So everyone rushed towards the tree trunk, stretched out their hands to touch it, and Duan Cishi rolled up his sleeves. He rubbed all the bark he could see, but he didn't find any piece of bark that was fake.
Man Bao picked it up carefully, but couldn't find it after searching for a long time.
Duan Cishi couldn't help doubting again, "It's really in the tree?"
It's not that Zhou Man made a mistake in judgment this time, just happened to be away, right
Just when Man Bao couldn't help asking Ke Ke, Bai Shan suddenly picked something, and everyone heard a soft click.
This sound is very unusual, it is not the sound of breaking off the bark, but more like... the sound of a mechanism.
Everyone raised their heads to look at Bai Shan.
Under their watchful eyes, Bai Shan pulled out the bark that had just made a sound like a buckle, and then, a huge piece of bark, from top to bottom, was irregular, almost as big as Man Bao's body. was lifted off.
Everyone's eyes widened.
Man Bao and Bai Erlang reacted the fastest, rushed over and wanted to go into the hole to check, but Bai Shan held down one head with one hand before putting his head in, and divided it to the two sides forcefully, he shouted: "I'm coming! "
The hole he found!
Inspector Duan also pushed forward, and said very positively: "I'll come, I'll come, there may be danger in this tree, I'm an adult, you are still young, so I'll come..."
In the end, he didn't come, the soldiers and guards quickly stepped forward to pull them away, and then the smallest one wanted to drill in, but he only went in with one shoulder and then backed out, his eyes brightened: "My lord , it's full of money."
Lots, so many that he could see them without going inside them all.
So he began to throw money out, ingots of silver, and occasionally gold bars, ingots and pieces of gold mixed with it...
Man Bao and the others sat on the ground outside and counted the money. Some soldiers brought a few large empty boxes from nowhere, and the money they counted could be put directly into the boxes.
Inspector Duan counted the gold ingots into the box and sighed, "This is the stolen goods."
What did they find when they went up the mountain yesterday
The thin soldier was finally able to retract into the tree belly, and after taking out some gold and silver, he began to hand out things like pearls and gems. These things were all packed in boxes, and they were not piled up randomly, which made Duan Shi slightly relieved. With a sigh of relief, even after a long time, the luster of these gems and pearls is not bad.
Should be able to sell for a good price.
After the tree hole was hollowed out, Governor Duan couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, stood up and twisted his aching waist, "How is the other people's search going?"
"My lord, they smashed down the walls, tore down the beds, and found a lot of hidden gold and silver." Anyway, the harvest is not small.
Duan Cishi was very satisfied.
Bai Shan was not very satisfied, he looked at Man Bao, hesitantly said: "The horse thief who has robbed for so many years only has this little money?"
Man Bao said affirmatively: "There must be more than that, let's look for it again."
Upon hearing this, Governor Duan immediately nodded and said: "Yes, look for it again, look for it more."
So everyone went to the next door to rummage again, but what they found were only sporadic things, which were not group property at first glance, but they didn't expect that the bandit leader would also hide personal property, and he hid it so secretly.
Man Bao had satiated his addiction to treasure hunting, so he said to Duan Cishi: "I suspect that the only treasure hidden in the cottage is the one in the tree hole, and the rest should be outside the cottage."
"Where will that be?"
Man Bao thought for a while and said: "There will definitely be traces, but it's not heavy. The belongings placed outside may only be delivered once in a long time."
Bai Shan guessed: "Maybe there are more than one place, but definitely not many, because if they are placed too loosely, it will easily arouse the suspicion of others, don't think they are in the same group, ordinary horse thieves really don't know about these property. "
Duan Inspector nodded repeatedly, "Yes, we have interrogated many people, the leaders are really tough-mouthed, but ordinary horse thieves don't know if they want to confess."
Bai Shan: "So I guess there should be between two and three hiding places outside."
Man Bao raised his head to look at Bai Shan, his eyes were filled with amazement, Bai Shan happened to see it, and after a pause, he knew that he probably guessed right.
Duan Cishi also felt that what Bai Shan said was very reasonable, so everyone took people out to look for it.
But when he walked out of the cottage, there were trees everywhere, Duan Cishi couldn't help but ask, "Where can I find it?"
Bai Shan thought for a while and said: "This place won't be very hidden, at least he can go there openly and without arousing suspicion when he wants to check it out, but there aren't many people going there on weekdays, so he won't be easily discovered .”
Duan Cishi: "Where is that place?"
Man Bao said: "The latrine, or a place to carry water?"
Governor Duan really didn't understand how these two places were connected.
Bai Erlang also thought it was these two places, "There is also a place to see the scenery."
Bai Shan: "It's better to say it's a place where you can look out."
Duan Cishi's eyes flashed, he turned around and said, "I know there is one place."
Saying this will lead them in the opposite direction.
Man Bao hesitated for a moment, but he still didn't look back at the place Ke Ke said, and followed Duan Ci Shi to find it.
As a result, the further they walked, the closer they were to the other place Koko had mentioned.
Man Bao raised his eyebrows, but Ke Ke said, "Isn't it really a latrine or a place to carry water?"
Keke: "... this place is not."
A few people soon arrived at a rock, standing there looking forward and looking down, they could see most of the official road.
Duan Cishi said: "The caravan entering this official road cannot escape their eyes because of this."
Governor Duan waved his hand, "Search!"
So the soldiers rushed to the surroundings of the stone platform like wolves and tigers, rummaging around.
Man Bao stood on the stone platform and looked down, Ke Ke said: "No, turn to the right..."
Man Bao moved his body a little.
Keke: "Stop, it's 28 meters directly in front of you."
Man Bao made a rough estimate and looked down. There was a dense tree lying tightly on the rocky mountain. Looking down from here, he could only see the green leaves, and occasionally he could see the space under the trees. .
The soldiers turned everything that could be turned over, and they dug three feet, but they still didn't find anything.
Everyone couldn't help but look at the three teenagers together.
Man Bao pointed down and said: "Someone needs to be guarded here. Even if there are few people, it is not convenient to take and place things, so I suspect that things should be hidden below, where they can see them, so that they can use the excuse of patrolling to look down at the hiding place." As long as you put your mind to it, you can avoid the sight of the guards above.”
Upon hearing this, Bai Shan immediately followed her fingers to look down, and immediately said: "The sight line is the best there, let's go down and look for it."
Inspector Duan felt that they were right. He glanced back at his soldiers and got up to go down with them.