The old lady is reborn

Rong Huaian saw that he could not get anything out of him, but his purpose of making a show of force had been achieved, so he said goodbye to his boss, came out of the blacksmith shop, and went straight back to the Jingzhao Yin Yamen.

Colleagues are already keeping an eye on what's happening in the blacksmith shop.

After Huai'an left, the second shopkeeper said to the boss, "Dou Yang left without saying goodbye, and took Li Bing with him."

The two men discussed, "There is no other way now, except to transfer the remaining gold we have.

As long as they can't find anything, we are operating in compliance with the law. Even if three people died, or six, we can only watch without evidence."

Jingzhao Yin quietly surrounded his colleagues in the blacksmith shop and discovered that the shop was transporting iron ingots out through two corner doors.

After watching for a while, the Jingzhao Yin Police Station seized the batch of iron ingots.

After both parties learned the news, Dong Jia and Rong Huaian met again.

Huai'an held an iron ingot in his hand: "Boss, can you explain it?"

"Explain what?"

"Can you explain why this iron ingot is so heavy?" Gold is much heavier than iron of the same size.

But the owner continued to play dumb: "How can the iron lump not be heavy?"

"Gold is iron, and iron is gold, so that's what they say. Is this a piece of gold covered with a layer of iron?"

Seeing that he could no longer keep the secret, the boss seemed to want to make a big deal out of a small matter: "You can see our business. The government funds are not enough, so we just buy some from other shops privately."

Huai An was happy: "It seems that the boss has now remembered the amount of official funds for his shop in a year?

Don't be impatient. Wait until the skin of this batch of iron ingots is melted and the gold is taken out, then we can see how much there is. "

The blacksmith shop had been sealed off by soldiers, and all the workers and craftsmen were separated and concentrated in two rooms, guarded by soldiers.

Only ten blacksmiths continued to work, responsible for removing the iron sheets wrapping the gold bars.

After melting and cooling, gold ingots began to appear in front of everyone.

Faced with so much gold, the owner remained calm: "This is the government gold we bought from six other shops. Although it exceeds our own limit, it doesn't count as a fundamental violation of the state law, right?"

Huai'an said, "If that's the case, why sacrifice three lives?"

He paced in the yard of the blacksmith shop and suddenly said, "So that's what happened."

Huai'an looked at the owner and said, "In addition to the blacksmith shop, gold and silver wares, and bronze wares that we can see in your shop, there must be another blacksmith shop that we can't see, right?"

Dongjia looked up in shock.

Li Tubo came over and asked Huai'an: "What did you find?"

Huai'an pointed with his hand: "These walls."

Li Tubo was completely confused: "What happened to these walls?"

Huai'an looked at the host who was finally getting nervous: "These walls are not the real outer walls, because the color and height are the same, so when we came in and saw them, we thought they were the walls. In fact, the real walls are behind these walls.

The landlord wrote the Chinese character "回" on the land he bought by building double walls inside and outside.

There is an additional blacksmith shop, or goldsmith shop, hidden between the two walls.”

Li Tubo: "So you were actually measuring the length when you were pacing back and forth in this yard just now?"

Huai'an nodded: "The busy work scene here is very deceptive and it is easy to make mistakes. Only by measuring it can we get the correct result.

The length and width of this shop are far from enough."

Huai'an asked his boss again: "The blacksmith and the night watchman were both killed because they accidentally discovered or broke the secret.

The blacksmith discovered a nugget of gold hidden in a sheet of iron, disguised as a nugget of iron. The night watchman discovered a shop inside the courtyard wall that he normally wouldn't see, and perhaps that night he saw a door that normally wouldn't be opened."

The owner: "What do you mean by invisible shop? Since you can't see it, how can you say there is such a shop?"

He thought that the shop was well hidden and that even the door was not easy to find. Even if they figured it out now, as long as they couldn't find it, they couldn't make something out of nothing.

Huai'an: "I don't plan to look for that door or entrance, so why bother?

Just have someone swing a sledgehammer and smash down this wall, and then you'll know what's behind it, right?"

Li Tubo nodded. He liked this method very much. The laborers who were demolishing the walls and building the houses were called in to swing sledgehammers and smash the walls at different places in the yard.

Under the curious, expectant and nervous gazes of the crowd, as several holes appeared in the wall, they could already glimpse that things were the same as Huai'an said.

Li Tubo looked into the hole in the wall, not sure whether he was talking to Dongjia or Huai'an: "How did you come up with this idea?"

Li Tubo waved his hand and said, "Our people go in and take out all the gold or iron nuggets inside.

Let's see how much gold is hidden in this shop?"

The number of hidden items is obviously astonishing, and even the boss has to bow his head now.

Huai'an asked him: "Do you have another chance to tell me where this gold came from?

I think the accountant probably knew where I came from, so he was also silenced.

If you don't tell us, it probably won't take us too long to find out.

You won’t have any chance at that time.”