The rammed earth inside the three-foot-thick horse-head wall was hollowed out into a long corridor-like secret room. The entrance was indeed blocked by a wooden board similar to a skylight as Wang Chao Mahan said.
Su Jin first put the candle in and looked at a wooden step that was obviously built by man and extended downward step by step. It was obvious that the secret room was below.
Although Su Jin was excited, he still had a foresight and did not step in hastily because he didn't know what was connected to the other end of the rope.
Su Jin ordered Wang Chao to restore the pulled rope to its original position. There was a clicking sound, but there was nothing unusual in front of him. Su Jin gently lifted a piece of tile and threw it on the wooden stairs. He saw that the ladder suddenly flipped over, and the tile
The piece instantly fell to the bottom of the stairs, and there was a shattering sound as it hit a hard object.
This is a plank trap. Needless to say, all the rammed earth under the plank has been emptied.
Su Jin gently turned the stairs with his hands, lit a piece of dead wood and threw it down the black hole. When he looked around, the sight in front of him was even more horrifying. The bottom of the wall hole was covered with blue sharp knives, and there were actually two of them inside.
The bloody corpse looked like it had not been dead for long, so there was no peculiar smell. There was no doubt that this was a death trap for thieves who dared to enter the secret room without knowing the mechanism.
As for these two corpses, Su Jin is 100% certain that during the attack on the mountain, some bandits who knew the location of Shen Yaozu's secret room wanted to seize the opportunity to make money and died here.
Judging from the reflected light, these knives are sharp blades that have been tempered with poison. Not to mention that a deep hole with a height of more than 10 feet will knock you into pieces. Even if you are rough-skinned and thick-bodied, you will be easily hit by sharp knives on the ground.
With the last one, you can only rot and get maggots in the hole in the wall.
This guy is a genius, and he is a genius with scheming, perseverance and cruelty. It would take at least several months of work to hollow out this rammed-down wall with one person's power, and he also has to design a trap within it.
He also needs to connect the handle of the mechanism to the big tiger-skin chair that only he can sit on. How much energy and perseverance it takes to complete this.
Su Jin could imagine Shen Yaozu sneaking in here every night, digging out the rammed earth with a disgraced face and carrying it out like ants moving. Then he designed his mechanism bit by bit and carved grooves in the corners of the hall.
He buried the bamboo tubes in the ditch, passed the rope through the bamboo tubes in the ditch and extended it into the horse head wall, and designed the pulling mechanism. Everything was done by himself, avoiding the eyes and ears of others. Su Jin asked himself, he could never do it.
The principle is actually very simple. The rope is connected to the support at the bottom of the suspended ladder. Pulling the rope will block the support at the bottom of the wooden ladder. When people step on it, it will not turn over. Once the rope is restored to its original position, the wooden ladder will follow the steps.
And if it flips over, people will fall into the hole unprepared and die without a burial place.
Su Jin retracted his head and sat on the roof, breathing heavily. The cold and fresh air calmed his frightened heart a little.
Shen Yaozu worked hard to build this secret room, and there will definitely be something worth looking forward to inside, otherwise he wouldn't have gone to such great lengths.
Su Jin got off the roof, closed the hall door tightly and bolted it, checked around to make sure there was no one else in the hall, then pulled the rope, and tiptoed up to the roof with Wang Chao Ma Han, and got under the roof.
Enter the hole in the wall.
Su Jin took a dozen tiles with him and threw them on the wooden board before walking up each step to prevent other changes, because Shen Yaozu was really unpredictable. Who knew he would come up with something else? What vicious trap is coming.
Fortunately, nothing unusual happened anymore. The space was too small, and Shen Yaozu couldn't design any extra mechanisms, even if he had some intentions.
After walking down more than a dozen steps, we have gradually reached the bottom of the horse head wall. After going down the steps, there is nowhere to go. It looks like we have entered a dead end, but Su Jin knows that there must be an entrance. Shen Yaozu cannot spend so much money. Instead, my mind came to lay a useless trap.
Sure enough, when Wang Chao whispered softly, what seemed to be the wall was dented when he pushed it. Su Jin understood that this was to prevent Shen Yaozu from throwing torches and other things on it, so that the property could be seen at a glance. , so we deliberately left a partition between the stairs and the wooden board. As for the secret door under the stairs, it only needs to be slightly disguised, and there is no need to make it more secret. After all, everyone has already reached the bottom of the stairs, and no amount of concealment is useless. .
The hole in the wall that only allowed one person to enter was pushed open and slid down. As soon as the three people climbed into the secret room, they all opened their mouths wide and could no longer make any sound. Under the light of the fire, everything in front of them looked so bright. It's unreal, everything seems to be in a dream.
Su Jin vaguely remembered the scene he saw in the movie in later generations, and fantasized about the scene he entered countless times. At this moment, the scene was spread out in front of his eyes, full of golden light, and gold and silver ingots were piled on the ground like a small mountain. Everyone's favorite yellow and white Everything is thrown away here as if it were a piece of shit. There are no boxes or shelves in the small secret room. There are just gold, silver, and jewelry randomly thrown on the ground. No one can imagine that here. There is so much money hidden in the mezzanine of a horse-head wall on a barren mountain.
