Chapter 80: The Wall Has Ears
The river god worship ceremony is coming to an end.
While most people were still sitting quietly by the water, closing their eyes to rest, and praying devoutly, Lu Chengfeng and the three of them quietly left the scene, and then walked along a path beside the pier to continue their journey.
Tonight’s Caobang adventure tour.
After a short while, after walking around a quiet white wall and black tiles, I heard a cold arrow-like sneer coming from behind a hollow flower wall:
"Huh! We've always been like this. If you don't want to do it anymore, just take the money and leave as soon as possible! I'll give you more wages today, but you have to learn to shut up after taking the money, otherwise don't blame me for not remembering the old relationship."
These words are very strange! Why is Caobang so anxious to silence others?
The three of them were all curious and tacitly lay down at the edge of the hollow window of the flower wall, observing silently and secretly.
Kneeling on the ground was a tall, thick-looking man with a beard, wearing the most common and common short-sleeved T-shirt in the Caobang. He lowered his head and couldn't see clearly his facial expressions, but his voice, which he tried hard to lower, seemed to be suppressing his anger, and he said:
"I can be regarded as an old helmsman who has been running water transport for ten years. Why did I feel that the draft of this cargo was wrong from the first day I boarded the ship this time? When I entered the nine and eighteen bends of the Jiuqu River, OK
The water was so shallow that the entire fleet almost ran aground in that shallow bay! Tell me, what on earth is your chief helmsman doing?"
Seeing that the threat just now was ineffective, the man who was standing softened his tone, but still said with a smile that was neither salty nor bland:
"You are a small fleet captain, and you are not even a sub-rudder. I advise you not to ask so many questions. Knowing too much is not good for you. Just do it if the chief helmsman asks you to do it.
?I won’t miss your monthly salary! Let’s do this, you go to the accounting office with me now, I will pay you twice the salary, and we will pretend that no one knows about this.”
This sounds like an altercation caused by illegal overloading of waterways?
While Lu Chengfeng was pondering, he heard the word "counting room" from that person's mouth. It was like rain falling from the sky!
He signaled to Wu Jingmo and Tian Zifang, and the three of them followed them secretly.
Soon, we arrived at a small courtyard house.
The courtyard house is still ordinary with white walls and black tiles, nested in a large number of contiguous courtyards of various sizes, very inconspicuous and not special.
Fortunately, they happened to overhear this conversation today, otherwise they would have to cross the river by feeling for the stones. When would they find it?
Today's trip to Caobang seemed to go quite smoothly! First, they met Tian Zifang at Jiuxianju, and then met these two people who secretly led the way for them without knowing what was going on.
It is true that "there is no way out despite the mountains and rivers, and there is another village with bright flowers and dark flowers"!
The three of them hid outside the accounting room, broke the window paper, and crept beside the window, looking around.
I saw several rows of wooden shelves lined up in the accounting room, and the account books of various colors were piled neatly on the wooden shelves.
Wow, this is a library! Lu Chengfeng exclaimed in his heart.
The man who was standing just now did not touch the account book on the shelf at all. Instead, he took out a large bunch of keys in his arms. After searching for a long time, he took out a long key from the large bunch and put it in his hand.
In a keyhole at the foot.
Huh? Is there a secret room again? Could it be that there is a treasure pavilion in this accounting room?
But as he turned slightly, the mechanism under his feet was opened, and a small cabinet one foot square was lifted up from under the ground he had just stepped on.
The man took out a small key and inserted it into the keyhole of the small cabinet. With just a flick, the cabinet door opened, revealing a cabinet full of gold and silver ingots!
Ah! So many treasures! Come to my arms quickly! When Lu Chengfeng saw the yellow and white things in the cabinet, his eyes shone with excitement.
Oh my gosh, I, Lu Chengfeng, am going to get rich again today! Look at the big bunch of keys in his hand, how many small cabinets like this there must be! The small cabinets are full of wealth!
I am indeed an expert at treasure hunting, a super boy with my own treasure hunting plug-in!
Lu Chengfeng was thinking happily, but was suddenly interrupted by the sneer:
"Take these two pieces of silver, so that you can have the confidence to make a living somewhere else in the future! You shouldn't know what happened today, and you shouldn't mention it to me outside! If I weren't yearning for old friendships, seeing how we are
For the sake of my fellow countrymen, I am willing to pretend to be deaf and mute and leave you a way to survive. Otherwise, your life will be over!"
The thick and rough voice of the bearded man gradually trembled as he said:
"Mr. Fan, I would like to express my gratitude to you for thinking of the friendship between my fellow countrymen. However, water transportation is a huge responsibility for our army and people in Dajing."
rations, why are you doing this? Why!"
After saying that, he waved his iron fist and knocked the accountant to the ground.
In the beginning, human nature is inherently evil, and it is human nature to be greedy for money and lust. Could it be that he also fell in love with the rich wealth in that treasure box?
Lu Chengfeng was so anxious that his eyes were almost stuck in the window.
However, I saw that the man did not touch the gold and silver, but turned to the rows of large shelves behind him filled with account books, and quickly flipped through each one.
"Brother, does he need our help? We are the brothers of Dayu Branch!"
Lu Chengfeng opened the door majestically and asked with a high head and chest held high.
"Do you know what I'm looking for? Could it be that we are traveling together?"
The tall man with the beard asked them with a confused look on his face.
"Yes, you want the load record of the fleet you brought today!"
Lu Chengfeng touched his right eyebrow and said proudly but seriously.
"It seems that we are really like-minded! Come! Come here quickly! Let's look for it together! The more people we have, the faster we can find it!" The man waved to them with great joy.
Lu Chengfeng, Wu Jingmo and Tian Zifang blatantly began to look through the account books.
A stick of incense passed quickly.
"How are you doing? Have you found it?" The man asked them anxiously, and then glanced at the unconscious accountant on the ground, and said: "We have to hurry up, because we are afraid that he will wake up again soon!"
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The three of them speeded up their search and browsing. They were even more anxious than this bearded man, because they had to use public money for personal gain to find the clues they wanted about the black market trading of horse grass.
"Found it! On the 20th of the twelfth lunar month, the day before the incident, Jiangfu on Nanshi Street sold a Nanli specialty, the precious Chinese herbal horsegrass, for six pounds and eight cents."
Lu Chengfeng was so happy that he blurted out, completely forgetting that they were pretending to help the man.
"What are you looking for? No, what did you say about the crime just now?" The bearded man had become suspicious of the three of them. He picked up two fists and slowly approached them.
Chapter completed!