Chapter 1516: Chapter 1513: Secret Passage
The secret room was not small; inside was a brand-new underground basent room.
In the room, apart from a few bookshelves, there was only open space, nothing at all, as clean as if it had never held anything.
Zhang Zhi crouched down, looking around.
At that mont.
His gaze sharpened.
Seeing Chu Heng also crouch down, his eyes sparkled as he voluntarily spoke, “Sir, look…”
Chu Heng followed his hand’s direction, seeing faint marks on the originally clean floor, so dust, while so areas were so clean as if just swept.
Additionally, there were traces of hurriedly swept dust marks left behind.
“Sothing was placed here once, but it’s gone now.” Zhang Zhi’s voice was certain; he felt his guess was correct.
Chu Heng nodded, affirming his thoughts, “Indeed, sothing important to Duke Zheng was stored here. If I’m not mistaken, it should have been gold ingots.”
“Gold ingots!” Liu Ruying was startled, as even in the Earl’s Mansion, there weren’t many gold ingots in the assets.
“With so many goods, Duke Zheng must find a way to transport them out of the city.” Zhang Zhi clenched his fists, “It’s frustrating we can’t widely announce it and seal off the city; we can only place guards at the city gates.”
“He didn’t leave through the city gates.” Chu Heng revealed another shocking piece of news.
Liu Ruying scratched his head, “If not through the city gates, then how did they plan to leave? Although gold ingots are conspicuous, they can be concealed and transported if they co up with a plan.”
“No worries, if we’re lucky, they haven’t had ti to transport the gold out.” Chu Heng ca to inspect this ti, just to confirm how much gold there was.
Also to check if there was a secret passage in the entire Liu Residence leading out of the city.
The cost of creating a secret passage is extrely high, and ordinary officials don’t have the funds for such an endeavor.
However, Chu Heng thought about matters from his past life, where Duke Zheng did secretly transport his descendants, indicating there must be a hidden passage to the outside of the city. It might not be dug by Duke Zheng himself, but he knew of such a passage.
In his past life, he didn’t spend much effort on this matter, only sent people to inquire about it and vaguely confird so information. If he guessed correctly, he should be able to find it.
Liu Ruying and Zhang Zhi were unaware of Chu Heng’s thoughts.
Yet both of them had no doubts about him.
They followed him closely, helping to inspect the entire Duke’s Mansion.
Near nightfall.
A subordinate returned.
“Sir, the subordinate found sothing in North City,” an excited Deputy General reported.
Upon receiving the news, Liu Ruying and Zhang Zhi hurried over; in order not to overlook any details, they searched all afternoon, exhausted and sweating profusely.
“Let’s go take a look first.” Chu Heng decisively left a small team to continue checking the Liu Residence.
He then rushed to the courtyard in North City.
He rode his horse swiftly.
As dusk fell, it was two quarters of an hour by the ti he arrived at the small courtyard.
Chu Heng dismounted, followed by Liu Ruying and Zhang Zhi, entering the courtyard together, which was small with many dead leaves, the roof tiles seemingly not replaced for a long ti, with many broken tiles; indeed, the house had been abandoned for a long ti, very dilapidated, with not even a decent piece of furniture, judging by the timing, it seed abandoned for many years.
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