The mountains are densely wooded, and many places seem untouched by humans, making them difficult to search.

Governor Duan also followed them into the mountain to search. As soon as they entered the mountain, they divided into several teams and dispersed. Their group went directly to the thieves' den - oh, the mountain stronghold.

The village is behind a large rock. Most of the mountains on the grassland are not high, and this one is naturally not very steep. However, with this mountain wall, the village is directly isolated inside. It is rare to find such a mountain village that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Governor Duan said: "Because of this barrier, they can never be wiped out."

He suppressed bandits four times, and only twice did he drive people out of this grassland and into this village. One of them was planned for half a year, using caravans as bait to lure most of the horse thieves out of the mountain, and then suppressed them.

Kill them, then send people forward to lure the enemy, then disperse them and drive them out.

But this time, it was because they had invaded the mountain stronghold last time and had searched the mountain, so they had a general understanding of the situation in the mountain. They took advantage of the daybreak and the people in the mountain stronghold were sleepy and went around from another path to guard the guard.

The people were killed before entering.

Governor Duan led them in. Bai Shan and the others saw the messy houses inside and couldn't help but feel disgusted. "There are so many people, why don't they build the houses neatly?"

Governor Duan: "...They are thieves. This is a den of thieves, not a city."

Man Bao looked left and right and asked, "It's such a big place. Didn't they hide the treasure here?"

Governor Duan said: "We have searched carefully, and this is not the first time. Although there is a lot of property found, it is very different from what we expected."

It is not that there is no property at all in the den of thieves. There is still some gold, silver, jewelry, cloth, tea and other things, but no one believes that these are all the property of the horse thieves. They are lying.

If they are so poor, why would they want to be horse thieves?

Is it exciting to tie your head to the waistband of your pants?

This was the first time for Man Bao and the others to enter the den of thieves, and they were very curious.

Adhering to the principle of increasing their knowledge, a few people visited in detail. Oh no, they searched the den of thieves. Keke muttered twice, "Host, about 868 steps to the left, right in front."

There are things hidden at about 219 paces and 560 paces to the right rear."

This is a unit of measurement that Manbao is very familiar with. Manbao responded in his heart and did not take the people there directly. Instead, he followed everyone to search them out with great interest.

The location that Ke Ke reported to her must be a place where a lot of things are hidden, but each of the thieves must have private property, so Man Bao felt that they should also hide something.

She is very interested in scavenger hunts.

Keke didn't rush her, he just kicked a door open and walked in without hesitation.

Bai Erlang was startled by the sound of the door hitting the wall, and complained: "Can't you be gentler?"

"This will give you momentum. Isn't it written in the book that the officers and soldiers are like this when they search?" Man Bao said: "They are very ferocious. They just break down the door and enter, and then they can find all kinds of treasures."

She had a very good reason, "No one will live in these houses anyway. They are considered abandoned. Why not kick them out?"

The officers (the governor Duan) and the soldiers (soldiers) on the side remained silent. Do you think they are treating them as minions?

Bai Shan tilted his head and began to think, then turned to the governor Duan and said, "Why not push down these houses to prevent people from climbing up the mountain and weeding in the future."

Governor Duan: "... demolishing a house also requires manpower and material resources."

Bai Shan shook the unstable door and looked up at these dusty houses. He didn't understand. What manpower and material resources would be needed to demolish such houses?

Man Bao said excitedly: "Then we will dismantle it for you?"

Governor Duan extended his hand and said, "Do whatever you want, Imperial Physician Zhou."

He didn't understand. It was obviously a tiring day, but today the military doctor could hardly get out of bed. Zhou Liru also complained that his feet hurt, but this obviously the busiest person became more energetic after a good sleep.

Man Bao started walking around the room, saying it was casual, so she wouldn't be particularly cautious when searching for things.

Bai Shan and Bai Erlang also let go of their hands and feet, and the three of them kept throwing things out. Governor Duan saw the wooden shelves and various sundries falling in front of him, and was speechless for a long time.

He couldn't help but said: "Master Zhou, our people have searched these houses..."

He thought they were looking for clues to the treasure, not to search the houses of these horse thieves again.

Man Bao turned a deaf ear and said perfunctorily: "Let's look for it again."

While she was talking, she had already dismantled half of the bed, climbed in and took a look. After a moment, she said happily: "There is really a hole in it."

When Bai Shan and Bai Erlang heard this, they immediately dropped what they were holding and ran up, "Take a pottery quickly and see if there is anything strange under the mud. Someone may dig a hole, lay it with wooden boards, and then lay it with soil to hide something."

"

Man Bao was knocking inside, and then said: "There is no problem underground."

After a moment, she said "Wow", and then Governor Duan saw her legs moving out quickly, and she climbed out after a while. She didn't get up, just sat on the ground, stretched out her hands forward, and Governor Duan almost fell.

Blinded by flash.

His eyes widened, "This is..."

"Wow -" Bai Shan and Bai Erlang were more excited than him and asked quickly: "With so many gems, are there any more in them?"

Man Bao shook his head, "No more, these are wrapped in oil paper, seven in total."

Man Bao picked out the most beautiful ones and stuffed them into his purse. Halfway through stuffing them, he remembered something and immediately gave one to each of Bai Shan, Bai Erlang and Duan Jishi. He said with a smile: "Everyone who sees you has a share, and everyone who sees you has a share..."

"

Governor Duan:......

He accepted it silently, and then gave the soldier a wink.

The soldiers left, and after a while, the soldiers who were conducting a perfunctory search rushed into each room like wolves and began to dig through the wall behind the bed.

Bai Shan and Bai Erlang divided the room and immediately took Man Bao and rushed to another room. They saw people there along the way, so the three of them went to the innermost room.

The courtyard in the middle belongs to the bandit leader and his henchmen. Even the house is bigger and neater than other houses.

Duan Jishishi said: "They took possession of several of the women they snatched..."

Manbao waved his hand and said: "Let's go search!"

So before Duan Jishi could finish his words, the three of them rushed in. One started to crawl under the bed, the other started to look for something in the bathroom, and the other started to rummage through the cabinets.

It was a real rummaging, everything in the boxes and cabinets was dug out, even a piece of clothing was taken away as stolen goods, so now the cabinets and boxes are empty.

Bai Shan directly turned the box over, pushed the cabinet over, and then banged it. Under the watchful eyes of Governor Duan, he pried open a corner of the cabinet, and then took out two thick gold pieces.

Bai Shan weighed it and was not sure of the weight, so he handed it to Daji.

Daji weighed it and said, "About four taels."
Chapter completed!