During the Song Dynasty, a bizarre thing happened in Pingyao, Jinzhong: the then county magistrate Li went to the toilet one day, came out and had a headache, leaving his entourage alone to go back to the room to rest; unexpectedly, after this, Li suddenly disappeared mysteriously, and the court sent people to investigate for a long time, without even the slightest clue, so he had to send another person named Hu Neng to serve as the new county magistrate.

Hu Neng was in his forties. He was not only greedy, lustful and cunning, but also ruthless. He was a master who could do bad things. Not long after coming to Jinzhong, Hu Neng got along with Cuiyun, the prostitute of Yixianglou.

Cuiyun, as a prostitute, had never seen anyone before. Seeing a county magistrate take the initiative to come to the door, he would not give up such an opportunity. He used his whole body to seduce, and soon fascinated Hu Neng.

Although Hu Neng is lustful, he is very afraid of the inside, because he married the daughter of a prefect. This woman named Zheng Shi is very unruly and jealous. She doesn't care how Hu Neng misbehaves, but there is one thing: you can't find a girlfriend. So although Hu Neng is fascinated by Cuiyun, he only dares to cheat on her back. Fortunately, Zheng Shi is simple-minded, and Hu Neng can always find a way to fool her. At night, Hu Neng made another excuse to investigate a case and had to work overtime at night, so he took the opportunity to secretly come to Cuiyun's house. After Cuiyun opened the door, he entered the house and was about to make out, but Cuiyun pushed his hand away and said with a sad face, "What are you in a hurry, I happen to have something urgent to ask you today, you agree to talk about it." Although Hu Neng was impatient, seeing Cuiyun's determination at this moment, he had to listen to her tell the matter, and smiled after listening: "My heart's matter is my matter, tomorrow you bring your cousin to my office, I promise to help you." After hearing this, Cuiyun turned his worries into joy.

It turned out that Cuiyun had a cousin named Chen Biao. This time, he came to Jinzhong and wanted to do business, so he found Cuiyun. When Cuiyun heard this, he thought of Hu Neng. Cuiyun said that as long as Hu Neng was willing to help, he would earn money in the future, and Hu Neng would benefit from it.

The next day, Cuiyun led his cousin to the county yamen, and Hu Neng waved his hands and let all his subordinates retreat, leaving only the three of them in the hall. Only then did Hu Neng notice that Cuiyun's cousin was tall and tall, so he asked him how he could help himself? Chen Biao went forward to give a salute and said, "My lord, Xiaomin wants to ask my lord to let out the news, so he said gold was found in the mountains of this county. Just act like this is enough."

Hu Neng didn't know what kind of medicine Chen Biao was selling in the gourd, so he asked, "Which line of business are you doing?" Chen Biao hesitated for a while and replied, "Master Hui, Xiaomin is a blacksmith." "Blacksmith?" Hu Neng touched his chin and understood in his heart: This Chen Biao must have heard that there is a lot of coal in Jinzhong, so he thought that there is gold on the mountain, and the gold digger will throw away the dug coal at will, and Chen Biao can use the coal he picked up to iron for nothing. It sounds like a free business, but coal is buried underground, how can there be anything on this mountain? And treating this small business as a big business, it seems that this silly boy in front of him has never seen much of the world.

Thinking that this favor was too easy, it was just a matter of talking, so Hu Neng happily agreed. He also said that everyone was his own, and if Chen Biao made money, he would give him one thousand taels of silver. Hu Neng figured that this favor would not help Chen Biao make more money, but since he helped, the fee could not be less at all.

Chen Biao's face was full of joy, and he immediately kowtowed in gratitude, and Cuiyun's eyes were also full of gratitude. Hu Neng was not proud, but in order to please Cuiyun, the next day, he sent someone to release the rumors. Not long after, the rumors that gold had been found in the mountains were all over the place. Hu Neng sent officers and soldiers to guard it a few times, fooling the common people into believing it. Soon, thousands of people flocked to the mountains to dig for gold.

