Chapter 172 A Lot of Gold Found in the Vegetable Garden
Upon hearing the sound, the Third Prince jumped up and swung his hoe at the snake.
The snake moved extremely fast and quickly ran away.
The Third Prince's hoe didn't hit the snake, but it did create a small pit in the muddy ground.
Zhou Ruiyuan looked into the distance and said, "Third Uncle, it's alright now, the snake has run away."
The Third Prince, holding his hoe, sensed something was amiss and quickly dug deeper. "Ruiyuan, take a look, is there something in the ground?"
As Zhou Ruiyuan listened, he squatted down and pulled at the soil with his hand. Suddenly, a golden thing was revealed in the dark yellow soil.
He was startled and quickly said to the Third Prince, "Third Uncle, come quick, there's something here!"
"What is that?" The Third Prince quickly came over to take a look.
Zhou Ruiyuan dug away the soil and unearthed a gold ingot.
"It's gold!" the Third Prince exclaimed.
Zhou Ruiyuan frowned slightly and continued to dig with his hand.
This hole is very deep, and unlike the one or two pieces of gold last time, this one is full of gold.
The Third Prince was stunned. "How could there be so much gold in this farmer's field!"
Zhou Ruiyuan took out the gold pieces one by one.
The Third Prince joined in the digging.
In the end, they dug out more than a hundred pieces of gold, each worth about fifty taels. In total, there were about five thousand taels of gold, which was a considerable sum.
With this gold, we could not only build houses, but also buy up all the shops in Cheng'an County.
Zhou Ruiyuan turned the gold over for the Third Prince to see, "Third Uncle, look what's on this?"
The Third Prince looked down at the gold and saw that it was engraved with the character "Lu".
"Is this the Lu family's gold?" he exclaimed in surprise.
Zhou Ruiyuan nodded. "That's right, this is our Lu family's gold, the batch of gold that was taken away by Steward Sun back then."
The Third Prince looked at the gold with surprise and asked, "Why is this gold on the Zhu family's land? Could it be that Steward Sun has some connection with the Zhu family?"
Zhou Ruiyuan pondered for a moment and nodded, "Perhaps there really is some profound connection."
"This land only started to be abandoned two years ago. Steward Sun left the capital three years ago. During this period, he probably came here to bury the gold. He must have known that the Zhu family would not come back to farm here, or he was in the Zhu family and knew when the Zhu family would start farming this land."
The Third Prince frowned slightly, as if deep in thought, "You're right."
Zhou Ruiyuan quickly grabbed his basket and said, "Let's take this gold back first, and then we'll find an opportunity to sell it."
The Third Prince laughed and said, "With so much gold, we can build the house even bigger."
Zhou Ruiyuan walked forward, preparing to go home, "or recruit soldiers and horses."
The Third Prince immediately understood his meaning and followed along.
The two arrived at Zhou's house and told her about it.
Zhou Ruiyuan asked Aunt Zhou, "Mother, do you know who the Zhu family is?"
After thinking for a moment, Aunt Zhou said, "Besides the Zhu family, they have two other sons. The younger son is unmarried, and the older son married a woman from another village."
Zhou Ruiyuan sensed something was off about the stranger's words. "Mother, do you know where his daughter-in-law is from?"
Aunt Zhou shook her head. "I don't know. I've never asked in detail before, but judging from the accent, they should be from Qingzhou Prefecture."
“Qingzhou Prefecture?” Zhou Ruiyuan remembered that Steward Sun’s hometown was Wanzhou Prefecture, which was adjacent to Qingzhou Prefecture.
However, the two places are so close, his family might return to Qingzhou Prefecture.
He then continued, "Mother, when you and Wanchun went to buy the land, was his eldest daughter-in-law with you?"
Aunt Zhou shook her head. "He's not here."
After hearing this, Zhou Ruiyuan became increasingly suspicious of the eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhu family.
He thought about it and realized that if the silver was indeed buried in the ground by the eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhu family, then she probably didn't expect the land to be sold. If she knew that they had bought the land, she would definitely come looking for it.
Du Wanchun walked over and said slowly, "If you have any doubts about her, we can go to the Zhu family to see her when we have some free time in a few days and we'll know."
Zhou Ruiyuan nodded slightly.
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