Chapter 111: Digging up Antiques

"Old man, if you are willing to sell it to us, it will be a great help to us and the elderly at home. It will be a great thing to accumulate virtue and blessings."

"No, I won't sell it. This mountain was left to me by my grandfather. He said that my descendants must guard this mountain and it cannot be sold." The old man waved his hand and prepared to close the shop.

Qin Hanyan quickly grabbed the door ring and said, "Old man, we really want to buy it, so we asked around and came all the way to talk to you in person."

After saying this, she felt a little guilty.

She brought Shen Ruyi with her to negotiate in person, one reason being that Shen Ruyi felt more at ease with her, and another reason being that by not using a middleman, she could save a lot of money from the introduction.

She now wishes she could break a piece of silver into petals.

"Grandpa, please." Shen Ruyi blinked and tears immediately fell. "I really feel sorry for my grandma. She is seriously ill in bed. Our family has spent all the money we can on her treatment."

"Now that medicine is useless, I'll just have to ask the gentleman for help. This is the only way to cheer you up. If you're willing to sell it, we'll pay for it right away."

The old man saw Shen Ruyi crying sincerely, and felt a little sorry for her. "Well, I'll think about it."

There is no way to make money at home, and there is no benefit in guarding this barren mountain all day long.

After thinking for a while, he asked, "How much money are you willing to spend?"

Upon hearing this, Qin Hanyan's eyes lit up.

But just as she was about to speak, Shen Ruyi spoke first, "We have four hundred taels of cash now."

"Four hundred taels." The old man hesitated and did not respond.

This price is not too much, but not too little either.

But the elders in my family have reminded me that this barren mountain is a good place and worth a fortune.

Even though he couldn't tell where it was after all these years, the elders in his family said so, so there must be a reason for it.

"A little less." The old man frowned slightly.

After hearing this, Shen Ruyi began to try hard to recall the plot. She remembered that this barren mountain was finally sold for 550 taels.

But if they calculated it now, even if they gave him all their money, they would still be short of fifty taels.

"Grandpa, let's put it this way. I still have a longevity lock. I'll let my mother take it to exchange for money. It should be worth dozens of taels after that." Shen Ruyi clenched her fists pretending to be strong.

"That was the last wish my grandfather left me. Even though I couldn't bear it, I wanted to use it to save my grandmother!"

The old man felt sad when he heard this. "You are a good child. You should be filial and obedient as a child."

"How about this, if you can come up with 500 taels of silver, I will sell this mountain to you. Anyway, you can't grow anything here, whether it's fruit trees or grain, so it's useless to just keep it here."

"Okay!" Shen Ruyi responded quickly.

Qin Hanyan also quickly brought the nanny into the house, and asked a maid to pretend to go out and sell the longevity locks.

Half an hour later, the girl disguised as a maid brought back one hundred taels.

Qin Hanyan looked at the old man and started to cry. She said that she had to sell all the cotton-padded jackets and leather clothes at home to buy the one hundred taels.

The old man felt a little sorry for the poor performance, so he took out ten taels of loose silver from his own five hundred taels and stuffed it into Shen Ruyi's hand.

"Use it to buy some delicious food." The old man said as he handed the deed to Qin Hanyan and signed his name on it.

After getting the land deed back, Qin Hanyan was extremely excited.

"Ruyi, what use is there for this barren mountain?"

Shen Ruyi was calm and composed. "Just wait. We'll know the result in half a month."

Half a month later, heavy rain suddenly hit the capital.

After the rain came, it washed away the barren mountains.

Qin Hanyan was extremely anxious after hearing the news. She had bought the mountain with great difficulty, and she had no idea what use it would have or how much money it could be exchanged for. Moreover, some parts of the mountain had been washed away by the heavy rain, making it difficult even for people to walk on it.

But who would have thought that Shen Ruyi would be so happy after hearing it.

"Take your bonded servants to the mountain and you will know for sure."

Qin Hanyan was stunned and immediately called Shen Bailin to take people there.

When they came back, Shen Bailin was overjoyed, "Ruyi, you are really my good daughter. There is iron ore in that mountain. It was only discovered after the heavy rain."

"Yes, the emperor doesn't allow individuals to mine iron ore privately now, but we can sell it to the government. At least, 100,000 taels of silver."

Shen Ruyi remembered that in the original text, the old man discovered the iron mine, then sold the mountain to the government, took 100,000 taels of silver, and suddenly became a famous wealthy man.

"Okay, okay, one hundred thousand taels, one hundred thousand taels!" Shen Bailin laughed and went out.

Within a few days, he negotiated with the government and got the money back.

The second branch of the Shen family hasn't seen so much money for a long time.

Old Mrs. Shen took charge and immediately set the table, ordering all the abalone, sea cucumber, bird's nest and shark's fin that she had been reluctant to eat for some time.

Shen Fangcheng had not forgotten about his jade pendant, and begged Shen Bailin to quickly find someone to go to Nanhang.

Everyone knew that this was the benefit brought by Shen Ruyi. For a while, even Old Lady Shen, who had been somewhat dissatisfied with Shen Ruyi for favoring boys over girls, began to treat Shen Ruyi differently.

The news of the second branch of the Shen family getting rich soon spread to the first branch of the Shen family, and Xiao Tangbao was stunned after hearing it.

She originally thought that after the Shen family's second branch had done so many bad things, it was like a grasshopper in autumn and would not be able to jump for a few more days.

Unexpectedly, they bought a barren mountain for no apparent reason, and then found some iron mine, and made a fortune with the money.

"The second branch of the Shen family is so lucky." Qin Yunshuang couldn't help but sigh.

But when she thought about the evil things done by the second branch of the Shen family, especially Shen Yuanbai, who was finally getting better, she felt bad.

How come these people who have done so many bad things are not punished?

Xiao Tangbao frowned slightly. She intuitively felt that the second branch of the Shen family had made a comeback thanks to Shen Ruyi.

I never thought that Shen Ruyi, a baby of the same age as her, would have such ability.

"Mom, it's okay. If they bully us again, I will tell the Emperor and the Empress to beat them up." Little Tangbao smiled sweetly at Qin Yunshuang.

"Okay." Qin Yunshuang nodded.

But unexpectedly, not long after the second branch of the Shen family sold the iron ore, they became rich again.

This time he took a fancy to a pond, and after buying it, he unexpectedly dug out antiques from inside it.

This really spoiled the little sugar baby, no matter whether it was an iron mine or an antique.

This is a lot of silver.

It's so infuriating that the money didn't go into her hands, but into the hands of bad people.

Before Xiaotang could be happy for a while, something even more unexpected happened.

Shen Yuanbai, who had obviously gotten much better, suddenly became sometimes lucid and sometimes confused.

He looked weaker and paler, and even the imperial physician was consulted, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong.