Chapter 674 Go to find the Lu family's treasury
Zhou Feng said angrily, "It's Lord Cheng, the defector from the Southern Barbarians."
“Recently, Aruo has been purging internal enemies. This Lord Cheng has defected from the Southern Barbarians and declared himself king. In order to retaliate against us and our people, he secretly sneaked into the granary and set it on fire.”
Du Wanchun asked, "Who are you colluding with?"
Zhou Feng shook his head.
Zhou Ruiyuan replied, "I am currently investigating this person."
Du Wanchun fell into deep thought. After a while, she said, "Ruiyuan, don't rush. Let's go to the Lu family's vault first. We can deal with this person slowly."
“Alright.” Zhou Ruiyuan had actually already found out who that person was, but he didn’t want Du Wanchun to be in danger, so he deliberately didn’t say anything.
More than a decade ago, the Zhou family was a wealthy merchant family that rivaled the Zhou family in wealth, and the most famous of them were merchants.
The merchant was a royal merchant accepted by the old emperor back then. He even sent people to the Zhou family as spies. Later, after the old emperor passed away, the merchant gradually declined.
More than ten cloth shops in Beijing closed down and slowly disappeared.
Later, Zhou Ruiyuan discovered that the Zhou family had started a business again in a small county, and that they had a wise mentor by their side, and were now doing very well.
The shopkeeper was a vindictive person who believed that his shop's current state was all because of the Zhou family.
Therefore, he joined forces with Cheng Daren, who had defected from the Southern Barbarians, and burned down the Zhou family's rice granary.
On the day of the arson, Manager Shang asked a wise man for directions, which allowed him to escape Du Wanchun's notice.
However, none of them expected that in addition to their own treasury, the Zhou family also had a treasury left behind by the Lu family.
Two days later, Zhou Ruiyuan, Du Wanchun, and Zhou Feng changed into ordinary clothes and arrived at the Lu family's old residence together.
After the old emperor died, Zhou Ruiyuan left the old house to Lu Yan.
Lu Yan has been in Xuzhou with his wife and children these days and is unaware of this matter.
Zhou Ruiyuan led Du Wanchun and the others through the back door, and then found a hidden door in the former courtyard of Old Madam Lu.
The steward had previously mentioned that Lord Lu had chosen to locate the warehouse in Yanyun Mountain, on the western outskirts of the capital.
Later, Zhou Ruiyuan went to Yanyun Mountain to check, but did not find any warehouse.
He initially thought the butler was lying, but later learned that his maternal grandfather had deliberately given the butler a false address, and the real address had to be found within the Lu residence.
After thinking it over, Zhou Ruiyuan decided to go and take a look at the old lady's courtyard.
Unexpectedly, they actually found a hidden door.
Du Wanchun was also shocked when she saw it, and she slowly walked into the hidden door.
Zhou Ruiyuan took her hand and said, "I'll go first."
Du Wanchun turned around and smiled, "The things left by your maternal grandmother should be safe."
Zhou Ruiyuan quickened his pace and shielded her behind him, saying, "It's better to be careful."
Du Wanchun didn't say anything more and obediently followed behind Zhou Ruiyuan.
Just as Du Wanchun said, there was no danger inside.
There was only one Buddha statue in the small, enclosed room; it was a tiny Buddhist shrine.
Zhou Feng approached, holding a candle, and said, "There seems to be nothing here."
Zhou Ruiyuan stared intently at his surroundings, and finally found a painting on the wall behind the Buddhist hall, a statue of a goddess.
He thought it looked familiar. "This portrait seems familiar... I feel like I've seen it somewhere before..."
Zhou Feng watched along with them, and after a while, he suddenly turned his gaze to Du Wanchun.
"Why does she look a bit like my sister-in-law?"
These words startled Du Wanchun, who then looked closely at the portrait.
The goddess in the portrait does indeed look somewhat like her, but it is not her; rather, it is the female statue in the goddess temple on Moon Spirit Mountain.
In other words, this goddess image is her mother.
At this moment, Zhou Ruiyuan also remembered something and slowly said, "I remember when I was young, my maternal grandmother once repaired a small temple on Mount Yueling. The female statue in the temple is the goddess in this painting."
After hearing this, Zhou Feng seemed to remember as well. He was younger than Zhou Ruiyuan, so his memory wasn't as clear as Zhou Ruiyuan's. "That's right, it seems there was such a thing."
Du Wanchun smiled and said, "Why don't we go and take a look at Moon Spirit Mountain?"
Zhou Ruiyuan and Zhou Feng nodded in unison.
The three hit it off immediately, and then secretly left the Lu residence, boarding a carriage to head to Moon Spirit Mountain.
Mount Yueling was not far from the Lu residence; it only took an incense stick's time to reach the foot of the mountain by carriage.
It took the three of them only half an hour to reach the top of the mountain in the carriage.
Compared to Yanyun Mountain in the western suburbs, it is indeed more likely that Lu's maternal grandfather hid a large amount of money here.
With Zhou Ruiyuan's help, Du Wanchun dismounted from her horse.
The three arrived at the entrance of the small temple.
Just in case, they did not bring any other servants with them.
"Brother, sister-in-law, is this treasury really in this temple?" Zhou Feng looked the small temple over and over, unable to see any difference between it and other temples.
Du Wanchun took two steps forward and said, "Why don't we go in and take a look?"
Zhou Ruiyuan walked in front of her, looked up and stared intently ahead, and slowly said: "This temple looks small, but there may be something special inside."
The three of them walked together toward the small temple.
Zhou Feng quickly searched inside, but found nothing.
"Brother, sister-in-law, there's nothing in this little temple."
Zhou Ruiyuan and Du Wanchun did not start searching, but instead knelt down and bowed to the statue.
This bow felt like bowing to one's parents.
Zhou Feng watched from afar and stopped what he was doing.
Just then, Zhou Ruiyuan noticed a small button under the stone statue.
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