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Chapter 18 Lin Changfu's Treasure, An Unexpected Discovery

The prison guards were fighting tooth and nail for the position of jailer in cell A.

Now that Hu Youtian is no longer watching over him, Shen Yantou is finally appreciating the benefits of having a squad leader.

Zhou Cunren was released from prison a few days ago. I heard he was sent to a local area as a prefect. It seems the money wasn't wasted.

Lin Ruhai really put in a lot of effort. A county magistrate can make 100,000 taels of silver a year. How much must the prefect have amassed?

He saw Sun Fugui gambling in the crowd again and shook his head.

"Never learn!"

The jailers and guards fought fiercely for the position of jailer in cell A, forming cliques and creating widespread fear and unease.

The already chaotic and corrupt prison was even less conducive to people working with peace of mind.

Seeing the situation in the prison, Shen Yan was somewhat puzzled by Xu Shaogong's thought process.

If things continue like this, something bad is bound to happen sooner or later. The prison guards are all trying to trip up the other side and are desperately trying to make money.

To gain leverage in an election, they will stop at nothing.

If it's just prison B, then prison C is fine, since most of those people are commoners.

With Ma Danian having no intention of running for office, and only Lu Youcai in Prison B remaining, he was relatively restrained and did not cause much of a stir.

The competition between the guards of Prison No. 1 had reached a point of life and death.

Their sabotage had already angered some of the corrupt officials, but Xu Shaogong looked at the piles of silver in front of him.

They turned a blind eye to these potential problems.

Shen Yan instructed his four prison guards to do their jobs well and not to get involved in these matters.

A troublesome person arrived at Cell No. 1.

Li Wu, who was previously in cell number 22 of the C category, was somehow transferred to cell number A and ended up in Shen Yan's territory.

Upon hearing this news, Shen Yan was speechless for a moment, feeling utterly speechless.

"This Li Wu has become my nemesis."

Upon arriving at Li Wu's cell door and seeing that it was Shen Yan, Li Wu immediately stood up. Li Wu's eyes gleamed; he could tell that Shen Yan had broken through to the ninth rank, and he spoke with considerable excitement.

Li Wu said with a grin, "My good disciple, your master has come to see you."

Shen Yan rolled his eyes: "Don't try to claim any connection. You're a prisoner, and I'm a jailer, not your apprentice."

Li Wu didn't take it to heart: "Hehe, if I wanted to leave, I would have left long ago. You're still young and don't know the mysteries of superior techniques. To be able to cultivate the Golden Body Technique to the entry level in such a short time, your talent is quite good and shouldn't be wasted. I have a divine skill here; if you practice it, you'll definitely make rapid progress."

"No need, you can keep it yourself!"

He could be unaware of the profound mysteries of superior cultivation techniques. However, he cared more about his own life than the techniques themselves.

Shen Yan was helpless against the troublesome Li Wu. It was quite strange that Li Wu, despite being imprisoned for several years, still had people helping him out.

Lin Changfu has been dead for several days, and Shen Yan is planning to go to the treasure location he mentioned earlier.

After taking a day off, Shen Yan embarked on a treasure hunt.

The place where Lin Changfu hid his treasure was a place where they used to rest when they were merchants.

On a desolate mountain dozens of miles from Bianjing, inside a cave.

Shen Yan rode his horse to the outside of the cave.

The original owner had never learned to ride a horse, but as a ninth-rank martial artist, he quickly learned.

The only problem was that my buttocks were sore from the rubbing of the saddle the whole way. Luckily, I was also practicing body cultivation, otherwise my skin would have broken.

Tie the horse up and go into the cave.

There were signs of many people's activities inside the cave, which is not far from a small trade route.

People occasionally come here to do some repairs; he never imagined that Lin Changfu would hide things here.

Perhaps this is his way of leaving himself an escape route; if something really happens and he needs to run away, the money here will be his protection.

Unfortunately, things happened so suddenly that he didn't get to use his skills before he arrived, and Shen Yan benefited from his efforts.

They lit the torches they had prepared beforehand and went deep into the cave.

This is a natural cave, and it's very large. Many snakes, insects, rodents, and ants live inside.

The place where Lin Changfu hid the money was in front of a stone wall.

Arriving at the stone wall, Shen Yan breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing that the ground showed no signs of disturbance.

"I used to pee here, I never imagined there was a huge sum of money hidden underneath."

He drew his machete from his waist and began to dig.

After digging for half an hour and changing locations twice, they finally found what Lin Changfu had buried: a wooden box.

Buried half a meter underground, no one would bother digging here if they didn't know beforehand.

Shen Yan carefully dug open the box and reached out to take it out.

"It's quite heavy."

He felt that the box in his hands weighed at least 10 or 20 pounds.

Upon opening it, gleaming silver appeared before his eyes.

Among them were whole ingots of official silver, some broken silver, and some gold ingots.

It seems that Lin Changfu has considered things very carefully.

There was a package in the center of the box; it seemed this was the main attraction.

It was wrapped very tightly. After Shen Yan opened two layers, he found that it was sealed with paraffin wax inside.

After opening more than a dozen layers of packaging, what was hidden inside was indeed a silver note.

Shen Yan began to count the silver notes by the firelight; they were of varying denominations.

The smaller ones were only ten taels, while the larger ones were five hundred taels, which shows that this was indeed the money Lin Changfu had kept for his escape.

Small change is easy to spend without attracting attention, while large sums are saved for building a home and property after things have settled down.

Shen Yan estimated that the money was probably close to ten thousand taels, so this place must be a relatively important hiding place for Lin Changfu.

Shen Yan filled in all the holes he had just dug, picked up the wooden box, and was about to leave when...

Unexpectedly, the wooden box had rotted away long ago due to being buried deep underground.

A large hole appeared at the bottom of the box, and gold and silver were scattered all over the ground.

Boom!

The dull sound caught Shen Yan's attention; a certain area seemed to be empty.

"Could there be some unexpected surprise? Could Lin Changfu have kept something up his sleeve?"

He felt a sense of anticipation, thinking to himself that perhaps Lin Changfu hadn't told him everything, and that he had more than one treasure location here.

Shen Yan picked up a silver ingot and tapped it repeatedly on the ground.

A short while later, he found the location of the hollow drum.

He picked up a machete and began digging. After removing the topsoil, a square stone slab about one meter in size appeared before him.

Remove the stone slab to reveal a hidden compartment underneath.

Strangely, it was completely empty.

"Did someone take it? What a disappointment."

He tapped all over the bottom of the hidden compartment with a machete and found that the sound was different in one place.

My heart, which had sank, started racing again, but my expectations were much lower than before.

Shen Yan concluded that this was not Lin Changfu's treasure trove, but rather a coincidence that they had stumbled upon it.

After opening it, a mechanism appeared before his eyes.

A loud noise came from behind him.

Click click click!

He immediately turned around and found that the stone wall behind him was slowly moving, and soon an opening appeared in front of him.

"Could this be someone's hidden treasure?"

Shen Yan had never heard of such a mechanism before, and wondered what kind of power could create it.

He collected the scattered gold and silver, packed it into a pre-prepared package, and carried it on his back.

He raised the torch and looked into the cave entrance; inside was a vast space.

Seeing the marks of carving and chiseling on the stone wall, it is clear that this place was created by man.

Holding a torch, Shen Yan cautiously explored forward.