That middle-aged man and Commander Hu Tong exchanged a distant glance, then chatted casually with the laborers beside him, also lining up.

  "Huh!" Hu Tong made an effort to keep himself calm, and then very casually glanced sideways, but who would have thought that the white commander of the Black Armor Army, Bai Ze, was walking over this way with a cold face.

  "This white-haired old man is rarely seen, but today he suddenly appeared." Hu Tong was furious in his heart, but a smile floated on his face as he went up to greet him, "Sir, didn't you go for your morning exercise today?"

  "Today is the 28th, I know many of you have to go back home for a visit. Of course, I have to take a look, Hu Tong, take care of those people and let them search carefully!" Bai Ze Du Tong ordered coldly, then Hu Tong bowed and smiled: "Yes, sir. These things, my brothers have done many times before, you can rest assured, absolutely no problem."

  "Hmm!" White River Douton murmured.

  Then Hakozaki stood to one side, scrutinizing the group of coolies lined up in a row, each undergoing inspection. The coolies occasionally glanced up at him, but were too intimidated to look him straight in the eye.

  These laborers also knew that Shiraki Tomitaro was a big shot.

  "Take a closer look!" Hu Tong shouted from the side.

  Hakuzaki looked around casually, occasionally glancing at those miners.

  "Gold is heavier, if there's a lot of it! If you put it in your clothes, they'll become uneven. The part with the gold will sag!" Shiraki knew this well, just like when you put an iron block in a pocket, that pocket would sag. Clothes on a person would look uneven.

  Bai Ze swept his eyes over.

  At first glance, nothing special stands out.

  "Hmm?" White River's heart moved, his eyes swept over the footprints left by a middle-aged man who had just walked past from the back of the queue. This mine area has a lot of dust, some places have broken stones, and some places are all dusty mud ground, stepping on it will leave footprints. Of course, this row is trampled by many people in front and behind, and the footprints are very messy.

  But what's with Shirasaki's gaze?

  At once he noticed the two footprints left by the middle-aged man, although they were immediately destroyed by a later passerby. But Shiraki remembered them clearly.

  "One foot deeper, one foot shallower!" Bai Ze's heart skipped a beat.

  Carefully observing the middle-aged man: "Hmm, his clothes are neat and tidy, from the outside it seems that there is no hidden object. However, his two legs are not one long and one short, but rather two normal legs. One foot is slightly deeper than the other, only one possibility exists. There must be an iron block or heavy object tied to one of his legs!"

  Bai Ze can become a metropolitan governor, although he is somewhat narrow-minded, his ability cannot be denied.

  He was also very clever and could understand the "Nine Guns of Chaoyang". From just that instant, two footprints with some differences were exposed, and he found out where the problem lay.

  "Hmm." Baizaki Toutong immediately looked away from the middle-aged man.

  That middle-aged man had a ghost in his heart, and he stared at him from afar at the white cape for a while, which made the middle-aged man's heart tense: "Could it be that the big man of the Black Armor Army has discovered? No way, it can't be seen from the outside. Hiss... Fortunately, he didn't stare at me anymore, I guess that big shot of the Black Armor Army was just distracted earlier!"

  No matter what, this middle-aged man has no way out.

  If this big thing is done successfully, then one will be wealthy and noble for a lifetime.

  "Older brother!"

  "Sir!" The surrounding voices were filled with respect, and Shiraki turned his head to look.

  Only then did he see Teng Qing Shan holding the Wheel of Reincarnation gun walking along the mountain road, and upon seeing Bai Ze, he involuntarily cupped his hands in greeting: "Is General also here?"

  "Hmm, Qing Shan, where are you going?" Bai Ze asked with a smile.

  "I'm going to find Tian Dan's brother for a gathering." Teng Qing Shan said.

  "Then why don't you hurry up and go? This minor matter of searching, these guards will take care of it." said General Shirasaki with a faint smile.

  Teng Qing Shan glanced at him and smiled as he retreated. Since the last challenge, Bai Ze Tian had a clearly changed attitude towards Teng Qing Shan, to the point where he didn't even dare show a cold face to him.

  But...

  Teng Qing Shan didn't feel particularly happy, and Bai Ze's endurance also heightened Teng Qing Shan's vigilance.

  ……

  Watching Tan Qing walk away, Bai Ze turned his head towards Hu Tong: "Hu Tong, speed up the search."

  "Yes, sir!" Hu Tong secretly rejoiced.

  He was originally going to let one of the people searching him step aside and do it himself, so he could let that person go. Now, with Shiraki's words, things have become even easier for him.

  "Slow! Two people searching, how long will this take. Now, three people at a time! You two continue, I'll search myself! You two learn from me!" Hu Tong strode over, waving to the people in line, "Come on, a few of you come over to my side!"

  At once, what were originally two parallel columns now immediately formed into three columns.

  "Take off your outer garments and do it yourself." Hu Tong shouted.

  One by one, the coolies took off their outer garments. Hu Tong quickly felt the outer garment first to see if there were any hard objects in the interlayer, and then searched the inner garment again. After that, he carefully felt one side of the pants to see if there was gold in the interlayer. Then, he directly let the coolies untie their belts and take off their pants to the knee.

  Look for hidden gold in private parts of the body. Finally, check shoes and hair again.

