Zhao Guihua drank a large bowl of honey water, waved her hand, and took a while to recover. She looked around nervously, and only after confirming that no one was outside the yard did she lower her voice and say, "Sister, come and take a look. This is what we dug up on the mountain today."
Seeing her so cautious, Zhao Guizhi subconsciously lowered her voice and tiptoed over, asking, "What are you looking at?"
"Take a look at this." Zhao Guihua showed her three pieces of jade, each about the size of an adult's fist.
Zhao Guizhi's eyes widened in shock, and she gasped sharply, "This, this jade, did you really dig it up in the mountain?"
"Of course it's fake, you wouldn't go and rob it, would you?" Zhao Guihua said with amusement.
"I see that this jade has a warm and lustrous color and no visible impurities, so it should be valuable. However, I don't really know much about jade, so I can't say for sure what its value is."
When Zhao Guizhi worked as a maid in the Chen household, she had seen some jade artifacts and could tell whether they were valuable or not, but she dared not boast that they were definitely worth a certain amount of money.
"We'll keep these three jade stones for now, we won't sell them." Zhao Guihua thought that since Xingxing had found them, she would keep them for her future dowry.
Zhao Guizhi didn't say anything about it. Her sister had dug the things up, and how her sister decided to deal with them was her family's business, not hers.
"Besides these three pieces of jade, we also dug up some gold bars and silver. We'll use the gold and silver to figure out what to do next, so we'll have the confidence to do it." Zhao Guihua knew that her sister wanted to start a small business, but because she didn't have the money, she could only stay at home doing embroidery.
"So much money?" Zhao Guizhi roughly calculated that all the gold bars and silver added up to about a thousand taels, of which the gold bars were converted into about seven hundred taels of silver and more than three hundred taels of silver. Her sister had really struck it rich.
Zhao Guihua took a gold bar and stuffed it into Zhao Guizhi's hand, saying, "Take this. You can do whatever you want to do later."
Zhao Guizhi's eyes reddened, and her throat tightened with emotion. However, she returned the gold bars to Zhao Guihua and said sincerely, "Guihua, you are in charge of this family. You keep the money. I can't take your money for nothing. I'll borrow from you again when I've figured out what I want to do. Although we are sisters, even fathers and sons keep clear accounts. So, let's keep things separate. I can't take this money for nothing."
“You’ve always been strong-willed and stubborn. I only gave you some money because I thought I had enough. If I didn’t have it, I couldn’t give you what you wanted.” Zhao Guihua knew her sister’s personality and character, so she didn’t press the matter further.
"If you need money, just tell me. Don't be too embarrassed to ask later."
Zhao Guizhi smiled and said, "I won't be polite with you. I'll definitely borrow it from you later."
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