Ji Xia hesitated as she looked at Chen Jing, who readily agreed: "I can go to the provincial capital to inquire about things for you, but I need to take a look at your stuff first."
"Okay, I'll have my granddaughter take you to get it tonight."
After agreeing on the terms, Ji Xia arranged housing for them.
There was also a guest room in the house, which was cleaned up for Sun Xiaoyu, while Old Man Sun moved into Ji Xiangjun's room.
As for Chen Jing, Ji Xiangjun's bed is perfectly fine for two people.
After dinner, they boiled water for a bath. Only after it was completely dark did Chen Jing take Sun Xiaoyu out.
It was around two or three in the morning when the two returned carrying a small box.
Ji Xia yawned and stared blankly at the small box in Chen Jing's hand. The box was a bit larger than a 16-page notebook, about half a foot deep, with hollowed-out silver corner trim on the four corners and an antique-style copper lock in the middle.
The box has two layers. The upper layer contains jade, six jade bracelets, seven or eight jade pendants, more than a dozen rings, and more than a dozen strings of coral, agate, and beeswax bracelets.
Old Sun gave a special introduction, mentioning that one of the white jade bracelets was made of mutton fat jade, and the other was a very clear, glassy imperial green jadeite.
The top layer was removed, and the bottom layer contained gold items: ten large yellow croakers neatly arranged, two sets of gold headdresses, and some individual gold bracelets, hairpins, necklaces, earrings, and other jewelry.
Although things were very cheap at that time, even just considering gold, three hundred dollars wouldn't be enough to buy that much gold, let alone jade.
After looking at the contents of the box, Ji Xia sighed and smiled awkwardly, "There's so much, I don't think I can eat it all. Can we exchange some of it?"
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