Chapter 268: Saving Your Life? Is It Worth the Price?
"I was afraid that you wouldn't accept it, so I ran away in a hurry." Third Uncle was a little worried.
"I haven't returned the mutton I received the other day, and now they've sent me three cows. What should I do?"
Gu Lianshan wiped his face and said, "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. I'll definitely return the gift beautifully."
It would be better not to say this. After hearing this, Third Uncle became even more worried.
"Don't do anything rash. Dad still has some money. Just take it and buy something."
"Don't let your imagination run wild." Gu Lianshan hesitated for a moment and simply told a lie.
"I still have some savings, but the money is not in my hands. My daughter has been keeping it. I will talk to my daughter later and take out some of it for her to spend first."
"Okay, if it's not enough, just go to Dad's room and get some."
"Okay. Let's go back. It's cold outside. Go back inside and lie down for a while."
The father and son returned to the yard, closed the gate, and went back to their rooms.
It's too early now and there's nothing to do if I get up. I'd better go back to my room and continue sleeping.
They said they would go back to the room to continue sleeping, but both the father and the son had something on their minds. They lay there from 3:15 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., and neither of them could fall asleep.
After finally waiting until dawn, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief and got dressed again.
After coming out of the house, Gu Lianshan wanted to find Gu Tang to talk about the money, but thinking that it was not time for his daughter to get up yet, he had to be patient and wait.
He looked at the snow on the roof and thought that he had nothing to do at the moment, so he turned around and got a rake and scraped all the snow off the roof.
The snow has stopped, but the sky hasn't cleared up yet. The dark clouds are so gloomy and scary. I guess it will stop until the afternoon at most, and it will snow again in the evening.
Gu Ping'an also got up, came out of the house yawning, and changed into a new fur coat.
Gu Lianshan glanced at him and couldn't help but say, "You should save a new dress for New Year's Day. You have a new dress today and a new dress tomorrow. Look at you showing off so much that you don't even know who you are."
Gu Ping'an was speechless. Who had provoked his father so early in the morning? Why was he so angry so early in the morning?
"I kept two sets of new clothes, and my second sister asked me to take turns wearing the remaining ones. She said I shouldn't be reluctant to wear them. If I don't wear them this year, they might be too small next year and I might not be able to wear them then."
Gu Lianshan's eyes widened: "Why do you have so many new clothes?"
"My second sister bought it for me. I said I didn't want it, but she insisted on buying it for me."
"Why didn't you buy it for me?" Gu Lianshan's eyes turned red.
Gu Pingan rolled his eyes: "Then I don't know, go ask my second sister yourself."
Gu Lianshan: ...You thought he didn’t dare to ask, right?
Just wait and ask!
After breakfast, Gu Tang finally got up.
Gu Lianshan brought the sesame oil egg custard he made himself and placed it in front of her, asking Gu Tang to try it.
Gu Tang glanced at him. He was being too attentive for no reason. He must have something to ask of her!
"Tell me, what do you want to do?"
"What do you mean by 'what'? Why do you want to do something just because your daddy steamed a bowl of egg custard for you?" Gu Lianshan was stubborn and looked frank.
Gu Tang ignored him and finished the egg custard with a spoon. He wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and stood up. "You don't want to tell me, right? Then I'm leaving. I'll ask the clan leader when Gu Qing will be punished."
These words were said intentionally for Gu Lianshan to hear. Gu Qing left the village yesterday and no one knew whether he had returned yet.
Sure enough, upon hearing this, Gu Lianshan hurriedly stopped the man and said, "Go back later. Dad has something to ask you right now."
"I knew it." Gu Tang glared at him. "You personally brought the food to my room today, and you still dare to say you have nothing to do?"
"That's right, Daddy used to bring you meals in the house a lot!"
"Alright, alright, what on earth do you want to talk to me about?"
"Nothing serious. It's just that Gu Sanlang left behind three of the cows he brought yesterday as a gift for recognizing his relatives..."
Gu Lianshan had a worried look on his face, counting on his fingers as he told Gu Tang, "They sent three dwarf sheep the other day, and today they left three cows. That means they received two big gifts in a row, and I haven't even returned a single one."
Hearing this, Gu Tang understood, "You want to ask me for money so that you can buy a return gift?"
"That's not what Dad meant. I definitely don't want your own money. What Dad meant was, can you sell some of the jewelry you looted from your grandma?"
"You want to sell those jewelry?" Gu Tang said seriously, "They all have marks on them. Wait a moment, I'll take them out and show them to you."
