Everyone returned to the Juyi Hall. Zuo Aoran apologized to everyone and sat in the middle. The others sat on both sides. There were no chairs in this era. Zuo Aoran was not used to kneeling in the Han Dynasty, so he ordered people to sit on the nearby mountain.
Some thick trees were cut down and cut into sections to serve as stools.
"After an inspection, we found five boxes each of gold and silver utensils, five boxes of ivory chopsticks, and the rest were all kinds of jade articles, a total of thirty boxes." Lu Kuang said.
"After checking, there are fifty-three boxes of gold ingots, fifty-seven boxes of gold bars, sixty-two boxes of gold bricks, and one hundred and twenty-three boxes of silver." Lu Xiang said.
"There are also five boxes of pearls, seven boxes of diamonds, five boxes of emeralds, six boxes of agates, nine boxes of luminous pearls, five boxes of corals, eight boxes of cat's eyes, five boxes of emeralds, and thirty-one boxes of other rare treasures." Lu.
Open road.
"Eighteen boxes of precious medicinal materials such as ginseng, Polygonum multiflorum, Ganoderma lucidum, and deer antler. Ten boxes of silk, jade, mink, etc." Lu Xiang said.
Zuo Aoran was sitting in the middle, almost grinning from ear to ear with joy. He rubbed his cheeks with his hands and said, "Brother Gao, please, and the two brothers from the Gao family will escort one hundred and seventy-two boxes of gold back to Zuojiazhuang tomorrow.
"
"Yes." The three of them agreed.
Zuo Aoran said again: "Can I trouble my two brothers from the Lu family to escort a total of forty boxes of gold, silver and jade back to Zuojiazhuang?"
"Yes." The two agreed.
Zuo Aoran continued: "Trouble my third brother and fourth brother Yan Song to bring a total of twenty-eight boxes of precious medicinal materials, silk and other items back to Zuojiazhuang."
"Yes." The two agreed.
Zuo Aoran continued: "Brother, please bring someone to escort thirty carts of grain to Zuojiazhuang."
"Yes." Zhu Ci promised.
"These items are all windfalls. They do not belong to me, Zuo Aoran. They were obtained by all the brothers with one knife, one shot, one drop of blood and one life. After I finish handling the matter on the mountain, I will distribute these belongings to all the brothers.
Zuo Aoran said.
No one had any controversy with Zuo Aoran's decision, and they all thought it should be done. They discussed some aftermath matters and some trivial matters, and finally left, preparing to escort the items back to Zuojiazhuang tomorrow. Zuo Aoran
I also felt very tired and went back to my room to rest.
Early the next morning, everyone bid farewell to Zuo Aoran, who sent them one by one ten miles away. According to Zuo Aoran's arrangement, four groups of people set off every half an hour, so that they could make up for the shortage of manpower.
, there is a response before and after.
Due to the shortage of manpower, a hundred people were transferred from Ma Sheng's command. Now there are only 200 people left on the mountain. Counting Zuo Aoran, Jin Lian, Ma Sheng, and the captive Ren Zhan, the total number of people on the mountain is only 204. Four times in a flash
Days passed, and Zuo Aoran spent the whole day, besides chatting with Ma Sheng, leading a hundred people to mine ore in the mountains.
On this day, Zuo Aoran did not find Ma Sheng, nor did he go to mine iron ore. Instead, he sat alone in the Juyi Hall, thinking about things with great concentration. Because he was too concentrated, even Jin Lian came in, until he walked to his
No one around me noticed.
Zuo Aoran didn't think about anything else. He only thought about the four extremely wealthy families, namely the Wuji Zhen family, the Chenliu Wei family, the Xuzhou Mi family, and the Lujiang Qiao family. I'm afraid that after this battle, his family's wealth would far exceed that of the four of them.
Well! In addition, I now own this iron mine. As long as there is a war, I can make a fortune from this mountain. War consumes the most weapons. What are weapons made of? This is the mountain I own.
, this iron mine.
"Haha~~~~" Zuo Aoran laughed out loud.
"Why are you laughing?" Jin Lian asked.
