Chapter 71 Painful Choice

Looking at the empty bookshelf and the mess on the ground, Zuo Feng's mouth curled up slightly unconsciously. It took him a long time to finally take a rough look at all the books on the shelf, and he also had a general understanding of all the books here.

Those books that were thrown on the ground casually were not up to standard in his selection. Those books that he liked were now carefully wrapped and carried on his back.

If Zuo Feng looked at it now, he looked like a teenager on the run, with messy hair and sweat mixed with mud on his face. There were many holes in his clothes and they were full of dust. There was a long tear in his pants, and there were spots of blood around the tear.

There was a big package wrapped around his waist, which looked like several big boxes from the outside, and there was also a big package full of things on his back. This look was very much like a little beggar who was begging for food along the way.

Although the little beggar was covered in dust and looked embarrassed, his face was full of excitement and smile, just like a person who had not eaten for several days holding a fragrant roast chicken in his hand. The slightly green eyes looked more like a rat poison that had been hungry for a long time rushing into the granary.

With excitement and expectation, he walked out of the stone room where the books were stored and walked towards the last stone door. Before leaving, Zuo Feng did not forget to dig out the spiritual light stone on the stone wall and put it in his arms.

Standing in front of the last stone door, the palm holding the black short blade tightened, because the joints were slightly white at this time due to excessive force. Like the previous few times, Zuo Feng sat down in front of the stone door, stabbed the dagger into the crack of the door, and the other hand pressed against the stone door, pushing both hands inward at the same time.

"Bang... Dongdong..."

Unlike the previous two stone doors, this one was very thin. With Zuo Feng's full force, the stone door was opened instantly, and because he used too much force, his whole body rushed into the stone room at once.

Because he was sitting on the ground before, it was unpleasant to use the wrong force, but what made him most frustrated was that his whole body "rolled" into the stone room like a ball.

After resting on the ground for a long time, he slowly sat up. Because the light here was dim and the thick dust on his face, people could not see his red face at this time. It was not because of the injury, but because he felt deeply embarrassed and the atmosphere.

His inertial thinking pitted him again. The heaviness of the first two doors made him think that the last door should be very heavy, but in the end he pushed it open very easily, which made such a big joke.

In his heart, he cursed the boredom of the person who built this secret room. Why did he make such a mechanism to embarrass himself, and it had no lethality to the intruder at all.

'Is this just the owner of this place, a simple special hobby? ’

After looking around in the secret room, Zuo Feng immediately denied his guess. The main reason why this door was built lightly was because the items stored inside were not so important to the owner of the secret room.

The room was basically filled with gold and silver. Compared with the books and medicinal materials stored in the first two stone chambers, these money and treasures were indeed not that precious. And there was another important reason, because if you enter here from the normal path, this should be the first stone chamber. After all, under normal circumstances, no one would enter this place from the place where Zuo Feng came down. Entering the underground secret room from there is no different from suicide.

Staring blankly at the gold and silver in front of him, Zuo Feng no longer had the excitement and expectation on his face before. Now he could only see a painful and embarrassed expression like constipation on his face.

He could not move so many gold and silver away from here anyway. He estimated that if he wanted to move all the gold and silver piled together, he would not be able to move the things here without two carriages.

And this is only the premise that these things can be moved to the carriage. With Zuo Feng's current state, it would be a dream if he wanted to move these money without five or six hours. Besides, he has not found a way to leave here yet, let alone where to find two carriages.

"Ah..."

He couldn't help but sigh. For the people of Zuojia Village who now live in Yancheng, the most lacking thing is probably money. Now these money are in front of him, but he just can't move. He fiddled with the pile of gold and silver in front of him for a few times, and he roughly understood what was in this pile.

There is also a spiritual light stone in this room, but unlike the previous two stone chambers, this stone chamber is filled with gold and silver. So a little bit of light is constantly reflected here, and this stone chamber seems particularly bright.

Under such bright light, everything in the room is illuminated. Zuo Feng began to think that the pile of gold and silver was mainly some gold and silver coins, but after looking through it, he found that there were actually many "gold cakes" in it.

This kind of "cake" made of gold and silver coins is not common in the market. At least in Zuojia Village where Zuo Feng lives, there has never been a "gold cake". Only people who often go to the city to do business have mentioned it a few times. This so-called "gold cake" is actually no different from a gold coin, just a little bigger in size.

