Dressed as a villain's stepmother, I use spiritual springs to raise cubs

Xia Bai'an approached the fence, observed the direction of the collapse of several houses, confirmed the original location of several houses, and the instructions of Nanny Mingxin appeared in his mind.

"Enter the gate, walk through the cave on the long corridor on the right, and see a shallow pool, the second room on the left, under a wooden niche for Buddha statues in front of the entrance hall, move the table away, it is the entrance of the secret passage."

Muttering, she slowly followed the collapsed path, for fear of missing the scattered corridors.

Seeing that she was serious, Qian Mingshu followed her without saying a word.

It took about two sticks of incense before Xia Bai'an pointed to a pile of rubble.

"The opening of the secret passage should be near here. Since there is only a small wooden box under it, it should not be connected to the tunnel. There is no trace of depression here, so it should be found soon."

Qian Mingshu frowned deeply: "You don't expect me to dig it out with your hands, do you?"

"Go to the side and look for tools."

Xia Bai'an said, but shortly after Qian Mingshu nodded and left, he directly took out two shovels from the space - these were gifts from the neighbor next door when he followed his family back home to worship ancestors.

It has not been used for many years, and it looks rusty.

She called Qian Mingshu over: "There is a shovel here, you can try it."

"Good guy, I only found a few wooden branches after searching for a long time. I walked all over the front yard, let alone a shovel. I didn't even see a table leg. You can still find a shovel."

Qian Mingshu walked over from the ruins cursing.

Xia Bai'an raised his eyebrows: "There are no legs on the table?"

While digging, Qian Mingshu and Xia Bai'an said, "No, I think this house is very strange. There are no tables and chairs, but there are a bunch of broken wood carvings and strange boxes. I don't know who lived here before. Who is it?"

Xia Bai'an looked around and said nothing.

This place may not have been a place for people to live in before.

The strange boxes and wood carvings look like props of feudal superstition.

Such a large mansion does not repair the roads for people to walk, but instead enshrines other things. If people know about it, there is a high probability that they will really think it is just a place for sacrifices.

But under this appearance, tunnels have been dug to hide things—feudal superstitions are only used to confuse people, and what is really important is probably the things in the tunnels.

Thinking of this, Xia Bai'an left Qian Mingshu's side: "I'll go dig the tunnel next to it."

"Damn! It's sunken like that over there, do you dare to go there?"

"If you don't dare, I'm not far from you. If you dig a box here, don't open it, just call me."

As Xia Bai'an said, she carried her skirt and went there.

Qian Mingshu's face was covered with black lines.

Whose girl is so reckless!

And it's also thanks to Mo Che who really loves Xia Bai'an, a person like her who has new ideas anytime, anywhere... usually only makes Qian Mingshu's scalp tingle, and he doesn't like it at all!

The two dug separately, Xia Bai'an finally dug up the rubble, and the collapsed tunnel only revealed a little bit of its old appearance——

"These are cellars."

Xia Bai'an muttered to himself, confirming that the soil next to him was solid, he boldly jumped down into the waist-deep tunnel, dug up the sand, and vaguely saw some burnt paper and some chains...

"Lime, sulfur..." Xia Bai'an rolled up the dust on the ground, his gaze sank, "Gunpowder."

"Found the box!"

Qian Mingshu's voice came from the side.

Xia Bai'an took another look at the scorched paper in his hand, picked it up, dug out the hole, walked towards Qian Mingshu, and saw the box in Qian Mingshu's hand - about half an arm long, Palm width, flat box.

"You have been digging for half an hour, why are you covered in mud?" Qian Mingshu looked at her unhappily.

"Fall into the pit."

Xia Bai'an dusted off the dust on his body, and showed him the burnt paper, "I saw these things in the tunnel, take a look at what kind of paper this is, I'll put the wooden box in my bag and carry it on my back."

Qian Mingshu nodded and asked, "What's in the wooden box? It's heavy."

"I don't know, anyway, just take it back."

As Xia Bai'an said, he picked up the burden that contained the wooden box, and at the same time cleaned up the mud on his body.

And Qian Mingshu looked at the paper and frowned deeply.

"I don't know if I read it wrong... Where did this thing come from in the mountains?"

"You recognize it?" Xia Bai'an hurried over.

"It looks like the government is sending money." Qian Mingshu replied.

"Use paper?" Xia Bai'an was shocked.

The two looked at each other, and the disgust in Qian Mingshu's eyes was beyond words.

When did this woman become so stupid.

He dragged Xia Bai'an back to the entrance of the tunnel, jumped down after him, looked through the chains inside, with a sullen face.

"Sometimes the government's money is sent to other places, and they are all tied with chains and locks, and then sealed with this special paper."

Government money?

Xia Bai'an frowned: "You're sure you read it right, there is not even a road in this deep mountain and old forest, where did you get the official money?"

"Is this something that can be misunderstood!" Qian Mingshu jumped up with his support on the edge of the pothole, clapping his hands, "Before they ran around with Tie Zhu and Ergou, the yamen servants who delivered the official money have seen many of them. , Thinking about helping you in the future, and getting acquainted with him a little bit, if you misunderstand these things, then there is something wrong."

It seems to be somewhat reasonable, after all, Xia Bai'an has never delivered the goods himself.

The astonishment in this aspect is indeed a useful point of Qian Mingshu.

She nodded, and smelled the smell of gunpowder left in her hand: "I probably know why the tunnel collapsed, let's go, go down the mountain."

After speaking, she weighed the burden on her back, turned around and left.

With bruised veins on Qian Mingshu's forehead, he grabbed her by the shoulder.

"Here's the fucking government money hidden here! Do you know how big a crime this is, and who are you working for!"

"You only saw the seal and chain of the official bank. It can be seen that those things have been taken away long ago and have nothing to do with us. Furthermore, the things we took must have nothing to do with the official bank." Xia Bai'an said firmly.

"How do you know it has nothing to do with Guanyin?"

"The official bank is not so light, and the ledger is not so heavy."

"..."

Makes sense.

Qian Mingshu was choked, and asked again after a long time: "Since the real thing has nothing to do with you, why did you dig it so hard? You won't secretly hide it from me..."

"It's purely to satisfy my curiosity." Xia Bai'an interrupted him bluntly, "The more information you know, the more bargaining chips you have, and the easier it is to negotiate terms in the transaction, but I don't have to go into every detail, it will be exhausting .”

Hearing this answer, Qian Mingshu's eyes darkened: "Are you telling the truth, or are you just playing me off?"

"Of course it's the truth." Xia Bai'an replied seriously, "I just didn't say something straight, but I never lied to you."