Zuo Aoran was suddenly awakened from his reverie. When he saw that there was another person beside him, he was so frightened that he felt a chill in his spine. When he took a closer look, it turned out to be Jin Lian, whom he had not seen for many days.
Only then did the level of fright in his heart decrease, and he said in fear, "Thankfully it's her. If it were someone else who wanted to kill me, I would have died hundreds of thousands of times." After adjusting his frightened face, he said with a smile:
"Has Lian'er made any progress these days? Has she gotten any valuable information out of that thief?"
Jin Lian smiled sweetly, snuggled into Zuo Aoran's arms, and asked without answering: "He has heard a lot of news about the slave family. I wonder which one you want to hear?"
Zuo Aoran knew that she was trying to offend him, but he was also secretly shocked: "I actually got several pieces of information. If this woman's temperament is not important information, she would never show off like this. I guess the information is all
Quite impressive." Hehe smiled and said: "Of course, let's listen to the thing that I care about the most and the most important thing first."
Jin Lian said with half annoyance and half coquettishness: "Ouch! What? I have spent so much effort to get so much important information back, and there is not even a reward. Even if there is no reward, I don't even bother to say a few words of praise.
Are you saying that? You are just a white-eyed wolf, wasting everyone's love for you..."
Zuo Aoran had long been accustomed to Jin Lian's charming appearance, but he couldn't bear her waves of disgusting words. Before she could finish speaking, he cut off and said: "Okay, okay, our Lian'er is capable.
, Our family Lian'er has the ability, Lian'er will say whatever she wants, and the only way to satisfy Lian'er is to save Lian'er from being stingy by saying that she is a husband-in-law."
She sat up straight and stared straight into Zuo Aoran's eyes. Zuo Aoran felt very uncomfortable when she stared at her like this. Jinlian let out a sweet smile: "How old are you?
, why are you so shy! I don’t want stars or the moon, I only want you to promise me one thing.”
"Anything is fine, as long as Lian'er says it, I will agree." Zuo Aoran said with a smile.
Jin Lian leaned over Zuo Aoran and whispered a few words in Zuo Aoran's ear. Zuo Aoran looked at Jin Lian with a smile, as if he had guessed that you would ask for this, coughed, pretended to be embarrassed, and said:
"This...this...how should I say...a bit..."
"What? Aren't you able to agree to anything?" Jin Lian pouted and said.
When Zuo Aoran saw her, she looked like a woman in love who was acting coquettishly. He laughed loudly: "This is very simple. As long as I return home and report to my mother in a few days, our affairs will be settled."
When Jin Lian heard Zuo Aoran's words, she immediately understood that the series of embarrassing looks he had just shown were all acting and teasing herself, so she stopped immediately and kept beating Zuo Aoran's chest with a pair of pink fists.
, Zuo Aoran chuckled and allowed Jin Lian's fists to do anything.
After beating for a while, Jin Lian withdrew a pair of pink fists, snorted, and said with a little pout: "No more beating, it makes my little hands really hurt." After saying that, he turned his head to the side and stopped looking at Zuo.
Aoran.
Zuo Aoran knew that she was acting coquettishly, but he couldn't ignore it. He hurriedly took Jin Lian's small hands, kneaded them gently, and said to please: "Lian'er, be good, stop being willful, my husband is still waiting for important news from you.
?My husband knows that he is wrong, so he can just let Lian'er handle it for a while."
Jin Lian also knew that enough was enough. Seeing Zuo Aoran say soft words, Lao Gao pouted and returned to his original state. He told the matter again in a tepid manner, telling Zuo Aoran how he had tried so hard and deceived him at every turn.
Aoran said it once, and Zuo Aoran could only hear his anger rising, and finally roared: "Old Master Zhang Jiao, I swear to destroy the Yellow Turbans!"
It turns out that this is what happened. No one on the mountain knew her. Everyone who knew her was killed by Zuo Aoran. I don’t know whether it was Ma Sheng who knew her, or whether he or his men didn’t know Jin Lian.
She has never seen anyone talk to her. There is only one person left on the mountain who knows Jin Lian, and that is Director Zhan of the Second Village.
