The news about Bai Dalin was nothing short of a bombshell, shocking, appalling, and enough to make anyone want to scream! A thousand taels of silver! How much money is that? You wouldn't starve even if you didn't work for ten years!
"Really? There really is a thousand taels of silver? Where is it? Where is it? Quickly, take it out and let me see!" Chen Qiuling's stomach pain suddenly stopped, and she sat up in bed, grabbing Bai Dalin's clothes. "Where is the thousand taels? Where is the thousand taels?" She looked around, trying to figure out where Bai Dalin had put the thousand taels.
There was a thousand taels of silver, but Chen Qiuling just didn't see it.
"Look!" Bai Dalin grinned, pulled out a thousand taels of silver notes from his pocket, and presented them to Chen Qiuling like a treasure. "They're all here!"
"Wow!" Chen Qiuling exclaimed, grabbing the silver notes one by one, looking at them and smelling them one by one. It took her a long time to count them and figure out that there were ten silver notes worth one hundred taels each.
"Husband, you're amazing!" Chen Qiuling grabbed the silver notes in one hand, then hugged Bai Dalin's neck, planted a kiss on his cheek, and happily went back to counting the money.
Seeing Chen Qiuling happy made Bai Dalin happy too. He looked at Chen Qiuling for a long time before finally pulling her off the bed. "Alright, let's go out to eat. The food is getting cold. Today's dishes are from the official's house; he even had someone send them back to me." Bai Dalin felt particularly proud when he talked about this. In this Zhedi Village, who else could have the official personally send someone to deliver their food? No one! Probably not even the village chief.
"Mmm!" Chen Qiuling's previous anger vanished completely. Just as she was about to put the silver notes away, Bai Dalin took them away.
"Husband?" Chen Qiuling didn't quite understand what Bai Dalin's actions meant. Why would he keep his money if he didn't leave it with her?
"Keep the money here with me, I still need some of it," Bai Dalin said. "Take this for now." He then took out two hundred and gave it to Chen Qiuling, and kept the remaining eight hundred.
Chen Qiuling was actually quite unhappy when she saw that the thousand taels she had received had turned into two hundred taels, but she controlled herself well, smiled charmingly, and accepted the money.
Bai Nuo left before Bai Dalin and Chen Qiuling came out. Bai Dalin was in a good mood today, so he called the whole family to a table for dinner.
The sky had completely darkened, and an oil lamp was lit in the main room of the Bai family, illuminating the entire room. The old woman had never seen Bai Dalin use such a kerosene-consuming oil lamp before, and said with some surprise, "Why is this kind of lamp being used today? It's such a waste."
"Mother, it's alright, I'm rich now! Look! Look!" Bai Dalin glanced at the kerosene lamp indifferently, then went around to check the dishes on the table one by one. "These dishes were given to me by the official. He thinks highly of me. I'm working under him now. What's a lamp? I can afford to light a hundred or a thousand lamps."
Seeing Bai Dalin like this, the old woman wanted to remind him to be thrifty and manage the household well, to use every penny wisely and not waste it, but looking at Bai Dalin and Chen Qiuling like this, she didn't know what to say.
"Is it delicious, you silly little thing?" Bai Dalin was in a really good mood today, and even had the mood to tease Bai Nuo. "Didn't you always want money? Here, take it. Don't say that your father doesn't care about you anymore. You've never seen so much money before, have you? Ten taels of silver."
The silver coin made a clanging sound on the table, spun around, and then stopped moving.
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