so many naked seeds and melon seeds? .
It's just that Cheng Mingli was young and didn't pay attention to these things, so he didn't notice any clues.
When Cheng Mingli saw his sister like this, he also grabbed a handful and put them into his pockets; one of the two pockets contained gold and the other contained silver, while the two freed cotton purses were refilled with gold and silver seeds/melon seeds.
"Sister, isn't it good for us to do this?" Cheng Mingli looked hesitant while covering his two pockets.
Mingyi shook his head and said confidently: "No! We found these, they should have been ours. Brother, are you stupid from studying? We are too young to keep them, so we have to give them to our parents. Otherwise I wouldn’t take it out.”
"But mom and dad."
"We are willing to give it to our parents, but why should we give it to others; besides, when we came here to escape, did you see any use for the silver and gold? If there is no place for it, then there is nothing."
Cheng Mingli nodded, "That seems right. Gold and silver jewelry are of no use, but fabrics are of some use."
And because the material is too good, it is not suitable for them to wear now.
"Then what are we doing with so much gold and silver?" Cheng Mingli raised his head and asked, "It's so heavy that there's no place for it."
Mingyi didn't take it seriously, "If you can't use it now, you will definitely be able to use it in the future. Just pretend. Dad agreed to settle down and send you to study. Doesn't it cost money to study?"
"That's right." After relaxing, Cheng Mingli smiled, "Now that we have the money, dad doesn't have to suffer anymore."
There is hope in reading and seeing hope, the smile in Cheng Mingli's eyes shines brightly.
Mingyi paused slightly while arranging the cloth. She had to say that the Cheng family's education was successful; none of the men were unfilial, and filial piety was very standard.
