“…”
Hearing Fu Bao's question, Zhao Rui was instantly dumbfounded.
The next moment, he licked his fingers and began to count how many more red envelopes he should prepare.
"Uncle Xiao Wu, there are still seven red envelopes left!"
"That's right, seven, just wait for me!"
As he spoke, Zhao Rui's figure had already floated out.
Fu Bao watched Zhao Rui leave and started shouting again.
"Uncle, happy New Year, may you get rich, and bring me the red envelope!"
When Fu Bao saw his brother-in-law appearing, he immediately stepped forward to pay homage to the new year.
After she saluted, she looked up and saw that Zhao Bingzhen was in poor spirits and his face was pale.
"Uncle, what's wrong with you? Are you okay?"
"It's okay, it's okay, I'm fine!"
"Come on, come on, take the lucky money!"
Zhao Bingzhen stepped forward with a smile, first stuffed a big red envelope into Fu Bao's hand, then picked her up and said with a smile, "Fu Bao, who sent you here?"
"Uncle, our family is all here!"
Fu Bao waved his hand grandly.
Then, Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xu led everyone from the old Xu family into Zhao Bingzhen's sight.
Including the wet nurse and Li Chun who came with them, the dark group of people really looked quite impressive.
"I've met my uncle, and I'd like to wish him a happy New Year!"
"Little uncle, happy New Year!"
Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xu first came forward to pay New Year greetings.
While Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xu were saluting, Fubao had already broken away from Zhao Bingzhen's arms and ran to her three brothers.
"No gifts, happy New Year to you too!"
Mr. Zhao Er stood there with a somewhat frozen expression.
After all these years, he finally received a New Year greeting from his eldest nephew.
At this moment, he seemed to have seen the scene more than twenty years ago. At that time, his eldest sister was still in the Xu Mansion, and she brought her eldest nephew, who was as small as a cub, back to her parents' home...
In the blink of an eye, more than twenty years have passed, and many things have changed.
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Soon, everyone saluted Zhao Bingzhen and paid New Year's greetings.
As for the lucky money and red envelopes, that’s what the little ones have. As for those who have already started a family, they are not eligible to receive lucky money red envelopes.
Although it was the first time for the three of them, Mr. Xu, to pay New Year greetings to Zhao Bingzheng, it was a pity that there was no red envelope.
However, there are banquets.
In the process of preparing for the banquet, Fu Bao proudly led the family to see the basement where she played the escape room game.
"There's something wrong with this bed!"
In the secret room, Mr. Xu and Boss Xu were both looking at the bed that occupied the territory of the secret room boss.
"Dad, brother, what's wrong?"
Xu Laoer didn't see anything wrong.
Although Fu Bao also felt that there was something wrong with the appearance of the bed here, she did not find out what was wrong with it.
"Yes, Dad, what's wrong?"
Fu Bao then spoke.
"In such a big basement, does it need such a big step-down bed?"
Mr. Xu frowned slightly, looked at Mr. Xu, and said, "Second son, come here and dismantle this bed!"
"okay!"
Although Xu Laoer had never done anything like dismantling a bed before, he liked this kind of labor-intensive work.
Not long after, this rather stylish bed was torn apart by Xu Laoer. And when the position of the Babu bed was moved, what appeared in everyone's eyes was an underground passage.
The dark cave entrance, I don’t know what’s going on underneath.
"Bring the torch!"
Zhao Bingzhen frowned instantly when he saw the dark hole.
He had come in to check before. Although he felt something was wrong with the bed, he did not want to dismantle it. But he didn't expect that there was something else going on under the bed.
Soon, Zhao Rui took a torch next to him and handed it into Zhao Bingzhen's hands.
"Get the rope!"
The torch was thrown down by Zhao Bingzhen. Seeing that the torch had dropped to a height of at least two feet, Zhao Bingzhen's face became even more ugly.
He lived in this house. If he hadn't dismantled the bed today and discovered the passage underneath, if someone got in from the underground passage one day, he would have been caught off guard.
After waiting for a long time, until the exhaust gas underneath had completely dissipated, Zhao Bingzheng gathered his men and descended along the rope into the underground passage below.
"Master Marquis, below, you'd better come down and take a look for yourself!"
The Zhao Mansion guard who went down first quickly shouted from below.
So, Zhao Bingzheng, Mr. Xu and others all descended along the rope into the passage below. He walked along the passage for a while and finally stopped.
This underground is not a passage, but a gold mine.
Of course, not much gold has been mined, and there may even be a gold mine that has not been mined at all.
"Get out first!"
Holding the torch and looking around at the gold mine here, Zhao Bingzhen turned around decisively.
Gold mine!
Whether it is gold or silver mines, they have always been in the hands of the imperial court. If anyone dares to mine these two ores in private, once the court knows about it, it will be a grave crime to exterminate the nine clans.
The group of people quickly came up from the underground, exited the secret room, and sealed the secret room again.
Originally I just came to pay New Year greetings, but now, I have found a gold mine.
How to dispose of this gold mine has become a big problem.
"Uncle, what do you plan to do with this gold mine?"
Mr. Xu looked at his uncle with a serious expression.
"What do you think I should do about it?"
Zhao Bingzhen did not give a direct answer, but looked at Mr. Xu and asked a question.
Mr. Xu sighed and said, "I don't know."
Gold mine!
There was one over there in Lingshui Village, but he buried it again and built a waterway that connected it to the pond in his backyard.
And the people who knew about the existence of that gold mine were not only him, but also King Yan Li Zhen.
"What would you think if I said I wanted to swallow this gold mine?"
Zhao Bingzhen looked at Mr. Xu with burning eyes, and his seemingly inquiring words actually expressed what he was thinking.
In the past, he might not have taken this gold mine seriously. But the way Mr. Xu played against the Northern Barbarians at Huangfengkou last time made Zhao Bingzhen change his mentality.
Money is indeed very powerful.
He wants revenge!
To overthrow this sanctimonious court.
For this reason, he linked up with the Northern Barbarians.
But now, he discovered that there was no need for the Northern Barbarians. As long as he had enough money, he could build an invincible army.
The Zhao family is indeed extremely wealthy.
But most of the Zhao family's money is under surveillance. There are many people who are interested in the Zhao family in the capital. If not, he wouldn't have held back for twenty years looking for a chance to take revenge.
"I have no opinion!"
Mr. Xu only hesitated for a moment before answering.
In fact, if Zhao Bingzhen wanted to inform the court of the existence of the gold mine, he would never agree. Because Mr. Xu no longer has a good impression of the current imperial court. (End of chapter)