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Chapter 24 Stealing gold and silver, making a fortune!
The assassins were dispatched.

It is as swift as the wind, as slow as the forest, as fierce as fire, as immovable as a mountain, as unpredictable as the shadows, and as powerful as thunder.

All actions must be carried out under command, without any act of defiance.

They quietly sneaked into the Lei family's vault.

They quietly moved away box after box of silver.

The Lei family's main businesses included mining and grain, and they possessed a vast amount of silver, having built three underground vaults within their home.

The assassins infiltrated.

They only moved the gold and silver, not the copper coins.

One box weighs 200 jin (100 kg).

They made three trips, carrying a total of 150 boxes.

Break it down into smaller parts.

They were scattered and hidden in the cellars that the assassins had been digging over the past month.

After a lot of trouble.

It's bright
Early in the morning.

The already chaotic city of Shangyang has once again erupted into chaos.

……

"father!"

"It's over! It's over!"

Lei Yuanwen was devastated, looking at the three empty treasuries as if the sky had fallen.

In front of him.

It was his father, Lei Shijun, the head of the Lei family.

Even though Lei Shijun was over sixty years old, experienced, and had excellent self-control, he almost vomited blood at this moment: "Damn it! Who did this!"

damned!
These three vaults were filled with gleaming silver ingots and glittering gold ingots, totaling one hundred and fifty chests.

How much is that?
Let's do the math!
among them.

Twenty boxes of gold ingots, each weighing 200 catties, totaling 6.4 taels of gold, equivalent to approximately 128 million taels of silver.

One hundred and thirty boxes of silver ingots, each box weighing 200 catties, totaling 41.6 taels of silver.

Massive quantities!

The Lei family's accumulated wealth over generations did not exceed ten million, of which less than five million was in cash. This loss represents more than a third of their assets.

heavy.

bitter.

Lei Shijun was so angry he felt like he was going to vomit blood.

In the treasury.

The entrance to the tunnel.

Lei Yuanwu, the second master of the Lei family, emerged with a grim expression: "The tunnel is about two or three hundred feet long, and about six feet wide and high. It winds its way down to an underground culvert. The sewage in the culvert overflows the edges, washing away the thieves' footprints, making it very difficult to track them down."

Lei Shijun's face darkened even more after hearing this: "Even if we can't catch them, we must chase them! Even if we can't find out anything, we must find out!"

He gritted his teeth: "A tunnel of this scale cannot be completed easily. Thirty thousand catties of gold and silver cannot be moved by just a few people."

To plot and scheme.

It had been planned for a long time.

With such immense resources and manpower, and the ability to maintain absolute secrecy, there are probably only a handful of companies in Shangyang City.

"Investigate thoroughly!"

Lei Shijun instructed his third son, Lei Yuanwen: "Keep a close eye on the Fu family, the Lü family, and don't let the Menglou and Qingzhu Gang get away with it. If any of them make any unusual moves or make a large-scale sale of gold or silver, report back immediately!"

"Yes!"

Lei Yuanwen quickly agreed.

Stealing gold and silver!

That's disgusting.

Once we find out who did it, we'll fight them to the death without hesitation. Do they really think the Lei family has no temper after two hundred years?

Damn!

That's insulting!

……

"none of my business."

Zuo Jing was paying attention to what was to come in Shangyang City, but he wasn't worried at all.

He was in Xiayang City.

What business is it of his that your money vault in Shangyang City was robbed?

"really."

"After moving out, I won't have to be so restricted anymore."

Zuo Jing was ecstatic.

He is now at the seventh level of the Jade Remnant Realm, with an increasing number of loyal followers and more and more things he can do.

If we stay in Shangyang City, doing this and that, we'll be hesitant and timid.

That's really frustrating.

Now they can act with complete impunity.

In one night, gold and silver worth 169.6 million taels of silver were obtained. What business could compare to such a risk-free business of directly stealing gold and silver?

Even better.

"So what if I stole it?"

"The Lei family has no idea who did it."

"They'll be driven to their deaths by suffocation!"

Just like Zuo Jing felt back then.

When he went to the Lei family to inquire about his parents, the Lei family only said that he had died in a mining accident and gave him a few taels of silver to send Zuo Jing away.

He became impatient if asked again.

Zuo Jing was knocked away by a flurry of blows.

Outrageous!

Wrong!

Zuo Jing once wished he could burn the Lei family to the ground.

It's good now.

Although they didn't set the fire, the Lei family would probably be a hundred times angrier and more frustrated if their house burned down.

after all.

