Chapter 217 Get rich overnight!
Agou is not picky at all and has no objection to any arrangement made by Gu Tang.
In fact, not only did he have no objection, he was even a little flattered!
Given Gu Tangdu's dislike for him, he was ready to be chased away or bring some hay to sleep on the floor.
Unexpectedly, Gu Tang neither drove him away nor made him sleep on the floor. Instead, he arranged a room for him and gave him bedding.
Agou was very happy. Does this mean that the relationship between them has eased?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but run to ask Gu Tang.
Gu Tang rolled his eyes at him: "You haven't even gone to bed yet. You have to wait until you fall asleep to dream."
After saying this, Gu Tang went back to his room and ignored him.
After being busy for half the night, I was so sleepy that I could hardly open my eyes. How could I have the energy to play with him?
She didn't even have the energy to count the property she had looted. She washed up in a hurry, climbed into bed, and fell asleep soon after.
When I woke up, it was already the end of the Wei hour. I had slept for a little more than four hours, which meant I woke up naturally after a good sleep.
After getting dressed and leaving the house, I looked up and saw smoke coming out of the chimney on the roof of the kitchen in the second courtyard.
Gu Tang was startled. Who was lighting the fire in the kitchen?
Could it be that her father is here?
He walked hurriedly along the corridor to the second courtyard and headed straight for the kitchen.
As soon as he arrived at the kitchen door, Gu Tang was stunned.
The person who was lighting the fire in the kitchen was not her father, but Agou.
I saw him light up a small stove and keep adding firewood into the stove. Something was stewing in the pot and hot steam was constantly coming out from around the lid.
Gu Tang took a sniff and it smelled like chicken soup.
"What are you stewing?" I walked in and smelled it. The more I smelled, the better it smelled!
When Ah Gou saw her coming, he quickly stood up, lifted the lid of the pot and asked for credit: "Just now I went to the street to check things out and saw someone selling wild mushrooms. I thought you would be hungry when you wake up, so I bought some wild mushrooms and a chicken and put them together to make soup for you."
"You can cook?" Gu Tang was a little surprised. How could he, a ghost messenger from the underworld, cook?
"I don't know if I can cook, but when I see vegetable vendors on the street, cooking always pops into my mind."
"Then you must have been a cook before you became a ghost catcher!" Gu Tang said with certainty.
ah?
Agou was stunned for a moment: "I don't remember what I did before I became a ghost messenger. If you say so, maybe it's really possible."
Gu Tang paused and looked at him puzzledly: "Don't you know what you did before you became a ghost messenger?"
"I don't know." Ah Gou shook his head. "This seems to be a rule of the underworld. If you want to be a ghost messenger in the underworld, you have to forget some things."
Gu Tang gasped: "When I was in the underworld, I thought that if I couldn't come back to life, I would just become a ghost messenger!"
I almost got myself killed!
Hearing this, Agou was very surprised. Previously, those whose souls were taken away by mistake, after entering the underworld, all thought about how to get benefits to reincarnate and return to life. None of them thought of staying to be a ghost messenger.
She is really the first one.
Without the obstruction of the pot lid, the aroma of the chicken soup and the flavor of the wild mushrooms instantly become rich, making people's mouths water.
"Is it cooked?" Gu Tang's stomach growled and he picked up a pair of chopsticks and poked the chicken.
The bamboo chopsticks easily pierced through the chicken, indicating that it was cooked.
"It's been stewed for half an hour, it's ready to eat." Agou took out a new bamboo basin, took the chicken out of the pot and put it into the basin.
Then he brought it to a small table beside him and put it down, letting Gu Tang sit there to eat.
Gu Tang remembered that he had not washed yet, so he hurried to the stove to get some hot water and poured it into a basin. He then added some cold water, mixed it, and took it outside to the corridor to wash.
While she was washing up, Agou skimmed off the oil from the chicken soup, poured her a full bowl of chicken soup, and put it on the small table to let it cool so she could drink it later.
After preparing Gu Tang’s meal, Agou went on to prepare his own meal.
There was still a lot of chicken soup in the pot, so he added some water to it, threw a few more pieces of firewood into the stove to keep the fire burning, then took out the noodles he had just kneaded and prepared to make two bowls of noodles for himself.
When Gu Tang came back from washing up, he saw him rolling noodles.
Looking at this scene, she was stunned, her expression a little dazed, as if she had seen something rare.
Ah Gou didn't think there was anything wrong. When he saw Gu Tang coming back, he rolled the noodles and asked her, "Do you want to eat some noodles? Make some more and give you a small bowl to try."
Gu Tang glanced at the chicken in the bamboo basin and shook his head: "I'll be full after eating a chicken drumstick and drinking some chicken soup. I don't need noodles."
