Chapter 15: Family Assets

Zhou Shuren sat up and watched Zhulan rummaging around in the room. She dug out a cloth bag from the corner of the kang, and then another bag from the bricks on the wall. There were also bags on the ground and on the beams. There were enough bags standing on the kang. The whole room was unsightly, with holes everywhere. There were not even as many holes for hiding money as rat holes.

By the time Zhulan had searched everything, she was breathing heavily and was exhausted. Her health was really not good. No wonder she stopped working at the beginning of the year. Not only was her back wet, but her legs were also so weak that she had to sit on the kang for a while before she recovered.

Zhou Shuren's tone was filled with worry. He remembered that his wife was in poor health. "Are you okay?"

Zhulan waved her hands, "It's okay. There's a pottery jar in this room. I couldn't get it out. It was filled with copper coins. I counted them in strings and there were five taels. The rest have been pulled out."

As he spoke, he put on his slippers and got on the kang. Looking at the pile of cloth bags, he felt stronger.

Zhou Shuren's eyes were also on it, "What are these?"

"Well, these are all the cash in the house. The last years of the dynasty were chaotic, and the early years of the dynasty were also chaotic. Although the owner of this body is not very wise, he is very cautious. There are no banknotes in the house, only cash and silver."

Zhou Shuren thought to himself that he was not stupid, he only dug a hole in a house and grasped the key point. He was stunned, "You mean, this family has enough money for banknotes?"

Wow, there is really a lot of money at home. As far as I can remember, there are no small-denomination banknotes of one, five or ten taels here. The minimum starting amount is fifty taels, which are all large amounts.

In the original body's memory, when the dynasty was established, he took out a sum of money to build a house and buy land. The family had nearly 20 acres of land, 10 acres of paddy fields and 10 acres of dry fields. He thought he had spent all his family fortune.

When the Later Dynasty was first established, taxes were exempted for three years, and life became a little better. However, there were many children in the family, and the expenses for their education were high, plus the need to marry a daughter-in-law. Yuan thought that if the weather was good in the next few years, the family would have at least a dozen children.

But now, listening to Zhulan's words and looking at these cloth bags and money boxes, I can't help but think of my original mother, who is so capable!

Anyway, I don’t think my original wife has this ability.

Zhulan counted the cloth bags, eight in total, and first opened the money box and emptied out the contents. "Here are the deeds to 20 mu of land, the deeds to the house, 15 taels of silver, 1,350 copper coins, and I have more than 1 tael of silver left from the money I took today. This is all that's left in the money box."

Zhou Shuren nodded. The money in the money box was about the same as the original owner's estimate. He looked at the cloth bag and asked, "What about these?"

Zhulan put the coin box back and began to open the cloth bags. The cloth bags were of three different colors and had signs of being gnawed. This would attract mice. Although she was not afraid of being bitten, she felt uncomfortable in her heart. She had never seen a mouse before. If it weren't for the money, she would not have touched it.

As Zhulan was unpacking the boxes, the two could see clearly that there were ten taels of silver in each of the gray cloth bags. There were three gray cloth bags in total, which made thirty taels. There were two red cloth bags, and the amount of money in each blinded Zhulan and Zhou Shuren. Oh my god, it was gold. In modern times, no one would buy a dozen gold ingots and put them together. There were five gold ingots of one tael in each bag, which made up ten taels of gold.

One tael of gold is equal to ten taels of silver, which is equivalent to one hundred taels of silver.

Zhulan knew for sure in her heart that these were the five largest cloth bags, all of which were made from adobe bricks. The remaining three were smaller, two were taken down from the beams, and one was made from the ground.

Zhou Shuren looked at the remaining three cloth bags expectantly. Zhulan opened them one by one. In one cloth bag there were two pairs of silver bracelets, several pairs of silver earrings, and several silver hairpins. In another cloth bag there was a pair of gold dragon and phoenix bracelets, two rings, and several small gold earrings. In the last bag there was a jade pendant, which was made of the finest mutton-fat jade.