Daming: The system rejected my request for salted fish

Just when Wei Wu was puzzled, Lu Yao beside him suddenly explained:

"Sir, Yangzhou has a well-developed water network, which makes it prone to backwash. If a house is unoccupied, it will easily breed snakes, insects, rats and ants."

"So I sprinkled lime and realgar here to prevent it from getting too damp and to prevent insect pests. Please forgive me."

He did understand what Lu Yao said. The return of the south wind in the southern region was indeed terrifying.

I used to watch those videos online, and when I returned to the south, my home was like a water curtain cave.

But Wei Wu was just curious about these arrangements and didn't mind them. It wasn't his house anyway.

So after Lu Yao finished speaking, he simply waved his hand.

"Okay, it's not my house, go get the silver first!"

Lu Yao nodded, and then led a group of people to the room behind the main house.

In front of Wei Wu and the others, he lifted up a piece of floor, revealing a metal handle hidden underneath.

"Five hundred thousand taels of silver is all the property Lu Yi left me. To be on the safe side, I divided it into three parts."

"Two houses in the city each hid 100,000 taels of silver. The remaining 300,000 taels were hidden by me in the mountains outside the city."

As he spoke, Lu Yao suddenly grabbed the metal handle and pulled it upwards.

Then I saw a thick wooden board the size of a door panel being lifted up, and there was a passage hidden underneath the board.

"Wealth should not be exposed, so I put all the silver in the basement to prevent thieves from accidentally breaking in and taking it away."

"It's dark and damp down there, and since you are so delicate, please allow me to take these guards down to get the silver!"

Wei Wu didn't think the adjective "delicate and precious" had anything to do with him.

But to be on the safe side, he really didn't plan to go down there himself. Who knows what the situation is down there.

So after Lu Yao finished speaking, he simply nodded and then looked at Zhang Hai.

"Zhang Hai, take two people with Lu Yao and go down there to check the situation first, then come back and report."

After hearing Wei Wu's order, Zhang Hai said nothing and directly called out two people.

One person was sent down first, then Lu Yao was allowed to go down second, and finally he followed.

In this way, Lu Yao is sandwiched in the middle, one in front and one behind, to prevent him from doing anything tricky.

Although Wei Wu didn't say anything, Zhang Hai always insisted on the idea that it is better to be safe than sorry.

Even if Lu Yao doesn't look threatening, he won't let his guard down easily.

But this time there was really no danger.

After entering the passage, Lu Yao first picked up a torch from the wall and lit it with a tinder.

Then he took Zhang Hai and the other two and walked about ten meters, and the space around them became much larger.

This is a cellar-like space, with large wooden boxes placed in the middle.

These wooden boxes are much larger than the thousand-liang wooden boxes used by the imperial court to transport silver.

There is absolutely no problem in putting three thousand taels of silver in a box.

Zhang Hai picked up a few wooden boxes and opened them for inspection. Most of them contained silver, and a small number contained gold and jewelry.

He couldn't calculate the value of the gold and jewelry, but he could make a simple estimate of the quantity.

There are probably more than forty wooden boxes here, and the total value should be no less than 100,000 taels.

After confirming that there was no danger around and the amount of money was sufficient, Zhang Hai returned to the entrance.

"Master, there's no danger down there. It's just that there's too much silver. It might take a while to move it."

Too much silver to carry?

After hearing Zhang Hai's words, Wei Wu suddenly thought of a very realistic problem.

There was no way he could take these 500,000 taels of silver away!

In the Ming Dynasty, one catty was worth sixteen taels, so five hundred thousand taels of silver would equal more than thirty-one thousand catties.

Not to mention whether we can carry so much silver, even if we can, it will probably take a year to reach Rencheng!