Chen Biao hired a few people here and rented a big house facing the street. The fire was booming, and the Chen's blacksmith shop opened amid the clanging.

A few days later, someone in the mountains dug up gold again. Of course, this was all the request of Hu Neng. But the temptation was too great, and more people joined the ranks of digging for gold. The dug stones had to be carried away and dumped, so the gold diggers needed a trolley, and soon the business of selling trolleys became popular.

The mountain road is difficult to walk, the waste rock is heavy, and the trolley often breaks down after a short time. Some shrewd people saw the business opportunity and started the car repair business. Soon they found that the most needed thing for car repair was bearings, but there were no bearings sold separately on the market. Just then, Chen Biao posted a notice outside the store, saying that Chen's Blacksmith Shop specializes in bearings. It turned out that Chen Biao didn't hit anything these days, but all the bearings. Soon, Chen Biao's bearings were sold out. Many car repairers placed orders.

This time, Chen Biao began to make money every day. In less than a few months, Chen Biao made a lot of money. Seeing that the blacksmith shop was making money, slowly, more and more blacksmith shops were opening. Business was booming.

At this time, Hu Neng knew that Chen Biao was not simple, it turned out he was playing a series of tricks! Now Hu Neng was angry, he hated Chen Biao for not speaking clearly in the early morning, which caused him to fall into the trap and only mention the benefits of one thousand taels. This Chen Biao was clearly playing tricks with himself at the beginning! Speaking of playing tricks, Hu Neng snorted, in his eyes, no one could play him.

A few days later, Chen Biao came to Hu Neng's house with a cloth bag to visit. The bag contained one thousand taels of silver in white flowers. After Chen Biao left, Hu Neng grabbed a handful of silver and put it in front of his eyes, and had an idea in his heart. Mrs. Zheng saw Hu Neng's smiling appearance and asked the reason, and Hu Neng told her the matter. As soon as Zheng heard it, she said, "There are so many blacksmiths on the street, and this Chen Biao will send us silver? In my opinion, you should send someone to seal them all tomorrow, so keep the Chen Biao family!" Hu Neng shook his head again and again: "You can't seal it, you can't seal it, not only can't you seal it, but you also secretly encourage more development." Zheng was puzzled, and Hu Neng smiled mysteriously: "You will understand after a while."

The next day, Hu Neng secretly found many craftsmen and took them to a secret place to dig a hole in the ground. It turned out that Hu Neng wanted to build a secret room. He imprisoned the craftsmen and lived on the construction site. He personally came to supervise the workers every day, and even Cuiyun had no time to go there. Soon, the secret room was finally completed, and Hu Neng poisoned all the participants, and then went to Cuiyun with the key.

When Cuiyun saw Hu Neng coming, he hid in the house and refused to open the door. He scolded, "Damn , you haven't seen your shadow in a month, and you have forgotten me. What are you doing here?" Hu Neng said a lot of good things outside the door, but Cuiyun didn't listen, and finally had to tell Cuiyun that he was building a secret project during this time, and he really couldn't leave. When Hu Neng heard that, his eyes lit up: "How about I think of a way to drive him away?" Cuiyun rolled his eyes at him: "I'm afraid he will suspect that I'm the one who got in the way." Hu Neng smiled gloomily: "I have a good way to make him think it's you! Also, since it's not safe here, I'll take you to a safe place today."

Hu Neng secretly took Cuiyun to the secret room. After the two of them were happy, Hu Neng let Cuiyun stay inside. He said he would first hear if there was anyone outside the door, and then let Cuiyun come out after opening the door.

