Siheyuan: Forgive me!I Xu Damao is willing to support the whole hospital

Chapter 131 I Come to Trial, Old Daoist Zhou Convinced Me (3000-word chapter)
When they heard about the investigation, people who knew Lao Zhou looked at each other, and no one wanted to offend Lao Zhou face to face.

It was cold.

It was Qin Jingru who saw Xu Damao embarrassed, and was the first to stand up, saying that his usual behavior was indeed suspected of stealing.

Qin Jingru said: "Since Lao Zhou came and listened to his words, our village has never raised a dog, and there are a lot of things lost at night."

Lao Zhou's behavior is indeed suspicious, and his wife has to step in at the critical moment.

But this has nothing to do with the factory, so the factory manager left beforehand, and Xu Damao also took the opportunity to ask others to go down first, saying that he wanted to talk to Lao Zhou alone.

Xu Damao said to Lao Zhou: "You fool the villagers and don't tell them to keep dogs. This alone is suspicious enough. But today I don't ask this, I just ask you, is there any treasure buried in our drainage ditch?" under?"

Lao Zhou quickly shook his head and said, "Really not! If so, would I tell others?"

Xu Damao snorted coldly: "It is precisely because others think that you will not tell others the secret, so no one believes that there are treasures here. But I believe that there are real treasures here, otherwise you, who are useless and can't afford it early, will not treat you It's so interesting."

Old Zhou Zhou gritted his teeth and said, "If you really want to know what the secret is, you have to pay a price."

When he heard that money could solve the problem, Xu Damao was overjoyed, and said calmly: "Then you make a price. How much money can make you open your mouth."

Lao Zhou extended a slap.

Xu Damao said: "Five hundred? All right, let's go to the accountant to get the money!"

Lao Zhou said, "What I want is five thousand."

Xu Damao was amused, and said: "Old Zhou, you are so good at blackmailing people. My annual salary is only 500, and you pay [-] with your mouth. Do you really think that the money for our rolling mill is blown by the wind?"

Old Zhou said: "Five thousand is just the annual salary of ten people. Your factory has tens of thousands of people, and it's just a drop in the bucket. If you get this secret, the whole factory will benefit from it. Do you think five thousand is too much?"

Xu Damao thought for a moment, if the secret is bigger than melons, it would be a good idea to do so.

"There is no such thing as a buy-it-all price in business. You set the price on the spot, and I will pay you back on the spot. 1000 yuan, anyway, it's a big deal. We don't want this secret, and leave it to future generations."

[Old Zhou Resentment 500]

After some haggling, Lao Zhou took a step back, and Xu Damao agreed for the factory with a price of 3000 yuan.

Old Zhou said: "The reason why I focused on this drainage ditch is because I deduced that there is an iron mine in this ditch."

Xu Damao was stunned, why he had never heard of it before, and said: "Old Zhou, earning money must be reasonable and legal, and you can't deceive others. Doesn't the factory know whether there are mines here? Our steel factory has been around for a long time, and it is not easy to make money in Ming Dynasty. In the beginning, it was the blacksmithing factory of the Habayashi Army, so there must have been mines nearby, otherwise they wouldn’t have been blacksmithing here! But that vein of mines has been dug out long ago.”

Lao Zhou chuckled, and said, "That's because you only know one thing, not the other. The second thing, this is the secret I want to sell to you."

Xu Damao pretended not to be interested and said: "You are a fool, you can only fool people. Since we already know that there are mines here, we can dig them ourselves, so why buy your secrets?"

Old Zhou said mysteriously: "It's a pity, it's a pity, without my guidance, you can't dig it out."

Xu Damao shook his head and smiled, "Old Zhou, now that technology is advanced, we use metal detectors to find out whether there is iron ore ore."

Lao Zhou rolled his eyes and said dismissively, "Master Xu, you can forget about buying it. Anyway, your instrument can't be detected."

Xu Damao asked curiously, "How do you know that the instrument is not working?"

Lao Zhou said: "Your instrument wasn't invented today, if it could be found out, wouldn't it have been poached long ago?"

