The mountains are densely wooded, and many places seem to have never been visited by humans, so it is difficult to search.
Governor Duan also followed them into the mountain to search, and once they entered the mountain, they were divided into several teams and dispersed, and their team went directly to the thief's den—oh, the cottage.
The village is behind a large boulder, and most of the mountains on the grassland are not high. This one is naturally not very steep, but with this mountain wall, the village is directly isolated inside, so it is rare to find such a mountain village that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Duan Cishi said: "Because of this barrier, they are always invincible."
He suppressed bandits four times, only twice drove people out of this grassland and entered this cottage, and one of them was planned for half a year, using caravans as bait to lure most of the horse thieves out of the mountain, and then suppressed Kill them, and then send people forward to lure the enemy, and then they are scattered and driven out.
But this time it was because they attacked the mountain stronghold last time, and they had searched the mountain, and had a general understanding of the situation in the mountain, so they took advantage of the daylight and the sleepy people in the mountain stronghold went around to take the guard from another path. They only attacked after killing people.
Governor Duan led them in, Bai Shan and the others saw the messy house inside, and they couldn't help feeling disgusted, "There are so many of them, why don't they build the house more neatly?"
Duan Governor: "...they are thieves, this is a den of thieves, not a city."
Man Bao looked left and right, and asked, "Didn't they hide the treasure here in such a big place?"
Duan Inspector said: "We have searched carefully, and it is not the first time. Although there are quite a lot of property found, it is very different from what we expected."
It's not that there is no property in the den of thieves, there are still some gold, silver, jewelry, cloth and tea, but no one believes that this is all the property of the horse thieves, it's a lie.
If they are so poor, why do they want to be horse thieves
Is it exciting to tie your head on your trouser belt
Man Bao and the others entered the den of thieves for the first time, and they were very curious.
Adhering to the principle of increasing knowledge, several people visited in detail, oh no, they searched the den of thieves, Keke beeped twice, "Host, about 868 steps in front of the left, right in front There are things hidden in the place of about 219 steps, and the place of about 560 steps in the right rear."
This is a unit of measurement that Manbao is very familiar with. Manbao responded in his heart, and did not take people directly, but followed everyone to search it out with great interest.
The location Keke reported to her must be a place where a lot of things are hidden, but the thieves must also have private wealth, Man Bao thinks they should also have a little something hidden.
She is very interested in scavenger hunts.
Keke didn't urge her either, and saw her kick a door open, and then swaggered in.
Startled by the sound of the door hitting the wall, Bai Erlang complained, "Can't you be gentle?"
"That's how you have momentum. Isn't it like this when the officers and soldiers search in the book?" Man Bao said: "It's very fierce, just break into the door, and then you can find all kinds of treasures."
She had a particularly good reason, "Anyway, these houses will not be inhabited in the future, so they are considered abandoned, why not kick them out?"
The officer (Duan Cishi) army (soldiers) on the side kept silent, did they treat them as pawns
Bai Shan tilted his head to think, turned his head and said to Duan Cishi: "Why don't you push these houses down, so as to prevent people from going up the hills and falling grass in the future."
Governor Duan: "... demolition of the house also requires manpower and material resources."
Bai Shan shook the unsafe door, looked up at these dusty houses, and didn't quite understand, what manpower and material resources would be needed to demolish such a house
Man Bao said excitedly: "Then we will dismantle it for you?"
Governor Duan stretched out his hand, "Physician Zhou is free to do so."
He couldn't understand it, he was exhausted all day, the military doctor almost couldn't get out of bed today, Zhou Liru also complained that his feet hurt, but the busiest person woke up alive after sleeping.
Man Bao turned around the room, saying that it was casual, she would not be particularly careful when searching for things.
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang also let go of their hands and feet, and the three kept throwing things out. Duan Cishi saw the wooden shelves and various sundries falling in front of him, and was speechless for a while.
He couldn't help saying: "Master Zhou, our people have searched these houses..."
He thought they were looking for clues to the treasure, not searching the houses of the horse thieves again.
Man Bao turned a deaf ear and said perfunctorily, "Let's look for it again."
While talking, she had already dismantled half of the bed, then climbed in to have a look, and said happily after a while: "There is really a hole in it."
When Bai Shan and Bai Erlang heard this, they immediately dropped the things in their hands and ran up, "Take some pottery quickly, and then see if there is anything unusual under the mud, maybe someone will dig a hole and spread it with wooden boards and then put dirt on it to hide things. "
Man Bao tapped and tapped inside, and then said: "The underground is fine."
After a while, she let out a "wow", and then Duan Cishi saw her legs move out quickly, and she crawled out after a while, she sat on the ground without getting up, and stretched her hands forward, Duan Cishi almost Blind.
He widened his eyes, "This is..."
"Wow—" Bai Shan and Bai Erlang were more excited than him, and quickly asked: "There are so many gems, are there any more?"
Man Bao shook his head, "No more, these are wrapped in oiled paper, there are seven in total."
Man Bao picked out the best looking ones and stuffed them into his purse. When he stuffed half of them, he remembered something, and immediately gave one to Bai Shan, Bai Erlang and Duan Cishi, and said with a smile: "Whoever sees has a share, whoever sees has a share..."
Duan Cishi: ...
He accepted it silently, and then gave the soldiers a wink.
The guards left, and after a while, the soldiers who searched perfunctorily rushed into each room like wolves and tigers and began to turn over the wall behind the bed.
Bai Shan and Bai Erlang got dirty, and immediately dragged Man Bao to another room. Seeing that there were people all the way, the three of them went to the innermost room.
The courtyard in the middle is owned by the bandit leader and his henchmen, even the house is bigger and neater than other houses.
Duan Inspector said: "They took a few women they took away..."
Man Bao waved his hand and said, "Go, search!"
So before Duan Cishi could finish his sentence, the three of them rushed in, one started to drill under the bed, one started to look for things in the bathroom, and the other started to rummage through boxes and cabinets.
It was a real rummaging, the boxes and the contents of the cabinets were turned out, even a piece of clothing was taken away as stolen goods, so now the cabinets and boxes are empty.
Bai Shan directly turned the box over, pushed the cabinet down, then tapped and pried open a corner of the cabinet under the watchful eyes of Duan Inspector, and then took out two thick pieces of gold.
Bai Shan weighed it, but he was not sure about the weight, so he gave it to Daji.
Daji weighed it up and said, "About four taels."
Duan Jieshi's eyes are straightened, four taels of gold is forty taels of silver, copper coins...