Where exactly would the disaster relief funds be hidden? Lu Qingyan didn't know either. However, the saying that the most dangerous place is the safest place is always a good one.
Lu Qingyan thought for a moment and then had these people surround the villages living along the riverbank.
Lu Qingyan's calculations were shrewd; she guessed the silver must still be near this riverbank. The cart tracks led there, that much was undeniable. Something as heavy as silver couldn't have been carried far, so why wasn't it here?
The environment here is nice, with mountains, water, and people; most people wouldn't expect to find this place.
"Your Highness, there's nothing unusual." The soldiers who were sent there didn't notice anything amiss.
Just as Lu Qingyan was wondering if she had guessed wrong, someone said, "Your Highness, I have noticed something suspicious."
"Oh?" Lu Qingyan looked at him, gesturing for him to continue.
"I noticed that a family in the neighboring village is building a house. This is quite normal, but I learned that they weren't well-off before, but they recently made a fortune. Also, I noticed that the walls of their new house seem to be thicker than usual."
"Tch, what kind of discovery is that?" one of them said dismissively. "What's wrong with people making the walls thicker because they're afraid of the cold? The money to build the house might have been borrowed."
Lu Qingyan ignored the person who complained dismissively, and looked approvingly at the one who had made the discovery earlier, asking, "Good observation. What's your name?"
The boy said, "My name is Xu Jingzhe." He seemed a little embarrassed when talking about his name: "The day I was born was Jingzhe, so my father gave me this name."
Lu Qingyan didn't tease him: "Your name is nice, and you were born at a very opportune time. It's very memorable."
Xu Jingzhe blushed with embarrassment and stammered, "Really?"
Lu Qingyan praised, "Of course it's true. Let's go, it's getting late, let's go and see if there's anything wrong there."
When Lu Qingyan arrived there, there were quite a few people standing in their house.
"Let me tell you, you can forget about taking over our home!" Those people thought this courtyard was their target. Heh, Lu Qingyan thought, "My royal palace is far more beautiful than this."
Lu Qingyan's gaze fell on the wall, and she said in a deep voice, "Quickly, smash that wall."
A few hammer blows from the people around them smashed the entire wall to pieces.
"Damn it, how dare you?" The homeowner couldn't believe that these people actually dared to smash up his house.
"How dare you be so arrogant? Is there no law in this world? What right do you have to smash my house!" the homeowner shouted hysterically.
"Hehe, why wouldn't I dare?" Lu Qingyan walked to the pile of ruins, picked up a silver ingot, and looked at the homeowner with a half-smile: "Why don't you explain to me, old man, how did this thing end up here? The disaster relief silver allocated by the court has the mark of official silver on it. Ordinary people don't have it. I wonder which of your sons or relatives is a high-ranking official somewhere, and how they can have so much silver?"
The old man was speechless. He glanced guiltily at Lu Qingyan a few times, then suddenly knelt down: "This humble commoner really didn't know anything. I'm just an old man who doesn't understand anything. How could I tell whether this silver is the official silver you mentioned? You can't bully me just because I'm the only old man here!"
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