Li Keshou's face became a little ugly, and he said softly to Dong Ce: "There were originally more than 2,000 people in this village, which was bigger than an ordinary town. Later, the thieves came, but the village was fortunate to escape the catastrophe and was not destroyed by the invaders, but then the officers and soldiers came again. The commander of the army was mean, vicious, and greedy, and he actually plundered the village by arson, and then burned it down again, and it became what it is now. ”

After listening to this, Dong Ce was silent for a while, he really didn't know what to say, so he just nodded silently.

Li Keshou glanced at him and said in a low voice: "Do you know, Han Chen, one of the very important reasons why I like to make friends with you is that you are not only good to your own soldiers, but also to your people, and you are not a person who can do such things. ”

Dong Ce nodded: "Don't worry, I won't be able to do this kind of thing in my life." ”

Li Keshou stared at him and nodded heavily: "I believe in you." ”

About a quarter of an hour later, Li Keshou led everyone to a large mansion in the village.

It can be seen that this house was originally quite magnificent, and it should be the residence of a large family in the village. However, at this moment, the gatehouse also collapsed, the walls also collapsed, and the courtyard was full of blackened bricks and beams that had collapsed on the ground.

Soon, Li Keshou led everyone into the courtyard, and then found a dry well. He pointed to the mouth of the black winter well, "The thing is inside." ”

Dong Ce sighed sideways: "Brother Li, you really hide things secretly enough. ”

"Of course."

Li Keshou said unceremoniously: "This village has long been in ruins, and because many people have died, there are still some haunted rumors here, and idlers will never come here." And even if you come here, you may not find this house, and even if you find this house, you may not notice this dry well. The well has long since dried up, and I have ordered a number of large pits to be dug underneath, and then all your belongings have been buried in it. As for the soil that was dug up, I had already ordered someone to transport it to the river more than ten miles away and threw it away, but I didn't throw it near here, so no one could see the clue. ”

Dong Ce praised Brother Li again, thoughtful.

Then he ordered someone to put a rope down the well, and when he was almost done, he let a few nimble servants hang it.

Soon a happy voice came from the well: "My lord, I dug it, I dug it." ”

Dong Ce's heart was also excited, these collected treasures were one of the capitals of his business in the future! In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, if you want to really develop your own power, you can't do it without soldiers, you can't do it without weapons, but you can't do it without money.

He was already ready, and immediately ordered: "Come, choose the bamboo basket." ”

This bamboo basket was prepared by Li Keshou before he came, and he thought it was to deal with the current situation. The bamboo basket was chosen, and the rope attached to the bamboo basket shook for a while, and then someone in the well shook the rope heavily, and a slightly dull voice came up: "Pull it, it's full." ”

A few housekeepers who had just put the rope hurriedly stretched out their hands and pulled them, but they didn't expect that they didn't move at all under this pull. The three of them suddenly turned a little red, feeling that they had lost face, and then the three of them let out a loud sigh in unison, and with a force of their arms, they lifted the bamboo basket below.

It's just that looking at the six trembling arms of the three of them, as well as their flushed faces and hissing teeth, it is indeed very heavy to think of what is underneath.

Sure enough, after the three of them tried their best to lift the bamboo basket, everyone saw that there was a basket full of silver ingots in the bamboo basket. This basket of silver ingots adds up to only hundreds of catties, so it's no wonder it's so difficult to mention. If it weren't for the bamboo basket being strong enough, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to bear it at all.

Seeing this whole basket of silver, everyone felt as if they had been spent, and they couldn't come back to their senses for a while.

Dong Ce glanced at them and said coldly, "What are you doing in a daze?" And he divided the money into seven sheaves. Didn't the official ask you to prepare a package before you came? Put the silver in it, and weigh the silver in everyone's bag, and pass it through the scales first, so that they can be weighed. After some time, you will take this bag of silver with you, and you will hand it over to the ruler when you return to the Rock Fort. Remember, this money is not yours! Don't move anything that is not yours, do you hear clearly? ”

"Yes, I hear you."

Those family members listened to Dong Strategy's cold words, and they all remembered the scene not long ago when the man was whipped in public for hiding the booty, and their hearts trembled, and they hurriedly warned themselves not to be greedy.

Bai Zhongqi, who was next to Dong Ce, divided the silver into seven parts, and then weighed them one by one, and after passing the scales, he distributed the silver to the seven family members who carried them.

Of course, who carried how much weight, Bai Zhongqi is clearly recorded.

This is also the method that Dong Ce had thought of before.

If these goods are to be transported in large carts, they will need several large carts. The cart is moving slowly, and the target is also big, and anyone who sees hundreds of officers and soldiers hugging several carts at a glance can guess that this cart is filled with great valuables, and if he can't say it, he will think about robbing it, and he will cause a lot of trouble in vain.

The target is big and slow, the carriage is easy to break, and it is easy to cause trouble, so Dong Ce doesn't want to transport it like this. He was going to divide all his belongings into several portions, which he would then carry with his soldiers and hand them over when he returned to Fort Rock. Although there are a lot of these belongings, there are not many scattered over the heads of more than 200 people, and they are very easy to carry.

The next step is to dig out all kinds of belongings from the well, and after digging a basket, he will shout and ask the top to pull up, and after pulling the basket up, Bai Zhongqi will record the silver coins one by one, and then distribute them to the family members to carry.

After a quarter of an hour or so, Dong Ce will replace two more people, after all, the air below is dirty, and the effort required to work is also very large, and he will definitely not be able to bear it if he stays for a long time.

The progress of this work was not very fast, because the treasure buried in the well was hidden, but at the same time, it was more troublesome to take it out. After all, the underground is narrow, and at most it can only accommodate two people working underneath at the same time, and if it is three people, it will not be able to move.

It took a full morning to get all the belongings out, and Dong Ce roughly estimated that if these gold, silver and jewelry were distributed to more than 200 people, each person would carry about ten catties.

That's not a burden.

Li Keshou said with a smile: "Your idea is really good, each person weighs more than ten pounds, so it will not affect the speed of progress at all." ”

Dong Ce stared at Li Keshou, and suddenly said in a deep voice: "Brother Li, thank you very much." ”

Li Keshou pretended to be surprised and said, "Ah, thank you for what?" Why thank me all of a sudden? ”

Dong Ce smiled slightly: "Okay, don't pretend to be confused, I know you understand in your heart." This favor, I keep it in my heart, Brother Li, no matter what you need my help with in the future, I will definitely do my best. ”

His friendship with Li Keshou is much deeper than that with Cao Wenzhao, and when he is with others, he will say that you need help if you have any help, if I can do it, I will definitely help. But what he said to Li Keshou was, if you need help, I will definitely do my best.

The subtext is naturally that no matter what I can do or not, I will do my best.

Li Keshou was silent for a moment, and said softly: "I know." ”

The two said goodbye, Li Keshou returned to Chengcheng County, and Dong Ce took his soldiers to roughly clean up the traces of this place, and then returned to the camp.

After lunch, Dong Ce and the others set up camp and walked in the direction of their own rock fort.

I'm going home, I'm finally going home.

On the eighth day of the 11th month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, from a distance, Dong Ce finally saw the tall blue-gray city wall of Panshi Fort again.

Towering as tall as a mountain, the walls towered over the flat ground, forming a solid line of defense. This tall rock fort, backed by Qingfeng Mountain, although Qingfeng Mountain is not particularly high, about more than 100 zhang up and down, but in this vast Datong Town north of the plain suddenly rises from the ground, it looks extraordinarily handsome, like a blue edge sword straight into the blue sky.