Turning the tide in the Red Chamber

Chapter 97 [097] Jinling ancestral home hides treasures
Jia Lian continued indignantly:
"The old lady prefers the second uncle and the second aunt. After a hundred years, the old lady will definitely leave all the money from her private house to the second room. I must not let these two dressed animals be cheap. But now the old lady's private house is in the hands of the parents. Did you get the money?"

Jia Chen analyzed:
"Mandarin Duck's parents must have hidden the old lady's private money in the ancestral house. Only by keeping it under their noses at all times can they feel at ease.

Brother Lian immediately sent someone to look around the ancestral house, looking for rooms that had been locked all year round. "

"Okay, I'll do it now!" Jia Lian agreed, and acted according to plan.

When Jia Lian sent people out, Jia Chen said again:
"We can't be idle now, Second Brother Lian will bring ten servants and follow me to the accountant's office."

Jia Lian went in without knowing it, and asked curiously:
"My dear brother, why don't we go to the accountant's house instead of looking for private money?"

Jia Lian smiled mysteriously and said:

"I can't explain a sentence or two. Brother Lian can just go to the accounting room with me. Second brother Lian will naturally understand later."

Jia Chen and Jia Lian led ten servants to rush to the cash register.

There were two accountants sitting in the room, they both knew Jia Chen and Jia Lian, they stood up quickly and saluted them.

Jia Lian waved his hand and ordered:
"Move all the books in the accounting room back to my house, and keep them under strict supervision. I want to check the accounts!"

It stands to reason that the account book is the lifeblood of the accountant, and it must not be lost. Even if it is to be borrowed, it must be approved by the head of the family. But Mr. Dare not even fart.

The old lady and the second room are both thousands of miles away in Shenjing City, and now the eldest room is the biggest master in the Jia family's old house in Jinling City.

Soon, the boys emptied out the counting room.

Jia Lian was not very talented and not good at checking accounts, so he could only ask Jia Chen to do it for him.

Jia Chen agreed, and asked the boys to lock all the books in their rooms, and sent two boys to guard the door to prevent the books from being lost.

After about half a stick of incense, a servant ran over and reported:

"Second Master Lian, Uncle Chen, I found a locked woodshed in the backyard of the ancestral house. The locks were rusted and covered with a thick layer of dust. It seemed that it hadn't been opened for a long time. "

Jia Chen's eyes lit up, he sneered and said:
"I'm afraid there is something hidden in this firewood room. Brother Lian, let's take someone over there to have a look."

Jia Lian's pair of peach blossom eyes were blooming, as if they could shoot out a greedy golden light, clapping his hands and laughing:

"Okay, I'll ask a few more servants to go there together."

After a while, Jia Chen and Jia Lian led some twenty young men to the door of the woodshed in the backyard.

Jia Lian anxiously asked: "My dear brother, shall I have someone break the lock directly?"

Jia Chen waved his hand, and said with an unpredictable smile, "There's no rush, first ask someone to call the couple's parents."

Jia Lian immediately ordered someone to do it.

Not long after, Yuanyang's parents rushed over in a panic.

Yuanyang's father's name is Jincai. In his forties, his face is already wrinkled, and he is as thin as a stick, and he is a little hunchbacked.

Yuanyang's mother is fat and short, with dark skin, and her facial features can only be regarded as correct, not even a middle-aged posture.

Both the husband and wife looked honest and honest. It was hard to imagine that such unattractive parents could give birth to such a juicy daughter as a mandarin duck.

Jia Chen wondered if the mandarin ducks were their own?
When Jincai saw Jia Lian standing in front of the firewood room, a trace of imperceptible panic appeared in his cloudy old eyes.

Although the panic was fleeting, Jia Chen's keen eye could still see it all.

Jin Cai asked the question knowingly and said with a smile:
"Second Master Lian, what's your order for the young one?"

Jia Lian raised his chin towards Chaimen and ordered, "Open the door."

Jin Cai showed embarrassment, smiled carefully and said:

"Reporting to Second Master Lian, this room has been abandoned for many years. There must be rats, bedbugs and other dirty things in it. Please ask Second Master Lian and Uncle Chen to go back and rest first. The younger one will immediately send someone to clean the firewood room overnight. Room, Uncle Chen will come back tomorrow."

Jia Chen sneered in his heart, I'm afraid you didn't want to clean the woodshed overnight, but moved away the gold and silver treasures hidden in the woodshed overnight.

Jia Chen snorted coldly and said:

"It doesn't matter if it's dirty. When the ancestor Rong Guogong fought in the battlefield, the conditions were so difficult. Why did he dislike picky things like rats and bugs?

Before Duke Xian died, he said that in a room of his ancestral house in Jinling, there was a precious sword he used in the past. I want to find this precious knife and bury it next to Duke Xian. His descendants showed a little filial piety. "

Seeing that she couldn't resist, Jin Cai had to take out a bunch of keys, pick one out of it, insert it into the keyhole and open the door.

A pungent musty smell came over his face, Jia Chen took out a handkerchief and covered his mouth and nose, while Jia Lian not only covered his mouth and nose with the handkerchief, but also stepped back several steps.

Jia Chen knew that he was a pampered and pampered young man, so he said with a smile:

"Second brother Lian, you don't need to go in."

After all, Jia Chen led a few servants into the low woodshed.

If you can't even stand this little bit of suffering, how will you continue to dominate the world and conquer all directions in the future?
There are piles of firewood piled up in the firewood room, covered with dots, white and green mildew spots, obviously it has not been touched for a long time.

This is a bit intriguing. It stands to reason that hundreds of people are raised in the ancestral house, and a large amount of firewood is used for cooking, bathing and heating. These accumulated firewood should be consumed very quickly. After several stubbles, there is no time to mold That's right.

But the firewood in front of me is very old.

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon. Jia Chen guessed that there might be a treasure hidden under the pile of firewood.

"Come on, remove all these firewood!"

Following Jia Chen's order, the servants rushed forward and began to move firewood outside the door in a hurry.

After less than a stick of incense, the firewood room was emptied.

Looking at the empty woodshed, Jia Chen narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking to himself, could it be that he guessed wrong, the old lady's private money was not hidden in this woodshed?
He asked the boys to stamp their feet inch by inch in the woodshed and listen for the sound, in case there was a hollow interlayer hidden under the floor.

Jia Chen also asked the servants to beat the wall inch by inch to prevent interlayers in the wall.

But the boys searched every corner of the firewood house like plowing the courtyard, but still found nothing.

At this time, the sky had completely darkened, Jia Chen ordered the servants to light up torches.

Under the flickering light of the fire, Jia Chen found that there seemed to be an imperceptible smugness hidden in Jin Cai's cloudy old eyes.

It seems that this Jincai is just superficially honest, but in fact he is very cunning in his heart. He deliberately locked up this firewood room for many years in order to mislead others and make others think that there is money hidden in the firewood room. Jincai hid Jiamu's private money elsewhere.

A sneer curled up on Jia Chen's lips, and he ordered:
"Uncle Jin, you open all the other rooms in the backyard, I will look for Duke Xian's treasured sword overnight."

(End of this chapter)