Chapter 388

After returning home, Lin Xiuqing also asked him about the big tripod he had salvaged.

"Why did you donate it? You could have at least brought it back and kept it at home for a few days so I could see what it looks like."

"Silly, don't look at this big tripod as a rare item; it's actually very ominous and not good to keep at home." Ye Yaodong said as he took off his dirty clothes.

"There is a saying that in ancient times, this tripod was a cooking utensil, used to turn living things into dead things. Later, it evolved into a sacrificial utensil for clans, also used to hold offerings, so it's very ominous. Ordinary families can't suppress it."

"I hadn't thought about it this way before, but later, Ah Guang's father reminded me that I could put it in the Mazu Temple to save space, and that's when I remembered that ordinary families can't suppress this tripod. It can only be put in a museum or a temple."

Lin Xiuqing didn't know much about tripods, and after hearing him say it was ominous, she didn't have any more ideas, even though she had wanted to see it.

"Then it's better not to bring it back. Donating it to Mazu is quite good; it can be put to use in the temple."

"Yeah."

"Dad just handed me a bucket and said it was something you wanted, telling me to hide it well. I didn't dare to open it, what is it?"

"Where did you put it?"

"I hid it in the room."

Hearing this, Ye Yaodong walked directly toward the room and scanned the interior.

Lin Xiuqing followed him into the room and reminded him that it was behind the door. He saw the bucket behind the door, casually lifted the cloth on top, saw the intact black box inside, and bent down to pick it up.

"What is this, Adong?"

"I don't know, I haven't opened it to see yet. There's a lock hanging on it. Go get the machete."

"Oh."

The machete was in the firewood pile in the main room, and Lin Xiuqing went and returned quickly.

He didn't know what kind of wood this black box was made of; Ye Yaodong didn't understand these things. The lock on it had been rusted by the seawater. After two strikes with the machete, the lock fell off in a flash.

He reached out impatiently, but just as he intended to open the lid, he suddenly thought of the "rain of pear blossom needles" from martial arts dramas...

He shook his head again, feeling that he had watched too many TV shows and was overthinking it, but, cough cough~

"Aqing, move aside, go to the side."

Lin Xiuqing was a bit confused and didn't understand why she had to move to the side, but she still listened to him and moved to the side.

Ye Yaodong aimed the black box at the doorway and then lifted the lid with a sudden motion. Immediately, the couple gasped, their pupils constricting.

The legendary rain of pear blossom needles wasn't there, but the things that appeared in the box were even more jaw-dropping than that!

Inside the black box, it was golden yellow, with a large pile of golden round gold cakes stacked inside. The golden, round appearance looked incredibly pleasing and eye-catching.

"A... Adong..." Lin Xiuqing's voice trembled with shock, and she held Ye Yaodong's arm tightly.

Ye Yaodong was also shocked for a moment, then immediately covered the box, holding his rapidly beating heart. Although neither Mela pearls nor ambergris were inferior to this when taken out, those things hadn't been cashed in, and nothing was more intuitive and shocking than a pile of golden gold.

"My god, you ask me every day if I picked up money, this time I really picked up money."

"Ah? Adong... I didn't see wrong just now, did I?"

"Probably not, want to take another look?"

Ye Yaodong continued to open the box, and the golden cakes came into view again. He couldn't help but swallow his saliva. "So many, we're rich!"

Lin Xiuqing also widened her eyes. "No wonder the ancient emperors' clothes were made yellow, it's really beautiful!"

He nodded in agreement. "It really is beautiful!"

This time, he took one out before closing it, weighed it in his hand, and felt it was about half a jin. "Want to take a bite to see if it's real?"

Lin Xiuqing actually listened and took it, bit it, and then said happily, "It's soft! And a bit sweet."

"Sweet? Isn't it? Gold cakes are sweet."

"Why is this gold in the shape of a cake? It's so strange, I've never seen gold in this shape before."

"How many times have you seen gold?"

