Guo Shouhuai was their boss, and Xia Huai was unwilling to criticize him privately.
But she also had to admit that Lu Jing's guess had some truth.
As Si Tianjian's young eunuch, Guo Shouhuai carries a burden unimaginable by others, which forces him to abandon personal emotions as much as possible, and proceed from the overall situation, focusing on the interests of Si Tianjian and the people of the world. , so that it may seem a bit callous at certain times.
For example, let the academy disciples enter Si Tianjian to work in advance.
As far as Xia Huai knew, six disciples died in the academy during the first investigation alone, which also caused many teachers and students to criticize Guo Shouhuai's decision.
If it could be postponed for a year, no, even for half a year... so that more people could be more fully prepared, the number of casualties would be much less than now, and Si Tianjian would be able to have six more supervisors who could take charge of their own duties in the future.
But Guo Shouhuai obviously does not regret his choice, because Si Tianjian's existing manpower has indeed reached its limit to cope with the current situation, and there is an urgent need to introduce fresh blood.
The addition of more than a hundred academy disciples helped Si Tianjian overcome the difficulties, and the casualties paid for this were within an acceptable range. This result was enough for Guo Shouhuai.
So if Lu Jing and her could be used to fish out the spies in Si Tian Prison, Guo Shouhuai might as well give it a try.
But this is not a good thing for these two people.
"If it's the latter possibility, then no matter how hard we run, we may not be able to reach the designated place." Lu Jing said, "There may even be no designated place at all."
Xia Huai's curved eyebrows frowned, "But delivering the knives is, after all, a job entrusted to us by Young Supervisor Guo... We can't just give up the burden, right?"
“We can’t quit halfway, but having to stop doing it doesn’t mean we can’t do it in another way.”
Lu Jing's words sounded a bit convoluted, and then he explained, "Now Mr. Ji's people and Si Tianjian's moles are all coming to attack us. The enemy is in darkness and we are in the clear. If this continues, we are too passive. We have to find a way to turn against the guests. .”
"How do you want to become the guest?"
"After dinner, I plan to find a banker to deposit the knife and the paper frog."
Xia Huai was stunned when he heard this.
"But... wouldn't this mean that we are separated from this knife? What if it is lost?"
"I just want to separate myself from this knife, so that those guys can turn their attention from us to this knife, and we can make arrangements in advance near the bank and wait." Lu Jing said leisurely.
"This way our risk is indeed much smaller, but... Mr. Ji has a lot of strange objects there, and there may be some strange objects that can be stolen from under our noses without anyone noticing." Xia Huai reminded. .
"I know, there's nothing we can do about it," Lu Jing spread his hands, "Mr. Ji has many capable people, but Si Tianjian only has two of us here, and we can't even form a ring guard team. If we really want to It's normal to lose. As long as we are fine, Guo Shaojian will definitely understand.
"If he really doesn't want the knife to fall into Mr. Ji's hands, he can temporarily let go of catching the mole and call experts from Si Tianjian to take the knife away."
"…………"
Hearing this, Xia Huai had completely figured out what Lu Jing wanted to do. He was not only plotting against Mr. Ji, but also plotting against Guo Shouhuai. Guo Shouhuai was forced by this method and could no longer use the two of them as bait.
Xia Huai didn't know what to say. Guo Shouhuai definitely didn't want to see them doing this.
But seeing that Lu Jing had made a decision, Xia Huai didn't refute, just nodded and said, "Okay."
The idea of depositing the black knife in the bank is bold, but it has to be said that this may be the only way to solve the current predicament of the two.
Lu Jing kept his word. After eating, he and Xia Huai immediately went outside the largest bank in the city.
Before I even entered the door, I saw the four characters Taiping Bank on the large plaque.
As one of the four major banks, Taiping Bank, of course, cannot only operate in the capital. The surrounding prefectures, counties, and even some big cities in the south also have branches of Taiping Bank, making it convenient for the bank's patrons to withdraw silver.
Lu Jing did not hide his identity, and showed his name as soon as he came up, which attracted the shopkeeper of the bank to come out to greet him.
Then Lu Jing took out two long boxes and placed them in front of the shopkeeper.
These two long boxes were both piano boxes he bought on the roadside. They were similar in size and style, but one long box contained the black knife, and the other long box contained the paper given to him by Guo Shouhuai. frog.
"Keep these two things separately, in the safest place for you." Lu Jing said.
The shopkeeper nodded and said to a cashier beside him, "Go, open it and check the contents."
However, the accounting clerk was stopped by Lu Jing before he left, "There's no need to look at what's inside."
"This... I'm afraid it's not in line with the bank's rules." The shopkeeper felt a little embarrassed, "We can trust Daxia Lu as a person, but if we don't find out what's inside, it will easily cause misunderstandings and disputes during handovers in the future."
"No, I won't blackmail you." Lu Jing smiled, "Let's make a contract. No matter whether the things inside have changed or not, or even whether the things inside are still there, I won't blame you. It’s from the head of your bank.”
The shopkeeper stroked his beard and said, "If that's the case, there is no need to check again. In addition, please rest assured, Mr. Lu, it will definitely not be lost. Important things will be locked in the big iron box in the warehouse. That big The iron box weighs a thousand kilograms and is entirely made of pig iron.
"No one can carry it, and the thickness is astonishing. Even a top expert can't split a stick of incense with an axe. There are two keys to the iron box, and they need to be combined to open the iron box. .
"One of them will be kept safe by our bank, and the other one will be handed over to you, Master Lu. What do you think? Are you satisfied?"
"Not bad." Lu Jing was indeed very satisfied after hearing this.
As one of the four major banks, Taiping Bank does have good security measures. Even he can't find any fault with such protective measures.
Even if he left it alone, it would not be easy for Mr. Ji's people to steal the knife from inside.
Then Lu Jing heard the shopkeeper continue, "But it's very troublesome to build such iron boxes. Our bank only has seven in total, so in terms of price..."
"How many."
"One tael of silver a day."
The price was not only not cheap, it was an astronomical figure. However, Lu Jing did not bargain. He took out two ingots of silver from his bag and said to the shopkeeper, "I'm here for ten days first."