He got up and went to the inner room. Gu Tang took out a wooden box from the system backpack and returned to the outer room holding it in both hands.
She placed the box in front of her father, opened it, and took out the various jewellery inside for her father to take a closer look.
"Look, there are words on it!"
The box of jewelry seized from Feng contained a pair of bracelets, two pairs of bracelets, two hairpins, two hairpins, and the rest were all various rings, about twenty in total.
The bracelets are made of jade beads, and the bracelets are made of gold.
The main bodies of the two hairpins and two hairpins are also made of gold, but they are inlaid with some red and white jade.
The twenty or so rings were much more mixed, some were made of gold, some were made of silver, some were made of jade, and there were even a few gold inlaid with jade.
But no matter whether it is gold, silver, or jade, the word "Chen" is engraved on them.
"My grandmother hid it for decades and never dared to use it. I'm afraid it's not appropriate. I also have a box of silver coins, a full eighty taels, which was also looted from my grandmother. Why don't you take that silver?"
"That money can be used for other things in the future. As for your grandma and your grandpa, if they are both bedridden, your uncle, that bastard, will definitely abandon them to us.
I'm thinking of keeping forty taels of silver from the eighty taels as your own private property, and keeping the remaining forty taels for now. If your uncle really leaves your grandparents here in the future, use the forty taels to support them. We can't let them die on our doorstep."
Gu Tang had no objection, but Feng Shi might not be able to survive until then.
She is about to come back, but she has not freed up her hands yet. When she finds an opportunity, she will send Feng away early!
"If you absolutely must use these jewels, melt them down over a fire and beat them into gold and silver ingots. That way you won't have to sell them. Besides, the marks on them will probably be gone after the fire."
"That's a good idea!" Gu Lianshan looked delighted. Once the gold and silver were melted, all the marks could be melted away.
"Put them away first, and wait for Dad to find everything to melt them down."
"Okay!" Gu Tang put the jewelry back into the box, and suddenly thought of something in his mind.
"By the way, did you open those twenty baskets of things that Gu Sanlang sent?"
She secretly put six hundred taels of silver in there!!!
Gu Lianshan was stunned: "I didn't see it. I pulled it back and put it in the east wing. Dad forgot about it!"
"... Let's go and take a look. Gu Sanlang must have given some silver as a thank you for saving his life."
Gu Tang took the wooden box to the inner room and put it back into the system backpack. Then she came out of the inner room and urged her father to go to the east wing to take a look.
"How do you know they will give money?" Gu Lianshan looked puzzled.
"For example, if someone in the village saved me and my family is rich, what would you do to thank them?"
"Give me some silver!"
"That's right. For a family like ours, giving anything is more useful than giving money."
Gu Lianshan was full of admiration. His daughter was right and he couldn't argue with her.
When I was about to reach the east wing corridor, I saw Gu Ping'an clearing the snow in the yard.
Seeing his son, Gu Lianshan suddenly remembered something and asked his daughter seriously, "How many new clothes did you buy for Ping'an? He's already changed into two or three new sets of clothes in the past few days!"
"I didn't buy much. I bought it for him when I bought clothes."
Gu Lianshan: "...Then why don't you buy it for Dad?"
"Buy it for you?" Gu Tang turned his head to look at him and said something that hurt his heart.
"Aren't you worried about the money? I didn't buy you any because I was afraid that once you saw the new clothes, you would be reminded of the money you spent and feel bad!"
Gu Lianshan:……!!!
"If you say so, Dad will be even more distressed!"
"Then I'll make it up to you later?" Gu Tang teased him deliberately.
In fact, she had hidden a new piece of clothing for her father in her room, intending to give it to him during the Chinese New Year.
Gu Lianshan didn't know the truth and ignored Gu Tang.
With a stiff face, he pushed open the door of the east wing and walked in with heavy steps.
Gu Pingan, who was standing by, saw his father suddenly open the door and hurriedly shouted, "There's a dog in the house! Don't step on it!"
"The dog is in this room?" Gu Tang glared at him. "Isn't there a doghouse? Didn't you bring the dog back?"
"I brought them back, but they're afraid of the cold and don't want to sleep in the kennel in the backyard. They were sleeping in my room yesterday, but this morning, they ran into this room."
As he was speaking, he saw his father with a dark face grab the two puppies by the scruff of the neck and throw them out the door without any lightness or heavy force.
Seeing that the puppies were fine, Gu Ping'an breathed a sigh of relief and called them "slurp, slurp, slurp" in his mouth, trying to lead them somewhere else.
