[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposed-the-old-n":3,"chapter-i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposed-the-old-n-i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-28":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I, The Tomb-Raiding Storyteller: Exposing the Old Nine Gates from the Start",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2162608,3627,"Chapter 28","i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-28",28,"\u003Cp>\"In the end, those golden treasures did not belong to them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They worked sixteen or seventeen hours a day, and all they could get was a full meal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I won't go into detail about the misery of the gold-panning workers here; if you are interested, you can go watch a documentary.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course, our Xia Kingdom doesn't have one, but the United States had a gold rush that lasted nearly ten years.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the American gold rush, hundreds of thousands of laborers died; those interested can go take a look.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let's get back to the shanties where these gold-panning workers of the Gelao Society lived.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Lin paused and picked up his teacup to take a sip of water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The audience below began to think along with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Lin had been laying the groundwork for the gold-panning workers; could it be that Heibei Laoliu eventually went to Old Changsha because of an uneven distribution of spoils?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Novel exchange group: 703216220\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that were the case, this story would be a bit disappointing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Heibei Laoliu was a gang member, before this, his image as a lone hero had already been built up by Zhang Lin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If such a hero were to leave his hometown because of an uneven distribution of spoils, it would really give a sense of brokenness to the story.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, they saw Zhang Lin put down his teacup and continue: \"The passages between the shanties of the Gelao Society were extremely narrow; at this time, people had already walked out of the shanties, and the sound of a bronze gong came unhurriedly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In those years, the bronze gong was an important tool for transmitting information.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once the bronze gong sounded, it meant something big was happening!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The people who came out of the shanties naturally came out because they heard the summons.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At this time, the sky was very dark, and in the narrow passages, even the faint light of the stars and moon was obscured.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Suddenly, a small team of people, carrying torches, with the leader shouting while beating a bronze gong: 'Our Golden Lead has won, everyone hurry to the river beach to gather! The whole stretch of the river is full of gold nuggets waiting for us.'\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This small team of people, about seven or eight of them, were all in uniform tight-fitting clothes, looking mighty, each holding a torch in one hand, and on their raised arms, they had shiny short blades buckled.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wherever they passed, the crowd scattered like ghosts to make way.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The identity of this team of people was very special; they were specialized blade-wielders.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So-called blade-wielders existed only to be loyal to the hall masters, helmsmen, and leaders of the Gelao Society!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The supreme status of these Gelao Society high-level officials came from these blade-wielders.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let me tell you about the composition of the Gelao Society at that time; like here in the Jinshajiang, tens of thousands of people gathered, so naturally, there were people in charge.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The highest level of command was a leader sent down by the Gelao Society, just like the Gelao Society headquarters spread throughout Sichuan and Shaanxi.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Underneath were twelve halls, each with a helmsman, so the leader had the highest status here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heibei Laoliu's foster father, Hall Master Li, dreamed of sitting in the leader's position!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…….\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\"Except for the leader with supreme status, the status of the hall master was actually already very high.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Like the blade-wielder team responsible for delivering the message just now, each hall had about ten teams.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They were all masters of the blade, and it could be said that their skills were extraordinary.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The task of the blade-wielder team, besides maintaining order and enforcing rules, had a very important item: preventing escape.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Those escaping were naturally the gold-panning laborers I mentioned earlier.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The laborers were attracted by the countless gold nuggets in the Jinshajiang.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone thought that enduring hardship here was just a very short period of time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After a year or half a year, they could take a large amount of gold nuggets, leave this place, and say goodbye to suffering.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Return to their hometown to build a house, buy two acres of land, then get married and have children, and live a worry-free life from then on!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But these laborers only realized after they arrived that there was indeed gold everywhere; as long as you were diligent, you could pan a small pocketful in a day.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But was this gold yours? It all belonged to the Gelao Society!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Under the gleaming blades of the blade-wielders, the laborers didn't dare to hide even a little bit of gold.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They even had to take off their underwear to be checked; only then would they pass.