Although Tang Chen had a big belly, due to her hard work and active exercise during this period, she had become a flexible fat person to some extent.
After cautiously strolling to the abandoned woodshed in the backyard, Tang Chen dodged and hid inside. He closed the door, then leaned against the wall and slowly half-knelt down to carefully examine the secret door. His eyebrows raised slightly, "Sure enough, you're here. I want to see what you've been doing secretly behind my back all day."
Tang Chen had just opened the secret door and was walking along the path carved out of the cliff when he bumped into someone carrying dazzling gold and silver jewelry in front of the secret room. "Oh my god, my eyes!"
Everyone was busy counting the property they had brought out of the mine, and for a moment they didn't notice anyone coming. If Tang Chen hadn't spoken, they would have had to wait a while before they saw her.
Seeing Tang Chen coming, Li Xinzhai threw the money soaked in poison in his arms to the ground as if he were throwing a stone, took off his deerskin gloves and rushed over. He was about to help her, but suddenly remembered that he had just carried those things and there might be residual poison on his clothes. He quickly took a few steps back and put some distance between him and Tang Chen.
"Why are you here? Where's A Yuan? Are you alone?"
Tang Chen didn't quite understand Li Xinzhai's unusual retreat. He looked at the considerable amount of treasure in front of the secret room in confusion and asked cautiously, "Otherwise, where did you find so many treasures? Did you go to do that?"
Li Xinzhai smiled and said, "What this, what that, what that, these were all found by your old Wang's aunt."
As Li Xinzhai finished speaking, Wang Ruo and Hua Wuxin also walked over. Tang Chen rushed forward, his eyes gleaming brightly. "You found it? Where did you find it, sister? Can you take me there? This, could it be the legendary treasure of Qingliang Valley! Wang Yanzhou actually said this treasure was just a legend. How dare he lie to me!"
Wang Ruo grabbed Tang Chen's shoulders and signaled her to calm down first, then said righteously, "What do you mean by 'sister'? We are of different generations, okay?"
Tang Chen whispered mysteriously in Wang Ruo's ear: "No, where did you steal so many jewels? Even though it's a time of war, you can't be a bandit!"
Wang Ruo chuckled and explained, "What are you talking about? This is a gift my sister, your mother-in-law, left for Qingliang Valley early this morning. I just brought some people to take some of it out."
Tang Chen leaned against the cliff, supported his waist, and walked slowly to the pile of gold and silver in front of the secret house. He took a long breath and said with a smile:
"...With this money, perhaps there will be a way out of our current predicament."
Hua Wuxin was quite surprised when he heard this and said, "I didn't realize you're much smarter than you look."
Tang Chen smiled back at him and said slowly, "Sometimes, being stupid is the key to survival. Look at those pigs kept in captivity, isn't that the same thing? They'll die one day anyway, so they choose to be kept in captivity, living a lazy and carefree life that's already short."
Hua Wuxin was stunned for a moment before saying, "I rarely hear people make comparisons like this. You and the two sisters from the Wang family are indeed from the same place."
Wang Ruo calculated their current speed and decided it was best not to delay any further, so she urged, "Hey, go back and rest first. Be careful not to get spotted by outsiders. We might not be able to accompany you these days, so don't run around and cause trouble for everyone."
"Don't worry," Tang Chen said, bending down with some difficulty and bowing to the people in front of him, then said, "Thank you all for your hard work. I'll go back first, otherwise A Yuan will find me soon."
Li Xinzhai was worried that Tang Chen would fall down in her haste, so he quickly warned her before she left: "Don't listen to her. Walk back slowly and be careful with your steps."
Tang Chen smiled and said, "I know, little brother, just work hard, okay? My happiness for the rest of my life is in your hands."
Li Xinzhai rolled his eyes at Tang Chen and said, "Haha, you still don't know who the younger brother is."
"Okay, I'm leaving."
Watching Tang Chen's slowly leaving figure, Hua Wuxin walked to Li Xinzhai's side with a gossipy look and patted him on the shoulder: "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, it's really sad, lamentable, and tearful."
Li Xinzhai smiled kindly at Hua Wuxin, then glanced at Wang Ruo and said, "I didn't realize it. Could it be that Boss Hua also likes to hear gossip?"
Wang Ruo coughed dryly, then solemnly put away the melon seeds and urged, "Why are you looking at me? Go get to work!"
Three days later, the men who had vanished from Qingliang Valley returned without waiting for Wang Yanzhou to arrange for a search. Their return would have been fine, but the unfortunate fact was that they had suddenly appeared in Wang Yanzhou's bedroom in the middle of the night, carrying boxes of jewelry, nearly frightening him to death.
They worked in shifts almost non-stop, unloading batches of treasures from the mine. Although the amount they now held was a mere drop in the bucket compared to what was still in the mine, it still took a tremendous amount of effort. Transporting the treasures was simple, but removing the poison from the jewels took quite a bit of time. Hua Wuxin had anxiously withheld a box as payment for the detoxification, and although the bargaining expert Wang Ruo eventually halved it, it still wasn't a loss at all.
“……!”
Zhong Qin and Yan Shaoqing's room was right next to Wang Yanzhou's. Although the noise wasn't loud, it wasn't small either. The two woke up when they heard someone enter the yard and quietly observed from their rooms. Only when they saw that it was one of their own people carrying a large box did they get dressed and come over to Wang Yanzhou.
As soon as I entered the house, I saw Wang Ruo motioning for everyone to open the large boxes that had been filling the room. Pointing at the glittering jewels and silver, she said, "Don't say your mother left you nothing. This peaceful and prosperous Qingliang Valley, and these mountains of gold and silver, are all her blessings and love for you. Whether you have any desire to become emperor or not, I hope you will remember what I said to you before, and the firm and clear look in her eyes when she spoke. It will be worth it for my sister to endure so much hardship to plan something for you."
This sudden appearance of huge wealth not only filled the financial deficit of Qingliang Valley, but also provided a great help in solving the urgent problem. Wang Yanzhou never thought that the rumors in the martial arts world were actually true.
"...Yan Zhou will never let his mother down, nor will he let down everyone in Qingliang Valley!"
Upon hearing this, Wang Ruo nodded in satisfaction: "That's the best."
In this way, she has fulfilled half of Wang Zhen's wish. At least the precious metals she saved by working day and night were not wasted. At least, her child is as outstanding as she has always imagined.
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