Lu Yuan and Wen Moxue both sighed as they listened to the stories of the past.
The old man reminisced for quite a while when talking about the past.
However, he is old and has long since come to terms with everything.
The family had a premonition that things were going wrong, but they never expected the consequences to be so severe. They were only thinking about preserving some of their property, never imagining that they would lose their lives in the end.
At the time, he thought he would hide his property in a servant's room, and no one would have thought of it.
That's true.
They dug up almost the entire mansion, but no one thought to dig up his house.
After his master's family was wiped out, he was terrified and felt like he was walking on thin ice, not knowing where to go or what to do.
He just stayed in that house, living a muddled and aimless life.
He had considered handing over the items, but he always felt the timing wasn't right and he hadn't met anyone reliable.
He originally thought he would take this secret to his grave, but this incident brought him and Lu Yuan and his wife together, and he felt it was time.
This may be the only chance God has given him.
"There are good things inside, and I'm entrusting them all to you. As long as you give me food and take care of my affairs after I die, I'll be content."
Lu Yuan hurriedly said, "Don't worry, Uncle Liu, even without these things, we will still take care of you in your old age." "There's still a long way to go before your passing, so you don't need to worry about that either."
The old man nodded. "Alright, I'm tired too, it's the middle of the night, I'm going to rest. You two can continue your antics."
After saying that, he leaned on his cane and started to walk unsteadily.
Lu Yuan hurriedly helped him up and took him back to his room. After watching him lie down, he returned to the old house.
"Quick, Lu Yuan, open the lid. I want to see what treasures are inside."
Lu Yuan was speechless. "You're so impatient, why don't you just lift it up and look for yourself?"
"That won't do. It'll feel more ceremonial if we watch it together when you get here."
This girl...!!!
The moment the lid was lifted, Wen Moxue immediately covered her eyes.
Lu Yuan asked, puzzled, "What are you doing?"
"I'm afraid it will blind me."
Lu Yuan chuckled, about to say she was overthinking things, when a golden light shot out, forcing him to close his eyes.
Slowly opening her eyes and adjusting, I heard the little girl excitedly exclaim in a low voice.
"Wow, Lu Yuan, look! It's gold, lots of gold, and jewelry too!"
"We're going to get rich! We're really going to get rich!"
Looking at the contents of the large vat, Lu Yuan couldn't help but grin.
"Stop shouting! Wipe your drool, it's almost dripping into the jar."
Wen Muxue subconsciously wiped her mouth, then realized that the person was teasing her. She gave the person a few playful slaps.
Lu Yuan neither dodged nor flinched, and the little girl's tiny fists felt like tickling him.
The lids of both large vats were open, and the contents inside were a mixed bag, including gold, jewelry, and silver dollars.
It's not good to leave this dilapidated house to check on it indefinitely.
Lu Yuandao said, "You put all the large vats into your spatial storage. I'll fix this place up again, and then we'll go back to the room to look at the things."
"good."
With a wave of his hand, the two large vats disappeared from sight in an instant.
Lu Yuan sighed again.
This space is truly a treasure!
After filling in the pit, Lu Yuan took a shower and changed into clean clothes before returning to his room.
By this time, Wen Moxue had already removed a lot of the contents from the jar.
"Lu Yuan, come here quickly, look at these, they're all good stuff."
Following the direction she pointed, Lu Yuan saw a lot of jewelry, jade and gemstone ornaments on the kang (a heated brick bed).
There were two storage boxes on the ground, one containing gold and the other containing silver dollars and other items.
It's not suitable to store too many large items in a large vat; inside there were only two porcelain vases and a pair of porcelain bowls. They were clearly antiques, all rare treasures.
"Oh, is this blue and white porcelain?"
Wen Moxue shone a flashlight on the two vases and the porcelain bowl, her face full of surprise.
She didn't know much about antiques, but blue and white porcelain from later generations was incredibly expensive. She had seen what blue and white porcelain looked like online, and this vase and bowl looked very similar.
Lu Yuan stared at it for a while.
"I don't know. If you think it's valuable, put it in your spatial storage and keep it safe."
"Absolutely. I need to find a proper place to store it in my space."
Worried about accidentally damaging the porcelain pieces, they first put them into their spatial storage before looking at other things.
In the final tally, gold was the most abundant item, followed by jewelry, jade, and some small decorative pieces. The least abundant were silver dollars (Yuan Shikai silver dollars) and other silver coins.
The gold is mostly in the form of large and small yellow croakers, in addition to some gold ingots and gold jewelry.
Lu Yuan counted them and found there were 1,000 large yellow croakers and even more small yellow croakers, but he was too lazy to count them all.
Back then, a large yellow croaker cost ten taels, and a small yellow croaker cost one tael.
However, one liang (两) is not 50 grams, but 31.25 grams. That is to say, the weight of a small yellow croaker is 31.25 grams, and the weight of a large yellow croaker is 312.5 grams.
The saying "half a catty is eight taels" means that eight taels of small yellow croaker is equivalent to half a catty.
Lu Yuan played with the small yellow croaker, which was only the size of a peanut, and estimated its price in his mind.
The current price of gold is about 3 yuan per gram.
A single large yellow croaker can sell for over 930 yuan, and 1,000 of them can sell for over 930,000 yuan.
This doesn't even include the price of the small yellow croaker and other items.
The average salary now is only twenty or thirty yuan. Even if you don't eat or drink, you can only save a little over three hundred yuan a year.
More than 930,000, how many years would it take to save that much?
More than 2,000 years!
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No wonder Old Liu said that with these things, he and his wife would never have to worry about food and drink for the rest of their lives.
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