Chang Feng was a little anxious.
Now only Jingzang and Yizang have not been checked, and there is still a gap of more than 7,000 taels. He didn't want to be sent to Datong to drink the wind and eat the sand.
Chang Feng belongs to the most powerful group among Twenty Lang's colleagues. At this moment, Fatty Xu could see the anxious look on his face.
Fatty Xu comforted him: "When a man dies, a bird looks up to the sky. Mr. Chang, check the well and hide it!"
Chang Feng nodded.
The so-called Jingzang is just as the name suggests. Corrupt officials and wealthy households would put their money in sealed iron boxes and sink them into well water.
There are six wells in Cai Mansion's front yard, backyard, east-west cross-yard, and east-west courtyard.
Chang Feng came to the well in the front yard first. He first turned the wheel and drew a bucket of water.
Then he dipped his finger in some water, put it in his mouth and sucked it.
Fatty Xu asked: "How is it?"
Chang Feng shook his head helplessly: "I'm afraid there is no product in the well."
Changfeng judged that there was no silver in the well because the well water did not smell like rust.
Iron boxes containing silver usually get rusty if they sit in well water for a long time. Well water can also smell like rust.
Therefore, when searching for wells, you must first taste the water.
Chang Feng took a ladle to scoop out some more water and tasted it carefully - it was sweet and refreshing, without any rusty taste.
However, to be on the safe side, he still asked a water ghost captain to go into the well.
The water ghost captain went down the well along the rope and dived into the well water to explore. No abnormalities were found.
Chang Feng had no choice but to take people to Dongkuayuan again. There is still no hidden silver in the well in the east courtyard.
In the next hour, he carefully checked the wells in the west courtyard and the two suites of courtyards, but couldn't find a single tael of silver.
Fatty Xu asked: "Didn't Minister Cai play Jing Zang?"
Chang Feng said: "It's possible. Although there are eight ways to hide money, corrupt officials don't use all of them."
Now only the well in the backyard remains unchecked.
Chang Feng walked ten feet in front of the well in the backyard. He looked around and blurted out: "There is a problem!"
Fatty Xu asked: "What's the problem?"
Chang Feng pointed to a house in front of the well: "That's Cai Zhong's bedroom. Even ordinary people who don't understand Yin Yang Feng Shui know that you can't dig a well behind the bedroom."
"Dig a well behind the bedroom. The well will block the owner's energy. It is easy to offend the villain and hinder the birth of a child."
"Cai Zhong's palace was so meticulously built. How could he make such a mistake? Drill a well behind his bedroom? He doesn't want to have a son?"
He walked quickly to the well and looked down. There is no water in the well, it is a dry well!
Chang Feng breathed a long sigh of relief: "Fat man. Our brothers' waist cards and futures can be saved this time."
Fatty Xu asked: "How do you say this?"
Chang Feng said: "Do you remember what the fortune teller said when you met him in the morning? Asking for wealth will bring you wealth, but the wealth will not come to you. The wealth seems to be in water, but in fact it is in the soil."
"The dry well looks like a well, and it seems to contain water, but in fact there is no water. There is only soil under the well. Isn't this what the fortune teller said?"
Fatty Xu suddenly realized: "I understand. There must be money buried under this dry well."
Chang Feng went down the well himself with a shovel on his back.
When we got to the bottom of the well, the soil at the bottom of the well was dry and cracked.
Chang Feng picked up the shovel and dug down one shovel after another.
While digging, he shouted slogans and prayed for the blessing of his ancestor.
"Zhao Gongming, hey you! Help me, hey you! I ransacked my house under the order, hey you! Gold and silver treasures, hey you! Find them all, hey you!"
He filled the excavated soil directly into the bucket, and Fatty Xu above turned the wheel and transported it to the outside of the well and dumped it.
Chang Feng almost used all his strength to dig for half an hour, digging down three feet. However, there was no sign of silver at all!
The underground space is limited, so you can't mess around. The arm held the shovel and exerted downward force, which was extremely laborious.