A house costs at most a few thousand or tens of thousands of taels.

The Lei family suffered a loss of nearly two million taels last night.

"Gold and silver are just the beginning." "As long as we can't find our parents, we'll keep tormenting the Lei family."

"Until their family is destroyed and they are all dead!"

Zuo Jing showed no mercy.

If his parents were to go mining and an accident were to occur, the Lei family would properly return the bodies and provide compensation according to the law. In that case, Zuo Jing's grief would not be attributed to the Lei family.

How did the Lei family do it?

No one is seen alive, and no body is seen dead.

That's a very misleading explanation.

The compensation offered was even more evasive.

Bullying others by abusing one's power.

That's too much of a bullying.

"You like bullying people, don't you?"

"You don't take me seriously, do you?"

"You don't value my parents' lives at all, do you?"

Well!

Then let the Lei family taste this bitterness too.

Gold and silver?

It’s nothing!
The Lei family has been a prominent family in Shangyang for two hundred years, with over a hundred direct descendants and thousands of collateral descendants.

Not only does he have an ancestral home in the city.

Outside the city, there were ancestral lands and clan fortresses, where they carved out their own territories and ruled like local tyrants.

To bring down the Lei family, simply emptying their coffers is not enough.

"We still need to wipe out their entire tribe."

"We also need to shut down their businesses."

Zuo Jing felt that Shangyang City didn't need so many centuries-old families.

It was fine before he arrived.

The world will change after he arrives.

Lei family.

have grudges.

Let's start with this one!
……

The Lei family are powerful figures; they need to be dealt with.

Even if Wang Hongfei is a little mouse, he still needs to be punished.

As early as when Canyu reached level 7 and refreshed to level 7 assassins, Zuo Jing had already put the matter of killing Wang Hongfei on the agenda.

These days.

The assassins remaining in Shangyang City paid close attention to Wang Hongfei's movements.

Nowadays.

April 29th.

Zuo Jingteng made his move, ready to eliminate this enemy once and for all.

Wang Hongfei killed someone, yet he was still able to retain his position as head constable.

These days, he and his men have been working non-stop, leading several constables to knock on doors everywhere in an attempt to find his wife and children. More importantly, he wants to find the person who coerced him and was then taken to Menglou, as well as the person who killed someone in Menglou.

Both of them were imprisoned.

They were all rescued again.

Their whereabouts remain unknown to this day.

For some reason, Wang Hongfei had a premonition that the two men, including his wife and children, were still in the city, hiding in some corner.

Generally, this premonition is correct.

Unfortunately, Wang Hongfei was wrong.

Because Zuo Jing knew clearly that Wang Hongfei's wife and children had long been sent to the deep mountains and forests by the assassins, and the two assassins who were rescued from Menglou had also left Shangyang City and gone to the reclamation base in the deep mountains and forests to dig soil and farm.

Wang Hongfei could find nothing in the city!

"Open the door!"

"The government is handling the case!"

But Wang Hongfei was certain.

do not give up.

He told his men to knock on the door, while he stood behind them with his arms crossed, looking exhausted.

These days, he's not only been tracking down assassins and his wife and children, but also dealing with the chaotic situation in Shangyang City. Wherever Shangguan points, he goes. He has personally arrested more than thirty gang members.

I'm exhausted.

I don't know what's going on in Shangyang City lately!
Previously, Shangyang City was at least peaceful, joyful, stable, and harmonious, if not exactly a place where people would pick up lost items on the road or lock their doors at night. Each faction and family acted according to their own rules, and conflicts were kept within a controllable range, often involving consultation and negotiation.

But ever since the Green Bamboo Gang and Meng Lou started fighting.

Everything has changed—

kill!
set fire!

blackmail!

blackmail!

Gang warfare is absolutely ruthless.

The government strictly forbids it.

The yamen's treasury is arresting people.

It's a problem that persists despite repeated bans.

Those green-skinned people are absolutely outrageous.

Especially the Green Bamboo Gang.

They successively defeated Wufutang and the infamous Menglou through their unscrupulous fighting methods.

"Green Bamboo Gang!"

"Green Bamboo Gang!"

Wang Hongfei's face was gloomy.

He harbors a deep hatred for the Green Bamboo Gang. His wife and children have been kidnapped and their whereabouts and fates remain unknown. Although he is a villain, he cannot help but think of his wife and children in the dead of night.

Lonely, desolate, and cold.

then.

His hatred for the Green Bamboo Gang grew stronger every day.

……

(End of this chapter)