Chapter 153: The Horse Thief's Treasure Trove
At this moment, the fire in Loulan City has been extinguished, white smoke is coming from everywhere, and there are ruins and broken walls everywhere you look, Li Hao just walked to the gate of the city, and saw Peng Hai waiting in line here with five hundred right guards, and there was a person kneeling in front of the military formation, it was the second horse thief in charge and Ruo Billy.
Li Hao slowly stopped his horse, and Peng Haihai stepped forward and saluted: "My lord, except for the second leader of the horse thieves, all the other horse thieves have been ambushed. ”
"Hmm." Li Hao nodded and asked, "Are our goods still safe?" ”
"Back to my lord, all the goods are well preserved."
"Okay." Li Hao nodded and said, "Take me to check the goods quickly." ”
"Yes!" After Peng Hai finished speaking, he got on the horse and took Li Hao to the city.
When Li Hao passed by the right guard, he arched his hand at them, and said loudly: "All the soldiers have worked hard, first rest in the city for two days, take good care of this horse thief, and don't make any mistakes!" ”
"Yes!" Five hundred right guards led the order in unison.
Li Hao came to a vacant lot in the northeast under the leadership of Peng Hai, where hundreds of camels and horses gathered, Li Hao's goods were still on the camel's back, and had not yet been unloaded, Li Hao stepped forward to check it, except for 10,000 taels of gold, the other goods were there, it seemed that the horse thieves were only interested in gold, and transferred the gold, but they didn't know that these goods were more important to Li Hao than gold.
Li Hao found the bags containing the medicines, and took out two large porcelain bottles from them, one blue and one white, the blue porcelain bottles were labeled with a paper label: "Anti-inflammatory-external", and the white porcelain bottles were also labeled: "Anti-inflammatory-internal." ”
This is Li Hao's anti-inflammatory drug for trauma prepared with traditional Chinese medicine, although the anti-inflammatory effect is not as awesome as Western medicine, but now it is the Tang Dynasty, how can there be any Western medicine, only traditional Chinese medicine can be used, and it is applied externally and internally, and the effect is still very good.
He didn't bring many anti-inflammatory drugs this time, after all, he was going to take office, not to fight with others, but when he encountered today's incident, he regretted it a little, it would be better to bring more anti-inflammatory drugs in the future, and be prepared.
After taking the anti-inflammatory drugs, he immediately went back to set up a medical tent to change the medicine for the injured special forces, and the seriously injured were given priority, these special forces were Li Hao's baby bumps, and he was reluctant to let them have another condition.
After changing the medicine for the special forces, Li Hao found that the right guards were cleaning up the corpses of the horse thieves, the cleaning method was very simple, and they were thrown into the flames that were still burning, so the scorching smell wafted all over the city, Li Hao was afraid of scaring Qin Su and them, so he asked all four of them to go to the tent and were not allowed to come out, and specially sent Captain Flying Eagle and Captain Cheetah to guard them.
After changing the medicine for the wounded, he went to Peng Hai again and asked him about the situation of water and food, as soon as he mentioned this, Peng Hai suddenly grinned and said: "My lord, I almost forgot, this horse thief's lair is not ordinary, although it is a desert here, but there is no shortage of water and food in the horse thief's lair, and the reserves are extremely rich, you come with me." ”
After he finished speaking, he took Li Hao around the city again, went around for a long time, and came to a dilapidated house in Xicheng District, and said, "My lord, there is a mystery hidden in this house." ”
"Oh?" Li Hao was slightly surprised when he heard this, and looked at the dilapidated house, although the roof was good, one side of the wall collapsed, and the other three sides were also leaking everywhere, not to mention living people, and storage was not good.
He walked in curiously, but saw that the ground was very clean, in stark contrast to the dust on the road outside.
"Huh?" Li Hao felt that this was a bit unusual, since this house was so dilapidated, then it must be uninhabited, the desert was windy and sandy, like this kind of broken house that no one lived in, it would only take a few days to accumulate a layer of yellow sand on the ground, but now the ground is clean, there must be something strange.
He looked down at the ground and wandered around, eventually stopping in front of a dilapidated cabinet.
