Wu Zhi used the simple knife that the scarred man had left in the corner to snap off the decorative luminous pearls on the wall.
Pan Jinlian, on the other hand, was extremely interested in the various drawers on the counter in the casino.
At this time, they all took them out and rummaged through the valuables inside.
After a while, she dug out all the scattered silver coins, banknotes, pearls and jade items.
At the end of the day, everything that was valuable among the gamblers, that could be taken away, and that the couple was interested in, were dug out from the walls, counters, and cracks in the floor.
At this moment, looking at the piles of jade and countless pieces of silver placed in the middle of the hall, the couple looked at each other and smiled.
"Dalang, isn't it a good idea for us to do this today?"
"After all, we have never done this before."
"And the food and clothing we used to have were all obtained through doing business."
Pan Jinlian looked at the various gold and silver belongings piled on the ground. Although she was very happy in her heart, she was still condemned by her conscience on a moral level.
But Wu Zhi has no such moral concept at all.
"Jinlian, what is your status now?"
This inexplicable sentence immediately stunned Pan Jinlian.
When she came to her senses, she tentatively replied.
"I am a businessman's wife."
"Oh, by the way, now we should also add the identity of an official wife."
"Although your position as Minister of Industry is a nominal one, it is still an official position after all."
"So my status as an official's wife is also true."
After hearing this, Wu Zhi nodded with satisfaction.
"You are right, both identities are correct."
"However, you have forgotten another, very important identity."
But Pan Jinlian frowned and thought for a long time, but she still couldn't figure out what identity Wu Zhi was referring to.
Wu Zhi looked at Pan Jinlian's charming and naive expression, and immediately smiled fondly.
"Little fool, your other identity is Mrs. Yazhai of Shuibo Liangshan!"
"Am I right?"
When Wu Zhi mentioned this, Pan Jinlian smiled and nodded.
Then Wu Zhi said:
"My identity is that I am one of the strong bandits."
"Moreover, I want to be the overlord among the bandits and strongmen."
"In that case, then robbing houses and cleaning up shops is one of my duties."
"It's just that in the past, I didn't bother to do these things, but it's different today."
"On weekdays, these bastards do a lot of bullying and domination of men and women."
"And very little of the money they get here comes from the right way."
"In that case, I have cleaned up this shop, and I no longer have any sense of guilt in my heart."
"Okay, okay, let's go back and talk nonsense again."
"The main purpose now is to pack these gold and silver belongings into carriages and transport them home together."
Wu Zhi and his wife were very fast, and in less than a quarter of an hour, they loaded all the gold and silver belongings onto the carriage.
Finally, the two people drove the carriage and disappeared into the endless darkness.
Early the next morning, in the Taiwei Mansion.
Gao Qiu had just had breakfast and was about to change into court clothes and go to court.
A servant in the Gao Mansion hurriedly ran to Gao Qiu.
He told Gao Qiu about the Changsheng Gambling House being wiped out.
When Gao Qiu heard the whole story, he was so angry that his head almost exploded.
Because this incident was simply a great shame and humiliation for him.
In this capital city, Gao Qiu, who was originally so powerful, almost always walked sideways.
As long as he doesn't seek death and provoke people like Zhao Ji and Cai Jing, no one can do anything to him.
But in a place that Gao Qiu thought was extremely safe, his property was wiped out overnight.
And he also killed all his people, leaving no one alive.
For Gao Qiu, who always had his eyes above his head, this was no different than slapping him in front of him.
How could he endure this?
Within the hall.
Gao Qiu's sharp voice almost broke the ceiling.
Previously, his godson Gao Yanei was killed inexplicably.
Now, it was his property that was being wiped out by forceful means.
If he didn't catch the mastermind behind this, he would be cut into pieces.
Then after he becomes Gao Qiu, he will no longer have to hang around in the capital.
Even his colleagues in the court would laugh him to death.
Zhao Ji has been living a very comfortable life recently.
He first collected a large sum of taxes through Wu Zhi's various methods.
Then in the blink of an eye, most of the money was invested in the construction of the garden.
During this period of time, apart from overseeing the garden work, he also sought out those outsiders to seek immortality and ask questions.
Otherwise, he would be fooling around with the concubines he had recently recruited into the palace.
So when he went to court today, as soon as he sat on the dragon throne, he winked at the eunuch standing next to him.
And that eunuch had already thought through all the actions of the officials.
At this time, Zhao Ji came over with a look, and he immediately understood what Zhao Ji meant.
Then he took two steps forward, used his duck-like voice, and sang loudly:
"If you have a foundation, you will play early, but if you don't have a foundation, you will retreat."
As soon as the eunuch finished speaking, Gao Qiu, who had been holding back his anger all morning, jumped out from the ranks of the ministers with a single step.
And said in an extremely excited voice:
"I'm reporting to the officials that a gambling house named Changsheng in the capital was robbed overnight by a group of unknown strongmen."
"Not only that, more than ten good people in the store were also slaughtered."
"This is a move that is outraged by both heaven and man, and by humans and gods. It must be investigated."
"Wei Chen implores the officials to draft a decree and ask Wei Chen to thoroughly investigate the case."
"Weak ministers will definitely live up to the emperor's orders and arrest all those thieves to protect the peace of the people in the imperial city."
After hearing what Gao Qiu said, Zhao Ji couldn't help but frown.
In my heart, I kept cursing that Kaifeng governor, what on earth did he do for food?
There was such a big case in the city, and he didn't even receive any news.
Just when I was about to order Gao Qiuyan to handle the case, I suddenly remembered something.
Last night, that Wu Zhi suddenly came to me and said he had something to do.
At the same time, hundreds of imperial guards were transferred.
Could it be that what Gao Qiu said was related to Wu Zhi?
When Zhao Ji thought of this, he nodded secretly.
Then, he said to Gao Qiu, who was full of expectations:
"I still have to discuss this matter with the Kaifeng governor before I can make a decision."