Gold coins, silver coins and copper coins are all used in daily life. One thousand copper coins can be exchanged for one silver coin, and one thousand silver coins can be exchanged for one gold coin. One thousand gold coins can be exchanged for a gold cake, and the volume of a gold cake is almost the same as that of one hundred gold coins.

Zuo Feng roughly estimated that these gold coins, silver coins and gold cakes could probably buy two or three restaurants like Weixiangzhai in Yancheng. But if such a large sum of money really flows into Yancheng, it will probably attract the attention of many forces immediately.

Even if Zuo Feng has the ability to move all the money back to Yancheng, he will not let the money flow into the market all at once. If he does so, it will not only fail to improve the conditions of people living in the city, but it may also bring them a catastrophe. Zuo Feng still understands the principle of "holding a treasure is a crime".

Although he cannot move all of it away, he must take as much as he can under the current conditions. If he gives up this windfall so easily, he may find it difficult to sleep peacefully for many days to come.

Thinking of this, Zuo Feng gritted his teeth, untied the package on his body, and took out a relatively large piece of clothing from it. Zuo Feng originally planned to keep this piece of clothing to cover his embarrassed body when he returned to the city. But now facing such a small mountain of gold, how can he care about his image? The best way at this time is to move as much as possible.

He opened the large piece of clothing and spread it flat at his feet, then turned around and began to search among the pile of gold and silver. Those gold and silver coins that he would be jealous of at ordinary times, now seemed like stones to him, and he threw them aside casually. Now he had nothing in his eyes except "gold cakes".

A thin figure kept busy in the stone room, and the sound of metal collisions kept coming "ding, dangdang, bang". One by one, golden and silver coins flew everywhere, and occasionally a gold nugget the size of an adult's palm would appear among them, and then the boy would carefully put it in a piece of clothing spread on the ground. At this time, there were more than 20 gold cakes on his clothes.

As he searched further and further down, Zuo Feng found that the gold cakes were becoming less and less. He frowned slightly and thought about it and understood the reason.

This stone chamber must have existed when this group of bandits first settled here, and they must not have had much income at the beginning. As time went by, their strength became stronger and stronger, and the accumulated money became more and more, and the quality became higher and higher. The quality of the pile of money in front of him also witnessed the development process of this group of bandits from weak to strong.

But such a bandit gang actually had so much money, medicinal materials and books, which made Zuo Feng a little surprised, but it just flashed through his mind and he stopped thinking about this problem.

As Zuo Feng picked further and further down, gold cakes were almost invisible and even gold coins rarely appeared. In the end, there were many copper coins mixed in. Zuo Feng sighed slightly, looking at the thirty-one gold cakes in the package, and felt a little unsatisfied.

According to his original guess, there would be no less than fifty or sixty gold cakes in such a large pile of coins, but the result was that he only found thirty-one after searching through the pile of gold and silver in front of him. If someone outside heard his thoughts, someone would rush up and beat him up immediately. An ordinary person might not be able to earn that gold cake in his whole life, but he got thirty-one coins at once and still felt it was too little.

He turned it over again unwillingly, and saw that it was basically copper coins and silver coins. Then Zuo Feng gave up. Turning around and looking at the gold and silver coins he had thrown all over the ground, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed about his thoughts just now.

Although he put a few hundred gold coins in, he didn't dare to take more. If he put more, it would affect his ability to move. At this moment, there are a lot of enemies in the forest. If he encounters danger and can't escape with too much money, he will really be trapped in his own trap.

Therefore, although Zuo Feng wanted to take as much money as possible, he was not blinded by greed. After rationally selecting the money he could take away, he tightly wrapped the gold cakes and gold coins in his clothes with his clothes, then picked them up and weighed them before tying them behind his neck with satisfaction.

Zuo Feng now looked even funnier from the side than before, more like a little beggar fleeing. He was in rags, with a bundle of clothes tied behind his neck, a bundle slanted on his back, and a big bundle tied around his waist.

With so many heavy things on his back, Zuo Feng was very satisfied, after all, he had gained a lot this time. Just as he dug the spiritual light stone off the wall and was about to leave, he pondered thoughtfully, suddenly turned around, and looked at the pile of coins he had turned over before with lightning-like eyes.