Chapter 354: The Bandit's Treasure (Part II)
The rammed earth inside the three-foot-thick horse-head wall had been hollowed out into a corridor-like chamber, and the entrance was indeed a curtain of planks resembling a skylight, as Mahan had claimed.
Su Jin first poked the candle in, and looked at a wooden plank staircase that was obviously artificially built extending down one step at a time, and it was obvious that the secret room was below.
Although Su Jin was excited, he still had a heart, and he didn't rush in, because he didn't know what was connected to the other end of the rope.
Su Jin ordered the dynasty to restore the rope pulled up to its original position, the sound of the khala sounded, there was no abnormality in front of him, Su Jin gently lifted a tile, threw it on the wooden ladder, only to see that the ladder of strength suddenly flipped, and the tile instantly fell below the stairs, and there was a cracking sound of hitting with hard objects.
It was a trap for the flap, and needless to say, the rammed earth under the planks was all hollowed out.
Su Jin gently flipped a ladder with his hand, lit a dead wood and threw it at the bottom of the black hole, looking at it, the scene in front of him made him even more creepy, the bottom of the wall hole was full of blue sharp knives, and there were actually two bloody corpses inside, it seemed that they hadn't been dead for long, so there was no peculiar smell, there was no doubt that without knowing the mechanism, this was the death trap of thieves who dared to enter the secret room rashly.
And these two corpses, Su Jin must have been 100% sure that when he was attacking the mountain, there were bandits who knew that Shen Yaozu's secret room was located wanted to take the opportunity to fish for oil and water and died here.
Judging from the reflected light, these knives are all quenched poisonous blades, not to mention that the deep hole with a height of a few feet will smash you to pieces, even if you have rough skin and thick flesh, and the sharp knife on the ground can only rot and grow maggots in the hole in the wall.
This thing is a genius, and a genius with scheming, perseverance and cruelty, with the power of one person, it will take a few months of hard work to hollow out this rammed earth horse's head wall, and it will take a lot of energy and perseverance to design the trap mechanism in it, and connect the handle of the mechanism to a tiger skin chair that only he can sit on.
Su Jin could imagine that Shen Yaozu secretly climbed in here every night, digging a small spoonful of rammed earth with a disgraced face, and carrying it out like ants. Then design his mechanism little by little, chisel out a groove in the corner of the hall, bury the bamboo tube, pass the rope through the bamboo tube in the groove and extend the horse head wall, and design a pulling mechanism, all things are done by himself, avoiding people's eyes and ears, Su Jin asked himself, he will never be able to do it.
The principle is actually very simple, the rope is connected to the support at the bottom of the suspended ladder, pulling the rope, will be stuck under the plank ladder, people will not flip when stepping on it, and once the rope returns to its original position, the plank ladder will be turned over with the stepping, and people will fall into the hollow under the surprise, and there will be no place to bury them.
Su Jin retracted his head, sat on the roof ridge and gasped for breath, the cold and fresh air calmed his frightened heart a little.
Shen Yaozu took great pains to build this secret room, and there was definitely something worth looking forward to in it, otherwise he wouldn't have spent so much time.
Su Jin went down the ridge, closed the door of the hall tightly, and tied it, and checked around to make sure that there was no one else in the hall, so he pulled the rope, and the two of them tiptoed up the ridge of the roof and drilled into the hole in the wall.
Su Jin brought more than a dozen tiles with him, and before each step, he threw them on the wooden board to prevent other changes, because Shen Yaozu was really unpredictable, who knew what vicious traps he would come up with.
Fortunately, there was no abnormality, the space was too narrow, and Shen Yaozu was afraid that he would not be able to design an extra mechanism.
After walking down more than a dozen steps, he had gradually come to the bottom of the horse-head wall, and after the steps came down, there was nowhere to go, and it looked like he had entered a dead end, but Su Jin knew that there must be an entrance, and it was impossible for Shen Yaozu to put so much effort into arranging a useless trap.
Sure enough, in the soft whisper of the dynasty, the place that seemed to be the wall reached out and pushed it in, Su Jin understood that this was Shen Yaozu in order to prevent someone from throwing torches and other things on it, so he could see the property at a glance, so he deliberately left a partition wall between the stairs and the plank, as for the secret door under the stairs, it only needs to be covered up a little, and there is no need to be more confidential, after all, people have already reached the bottom of the stairs, and no amount of cover-up is useless.
The hole in the wall that only allowed one person to enter was pushed open and slid down, and as soon as the three of them climbed into the secret room, they all opened their mouths wide and could no longer make any sound, and under the light of the fire, everything in front of them seemed so unreal, everything seemed to be in a dream.
Su Jin vaguely remembered that the scene he saw in the movie in later life, and imagined countless times that the scene he entered was laid out in front of him at this moment, full of golden light, gold and silver ingots were piled up on the ground like a hill, and the yellow and white things that everyone loved were discarded here as if they were shit and horses, there were no boxes in the small secret room, no shelves, and some were just gold and silver and jewelry thrown on the ground, no one could imagine that there was so much money hidden in the mezzanine of a horse's head wall on this barren mountain.