Su Jin quickly estimated the value, but he had never seen so much money before. He really couldn't be sure. Such a large amount of gold and silver was worth hundreds of thousands. In short, in a word, it was paid. It happened now.
Dynasty Mahan opened his mouth wide and his mouth was almost drooling. The two of them had never seen so much money since they were young, and it was all real gold and silver, not even a copper plate.
"Get rich, get rich, Young Master." Wang Chao muttered.
"How many sauced elbows can I buy with this?" Mahan exclaimed.
Su Jin laughed and said, "There are so many that you won't be able to eat them all in your lifetime. You can eat two at each meal and throw away two, or you can wipe your boots with a pickled elbow every day and keep them shiny."
"Master, with all this money, you are probably the richest man in Luzhou."
"It doesn't belong to me, it belongs to us. The rules of the world are shared by everyone who sees them. You two are also little rich people." Su Jin said with a smile.
"No, no, no, how dare you do that? Master, don't amuse us. We have no ulterior motives for Master's money." Wang Chao quickly waved his hand.
Su Jin smiled and said: "Of course you have a share of the money, but I have to keep it for you and use it to make more money. If I give it to you, it's just for food, drink and gambling. Don't look at the money here, but there is a lot of money here. I can’t bear to squander.”
Ma Han said: "Master, we are not people who are blind to money. We follow you because you are doing good to us. The salary of five guans per month is enough for us. If we have any evil thoughts, it will be okay." people?"
Su Jindao: "Listen to me in everything, and don't be pretentious. This money is considered your investment in me, Su Ji. I will make a lot of money in the future, buy you a big house, buy land, marry a wife and become a master."
The two of them nodded like crazy. This was their life dream. The young master seemed to be their close friend, and he spoke it to their hearts with just one sentence.
"Master, how are we going to get this much money out? What should the court do if it traces such a large amount of money?" Wang Chao scratched his head and asked.
Su Jin said: "Dynasty came down the mountain to call for help. Don't disturb the others. Just ask the guys brought by Su Ji to bring a few boxes up the mountain. The gold, silver and jewelry here must be packed in at least five or six boxes. There are only a dozen people."
It's enough to carry it down the mountain; Mahan and I demolished the wall here, directly tearing down the outer wall. There are at most two layers of brick shells on the outside, which can be broken with one poke."
Ma Han said in astonishment: "If the wall is broken, wouldn't the court know after tracing that the property was taken by the young master?"
Su Jin chuckled and said, "The mountain man has his own clever plan."
At twilight, five large boxes were neatly placed in Su Jin's tent. Su Ji's servants all had blisters on their shoulders, but the reward for each of them was also very generous, so they were satisfied.
After they went up the mountain, they were told that they could only stay outside the hall. Dynasty Mahan personally took the empty box and went in to pick up the gold and silver in the secret room like horse manure. He even touched the dust on the ground twice.
As soon as the boys lifted the box, they screamed that they couldn't bear it. In the end, four people had to carry it and stumbled down the mountain road. There were not enough manpower, so Su Jin could only make up for it, which made his young shoulders red and swollen.
Yan Biyun and others looked at the five large boxes that Su Jin had brought back after a busy night, and they were not sure why. Su Jin proudly opened the lid of the box himself, and there was a sound of exclamation. The tent was filled with jewels, which reflected the faces of the women.
All shine brightly.
"What are you..." Yan Biyun is not very interested in money. She has seen more money and things than this.
Su Jin said mysteriously: "Shen Yaozu robbed and looted all the treasures for several years, and I got all of them."
Yan Biyun frowned and said, "This is people's money. The bandits robbed all the people."
Su Jin chuckled and said: "I will take it from the people for Shen Yaozu and use it for the people. I don't know who he took it from, so I can only keep it for you. I will find the owner one day and return it slowly."
Yan Biyun saw that he was not sincere and knew that he would never let go of the money, so he said: "If the court investigates..."
Su Jin patted his head and said, "I almost forgot about something important. I'll come back as soon as I go."
Su Jin came out of the tent and called the head of the guard capital and said: "The strongholds and checkpoints on the mountain are not suitable for preservation. The bandits who are afraid of attracting them will gather again. I ask you to take people to destroy them all. They should be knocked down and those that should be burned should be burned."
, everything that can be used is moved down the mountain, counted and recorded, and temporarily placed in the Yangzhou government warehouse to await inspection by the court."
Wei Dutou secretly praised the envoy for being careful. Keeping these buildings and checkpoints will indeed attract the bandits to gather again. Searching for supplies is a bad job, so he immediately accepted the order and left with a smile.
At mid-morning, thick smoke billowed from all over the village. The Bagong Village, which had been built with painstaking efforts by generations of bandits, was burned to the ground and turned into ruins.
Yan Biyun, Chao Chao, Mahan and others knew that Su Jin was destroying evidence, destroying walls and rafters, and everything from now on had nothing to do with Su Jin.dd