First-rank palace maid Su Jixiang

Chapter 378: Treasure of Phoenix Mountain

The things from Wanzhen Pavilion were specially escorted by Wan'an Escort Agency, which was composed of retired Black Tiger Army soldiers.

This escort company only made the trip from the capital to Mangcheng once and immediately became famous among the green forest.

They swept through all the hills, big and small, from the capital to Mangcheng, and the sweep went straight to their lair.

However, the Wan'an Escort Agency still adhered to the code of conduct. They attacked all the mountain strongholds on the road, but they did not destroy the people. They were still in charge and did their work. They just appeared suddenly like a god descending from the sky, stunned the bandits in the mountain strongholds, and then disappeared suddenly.

From then on, no matter what the Wan'an Escort Agency was transporting, the mountain villages along the way would greet them with smiles and send them off with drums, and they would not even dare to touch the edges of their belongings.

Of course, the Wan'an Escort Agency fought outside for a full year before reaching the current situation.

What makes Wan'an Escort Agency different from other escort agencies is that all of their people ride on tall horses, and they transport goods very quickly. Besides the flags of Wan'an Escort Agency, no escort leader sings numbers along the way. As long as they see the horse team of Wan'an Escort Agency, no one dares to stop them, and no one can stop them. They are like a rolling iron stream that cannot be stopped.

The Wan'an Escort Agency was established by Su Jixiang, and the personnel were also provided by Wei Ling.

Su Jixiang also formed a fleet, which currently only travels on rivers throughout the northwest.

With the cover of this fleet, Wei Ling began to train the navy in batches. First, he trained everyone in water skills, and then selected a group of people through talent selection to learn the skills of steering and identifying the direction of stars from veteran river workers and boatmen.

During these three years, Wei Ling never stopped sending people to search for the place where the deposed emperor's treasure was hidden.

The deposed emperor once told him before his death that the location of the treasure was in Phoenix Mountain between Mangcheng and the capital.

But Phoenix Mountain is so big that it is really difficult to find such an illusory thing, so although those people have been looking for three years, no good news has been reported back.

Su Jixiang wanted to go to Phoenix Mountain to have a look, but she had too many things to do, and there were too many new things in Mangcheng. If she didn't stay in charge, others wouldn't be able to figure it out. So she could only take care of her own business in Mangcheng in the past few years.

She has been a little free lately.

After all, almost everything that needs to be done has been done.

Everything else was proceeding in an orderly manner under her arrangement. In addition, she had already trained Qu Wanning, Hua Rui, Liu Juan, and Qu Niangzi. Now, even if she was not there, these people could stand on their own.

Madam Qu's business is very big now, and her business is not limited to spices and medicinal materials. Madam Qu is in charge of the reimbursement of canned food and other items produced by Su Jixiang's Caidiexuan in the northwest region. Because Xu Mo went to the capital, Madam Qu is the general agent of Wanzhen Pavilion in the northwest region.

So Su Jixiang felt that he should go to Phoenix Mountain to see if he could find the treasure that Wei Ling mentioned.

However, Wei Ling was not confident that Su Jixiang could go alone, because his spies had heard that Emperor Longchang's men had also found people near Phoenix Mountain.

If Su Jixiang were to be exposed in front of others, he would probably be killed.

But since Emperor Longchang has already found the area near Phoenix Mountain, it means that the treasure is real.

Wei Ling and Su Jixiang discussed it in Mangcheng and decided that this treasure could not be given up easily.

So the two of them quietly left Mangcheng one after another, one claiming to be sick and the other saying that he was leading troops to patrol the border.

After all, he was worried about Su Jixiang going alone, but he felt relieved if he went with him!

This time, Wei Ling and Su Jixiang only brought Wei Feng, Wei Jing, Lu Shui and Guihua with them.

With fewer people, there are fewer chances of being discovered.

With Lu Shui and Gui Hua around, Wei Ling and Su Jixiang dressed up as a middle-aged couple. There was a Guanyin Temple on Phoenix Mountain, so they went there under the pretext of paying homage to the Guanyin Temple.

The Guanyin Temple on Phoenix Mountain is said to be very effective, and people from all over the place go there to worship and make wishes.

"How do you think that person found the area near Phoenix Mountain?" Wei Ling took Su Jixiang on a deserted mountain road and asked the question that had been in his mind for a long time.

"Are there any documents in the palace?" Su Jixiang asked.

"I remember that at that time, in order to save his life, the deposed emperor told me with certainty that except for him who knew the location of the treasure in his heart, no one in the palace knew the location. This secret was passed down orally by successive emperors of the Daxie Dynasty. So I don't think there would be any written records in the palace." Wei Ling said.

"But the current emperor still found this place, which proves that he found some clues." Su Jixiang smiled, "Everything you do will always leave traces. Although we knew that the treasure was here before him, we have too little experience in investing in it in recent years. This time we can only try our luck. You can't leave Mangcheng for a long time. We only have two months this time. It has taken five days to get here from Mangcheng. We only have one month and twenty days at most. So we can't fly around like a headless fly."

"Madam, do you have any ideas in your mind?" Wei Ling knew that Su Jixiang never did useless things. Since she brought up Phoenix Mountain at this time and brought him here, she might have some plans in her mind.

"Aren't your spies always monitoring the movements of the people Your Majesty has brought with him?" Su Jixiang said with a smile.

"Yes, but they didn't seem to have found anything. They just scattered around several towns and asked around." Wei Ling said. "Don't you know everything they asked about?"

"I did read all the secret letters in the car these few days." Su Jixiang said with a smile, "I found that they were all looking for things that happened fifty years ago, and fifty years ago, the deposed emperor was not even born yet."

"The time they found should be accurate." Wei Ling said, "I guess the emperor checked the files of Emperor Suzong during his lifetime. I also sent someone to check it secretly, but found nothing unusual."

"But the emperor has discovered it." Su Jixiang said with a smile, "There should be some clues in the file, but the people you sent overlooked it and were caught by the emperor."

"What you said makes sense." Wei Ling thought about it seriously and felt that this should be what Su Jixiang said.

These days, he hadn't had time to take care of the treasure. After all, there were so many things to do in the army and Mangcheng.

But now that it's here, I have to think carefully about this matter.

"I know what to check now!" Wei Ling was enlightened by Su Jixiang's reminder, and his eyes lit up. "I'll ask the people in the capital to check it out! I estimate that there will be news in four or five days."