"My lord, boss, come and see!"
As soon as Ying Wu and Mei Zhu moved a box of gold, they discovered something was wrong and called Shen Haolin and Shen Cha over to take a look.
"This is..." Shen Cha saw that the box was only half filled with gold, and the other half seemed to be a hidden box made from the body of the box. The opening of the box faced the top and was locked with a small lock.
"See, what I said is right, right?"
"Yes." Shen Cha turned to look at Shen Haolin and chuckled, "Brother, you guessed it right. It's not just gold."
"What...what do you mean?" Ying Wu looked at Shen Haolin and then at Shen Cha, "Have you all guessed that there is something fishy here?"
"Yeah!" Shen Cha nodded, "Even if the origin of this gold is unknown, it is more dangerous to leave it here than to spend it, if Uncle Xue doesn't want anyone to know. So, since he puts it here, it means that the gold There's a reason it has to be here, it has a purpose."
"Gold is used as a cover. The secret box under the gold is what really needs to be kept secret." Shen Haolin picked up a piece of gold and weighed it, frowning slightly, then picked up another one, and frowned even more "Look at these two."
Shen Cha took the two pieces of gold, weighed them in his hands, tilted his head, put down the one that was obviously lighter in his left hand, picked up another piece, put it down again and picked it up again, repeating this cycle many times, until he put down the one that was obviously lighter. All the gold in the box was weighed.
"how?"
"These two pieces..." Shen Cha looked at the gold in her hand. One piece was always on her right hand, and the other piece she chose from the box of gold. "The weight is the same, but it's different from the others, a little heavier than them."
"That's right. Did you find anything else?"
"Judging from the feel, these two pieces are not very similar to gold. They are a bit like... well, bricks or something." Shen Cha thought for a while and handed the two pieces of gold to Shen Haolin. "Brother, try try. "
Shen Haolin took it in his hand and tried it, nodded towards Shen Cha, put down one of the pieces, and carefully observed the appearance of the piece of fake gold in his hand.
"Well..." He frowned slightly and rubbed his fingers hard on the gold twice. "It feels like it's plated with a layer of gold on the outside, but it's not gold foil. It's using another method. But what method is it? , it’s not very good.”
"Open it and you'll find out." Shen Cha reached out toward Ying Wuyi, took the small hammer he handed over, put the gold on the ground, hit it twice gently, and made a crack, then picked it up and shook it. After a few clicks, "There seems to be something inside."
"Boss, I'll do it!"
Ying Wu took a thin, flat shovel and inserted it into the crack. With a little force, he heard a "ding" sound and a small key fell to the ground.
Shen Cha picked up the key, compared it with the small golden lock in the box, and shook his head gently.
"No? That means there is more than one such dark box." Ying Wu thought for a moment and showed Shen Haolin and Shen Cha the gold that had been broken into two pieces. It's mud. This technique is also very common. It is usually used to shape Buddha statues in temples. Some believers don't always make a wish. If the Buddha bless them, they will reshape the golden body or something? This thing is used to reshape the Buddha statue. Golden body."
"The others are all real gold, only these two are fake."
Shen Cha picked up the hammer and knocked open the other fake gold. Not surprisingly, there was still a key inside. She put the key into the small lock, but it couldn't be opened.
"Still not working?" Shen Haolin looked at the small lock, then at the two keys, "Put it aside first, and then look at the others."
Shen Cha nodded, she asked Ying Wu and Mei Zhu to stand aside, and personally went through the remaining gold in the box one by one, stacking the real gold together, and collecting all the fake gold filled with mud. All picked out.
The whole process took almost half an hour. When all the gold was placed, several people sighed softly.
"It doesn't look as scary as before, does it?" Shen Cha looked helplessly at Shen Haolin, "Who would have thought that half of the gold is fake filled with mud?"
"What's fake?" Xue Ruitian's eyes lit up when he heard the word gold, and he jumped over. But when he saw the two piles of gold, which were obviously very different, he was stunned, "This What is it? What does it mean?"
"It means that the only ones you can use outside are the ones here." Shen Cha pointed to the pile on the left, and then pointed to the pile on the right, "And the ones here are ready to be smashed later. It's open."
"Looking at it this way, it's not as spectacular as it was just now." Xue Ruitian rolled his eyes, "If I knew there was only such a small amount of gold in so many boxes, it wouldn't be so embarrassing." He sighed softly, " But what is this fake gold used for?”
"There are things inside. We only broke two of them open and dropped two keys, but we don't know what they were for." Shen Cha smiled at Xue Ruitian, "There is so much fake gold that even a few of us can't break it. , Brother Xiaotian, do you want to help?"
"Of course, I'm here to see how a duck that reaches its mouth flies away!" Knocked twice, and when the gold broke, the third key was revealed. "Another key?" He picked it up and looked at it, smiling sheepishly, "This... I was a little too strong, and the key is a little bent."
"It's okay, hit it back again." Shen Cha smiled, "Next time, just be gentler and don't bend it again."
Xue Ruitian nodded, the next step was a little less forceful, and he successfully took out a complete small key.
After all the fake gold was smashed, everyone looked at the seventy or eighty keys piled on the ground and sighed in unison.
"What on earth do father want to do?" Xue Ruitian looked helpless, "How to do this thing? Try it one by one?"
"Have you found the locked box over there?" Shen Haolin looked at Jin Miaomiao and Jin Jing who were still rummaging through the bookshelf. "If you have found everything there, how about putting it with ours?" Let’s see if the number of keys is enough.”
"There should be a lot of keys." Shen Cha touched his chin and looked at the bookshelf on the west side, "I think..."
"What?"
"Some of the keys should belong to that door."
