The smile on Lin Zao's face gradually faded only after the butler's figure disappeared from sight.
Just then, the breakfast she had ordered was delivered. Lin Zao ate it expressionlessly while pondering the prefect's intentions.
They were clearly up to no good. They were saying they wanted to invite heroes and friends to go treasure hunting together, but Lin Zao guessed they were looking for people to be cannon fodder.
With so many people, if a fight breaks out, countless people will surely die or be injured.
The prefect's intention in recruiting these people must be to use them as cannon fodder; otherwise, why would he be so foolish as to share the benefits with others?
Most importantly, when she deliberately hinted to the steward that she would share the treasure with him, the steward's expression clearly showed disdain.
This suggests that the steward knew she had no chance of obtaining the treasure, or rather, she didn't even have the chance to reach the treasure's location.
The answer is self-evident.
However, the reason Lin Zao did not refuse the steward outright was that she wanted to find an opportunity to sneak into the prefect's house and gather information.
Why did the prefect have the opportunity to participate in the treasure hunt? Is it related to the Second Prince? It would be best if we could find something, but there's no loss if we can't.
Having thought things through, Lin Zao quickly finished her breakfast, paid the bill with the waiter, and then asked him to bring her horse over.
They then headed towards Datong Town.
Her top priority right now is to get her hands on that crystal core.
After a whirlwind journey, two days later, Lin Zao finally returned to Shangpo Village, Tang Jian's hometown, following her memory.
The three dilapidated mud houses had their thatched roofs almost completely blown away by the wind, leaving only bare beams.
The entire Shangpo Village was desolate, devoid of any human presence, with only a few mud houses remaining, similar to those of the Tang family, no longer habitable.
Looking at the current state of the village, Lin Zao could still recall her life here back then.
The scene of Tang's wife, heavily pregnant, washing clothes in the river; the scene of her veiled insults from her sister-in-law in the yard; the scene of the twins crying from hunger at the doorway; the scene of Tang's mother standing at the doorway, frowning and sighing...
Various scenes from the past flashed through her mind.
Until everything became nothingness, turning into the desolate scene before us.
Lin Zao sighed. Fortunately, all those hardships were over, and good people are eventually rewarded.
Reaching out, he pushed open the courtyard gate. The gate, now just a rotten piece of wood, collapsed to the ground under the weight of Lin Zao's force, raising a cloud of dust.
Stepping into the courtyard, there were two bare plots of land, a dry well, and three mud houses.
Of these three rooms, the one on the east side is the room for Brother Tang's family, the one in the middle is for Old Man Tang and his mother, and the room in the middle is separated from the one on the outside and used as a living room for meals and entertaining guests.
The remaining room was divided into three rooms. One room was Tang Jian and Lin Zao's bedroom, and later Lin Zao and their two children lived there.
One room was used as a kitchen for cooking, and the last room was used as a storage room, where various farm tools and firewood were stored.
After glancing at her old room a few times, Lin Zao headed toward Brother Tang's room.
According to Tang's sister-in-law at the time, she threw the crystal core disguised as a stone into their house, and she didn't notice it afterward.
Lin Zao carefully observed Tang's sister-in-law's expression and knew that what Tang's sister-in-law said was true, so there was no need for her to lie to her.
So Lin Zao searched every corner from the moment she entered, but she couldn't find a single stone, let alone a pebble.
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