Chapter 56: County Magistrate Zheng’s black account!

This time, when he sneaked into the Zheng family late at night, Li Zhao originally wanted to find an opportunity to kill Zheng County Chief. In that case, he would avenge himself and get rid of a great disaster for the people of Wu'an County. It would be a great merit!

But this old fox was too cautious. No matter where he walked, he was surrounded by guards, and he had no chance to start.

But, Li Zhao had just seen it clearly that after County Magistrate Zheng accepted the bribe, he wrote something in a booklet.

In other words, the booklet is a black account, which records many illegal things. If you take this black account into your own hands, it is equivalent to grabbing the old fox's tail, and it will not be difficult to kill him!

"Um?"

Li Zhao pushed the rear window, which was tightly closed and could not be opened at all. It seemed that he could only walk through the front door, but the front door was not easy to walk through.

The old fox knew the importance of the study and deliberately left two guards to watch.

In the middle of winter, the weather was cold and the two guards did not stand at the door, but got into a small doorman next to them, and made a few side dishes and a jar of wine, eating and drinking happily.

"Young Master, what should I do?"

"It's easy to deal with. Twist the tiger away from the mountain, and then put something in their food and drinks to let them have a good sleep. Do you understand?"

"Little understand!"

After nodding slightly, the Sun Rat stole and entered the dark place on the side of the small doorman, perfectly hiding his body.

Immediately afterwards, Li Zhao picked up a small stone and bounced it hard towards a big tree in the center of the courtyard, making a big collision sound... "Click!"

"Second brother, there seems to be something going on in the yard, let's go out and have a look."

"I guess it's a wild cat. Don't be suspicious. Let's continue drinking."

"Stop drinking, go out and have a look. What if the person comes to a thief?"

The door of the small gatehouse opened, and the Niu brothers walked out with a lantern in one hand and a weapon in the other, searching towards the center of the courtyard...

Taking this opportunity, the Sun Rat rushed into the small doorman like lightning, poured a small bag of sweat pills into the wine jar, and after stirring a little, it retreated like lightning and continued to lurk in the darkness... The whole process did not exceed ten breaths.

After a while, the Niu brothers who had found nothing came back...

"Brother, I'll just say it's okay. This is the residence of the county magistrate. Who dares to come here to steal? Unless he's tired of living!"

"Oh, I'm too worried. Let's continue drinking. This Erguotou is so good. It's warm all over and it doesn't matter if you drink it."

"Okay, keep drinking!"

The Niu brothers entered the small gatehouse and continued to drink and eat... After a while, there were snoring sounds inside.

nailed it!

Li Zhao and Bai Sun Rat walked out of the darkness and quickly came to the study door. A bronze lock was hung on the wooden door, which was easy to solve.

The sun rat pulled out a thin and long steel bar, tinted it in the keyhole for a few times, and then opened the bronze lock... After pushing open the door, he was about to step in, but Li Zhao stopped him.

"Young Master, what's wrong?"

"Be careful and look at your feet!"

"It's nothing under your feet...ah, this old fox is so cunning!"

The sun rat looked at his feet and found nothing wrong at first, but with the bright moonlight, he looked carefully and couldn't help but feel scared and sweating.

It turned out that before County Magistrate Zheng left the study, he secretly sprinkled a thin layer of incense burner ash at the door. If someone rashly broke in, footprints would definitely be left on the ground... In this way, it would be exposed.

Fortunately, Li Zhao was particularly vigilant and discovered the trap set by the old fox, so he was not deceived.

Next, how can I enter the door?

Simple!

Li Zhao took a few steps back and accelerated forward and rushed forward. A beautiful fish jumped forward and flew into the study, landing silently, as agile as a raccoon.

The day mouse followed suit and successfully entered the study.

The two of them covered the door in vain and searched the study with the hazy moonlight coming from the window silk... There was no on the table.

On the bookshelf, nothing.

There isn't in the cabinet either.

...

After searching the entire study room, I still couldn't find the black account. I saw that Zheng County Chief took it into the inner room, how could it not be there?

Li Zhao and Bai Rishi looked at each other and thought of two words at the same time: Secret Room!

Most of the high-ranking officials, landlords and wealthy people like to build a secret room at home to store some precious things or do some shameful things. As a cunning person, Zheng County Chief must have a secret room in his study.

The two of them searched carefully again and found an extremely secret door behind the mahogany bookshelf.

The door panels of the secret door are made of iron wood. This wood is grown in Lingnan and is famous for its "hard texture and comparable to steel". The door panels are also coated with white gray, which is integrated with the entire wall. No wonder I didn't find it just now!

