"This silver is the hidden silver found in Guo Juren's house." Wang Dazhuang pointed at the silver in the wooden box and said.
Cao Guang picked at the silver ingots in the wooden box with his hands, then took them out and weighed them in his hands. One ingot weighed twenty taels, and the two boxes were full of silver ingots weighing twenty taels.
After looking at the silver ingots in the wooden box, he looked at Guo Juren beside the wooden box and asked, "You are Guo Juren."
"Good man, have mercy on me, good man, have mercy on me." Guo Juren bowed to Cao Guang and begged for mercy.
Wang Dazhuang, who was standing next to him, put his foot on Guo Juren and yelled, "Our captain is asking you a question!"
Guo Juren was kicked to the ground.
Cao Guang stood aside and watched, but did not stop Wang Dazhuang's behavior.
Guo Juren sat on the ground and said with a frightened look on his face: "Yes, yes, I am a good man. I have given all my money to you. Please let me go!"
"So your big Guo family only has so much money." Cao Guang pointed to the wooden box full of silver next to him.
He didn't know much about the Guo family, but someone did. People from the Foreign Intelligence Agency had sent him some information about the Guo family. He didn't believe that the Guo family, which had produced Jinshi and Juren, only had more than 1,300 taels of silver.
Guo Juren hesitated for a moment, and then said: "I dare not deceive this good man. This money has been accumulated since the ancestors of the family."
"It seems you are unwilling to tell the truth." Cao Guang rubbed his chin with his thumb.
Guo Juren said hurriedly: "Good man, I really didn't say anything. I really only have this money at home, and the rest is in the fields and shops in the city."
At this time, Marin said: "Captain, the Guo family's housekeeper was caught by us. That guy should know a lot about the Guo family. Why not bring him here to interrogate the whereabouts of the Guo family's silver."
The Guo family is a large family with a radius of dozens of miles, and Guo Juren is not a good person. Moreover, the Guo family has several famous scholars, and the family has a lot of land. Only more than a thousand taels of silver were found, and Cao Guang and Ma Lin were found. I personally don't believe that the Guo family has so little money.
Guo Juren, who was sitting on the ground, suddenly changed his expression when he heard that his housekeeper had also been arrested and was being interrogated about the whereabouts of the silver.
Wang Dazhuang also heard it at this moment. He was afraid that he had been deceived by the Guo Juren in front of him. His face immediately sank, thinking that he had not completed the task assigned by Ma Lin.
Marin turned his head and said to a soldier beside him: "Go and bring the Guo family housekeeper here."
"Yes." The soldier agreed, turned and left.
Not long after, he escorted Butler Guo back from outside.
Ma Lin said to Butler Guo in front of him: "Look at this money, is it all the money of the Guo family?"
Butler Guo had long noticed the two wooden boxes and the silver inside, and knew in his heart that this was the silver found by the bandits from the Guo family.
Before Butler Guo could speak, Ma Lin said again: "You'd better not lie to me, otherwise, I guarantee you won't survive tonight."
Hearing this, Butler Guo trembled, then shook his head and said, "The Guo family doesn't just have this little money, it's much more than this."
Ma Lin said: "You said before that you knew the Guo family's hidden silver. Now take us to find it. As long as we find all the Guo family's hidden silver, we can spare your life."
"Thank you, good man, thank you, good man. I have found all the hidden silver in the Guo family." As he said this, he secretly glanced at Guo Juren on the ground.
"We also found the deeds to Guo's house and land." Cao Guang reminded.
Butler Guo didn't know Cao Guang, but he knew that Cao Guang was also a bandit, so he hurriedly said: "Don't worry, good man, I will find all the valuable things in the Guo family and give them to these good men."
Although he didn't know why these bandits wanted the house and land deeds, he didn't dare to object at this time. Anyway, these were the Guo family's belongings. Even if they were taken away by the bandits, there would be no loss to him.
Cao Guang was noncommittal and just waved his hand, indicating that he could leave.
The soldier standing next to Butler Guo pushed Butler Guo with his hand and said, "You go ahead and lead the way."
Butler Guo walked in front honestly.
Ma Lin turned to look at Wang Dazhuang and said, "You and others will follow you. This time you must find all the Guo family's hidden silver."
"Yes, I understand." Wang Dazhuang agreed and followed.
Ma Lin's eyes fell on Guo Juren again and said: "I said before, if you dare to be dishonest, I will chop off one of your fingers. If you are not honest, I will chop off your hand. Come on, chop off one of his hands."
Two soldiers walked up from the side.
One person held down Guo Juren's hand, while the other person raised his knife and cut off Guo Juren's right hand.
Guo Juren, who was in unbearable pain, screamed and fainted immediately.
Butler Guo, who had just walked not far away, trembled when he heard the screams and quickened his pace to leave.
Cao Guang said to Ma Lin: "Splash him with water to wake him up, and then ask him. You must ask him for the Guo family's hidden silver. As for this person's life and death, you don't have to care. You must remove it after you are done."
Marin nodded.
Yuan Kui, who was standing behind the two men, was not surprised when he heard Cao Guang's words. Bandits rarely leave alive when they go down the mountain to rob. It is normal for them to kill Guo Juren after robbing the Guo family.
Ma Lin turned around and said to Yuan Kui: "Don't you have something to say to Captain Cao? Captain Cao is here now. You can say it!"
Cao Guanghui turned around, looked at Yuan Kui, and said with a smile: "If I didn't remind you, I would have almost forgotten you. What do you want from me?"
Yuan Kui rubbed his hands and said: "Master Cao, I have already taken care of the things you asked me to do. Can you let me stay in Daliang Mountain and hang out with you, Master Cao?"
"Didn't you just say you were leaving?" Marin frowned.
"I still think it's better to stay in Daliang Mountain and work with Master Cao." Yuan Kui said with a flattering look.
Cao Guang did not answer, but walked to the wooden box containing the silver, took out two ingots of silver from it, threw them to Yuan Kui, and then said: "These two ingots of silver are for you. Take the silver and go with it now." Let’s go.”
Yuan Kui held two silver ingots in his hand, but his eyes glanced at the wooden box containing the silver from time to time.
Forty taels of silver was already a lot, but it was incomparable to the silver in the wooden box.
Cao Guang, who noticed his little move, turned around and took out three ingots of silver from the wooden box, handed it to Yuan Kui, and said: "This is sixty taels. Counting the silver in your hand, the total is one hundred taels. Take it Let's go with this money, it will be regarded as a reward for coming to the Guo family to work as an internal agent."
"Thank you, Mr. Cao."
Yuan Kui thanked him with his mouth and moved his hands slowly, stuffing a hundred taels of silver into his arms.
"You also took the money and left Guojiazhuang overnight. As for your wish to stay in Daliang Mountain, forget about it." Cao Guang said.
Yuan Kui, who had just received one hundred taels of silver, said with a smile: "Since Master Cao uses a lot of small ones, I won't keep the small ones. Let's go now."
One hundred taels of silver was enough for him to spend a period of time, so he naturally did not intend to stay in the mountains as a bandit.
"Yeah." Cao Guang nodded.
Yuan Kui hugged Cao Guang, then turned and left.
However, he didn't take a few steps when he felt a pain in his back, and then he saw the tip of the knife protruding from his chest.
Cao Guang said in an indifferent tone: "Wang Yuan has already left one step ahead of you, now you can follow him on the road."
After saying that, he withdrew his hand and pulled out the knife that had been plunged into Yuan Kui's body.
Yuan Kui opened his mouth, but blood came out of his mouth. He said nothing. Finally, he turned around and fell to the ground, motionless.
