Chapter 675 Countless Gold
He slowly got up and reached out to turn the button.
As the button was turned, the stone statue slowly began to move.
Du Wanchun was overjoyed and pointed to the stone statue, saying, "Ruiyuan, second brother, look!"
As the stone statue slowly moved, the small temple trembled slightly.
It felt like the earth was shaking.
Du Wanchun steadied herself, focused her mind and looked ahead, and saw a small stone door leading to a secret passage under the statue.
"Here!"
She exclaimed in surprise.
Zhou Ruiyuan and Zhou Feng quickly looked towards the stone gate.
"It really is here."
Zhou Feng was overjoyed. He quickly opened the stone door and found a long secret passage underneath.
The secret passage leads underground.
Du Wanchun came to the door and looked down, "It seems the vault is right down here."
Zhou Ruiyuan picked up a tinderbox and was the first to enter the secret passage. "I'll go ahead and scout the way. You can follow me later."
"Big brother!" Zhou Feng called out hurriedly, and followed him forward.
This time, Du Wanchun didn't rush to go. She closed the temple door first and then entered the tunnel.
Under Zhou Ruiyuan's lamplight, the tunnel wasn't very dark, and the steps were still clearly visible.
Du Wanchun, supporting herself against the wall, slowly followed behind them.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, Zhou Ruiyuan suddenly stopped ahead.
Du Wanchun strode forward and came up behind him. "Ruiyuan, what's wrong?"
Zhou Ruiyuan pointed to a stone gate ahead and said, "We've arrived."
Du Wanchun looked at the stone door and saw that there was a lock on it.
She quickly said, "Ruiyuan, take out the key and try it."
Zhou Ruiyuan took out the key from his pocket and tried it on the lock. With a click, the door opened.
Zhou Feng was overjoyed from behind, "Great! Big brother, sister-in-law, we found it!"
Zhou Ruiyuan and Du Wanchun pushed open the stone door together, and saw a row of luminous pearls hanging inside.
The luminous pearl illuminated the entire secret chamber, which contained rows of large red boxes.
As far as the eye can see, there are countless of them.
Du Wanchun was immediately startled.
She never expected that the small Lu family would have so much wealth.
It is said that the Zhou family is as rich as a country, and what the Lu family left behind is probably more than ten times, or even more, the total wealth of the Zhou family.
Zhou Feng and Zhou Ruiyuan were also stunned by the scene before them.
They slowly stepped forward and opened the large red box in front of them, revealing it filled with neatly arranged gold.
Opening the second, third, and fourth boxes, they were all still gold.
Zhou Feng was at a loss for words: "Brother, sister-in-law, could it be that all these seemingly endless boxes are filled with gold?"
Zhou Ruiyuan looked up, his eyes also filled with surprise, "So it seems that's exactly right."
Zhou Feng then opened many more boxes, which were indeed full of gold.
He collapsed to the ground, still unable to calm himself down. "My maternal grandfather and grandmother were just officials in the court. Why did they have so much gold in their home?"
Zhou Ruiyuan said slowly, "I remember my mother saying that a hundred or two hundred years ago, the ancestors of the Lu family were also merchants, and I think their surname was Bai."
"It seems that this gold must have been accumulated by generations of ancestors."
Zhou Feng suddenly realized, "I didn't expect there to be such a thing. My maternal grandparents were probably afraid that this money would cause unnecessary disaster, so they kept it from everyone, not even my mother and the others."
"Telling the housekeeper in the end was a last resort. To avoid having the money taken away by the housekeeper, we had no choice but to give him a fake address so that we could find it ourselves."
As he spoke, he slowly stood up, looking at the gold in front of him as if in a dream.
Du Wanchun broke their train of thought with a smile, saying, "Let's think of a way to get this gold out of here first."
Zhou Ruiyuan smiled and said, "No rush, I have my own way."
After he finished speaking, he turned around and took Du Wanchun's hand, saying, "It's cold and damp underground here. Let's go back first. In a couple of days, I'll send someone to transport the gold out of here and slowly replenish the Zhou family's rice."
Du Wanchun smiled and nodded.
It seems that someone had prepared the gold for them long ago.
It's quite a coincidence. Her mother did know the Bai family in the past, but many years have passed. It's amazing that she still has some connection with the Lu family.
The three were overjoyed when they returned to the palace.
At this point, Zhou Ruiyuan also mentioned the matter of the merchants.
Du Wanchun asked him, "Are you saying that this incident was done by the merchants and the Southern Barbarians?"
Zhou Ruiyuan nodded.
Du Wanchun stood up and said, "I remember the merchants. They even sent someone to ask them to be tutors for our Yi'er and Yu'er. I never expected that after so many years, they would still remember us."
Zhou Ruiyuan came up behind her and hugged her, saying, "I've already sent people to the merchants. Don't worry, this time we'll make sure they can't recover."
Du Wanchun sensed the anger emanating from Zhou Ruiyuan.
The merchants weren't that difficult to deal with; it was her carelessness that allowed those people to succeed this time.
She turned to look up at him and said, "This matter is not urgent, let's take our time."
Zhou Ruiyuan replied softly, "Yes, I understand."
As he spoke, his eyes were full of tenderness, but his thoughts drifted away into the distance.
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