"That's true. The instrument is certainly not omnipotent, but since how can you prove what you said?"

Lao Zhou said calmly: "I have lived here for more than ten years, and I have consulted a lot of ancient books and folklore. You have a very special iron mine here, and the ore produced is extraordinary. Adding ordinary steel A little bit, and an ordinary sword can cut gold and jade, which is extremely hard."

Old Zhou paused for a moment, then continued: "There is a special ore produced here. According to legend, Jing Ke's sharp blade to assassinate Qin, and Zhao Zilong's iron spear tip all came from here. Later, when the Emperor Tang came to Youzhou, he also searched for it. Until later The king of Yan who usurped the Ming Dynasty managed to find this mine with the help of the prime minister in black, and it is said that the process was tortuous and he paid a considerable price."

Xu Damao nodded, indicating to continue.

Lao Zhou continued: "The king of Yan finally took control of this mine, opened a furnace here to cast weapons, and raised his troops to march south. After he succeeded, he ordered people to completely close the mine and destroy the records. The miners were also dispatched to distant places. A large mine with so many miners determines that this mine cannot be completely covered up, so there are still many stories handed down around here. I have been studying here for many years, and finally got a breakthrough."

Xu Damao clapped his hands and said, "You tell a good story, but do you have any real things to prove your story?"

With a proud face, Lao Zhou took out a piece of black metal from his arms, and said, "I found this near a ditch. It must be the water flow in the ditch. It has been washed away for many years, and finally a piece was washed out."

Xu Damao looked at it carefully, and felt that this piece of iron ore was indeed different from usual. He tried it with a magnet, and it was really not magnetic.

But its weight is definitely a heavy metal, and its density is higher than that of iron.

Xu Damao believed it, and after a second thought, he decided to pay out the money first, investigate, and figure out the secret.

So he told Lao Zhou that the accountant was off work, and he would give him the money tomorrow, and asked him to stay overnight in the warehouse.

Lao Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, Xu Damao suddenly left and returned.

"I was interrupted by you, and you haven't said that you are pretending to be a ghost and not allowing dogs to be kept!" Xu Damao said with a livid face.

Lao Zhou was startled by the voice, and thought that Xu Damao was capricious, and just now he said he would not ask, but now he broke his promise again.

However, for revenge for the 3000 yuan, he simply admitted it.

"The people your factory recruited this time have mixed with our habitual thieves. The reason why I told the village not to raise dogs is also because I cannibalize people and are usually tempted by their property..."

Xu Damao said: "Which people?"

Lao Zhou told their names one by one, and said: "They don't hide their secrets from me. Tonight, they are going to steal the steel bar heads from the warehouse."

Xu Damao understood the question, and decided to let the four guys show their feet.

He deliberately asked someone to carry the scrap steel bar heads, which was very conspicuous, and put them all in the warehouse where Zhou Laodao lived.

"Old Zhou, tonight, you will make meritorious deeds to atone for your crimes and help arrest your accomplices. Reduce your guilt. I have seen your ability to shake your head and make things happen. It is not a problem to deal with them."

At night, Xu Damao dismissed the security guards, leaving only Liu Guangtian on duty, guarding the door outside the warehouse.

"Brother Xu, I've released all the news, and the steel bars are all in this warehouse! Those thieves will come and throw themselves into the net at night?"

"It will definitely come, just wait." Xu Damao was confident.

At 2 o'clock in the middle of the night, four fast-moving black shadows shuttled through the factory area, avoiding the searchlights and flashlights of the patrol personnel, and lurked outside the warehouse.

The slight footsteps of the four people were already in Xu Damao's ears.

"Liu Guangtian, I feel sick to my stomach, relieve yourself!" Xu Damao said loudly, allowing the four thieves to hear.

"Brother, wait a minute, let's go together!" Liu Guangtian also yelled loudly, and left with Xu Damao.

Seeing Xu Damao leaving, the four shadows saw that the warehouse was unguarded, and the four of them gently opened the door and entered the dark warehouse.

(End of this chapter)