The most valuable items were the four boxes of gold and the books, calligraphy and paintings, four treasures of the study, antiques and jade in the cellar. This was also the important reason why Lu's father hid these properties in plain sight.

Gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times.

Gold is a hard currency. Under the current circumstances, these four boxes of gold are the most valuable. As long as you have gold in your hands, you will not starve to death. It is easy to sell it on the black market and exchange it for cash at the bank.

In the future, when living standards improve, ancient books, calligraphy and paintings, antiques and jade will dominate the world.

This has been the case in every dynasty.

Feng Qingxue was amazed. "I admire my father so much. I can't describe my admiration. What is buried in the private plot?"

"Private plot?" Lu Jiang thought for a moment. "There shouldn't be anything important there, because that private plot was originally a yard of our family. We hid things there to conceal them from others. The things buried now are those that have not been discovered. I remember there was a jar of silver dollars mixed with some large and small yellow croakers, and a few tin boxes filled with large vases, copper incense burners and the like."

Even so, when dividing the private land, Lu's father secretly found Wang Zhengguo and asked him to allocate the land to his family.

"I'm very curious about the origins of our ancestors. It's impossible for an ordinary landlord to accumulate such a large fortune."

Feng Qingxue heard from her elders that real landlords owned large tracts of land, raised a group of cattle, horses and mules, and hired tenants and long-term and short-term workers to work. When the weather was good, it was fine, but when they encountered natural disasters such as droughts and floods, they would also lose their income. Their daily lives were not as affluent as imagined. Some landlords even asked their daughters-in-law to do housework. Such landlords were richer than ordinary people, but rarely to the extent of the Lu family. The hidden property alone was so much, what if the property that was confiscated was counted?

Moreover, many things passed down by the Lu family are not something that ordinary people can own, such as the Sanxitang calligraphy, the jade ruyi given to her by Lu's father, and those jewelry, which are obviously full of history.

Lu Jiang appreciated her sharpness and said, "There is an old ancestor in our family who was a Jinshi during the reign of Emperor Qianlong. In his later years, he reached the level of a frontier official and was deeply favored by Emperor Qianlong. The Sanxiting Calligraphy Collection was bestowed upon him by Emperor Qianlong. The three generations of his ancestors were ordinary farming and reading families. They almost went bankrupt to cultivate this glorious ancestor, who was selected as the runner-up at the time. The old ancestor became prosperous and blessed three generations of descendants. His grandson married a princess from the Beile Mansion. There is also a saying that wealth cannot last for more than three generations. The descendants became less and less motivated. During the war, the eldest branch of the family moved here with their family and buried all the past."

From then on, other people only knew that there was a landlord family named Lu here, but they didn't know the origin of the Lu family. Only the eldest branch of the family knew their own history. The family tree is currently in the hands of Lu's father and will be passed on to Lu Tianjun, the eldest grandson of the Lu family, in the future.

Feng Qingxue was stunned at first, then she joked: "Oh, you have the royal blood of the Qing Dynasty flowing in your veins!"

"What bloodline? The descendants of the princesses who married out don't have the surname Aisin-Gioro, so how can they have royal bloodline? Bloodline is based on the father's family. Besides, it's an era now. Anyone who says he is a descendant of the royal family is flattering himself. In fact, after ten or eight generations, the bloodline has become extremely thin!" Lu Jiang has self-knowledge.

Feng Qingxue nodded, "What you said makes sense! Judging from the current situation, if others knew that our ancestors had such a history, our family would be in trouble!"