What’s even more terrifying is that there is a large dog-head lock hanging on the secret door!

This is a special lock, which is shaped like a dog's head, with two rows of solid lock teeth inside, which are tightly closed together like dog teeth. Without a key, it is difficult to open!

What’s even more terrifying is that there is a hidden mechanism in the dog head lock. If the lock is unlocked incorrectly, the mechanism is activated and the blade pops up, it will cut off the finger of the unlocker. It is really amazing!

However, it is extremely difficult to make a dog head lock and the cost is high. Generally, only the government's silver warehouses, arsenals and other important places will be used. Unexpectedly, Zheng County Chief also has a handful at home. It is probably because he bought it for his own sake.

"Day Rat, can it be opened?"

"Yes, but it takes a lot of effort, at least two hours!"

"Two hours?"

It is already the third day of the year, and it will be the fifth day of the year in two hours. It is almost dawn at that time. Even if the secret door is opened and the things inside are obtained, the two of them may not be able to escape from the Zheng family's house.

What to do, can you fail?

"Hehe, young master, don't worry, it does take two hours to open the dog head lock, but if you want to enter this secret room, it's enough to have two incense sticks."

“How to say it?”

"Simple, just remove this door. After the matter is done, put it back and use the villain's skills to ensure that there is no trace left."

A door is composed of door frames, door shafts, door leafs, door hairpins, door locks... If any part is wrong, it will affect the function of the entire door; while the Zheng family only pays attention to door leafs and door locks, but ignores door piers and door hairpins. The former is used to support the door shafts, while the latter plays a fixed role.

The Sun Rat took out a cloth bag, which contained a small knife, a shovel, a hammer, awl... and all kinds of strange tools, and then attacked the secret door.

There are some orders of hearing and profession, and specialize in art. The Sun Rat is not good at other aspects, and his martial arts value is even worse. But when it comes to the ability to slip door and pick locks, it is definitely at the level of the ancestor.

After less than two incense sticks, he dismantled the door pier and hairpin. Without these two things, the entire secret door was useless... Seeing this, Li Zhao couldn't help but give out his thumbs, and he was even more secretly glad that he had accepted this helper.

Those who crowed and thieves often helped achieve great things. The ancients did not deceive me!

The secret room was located underground. The two of them took out the fire stick and walked down the steps with the light. A secret room appeared in front of them, each with a length of one zhang and a height of about eight feet. The surroundings were made of solid blue bricks.

In the secret room, there are a large number of good things: pearls, jade, jade, coral, gold ingots, silver ingots... Under the illumination of fire folds, it is dazzling and dazzling.

There is no doubt that these gold, silver and jewelry were plundered from the people for many years by the Zheng County Magistrate. In order to loot these jewelry, I don’t know how many families were destroyed and how many people died unjustly. Such crimes are angered by heaven and man!

Not only that, there is a large box of gold bricks in the corner of the secret room, which is the same size and weighs about five kilograms. It is also engraved with the word "gong" on it, which turns out to be a tribute gold!

It turned out that there was a gold mine in Zhongnan Mountain, which was of great quality. After mining, it was cast into gold bricks and then paid tribute to Chang'an City to create goldware for the royal family... Even the tribute was corruption, and this crime alone was enough to kill the entire Zheng County Magistrate.

...

"Young Master, the gold, silver and jewelry that the villain has seen in his life are not as much as in this secret room. Let's choose some valuable ones to take away?"

"No, the old fox Zheng regards wealth as his life. He must come down to check it out frequently. Not to mention a rare treasure, even if he lacks a silver ingot, he may notice it. If he is alert to this, all our efforts will be wasted."

"So many gold, silver and jewelry can only be seen, not taken, the villain feels uncomfortable all over... Woo woo!"

"Okay, if you can't bear it, you'll be able to make a big plan. You'd better bear it. I can guarantee that you will have ten times more gold, silver and jewelry than here in the future, so that you can count money every day and get cramps in your hands!"

"Yes, the villain...tolerate!"

Even if a gentleman is a gentleman, he will inevitably feel greedy when he sees so many gold, silver and jewelry. What's more, a thief, who is like an old cat wearing a salted fish, is so greedy that he is itchy all over his body.

Fortunately, the Sun Rat had a good willpower. He bit his tongue several times and finally controlled himself and did not steal.

More importantly, he has always believed in Li Zhao's words and will have a lot of money in the future... At that time, he will sleep with gold every day.

...

After calming down, the two began to look for the black account. But after searching for a while, they couldn't find it. What's going on?

Could it be that the black account is not hidden in this secret room?

Or is there another secret room in the study?
Chapter completed!