Chapter 91 Return Laden with Riches
On the second day, as Xie Changgen and his father were preparing to tidy up the house lent to them by the village, Xie Jiang arrived with several people to help.
After they had been gone for a while, Lu Aijiao also came over with cured meat and glass noodles, offering to help Lu Aimei cook.
Many hands make light work, and they finished cleaning the house and moving in just one day.
The next day, Xie Changgen took the opportunity to go up the mountain alone, and when he returned, he secretly handed Lu Aimei a black wooden box that wasn’t very large. The box had visible traces of mud on the outside, and inside, locked and slightly smaller, was a Zitan Wood Box. In the space between the box and the Zitan Wood Box, it was stuffed full of Yuan Big-Head coins.
"This has been passed down from our ancestors, and everything here will be left to you from now on. Sister-in-law, you just need to keep these things to yourself, no need to tell your husband. I still have a little left with me, and we’ll see how that will be arranged in the future. Don’t take these things out for now. Even if you do, try to take as little as possible. Keep them, they’ll always be worth more later."
"Dad, I understand, you can rest assured," Lu Aimei said, hugging the objects in her arms, feeling as if she was holding a small fortune. After Xie Changgen had left, she carefully took out the Zitan Wood Box and noticed that the bottom was neatly lined with five small yellow croakers.
Upon unlocking the Zitan Wood Box, she found it was divided into two layers. The first layer contained jewelry, an assortment of glittering gold, jade, rubies, sapphires, pearls... bracelets, rings, necklaces, etc., about sixty to seventy percent full; the second layer also held small yellow croakers and Yuan Big-Head coins, similarly filled to sixty or seventy percent.
Lu Aimei’s heart pounded furiously, she didn’t dare to look closely, and quickly covered both the little box and the black wooden box. She couldn’t help but peek outside to see her father-in-law standing about a dozen steps away at the door, smoking. Only then did she pat her chest in relief and begin to look for places to hide them.