Peng Hai walked up to him and said with a smile: "My lord has good eyesight, I found it so quickly, and the mystery is under this cabinet." ”
Li Hao smiled indifferently, pushed open the broken cabinet, and saw that there was nothing unusual below, and there was a bluestone slab like other places, he raised his foot and stepped on it hard, making a muffled sound, and the bottom was empty, so he pulled out the Tang knife, stuffed it into the crack of the stone slab, and pried up the stone slab vigorously, immediately revealing the entrance of a black hole.
"Your Excellency, Torch." Peng Hai handed the torch that had been prepared to Li Hao, but it had not been lit yet, Li Hao didn't want to show the lighter in front of him, and it happened that the fire in the city had not been completely extinguished, so he took the torch and went out to find a fire scene to light it, and then came back and drilled into the entrance of the cave.
Under the entrance is a stone staircase, and in the middle of the way also turned the direction once, down about a zhang deep, in the end, at a glance, this is actually a huge cellar, a torch can not completely illuminate this cellar, you can see how big this cellar is.
On the left hand side, rows of large jars are neatly arranged along the corner of the wall, the jar is pasted with red paper, with the word "wine" written on it, and there are large water tanks on the right hand, each water tank is sealed with a lid, and the lid is also pasted with red paper, which says "water", Li Hao casually opened the lid of the two water tanks, and found that it was full of water, there are more than 30 large water tanks here, adding up to dozens of tons of water, if you don't take a bath, it is enough for this group of horse thieves to use for several months, this group of horse thieves is really a little capable, There is still so much water stored in the desert.
Li Haoqing walked forward with torches, and piles of sacks appeared in front of him, each pile was more than one person high, a total of ten piles, and each sack was pasted with red paper, some wrote "rice", some wrote "millet" and some wrote "flour", no need to think, these bags must be filled with grain.
"Okay, really good, these horse thieves really do." Li Hao couldn't help but sigh, he had to admire these horse thieves, they got so much water and food in the desert, how many caravans had to be robbed.
"My lord, there are more exciting ones in the back, dazzling eyes." Peng Hai reminded with a fluttering eyebrow.
Li Hao's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he shook his eyes? It must be real money, he said and walked forward quickly, and suddenly noticed a small mountain of garbage in front of him.
Take a torch and take a photo, what kind of garbage pile is this, it is clearly a pile of gold and silver, all gold and silver, Li Hao was completely dumbfounded, as a local tyrant, he has not seen money, the money in his treasury is higher than here, but his family is stacked with copper coins, but here is gold and silver, not at the same level, and ...... It was also the first time he had seen someone pile real money like garbage, and it was ...... It's so disrespectful for money.
The gold in this pile of real gold and silver is robbed at a glance, why, because it is too miscellaneous, there are gold pots, gold ornaments, gold knives, gold plates, and gold cups...... This is also a feature of the horse thief's treasury.
Li Hao was in a daze, and Peng Hai asked at this time: "My lord, what to do with this money?" ”
Li Hao frowned when he heard this, Peng Hai was sent by the emperor to protect himself, strictly speaking, he was not his own person, since he knew this treasure trove of horse thieves, then it was impossible for him to swallow it privately, but his 10,000 taels of gold still had to be taken back.
He searched in the pile of gold and silver, and found his bags containing gold, perhaps because the time was too hasty, the bags had not been untied, and Li Hao's 10,000 taels of gold were still intact in the bags.
Li Hao pointed to the gold in the sack and said, "The gold in these bags is what I brought out from home, a total of 10,000 taels, I will definitely get these back, as for the rest...... Let the brothers divide it. ”
"You...... What did you say? Peng Hai was shocked when he heard this, almost thinking that he had heard it wrong, and said in disbelief, "So much gold and silver, all of them will be distributed to ...... Right Xiaowei brothers? ”
Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said, "What do you mean that everything is distributed to the right Xiaowei?" Don't my tribes have any? They were born and died with me this time. ”
"Yes, yes, yes." Peng Hai replied in a loud voice, "My lord, I mean, don't you want it yourself?" ”
"Didn't I get my 10,000 taels of gold back?" Li Hao pretended not to understand at first, and then suddenly realized, "You mean these gold and silver of horse thieves, alas, am I such a greedy person......
After Peng Hai heard this, his expression became so exciting, along the way with Li Hao, he had basically figured out what Li Hao was, and suddenly heard him say such a false thing, and felt that his IQ had been damaged by 10,000 critical hits.
