There are actually some old clothes in the boss’s wooden box!
A vermilion robe embroidered with gold threads, several yellowish Nansi robes, and a luxurious belt inlaid with various gems and pearls. Several antique jade pendants are not vulgar at first sight.
There is also a jade hosta, a jade bracelet, and a hanging white jade Buddha bead that is extremely shiny. The sunlight shining in through the entrance of the cave actually emits a light pink luster like oil!
"This is...this is mutton-fat jade!"
In later generations, Song Wen was very interested in collectibles such as ancient jade and field jade, but he was short of money and could only search for various information to comfort himself, euphemistically called it "possessing at a glance".
Eighteen suet-fat jade Buddha beads are as big as lychees. If you look carefully... there are actually lines as thin as cow hair carved on each jade bead to carve a lotus pattern and tiny Sanskrit characters.
The silk thread tying the beads is already somewhat loose and decayed, but a few seal characters of Song Dynasty on the mutton-fat jade pendant hanging underneath can still be vaguely discerned... The smooth and shiny jade plaque has the inscription Lianfeng layman engraved on one side.
Four words, and the other side is the words "Praise the Buddha with intention".
Li Yan nodded: "Bai San is a smart guy. This kind of thing is the treasure of the rich and powerful at first sight. If it gets into his hands, there is no place to sell it. If someone finds out, it will probably lead to death."
The disaster... Boy, these few dollars you spent are really worth it! Otherwise, just by letting him go, you may not be able to make him willingly reveal this secret..."
Song Wen smiled faintly... "I'm afraid he doesn't know what the thief is hiding in this box. Human nature cannot be scrutinized..."
After packing their things, everyone left the cave and took a closer look at the location and details of the village. Song Wen took out a pen and paper and a small bamboo tube filled with ink and hastily drew the nearby terrain.
Li Yan asked curiously: "Your master actually taught you so much? Why are the things you draw different from others?"
"I'm smart by drawing inferences from one example!"
"I bother……"
But Li Yan does agree with this sentence... In half a year, a little turtle went from being penniless to having a fortune, raising dozens of little brothers, plus himself, a veteran in the world, and even made friends with Liang Shicheng, a so-called hidden figure.
Big shot... If he is not a smart person, then everyone in the world must be stupid.
Gathering the remaining 20 or so refugees, Song Wen told them straightforwardly that he could subsidize them with grain seeds and farm tools. He could also give them a sum of money every year...but the premise was that they could not go out to show off and help themselves properly.
Keep an eye on this hidden valley.
The refugees are firstly afraid of bandits and secondly afraid of the government, so they are eager to know that such a good thing will happen!
Song Wen didn't pay much attention to this box of treasures and old clothes, and the two warriors Lin Chong and Li Yan had no knowledge, so they couldn't see a way out. Song Wen did think about catching a bandit and asking about it, but it was a pity that those thieves had already
He was scared out of his wits, and after being released, he ran away until his shadow disappeared.
With a few craftsmen, Song Wen and his party returned to Qingshan Village with great satisfaction. The remaining refugees also hid their food and began to clean up the dilapidated village. After all... with a backer, they were happy to be able to live a peaceful life for a few days.
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Three days later, in the evening, a low-key carriage and five or six knights wearing bamboo hats and dressed as charlatans suddenly stopped outside the valley.
Several men dressed as refugees began to quietly come around from all sides, and then they gathered together and quickly knelt down on one knee in front of the carriage. The leader, a man in gray clothes in his thirties, whispered: "I see the second owner.
!”
The curtains of the carriage were motionless, and a slightly older voice came from inside the carriage... "Well, do you have any clues?"
"Back to the second owner, the horse that the escaped slave rode fell dead in the mountains, and its flesh was cut off by the refugees. We found it based on the shoe shoe!"
"Where are the people?"
"A generation ago, there was a group of extremely vicious thieves who caused trouble. It should be more serious than bad!"
"If you want to see a person alive, you want to see a corpse if you die..."
Suddenly, a thin man in tattered clothes hurriedly ran out of the mountain, knelt down on one knee in front of the carriage and reported directly: "The proprietor, we found the body of the runaway slave!"
"Oh? Are there any clues about the missing items?"
"No, that slave was killed with a knife, and all his clothes were stripped off. There was nothing left..."
The man in gray who had just reported the report quickly answered: "The previous group of seven or eight gangsters and more than twenty subordinates were actually killed by a group of unknown rangers! Several gangsters and the big boss were all killed.
Behead them, and the remaining bandit minions will all have their arms broken and dispersed!"
There was silence in the car for a while, and then he whispered: "Did the group take the things away?"
The man in gray shook his head: "The remaining refugees are ignorant and don't know anything about the box. It seems that the escaped slave was not caught by the bandits in the village and was probably killed on the road."
There was a sound of slapping the table from the carriage, and it seemed that the owner inside was very angry... "Xu Sanhai, Zhou Yan... you two stay, be sure to check if there are any traces of anything in this den of thieves! The rest of the people
Spread them all into the surrounding market towns and counties to find out where the unknown rangers came from... The contents of this box are extremely important to the proprietor! Do you understand?"
The five men bowed their heads and saluted... "I accept your orders!"
The carriage quickly turned around and disappeared at the end of the dirt road under the escort of several knights. The man in gray seemed to be relieved, and then looked at the thin man who came behind with a slight dissatisfaction... "Zhou Yan! You and I can't do anything wrong.
I'll be responsible for investigating in the village, and you can go look for clues in the surrounding area. How about that?"
The thin man named Zhou Yan did not comment. He just raised his head and looked at Xu Sanhai, who was a little impatient, and said softly: "Okay, but... if you can't find any clues within three days, you have to leave the village and let me pretend that you want to join the gang.
The refugees came to the village to investigate! What do you think?"
"Humph, let's do this... No matter what we gain from each other in three days, our two teams will hand over the territory in their hands to exchange and investigate to see if there is any darkness under the light..."
"make a deal!"
In the past three days, Song Wen, like a contractor, took Lin Chong and Li Erlang around his village, including streams, hillsides, woods and buildings.
In the end, Song Wen helplessly discovered that the place he bought had no merit other than being remote...
All the fields that can be cultivated add up to less than 200 acres! And more than half of them are extremely barren sloping underground fields. The five households of tenant farmers now understand that they have met a generous proprietor this time. Evenly divided, each of them can have three households.
Forty acres of land are cultivated... but the harvest has been terrible in recent years.
More than 70 orphans and teenagers crowded timidly into several warehouses. Li Erlang and several of his men were sweating profusely with several households of tenant farmers to build new thatched houses.
The two carpenters looked at each other and felt that they had been tricked by these murderous rangers this time...
There are not even a few decent houses here, just a few poor tenant households and dozens of beggar children. What on earth do these people want to do?