One day, many officers and soldiers suddenly came to the street and surrounded all the blacksmith shops. Among them, Chen Biao's shop was the largest, and most officers and soldiers came. Chen Biao stood in front of the door, with both hands, and asked, "What do you want to do?" One of the leaders took out a notice from his body, saying that some people came to the county office to report that they were bewitched and used up their money to dig for gold, but found nothing. It was a scam from beginning to end. The county sent people to investigate, and it turned out that it was all the ghosts of your gang of blacksmiths. Now that Dahao Qingshan has been dug in a lot of holes, thousands of gold diggers have been deceived, so the county magistrate Hu decided to seal up all your blacksmith shops. After saying that, he rushed into the shop.

It turned out that Hu Neng had thought of a vicious idea last time: since this gold digging was a scam, it would eventually end. But before the end, he had to fatten up a group of people and wait for the opportunity to slaughter them again. Now that the weather was cold, it was time to close the net. So, he found a ready-made excuse to loot all the money from the blacksmith shop. Chen Biao was the biggest fat sheep. Originally, he was afraid of offending Cuiyun, but he did not expect Cuiyun to want to drive away his cousin, so he sent twice as many officers and soldiers.

Looking at the boxes of silver balls being moved to the county yamen, Hu Neng was proud in his heart: this is really a combination of wealth and wealth. Hehe, spare you Chen Biao is smart and can play the mantis to catch cicadas, but after the yellow bird, there is still me Hu waiting for you!

Hu Neng secretly transferred all the money he had seized to the secret room. That night, he took Zheng Shi to the secret room to check on the belongings. He was looking happily when suddenly the door of the secret room was opened with a "creak." Hu Neng was stunned: This secret room was designed by himself, and there was only one key, and even Zheng Shi didn't have it. Who could come in? Looking at it again, it was Chen Biao and Cuiyun came in. He suddenly understood that Cuiyun must have stolen his key.

After the two came in, the door of the secret room was closed with a "bang". Chen Biao's house was raided by himself, so he must have no good intentions this time. Hu Neng felt cold in his heart, but his mouth was bluffing: "Bold Chen Biao, how dare you break into the official palace, and you don't retreat quickly!" Who knew that Chen Biao ignored it, he caressed the stacks of gold and silver jewelry boxes and laughed angrily: "Yun'er, this time it is indeed more oil and water than the previous vote, we can enjoy glory and wealth from now on, hahaha..."

"The previous vote? Call Cuiyun Yun'er? You, who are you?" Hu Neng faintly felt that he had been trapped by others.

"Damn ghost, it doesn't matter if I tell you, we are husband and wife." Chen Biao's eyes showed a fierce light, and he took out a dagger from his arms with a "whoosh": "We just want to borrow your hand to gather all the money and then belong to us. Haha, you really fell for the trick."

In the face of the dagger that flashed with cold light, Hu Neng's legs trembled in fright, and Zheng shi had long been so frightened that he knelt on the ground, kowtowing like tampering with garlic: "The man forgives his life, the man forgives his life!"

Hu Neng also said with trepidation, "Brother Chen, all the money belongs to you. Let us go, right?"

"Hmph, let you go? You are the official of the imperial court, I let you go today, and you will still be alive later? To tell you the truth, your ex died in his secret room under another scheme of ours, and today it is the two of you." Saying that, he raised his dagger.

"Don't kill me, or you won't be able to leave," Hu Neng cried out mournfully. Chen Biao would not listen to his plea for mercy, he grinned and stabbed out his dagger, "Haha, you want to fight me? Let's see who is the final winner."

After a few screams, the scene returned to silence. Chen Biao cleaned up the blood on his body and said to Cuiyun, "Yun'er, let's go! Hire a few carriages and we will move all these belongings overnight."

When the two arrived at door of the secret room, Cuiyun took out the prepared key and inserted it into a bulge. Unexpectedly, it was inserted several times, but it was not inserted. The two took a closer look and couldn't help but be shocked: there is no keyhole in the door of this secret room at all! The bulge was just a ten-digit combination lock, and this password, which would take several lifetimes to crack, was obviously only known to the dead Hu. The torches in the secret room were getting darker and darker, and the two desperately knocked on the heavy door of the secret room, howling in despair.