  This kid is indeed quick-witted.

  "Next!" Hu Tong shouted.

  Hutong then inspected three more people, and none of them were carrying gold either.

  "Next!" Hu Tong shouted.

  At that moment, the middle-aged man arrived in front of Hutong, his outer garment had already been opened, and inside there was only a worn-out undershirt, clearly nothing was hidden. Hutong followed the procedure, carefully searching him all over, outer garment, pants, shoes, hair, body, etc., all were searched thoroughly, but nothing was found.

  "Next!" Hu Tong said.

  The middle-aged man immediately put on his clothes and shoes and walked down the mountain along the mountain path.

  "Hmph." General Shirasaki glanced at the middle-aged man and sneered inwardly, "It seems that Hu Tong has been bought off. To think of buying off Hu Tong... with gold? Impossible, even if it's ten kilograms of gold, that's only worth 10,000 taels of silver. Not enough to buy off a city guard battalion commander. Then, is it purple gold?"

  Hakaze Toutou's expression turned puzzled: "How did the purple gold get mixed in? The laborers from the Purple Gold Mine and the Golden Mine are never supposed to meet. Could it be... I was wrong, and that middle-aged man didn't smuggle anything?"

  Just at this time ——

  "See? Do it just like me. Faster. You search." Hu Tong walked to the side at this time and ordered a soldier to replace him in searching people.

  Shirosaki glanced over and his heart skipped a beat: "Huh? This Hu Tong searched four people from head to toe, and the fourth person was that middle-aged man. When he searched the fifth person, he only searched halfway before stopping. Hmph, it seems like he really was bribed!" Immediately after, Shirasaki headed down the mountain.

  "Adult." Hu Tong smiled and walked over.

  "What are you doing following me down the mountain?" Baizaki shouted.

  Hu Tong was taken aback and retreated.

  Hakuzaki took big strides, seemingly strolling down the mountain, but Hakuzaki was a master of internal energy. How could he possibly lose track of a peasant?

  "If I'm guessing right, that man must have secretly taken away a large sum of money! That man who stole the purple gold is probably surnamed Jin, at least 50%!" Bai Ze's heart moved, according to the Guiyuan Sect's rules, every day's excavation of purple gold was recorded. Even if he was the leader, he couldn't embezzle it for personal gain.

  Everyone has desires.

  It was in the previous life of Teng Qing Shan that some high-ranking officials were greedy for money and wealth. From this, one can imagine what kind of place Baizi was.

  Although he was a high-ranking officer in the Black Armor Army with a high monthly salary, compared to some wealthy merchants, it was far from enough. Everyone has their own desires, and Bai Ze also wanted to buy beautiful maidservants, purchase some servants to make his life more comfortable. Even buying good materials to forge good weapons required spending silver and gold.

  "Hmph, this fortune is mine! Besides, no one in the sect knows about it anyway." Shiraki's greedy heart had already been stirred.

  Killed the middle-aged man and took away his money.

  If they killed the wrong person, then blame the unlucky middle-aged man.

  ……

  At the foot of Tieling Mountain, on the official road, there were five war horses, with someone beside each horse.

  Among them, a seven-foot-tall thin man was Dong Yan. The three people around him were all surrounding him. Two of the three people were tall and fat men. Another person was a middle-aged man with silver hair.

  "Big brother! You said that Old Li brought back the Zi Jin? I don't understand, the Zi Jin mine and the Huang Jin mine are separate, Old Li went to work as a laborer in the Huang Jin mine, how could he get his hands on Zi Jin?" One of the two fat men asked, "Big brother, can you tell me this secret now?"

  "Alright, I'll tell you," Dong Yan said with a sly smile. "The Purple Gold Mine and the Golden Mine are connected by a secret path!"

  "What?" The two fat men were shocked, while the middle-aged man with silver hair was very calm.

  "This is actually one of my brothers, when digging in the Zi Jin mine area, unintentionally dug deeper and unexpectedly connected with a small tunnel in the Huang Jin mine area. He sealed up this mine hole. There are only a few people who know this secret." Dong Yan smiled faintly, "Brother Wang has collected about ten kilograms of Zi Jin over the past year or so! He hid it in that position through the secret passage, and Li Lao San took it out. Once Li Lao San gets that batch of Zi Jin out, we'll be rich!"

  For Dong Yan, these three people beside him are the three people he trusts most, all of whom have been through life and death with him.

  I didn't tell Da Bao or Er Bao before, and I was worried that those two carefree guys would leak the news out.

  "Ten catties!" Da Pang and Er Pang were shocked. Er Pang muttered, "Ten catties of purple gold is equivalent to one thousand catties of yellow gold! That's one million taels of silver! One hundred taels of silver... we're rich!"

  One million two silver, this is a very huge amount of money.

  He was just a wealthy salt merchant with assets of over one million taels of silver, which was quite good.

  "Ten kilograms of purple gold! Hmph, compared to the amount of purple gold that we dug up with the Return to Origin Sect in a year, this is nothing. However, with this sum of money, we don't have to hide in the small Huafeng City anymore." Dong Yan laughed and suddenly glanced at the distance, "Hmm, look, the hardworking ones are coming down the mountain! I reckon Li Old Three will be here soon too!"

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