Su Jin quickly estimated the value, but he had never seen so much money, he really didn't have an accurate score, such a large amount of gold and silver, how could it be worth hundreds of thousands, all in all, in short, it was sent, it was sent now.
Wang Dynasty Mahan opened his mouth wide, his saliva was about to flow down, the two of them had never seen so much money since they were young, and it was all real money, not even a copper plate.
"Rich, rich, son." Wang Dynasty muttered.
"How many sauce elbows can you buy!" Mahan sighed.
Su Jin laughed and said: "There are so many that you can't finish eating in your life, you can eat two at each meal, throw two, or wipe your boots with sauce elbow every day to keep them shiny." ”
"Son, so much money belongs to you, I'm afraid you are the richest man in Luzhou."
"It's not mine, it's ours, the rules of the rivers and lakes, those who see it have a share, and you two are also small rich people." Su Jin smiled.
"No, no, no, how dare you, don't entertain us, we don't have to think about the prince's money." Wang Chao hurriedly waved his hand.
Su Jin said with a smile: "Of course you have a share of the money, but I want to keep this money for you, use this money to make more money, and give it to you is just eating, drinking, prostitution, gambling and gambling, don't look at the money here, there is a lot of money, but you can't afford to squander." ”
Ma Han said: "Son, we are not people who see money, we follow you and you are good to us, the salary of five times a month is enough for us to spend, do we still think about it?" ”
Su Jin said: "Listen to me, don't be hypocritical, this money is considered as your stake in my Su Ji, and you will make a lot of money in the future, buy you a big house, and marry your daughter-in-law as a master." ”
The two nodded like pounded garlic, this is their dream in life, Gongzi seems to be their bosom friend, and a word goes to their hearts.
"Son, how can we take out so much money? With such a large sum of money, what should the imperial court do when it is traced? Wang Chao scratched his head.
Su Jin said: "The dynasty came down the mountain to call people, and the others should not be alarmed, just ask the guys brought by Su Ji to bring a few boxes up the mountain, I am afraid that the gold, silver and jewelry here will be at least five or six boxes, and a dozen people will be enough to carry down the mountain; Mahan and I demolished the wall here, and directly demolished the outer wall, and there were at most two layers of brick shells on the outside, which could be broken when stabbed. ”
Ma Han was stunned and said: "If the wall is broken, won't the court know that this property was taken by the prince?" ”
Su Jin said with a smile: "Mountain people have their own tricks. ”
When the sky was slightly bright, five large boxes were neatly placed in Su Jin's big tent, and Su Ji's little servants had blisters on their shoulders, but each person's reward was also very rich, so they were also satisfied.
When they went up the hill and were told that they could only stay outside the hall, Wang Mahan himself went in with empty boxes to pick up horse manure, and swept away the gold and silver in the secret room, and even touched the dust in the ground twice.
As soon as the little guys lifted the box, they shouted that they couldn't bear it, and finally they had to lift it up and stumble down the mountain road, there were not enough people, and Su Jin could only fill it, and the shoulders of the little tender ones were also red and swollen.
Yan Biyun and the others looked at the five big boxes that Su Jin had worked hard all night to get back, and they didn't know why, Su Jin proudly opened the lid of the box himself, and suddenly there was an exclamation, full of jewels in the tent, and the faces of the women were shining.
"What are you ......" Yan Biyun was not very interested in money, she had seen more money than this.
Su Jin said mysteriously: "Shen Yaozu robbed. I have all the treasures that I have plundered for several years. ”
Yan Biyun frowned and said: "This is the people's money, the bandits are robbing the people." ”
Su Jin said with a smile: "Let me take it for Shen Yaozu for the people, I don't know who he robbed, I can only keep it on my behalf, one day in the future, I will find the owner of the matter, and then it will not be too late to return slowly." ”
Yan Biyun saw that he was insincere, and knew that he would never let go of this batch of money, so he said: "If the court investigates it, ...... it."
Su Jin patted his head and said, "I almost forgot about the big thing, I'll come when I go." ”
Su Jin came out of the tent and called Wei Dutou and said: "The big village and checkpoints on the mountain are not suitable to remain, the bandits who are afraid of gathering again, this mission you take people to destroy all of them, those who should be knocked down are demolished, those who should be burned are burned, everything that can be used is moved down the mountain to count and make a book, and temporarily put it in the treasury of Yangzhou government for inspection by the imperial court." ”
Wei Dutou secretly praised the envoy for being careful, keeping these houses and checkpoints, it will indeed attract the bandits to gather again, and it is a fat difference to confiscate the materials, so he took the order and went with a smile.
In the morning, smoke rose from all over the cottage, and the Bagong cottage, which had been painstakingly built by bandits for generations, was burned to the ground and turned into ruins.
Yan Biyun, Wang Dynasty Mahan and others knew that this was Su Jin's evidence of destruction, the walls were destroyed and the rafters collapsed, and everything in the future had nothing to do with Su Jin.