Chapter 2 Counting Gold and Silver

Li Wanqing also looked at the items in the other room: two boxes of gold ingots, five boxes of silver ingots, two small boxes of gold and silver jewelry, and a dozen jade bracelets. Some of the green ones had turned black, making them particularly beautiful.

Li Wanqing didn't quite understand these things, but she thought that the things of the prime minister's daughter wouldn't be too bad.

There were also cloths. The most numerous were fine cotton cloth, which numbered in four large boxes. There were also two boxes of silk and satin, and one box of something that Li Wanqing didn't recognize, which looked like gauze.

Li Wanqing was so excited about the new space that she moved in all the things in the house except the bed.

I bought it for fun at first, and now it seems I'm glad I bought it.

I don’t know if the space followed me.

Thinking of this, I silently said to myself, "Go in."

In a flash, she appeared in the space.

Looking at everything familiar in the space, Li Wanqing patted her chest and said, "Fortunately, fortunately, the space really followed her.

With this space, she has the confidence to thrive in this era."

Don’t think about anything else right now, just take care of the wound on your arm first.

Fortunately, she put all the things in the house into the space, including the medicine box.

As a student studying medicine at a university, although it is traditional Chinese medicine, my home medicine cabinet has everything you need.

She first used a basin to fetch water from the pond, and endured the pain to use a handkerchief to wash the blood and dirt on her arms.

Then take out iodine to disinfect, finally sprinkle Yunnan Baiyao on it and wrap it with gauze.

The wound on the arm was not small, about ten centimeters long. It looked like it was cut with a dagger. Logically, it would heal faster if it was stitched up, but there was no such condition now. Li Wanqing could only try her best to prevent the wound from getting infected.

After treating the wound, Li Wanqing took out two anti-inflammatory pills and took them.

Only then did I have time to look at the bag that the original owner (but now she has replaced the original owner, so from now on it will be in the first person, and I will no longer refer to her as Qiu Ju) had been holding in her hand.

There was nothing else in the bundle except the young lady's jewelry box and some gold and silver jewelry.

The original owner was also smart. Even when he was escaping in a hurry, he did not forget to take his gold and silver jewelry with him. Now they are all benefiting Li Wanqing.

Inside the jewelry box were three gold hairpins, two pairs of jade bracelets, three pairs of gold bracelets, five pairs of gold earrings and gold studs, two longevity locks, velvet flowers, and several hair accessories.

These are what the young lady carries every day. There are also banknotes in the bottom drawer of the jewelry box.

Li Wanqing took a look and found that the total amount was 365 taels, including one bill of 100 taels and two bills of 50 taels.

Ten pieces of ten taels, thirteen pieces of five taels.

These were prepared by the county magistrate's wife for her daughter.

There were also twenty other purses, each containing from one to five taels of silver.

Li Wanqing poured it all out and counted it, a total of thirty-two taels.

There was also a small bag wrapped in a handkerchief inside the bundle, which contained the young lady's own private money, a total of fifty taels of silver notes and two silver ingots. According to the original owner's memory, one should be twenty taels, so two should be forty taels.

Of course, the lady had more private money than this, she just brought it out just in case.

After collecting the banknotes together, Li Wanqing now has a total of 415 taels of banknotes and 72 taels of silver.

Finally, Li Wanqing had five taels of silver and forty copper coins in her own purse. This money was Qiuju's savings over the years, and she took it with her on this trip.

According to my memory, one tael of silver can be exchanged for 1,000 copper coins, and ten taels of silver can be exchanged for one tael of gold.

Outside, a white flour bun only cost two copper coins, and a pound of meat only cost seven or eight copper coins.

If Li Wanqing didn't squander so much money, she could live for many years.

But Li Wanqing has nothing now, not even the most basic shelter, and all of these things require money. So, the silver money is not too much.

But now is not the time to think about those things. The most urgent thing is to think about what to do now?

It was impossible for her to go back to her original master's house. The young lady had been taken away, and if she, a personal maid, went back, she would be dead.

Since I can't go back, I have to leave this place as soon as possible.

Whether the bandits come back or the government officials come, she will have trouble escaping.

Although I can hide in the space, it is better to avoid trouble than to worry about it. I'd better leave quickly.

Thinking of this, Li Wanqing left the space, climbed up the hillside, and walked forward along the road.

What she didn't expect was that their carriage was still parked in the same place.

There were seven or eight bodies lying on the ground in a disorderly manner.

Li Wanqing is a medical student. Although she studies Traditional Chinese Medicine, she has visited the laboratory and met the cadaver teacher.

So although I'm a little scared of corpses, it's okay.

Li Wanqing carefully avoided the corpse and climbed into the carriage. With a wave of her hand, she put everything in the carriage into the space.

This time they went out in two carriages, one for her and the young lady, and the other for the guards who protected them along the way.

Li Wanqing put all the things on the two carriages into the space. There weren't many things on the carriages, just the dry food and water bags that everyone had prepared.

There was a quilt and some spare clothes in her and the young lady's carriage.

Finally, she thought about it and put the carriage into the space.

Although she couldn't drive a cart, she could still make money selling these things later. She kept them here anyway, and who knew who would benefit in the end.

After doing all this, Li Wanqing turned around and bowed to the corpse on the ground. She took out some incense and candles from the space and lit them, muttering, "My dear brothers, have a safe journey. I will light some incense for you here.

I hope you'll be reborn into a good family. It's not that I don't want to collect your bodies, it's just that I have no choice. Please don't blame me."

After saying that, he knelt down and kowtowed a few times before turning around and leaving.

She took a few steps forward and felt something was wrong. If she continued like this, she might bump into someone.

Although this road is remote, some people still take it for convenience.

The reason they chose to take the small road was because it would take them several days faster than the main road.

She was afraid that others would know that she had walked along this road and why she had not reported the crime after seeing so many bodies.

Normally, a girl would be scared when seeing a corpse.

Going forward is impossible, and going backward is even more impossible. If neither forward nor backward is possible, the only option is to go up the mountain.

Li Wanqing didn't know where this place was exactly, she only knew that it was Fuyuan County, Jinzhou Prefecture, during the Shun Dynasty.

However, Li Wanqing analyzed that this place should be in the Northeast region in modern times. This was based on Qiuju's memory that it snowed for one-third of the year.

Moreover, Li Wanqing felt that this should be the Greater Khingan Range area, mainly because when looking to the left from here, there are mountains connected to mountains and ridges connected to ridges, which is especially like the Khingan Range seen when traveling in modern times.