Chu Xuan put down the thick rolling pin in his hand and took the stack of money. He looked at her with curiosity and asked, "Tell me quickly, how did you earn it?"
Mu Chenze raised the corner of his mouth and pointed at the gate, "I'll go lock the door first."
He didn't put down the thick rolling pin in his hand, but walked towards the gate.
When I reached the gate, I suddenly remembered Aunt Li's request to borrow a shovel. "Wife, has the shovel from the Li family been returned?"
If it is not returned, you cannot lock the door, otherwise you will have to come back to open it later.
Chu Xuan replied softly, "I'll pay it back around five in the afternoon. Aunt Li always keeps her word."
"That's good."
Mu Chenze closed the gate of the courtyard quickly.
He returned to his wife with a proud look on his face. "Brother Lin and I teamed up to buy a whole carload of New Year's goods from the city. We sold half at the county market, and Brother Lin's family helped sell the other half. We made a net profit of 1,630 yuan. Brother Lin and I each got 815 yuan, leaving you 800 yuan and me with 15 yuan for pocket money. Don't tell mother about this."
Chu Xuan gave a thumbs-up. "My husband really has a good business sense. But it's best to tell Mom about this."
"We are responsible for our own profits and losses. Do we still need to tell Mother?"
"Of course I have to tell you. What if Mom finds out from others that you and Brother Lin are doing business together? What will Big Brother and Sister-in-law think? Also, you'd better ask Big Brother if he wants to invest in this business."
"I'll talk to Mom tomorrow. Actually, I privately asked my eldest brother if he wanted to invest in selling New Year's goods. He said he was too busy. After delivering goods every day, he has to go to my father-in-law's house to help make fried goods. This is the only time of year when he's busy and earns some money."
Chu Xuan slapped his head and almost forgot that in his previous life, the Fu family would make fried food at this time every year, and his elder brother and sister-in-law would go to help and earn wages at the same time.
Before, the sister-in-law said that she would go to the beach no matter how busy she was, but Chu Xuan didn’t pay much attention to it. Now it seems that after going to the beach, the sister-in-law will go to her parents’ home to help.
Every day, the elder brother and his wife are busier than her and Chen Ze.
I was supposed to go to the cram school for an exam tonight. Most of the students in the cram school have jobs, and as the year is coming to an end and they are rushing to produce, too many students have asked for leave due to overtime work. The cram school teacher called the village office in advance to inform them that the cram school on New Year's Eve will be suspended, and the exam will continue after the New Year.
This way, Mu Chenze and his wife had more time to make meat floss and dig holes in the concrete floor.
After pounding this batch of cooked meat, it was around ten o'clock in the evening. No one would pass by here, so I could pound the concrete floor.
During the day tomorrow, we will use blankets, paper and meat floss to cover the damaged ground. We will also notify Chu Dashan to climb over the wall and stay overnight tomorrow night, and then climb out again near dawn. We have to perform the whole act.
Of course, after digging out the gold bars, they had to quickly make a batch of fake gold bars and let Chu Dashan give them to the person behind the scenes.
Chu Xuan felt a little troubled when he thought about making fake gold bars.
Mu Chenze seemed to see what his wife was thinking. "Xiao Xuan, don't worry about the fake gold bars. I have a solution."
Chu Xuan hugged him gently, "Ze, I find that you really understand me."
Kiss him on the cheek.
What Mu Chenze can't stand the most is his wife taking the initiative.
At this age of full vigor and vitality, you will demand benefits even if the sky falls.
The bedding and sheets here are all clean. I'll be staying here tonight, so I've heated up the kang in advance. There's also hot water in the kitchen...
Two hours later, Chu Xuan fell asleep from exhaustion.
Mu Chenze got up and went to the yard to pound the concrete floor.
The tools have been prepared, including hammers, pickaxes and the like.
The banging sounds did not wake Chu Xuan.
After more than three hours, he finally found something.
It was a large, worn-out wooden box.
When the lid was opened, there was a box wrapped in oil paper inside.
Mu Chenze opened the oil-paper package and saw a cowhide suitcase with a password.
He picked up a pickaxe and tried to break the combination lock.
Suddenly he remembered some cases that Min Yi had told him before and immediately gave up the idea.
If the combination lock breaks and explodes, there will be a risk of life.
Mu Chenze cleaned the outside of the box before carrying it into the bedroom and waking up Chu Xuan.
As soon as Chu Xuan opened his eyes, he saw the cowhide box on the ground.
He asked dazedly, "Ze, when did we get a box like this at home?"
Mu Chenze's mouth curled up nicely, "I worked hard to dig it out and clean it, am I awesome?"
Chu Xuan instantly woke up and looked at him with admiration, "Amazing! You're amazing! I can't help you much. Come and sit down. I'll help you relax."
Breaking the cement floor and digging holes are both strenuous work, and she knew that Chen Ze must be very tired.
Faced with his wife's care, Mu Chenze was happy to accept it. "Relax later, I'll go fill the hole first. You study this password box first, don't force it open, I'm worried it will explode. Min Yi has told me a lot of things like this before."
Chu Xuan's eyes fell on the snake pattern on the front of the cowhide box.
Why does it feel familiar?
She had seen this box in her previous life!
I saw it in Feng Chunhua's kitchen.
At that time, Feng Chunhua used it to store corn cobs, firewood and the like.
Chu Xuan didn't know the combination to the combination lock. Because Feng Chunhua had never used a combination lock before, the box was always filled with corn cobs and firewood, making it impossible to close it completely.
It seems that the gold bars in the cowhide box were taken away. Feng Chunhua was reluctant to throw away the cowhide box, so she put it in the kitchen as a container for corn cobs and the like.
However, the numbers on the combination lock are always 1942.
Chu Xuan wanted to give it a try.
He quickly put on his clothes and shoes and walked to the cowhide box.
He reached out to touch the combination lock but was stopped by Mu Chenze.
"Wife, study it carefully first, don't rush to touch the combination lock. Didn't you hear my warning just now? There might be an explosive in here..."
Chu Xuan's face was very calm. "I know, Ze, don't worry, I'll be fine. I remember all the things Feng Chunhua said in her dreams before, and one of them was that the combination lock's code was 1942."
Mu Chenze held her hand tightly. "What if it's not Feng Chunhua's? This box definitely doesn't belong to Feng Chunhua, otherwise she wouldn't have given you the old house. Her dream talk could also be the password to other boxes. We can't take that risk. I'll go fill the hole and clean up the yard. When it gets light tomorrow, I'll take the box to Min Yi and ask him to find a professional to enter the password to open the box."
Chu Xuan couldn't directly tell about her past life, and the password 1942 was just her guess, so she finally agreed to Mu Chenze's suggestion.
"Okay! Let the professionals open the combination lock tomorrow. I'll go with you to fill the hole."
Mu Chenze felt sorry for his wife, "No need. I can do it alone, you lie down for a while."
Chu Xuan patted the back of his hand gently. "You feel sorry for me, and I feel sorry for you too. It's just filling a hole, it won't tire me out. Besides, you left me alone to guard the box. Aren't you afraid that I might lose control and enter the password to open it?"
Mu Chenze was really scared, "Wife, dress warmly and stand in the yard to watch me fill the hole."
Chu Xuan covered her mouth and laughed, "I just like filling in the gaps with you. It's not tiring when a man and a woman work together."
In the end, Mu Chenze couldn't persuade Chu Xuan, and they both filled the hole together with shovels.
After filling a few shovels of soil, Chu Xuan suddenly stopped and said, "Should we dig a little to the side? We might find something else good." (End of this chapter)
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