Suddenly I remembered what my father said when he rescued Chaoxi from Jukushan. Jukushan had robbed countless treasures over the years.
They finally found the warehouse after passing through layers of corridors, but it turned out to be empty with only dust on the floor.
When the bandits were interrogated, they said that it was the men in black who stole it.
The men in black also said that the bandits had stolen their money.
When they confronted each other on the spot, they started fighting after a disagreement, leaving each other with bruises and swollen faces.
It turned out that it was moved back from Juku Mountain by Chaoxi.
Rong Xuqing chuckled and shook his head.
Chaoxi is really good at creating conflicts for others.
The two gangs racked their brains but couldn't figure out how such a huge warehouse, so full of treasures and food, could be empty just like that?!
“…” Qiao Sisi saw that she was smiling slightly and looked puzzled.
"Why? Do you know this man?"
"This is my cousin's thing." Rong Xuqing said.
"Uncle? When did you get a cousin? There's no one with the last name Gu in your family..." Qiao Sisi suddenly thought of something and said, "The one who came to ask for money last year...ah, I'm sorry..."
Seeing Rong Xuqing frown slightly, Qiao Sisi realized that she had said the wrong thing and quickly apologized.
This was the rumor in Kyoto at the time, so she wrote it down.
I asked Rong Xuqing privately, and the rumors in the capital were almost the same as what she said.
General Rong gave him ten thousand taels of silver and a house with three courtyards, and he accepted it.
General Rong took him to meet the officials in the capital, and in order to facilitate his future activities in the capital, he happily went.
A gentleman will not accept food given out of pity, and a man of integrity will not drink water from a stolen spring.
It is said that scholars value integrity.
It's completely different with Gu Lin.
Therefore, in Qiao Sisi's mind, Gu Lin is a city dweller in the guise of a scholar.
"He's not asking for money," Rong Xuqing explained. "Those were my grandmother's dowry, originally belonging to the Gu family. They were gifts from the deceased elders to the younger generation, so he had no choice but to accept them."
"As for getting to know the officials in the capital..." Rong Xuqing smiled helplessly, "You know my father's character. He wishes all his relatives and friends were together so that everyone knew each other."
Most of his friends were officials or royal relatives. He didn't take Gu Lin to the homes of the princes and dukes he used to be close to, which was considered restraint.
"What's more, they are my grandmother's relatives, and they are his only relatives besides us..."
Rong Xuqing murmured something, but Qiao Sisi didn't hear it.
"Then let's look for any more of his things and you can take them back to him." Qiao Sisi said as she rolled up her sleeves, ready to search for silver in the gold.
Compared with the gold, silver and jewelry in front of him, Gu Lin’s fish-shaped lotus leaf jade pendant is not really precious.
That jade pendant was simply carved from the most common white jade on the market. Even if it were exchanged for money, it could only be exchanged for five or six taels of silver at most.
There are still many scratches on it, and it looks like it has been passed down for several generations.
After packing the gold, silver and jewelry piled on the ground into boxes according to their categories, Qiao Sisi straightened her aching back and stood up.
"What should we do with all this property? And all the food?"
I don’t know where all these things came from. What should I do if the owner is looking for them?
"My cousin was robbed by bandits. These must be their ill-gotten gains." Rong Xuqing put away Gu Lin's belongings and continued, "Leave them in the courtyard to raise the children."
After three months of searching across the country, more than 300 of the 400 children rescued from Jukushan have successfully found their families.
The remaining seventy or eighty children have not been found so far and have been raised in orphanages.
Although the imperial court allocated silver, there were only Grandma Su, Aunt Wen, and two maids in the courtyard.
It is still quite a burden for four people to take care of dozens of children.
Now that we have enough money, we can hire a few more people.
Everyone's life can also be improved.
Hearing this, Qiao Sisi stared at Rong Xuqing with suspicion.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Rong Xuqing touched his face, feeling a little uncomfortable. "Is there something on my face?"
"..." Qiao Sisi chuckled and shook her head.
"No, I noticed that you have changed a little bit."
"If it were you in the past, you would have handed all this money of unknown origin to the government. But this time... you actually offered to keep it all."
In the past, Rong Xuqing was a true lady from a noble family, a defender of rules, etiquette, and law and justice.
Take last year for example, she designed to give the unfaithful man Tian Luowen to the arrogant, daring, lustful, and bisexual Marquis Cai.
Just this one incident shattered Qiao Sisi's three views.
If she hadn't told it herself, she would have been the first to come out and refute the rumor.
Rong Xuqing smiled and said playfully, "I have changed a lot. You will find out slowly."
"Well, my role model lady, you are about to lose this title." Qiao Sisi agreed with a smile.
…
After having lunch in the yard, Rong Xuqing and Qiao Sisi came to Gu Lin's house. The cleaning lady told them that he had gone to the bookstore to buy books.
So the two of them took Chaoxi hand in hand and went to the bookstore across the street.
Before I got close, I heard a loud noise coming from the front.
Looking up, they saw the bookstore they were going to.
There seemed to be an argument at the door.
However, there were so many people watching that when they approached, they couldn't find a gap to get inside and could only watch from outside.
Rong Chaoxi suddenly dragged Rong Xuqing to the side.
"Here, here..." The little guy walked a little anxiously.
If there is something exciting to watch, how can you stay outside? Of course you have to be inside to watch the fun.
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