sovbooks Chapter 15 - 15 15 Family Background_1
Chapter 15 - 15 15 Family Background_1
15: Chapter 15 Family Background_1 15: Chapter 15 Family Background_1 Zhou Shuren sat up to watch as Zhulan rummaged around the room, scraping a corner of the kang to pull out a cloth bundle and groping about the wall clay to find another, with more on the floor and even on the beams.
Reaching onto the kang cabinet, the entire room was a mess to behold, riddled with holes everywhere.
Even a rat’s lair wouldn’t have as many nooks for hiding money.
By the time Zhulan finished
His eyes moved to the cloth bundles, “And these?”
Zhulan put the items back into the Money Box and began to open the cloth bundles, which were in three different colors and showed marks of rodent bites.
She was disgusted at the thought of rats, having never seen real ones before, and if it weren’t for the support of the silver coin, she wouldn’t have touched them.
As Zhulan unwrapped them, both of them could clearly see that each grey cloth bundle contained ten taels of silver, totaling to thirty taels in the three grey bundles.
There were two red bundles, each blinding them with their contents – oh my, gold!
No one nowadays would keep so many Gold Ingots together like that, would they?
Each bundle contained five one-tael Gold Ingots, equalling to ten taels of gold.
One tael of gold was worth ten taels of silver, which meant a hundred taels of silver in conversion.
Zhulan steadied herself, these were the five largest bundles, which required digging into the wall.
The remaining three were smaller, with two taken down from the beams and one dug up from the floor.
Zhou Shuren looked at the remaining three bundles with anticipation.
As Zhulan opened them one by one, one contained two pairs of Silver Bangles, several pairs of silver earrings, and a few Silver Hairpins.
Another held a pair of Golden Dragon and Phoenix Bangles, two rings, and several small gold studs.
The last bundle contained a Jade Pendant made of fine mutton-fat jade.