Soon he dug out the mud and sand and dug out a few bricks. But after picking up these bricks, Ma Qianzhu felt very sad when he saw them. Because these bricks were ordinary blue bricks, they were originally laid on the ground before he bought this mansion and changed it to Qinlou Qinlou, with patterns carved on it. His gold bricks were laid on these blue bricks. Now they were dug up but there were no gold bricks, and the bricks below were paved, which meant that the gold bricks on it were really gone.

The rich man Ma was almost collapsed and fell straight down. Niu ** and others next to him supported him and did not fall into the water. The rich man Ma suddenly went crazy again and took a shovel to shovel himself. He changed to another place, digged out the mud and sand, and digged with a hoe, and finally dug up a few more bricks, but they were all just the blue bricks that had been laid to the bottom, without the trace of the bricks made of his golden soil.

The rich man Ma was so sad and desperate that he couldn't even speak. Niu ** who was following him quickly ordered everyone to look for him in the water. So, almost all the money was done. The people from Chunhua Tower mobilized them and all took hoes and shovels to dig in the water. However, after working for a long time, no one dug a brick. All the gold bricks on the floor disappeared.

The rich man Lu Jinping and others didn't know that this kind of gold-colored powder is extremely rare and water-soluble, and it will not affect it even if it is burned into bricks. If it is only exposed to a small amount of water, it will not have much impact, but if it is soaked in water for a long time, it will dissolve and drift away in the water.

After laying these gold bricks again, it rarely rained in Tongzhou City. There was a rain on the day when the wind butterfly was killed. The time was very short and it passed quickly. Because it did not have a long soaking, the impact was not great. This time it was different. The flood soaked these gold bricks all night. Moreover, the amount of water was very large. The entire gold bricks were soaked in water. After a long time, it gradually dissolved, mixed in the flood and sand, flowing along the water, disappearing without a trace.

After being convinced that there was no golden brick in the entire Chunhua Tower, the rich man beat his chest and stamped his feet and cried loudly, almost fainting. Lu Jinping was also very sad for him, and not only comforted him a few words.

After all, Ma Qianzhu was also a person who had been struggling in the business world for many years. He had experienced too many storms and waves. Therefore, after crying, he quickly calmed down again. Then he stopped his tears and thanked Lu Jinping. He also asked Lu Jinping to come to his yard to serve tea. Lu Jinping was about to talk to him, so he agreed and followed him to Ma Qianzhu's residence. In a corner of the back garden of Chunhua Building, there was an independent yard.

They came to the garden with muddy water. Because the flood had reached such a high thigh, they could only sit cross-legged on a few round tables in the flood. In ancient times, they were generally not used to building more than two floors, and most of them were bungalows. Since it was a bungalow, there was no way to sit out of the water.

Fortunately, these servants were smart and brought some round tables and put them together in the living room. The customary tables in the Tang Dynasty were all round. They were spliced ​​together like lotus flowers, but there were gaps in the middle. This round table could be higher than the water surface. If you put a couch on the round table, you could leave the water surface.

Lu Jinping and the rich man Ma sat on the round table in the soft couch, surrounded by turbid floods. The servants served tea.

Lu Jinping asked: "Ma Qianzhu, where did you buy these gold and earth?"

The rich man Ma thought that Lu Jinping wanted to persuade him to go and buy some more, so he sighed and said with tears in his eyes: "Sir, I am not crying with you. For the sake of this Chunhua Building, I have sold all my money and sold several industries and shops, so I have raised enough money to build this Chunhua Building. Most of the money was invested in this golden earth. This golden earth is very precious. The seller refused to give up the price, and there are others who want to buy it. I like this soil very much, so I bought it and shipped it back to Tongzhou. Who would have thought that a big flood..., and the bricks burned by the golden earth were completely destroyed. It's really a death for me!"

Lu Jinping said: "Then can you find that seller?"

The rich man Ma shook his head and said, "I can't find it. He is from a foreign country. He said that this kind of land was obtained by chance. There is only so much, not much. He was eager to use the money to make a move, otherwise he wouldn't be willing to sell it. In addition, even if I find him, I'm afraid I can't afford it to buy it again. This thing is too expensive."

Lu Jinping said: "Do you have anything left? A little bit is OK."

When Ma Qianzhu heard Lu Jinping talking about gold and earth continuously, he finally understood that Lu Jinping’s goal was on this land. He quickly took a closer look and said: “Sir, do you want to buy this kind of earth too? It’s a pity that that person is indeed from overseas countries, and he doesn’t know where he comes from, so he really has nowhere to look for it!”

"I'm not going to buy soil for him. I'm a little curious about this kind of soil, so if you have some left, can you give me a little? Just a little bit."

