It was only then that Han Changmu finally felt that his trip was worthwhile. Even if he didn't catch anyone and recovered the salary, Jiang Shen didn't dare to embarrass him too much.
He closed the box hard and put the seal on it. He noticed that Yao Yao didn't speak for a long time. When he looked up, he saw her facing the stone wall with a gloomy expression and standing silently.
He was slightly startled, feeling that Yao Yao had been uneasy since he walked into this corridor. Now this feeling of uneasiness was even worse. He walked over slowly and suddenly said: "What are you looking at?"
Yao Yao shook slightly, obviously frightened, but she didn't hide anything on her face. She pointed at the stone wall in front of her and said in a deep voice: "Sir, this seems to be the information room of the control agency."
Han Changmu looked at each other intently. There were several depressions of different shapes on the stone wall. When the light shone on them, a dark shadow was cast, showing a deep dark yellow color.
The stone wall was originally uneven, and these depressions were blended into it, not out of place.
But why did Yao Yao speak so categorically? This is where the control agency lies.
He looked at Yao Yao in confusion: "I can see that a few depressions are no different from other depressions."
Yao Yao took a shallow breath, took out several broken porcelain pieces from his sleeves, and placed them on the ground one by one.
Han Changmu looked at the broken pieces of porcelain with blue and white background, and he remembered the mechanism that led to the underground secret passage.
He nodded slightly and asked calmly: "Is this the vase you got? Didn't you say that there is only a problem with the opening at the mouth of the bottle?"
Yao Yao smiled and said: "This vase looks like it was made by the government. Even if it is broken, it is worth a lot of money."
Han Changmu snorted coldly. He didn't believe Yao Yao's money-obsessed look. She had as many eyes as a sieve. She put on such a shameless appearance, maybe to cover up some shady thoughts.
He didn't delve into it further, he just squatted down with Yao Yao, rummaged through a pile of broken porcelain pieces, and found one of them, which had the same shape as one of the depressions on the stone wall.
He picked it up and looked at it. The porcelain piece was half the size of a palm. A branch of green plum blossoms slanted out from the porcelain piece, which was thin and graceful.
He stretched out his hand and placed the porcelain piece in the depression. The shape was weird but it fit perfectly. As soon as it was inserted, there was a sound of rattling in the stone wall.
Han Changmu clung to the stone wall and listened carefully.
The sound was very muffled. There must be a large mechanism placed in the stone wall to make such a dull but harsh friction sound.
When the sound stopped, Han Changmu walked out and looked at the corridor full of hidden weapons. There was no change at all.
He took a deep breath, waved to He Zhenfu, and shouted loudly: "Mr. He Qi, tell the inner guards to step aside."
As soon as the words fell, the inner guards suddenly became energetic, stepped aside one after another, and stood obediently against the stone wall.
Han Changmu raised his hand, and another cluster of cold light jumped out, hitting the surrounding stone walls heavily.
Until the four rays of cold light crashed to the ground, there was no other movement in the corridor.
Yao Yao stood behind Han Changmu and finally saw clearly what those four cold lights were.
It turned out to be four silver ingots embedded in the gray rocks. The originally cold light became the most beautiful scenery at this moment.
Her eyes widened.
Use a silver ingot to trigger the mechanism, but you still don’t pick it up after triggering it. This, this, even if you have money, you won’t bring this with you.
What a waste.
For a moment, she simply couldn't control her steps. She wanted to plunge in and take the silver ingot for herself.
However, this thought only passed through her mind for a moment. She couldn't do such a shameless thing in front of Han Changmu. It was too low of status. If she wanted to pick it up, she would have to wait for a while to pick it up randomly when she went out.
Han Changmu seemed to have eyes behind his back and saw the unpredictable expression on Yao Yao's face. He pursed his lips and smiled lightly, shouting loudly: "He Zhenfu, let the inner guards pass one by one."
He Zhenfu should claim that, just as he was arranging the inner guards to pass through the corridor one by one, Leng Linjiang rushed to the front without even saying hello, and stepped on the patch of ground that was still a little hot to his feet with small steps. Rocks.
He walked a few steps, then bent down and picked up something. After walking a few more steps, he bent down and picked up something again.
The inner guards at the back couldn't see clearly, but thought that the famous Jingzhao Shaoyin in Chang'an City might have a mental illness, so he actually regarded the broken stones as treasures.
But Yao Yao, who was standing at the end of the corridor, looked at her with green eyes. He had never expected that General Leng Lin would snatch money from her.
She hit the stone wall so hard that the back of her hand hurt.
While she was secretly cursing, Leng Linjiang had already jumped to the end of the corridor.
He held four silver ingots as if they were offering treasures, and taunted Yao Yao: "Ah Yao, aren't you just breaking the silver? Are you so angry that you beat the wall?"
Yao Yao glanced at Leng Linjiang, stood with his arms folded, and pursed his lips in silence.
Leng Linjiang smiled coquettishly: "You are really in a panic, but you can only break a few taels of silver."