Agou paused. She didn’t have a big appetite.
Sitting on a short-legged stool, Gu Tang carefully tore off a chicken leg and blew on it continuously. The chicken was still piping hot as it had just been taken out of the pot.
Tentatively taking a bite of the surface, Gu Tang grimaced from the heat, and asked Ah Gou while eating: "Didn't you just say you were going to the street to find out what was going on? What's going on outside now? Has anyone in the Cheng family woken up?"
"I went to Cheng's house and found that he was still unconscious. I guess he took too much LSD."
"Not much. That's the effect of the hallucinogen. No matter if you take one sniff or ten, you'll have to sleep for a whole day before you wake up. By the way, is the backflow incense thing still being discussed outside?"
"It's more than just a discussion. It's getting more and more crazy. Principal Han of Changshan Academy has even spread the word that he wants to buy the Backflow Incense at a high price."
At this point, Ah Gou asked her, "Are you still selling the backflow incense?"
"Sell it!" Gu Tang's mouth was full of oil as he gnawed on the chicken leg. "I went to great lengths to get people to act out this drama just to build momentum for Daoliuxiang. As long as the momentum is built and the price goes up, I can sell it anytime and I don't have to worry about not being able to sell it at a good price!"
"Then let's go find Principal Han? He should be more reliable than the Cheng family and won't try to deceive us."
Agou held the knife and did two things at once. On one hand, he was cutting noodles, and on the other hand, he was thinking about Chief Han whom he met that day, who looked like a gentleman.
Gu Tang disagreed: "When the Cheng family wakes up in the evening, there will probably be a bloody storm in this city. Let's forget about it now and wait until this storm is over. We should think about how to deal with the property looted from the Cheng family."
Agou had already cut the noodles and the chicken soup in the pot was boiling. He put the noodles into the pot and stirred it several times with bamboo chopsticks.
Then he said, "You can't keep all the Cheng family's property in your hands. It will damage your virtue. Take half of it out to do good deeds and accumulate virtue for yourself."
"Even if you don't tell me, I don't dare to keep all of them. There are too many!"
Speaking of silver, Gu Tang remembered the silver box he saw in the warehouse last night.
She told Agou about this and asked him to find out if there were any wealthy families with the surname "Chen" or "Bai" in the city.
"I wonder if these two families have committed a crime and want to secretly transfer their property? After all, the Cheng family has a girl who is a queen in the palace. They have a strong backstage and are bold enough to accept these properties."
Ah Gou also thought this was possible, "I'll give some copper coins to those beggars outside and ask them to help find out."
Hearing him talking about beggars, Gu Tang asked curiously, "How did you end up hanging out with beggars? What happened to those little beggars? Did you pick them up?"
When talking about this, Agou had a rare heart attack and was speechless. He extinguished the fire in the stove, poured the cooked noodles in the pot into a bowl, and after a while he spoke about this matter in a depressed tone.
"After I possessed this body, I took advantage of the weakness of the Otherworldly Soul and forcibly separated him from me. Then I accidentally let him escape and I passed out. When I woke up again, I found that I had been picked up by a few beggars."
At this point, Ah Gou rarely showed a trace of helplessness, "I don't know what happened to those little beggars. They kept picking up people along the way! And they were all children!
After I woke up, I helped them fight off some people who had bad intentions towards them, and they just kept calling me the boss.
Because I haven't found you, this world has become more and more hostile to me. I have to sleep for several hours every day. Those little beggars have been protecting me all the way while I was sleeping, so I just stayed with them."
Gu Tang thought thoughtfully: "So, those little beggars are all kind-hearted and righteous?"
"It's true that he has a sense of loyalty and righteousness." Agou couldn't deny this.
An idea came to Gu Tang's mind. He stared at Ah Gou who was eating noodles with big mouthfuls, and suddenly said, "Didn't you just say that you want me to use half of the money for charity? Why not open a 'charity hall'?"
"Charity hall?"
"Yes, a charity." Gu Tang nodded. "It's easy to be cheated when doing other charity. It's better to open a charity and adopt those abandoned orphans, beggars, and those childless elderly widows. They can also be taken in."
Agou thought about it for a while and thought it was feasible: "If it can really be done, it will be a good thing to accumulate merits and it will be good for you."
"Then it's settled. After dinner, we'll go to the main hall and count how much silver we've looted. Half will be used to run the charity hall, and the other half will be mine!"
Gu Tang said the last sentence very solemnly.
She has spent so much hallucinogens, she must see rewards!
Agou knew that she liked money, so he told her that half of it would belong to her, so he would not compete with her for it now.
After dinner, Agou washed the pots and dishes, and also cleaned the kitchen.
