"Ni'er, pick out some things for yourself. But be sure to hide them well on the way back!"
"Me? Mother, weren't these meant for my eldest and second brothers?"
Ye Xiaoxiao thought that in the original book, when the mother got old, she only gave the original owner a few gold rings.
I guess the old man didn't have much left by then. And being old, he wasn't as generous anymore.
"Hey, they're all my children, so I'll treat them all equally. The three of you will split the spoils equally."
But you can't let your sister-in-law know about this.
"Keep it quiet, don't tell anyone. I'll take it for you first, and then they can split it equally later."
Actually, Liu Cuixiang hadn't thought of it that way before. She just saw that her daughter had brought so many things home and felt that her daughter was really too filial. She lived so far away from home and probably wasn't doing well, but it felt like her daughter had brought the whole family with her.
I took the two hundred yuan without hesitation, and that's how I came up with this idea.
"Alright, I'll listen to Mother."
Ye Xiaoxiao then picked things out of the box. The first one was a pair of bright green jade bracelets.
As the saying goes, gold is valuable in times of chaos and jade is valuable in times of prosperity. Gold is valuable now, but jade will be even more valuable in the future.
Ye Xiaoxiao didn't take much; besides the pair of jade bracelets, she took five of the twenty-odd gold bars.
There's also a set of gold jewelry, and that's about it.
Compared to that, it's only about one-fifth, since she's a married-out daughter and her older brothers have to support their parents.
She was aware of the situation.
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