[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers":3,"chapter-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-5":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Mountains and Rivers of the Imperial Granary",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2231421,4184,"Chapter 5","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-5",5,"\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao's question could not be answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The exact date of the seventh young master Huo's death could still be found out. But the old Daoist priest of Danxia Temple was in a remote mountain, the temple's incense was sparse, and the time was so long ago that no one could clearly say when the little Daoist appeared by the old Daoist priest's side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention the exact time, even whether he was disabled or not, no one could say clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who would remember insignificant people from ten years ago...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Lu Xingzhou has a Xiazhou accent, has the Danxia Temple land deed in his hand, and can refine pills, so he is likely the little Daoist from back then. If he is also the seventh young master Huo at the same time, then the Huo family murder case can almost be declared solved. Sheng Yuanyao can almost mentally fill in a complete story of grievances and hatred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Regrettably, no clear connection can be found between the little Daoist and the seventh young master Huo, and the case cannot be solved by speculation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In terms of age, there is some difference between Lu Xingzhou and the seventh young master Huo. If the seventh young master Huo were alive, he would be eighteen this year, and Lu Xingzhou is nineteen—his identity and travel documents for exchanging the land deed are very formal, of course, forgery cannot be ruled out, but it is difficult to obtain evidence. The key is that Sheng Yuanyao knows many people in the Huo family, and Lu Xingzhou doesn't look like them at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao investigated and tossed for several days, and the progress was only this much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short, from the surface evidence, Lu Xingzhou really has nothing to do with the Huo family murder case.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stood up a bit tiredly, went straight out of the Demon Suppression Division, and went all the way to the Huo residence. According to the subordinates' report, Lu Xingzhou has been renovating the Danxia Gang's old site over there these days, and she felt she must meet Lu Xingzhou once; she had a lot of things she wanted to ask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, before she walked two streets, she saw a chubby-faced Little Daoist sitting at the door of a grocery store at the corner of the street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Little Daoist was huddled there, with two black lenses on his eyes, almost blocking half of his face, and a small banner was set up on the side, with \"Divination\" written on it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let alone divination, just looking at this scene could make people laugh out loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao's mood, which had been stifled for several days, suddenly became much better. She walked over with a smile and squatted in front of the Little Daoist: \"Hey, why are you alone here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Little Daoist stretched out his index finger, pressed the black lenses down a bit, and glanced at Sheng Yuanyao from above the lenses: \"Beautiful sister, it's you, do you want a divination?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao smiled: \"Speaking of which, I haven't asked your name yet. What's your name?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My name is Anuo, the 'nuo' of sticky rice.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You look like a little Daoist, shouldn't you use a Daoist name?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Anuo is my Daoist name, my big name is Sticky Rice Ball, surname Lu!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao almost laughed out loud. Her biggest impulse now is to rub this little baby's face, but unfortunately, their relationship hasn't reached that point, and she still has to maintain the style of a Demon Suppression Division Commander...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing her like that, Anuo scratched his head: \"Why, can't Anuo be a Daoist name?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, yes, of course. Hmm... True Person Anuo, where is your master?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anuo, who was called \"True Person,\" was very happy: \"Master is repairing the house, I came out to earn some extra money.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao was speechless: \"You guys just had a large income, so you're not poor. Why does it feel like you are particularly short of money, and you need a child like you to come out to subsidize the family? Lu Xingzhou isn't afraid of something happening.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anuo put his hands on his hips: \"Anuo is very powerful and can help Master a lot!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao still smiled: \"So how many times have you opened for business?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anuo apologized with a smile: \"Just waiting for a fated person.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then am I your fated person?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anuo blinked his big eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who knows if there is fate or not, Anuo only knows the 'yuan' of 'yuanbao' (ingot), this sister must have it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao smiled: \"How much is one divination? How about doing one for me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anuo's eyes lit up immediately: \"One tael of silver, just one tael!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One tael of silver is very expensive... You say which sucker would find such a small child to do divination and pay one tael!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Sheng Yuanyao really took out one tael of broken silver and smiled: \"Calculate my marriage, how is it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather than calculating marriage, it's more like teasing a child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, there is a fated person! Anuo snatched the silver and grinned: \"Sister didn't intend to find a marriage at all. The elders in the family are quite eager to urge sister to get married, which is also one of the reasons why sister fled to Xiazhou.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao's smile froze on her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had many reasons for coming to Xiazhou, but it cannot be denied that avoiding family urging for marriage and matchmaking is definitely one of the important reasons! And this reason, except for her own family, no one else knows!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was it really calculated? Without measuring characters, without looking at palm prints, without needing to pinch and calculate, just by looking at her face?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A bit outrageous...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her expression became several points more serious: \"What about after that? Where is my true marriage?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anuo looked at Sheng Yuanyao up and down for a long time again, and the expression under the cover of the sunglasses also became a bit strange, and his little chubby hand scratched his head in confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao's heart actually tightened: \"How?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anuo smiled awkwardly: \"Sister, don't worry, the person sister marries in the future must be someone she likes, it's just, it's just that there might be a few sisters.