Gu Tang slowly went to the main room to wait for him.
After cleaning the kitchen, Agou went to the main room with a worried look on his face, fearing that she would become impatient waiting.
Fortunately, Gu Tang was in a very good mood because he had to count the money immediately, and he didn't notice how long he had been waiting.
She took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone and put them on the table. She counted the silver and asked Agou to keep track.
Let’s start with gold and silver.
In addition to looting eighty boxes of gold and silver from the Cheng family's storehouse last night, she also took away twenty boxes of gold and silver from the old lady of the Cheng family's yard, and a total of fifty boxes of gold and silver from the yards of the three sons of the Cheng family.
This is nothing. The Cheng family has nearly thirty grandchildren, but there is only one grandson, and the rest are all granddaughters.
The only young master was extremely wealthy; thirty boxes of gold and silver were looted from his yard!
And the twenty or so granddaughters of the Cheng family couldn’t even collect enough money to fill a box of silver!
In the end, Gu Tang didn't take their things and asked Agou to return them all.
As for the daughters-in-law of the Cheng family, Gu Tang also did not touch them.
Counting them all, there were a total of 180 boxes of gold and silver.
The space in the main room is limited and cannot accommodate 180 boxes, so they can only be put out in batches, ten boxes in each batch.
The first batch was the gold and silver in the Cheng family warehouse.
Ten boxes were opened, all filled with dazzling snowflake silver.
These boxes are all wooden boxes with limited weight capacity. The boxes look big, but in fact there are things placed at the bottom of the boxes and the silver is all on top, so it looks like a full box of silver.
In fact, there is a lot of moisture in it.
If the box is full of silver ingots, it will be much easier to count them. The weight is engraved on the bottom of the silver ingots. First count the number of silver ingots, and then calculate the total weight of the silver ingots. You can quickly find out how much silver is in a box.
The first batch of boxes were full of silver ingots, with five thousand in each box, and ten boxes totaling fifty thousand taels!
After Agou had memorized it, Gu Tang put the silver and the box separately into the system backpack, with the silver occupying a separate grid and the empty box also occupying a separate grid.
After all the gold and silver are registered, let Agou chop these abandoned boxes into firewood and burn them all.
The second batch of boxes was much more troublesome. There were silver ingots and broken silver, and it was a bit difficult to calculate the weight.
After counting one box, Gu Tang refused to continue and forced himself to switch places with Agou. He counted and kept track by himself.
Agou was very patient. He counted the boxes one by one and reported to Gu Tang softly after he was done.
Gu Tang wrote down the numbers reported by Agou one by one.
As the silver was released in batches, the paper in front of Gu Tang became full.
The two of them were busy until the beginning of the hour of Hai, when they finally finished counting all the silver.
The total amount of silver was 490,000 taels, and the total amount of gold was 410,000 taels.
The exchange rate of gold to silver is one tael of gold for ten taels of silver.
Four hundred and ten thousand taels of gold can be exchanged for four million and one hundred thousand taels of silver.
Gu Tang looked at the final amount and clicked his tongue twice, "All added up, it's a total of 4.6 million taels of silver! There's so much in cash alone, not to mention the banknotes. The Cheng family is really wealthy!"
The Cheng family's silver bills were all large in value, and Gu Tang did not touch them during the search. Using large-value silver bills in Bei'an City could be easily detected, and she did not want to take the risk.
"Do you want to register anything else?" Agou asked.
"It's too late today, let's stop here and continue tomorrow!"
Gu Tang folded the paper with the amount of silver written on it and put it into the system backpack. He touched his stomach and said he was hungry.
Ah Gou wiped his hands and asked her what she wanted to eat: "There is meat, eggs and vegetables in the kitchen. You only ate one chicken leg from the stewed chicken in the afternoon. How about I make you a bowl of shredded chicken noodles?"
Shredded chicken noodles?
Gu Tang smacked his lips, drooling: "I'll listen to you and make shredded chicken noodles."
After hearing this, Agou went to the kitchen.
Gu Tang also followed. She didn't eat white rice, so she could help with the fire.
When he arrived at the kitchen, Agou washed his hands carefully. After washing them, he added flour and water to the dough basin and prepared to knead the dough.
Seeing that he was extremely skilled in his movements, as if he had done it a thousand times, Gu Tang became more and more certain that he must have been a chef before.
She had an idea and asked Agou if he could restore some of the delicacies.
"What kind of food?"
"In my previous life, there was a widely circulated book that contained many delicacies."
Gu Tang counted on his fingers: "Steamed lamb with milk, ham and bamboo shoot soup, lotus leaf and lotus pod soup, steamed cheese with sugar, rouge goose breast... and finally, the unforgettable eggplant fish!"
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