The couple went to the silver shop to exchange for four large ingots of fifty taels. After scrubbing them clean, taking a bath and burning incense, they slowly put them into the treasure basket and covered them with thick satin. Early the next morning, it happened again.
After burning the incense, I picked up the thick satin and counted it again and again. There was a basket full of six hundred taels.
This time Xu Shan learned the lesson and did not pick it up with his hands, but took out the fire tongs one by one. In this way, even if there was an accident, there would be a few more fire tongs and there would not be extra fingers like last time. The silver was taken out.
Xu Shan bit it with his teeth and saw that it was real silver. He earned four hundred taels a day, which was more than ten thousand snowflakes of silver a month, so he had to pack it up properly.
Xu Shan ordered a batch of camphor boxes from Carpenter Liu. Carpenter Liu asked: "What should be packed in?"
Xu Shan was stunned, unable to explain clearly to him, so he replied: "Just put some valuable goods."
"Some time ago, I just built a row of boxes for transporting silver for the government. I will imitate its style and build it for you. How many boxes do you want?"
"A box can contain about how many taels of silver."
"Two thousand taels, maybe. I can't carry more than that. Do you also have silver in your house?"
"No, just ask and give me twenty."
After the two parties agreed on the price, Xu Shan gave a deposit.
It was time to name the two sons. The couple was not very educated. After some discussion, they named the two sons Xu Lansheng and Xu Lanbian to commemorate the treasure basket that transformed them. They happily entertained them every day.
I am very happy. My two sons are very smart. After only half a year, they have already begun to learn language and toddle, much faster than ordinary people. The dock business is getting bigger and bigger, and the houses and shops have been enlarged, and I have made a lot of money.
With the money, they bought some more fields and built a yard. Everyone called them Mrs. Xu, Yuanwai. In this way, half a year passed peacefully.
"The Years Go by"
The sound of the treasure basket brings more wealth,
The title was changed to Yuanwai Xu,
The little lotus has revealed its sharp corners.
My son calls me daddy when he is half a year old.
Stumbling and stumbling,
Like the flow of water, the years are still.
The accountant will get one gold every month.
The sound of the treasure basket brings forth a hundred silver coins.
Suddenly one day, a team of government officials broke in, tied an iron chain on the necks of the couple and said: "The state government has lost official money. Someone reported you and your wife. Please go to the county government office."
It turns out that the Song Dynasty moved south. In order to prevent the invasion of Jin soldiers, the court's expenditure increased greatly and levies of silver were collected from various places. After Taizhou Prefecture collected 20,000 taels of silver, it was robbed during transportation and the robbers escaped without a trace, so the state government
Documents were given to each county government. In order to protect their official positions, each county government is conducting strict investigation. The official banknotes have numbers, and the silver coins conjured from the treasure basket have the same number. It is very suspicious. The boss of the bank discovered it and reported it to the police.
County government. The county magistrate thought that the same number might be the recast of stolen official silver, but he was puzzled as to why it was old silver. He followed the lead and quickly traced it to Xushan. In order to avoid alerting the enemy, he again
He sent a government official to sneak into the shop incognito to investigate, and saw twenty boxes containing silver, the style of which was the same as those reported missing. Now there was no doubt that the county magistrate sent all the government officials to arrest the couple and the clerk to the county government office.
Twenty official silver boxes were lined up, filled with white flowers, totaling 40,000 taels of official silver, which dazzled everyone's eyes. The profit in the shop's account book was less than 1,000 taels. The two figures did not add up.
superior.
"You are so bold and cunning, but you still don't recruit people from the real situation, so as not to suffer physical pain." County Magistrate Chen slapped Jingmutang and shouted loudly: "Where do you think these 40,000 yuan of silver came from?"
After talking about the treasure basket turning into silver, there will be endless troubles. There is a high probability that the treasure basket will never be theirs again. If not, how can the source of the silver be clearly explained. Xu Shan and his wife could only shout that they were wronged.
He just gritted his teeth and refused to explain the origin of the money.
How will this end? The guests at the B&B were guessing and ordering: "Boss, let's have a special dish. After we listen to the story, we will walk around the scenic spot after lunch."
They were emotionally attracted by the story and refused to leave.
"Okay, I'll give each of you a gongcao cake cone and porridge." Jin Huabin gave instructions to the chef and said, "It's fast and has the characteristics of Xianju. The story of this cake cone is in the food introduction.
You can imagine his taste in the words."
"It's better to go back, Gong Cao Cake Cone"
Gongcao cake tube, vermicelli and wild rice cut into thin strips, rolled in the cake skin and fried on all sides, I tasted it secretly in the corner of the palace when I was tired from duty.
One pot can only fry four pancake tubes, but there is a table of guests waiting to eat. After cutting it into two sections, it was not enough. Four children grabbed it and hurriedly hid in the corner to taste it. The older one among the guests read it again.
Ci, pointing at them with a smile, said: "Look at these four little four-level merits, we gods haven't eaten them yet." Everyone laughed after hearing this.
When the cakes and slips were served, Jin Huabin continued to tell the story of the trial amidst the cheers of the guests: "The Xushan couple shouted that they were wronged but could not tell the source of the silver. Magistrate Chen was furious and was about to order the execution. Master
He came in from the outside and whispered in the county magistrate's ear for a long time. The magistrate nodded and said: "There is another hidden story in this case. We will try it again the next day."
It turned out that the master reported to the county magistrate that the criminal had been arrested, the silver had been recovered, and that the couple were He Xiang'er's parents. People in the Song Dynasty were extremely superstitious. When Taizu of the Song Dynasty was born, there was a strange fragrance and fire, so he was called Xiang'er.
It was the Lord of Fire and Virtue from the sky who came to this world. Their pair of sons were born with a vision, which had already spread in the city. They were already able to talk and walk at the age of six months, and were deified by the people.
Knowing that they were wrongly accused, County Magistrate Chen was a little frightened, so he temporarily imprisoned him and interrogated him in the back hall of the government office at night. Seeing that the magistrate was amiable, and that the matter could not be explained by common sense, the couple ended up pouring mung beans out of a bamboo tube.
The process of carrying the basket was truthfully told to County Magistrate Chen, but the birth of the two children was kept secret. Magistrate Chen was an upright official. After hearing this, he thought deeply and acquitted them.
As the saying goes, wealth should not be exposed. Their tens of thousands of taels of silver were shown in court, which naturally attracted many greedy eyes and various rumors.
"gossip"
Jingmu Hall, crackling sound,
The majestic voice is breathtaking.
Money is never exposed,
Exposure is the most likely to cause disaster.
Ten thousand taels of silver will go to court,
Thousands of pairs of eyes flashed coldly.
Rumors spread all of a sudden,
Disaster is coming in an instant.
Among them, one of the most widely circulated rumors is that they found an ancient tomb under an old house. There were tens of thousands of taels of silver in the tomb. They secretly dug it out and took it for themselves. Then they moved to Pantan and used the money as capital to start a business.
The shop floor.
How could a man who makes a living by fishing make a fortune and accumulate tens of thousands of dollars in property in just two years? The reason given by this rumor seems to be somewhat credible. Even more high-ranking villagers sneaked into his place, which was no longer occupied.
In his old house, traces of excavated soil were found under his bed, which came to corroborate this matter. Everyone who heard this story seemed to suddenly realize: "Oh, it turns out that he became a millionaire by robbing tombs."
, and I’m not afraid of hurting my moral integrity.”
Faced with the rumors, their worries suddenly increased a lot.