Soon a dozen people gathered in the woods, each holding a magnet, moving side by side, and started searching one by one!
Although some iron pieces were unexpectedly sucked in the first few times, everyone was not discouraged and continued to search!
Half an hour later, one of the searchers shouted loudly: "I think there is something here!"
Cheng Shi walked over quickly and peeled off the dead leaves under the tree, but found no iron pieces. Then he placed a magnet on it and swept it. It felt obviously heavy!
Cheng Shi looked around again. This place was in the center of the grove to the north. Then he stood up and said to Hua Mucheng beside him.
"It should be right here!"
Hua Mucheng's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he called a patrolman with a shovel and asked him to start digging along this spot.
Soon, the patrolman dug out a pit. After digging for a while, the shovel banged, as if it hit a hard object.
The patrolman began to dig carefully. Soon, a large iron box was exposed. The patrolman bent down and took out the thing!
Then, the patrol officer handed this thing to Hua Mucheng. Hua Mucheng looked at Cheng Shi beside him!
Cheng Shi smiled and just opened it directly!
This is a square box with eight water chestnuts. The lock on the iron box has been broken, so Hua Mu took it off directly!
Then Hua Mucheng paused for a moment, looked at Mrs. Xu’s nodding expression, and then opened the iron box!
After opening it, everyone around them screamed in surprise, seeing that there were more than a dozen gold bars neatly placed inside, and there was also a lot of cash.
Cheng Shi didn't look at the gold bars and cash, but took out a small wooden box and the white paper underneath the wooden box!
He had a hunch that the items in the wooden box were what the mysterious man disguised as Wei Jifen was looking for!
When Cheng Shi opened the piece of white paper, he found that it was indeed the will left by Mr. Xu!
It says, I will live for more than forty years, leaving behind a son and a daughter. I will treat my wife with respect as a guest, and my head will be dizzy afterward!
Making a will for outsiders is not what I want!
I now void the previous will with a new will, transfer all my inheritance to my son, and give the house to my wife and daughter!
Witnesses of the will: Wenyi, Fan Hai
Xu Mingyi: February 24th, the eighth year of the Republic of China!
There are three signatures at the bottom!
Cheng Shi then handed the will to Mrs. Xu and said, "It's true, your husband still left the money to your son, but your husband left the house to you!"
When Hua Mucheng heard this, he temporarily moved his eyes from the gold bars to the will, and then looked at the time carefully!
Hua Mucheng's eyes lit up and he said: "This will is later than that woman's, and there are two well-known people in the county as witnesses of the will!
Now, I can get the inheritance left by Mr. Xu back from that woman and return it to Mrs. Xu and your family!"
At this time, Mrs. Xu also relaxed. She looked at the people around her and said with a smile.
"Thank you all for coming to help, and I will give these gold bars to Sheriff Hua and Mr. Cheng as a thank you gift for this search for the will!"
When Hua Mucheng heard this, his eyes lit up and he said, "This is true!"
Mrs. Xu smiled and said: "Of course it is true. Without you two, I would have to live in that shabby apartment in the future!
Now I can find this will only with the help of you two, and of course everyone's help, and I won't treat you badly!"
After Mrs. Xu finished speaking, she checked the number of people who came to help find things, and began to divide the cash in her hands among them equally!
Cheng Shi thought: This woman is smart enough to keep her wealth hidden, but now such a large amount of wealth has leaked out!
She very smartly distributed these things to everyone here, minimizing her own risk!
Turning flowers and trees into gold bars will also allow him to help get the inheritance back more quickly, and Cheng Shi will not refuse these gold bars as a thank you gift!
The other party already has an inheritance, so these gold bars are no longer that important to her, but these gold bars are very important to Cheng Shi!
Seeing everyone enthusiastically dividing the money, Cheng Shi opened the small wooden box in his hand. When he saw the contents inside, Cheng Shi became confused.
Because inside was an iron yellow token with three big characters written on it, "Heaven and Earth Will Meet", which made him extremely confused!
Could it be that this is why Wei Jifen and Xu Mingyi died for this? Cheng Shi quickly checked the token carefully!
Soon, he discovered that this was indeed an ordinary token with no mechanism or other words!
Cheng Shi then checked the wooden box and found nothing else!
Are they really after this token? What is the use of this token?!
However, Cheng Shi had to believe that the two of them were really here for this, because Zhang Tingzhong's books were learned by Xiao Dao!
This token belongs to the Heaven and Earth Society!
There is a relationship between the two. The Xiaodao Society is the branch of the Tiandi Society established in Xiamen by Chen Qingzhen in 1850!
Later, the Small Knife Society was introduced to Shanghai, with many members, most of whom were vagrants, farmers, workers, and many businessmen.
Hua Mucheng also came over at this time and saw what was in Cheng Shi's hand. He looked surprised, then shook his head and sighed.
"Brother Cheng, you wouldn't say that they are working hard just for this thing!
In the Qing Dynasty, this may have been very useful and could be used to get promoted, but now it is worthless!"
Cheng Shi shook his head and said: "I don't know, maybe I guessed wrong, he just came here for those dozen gold bars!
Cheng Shi didn't tell the truth. There were many people staring at this thing. Cheng Shi didn't want to cause trouble to others!
At this time, Cheng Shi suddenly had a legend in his mind that he had heard in modern times, about a wealthy businessman named Huang!
He built a total of 108 rooms, one of which was a secret room, which contained more than 500 boxes of gold bars and a large number of weapons belonging to the Tiandihui.
Many people are looking for the huge treasure left by the legendary Heaven and Earth Society, but unfortunately, no one has found it yet.
Could it be that the murderers in these recent cases committed murders for the sake of mythical treasure legends?
Cheng Shi couldn't figure it out, so he stopped thinking about it and said to Hua Mucheng on the side: "Brother Hua, the matter here has been resolved, so I'll leave first!"
Hua Mucheng nodded and said, "Okay, let's get together again if we have something to do!"
At this time, Mrs. Xu had already distributed the money and everyone had left. Mrs. Xu gave the seven gold bars to Hua Mucheng!
She gave the other seven to Cheng Shi, while she kept one for herself. She smiled and said, "Thank you both again for helping me find this will!"
Cheng Shi smiled and took the gold bars and said, "I'm not polite, I need money very much recently, so I accepted these gold bars!
Moreover, I also want to take away this token. It is related to a case I am investigating!
Mrs. Xu, if you need any help in the future, you can go to the central apartment building in the French Concession and come to me directly!"
The three of them said a few words at last, and Mrs. Xu and Hua Mucheng separated from Cheng Shi. They were going to deal with the inheritance!
And Cheng Shi also wanted to return to the French Concession as soon as possible.


Chapter completed!