According to Ma Chao's instructions, Ma Dai first interrogated Zhang Lu and Zhang Wei separately, while Zhang Lu and Zhang Wei's families were all handed over to their subordinates for interrogation.

Originally, Ma Dai thought that this interrogation would be very troublesome, and thought that Zhang Lu and Zhang Wei would be extremely uncooperative, and then they would have to use heavy punishment.

However, none of these expectations appeared, Ma Dai only met with Zhang Lu and asked Zhang Lu where his accumulated wealth was, Zhang Lu only put forward one condition, if Ma Dai agreed, he would directly tell them where he hid the treasure.

Zhang Lu's condition was very simple, as long as he and his family could be safe, he would tell him the place where the treasure was hidden.

Ma Dai didn't dare to make the decision, so he went to ask Ma Chao. After Ma Chao listened to Ma Dai's report, he said to Ma Dai: "As long as Zhang Luken hands over that wealth, he can spare the lives of Zhang Lu's family, some rotten lives, and they can't set off any big winds and waves." ”

Ma Dai got Ma Chao's consent, so he went to see Zhang Lu again, and conveyed Ma Chao's meaning, but Zhang Lu wanted not to die, but the premise was to contribute that wealth first.

Zhang Lubiao was extremely deferential, saying that he was willing to give up that wealth, but he would first let his younger brother and family leave Nanzheng first, and then take Ma Dai to find that wealth.

Ma Dai agreed to Zhang Lu, let Zhang Wei and their brothers' families go, and took Zhang Lu to climb the city wall of Nanzheng in person, so that Zhang Lu saw Zhang Wei and them leave safely, and then said to Zhang Lu: "You can always rest assured now, right?" ”

Zhang Lu nodded and said, "Let's go, I'll take you there." But to get this wealth out. I'm afraid it will take a little time. It's best to get 500 people along. ”

Ma Dai immediately went to inform Ma Chao, and Ma Chao took 500 relatives with him, and after meeting with Ma Dai, he went to Taishou Mansion with Zhang Lu.

Zhang Lu took Ma Chao, Ma Dai and others to the back hall of the Taishou Mansion, and returned to Zhang Lu's residence, after pushing open the door, Zhang Lu said to Ma Chao and Ma Dai: "What you want, it's right here!" ”

Ma Chao said: "It turns out that you hid everything under the ground where you lived. Then please open the secret door for us yourself! ”

Zhang Lu nodded, walked to the side of the bed, then lifted the futon on the bed, walked to the innermost part of the bed, and then pulled hard, one side of the bed suddenly cocked, and a dark grid was displayed in front of Ma Chao and Ma Dai.

Ma Chao and Ma Dai both opened their eyes wide, only to see that at the opening of the dark grid, a dark passage with downward eyes appeared, and it was dark inside. And with a gust of wind blowing.

"You guys, with torches. Come down with me and see! The rest of the people were guarding the door, and no one was allowed to come in without my orders," Ma Chao commanded.

"Whoa!"

The soldiers brought by Ma Chao were all his cronies, but they didn't know what Ma Chao was looking for, and no one disobeyed the order, just obeyed the order, several soldiers took the lit torches, came to Zhang Lu's bedside, and after Ma Chao's order, they jumped down the secret passage and walked down the stairs layer by layer.

Zhang Lu followed closely behind these soldiers, Ma Chao and Ma Dai walked at the back, and the group jumped into the dark passage one after another.

Under the faint light of the torches, the original traces of the secret passage were revealed, and the soldiers realized that there were torches on both sides of the secret passage, so they lit these torches erected on the wall one by one, and the dark passage became brightly lit when it landed.

The group walked down the stairs for a distance of about ten meters, and only then did they reach the bottom, and the long and narrow corridor suddenly became clear, and gusts of wind blew in their faces, and the torches flickered and dimmed.

But because it was dark ahead, he couldn't see anything clearly, so Ma Chao said to Zhang Lu: "How should I go now?" ”

"It's here, the wealth I've accumulated for many years, right in front of your eyes, and there are oil lamps on the walls all around, and if you light any of them, the ground will be brightly lit." Zhang Ludao.

The soldier then found the oil lamps on the wall, lit one of them, and the fire spread along the oil lamps in all directions, and soon the oil lamps around the wall were also lit.

At this time, under the reflection of the lights, Ma Chao, Ma Dai and others finally saw everything under the ground, and the qiē in front of them, except for Zhang Lu, made everyone surprised after seeing it!

At this time, a huge underground cave was dug by hand, the whole cave was the size of Taishoufu, and the stone pillars supporting the weight were divided into several areas, and each area was filled with different things, gold, silver, pearls, precious stones, in short, there were gold, silver and jewelry, everything, and everything was piled up as high as a small hill.

"It turns out that the rumors are true, Zhang Lu really has the wealth of the country!" After Ma Chao saw these dazzling gold and silver jewelry, he was extremely excited.

