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Chapter 76 - Suppressing the Riots
Mad thugs stormed into every house in the Huang Family, moving everything within sight — porcelain, jade, gold and silver, the calligraphy and paintings on the walls, the low screens on the beds, even the copper pots and the porcelain spittoons.
The Huang Family mansion was described as like a Grand View Garden in a red house dream by ignorant commoners. Today, they could finally be snatched away as they please, who would care about the life and death of a fat woman like you.
”Put it down …” That's my fur coat... ”What a sin, that's our master's Moral Proclamation Furnace, you can't snatch it from him …” The fat woman's body was covered in mud, her face was covered in tears and snot. She struggled back and forth in the crowd, trying to catch the robbers, but she couldn't.
”Mom …” ”What should we do, these people are crazy …” Very quickly, a man as fat as her stumbled over from the backyard. He knelt on the ground and hugged the fat woman as he wailed, ”Mom, my concubine, Qiao'er was snatched away by them. These bastards even tried to snatch her away …” ”Where's my dad? Let my dad come and save us …”
The fat woman was so angry that she slapped him. ”You don't even have money, and you're still thinking about girls. That bitch who bought the pill for three taels of silver is really a lost cause. There's nothing good about her ever since she entered the door …” This slap was so ruthless that it stunned the fat son. The two of them hugged each other and cried bitterly.
The entire Huang Family courtyard had been turned into a mess, all the money on the surface had been looted as quickly as possible, and in the end, even the women in the mansion had become the targets of robbery. A red-eyed man, a peasant who could not marry a wife, would leave after seeing a woman carrying the money.
At that moment, many people had already made up their minds. They would find a secluded village and cook their rice until it was cooked. When that time came, even if they wanted to flee, they would have no face to complain about it.
Adding his son to the High Scholar Huang, there were fourteen concubines in total. Adding to that, all of the twenty odd maids in his family had disappeared on this day. However, there was an exception. No one wanted to buy the fat daughter-in-law from High Scholar Huang. If she could eat and sleep, she would not know how to work.
”Son, don't be afraid. It's fine as long as we live. We have treasures. As long as we can live, we can make a comeback …” The mother and son pair hid in a corner and watched as all their wealth disappeared. However, they did not despair.
At this moment, the back courtyard of the Huang family mansion was surrounded by over ten men. The one leading the group was the one wearing gray clothes, the one who had incited them.
”The confessor surnamed Huang is inside the stable, but he can't go down there directly. This old thing is so crafty. He actually dug out an underground silver vault. In fact, the silver was hidden in the underground streets outside the walls.”
”My god, if he didn't know, he would have gone down there and dug foolishly. Who would have thought that he would move the soil out of the way?” ”Damn it, it's a good thing our advisor had such a brilliant plan. Otherwise, I would've lost another chunk of fat …”
The man in gray took a bunch of shovels from the room and threw them on the ground. As the shovel flew through the air and mud flew into the air, a huge hole as deep as a man was dug out in a short amount of time. Just as they were about to dig diagonally, two large meatballs suddenly rushed in from the front yard.
”Oh ancestor, I'll fight it out with you … ”You bunch of animals, why didn't the heavens strike you down? You're so wicked …” The people who rushed up were the fat woman and her son. They went to the stable in the backyard after they saw the thugs leaving.
Never in their wildest dreams would they have thought that the most hidden treasure trove of the Huang family, the third master's accumulated wealth of over a hundred years, would be discovered by these bandits. This was the last hope of the Huang family.
”All of you stop, all of you stop … ”I'll fight you guys to the death …” The two meatballs rushed up, but with two crisp bangs, the meatballs rolled back against the ground.
The grey-clothed person stuck the shovel into the ground, curled his lips and said, ”Fuck, I'm a bandit, I've been robbed for a lifetime yet there's no lightning from the heavens taking me away …” ”Tie them up, and let them see all their belongings …”
Too cruel, just what kind of weapon did Xiao Letian choose, it was really as insidious as him. Whoever stole their wealth in front of a miser would not be able to take this kind of torture.
Wu wu wu … The two girls broke down and lay on the ground crying in despair.
Not long after, the hole touched something hard. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a green brick wall. When the iron hammer smashed the brick wall, piles of wood box appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
”Sure, these silver boxes …” He opened the damp box and saw that it was filled with silver ingots. They were densely packed and were a little black. It seemed that they had been there for a long time.
He casually picked up one and flipped it over: ”Damn, Kang Xi, 35 years? The Huang Family was really a miser, saving money ever since Kang Xi's era? Is this the wealth that the advisors often talk about? ”
”That's right. It's very clear in the Military Advisor's book that our wealth accumulated over thousands of years far surpasses the wealth of all of Europe. However, the Chinese can control business and wealth cannot circulate, so many of our wealth is hidden underground like this … ”Aiya, Mister's explanation is too complicated, I don't understand it either. Anyway, I knew Mister was right …”
”Yes, mister came down from the heavens. If he said that collecting money was wrong, then it is wrong. We are helping them circulate. He is doing a good deed …” ”Hey, you two pigs listen up. We helped you spend the money to do good deeds for you, stop howling and wailing …”