The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 563 - 552

Chapter 563: 552

Manbao asked curiously, "How do you hide your silver?"

Bai Erlang rolled his eyes and whispered, "The silver is hidden in separate places, in the wardrobe, under the bed, wherever it’s hidden, that’s where you put it."

Unlike Manbao and Bai Shanbao, Bai Erlang was very wary of his mother, so he habitually hid money.

He lowered his voice and said, "I even secretly dug a hole under the bed and exchanged several gold pieces with my father to hide there."

Manbao and Bai Shanbao listened in amazement, then they both looked at the bare ground on top of the bed frame with shining eyes.

Bai Shanbao: "I wonder if the lady of the Yan Family is like your mother."

Bai Erlang also rubbed his hands together, "Let’s give it a try."

After all, going back would mean studying and writing, which was utterly boring.

Everyone heard this and immediately rolled up their sleeves and got to work, moving the bed frame a good ten feet away, and then they began to search under the ground where the bed had been.

Daji, who had been silently observing: ...

After a long search, they did not find the silver, but instead got their hands and clothes full of dust. Unable to hold back, Manbao asked Keke, "Keke, is there a hole with something hidden in this room?"

"Yes."

Manbao’s eyes lit up, and she urgently asked, "Where, where?"

Keke: "On the wall to the left of the host, there is something in a hole about one cubic foot in size."

Manbao immediately turned around and began to feel the wall. This side of the wall had been previously cushioned by the bed, and the positions above and below still showed some marks.

Manbao, deep in thought, felt downwards, and Keke directed her, "Move a little to the right, then down a bit more..."

Then Keke stopped talking. Manbao felt the spot where it stopped, tapped it, but heard nothing, and saw no loosening of the wall.

Bai Shanbao came over to take a look, felt it with his own hands, and then said, "This brick seems to be a bit protruding."

Saying this, he looked left and right, took a wooden stick that he had brought from the garden, and poked the brick, which indeed moved a bit.

He and Manbao exchanged glances, both excited, and began to move the brick more rapidly with the stick. Once the brick loosened, it protruded more and more, and soon it was sticking out quite a bit.

Manbao directly used her hands to move it, and Bai Erlang came over to look as well.

Under the watchful eyes of four pairs, Manbao removed the brick, and then Bai Shanbao felt the other bricks, found they were loose as well, and quickly extracted two more bricks with the help of Bai Erlang, revealing a roll of oiled paper-wrapped items.

Manbao quickly took out the object, curiously touching the tightly wrapped oiled paper, "What’s inside, hidden so securely?"

"Let’s unwrap it and see." Bai Shanbao helped to unwrap it.

Bai Erlang was excited, but also a bit disappointed, "It can’t be anything valuable."

Gold and jewelry couldn’t be wrapped like this.

The two unwrapped the oiled paper, and a booklet was revealed.

Curiously, Manbao flipped it open, "In the ninth year of Da Zhen, on the fifteenth day of the first month, a thousand taels of silver were paid to Lord Huang, the Jiedushi, and fifteen hundred taels to the Prince of Yizhou; in the eighth month on the fifteenth day, of the autumn taxes, ten percent were given to Lord Huang, and thirty percent to the Prince of Yizhou..."

Upon hearing this, Daji’s complexion changed drastically, and he snatched the booklet from their hands, wrapped it in an oiled paper, and stuffed it into his chest. He pushed the children aside, quickly restored the brick to its original place, and moved the bed frame back, aligning it with the previous marks.

Then he dragged the three dumbfounded children away.

He kept dragging them until they were back in the garden. Only then did Daji touch the booklet in his chest, knelt down, and looked at Bai Shan, "Young master, you should understand, this is not something we should see."

Bai Shanbao, no longer a child, naturally understood, but he was also a courageous young man, so he said, "We can’t look at it, but we can give it to County Magistrate Tang."

"No, absolutely not," Daji saw all three looking at him doubtfully and then spoke more calmly, "Young master, Miss Man, and young master of the hall, the Old Madam also knows a few high officials and is aware of some things. Three years ago, during the flood disaster in Yizhou, it was impossible to say that the Prince of Yizhou was innocent, but wasn’t he unpunished as well?"

"Wasn’t it said that it was due to a lack of evidence..."

"Young master is not in the royal court, how can you know if it’s because there was no evidence, or because he is a relative of the emperor?"

Bai Shanbao then fell silent.

Manbao asked, "Then what do you suggest we do?"

"Young master and Miss Man, give the item to me, I will take care of it."

"You?" Not only Bai Shanbao and Manbao, but Bai Erlang also looked at him skeptically.

"Yes," Daji said, "I will take the item back to Old Madam, and she will send it to a certain high-ranking official who will decide what to do with it."

Manbao and Bai Shanbao exchanged glances, and after quite a while said, "We can give it to you, but only if you let us have a look first."

Bai Shanbao: "Indeed, you must show us one more time first."

"That’s not possible, this is something that the young master and Miss Man shouldn’t be involved with, just glancing at those two lines of text was already inappropriate."

Daji wasn’t foolish; he was always around Bai Shanbao and Manbao and knew them best. Although the two young masters didn’t have photographic memories, they had good recall, and if they deliberately memorized the contents, the two of them, by checking with each other, might well remember most of it.

This was not something they should see or be involved with.

Daji refused their request mercilessly.

Bai Shanbao couldn’t help but put his hands on his hips, ready to pull rank, but Daji lowered his eyes and said, "Young master, Miss Man, we’ve been inside for quite a while, Zhou SiLang should have bought lunch by now. If we don’t go back, and Mr. Zhuang finds out when he returns this evening..."

Manbao shuddered, remembering she had forgotten about lunch and her older brother.

Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang also felt a bit afraid and immediately ran towards the surrounding wall. Forget it, they thought, after eating they would just find Daji to have another look, there was plenty of time after all.

The three ran like the wind towards the big hole. Bai Erlang ran the fastest, so he was the first to squeeze through, Bai Shanbao let Manbao go second.

As Manbao crawled out, she saw her older brother Zhou SiLang leaning against the wall with a stick, giving her a sly grin while Bai Erlang stood helplessly on one side, shrugging at her.

Bai Shanbao also came out, and then Daji jumped down from the wall.

As soon as Daji landed, Zhou SiLang couldn’t help but scold him, "You really should have stopped them from this nonsense, why didn’t you?"

Daji just smiled at him, explaining, "I am a servant, I just need to follow my masters."

Bai Shanbao almost immediately extended his hand, "Then give me the booklet."

Zhou SiLang asked, "What booklet?"

"It’s the one we got from..."

"Young master," Daji interrupted him, asking, "Isn’t it past lunchtime now? Aren’t you hungry?"

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