Help! I just woke up and was stabbed by a big kid

Gu Xu took out the small bag from his arms.

The outer layer was not a sewn bag, but a complete piece of folded silk cloth. Gu Xu took out the love knot and letter inside and carefully opened the silk cloth bag.

Gu Yue leaned over to take a look, and saw that the folded cloth bag slowly unfolded and turned into a piece of cloth the size of two palms. There were some delicate embroidery on the material, and Gu Yue thought it was just an ordinary pattern, but when he opened it, he could clearly see some tricks.

It's very much like a map.

Gu Yue couldn't help but think of the floor plan of the sales office he had seen before. The pattern on this piece of material was similar to it, but it was more simple and elegant.

Gu Xu looked at the firelight for a while, then turned the side embroidered with the small word "慎" downwards.

This is a complete floor plan.

"Is this Prince Shen's Palace?" Gu Yue asked.

He saw that the word "慎" represented the gate of the entire mansion, and the lines extended to both sides. The first gap was the back house and the "entrance garden". Next was the front yard, and the corridors on both sides led to the main house.

However, the underground palace only showed a small part of the mansion. The whole mansion had several courtyards and a large garden. What they saw after entering was just the front yard.

... Judging from the roughness of these stone walls and carvings, Gu Yue firmly did not believe that this underground palace was completely modeled after the Prince Shen’s Palace.

"It should be." Gu Xu said, "According to the markings on the map, there should be a garden behind this wall."

"Instead of renovating the front hall, they made the garden so exquisite? And are the dimensions really correct?" Gu Yue compared the space they were in with the drawing and found that the stone walls representing the backyard were obviously smaller in proportion.

"I don't think they were built at the same time." Gu Xu said, "This so-called garden should have been built earlier, and these later,"

He pointed to the complex stone wall in front of him and said, "These are all rushed out."

"That makes sense." Gu Yue nodded. "So, where are the treasures I left for you? There should be a hint on this cloth."

The three of them looked at the cloth again.

At first glance, it looks ordinary. There is nothing outstanding on the entire silk surface except for the flat embroidery.

"Are there any dark patterns that can only be seen when held up to the light?" Gu Yue recalled the suspense TV dramas he had watched.

Gu Xu picked up the silk cloth and held it against the torchlight. There were no dark patterns, but when the angle changed, he could clearly see two arc-shaped silver lights flashing on the silk cloth.

"What is this?" Gu Yue immediately pointed at the two arcs.

Looking closely, it seems to be part of the embroidery, but it is more like a special silk thread that was mixed in when the silk cloth was weaved, hidden in the fibers of the cloth and difficult to detect.

One side arcs through the garden, the other falls on the edge of the void. It is not two parts of a circle, but separate, like a pair of brackets.

Gu Yue was still thinking about what this meant when he saw Gu Xu take out the heart knot.

The concentric knot is formed by two overlapping circles, and the edges on both sides just match the silver arc of the silk cloth.

The round bead in the center landed on a room in the center of the left courtyard.

"Oh!" Gu Yue suddenly realized.

What a simple but ingenious technique.

Without the experience of living in Prince Shen's mansion and understanding these crude carvings, it would be difficult to discover the secrets of the corridors hidden in the walls. And without the cloth bag left by Gu Shen and his wife for Gu Xu, it would be difficult to find the treasure mechanisms in these many stone walls.

The original text had the protagonist's halo, and Gu Xu succeeded without any clues. Now, they have more detailed information, and I think the things that were not written in the original text, such as the unique wall representing the garden in this underground palace, will also have a deeper explanation.

The three of them walked towards the location marked by the heart knot.

This is a stone chamber representing a wing room. The stone walls on all four sides extend all the way to the top and it looks about five square meters from the outside.

Where will the mechanism be placed?

There are grooves on the ground that seem to be able to move the stone wall, but there are grooves everywhere, so it is difficult to tell which one is the real mechanism. A simple and crude but effective trick.

Gu Yue and his companions walked around the stone chamber.

Suspicious plants, suspicious stone shapes, suspicious clods of earth blocking the view.

It didn't take much effort for Gu Xu to find the mechanism.

In fact, there is a mark on the silk cloth. In a corner of the pattern of this room, someone deliberately embroidered a wrong stitch. It is very inconspicuous, but that is the location of the mechanism switch.

The stone wall moved to the sides and opened up. The scene behind was exactly the same as in the original text, with an irregular gap in the ground and stairs underneath.

Treasure...treasure!

Gu Yue's hands were shaking with excitement.

This time, Gu Xu took the lead, followed by Shi San, and the three of them walked down the stairs one after another.

There is a real stone cave underneath. It is completely natural, without any traces of artificial excavation or polishing, and there are no plants.

Gu Yue's excitement immediately cooled down.

Isn't this different from what the original text describes? The author is really exaggerating!

The original text said that this was a huge stone cave. When the fire shone, the gold and silver treasures in the cave were so dazzling that people could not open their eyes. The finest gold and silver utensils and jewelry were thrown on the ground. There were rows of shelves in the corners, and on them were relatively solid but dusty wooden boxes. Wu Feng Wu Yun opened them and saw that they were filled with rows of gold bricks...

What about the real situation?

There were gold and silver jewelry, and they were indeed scattered all over the floor, but they were definitely not full of them, not even covering the floor. There were indeed wooden boxes on the wooden shelves, and they were all tightly closed. There seemed to be a connected cave on the other side, which was pitch black and it was hard to see what was inside.

It can be seen that most of those jewelry pieces are made of pure gold and silver. This kind of thing is not for use, but for trading. It is to turn gold and silver of unknown origin into jewelry so that it can be circulated legally.

Gold and silver were basically tightly controlled by the imperial court, and trading directly with ingots was very risky.

Gu Yue glanced at Gu Xu, expecting him to go up and take a look. He wanted to rush over to open the box, but it would be inappropriate for him to just open the things that parents left for their children.

Gu Xu looked around and stuck the torch into the wall.

He walked forward and opened the nearest box, which was full of gold ingots.

Gold ingots... that's fine too! Gu Yue's face was filled with joy; he was easily satisfied.

"Dad, look at what's in the other boxes." Gu Xu opened another box, and there were still gold ingots inside.

I love doing this job!

Gu Yue immediately went to open the box.

There were three shelves in the cave, with thirty-six wooden boxes, half of which were filled with gold ingots, four boxes of gold bricks, and the rest were silver ingots.

It may not seem like much, but the box is huge and deep. The silver ingots are 40 taels in size and are shaped like a rectangular boat. Each layer can hold ingots, so there are eight layers in the box.

Forty times fifty, then eight...

Gu Yue did some calculations in his head and realized that this box contained... 16,000 taels of silver!

so much!

He immediately felt that the 100 taels of profit and 120 taels of royalties he had earned through hard work in a month were nothing in front of the protagonist's father.

At this moment, he once again realized what class gap was.