Chang Feng felt that his hands were sore and his legs were shaking slightly. In desperation, he had to let Fatty Xu hang him out of the well.
When it was hoisted to the middle of the well, Chang Feng's hand accidentally touched the green brick used to build the well wall. The skin on the back of my hand was scratched, but it was nothing serious.
After getting out of the well, Chang Feng was a little unwilling: "It seems to be in water, but in fact it is in the soil... It should be this dry well. How could it be possible to get nothing?"
Fatty Xu said: "Don't you always disbelieve in the fortune-telling stories of charlatans? Why have you become superstitious today?"
Chang Feng said nothing.
People who don't usually believe in ghosts and gods will also regard metaphysical rhetoric as life-saving straw when they are in a desperate situation.
Chang Feng ordered several warriors: "You guys take turns to go down the well. You rotate every two moments. Even if you dig to the underworld, you still have to dig out silver for me today!"
A strongman went down first.
Hours passed moment by moment. We dug until the end of noon. The dry well was directly dug down for a foot. Where is the shadow of silver?
The last strongman came out of the well and said to Chang Feng: "General Banner, water beads are starting to seep from the bottom of the well! If you dig deeper, the dry well may become a living well!"
Chang Feng looked disappointed: "Is there really no silver hidden in this dry well?"
Fatty Xu urged: "Master Chang, the deadline for Youshizheng is less than two hours away. Don't waste time on this dry well. Just check for the hidden treasures."
The so-called "different hiding", as the name suggests, is an unusual method of hiding silver, which is often unexpected.
When Chang Feng ransacked homes before, he had encountered people who hid money in chimneys; people who hid money in stone lions guarding gates... these were all considered strange treasures.
Chang Feng and the powerful men split up and walked around the six courtyards of Cai Mansion, looking around to see where the silver might be hidden.
He stopped in front of a big poplar tree in front of Cai Zhong's study.
Chang Feng looked up at the big poplar tree. It didn't matter, he blurted out: "There's something fishy!"
Fatty Xu disagreed: "You said there is something fishy about this big poplar tree? No, I know that in front of the study is Wenchang. Planting trees in Wenchang can bring blessings to future generations."
"This is called the Fuyin Tree! There is a big apricot tree planted in front of my father's study. You even ate the apricots from that tree in the summer!"
Chang Feng pointed to an old stork's nest in the tree. By chance, two crows flew out of the nest.
Fatty Xu asked: "What's wrong?"
Chang Feng said: "The old bird's nest on the tree is a crow's nest, not a magpie's! On the Fuyin tree in Wenchang, if a magpie builds a nest, it is a good sign. If a crow builds a nest, it is a bad sign."
"Generally if crows build a nest in a Fuyin tree, the owner will have his servants poke it out with bamboo poles. If the nest is built higher than the bamboo pole can reach, the servants will climb the tree to tear it down."
"Isn't it strange that there is such a big old bird's nest on Cai Zhong's Fuyin tree?"
Fatty Xu thought for a while and said, "Haha, maybe Cai Zhong had a kind heart? He left that old bird's nest behind. Just in response to the bad omen, he committed suicide out of fear of crime, and his mansion was ransacked."
Chang Feng shook his head: "I still feel strange."
He remembered that the school captain Shi Wenyi who had "prostituted" last night was good at climbing trees.
He ordered someone to call Captain Shi and ordered him to climb the tree to see if there was anything unusual about the old bird's nest.
Captain Shi found two rags and wrapped them around his hands. He took off his official boots again. As nimble as a monkey, he climbed up the tree trunk with his hands.
After climbing to nearly two feet, he could already reach out and touch the old bird's nest.
Chang Feng raised his head and looked at Captain Shi.
Captain Shi was heard yelling: "Get out of the way! There is something in the old bird's nest! I'll throw it down and hit you carefully!"
Not long after, something fell from the sky. It hit the ground with a "thud".
Fatty Xu exclaimed: "The one who cut off his legs turned out to be..."