At this time, Zhang Lu said to Ma Chao: "General Ma, these are the wealth I have accumulated over the years, I originally wanted to spend the rest of my life in peace, but now it seems impossible, since I was captured by you, these riches naturally belong to you, now that I have brought you here, seeing this wealth, you should also fulfill your promise and let me go, right?" ”

Ma Chao smiled: "Of course, I, Ma Chao, will never break my word." Come on, send Mrs. Zhang on the road! ”

The two soldiers pulled out the long sword they were carrying, and the bright blade of the sword lit up in front of Zhang Lu, and the two soldiers showed a hideous face and walked towards Zhang Lu.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhang Lu hurriedly shouted: "General Ma, what are you doing here?" Are you going to break your promise? ”

Ma Chao said: "I promised not to kill you, but I didn't say that my subordinates can't kill you." Now that your whole family is dead, waiting for you on the Huangquan Road, if you don't die, then how should your family be reunited? ”

"You...... What did you say? You killed all my family? Zhang Lu stepped back again and again and asked in disbelief.

"yes, you go and accompany them."

As soon as the words fell, he saw that the two soldiers rushed up, raised the long sword in his hand and stabbed at Zhang Lu, Zhang Lu couldn't dodge, was stabbed into a transparent hole, pierced the heart with a sword, and died on the spot.

It turned out that Ma Chao didn't really want to let Zhang Lu go, but just pretended to agree, but let people kill Zhang Wei and others halfway, killing Zhang Lu and Zhang Wei's whole family, all of them without leaving behind, in order to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots.

In fact, Ma Chao's real idea is to embezzle Zhang Lu's wealth, so Zhang Lu must not live.

"Let everyone come in immediately, load all these gold, silver and jewelry, and transport them to Wudu overnight, and you will personally escort them, and there will be no half-point difference on the way!" Ma Chao said to Ma Dai.

Ma Dai hesitated a little and asked: "Big brother, everyone knows that Zhang Lufu is a rival to the country, if we transport all these gold, silver and jewelry, in case Pang Tong and Xu Huang come and don't see any wealth, we will definitely think that we have swallowed this wealth privately, and when the time comes, I am afraid that it will be difficult to clean up!" ”

"Afraid of what? I have a lot of troops, and even if I swallow this wealth privately, they will not dare to do anything to me. What's more, what's wrong with us charging into battle for them and taking a little money? This wealth is what we have earned with our lives, and we have earned it ourselves, and even if it gets to the regent, I am not afraid. What's more, the imperial court is not out of money? But our Liangzhou is a poor place, and with this money, we can do a lot of things. Ma Chao said.

Ma Dai said: "Big brother, I think it's still a little inappropriate, Zhang Lu has a lot of wealth, if you want to transport it secretly, it's not easy, it's better for us to leave a part of it, act as Zhang Lu's wealth, and smuggle most of it away, even if Pang Tong and Xu Huang come, after seeing this wealth, they have nothing to say, anyway, Zhang Lu is dead, there is no proof of death, and they won't know how much wealth Zhang Lu has." ”

Ma Chao thought for a moment and felt that what Ma Dai said also made some sense, so he did what Ma Dai said.

So, Ma Dai called all the five hundred relatives in, and began to carry gold, silver and jewelry, and parked the carriage outside the Taishou Mansion, and loaded boxes of gold, silver and jewelry on the carriage, and used some weapons as a cover to confuse people's hearts.

Ma Chao, Ma Dai and others were busy all night, and only then did they load most of the gold, silver and jewelry on the car, leaving only a very small part to deal with Pang Tong, Xu Huang and others.

In normal times, Ma Dairao was more tired, or he was strong in spirit, and transported the gold, silver and jewelry loaded on the carriage to Wudu together, and said that it was to transport weapons.

More than 100 carriages, transported by 3,000 elite soldiers, set off in a mighty manner.

Ma Dai has just walked less than a stick of incense time, and Pang Tong and Xu Huang led the troops to Nanzheng, Ma Chao is the vanguard general, leading the troops as the front, and the soldiers and horses led by Pang Tong and Xu Huang are used as support, so the march is much slower.

Moreover, in this Western Expedition, Ma Chao is singing the leading role, Pang Tong and Xu Huang can only be said to be supporting roles, not to mention that Pang Tong and Xu Huang also have a secret mission to perform, responsible for taking over a Qiē city occupied by Ma Chao.

Pang Tong and Xu Huang arrived, Ma Chao personally greeted him, and after a period of greetings, Pang Tong and Xu Huang knew that Zhang Lu and Zhang Wei were dead, and at this time Ma Chao's subordinates suddenly ran over, saying that they had found Zhang Lu's hidden treasure, and Ma Chao went to the secret room built by Zhang Lu with Pang Tong and Xu Huang to check.

After several people came to the secret room, when Pang Tong and Xu Huang saw Zhang Lu's hidden treasure, they were not very excited, but there was only a small amount of gold, silver and jewelry hidden in the huge underground secret room, and the two exchanged glances with each other, and they both had a little doubt in their hearts, but no one said it.

Ma Chao sneered and said: "It is said that Zhang Lu has the wealth of the country, but I didn't expect that there is only such a little gold, silver and jewelry, it seems that it is all rumors!" (To be continued......)