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao was expressionless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With my status and position, would my future husband dare to take a concubine?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'll chop him to death!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anuo looked at her carefully and quietly hid the silver. He could guess what this sister was thinking... But sister, is there a possibility that your marriage palace doesn't look like a main palace...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao expressionlessly took out another large ingot, Anuo's eyes lit up and he was about to take it, but Sheng Yuanyao suddenly took it back: \"Although your marriage calculation is not accurate at all, if you can calculate who the murderer of the Huo residence case is, this silver is yours.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anuo apologized: \"No one can do such a divination, at most calculate some clues.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then clues.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anuo pinched his fingers and calculated for a long time, muttering: \"Evil ghost claiming life... did too many harmful things.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao took back the ingot and exchanged it for one tael of broken silver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anuo was crying without tears: \"Sister, don't worry, there are clues, there are clues... Hmm, the disaster starts from within the wall.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao narrowed her eyes and suddenly asked: \"How much do you know about your master's time in Danxia Temple?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anuo shook his head: \"I don't know, I'm only six years old! Master didn't tell me about things so early.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That was heard when Master was laughing at Gang Leader Liu behind his back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm... where have you lived these years?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the south, Miaoyin Mountain. I was picked up and raised by Master. Master has inconvenient legs and was bullied, so he brought me back to his hometown. As a result, not half a year after returning, he was bullied again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao didn't speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fact that Lu Xingzhou was crossed by the Danxia Gang, although he slapped them back on the spot, was essentially being bullied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he picked up the swaddled Anuo and raised her until now, calculating that he was only thirteen years old himself that year... It must have been really difficult all these years. No wonder the master and apprentice are both obsessed with money; if they don't try every means to earn money, how can they live to this size, and how can they supply cultivation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao thought about it and felt there was nothing special to ask Lu Xingzhou. Assuming he is the murderer, asking directly will definitely not get any results. That guy is not as honest as a six-year-old child, so she still has to consider side-probing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, she said: \"Then go back and tell your master that I have a patient with madness here, please treat him. As long as he can really be cured, the price is negotiable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anuo was happy: \"Okay, I'll go tell Master right away.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After speaking, he ran into the grocery store behind, raised his hand and put the broken silver on the counter as tall as him: \"Two catties of wife cakes, don't want the wife, can you give a discount?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sheng Yuanyao finally laughed out loud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wife cakes obviously can't be discounted. Anuo held two catties of cakes with a mournful face and slipped back to the Danxia Gang's original site—it had been renovated almost completely these days. Since it was rented by the Tianxing Sword Sect, it was estimated that it would be called Tianxing Sword Sect starting tomorrow, or change to a merchant name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today, the people of the Tianxing Sword Sect have not yet moved in, and the large mansion is full of workers changing beams and painting. Lu Xingzhou opened an alchemy room in a corner by himself and was refining pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anuo ran in and laughed from afar: \"Master, earned two taels of silver today!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou looked at the alchemy fire and smiled slightly: \"Sheng Yuanyao's business?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, yes.\" Anuo put the cakes aside and smiled: \"Sister Sheng invited you to treat a patient, are you going?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That is naturally going.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But Master...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did you leak too many clues? Are you really not afraid of being caught?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If it were a local old oiler, he would have caught me for strict interrogation or even forced a confession by now, but she is Sheng Yuanyao.\" Lu Xingzhou said leisurely: \"The Sheng family has been doing the work of the Demon Suppression Division for generations. Sheng Yuanyao is a newcomer, still has a bit of spirit, and still talks about procedural justice. Without any evidence, she won't mess around. So as soon as I heard Sheng Yuanyao came here to gild herself, I knew the opportunity for action had come.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then are you not afraid that Sister Sheng will really find out it's you? I think she is very smart and very attentive.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But didn't you kill the person?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anuo: \"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Xingzhou laughed: \"Actually, the clues I leaked to her have little to do with us, just proving that I am the successor of the Daoist temple. As for the murderer, I have always been guiding her to think about Huo Shang, which is to let her inform the Huo family in the capital that Huo Shang might not be dead.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why let them think Huo Shang is not dead? Just to shift the blame?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If only some servants died, the Huo family would probably just send a steward to deal with it, which makes no sense. But if Huo Shang appears in the world, it must be the Huo family who comes.\" Lu Xingzhou looked at the furnace fire, the flames reflected in his pupils, as if there was fire burning in his eyes: \"My hope for treating my legs, and the Huo family's hell, will start from here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What if they insist on thinking you are Huo Shang?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, I am indeed not Huo Shang, no matter how they test it, it's useless.\" Lu Xingzhou smiled slightly: \"Of course, if they really think so, there are some other benefits.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What about Shen Tang and the others?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If they are indeed the remnants of the Tianxing Sword Sect, they will be a very useful thug...\" Lu Xingzhou paused here, also frowning slightly: \"But I doubt whether they are the Tianxing Sword Sect.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",2091,"2026-06-18T01:46:09.112Z","2026-06-18T03:18:02.290Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","985e10cb2e2fb6ecbd32f1dc750e8f24a82924007a859fe96e9e17a3b7a90478","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-6","the-grain-of-mountains-and-rivers-chapter-4",325,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmountains-and-rivers-of-the-imperial-granary-cover.jpg"]