Chapter 274 274 Made a Fortune
Su Lu pulled Qin Xiaoxiao into his arms and sighed.
"Sigh, honey, I don't want to go to the fields. Tell me, can we talk to Grandpa and ask him not to?"
Qin Xiaoxiao sighed even louder, "What do you think?"
Su Lu was about to cry out, "I'm so tired!"
Qin Xiaoxiao agreed, "Yes, I already feel incredibly tired before I've even gotten out of bed."
"well!"
"well!"
The couple sighed in unison and lingered on the kang (a heated brick bed) for another two hours, leaving Su Lu drenched in sweat and nearly causing the city gates to fall.
Su Lu boiled two more pots of bathwater. Qin Xiaoxiao brought out the large bathtub from her space and took a bath with Su Lu. After provoking Su Lu's anger, Qin Xiaoxiao irresponsibly told him that she wanted to count money.
With Xiangxiang's wife on one side and the fragrant money on the other, Su Lu, after a painful struggle, decided to count the money first.
I tidied up the house to make more space for today's spoils.
The first thing Qin Xiaoxiao took out was the money she had stored in her spatial storage: two bundles of money, six bundles of money, each bundle containing twenty large ten-yuan bills, totaling one thousand two hundred yuan.
Qin Xiaoxiao put the 1,200 yuan and 27,600 yuan together, totaling 28,800 yuan, counted them again, and then put the box into her spatial storage.
Qin Xiaoxiao didn't pay much attention to the twenty yuan she accidentally found in the book and threw it into the coin box. Now there was one hundred and ninety-six yuan and forty cents in the box, which included the money given by the villagers when Qin Xiaoxiao and Su Lu got married, as well as the pocket money that Qin Xiaoxiao had put aside before.
Then Qin Xiaoxiao held out a table leg, saying, "Honey, this table leg doesn't feel right. Open it up and take a look. I think there might be something inside."
Su Lu nodded, went out and found an axe. He tried to chop it open twice but failed. On the third chop, he used more force, and the table leg split in the middle, revealing a yellow substance.
Su Lu and Qin Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up, and they exchanged a glance. "Honey, it might really be something good."
Su Lu had Qin Xiaoxiao retrieve a chisel from her spatial storage and begin cleaning it bit by bit. Half an hour later, Su Lu and Qin Xiaoxiao stared wide-eyed at the pile of golden cakes on the kang (a heated brick bed), their eyes gleaming with greed.
A gold ingot the size of half a baby's fist filled the entire leg of the table. Because the table leg was made of good quality wood and was quite heavy, a casual observer would not notice any difference from the other table legs.
Qin Xiaoxiao swallowed hard. "Am I just lucky?"
She's cannon fodder! Shouldn't the female lead be treated like this? This script is wrong!
Regardless of whether it was right or wrong, Qin Xiaoxiao and Su Lu excitedly pounced on the golden cakes at the same time, each counting half of them.
There are a full thirty gold ingots, each weighing about fifty grams, and there are three kilograms of them on display here.
Qin Xiaoxiao smiled so hard her eyes were practically closed. She cupped Su Lu's face and kissed him, then turned around and kissed the golden cake again.
"It smells so good!"
Su Lu didn't care who Qin Xiaoxiao was talking about; he just told Qin Xiaoxiao to put it away quickly.
With a wave of her hand, she sent it into her spatial dimension and set it aside for the time being. Then, Qin Xiaoxiao took out the wooden box she had found.
“Honey, look at this. I think this box is quite pretty, so I put it in my space. The wood is also quite good. We can keep it as a dowry for our daughter to store jewelry and things like that.”
Su Lu took the box and looked at it. He then changed his tools and, somehow, pulled out a wooden board from the bottom of the box. On the board lay a jade bracelet.
The jade bracelet was a bright, translucent emerald green, with gold threads wrapped around it. Qin Xiaoxiao examined it closely and saw that the gold threads formed a golden dragon, and there were a pair of black gemstones in the dragon's eyes.
