The four people carried the box out. They never thought that the boxes were stacked on top of each other. Everyone used the pit as a base to expand the area and dig around.
The big iron boxes were carried out one after another. In the end, they were piled up everywhere on the mountain road. There was almost no room for them to stay, but the digging was not finished.
Qiu Baohua suggested to Yin Guangbo: "Master Yin, I think we won't be able to finish digging in a while. Let's go back first and bring more people over tomorrow to transport some and continue digging."
Yin Guangbo looked hesitant: "But wouldn't it be unsafe to put these boxes here?"
The rest of the people laughed out loud after hearing what he said.
Qiu Baohua came over and put his arms around his shoulders, leading him back and saying, "We are all on this mountain. Besides, this box is covered in mud and rusty. Anyone who wants such a thing would be embarrassed to carry it." It’s a hassle.”
Under their persuasion, Yin Guangbo could only return to his residence on the top of the mountain.
It wasn't until several years later that Qiu Baohua knew what was in those inconspicuous boxes he dug out of the mountain...
When he learned about the items inside, he once asked Xiao Zimu, who had already ascended the throne: "Your Majesty, are you not afraid that your subordinates opened the box back then and had selfish motives?"
Xiao Zimu's eyes were clear, and he looked at him for a moment and asked: "Can you do it?"
Qiu Baohua lowered his eyes in silence. He felt that he didn't know how to do it, but he couldn't say it out loud with confidence in front of Xiao Zimu.
After all, those are the countless gold, silver and jewels of a wealthy country. Let alone a few lifetimes, dozens of lifetimes are enough to bring disaster.
Even if he can guarantee himself, how can he guarantee the group of brothers who follow him.
Therefore, many years later, Qiu Baohua was very lucky. At that time, they did not know what was in the box, and they did not have to face the choice between greed and human nature.
The next day Qiu Baohua took a hundred people with him, and Yin Guangbo asked Le Lai to go down the mountain and take Qiu Zhiting up the mountain to set up a hand-carrying box.
He never thought that the number of boxes exceeded Yin Guangbo's expectation, so in the end he went to find Pu Youren himself.
After that day, no one saw a carriage in ancient Anhui for a long time, and all of them were borrowed by Yin Guangbo.
Those who were originally hesitant about whether to stay in the mountains or return to Beijing with Yin Guangbo saw this huge convoy. Although Qiu Zhiting had brought a lot of people over, it was obviously not enough.
So, under the words of Yin Guangbo and Xiao Zhi with reason, the group of people on the mountain followed Qiu Zhiting on the road of escort...
On the way back to Beijing, Bingwen, under Xia Chu's follow-up instructions, arranged for the manpower of Wentian Pavilion in the cities along the way. Every time he passed a city, he would deliver two carriages to Yin Guangbo and transfer the gold, silver and jewelry inside to the city. He converted it into a banknote, put it in a letter and sent it back to the capital, and handed it to Xu Wenlan to fill in the treasury first.
As for the banknotes after filling the national treasury, they naturally went into the pockets of the Hou Mansion and Bingwen.
But even so, when the convoy arrived in Chang'an, it was still huge. The array of carriages was at least three times more than what had been stolen from Zheng Zhongguang's family.
The money problem was solved in Beijing, but Xia Chu's westbound journey was stuck in Mianxi City for many days.
The city in the front was recovered very easily in Xia Chu. Although the city in the back took some effort, it only took five or seven days at most.
After arriving in Mianxi, the Gu family army united as one and prepared to take down Jicheng in one fell swoop. However, they found the unconscious Gu Xingyun hanging from the tower.
Not only that, Yuefengwan also put all the previous people here, and even specially transferred troops from the Western Region.
On the one hand, Gu Jiajun was worried about Gu Xingyun's life, and on the other hand, he also cared about the safety of the people.
Therefore, even after dozens of days of stalemate, they could not get closer, let alone break into the city.
Xia Chu didn't know how to capture cities and territories, and he never interfered with Gu Weiyi's command in terms of marching and fighting.
But this time, the Gu family army was repeatedly prohibited from forming a surprise attack.
Gu Weiyi understood the importance and did not question his words, but those major generals who had been following Gu Xingyun never saw him being so humiliated and secretly organized a night raid.
The next day, a thousand people led by the three Gu family major generals never returned.
But outside the city gate there was just a pool of blood as thick as ink.
Only then did the rest of the people realize that Xia Chu was not an alarmist. This time, Yue Feng Puan not only placed a poison barrier at the city gate, but also applied poison to all places where Qing Gong could be used, and he changed the poison at each place. The ones that didn't contain the same poison were all novel poisons, and even the rope that tied Gu Xingyun was oozing with emerald green juice.
Xia Chu sneered in his heart, this was a gift specially prepared for him as he was sure that he would use Qing Kung to fly forward to save him.
Although Gu Weiyi knew that he couldn't attack the city easily, he saw that it was not an option to continue to waste it like this.
In the first seven days of the summer, I worked day and night on making medicinal materials. In the following three days, I didn't even prepare any medicinal materials. I spent the whole day sitting on the tower looking at the sky.
On the tenth day, Gu Weiyi couldn't help but went up to Mianxi's tower to look for him.
"Yidao, tell me, is there anything you can do?" Every time Gu Weiyi was in a hurry, he would blurt out the name Yi Dao, and when he was joking around, he would call him Little Marquis.
"Yes." Under the layers of tangled hair that was blown by the wind, Xia Chu's eyes were bright and firm.
Gu Weiyi suddenly felt that a huge boulder that had been pressing on his chest for the past few days had been removed. He relaxed and walked to his side and asked: "What can we do? What arrangements should we make?"
When Diandian saw Gu Weiyi approaching, he jumped from the nearby tower into Xia Chu's arms, grinning at Gu Weiyi and raising his red hair.
Xia Chu lowered his head and tapped Dot's eyebrows. It instantly changed its position and formed a small red ball in Xia Chu's arms.
"Wait." Half of Xia Chu's face was hidden in the evening glow, looking extremely calm, while the other half was submerged in darkness, making it difficult for Gu Weiyi to see clearly.
Gu Weiyi's face was startled by what he said with such a concise word, and then his tone became urgent again: "Wait? You've been waiting for ten days and you're still waiting? What on earth are you waiting for?"
Diandian, who was originally calm in Xia Chu's arms, heard his unkind tone, and her ears that had been lying on the sides stood up again, and the beard on both sides trembled slightly because of the bared teeth.
Seeing that Xia Chu was silent, Gu Weiyi said fiercely to Diandian: "Show your teeth again and I will stew you in a pot."
Xia Chu grabbed Diandian who was about to run out and glanced at him lightly: "It understands, be careful to pee on your face while you are asleep."
Gu Weiyi was just about to say that it didn't understand, when he saw Xia Chu looking at the sky in the distance and saying faintly: "The sky is going to change..."
(End of chapter)