The Zhu family had been busy all day. Finally, they sent all the helpers home. Then, the whole family sat in the living room. They were making scallion and pork shumai for tomorrow’s meal while chatting.
“Aohan, you can tell us now, right?” Zhu Yanyi asked curiously. “What did your people find out about the Zhu family in Zhushi?”
Yan Aohan rolled out the dough skins as he spoke. “Do you remember when the Zhu family came to the capital to bother Uncle Shunyao and Auntie?”
“Of course I remember. Didn’t I scare them away?” Zhu Yanyi said casually. Her hands didn’t stop; she quickly wrapped a shumai.
“You used Gu Jingtian to spread the word,” Yan Aohan said calmly. “You let other noble families know the Zhu family went to the capital. So, they started guessing. They thought the Zhu family must be looking for something in the capital.”
“Looking for what? There are many things in the capital. Do they think the Zhu family is looking for an emperor’s seal?” Zhu Yanyi wrapped another shumai quickly. She sounded unconcerned.
“Well, you know what I said before,” Taishu Yuanxiang said, also rolling dough. “When Liu Bei died, he gave Zhuge Liang a token. Maybe they are looking for that token.”
Zhu Yanyi chuckled. She was absolutely disdainful. “They didn’t look for it before or after. They only looked for it when they messed with us. Do they think we are easy to bully?”
Yan Aohan said, “They aren’t looking for that token. They are looking for a treasure left by a certain emperor.”
“Treasure?” Zhu Yanyi didn’t expect it to involve treasure. “Which emperor left it?”
“It seems to be from a small country’s emperor during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period,” Yan Aohan said lightly. “That country only lasted about ten years, so history doesn’t describe it much. But that emperor was said to be a bandit. So he was very rich. He became emperor because the mountain he occupied as a bandit was exactly Changbai Mountain.”
“Haha, that legend is really interesting,” Zhu Zhibin laughed. “Being a bandit in the mountains next to the capital? Isn’t that asking for death?”
“Those times were chaotic. Anyway, you might be emperor today, and I might be emperor tomorrow. Who knows what will happen tomorrow? So, it’s normal for bandits to stay in the mountains next to the capital,” Yan Aohan said calmly.
“But actually, these are just rumors. There is no such treasure. However, the local noble families don’t think so. They believe that since the Zhu family went to the capital, they must have confirmed this. So, they naturally went to the capital to look around. To make people remember them, they even did some things. One of them was tampering with your senior brother Gu Jingtian’s car.”
Zhu Yanyi frowned slightly. “Are these people just bored and looking for trouble?”
Yan Aohan said lightly, “Noble families are usually like this. They have their own background, so they don’t want anyone to surpass them. If they find out there is a treasure, they naturally want a share.”
“But there is no such treasure?” Zhu Yanyi frowned slightly.
“There is no treasure in the capital. But there is a treasure in Sicheng Town. That is the Tomb of Censor Xie,” Yan Aohan continued.