The two puppies always walked around Gu Tang, and today was no exception. They walked around with their tails between their legs, followed Gu Ping'an's feet, and jumped into the snow pile.
Gu Tang twitched the corner of her mouth. These dogs were obviously bought by her, but when they saw her, the two puppies ran faster than rabbits!
It seems that she has no affinity with dogs.
He sighed, rolled up his sleeves, and went into the house.
Hurry up and look through those backpacks. Her six hundred taels of silver cannot be lost!
Gu Lianshan had already started to search through all the backpacks. When he saw Gu Tang come in, he urged her to check the contents of the backpacks.
By uncovering the cloth on the backpacks, you can see what's been delivered in the twenty backpacks at a glance.
The cloth in the five backpacks is all made of silk and satin, and the colors are mainly red, green, pink, blue, etc., which are suitable for girls. Only a small amount of brown, dark blue and other colors are suitable for men.
There were six baskets of fur coats, judging by color and size. Three of them were for Gu Tang, and the remaining three were for Uncle San, Gu Lianshan, and Gu Ping'an, one each.
Two baskets of slaughtered and plucked chickens, two baskets of fish frozen into sticks, one basket of oranges, one basket of salt, one basket of sugar, and two baskets of cakes.
"This, this gift is too valuable!" Gu Lianshan exclaimed in amazement.
When he saw the number of things in the backpacks, he knew that the things delivered must be quite a lot, but he didn't expect that the things in the backpacks were so valuable!
"After all, it was a life-saving favor, and Gu Sanlang is a sincere person, so he was naturally generous when giving a thank-you gift."
Gu Tang pretended to be curious about the fur coats. She picked up a pink brocade fur coat and deliberately pulled it against herself to show the silver she had secretly put there before.
The silver was wrapped in cloth, and Gu Lianshan quickly noticed: "What is this?"
He reached out and picked it up. It felt heavy in his hand. His face suddenly became strange and he had some guesses in his mind.
With trembling hands, he opened the package, and sure enough, it was silver!
"There's silver in here?!" Gu Tang pretended to be amazed, his eyes bright and surprising.
"Dad! Look for other backpacks to see if there are any silver left!"
Gu Lianshan was also dazzled by the silver in front of him. He carefully put the silver back into the backpack and began to rummage through the other backpacks.
He searched through the remaining baskets and finally found another bag of silver in another basket that contained a fur coat.
Gu Lianshan picked up the two bags of silver, weighed them against each other, and felt that they were of the same weight.
Gu Tang took the silver and put it together, saying with a smile: "Don't you want to buy something for Gu Sanlang as a return gift? Now that you have this silver, you don't have to worry about it."
Gu Lianshan also laughed: "I'll go call your grandfather over and let him see these goodies!"
"And Ping An, call Ping An over too."
"Yes! Shout together!"
Gu Lianshan was extremely happy. His daughter had saved the man! She had truly saved a golden child who could scatter gold!
When Third Uncle and Gu Ping'an came in one after another, the grandfather and grandson were immediately shocked by the scene in the house.
In order to find the silver, the father and daughter emptied all their backpacks, and the things were piled everywhere, which was quite spectacular.
Gu Tang was picking up bags of cakes and putting them into his backpack. When he saw them come in, he quickly stood up, waved to them, and showed them the silver wrapped in cloth.
"Look! This amount of silver is probably the first time we've seen it!"
Indeed, the six hundred taels of silver were basically silver bars of different shapes, and the weight of them when packed together was quite heavy.
Gu Ping'an widened his eyes, as if he couldn't believe it, and actually picked up a piece of silver and put it in his mouth and bit it.
When he took it out and saw two layers of teeth marks on the surface of the silver, he grinned and said, "It's real silver!"
Gu Tang snatched the silver from his hand, with a look of disgust on his face: "I don't know how many people have touched this silver, and you don't think it's dirty!"
"It's not dirty! Silver is not dirty!" Gu Ping'an retorted with a smile.
Gu Tang ignored him and turned his gaze to his uncle: "Master, why don't you speak?"
When Third Uncle learned that Agou had given so much silver and things, his first reaction was indeed happiness.
But after being happy, he felt a little nervous.
"These things, plus this bag of silver, will probably cost more than a thousand taels of silver! Can we accept this?"
The old man's words sobered Gu Lianshan's feverish mind.
He looked at these things, estimated a price in his mind, then looked at the silver in Gu Tang's hand, and suddenly felt unsure.
Indeed, this must be more than one thousand taels of silver!
"Hearing you say that, I'm a little panicked. Can I get so much money and things for saving my life?"
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