bookrebus Chapter 168: Race against time to plunder
Chapter 168: Race against time to plunder
The voice came from the room locked by Su He, and from the tone one could tell it was the village chief's wife.
Su He thought to herself that she had guessed correctly. The eldest son of the village chief was indeed not his biological son. She had been staring at the village chief when Liu Bai broke Ling's arm. She felt very strange at the time. The village chief didn't seem to be as anxious as she had imagined.
So she had a flash of inspiration and found the second son to test it out, to see whether Village Chief Ling loved money more than his sons or whether he treated his two sons differently. Sure enough, after testing, Village Chief Ling believed it was the latter.
Combined with the words of the village chief's wife, the bloody truth has come to light.
Su He sorted out her thoughts at once. Without further ado, she glanced at Wang Fugui and others behind her and said the word "cellar" to them. Wang Fugui understood immediately and took people to search.
Su He didn't have time to continue eating melons, and helped Zheng Da to inquire about the whereabouts of those people from the escort agency.
"Where are the people who came last week? Where are they?"
Village Chief Ling's face turned pale and blue after being scolded by his wife, and he looked like he had lost all hope in life, but Su He would not tolerate that.
"Xiaobai, remove the other arm of this second brother."
Liu Bai squatted down and bent down. This time Ling Laoer couldn't bear it. He screamed "Dad" and fainted from the pain.
Village Chief Ling didn't dare to pretend he didn't hear it. "In the back mountain, my eldest son wanted to bury them, but I tricked him into hiding. I hid them in a cave in the back mountain."
This is a very powerful statement. You can tell from the moment you hear it that this person wants to shift the blame to the boss, saying that they were all forced and that they were even the saviors of those people in the escort agency.
Liu Bai picked up Village Chief Ling with one hand and Ling Lao Er with the other, and dragged them both to a corner. Village Chief Ling thought he was going to be silenced and was so scared that he urinated.
"Please spare my life, hero. I have confessed everything. I hid two gold bars behind the kitchen cupboard, and there is an oil paper bag under the trough in the stable. There are three thousand taels of silver in it. I will give them all to you. Please spare my life."
Now Village Chief Ling didn't even care about his own son Ling Lao Er, and only subconsciously pleaded for himself.
Su He sneered. At this moment, there was a knock on the door. It was obviously the helper Tiedan had called for.
Su He signaled Liu Bai to go find the silver.
Zheng Da grabbed Old Man Ling and took half of the escort agency's people to the back mountain. The rest of the people stood guard at the door and confronted the people from the village outside.
"Your village chief and his family have killed many people. The government officials are on their way. I advise you not to come in, otherwise you will all be arrested and beheaded as accomplices."
Su He ran to the door and shouted at the villagers who were banging on the door frantically, "If you dare to knock again, I'll put you all in jail!"
"Uncle, don't listen to her. These people have held the village chief hostage. The village chief has treated us well on weekdays. Now is the time for us to repay him."
Tiedan outside the door tried desperately to persuade them, "We in Lingjia Village must unite and not let outsiders bully us."
Su He sneered, "If you don't believe me, go and wait at the gate. It won't take half an hour for the soldiers to arrive. If you listen to Tiedan, you will be accomplices. If you don't get beheaded, you will be exiled."
"I have locked this door. We will wait inside for the officers and soldiers to arrive."
Everyone outside the door hesitated, and Tiedan became anxious and shouted loudly.
"Hurry up and get an axe to chop down the door. If we're late, the village chief and his men will be in danger."
"How about we go to the entrance of the village and wait. If soldiers really come, we will become accomplices if we go in."
After a leader spoke, the people around him echoed him. Although the village chief was not a bad person, he was not very good to them. He just kept all the benefits for himself.
"I looked carefully and they really locked the door. Maybe what they said is true. I always thought that the village chief's eldest son had a fierce look on his face and was not a good person."
Su He took the opportunity to add fuel to the fire, "It was Ling Da who killed the man. Oh, by the way, Ling Da is not the son of your village chief. Your village chief has known about it for a long time, and the village chief's wife has also known about it for a long time, but the village chief's wife doesn't know that the village chief also knows about this."
After Su He generously shared this shocking news inside the door, he ran to the cellar to reunite with his uncle and others.
She had already seen her uncle and his men carrying boxes out of the cellar. Wang Fugui and his three younger brothers carried two large boxes out, put them in their room, and then went back in to carry more.
Wang Laowu got excited and dragged his brother into the cellar to move the things.
Su He carried a ladder to the other side and climbed up to see, "The soldiers are almost at the village gate. Everyone hurry up."
The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. They won by their own ability, and everything they can find will be considered as spoils of war.
As for whether the officers and soldiers would find out, Su He already knew on the way here that the landlords' property was not registered, which meant that no one except the landlords' family knew how much property they had.
According to the current situation, the landlord is likely to meet with an accident. Even if he is alive, the lost property will most likely be counted on the Ling family.
Su He got down the ladder and asked someone to put it back in the utility room. She ran into the room to look at the things in the boxes. Two boxes contained calligraphy and paintings. One box contained silk and satin. Another box contained women's headgear. It looked very gorgeous, but Su He was not moved at all.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Fugui and others carried over four more boxes.
Su He opened them one by one, and finally found the gold nugget in the last box.
Su He was extremely satisfied. He took advantage of the few seconds when no one was in the room to collect all the gold bars in the box. He then put the fine rice stored in the space into the box and quickly closed the box.
One of the other three boxes contained pens, inkstones, and paper, which looked very high-end, so Su He put them in the same way. He also put flour wrapped in oil paper in it.
The remaining two were fur coats, which Su He didn't want.
The sound of horse hooves in the distance was getting closer and closer. Su He directed the old and young in the family to enter the next room where there was no box. The last three boxes in the cellar were also carried out, and there was actually a box of flour in it. Now, Su He's disguise was perfect.
The other two boxes also contained some jewelry and women's clothes. Su He closed them without moving.
"Go next door and wait for the officials to come."
Wang Laowu and his men were quite obedient. They didn't even have time to look at the boxes they had carried out with great effort. They just went into the house as soon as they were told.
"I've taken all the useful ones. The rest can't be touched. We'll divide them up when it's safe."
Su He gave instructions quickly and Zheng Er, who had been guarding the door, responded. He listened to the sound of horse hooves approaching and took out the key to open the door.
Su He took the time to verify his testimony with everyone.