Night falls again.

Hong Wei also came to the "West Lake Elegant Tower" that has not yet been completed.

Unlike last night, the construction site was empty tonight, and there was no worker who had to lay the floor.

Hong Wei understood that this meant that his "lost" last night had worked, and the other party must have been ready and was waiting for him.

Sure enough, before he could enter the lobby on the first floor, he noticed that someone was in the darkness, and a large group of people.

Unfortunately, although there are many people, judging from the breathing of these people, they are all ordinary people, and there is not even a single one who knows martial arts.

Hong Wei was proud of his martial arts skills and was not afraid of such ambush at all, so he still stepped into the door with a swagger, and smiled as he walked: "Ha... there are so many people coming."

While speaking, he had secretly used his internal strength and was ready to take action at any time...

However, those people did not siege as he imagined.

"It's indeed quite a lot." The next second, Xue Tui's voice sounded in the darkness, "But... with your martial arts, I guess I won't take this little bit of people to heart."

When Hong Wei heard this, he sneered: "Ha...what are you going to do now?"

Xue Tui was prepared for this issue, and he quickly replied: "What my young master means... Since you are here to make money, let's follow the rules of Taoism."

Slap—

Speaking of this, Xue Tui quickly patted her hands.

Hearing the sound, a servant from the Sun Mansion walked out from behind Xue Tui and placed a two-foot square wooden box on the ground in the middle of the lobby. After the arrangement, he quickly stepped back.

Although all this happened in the dark, it is not difficult to see the situation in front of Hongwei's eye skills and ear skills.

"There are about five hundred taels in this box, all of which are broken silver that have been flowing through. It is a little gift from my young master for you. I hope you can give us a high hand after accepting it." At this time, Xue Tui continued the words just now, "As for your name, appearance, etc., we don't plan to inquire about it, so as not to make you uneasy..." At this point, he paused for a moment and said, "I don't know if you are satisfied with this kind of treatment?"

Can you still be dissatisfied?

Xue Tui said this without any loss, and his response method is also very consistent with the "digging ideas".

I’m giving you the present and the money. And when trading, they talk to you in the dark, and they don’t even see your face... In this way, if you are not satisfied, you are not for money.

What about Hong Wei... After all, he wanted to extort money. He and Sun Yixie had no deep hatred, and he was temporarily angry. He didn't have to worry about this anger and couldn't get along with the money.

So after a while, he replied, "Well... because your young master is quite sensible, then I'll give him some face, too."

Actually, this is not about giving people face? It is about giving money and face.

At this moment, Hong Wei was walking towards the box as he spoke.

Although he was already in harmony with the other party on the surface, he actually didn't let go of his guard - who knows if you have any money or something in your box? What if it's a killing mechanism, poisonous smoke, or poisonous snakes? Also, why do you put the box in this position? Is there any trap underneath? Or something on the ceiling will be smashed down in a while?

Hong Wei was not stupid either. He had to be careful of all these, so he walked very slowly when he got to the box. After he stood there, he was always nervous.

After observing for a few seconds, after basically confirming that there were no traps on the top of the head and feet, Hong Wei pulled out the sword, used the tip of the sword to pull the lock on the box, and then slowly pulled open the box cover along the seam with the sword tip.

During this whole process, his body was more than one meter away from the box and was ready to dodge at any time.

squeak--

Finally, the box opened.

The silver in the box reflected a faint moonlight, attracting the eyes of the whole house.

"Hahahaha..." When he saw that it was indeed money inside, Hong Wei smiled, "Okay, your young master is quite good..." As he spoke, he closed the box cover again, picked up the box with his waist, and clamped it under his left armpit, "Then I will say goodbye."

"No." Xue Tui's attitude was still very calm, and he did not let the other party notice any strangeness.

Before he finished speaking, Hong Wei had already put the box in the box and turned around and ran away.

A box containing 500 taels of silver weighs about 30 pounds. For martial arts practitioners, this weight is not a problem, let alone a master like Hong Wei.

However, he was also guilty. He didn't notice anyone following him, but he still wandered around the night for a while. After repeatedly confirming that there was no "tail", he slipped back to the inn where he was staying.

When he returned to the guest room, Hong Wei locked the doors and windows without saying a word, lit a small oil lamp, and immediately opened the box and confirmed the contents inside again.