The rich man Ma quickly laughed and said, "There is still a small bag left, not much, and I gave it to the Lord. It's useless for me to keep it. Since this kind of thing cannot be met with water, what's the use? Sir, wait, I'll get it for you."

After saying that, after the rich man Ma claimed the crime, he entered his inner room with water. After a while, he carried a small bag of things, sat up to the round table, and handed the small bag of things to Lu Jinping. Lu Jinping opened his pocket and saw that it was indeed half a bag of gold and soil. He nodded and said, "I'll give it to you how much I want."

The rich man quickly put his hands around and said, "No, this small half bag of soil is not worth much, I will give you all the Lord. I just want to take care of you in the future."

Lu Jinping said: "Don't worry, as long as I can help you, I will do my best to help you. This time, the murder case of Old Lady Huang has been solved. Although the case of several people has not been solved, this flood is probably destroyed. It is meaningless to keep it on the scene. When the water recedes, you can open your business by yourself. Only after the door is opened can you make money back as soon as possible. Although there are no gold bricks and it seems that some temptation has been lost, I believe that your smartness in the rich man, you should get better soon."

The rich man Ma couldn't help but be overjoyed, stood up and bowed, and said, "Thank you, Sir! The villain is so grateful."

Lu Jinping carried the small bag of soil and was about to leave the round table. At this time, a vague crying sound came from outside, and there were crying in the cries, intermittently: "My daughter, you died so miserably, you burned so hard that you didn't even have bones. Why did God treat me like this?"

Lu Jinping's face darkened, he turned his head and looked at the rich man Ma and said, "What? Someone in your yard was burned to death?"

If the sound from outside said that someone was dead, Lu Jinping would not have burned him to death. The man cried and said that he was burned to death so much that his bones were not left. This was clearly the same as Feng Die and Zhu Yunniang and others were burned to death. Therefore, it immediately aroused his alertness.

The rich man Ma was very frightened and said hurriedly: "I don't know, I'll ask, Lord, please rest here for a while, I'll come back soon to report to Lord." He was in a panic and jumped off the round table and went out with water.

Seeing that his expression didn't seem to be telling the truth, Lu Jinping seemed to know this, but he pretended not to know it in order to cover it up. Sure enough, after only a moment, the rich man Ma came back with a panic and bowed, "Yes, a maid in my house was burned to death, and he was crying about his mother just now. I have been outside before, so I never learned that I did not report to the Lord, please forgive me."

It is obvious that the rich man Ma actually knew it, but he was really shady by this series of murders, trying to reduce the situations that outsiders know as much as possible to avoid more damage to the reputation of Chunhualou. So he concealed the disappearance of these maids in the inner house and did not tell Lu Jinping. Unexpectedly, Lu Jinping heard her mother's crying and blamed him for not giving any advice before. Now he can only tell the truth, hoping that Lu Jinping would not blame him for this.

Lu Jinping said: "Take me to have a look."

The rich man Ma quickly bowed in front of him to lead the way and took Lu Jinping to a wing room. After entering, he found that there were two corpses parked in the wing room, covered with white cloth. Lu Jinping couldn't help but look at the rich man Ma and said, "What's going on?"

The rich man Ma was a little panicked. If it weren't for the water on the ground, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to apologize. He said tremblingly: "That's right. Last night, when the lightning was the most powerful, I was worried about the situation in Chunhua Building. I took a few servants to patrol everywhere in the building and found that the flood had become bigger and bigger and had already spread across the embankment. I then ran back and took the people back to the inner house, asking the old wives and maids in the inner house to put things high up so as not to be flooded. But my two maids were not in the trace. I was a little surprised and asked the others that they had not seen it. So I broke into my bedroom and found that they had been killed in the maid's house outside the bedroom. One was lying on the bed, burning it like a charcoal. The other was floating in the water, with flames flashing on my body, which scared me to death."

Lu Jinping felt aroused in his heart and asked, "Your maid can still burn when she falls into the water? What's going on?"

The rich man nodded and said, "It's really weird. He really caught fire. I and several servants who followed me all saw it. But the flame was very weird."

"Which weird? What a weird trick?"

"The flame is blue and not tall, like it is surrounded by furry fluff, and it has been burned to her body, but its hands and feet have not yet burned."

“Flush blue flame?”

The rich man Ma nodded, his eyes full of fear, and said, "I was also frightened by this scene. I thought that if this matter was spread, the legend of Chunhua Tower must be haunted would be a sure thing. These are the reasons why I dare not say it out and dare not report to you, Mr. Lu. If my Chunhua Tower collapses, I am afraid I will not be able to survive." (To be continued.)
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