Peng Hai simply stopped going around in circles with him, and said: "My lord, when the army is out, all the seized materials should be listed and transported back to Beijing one by one, and they should not be misappropriated privately." ”
Li Hao glanced at him and said slowly: "Did I embezzle it privately, I just got back the 10,000 taels of gold I was robbed." ”
Peng Haidao: "You can get back your 10,000 taels of gold, but if you want to divide the rest of the gold and silver with the soldiers, I'm afraid it's not appropriate." ”
Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said: "It's not appropriate, I think it's very appropriate, first of all, we are not on the march, you just escorted me to the post, and I met a few thieves on the road to cut the path and rob, we robbed a wave of thieves, if you robbed a few buns and cakes from the thieves, do you have to register and escort them back to Beijing?" ”
Peng Hai was stunned when he heard this, Li Hao said a little reasonable, they are just guards and bodyguards, not marching, if they don't abide by the rules of the march, but it is reasonable, but the amount of gold and silver in this pile is too big, if the emperor knows, I don't know what the consequences will be, Peng Hai also knows that there must be the emperor's eyeliner in the right Xiaowei.
At this time, Li Hao suddenly said: "Besides, you said that you would escort back to Beijing, who would be responsible for escorting you?" Or me? There is no one at all, right, the emperor has issued a holy decree, and he must arrive in Tingzhou within six months, what is the crime of violating the holy decree, you should know better than me. ”
Peng Hai was completely speechless when he heard this, yes, he also found out that they couldn't spare the manpower to escort these gold and silver back, such a large sum of money, at least hundreds of thousands, if you want to escort it, you must have at least more than three hundred elite soldiers, and the task assigned to him by the emperor is to escort Li Hao, he can't give up his task because of the escort of these money, that would be against the holy decree, once Li Hao has any mistakes, then he will be unable to escape the blame.
As soon as he thought of this, Peng Hai nodded helplessly: "What my lord said is not unreasonable. ”
"Then send someone in and take these gold, silver and jewels out and divide them." Li Hao turned around and walked out as he spoke, followed by Peng Hai.
After the two of them got out of the cellar, they went to the camp to inform all the soldiers of the news, and everyone in the right Xiaowei was very happy when they heard it, and thanked Li Hao and Peng Hai in unison.
Then, Li Haoti left and Ruobili, guarded by special forces, and asked Peng Hai to take two hundred right guards to the cellar to move gold, silver and jewelry, and the rest of the people continued to be on duty in the city.
Li Hao took Lu Yun to walk in the front, Captain Flying Eagle and Captain Cheetah escorted Billy to walk behind, and walked to an open place in the north, Li Hao asked Billy to kneel, and then asked: "And if Billy is, I will ask you now, you answer honestly, if there is something to hide, I will cut off one of your hands, you know?" ”
"Yes, the villain must answer honestly and not hide it." And if Billy responds with a frightened face, his whole body trembling.
Li Hao said: "I chased you before, sneak attack at night, there was no sound, and it was dark at that time, and I couldn't see my five fingers, how did you find us?" ”
And if Billy hurriedly said: "My third brother is Naluo Sanhei, he is very sensitive to the smell of gold, silver, copper and iron, as long as he smells the smell of iron in the wind, we will guess that you are here to attack." ”
"Huh?" Li Hao raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Very sensitive to metal smells?" Is there such a strange thing? ”
"Exactly." And if Billinono said continuously, "The little ones don't dare to deceive the adults, and they don't dare to deceive the adults." ”
"Okay." Li Hao smacked his lips, the doubts in his heart had been solved, so he didn't bother to ask anything more, raised his hand, and said, "Push him down and hand it over to Lu Damao to deal with." ”
"Lu Damao?" And if Billy heard this name, he suddenly thought of Lu Damao, who had his ears cut off, and suddenly his face changed greatly, and he crawled on the ground and exclaimed, "My lord's life, my lord's life, my lord!" I still have something to tell me, and I beg the adults to spare my dog's life. ”
Li Hao raised his eyebrows: "Something important? I'm not interested in big things, ordinary little things. ”
And if Billy hurriedly wrote on the ground with his fingers, several of them stared, and when he finished writing, Li Hao's face changed, and he saw that Billy wrote four words on it: "Loulan Treasure".