Why did he need to confirm it again?

This is also common sense in Tao. It is best to trade the money from digging a fire idea immediately after getting it back, because this kind of money is generally "short and short", and if it is not calculated clearly at the first time, conflicts will easily arise when dividing the spoils.

Of course, Hong Wei is working alone and doesn’t need to be divided by others, but he still needs to be trading.

After all, this is money from extortion. The blackmailer will definitely feel uncomfortable when he pays it. It is normal for people to try to pay less: for example, at present, if you put a few more wooden boards on the bottom of the box, or mix some lead fake silver, stones and other things into the bottom of the surface, you can easily get away with it.

As the blackmailer, even if you find out afterwards, as long as the ratio of "making up numbers" is not too exaggerated, it will usually be accepted.

Hong Wei naturally understood these rules. Therefore, during the second inspection, he was mentally prepared. Even if only 60 or 70% of the money was true in the end, he would admit it. Because 60 or 70% of the five hundred taels were more than 300, if the poor family in those days had this money... it would be enough for two lives.

But he didn't expect that after checking it, the box was completely real silver, and it was not mixed with fake at all...

"Wow! It's so particular." Now, even Hong Wei had to sigh.

It is indeed rare to be able to give money like this.

Moreover, all you give is broken silver, which means you don’t have to bear the follow-up risk of taking the silver notes to withdraw money from the counter, and you don’t have to worry about any signs on the money. In addition, the previous transactions were all completed in the dark... It seems that the young master of the Sun family is really planning to give the money enough and do the matter carefully, and he does not intend to investigate who the extortionist is afterwards.

"So refreshing...it seems like this money is a drop in the bucket for him." Hong Wei thought again, "Ha... OK, let's forget it this time. I'll come back when your restaurant opens one day. Next time I will ask you for one thousand taels."

Everyone, this is called a snake swallowing an elephant if it is not enough.

If a person's way of making money is not right and it is too easy, his concept of money will gradually become distorted, and his greed will also expand to a level that ordinary people cannot understand.

But no matter what, at least at this moment, Hong Wei believed that his fire-dig idea had been successful.

He... is too naive.

Although his martial arts skills are very high, the time he has been doing it is too short after all...

Some people may say that Hong Wei was involved in the world and wasn’t it similar to Sun Yixie? But don’t forget who Sun Yixi was before he left the world? Who was Hong Wei before he left the world?

When Brother Sun was in the fish market, you, Hong Wei, was still carrying manure for others. Now you want to blackmail him? Still, you still think that you can get out of here after you knock it out?

So where did Sun Yixie do anything?

Actually, it's still about money.

In Dazhong, there are undoubtedly few occasions where "whole silver ingots" are needed to pay, and there are many types of silver ingots. Not all silver ingots have the same size, specifications and shapes. Only the official silver ingots cast by the government have a unified standard, and this standard is not static.

At that time, most of the silver circulating among the people were broken silver from various silver ingots of different specifications, or small ingots recasted from broken silver... and all these tasks were done by ordinary silversmiths in the market.

Why did people at that time have the inertial thinking of "only the whole ingot has a mark on the silver"? Because the marks of silver ingots are all drawn up by "molds". They are completed simultaneously when casting silver. No one will first cast a batch of silver and then mark them one by one.

This is the case with the whole silver, let alone the broken silver?

But as the saying goes...thing is done by man.

It is not impossible to engrave marks on silver one by one, it just takes a lot of manpower and time.

The box of "broken silver" that Sun Yixie asked Xue to send out tonight was done by him hiring most of the silversmiths from Hangzhou City during the day.

At first glance, each piece is a fragment of irregular shape, but in fact, there is a small mark that is extremely difficult to detect on each piece; ordinary people can't see this mark at all, but when the silver is circulated back to the hands of silversmiths, it will definitely be discovered... At that time, the flow of the silver can reversely track where the money is and who spent it.

Hong Wei knew nothing about this. He could not have imagined any marks on the broken silver, so he just checked the amount of silver in the box and found no other abnormalities. He couldn't have thought that Sun Yixie would come to investigate him.

Therefore, the next day, Hong Wei left the guest room and headed straight to the most luxurious brothel in Hangzhou. Anyway, it was the young master of the Sun family who "consumed" him, five hundred taels were enough for him to have a good time.
Chapter completed!