Holy crap, that's fucking gorgeous!
This was the couple's shared feeling when they saw the jade bracelet.
"Wife, quickly put this away. It's a good thing. We'll save it for our daughter's dowry."
Qin Xiaoxiao admired the bracelet for a while longer before happily putting it away along with the box.
Qin Xiaoxiao didn't find anything in the table she looked for, except that the wood was pretty good, and she could try to match the table legs later.
Qin Xiaoxiao didn't mind. She received a corner of the space and then released a large wardrobe that Su Lu had found.
This time, Su Lu didn't look around much. Instead, he accurately found a mechanism in the wardrobe, fiddled with it for a while, and opened it. He then found a pile of jewelry in a hidden compartment at the bottom.
The jewelry was neatly laid out at the bottom of the wardrobe, covered with a red cloth. Qin Xiaoxiao and Su Lu counted them; there were over a hundred pieces of jewelry in total.
From large jade bracelets and pendants to small hairpins, hair ornaments, and earrings, in gold, silver, and jade, the variety is complete.
Qin Xiaoxiao and Su Lu stared in disbelief, hugged and kissed each other twice, and then Qin Xiaoxiao quickly tidied up and put the things away.
The two boxes that Su Lu found didn't contain much. One box contained a property ownership certificate for a house, but it didn't have a name on it, only an address in Beijing. The two of them didn't know if it was real or not, and planned to check it when they went to Beijing later. If it was real, they would have a house in Beijing.
Su Lu took out a pair of earrings and a jade pendant from another box. Qin Xiaoxiao put these items together with the jewelry in the wardrobe, and then put them all into the large box where the Wen family stored jewelry.
The golden cakes were also placed in the box containing the large yellow croaker. After everything was arranged, Qin Xiaoxiao then put them back into her spatial storage.
The two wardrobes and chairs that Su Lu bought from the scrap yard were ordinary, without any hidden compartments or mechanisms, and the wood wasn't very good either. Su Lu planned to chop them all up for firewood in a few days.
Qin Xiaoxiao finally took out a stamp collection. Su Lu wasn't interested in it, but Qin Xiaoxiao said it would be valuable in the future, so Su Lu took it and looked at it for a few moments before telling Qin Xiaoxiao to put it away without showing any interest.
Overwhelmed with excitement at receiving such a windfall, the couple stayed up half the night, and it was almost dawn when they finally fell asleep.
Qin Xiaoxiao had only been asleep for a short while when her alarm clock rang. Today was the day of Yu Shitou's funeral. Although he was a child, he was still a villager of Qinjiagou, and the necessary ceremonies could not be omitted.
A child's funeral cannot be a grand affair. In this day and age, even the death of an elder can only be kept low-key. Therefore, a small coffin was brought out from the Yu family in the morning, and the funeral procession returned an hour later.
The Yu family treated the families who had given gifts yesterday to a meal. Qin Xiaoxiao and Su Lu didn't stand on ceremony and sat down with the Qin family for a "feast" that left them in a bad mood.
Qin Xiaoxiao's stomach ached from the meal, so after returning to the educated youth compound, she made half a pot of noodles and shared it with Su Lu.
After finishing her meal, Qin Xiaoxiao took out the dough that had been prepared earlier and handed Su Lu a cup of homemade yogurt.
Su Lu was in a great mood after finally getting to drink the yogurt he had been craving. He helped Qin Xiaoxiao steam three large pots of buns and steamed bread, and put them all into his spatial storage.
The two then made some meat and mushroom sauce, and also wrapped a full five pounds of wontons and ten pounds of dumplings, intending to eat them when they didn't feel like cooking during the spring plowing season.
This is just one time at the scrap metal recycling station, to give the young couple some wealth so they can relax later. After all, neither the male nor female lead is very hardworking, and Qin Xiaoxiao is afraid of killing herself on the black market so she can't exchange for things. I'm also afraid the two of them will starve to death later on.
(End of this chapter)
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