Yao Yao snorted: "What do you know? A few taels of broken silver can solve all kinds of melancholy in the world."
Han Changmu finally understood that Yao Yao was not just pretending to be a money fan. She was really a money fan. She was obsessed with money all the time. She never thought of using the illusion of being a money fan to cover up the truth.
He smiled: "Are you just beating the wall for these few taels of silver?"
Yao Yao showed no embarrassment at all and nodded calmly: "The cooked duck flew away. If I don't beat the wall, can I still fight with him?"
Leng Linjiang also grunted: "Ah Yao, am I so heartless?" He stuffed the money into Yao Yao's arms and hummed: "Give it to you, give it all to you, I picked it up for you in the first place. ."
Yao Yao then smiled heartily, his smiling eyebrows were like crescent moons, and his eyes were so bright, they were like clear springs.
Leng Linjiang is the kind of person who looks fierce but has a kind heart.
Such a person obviously has good intentions, but he has to show off his liver and lungs to others.
After breaking off these few silver ingots, the inner guards behind them all passed through the corridor smoothly without any danger, and followed them into the empty cave.
Leng Linjiang saw the box in the middle of the cave at a glance. He pointed at the box and was astonished, even his voice trembled: "This, this, this is that, half of the missing money, half of the salary."
Han Changmu nodded: "Yes, not a penny is missing."
Leng Linjiang breathed a long sigh of relief.
Others may not know how poor the imperial court is now, but he does.
The saint's harem even saves money on rouge and gouache. If they continue to be so poor, they will only have to eat chaffy vegetables.
Every time he entered the palace, he could see the saint looking at the meat and sighing. In the past, he ate haise in the palace and didn't even think it was anything. Now, every time he eats more meat, he feels that he is committing a sin. .
Now the money is back
Now, the saint finally dares to eat meat, and the concubines can finally wear makeup, make new clothes, and get new jewelry.
This harem finally no longer has to be on par with the Beggar Clan.
Leng Linjiang was a little excited, but he managed to calm down and said, "These money can be moved out today."
Han Changmu nodded and said to Leng Linjiang: "Now it's up to you. You take the guards to move out the salary and send it to the palace overnight." He paused slightly: "You don't need to say more about the rest, just wait for me When you enter the palace, you will report back to the saint truthfully."
Leng Linjiang knew that Han Changmu did not want him to be too involved in this matter. After all, Mr. Jiang Ge was not easily offended.
He nodded and said seriously: "Don't worry."
Leng Linjiang led the inner guards to move out the silver, while Han Changmu walked back and forth in the cave, exploring carefully.
He didn't believe that a huge amount of manpower and financial resources were spent digging such an underground secret room just to hide the salary, so this was a small gain.
He knocked on the stone wall very patiently, and the sound reached his ears one after another without any change.
He has a lot of patience and is becoming more and more calm.
As fewer and fewer boxes were moved, the cave became emptier and emptier. The sounds spread far away and were heard very clearly.
Until the last box was moved out, the cave was completely closed, and almost all the inner guards retreated, leaving only two inner guards, Han Chang Mu Yao Yao and He Zhenfu.
The boxes were completely moved out, leaving box marks on the oilcloth. The marks were very light. It seemed that these boxes had been moved in not long ago.
Han Changmu and others knocked all over the stone wall, but found no difference in the sound. When he was about to give up, he discovered the shallow box marks.
He squatted down and took a closer look. Sure enough, the marks were very new and shallow, and there were some traces of haste and messiness. Judging from the marks alone, these heavy salary boxes were moved in only two days ago.
He frowned. Two days after moving in, he found out. Was it a coincidence, or was the person who hid the box careless, or someone deliberately let it be found out.
He turned around and looked around the cave, and suddenly said coldly: "Take off the oilcloth."
Yao Yao and He Zhenfu were stunned, and hurriedly called on the two internal guards to roll up the oilcloth covering the entire cave floor piece by piece, revealing the uneven ground.
The brown-yellow ground was full of pits, and there was still oil in the gaps that couldn't be cleaned.
Han Changmu dipped his handkerchief into it and smelled it, frowning slightly.
Yao Yao was so surprised that he lay down on the ground and smelled it, and asked in surprise: "Why is there Shizhi water here?"
Han Changmu sneered twice: "This place is getting more and more interesting."
Yao Yao walked around the ground twice, his eyes lit up, and he suddenly pointed to several depressions on the ground and said, "Sir, look."
Han Changmu and He Zhenfu both bent down and looked at the ground.
He Zhenfu didn't understand and said: "Isn't this just a stone?"
Han Changmu shook his head and smiled jokingly: "Yao Canjun, your love for money is really useful."
Yao Yao pouted, took out the broken porcelain pieces, placed them one by one on the ground, picked out the porcelain pieces that were consistent with the shape of the depression on the ground, and put them aside.
Han Changmu put these pieces together smoothly, and together with the two pieces that opened the entrance to the secret passage and closed the message room of the agency, it happened to be a picture of plum blossoms.
