Chapter 570: The Land of Hidden Silver
The little child's eyes were clearly filled with fear, but he didn't know where the courage of a newborn calf was not afraid of a tiger, so he dared to look directly at Prince Yuan.
Prince Yuan met his clear eyes and said with a smile, "As long as you can find your father's place to hide silver, I will agree to your conditions."
"That...that word is determined."
"Haha, I still don't want to deceive a child."
Mao Xiaoqi looked at his aunt tremblingly, but saw that his aunt was filled with tears. He whispered, "Auntie, don't cry, the prince promised not to kill us."
"Let's go."
It was getting dark, and Prince Yuan didn't want to waste time, so he signaled Mao Xiaoqi to lead the way.
Mao Xiaoqi took a look at the rockery next to him, "It's... it's right there. Last year, during the Chinese New Year, I broke my father's favorite vase. I was afraid that he would hit me, so I hid it in the rockery. Then I saw my father coming out of the rockery. I... I was curious for a moment, so I crawled in from the place where my father came out, and saw a lot of money."
Some of the money that Li Ma and the Mao Manager embezzled were silver notes and some were cash banking. Because there was too much cash banking, Li Ma and the Mao Manager were afraid of being discovered, so they did not dare to go to the money house to deposit it, so they secretly bought the villa and hid it in the rockery of the villa.
On the contrary, there was no money hidden in the Mao family's house.
With so much money hidden here, Li's mother was afraid that someone would stolen, so she specially brought a few concubines to Manager Mao and moved in. She bought a few servants to serve them. With too many people in her family, Li's mother was relieved that she was not afraid that the money would be stolen.
In the land of Tibetan silver, only Li Ma and the Manager Mao and his son knew about it, even Mao Lao Lao Er didn’t know about it.
"Shen Feng, go in and take a look."
Prince Yuan looked at a handsome young man behind him. He was Shen Feng, the youngest son of General Manager Shen. After he was seven years old, he had been serving tea in the study room of the prince's front yard. When he was fifteen years old, Prince Yuan kept him by his side to do things. He was one of the most trusted confidants around Prince Yuan.
Shen Feng bowed and responded, then took a torch, bent over, and entered a small entrance in Mao Xiaoqi's mouth.
The entrance was about one meter six and sixty wide. Shen Feng had to squat halfway down to get in. He walked five or six meters in and then turned a corner, and then walked three meters away and saw his head.
After the end, there was no road ahead, but there was a protruding stone slab under his feet. Shen Feng uncovered the stone slab and exposed the entrance to a dark room below.
He jumped down in a hurry, but instead placed the torch under the entrance and shook it for a while. Seeing that the underside was dense and filled with small boxes, Shen Feng stepped back and left the rockery.
He reported, "Reported to the prince, there is a dark room in the rockery. The slave has opened it. I saw that there are many boxes below, which should be the money embezzled by the Mao family."
"Take a few down and move out all the boxes."
"Slaves obey the order."
Shen Feng picked a few guards with low martial arts skills and went to the dark room, leaving six guards with high martial arts skills to protect the prince.
By the time Prince Yuan transported all the boxes in the Mao family courtyard to Prince Yuan’s Mansion, it was already midnight. Because it was too late, Prince Yuan did not disturb his son and daughter-in-law's rest.
Chapter completed!