"You're overthinking it. In this day and age, if people find out your family eats meat every day, they can report you and have your house searched. You think you can be a first-class aristocratic family? What a pipe dream!"

【Aren't there many families who are still operating openly and honestly? Why can't the Gu family do the same?】

Gu Zuozuo sighed. What else could it be?

[Sir, how many of these established, publicly recognized families are still around?]

Those with a keen sense of smell had already made arrangements to hide their families in plain sight. It was those stubborn families who were either corrupted or suffered terribly, even worse than the Gu family.

My arms ached from constantly collecting boxes, and the sweep didn't end until two hours later.

[Host, what is that little fox doing?]

Gu Zuozuo turned around and saw a tiny furry ball that had followed her at some point frantically digging in the dirt in an inconspicuous corner, glancing back at her every now and then as if to make sure she hadn't left.

Gu Zuozuo came to its side and quietly squatted down, watching its little paws scratch rapidly.

After she slowly finished eating three spirit fruits and two milk fruits, the little fox finally stopped pawing at them, turned her head and chirped at Gu Zuozuo.

"Huh?"

Just as she reached out to take the small box from the bottom of the pit, the little fox blocked her hand, its fur standing on end.

"Tsk, you heartless little thing, I just fed you and you've already forgotten?"

After a brief confrontation between the human and the fox, Gu Zuozuo was the first to give in. With a flick of her wrist, a palm-sized piece of meat appeared in her hand and was handed directly to the little fox, who was constantly scratching its paws.

"Stop scratching, we're from very different species, I can't understand your body language."

The little fox's only remaining clear eyes lit up when it saw her take out that piece of meat that would invigorate any fox just by smelling it. It grabbed the meat and stumbled back.

Ignoring the little fox's unusual behavior, Gu Zuozuo reached out, took out the box, and opened it. Inside were neatly folded pieces of cloth.

"What is this...?"

"Holy crap!!"

Gu Zuo's left hand trembled and he almost threw the box away. Who the hell put this treasure here?

"No wonder...no wonder..."

No wonder the Gu family was being watched so closely, no wonder the once-great Gu family had withered down to just one frail-looking original owner.

[Host, are we about to get rich again?]

Gu Zuozuo ignored the system's greed. The value of what she got this time could no longer be determined by making money. If it were true, it would probably be credited as her being included in the family genealogy, and she would be the first one to receive it.

The three pieces of cloth in her hands were maps showing the distribution of rare mineral veins, gold mines, oil mines, coal mines, etc., and importantly, these maps recorded not only her own country! There were at least ten other countries listed before her.

"Is this where those energy tycoons of later generations made their fortunes?"

Her slender, trembling fingertips twitched and trembled as she repeatedly poked at those addresses that looked familiar.

My goodness, if all of this were hers, even Jack Ma would have to step aside!

Who came up with this? If all of this were unearthed, their country probably wouldn't be forced to develop by Western powers for the next fifty years, right?

No! No! This is too much of a shock; she needs to calm down...

"It seems this is what they're really looking for, right? But even we ourselves don't know exactly what's inside the treasure, so how do the Japanese know?"

This is something Gu Zuozuo just can't understand no matter how hard she tries.

[Host, is it possible that they are simply greedy? After all, the wealth here is truly astonishing!]

Moreover, it also knew that this was not a treasure location chosen by the Gu family ancestors on a whim, but rather that they had been storing treasures here since the end of the Ming Dynasty, before the Qing army entered Hanzhong. Not to mention that every subsequent head of the Gu family would secretly send six-tenths of the family's profits from that year's business to this location every year.

A century-old enterprise cannot be lost in a single donation.

They probably never imagined that the private savings they had accumulated for the family over the centuries would not only increase in value but would also be completely wiped out by their descendants, leaving them with nothing.

"As expected, a tall tree catches the wind, and wealth attracts thieves."

She carefully folded the cloth in her hands and placed it in the wooden box in her hand. Only after placing it in the system space did she let out a big sigh of relief.

It's no wonder she's so weak-willed; anyone would go weak in the knees at the sight of that thing.

Oh, someone who's both stupid and greedy probably wouldn't, because their first reaction would be that they've become rich, like the guy in her mind.

[Host! Aren't you really considering developing it yourself?]

Gu Zuozuo tilted her head in puzzlement, her tone full of doubt.

"Who exactly was your factory quality inspector? What made them think of sending you out like that? And you want me to develop it myself? How many lives do I have?"

Rolling her eyes, Gu Zuozuo ignored the system in her mind that went crazy at the sight of money and turned to walk back the way she came.

The system looked at the antenna above its head with a wronged expression and silently shrank into a corner.

It's happy when it sees its host getting rich. Other hosts in the Tong family either have the protection of CEOs, princes, or emperors, or the protection of powerful masters, clan leaders, or at the very least, a bunch of inhuman followers.

Only its host, because it's just a welfare and poverty alleviation system, can't give her the spotlight, a multitude of servants, or admirers who could circle the planet. She's all alone, with nothing but money, and feels so pitiful...

She was a little confused when Gu Zuozuo suddenly sneezed on her. What happened? Who was talking about her again?