Tao Ran felt that the Taoist priest might hide the money on his body.
Is it true? She really guessed it right.
The Taoist priest was in a precarious situation and had to be prepared to run away at any time. Naturally, it was impossible for the banknotes to be left in the Taoist temple.
Tao Ran found a lot of banknotes through this search.
Unlike her who hid the money in the soles of her shoes, this Taoist priest hid the banknotes in several places on his body. He had secret pockets sewn into all his clothes and pants. After counting, he found that there were only five hundred taels.
Tao Ran rummaged through the two apprentices again and found another three hundred taels.
Only eight hundred taels of silver?
impossible!
That's not all this stinky Taoist priest deceived from the Qian family.
Still have to find it.
Tao Ran picked up the wooden hairpin that the Taoist priest had dropped on the ground, and found that it was hollow inside, and a banknote was actually rolled into it.
Inspired, she picked up the whisk that was broken into two pieces.
It turned out that the whisk head and handle were movable and could be unscrewed, and there were also banknotes inside.
What a cunning rabbit.
However, after adding them all up, the total is only one thousand four hundred taels.
Obviously, it is too little and does not suit the Taoist priest's net worth.
Well, now is not the time to check this.
It seems that in order to keep the water flowing, for the sake of the overall situation, and to better rob the rich and give to the poor, the three masters and disciples can only be taken away...
Inside the house, Xue Jin and his men had also captured the four members of the Li family.
During this period, four people called for help, but without exception, they were punched hard as soon as they opened their mouths. Either their jaws were dislocated, their teeth were knocked out, or their mouths were gagged...
"Robbery! Take out the banknotes!" Xue Jin followed Tao Ran's instructions and hung the knife on Li Dashan's neck. "Take out all the banknotes the Qian family gave you, or I will chop your head off with a knife!"
Li Dashan beat the ground and slurred his words: "You... people of the Qian family... the whole Qian family will not die well..."
In the evening, he had just received money from the Qian family, and he was robbed at this moment. Who else were these people if they were not sent by the Qian family?
Hate it! It was already too late for the Qian family to cash out the silver notes from the bank. At that time, Li Dashan had no time to deposit the money. He was also afraid that depositing the money in the local bank would cause trouble for others to know how much money he had obtained from the Qian family, so he thought of simply enduring it.
One night, I will take my son to the provincial capital tomorrow to deposit the money in a bigger bank with higher interest rates...
He had already contacted his car and was preparing to set off at dawn. He never expected that he would be robbed when it would be dawn in two hours.
With so many masked people coming at once, who else besides the Qian family? Li Dashan looked at the people who came. Although they were all ordinary civilians, they were all new clothes. The Qian family was the only one with such a pomp!
That damn old woman is really vicious! The Qian family are nothing! She killed Jin Gui, deceived herself, and then took her money away again... I can't live this day!
He cursed so hard that no one cared.
Xue Jin pushed the sword, and a bloodstain appeared on Li Dashan's neck, causing both Zhang and the Li family's sons to scream.
The four were separated and interrogated about the movement of the money.
Zhang and the two brothers said in unison that the money was hidden by Li Dashan. They had no idea where it was.
Li Dashan said bluntly: "If you don't have money, you need a life!" For him, it doesn't matter whether you have money or not! "If you dare to kill me, then the whole village and the whole city will know that it's you.
The Qian family did it! If you don’t want to get involved in a lawsuit, get out of here!"
Li Dashan actually just lay there upright, closed his eyes and frowned, as if he was ready to die, and let Xue Jin and the others deal with him.
Xue Jin had never encountered this kind of thing before, so he looked directly at Tao Ran outside the window for instructions.
Tao Ran made a gesture, and Xue Jin knocked the person unconscious.
Afterwards, several other people got the order and started acting together.
All four members of the Li family fell asleep.
Tao Ran then walked into this familiar home in her memory. She didn't expect these people to honestly tell them where the money was hidden. She expected them to say that she might as well find it herself.
Tsk, after all, I got a lot of money from selling Jin Gui, and this house is much brighter. Two rooms are newly built.
Tao Ran took a look, but didn't stay much and went straight to the old house.
If Li Dashan wants to hide something, he will most likely hide it in a familiar place, and the old house is the most likely place. Li Dashan will not trust Zhang and others, so the banknote must be hidden deep. Where could it be?
Tao Ran followed Jin Gui's memory and started searching.
Some broken drawer bottom, some cracked wall covering, something in the gap between the bed boards...
Tao Ranzhen found a few pieces of silver.
But it adds up to less than ten liang.
In my memory, Li Dashan was a gambler and a drinker, and often stole Jin Gui's copper plates to make handmade ones. At that time, Jin Gui discovered twice that he seemed to have crawled to hide the copper plates under the bed?
I asked the brothers to lift up the bed board, and there was actually a small jar in the deepest corner of the bed, with a few pieces of silver in it.
Where is the large sum of silver?
Tao Ran quickly recalled that Jin Gui had done all the housework in this house. She remembered that several bricks under the bed board in this house were not very good, and Li Dashan refused to repair them?
Five minutes later, it was found.
The brick behind the foot of the bed is movable. When the blade of a knife is used to pry it, the brick rises, and there are one thousand five hundred taels of silver notes inside.
This time, Tao Ran was also speechless.
Are there actually so many?
She previously induced Li Dashan to cause trouble, and the estimated figure she gave him was only three to five hundred taels. He was so capable, how could he get so much money from the Qian family?...
It turned out that Li Dashan continued to exert his efforts after entering the Yamen.
Zhang was very powerful and organized all the villagers to gather in the government office to wait for the news. As a result, the pressure was all on the government office and the Qian family.
The Yamen didn't want to offend the Qian family and didn't want to take on the case, so they suggested that the Qian family take over.
Old Mrs. Qian is also afraid that if this matter is investigated and tried, the scandal in the family will not be able to be dealt with. It will be even more embarrassing if this is spread. In addition, the Jingui incident will affect her eldest son and the reputation of the Qian family.
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So she also wanted to put things to rest.
The magistrate sat down with us.
Li Dashan lion asked for two thousand taels.
The old lady refused, but Li Dashan ran out and rushed directly to the court, beating the drum and asking when the court would be held.
Mrs. Qian panicked and could only talk to Li Dashan again.
Both sides come and go.
The final figure was set at one thousand taels. The two parties would finalize the documents, and Li Dashan immediately dropped the lawsuit and promised not to pursue the case again.
But after the paperwork was done, Li Dashan also expressed that he wanted the Qian family to bear Jin Gui's funeral expenses, saying that Jin Gui died because of them and the funeral should not be shabby.
The Qian family gritted their teeth and accepted another hundred taels.
Li Dashan still refused to sign, so he shook his legs and started asking for Jin Gui's gold items: "When I saw her that day, she had bracelets on her hands and gold on her ears. Those were given to Jin Gui by your Qian family.
Since you want to send her back to the Li family, those things must come back as well."
The scoundrel Li Dashan then began to demand medical expenses from him and his family, saying that all four members of his family were injured and the money must not be less.
The magistrate told him to stop, but he was shameless and said that it was not easy for the villagers to support him. They didn't even eat anything and didn't even plant any land along the way. The Qian family still had to compensate him and the whole village for the whole day's work.
Food money, travel expenses and hard work expenses. There are more than 100 people, but they still get two taels of silver per person.
In this way, seven thousand seven hundred and eighty eight were added up, and in the end the Qian family had to agree to give one thousand five hundred taels to settle the matter.
