When Jiang Yanchuan returned after dealing with the urgent matters, he found the two little ones holding hands in a secluded courtyard.
Guan Zhili was much quieter than before. He followed the little girl with a solemn face, only forcing a smile when she turned back to speak to him.
Jiang Yanchuan had already heard what had happened in the main hall and was not surprised. He was merely a little curious about what they were doing.
He lightened his footsteps as he approached the little girl, carefully observing the pair.
With a little shovel meant for children to play in the dirt in one hand and her newly acquainted Brother Zhili's hand in the other, the little girl walked onto a tree root, tapping here and there.
[This is the spot, right?]
Outwardly, Jiang Yingcheng pretended to be finding the silver through her own abilities. Inwardly, she was frantically begging her cheat for help.
System Bro's mechanical electronic voice only sounded after a moment: [A little farther forward.]
Jiang Yingcheng craned her neck to look. Sure enough, a small patch of ground ahead was much darker than the surrounding soil, as though someone had recently dug it up.
[Yay!!]
Found it!!
She turned around and gave her Brother Zhili a sweet smile. "It should be right here!"
Earlier, after the soldier uncles had escorted Guan Xiqiao and the others away again, Jiang Yingcheng had gotten a notebook from one of the uncles nearby. Taking her Brother Zhili along, she had gone to the eunuch uncles who claimed to have hidden "evidence of Guan Xiqiao's crimes" and recorded each place where they had buried it.
This spot was the hardest to find. Unlike the others, the person who had buried it could not give a precise location such as "beneath