Uh... that hurts...

Lin Xiuqing glared at him and continued, "Is this black box really salvaged from the sea?"

"Yeah, it was discovered together with the big tripod, covered by seaweed nearby. Fortunately, I have good eyesight and found it."

"Why do I feel like I'm dreaming?"

She touched the gold cakes back and forth, unable to let go, always feeling a bit unreal. Before, she had just been cleaning the table and sweeping the floor, and suddenly a pile of gold cakes appeared in front of her. This was real gold.

Mela pearls and ambergris were valuable, but she had only heard him talk about them, and she really hadn't had such an intuitive and shocking experience of a windfall.

Mainly, she didn't know the value of those things, and nothing was as realistic as a pile of gold. Sitting on a pile of gold was true wealth.

Rural women are just this vulgar!

"Want me to pinch you? To wake you up?"

"Hateful!" After Lin Xiuqing slapped him, she handed the gold cake she had bitten to him, reluctant to let go. "What should we do with these things? Where should we hide them?"

Ye Yaodong put this gold cake back into the box, then pondered for a moment. "The lock on it is broken, and it's not safe to keep it at home... Hmm... why don't we bury it under the two osmanthus trees we planted yesterday?"

"Under the tree?"

"Yes, let's bury it under the tree! Bury it deeper. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. If all the treasures are at home, I'm afraid they'll be taken all at once. Anyway, the trees were just planted, and the soil was just filled in. Digging another hole and burying this won't be noticeable. Anyway, the neighbors all know I planted trees yesterday."

"And I discussed it with the Zhou family next door. I'll buy materials from them and borrow workers for a few days to build another room for the old lady. By the way, I'll spend a little more money to enclose a courtyard and enclose the doorway."

"That's fine, you decide. Anyway, we're not short of money now, bury it first, it's useless in our hands."

"It is useless."

Ye Yaodong suddenly wasn't as happy as he had just been. This couldn't be cashed in immediately, so the happiness was halved...

Sigh, he still had to go out to sea and continue working.

"Count the quantity before burying..."

Maybe the couple's voices in the room were too loud, directly affecting the children's sleep, and the baby's crying sounded instantly. Lin Xiuqing hurriedly went to soothe the child.

"I'll soothe the child, you go eat quickly, eat before you get busy, we've all eaten."

"Fine, what about the two sons?"

"Where else could they go? They ran next door to play."

"I can't see them all day when I come back, they're busier than their father." Ye Yaodong muttered twice and went out to eat.

After eating, he didn't even care about taking a bath. He went into the room and counted the gold cakes. There were exactly 100, not one more, not one less. He calculated silently, it was about 50 jin!

No wonder this black box didn't look big but was quite heavy.

Actually, the weight of this gold cake was 248 grams each, but there was no scale, so he could only weigh it by hand.

After counting, he put the gold cakes back into the black box and covered it, but instantly he took one out. "Do you want to keep one by your side? It's convenient for you to take it out and look at it and touch it from time to time?"

Speaking of this, he remembered that in his previous life, she didn't seem to have even one piece of gold jewelry. Their family was poor, he didn't do anything, they didn't have a daughter, and when she was 50, there was no daughter to buy her gold for her birthday, so she didn't even have gold earrings.

Thinking of this, Ye Yaodong felt that he hadn't been very competent after starting over, and he hadn't even thought about buying her a gold necklace, ring, or earrings. He had to find time to arrange it.

"How many are there?" Lin Xiuqing asked while breastfeeding.

"Exactly one hundred, not one more, not one less. I guess it was calculated."

"Then take one out and keep it by your side. You can look at it occasionally and be happy... Just keep the one I bit with the tooth marks, and bury the others, they're useless in our hands."

If there are conditions, what woman doesn't like gold and silver jewelry? Those who say they don't like it either don't have the conditions or are too sensible.

Ye Yaodong had taken one out casually without identifying it, but after hearing her say this, he started searching again and then handed it to her to play with.