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But human wisdom is always extraordinary; there were always some people who could slowly hide some gold under such strict inspections.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Year after year, when the gold accumulated to a certain amount, these people began to plan their escape.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The task of the blade-wielders was to catch these people who were escaping with gold!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, the audience at Sanqing Garden, hearing this, was already a bit confused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wasn't it about Heibei Laoliu's victorious return?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why talk about the gold-panning laborers again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could it be that Heibei Laoliu was sent out to chase the escaping laborers?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But was this something a person who won the gold mining rights for the entire river for the gang should do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Lin saw the confusion of the crowd, and he smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said to the audience below: \"Everyone, listening to a story naturally requires listening to the whole thing; this story also needs groundwork to be complete.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I spent my breath talking about the gold-panning laborers, which is also to tell you that an important character is about to appear.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just said that there are laborers who will hide gold, but being able to hide it doesn't mean being able to take it away.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why? Because life in the shanties is too miserable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Besides work, the only few entertainment activities are gambling, prostitution, and smoking opium.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Gelao Society knew too well how to trap these laborers in the Jinshajiang forever.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"With these three things—gambling, prostitution, and drugs—as long as you touch them, it's hard to get free.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, in these dozens of miles of shanties, besides the laborers, there lived a large number of prostitutes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The prostitutes here were not the beauties in the high-class brothels.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They almost had to receive a dozen guests every day; they were all dark prostitutes who couldn't be brought into the light.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, anyone who remembered Heibei Laoliu's demeanor in Old Changsha felt a stir in their hearts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heibei Laoliu depended on an old prostitute in Old Changsha for survival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could this old prostitute have been brought out from the Jinshajiang?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Zhang Lin just said that the prostitutes by the Jinshajiang were all dark prostitutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such an identity, matching Heibei Laoliu, is really...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Can't be brought into the light...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Heibei Laoliu really went to Old Changsha for such a prostitute, that would simply be a stain on the whole story!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's not that a blade-wielder and a prostitute can't have a story.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the contrary, a combination of a blade-wielder and a prostitute can give the story a lot of room for imagination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if the heroine is a dark prostitute, that wouldn't be very beautiful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the audience was worried, they were even more curious about the appearance of the woman who was about to appear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Old Lady Huo in the second-floor box was surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because she was certain that the old prostitute was definitely not from the Jinshajiang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was a native of Old Changsha!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, the woman who had a story with Heibei Laoliu by the Jinshajiang back then was definitely not simple!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After the blade-wielder team finished delivering the good news, they left this shanty and headed to the next gathering place.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And inside one of the shanties in this gathering place, a woman was grooming herself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There were a few candles lit in the shanty, and on a table, there was a mirror one foot square.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The mercury on the back of the mirror had peeled off quite a bit, so the face reflected on the mirror surface also looked a bit incomplete.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But even so, one could see that the face in the mirror was extremely pretty.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even though the candlelight in the shanty wasn't bright, the woman's pair of bright eyes was enough to make up for the lack of light.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Such a pair of clear and bright big eyes, even in the darkness, one could feel their liveliness.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And the pair of hands touching her face in the mirror, with skin as white as jade, also looked very moving.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Such hands, at a glance, were not for doing rough work, so everyone should know what her identity was.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just as the woman was in a daze, suddenly there was a light knocking on the door.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The woman instantly tensed up and asked who it was.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The person outside quickly said: 'It's me, open the door!'\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hearing this familiar voice, the woman stood up and opened the door to let him in.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1540,"2026-06-16T21:55:26.381Z","2026-06-16T22:03:03.495Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","cbf6a19b38f20c03eddc953f2da1bdd5758dde7ca1fa709148af157664896a2a","i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-29","i-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--chapter-27",577,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-the-tomb-raiding-storyteller-exposing-the-old--cover.jpg"]