Xie Bangui met Chen Dong, the former Yin of Jiangling Prefecture, before arriving in the afternoon.

Compared to the treasurer of Jiangling Prefecture who was tortured into a human shape, Chen Dong was obviously much luckier. Although his face was a little haggard, he was lucky that he was not tortured.

Chen Dong was worthy of everyone's background. When he saw Xie Bangui, he neither burst into tears nor got excited for no reason. Instead, he greeted Xie Bangui with a calm expression. He couldn't help but make the other party think highly of him.

Xie Bangui exchanged a few words of greetings and then went straight to the topic: "Sir Wang, can you tell me the story of the case? The more detailed the better."

"Your Excellency, please call me Chen Dong! After all, I am still waiting for punishment." Chen Dong smiled bitterly and said slowly: "This starts from the time when the emperor was preparing to send troops to Mobei last year. At that time, in order to raise military expenses, the emperor specially came from Jiangnan.

Each government mobilized 300,000 taels of gold. It was originally planned to stay overnight in Jiangling and be escorted to Beijing by the Jinyi Guards early the next morning. However, who would have thought that in just one night, that batch of gold would disappear without a trace."

Xie Bangui said in surprise: "Is it really just one night?"

"To be precise, it's three hours." Chen Dong said: "The gold arrived in Jiangling's treasury on the fixed watch day. After I personally checked and sent it to the treasury, it was already the second watch day. Just after the fourth watch, the master of Jinyiwei came

Come over and hand over the work. It never took more than three hours."

"Si——" Xie Bangui took a breath: "During this period, you never left the treasury?"

Chen Dong shook his head and said: "No! How dare I take such a big thing lightly? All the officials related to Jiangling Mansion spent the night outside the treasury. No one left even half a step."

The treasurer next to Chen Dong said in horror: "Actually...actually...I also thought that ghosts and gods were responsible for the crime, and that the underworld soldiers were robbing the gold! At that time, there were no less than two thousand troops and horses guarding outside the treasury, and they were all elite men.

, except ghosts and gods, who can transport gold away silently under our noses?

"Shut up!" Chen Dong scolded: "The sage said, Zi Buyu has strange power and chaos, what nonsense are you talking about!"

"Click——"

There was a thunderbolt in the sky at the right time. The sudden thunder and lightning illuminated the slightly gloomy house, and cast a layer of black and white light and shadow on Chen Dong's face. At first glance, it made people feel...

shudder.

"What a fucking evil!" Fatty Gao shuddered uncontrollably.

Xie Bangui stood up and said, "Let's go to the treasury and take a look."

After the Jiangling Treasury was robbed, although it has been idle, it is still guarded by government officials. It is not a place where you can enter and exit casually.

Although half a year has passed, you can still vaguely see the ruts at the entrance of the warehouse. Xie Bangui squatted on the ground and looked at it for a while and then said: "After the gold was stolen, have there been any vehicles coming in or out?"

The treasurer whispered: "It should be gone, at least not before the villain goes to jail."

Xie Bangui nodded and said, "Tell me about the scene at that time."

The treasurer pointed to the gate and said, "This is where the golden chariot entered the treasury."

"The soldiers responsible for guarding are standing outside a door."

"Second gate, there are expert guards inside."

"Master Wang and I are guarding here at the three gates."

Xie Bangui said: "Are you here at the three gates?"

"In order to facilitate the opening of the treasury! The treasury door requires a total of five keys, which can be opened by inserting them into the keyhole at the same time. Each of the four treasurers has one, and the other one is in the hands of Mr. Chen." The treasurer said with tears: "I have pity on those of me.

My colleagues, many of whom cannot survive the punishment, went ahead."

Xie Bangui comforted him by saying, "Can I still open the treasury now?"

The treasurer shook his head and said: "Without the key, no one can open it unless they force the door!"

Li Xiaoxin stepped forward and said: "I have taken out the key as evidence from the inner hall."

"Thoughtful!" Xie Bangui was not in a hurry to open the door, but stood at the door and studied the door.

The tall fat man waiting behind him was bored and chatted nonsense to the treasurer: "Hey, brother, I heard that you all have to take off your clothes when entering the warehouse, even you."

"Ah, yes...yes..." the treasurer said awkwardly: "That's to prevent private possession."

Fatty Gao grinned and said, "It is said that you can pinch out silver without wearing any clothes. Tell me, if someone can pinch out three hundred thousand taels of gold, how big of a butt would they have to have?"

Lao Qian almost found a place to sneak in, but Li Xiaoxin didn't dare to laugh even though he wanted to. Behind him, Xiao Cai, who was blushing, raised his leg and gave the fat man a kick: "How can you die if you don't disgust me?"

"Didn't I just say that?" The fat man rubbed his butt and said, "People call shit gold. Is that why?"

"Why don't you die!" Xiao Cai kicked him so hard that he almost missed the fat man and hit Xie Bangui.

Xie Bangui pushed the fat man away with determination and said: "Is this a machine door?"

"Sir, you have good eyesight!" Chen Dong said: "Every part of the treasury door is made individually by the master craftsman of the Ministry of Industry. After the door is completed, the drawings are burned on the spot. No one will copy it."

"Well, open the door!"

A few thumbs stepped forward and slowly pushed open the half-foot-thick vault door. Judging from their movements, the door was definitely not light and could at least withstand artillery bombardment.

Looking inside, the warehouse was empty. There was nothing except thick dust on the ground. Since there were windows in the warehouse, Xie Bangui and others could only light oil lamps for lighting.

Xie Bangui glanced around the warehouse and said, "Where is the box containing the gold?"

"Lost together!"

After several people looked at it separately, Fatty Gao shouted: "There is nothing to see, not even a footprint on the ground. Brother, what are you looking at?"

Fatty saw Xie Bangui squatting on the ground holding an oil lamp, and couldn't help but move closer.

"Be careful!" Xie Bangui grabbed his feet before he could settle down.

"?" The tall fat man squatted down and looked at the ants coming and going on the ground and said, "What do you think it does?"

"What do you think they have in their mouths?"

"It looks like meat!" Fatty Gao grabbed an ant, took the dark red thing in its mouth into his hand, carefully twisted it twice and said, "It's definitely meat."

Xie Bangui held up the oil lamp and moved in the direction of the ants' return, and finally stopped at a crack in the wall on the north side of the warehouse. The ants were moving in and out of the crack, carrying pieces of meat.

Xie Bangui pointed to the crack in the wall and said, "Call a few people and start digging from this place!"

Li Xiaoxin found several government officials and used tools to pry off the half-foot-thick wall bricks piece by piece. In order to prevent someone from digging holes and stealing, the outer wall of the vault was built with two layers of blue bricks sandwiched with a layer of loess.

The thickness is comparable to a city wall. But Li Xiaoxin and the others dug out the wall bricks without much effort. Apparently someone had pried it there.

As soon as the wall bricks were removed, a large number of insects and ants poured out from the loess behind, crawling over the feet of Xie Bangui and others and running for their lives.

Xie Bangui said: "Dig in the direction of the ant hole!"

Li Xiaoxin dug a few shovels and dug out a round thing from the soil: "Human head! How come there are dead people in the wall? Then the ants are moving human flesh, isn't it?"
Chapter completed!