Yan Cigui Chapter 64

　　Taohe Zhai.

 Chen Gui unloaded the copper boxes in the backyard.

 The Duke of Fu had not yet arrived, so of course Chen Gui did not dare to leave, so he simply moved a handful of tuna and sat beside the box in a daze.

The sun is coming out.

Chen Gui looked at the sunlight falling down and said to himself that it was not as dazzling as the gold bricks.

　　When I saw the situation in the box in the flower hall, my eyes were almost blinded. I subconsciously wanted to close it, but I didn't dare to, for fear that it would be gone when I opened it again.

When Lin Xun came over, he also had an interview with him.

If it is confiscated in the end, no one should worry about this windfall, just do business well.

If everyone goes into his own pocket, Chen Gui's share will not be forgotten in the mansion.

Although the proportion of the contribution is small, it still accounts for the share, and the person who works hard to run the front and back must not have a good relationship and his benefits will be swallowed up inexplicably.

Chen Gui didn't take the initiative to mention it, because he knew the character of the nobles in the house, and he was determined not to miss him when the accounts were finally divided.

 But the Third Master said it first, and Chen Gui felt even hotter.

It is said that brothers settle accounts clearly, whether doing business or being brothers, doing this in the government is the most practical.

 There is no need to think about anything else, and you can naturally save your energy and brains to do the right thing.

Of course, as far as the income from these two boxes was concerned, he did not do anything wrong when he insisted on dragging the third master to do business in Lao Shi Lane.

While I was thinking about it, the backyard door creaked open.

Chen Gui looked over and saw that Xu Jian had arrived. He quickly stood up from his chair and bowed respectfully.

 Xu Jian saw Chen Gui at a glance and also saw the big copper box next to him.

“Two identical ones were dug out in the middle of the night,” Chen Gui and Xu Jian explained. “I will send them to the uncle's house first, and then bring them to you.”

 Xu Jian's eyes fell on the empty lock.

When Chen Gui saw this, he added: "There is no key, so we have to open the lock."

Once the lock is dismantled and the lock core is broken, of course it cannot be locked again.

 Xu Jian threw the broken lock aside and opened the lid.

The golden light came towards me.

 Xuansu beside him was stunned, but Duke Fuguo's expression did not change.

Chen Gui looked at it and nodded silently: The Duke of the country is indeed the same as the princess. Not only does he know that the treasure is buried in Lao Shi Lane, but he also knows the true identity of the treasure.

"The princess left a box?" After Xu Jian asked, thinking of Uncle Chengyi's eyes, he asked again, "Did you meet uncle when you were moving things?"

Chen Gui 1510 said what happened in the early morning: "Whether you send it to the official or keep it, the government will listen to your wishes."

Xu Jian was happy when he heard this.

"Send me to an official position? Is that the old lady's idea?" The more he spoke, the more amused he became. He raised his eyebrows and clicked his tongue, "The princess is willing to send you to an official position?"

The princess was afraid that she would not even take a gold brick, grind some gold shavings, and send it to Shuntian Mansion.

With this thought, Xu Jian bent down, took a piece from it and weighed it in his hand.

 It is very heavy and has six smooth sides. There are no marks of year or place of manufacture on the mold used for casting, so naturally it is impossible to judge the origin from this.

Just as he was about to put it back, Xu Jian suddenly thought of something and turned the gold brick over.

Facing the sunlight, he looked at one corner of the gold brick.

 As the angle changes, a mark half a knuckle long and as thin as a hair is exposed.

 After seeing clearly, the smile on Xu Jian's face suddenly disappeared.

He put down the gold brick in his hand, took another one, and looked at it in the light. He had seen almost the entire layer of gold bricks before he gave up.

Chen Gui was quite puzzled by Xu Jian's behavior, so she imitated him and looked at a few pieces.

"Are you looking at this fine mark?" he asked, "There is it on every piece, it should be on the mold?" Xu Jian did not answer, but asked another question: "Has the princess seen it?"

 Chen Guidao: "No."

"Then let her take a look." After Xu Jian finished speaking, he asked Xuansu to put away the gold bricks.

 According to the words, Chen Gui returned to Uncle Chengyi's house.

Lin Yunyan heard what he said and asked: "Is there a thin line?"

For the box at home, Xiao Duan asked Lin Xun to buy a new lock and move it to the warehouse. It would be too troublesome to open it for inspection at this time, and it would attract people's attention if it is not correct.

From this point of view, it is more convenient to go to Taohe Zhai.

Lin Yunyan left immediately, and a carriage stopped outside the shop.

Entering the shop, she asked the shopkeeper: "Is your master above or inside?"

 The shopkeeper hurriedly pointed in.

 Lin Yunyan nodded.

Going deeper into the shop, passing by the stairs, she glanced at the narrow and steep wooden stairs.

Climbing the stairs again, she would probably ask Xu Jian directly if she still wanted her legs.

 In the backyard, Xu Jian was a little surprised by Lin Yunyan's arrival.

 After thinking about it, I understand.

 “How?” he asked, “You can't see your baby?”

"Grandma put it away first," Lin Yunyan said. "There are many people in the house, so it is inconvenient to open the box once."

Xu Jian went into the house, opened the box and took out a gold brick.

Lin Yunyan took it with both hands and stood in the sun, shining back and forth against the light. When she saw the mark clearly, her expression became solemn.

 This trace is too familiar to her.

In the eighteenth year of Yongjia in the previous life, which was the early autumn of the second year after the death of the Empress Dowager, Xu Jian, as deputy envoy, supervised the seizure of An Yibo's mansion.

If you want to say how serious the An Yibo family committed a disaster, it really did not cause the disaster.

From Lin Yunyan's understanding, the root is the prince.

An Yibo had some opinions on the daily behavior of Crown Prince Li Shao.

Part of Li Shao's behavior cannot be said to be right or wrong, but it is just not dignified enough for the status of the crown prince.

Two years ago, the censors pointed out in Zhezi that the prince went his own way, and the emperor obviously had no intention of making him strict, so the censors gave up.

 After all, I like to drink and talk nonsense after drinking, that's all.

Someone was not sought after, and Royal Shi did not say. For example, he said that the Crown Prince could not raise his head at several times.

 In the end, he became the chicken that killed the chicken to scare the monkeys.

 The whole family is in jail.

While the court was arguing over An Yibo's "unexpected disaster", Xu Jian copied a batch of gold bricks from the uncle's house.

Originally, given An Yibo's family background, it was normal for some gold to be packed in boxes, but such fine marks were found on two of them.

 The angle and trend are very similar to the calligraphy of Li Mi, the fourth brother of the Holy Sage.

As the fourth son of Emperor Taixing, Li Mi was impatient and fiery. Unless it was a formal document, he never wrote "Mi" when writing his name in private, only "一".

In the twenty-eighth year of Taixing, the eldest prince born to Empress Shen died of illness. Emperor Taixing, who was on the sick bed, imprisoned the third son of the emperor and demoted the fourth son Li Mi to a commoner. After more than half a year, Emperor Taixing died, and finally the emperor The sixth son ascended the throne, and now he has ascended the throne.

Li Mi, who was driven out of the capital, has not been heard from for many years.

 The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty would not even think of him.

It was not until the traces on the two gold bricks were determined to be the character "Mi" written by Li Mi that the commoner prince returned to the public's attention.

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