She possessed divine power far beyond the scope of human beings. Under Yang Xiaoqian's shocked gaze, she just lifted the whole bed with a slight lift of her hand, and saw that there were densely stacked gold bars under the bed.
Not only that, Qing Li also noticed the hidden compartment on the ground. When he opened it, he saw two small boxes placed from left to right inside.
Inside the two small boxes, there was silver stacked together, but the amount was not much, with several hundred taels of silver in each box.
"With so much gold, why don't you treat yourself better?" Qing Li asked.
Yang Xiaoqian frowned, seeming unhappy with this question:
"This is just where I sleep at night. I go out every day and have my own entertainment. You don't need to worry about it."
Qing Li nodded:
"That's even weirder. Even if you don't show off your wealth, you wouldn't stay in a place like this for three years."
"Besides, your parents and brothers are all poor people, why don't you give them something? You have some money anyway."
This question seemed to anger Yang Xiaoqian, and he interrupted with hatred:
"This is my family affair. Why are you asking so much about it?"
"Don't you just want to get information about the Golden Country from me? I can tell you." After seeing the strange power of this woman, Yang Xiaoqian also readily told the truth:
"The Golden Country is fake. I made it up to deceive people and convince them."
"The truth is that there is an abandoned temple of the God of Wealth outside the city... The God of Wealth is a soft-hearted deity who cannot bear to hear people suffer."
"As long as you cry your poverty to the statue of the God of Wealth, he will give you a touchstone."
Qing Li nodded, but still stood there without leaving.
"Actually, I'm quite curious... Your family only has two tiled houses, and even your brother Yang Dabai lives under the same roof with your parents." She asked:
"I can understand why you kept the Philosopher's Stone to yourself. It is also reasonable not to show off your wealth."
"But you and your family live almost under the same roof, but you pretended to be poor for three years and didn't help your parents at all. Why is that?"
"No, why are you talking so much?" Yang Xiaoqian said angrily:
"My brother works as a helper at Shanzhenlou and gets rewarded with gold. How much does it cost to buy a piece of land and build a tile house?"
"He was the one who insisted on being a miser, saving money, and sleeping in the same room with my parents. This was his decision. What does it have to do with me?"
"Are you so nosy? Didn't I tell you where I got the Philosopher's Stone?"
"Because I'm a hypocrite, and I love to meddle in the affairs of other people's elderly parents and unfilial children." Qing Li said expressionlessly:
"Tell me quickly, or I'll beat you to death."
After she finished speaking, she raised the iron spear in her hand and placed it across Yang Xiaoqian's throat.
The tip of the gun pierced Yang Xiaoqian's skin. The cold and sharp touch of the metal made Yang Xiaoqian's mind go blank, and a trace of blood flowed out from the wound.
"I said... don't do it!" Yang Xiaoqian cursed secretly in his heart, but did not dare to say any complaints.
Just at this moment, footsteps were heard outside the house.
The first person to come over was Qiumu, who had a fat cat lying on his shoulder and a changed face.
Following closely behind were the restaurant helper Yang Dabai and the gambler Lao Yang and his wife.
Qiao Mu originally planned to let Yang Dabai lead the way to Old Yang's house, but when he passed by the casino, he met Old Yang and his wife.
As soon as he entered the room, Qiao Mu saw Qing Li threatening Yang Xiaoqian with a gun. Next to him was a room full of shining gold and silver treasures. The scene was really dazzling.
"This." Mr. and Mrs. Yang's eyes widened immediately.
They looked at the room full of gold and silver, and then looked at Qing Li holding a spear... .
Although a person like Qing Li's face cannot be seen clearly because of his hat, he clearly exudes an aura of "keep away from strangers". Even if he doesn't speak, he has a faint sense of majesty.
Such a person obviously has a high status and position, and his son cannot afford to offend him at all.
And this room full of gold and silver... obviously couldn't possibly belong to his son.
"So much gold and silver..." Yang's mother suddenly felt weak:
"Xiao Qian, did you steal the gold and silver of this master? Are you being forced to come here?"
"Sir... my son didn't steal intentionally..."
"Shut up, Mom!" Yang Xiaoqian's face flushed slightly, and she said angrily:
"These gold and silver originally belonged to me. I didn't steal or rob them. I created them honestly... In short, they are mine."
It would have been better if Yang Xiaoqian didn't say anything. After he said that, Yang's mother almost burst into tears. She cried and pulled Old Yang beside her, and almost knelt down to Qing Li.
"Son, tell the truth. I didn't steal or rob... Did you win that money in the casino?" Old Yang guessed.
Yang Xiaoqian felt upset after hearing what the parents said.
Before he could say anything, his parents accused him of stealing money and gambler respectively.
Seeing that this room full of gold and silver has been exposed to his parents, he probably can't hide it any longer.
Not to mention that Qing Li was standing next to him, threatening him with a gun.
He had already given up, and said coldly to Qing Li:
"You like to listen to gossip, so I'll tell you what I am talking about."
"Three years ago, I got the Philosopher's Stone."
"With this magical object in hand, I naturally wanted to improve my family's livelihood... But when I returned home with the philosopher's stone, I accidentally found a will in my parents' house."
"My father is a gambler." Yang Xiaoqian said coldly:
"I was sick at home for three years and even made a will. It was because I saw that will that I changed my mind."
"What's written in the will?" Qiao Mu, who had been watching the show silently, interrupted:
"Are you the illegitimate son of Lao Wang next door? Or were you picked up on the roadside? Did you float down the river?"
Although Qiao Mu didn't quite understand why Qing Li appeared, he loved listening to this kind of family ethics drama the most.
PS: One tael of silver in this book = 1,000 yuan.
This setting was actually mentioned in the previous article about Heyang Prefecture City, but I guess everyone has forgotten it... I did a rough check before writing it, and the purchasing power of silver in different dynasties ranged from a few hundred to a few thousand yuan, and sometimes even one tael = five or six thousand.
So when I wrote about Qiao Mu cheating 10,000 taels from the Luo family, I felt quite conflicted.
If Qiumu cheated 10 million yuan, it definitely wouldn't be such a serious matter. He is a clan in Shancheng, so it doesn't make sense.
But if I were to write that Qiao Mu got a total of several thousand taels of silver, this number would be too small and seem petty... That wouldn't work either.
Maybe it's the influence of TV dramas or novels, where money is often worth tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of taels, so it feels like silver isn't that valuable.
Chapter 304: Golden Country Monster
"Will?" Yang Dabai, a waiter at the restaurant, also looked surprised.
He didn't know what will his gambling father had left three years ago... But his younger brother Yang Xiaoqian's current appearance made him feel a little strange.
There are countless gold and silver hidden in the tile-roofed house. He is secretly the boss behind the Shanzhenlou, but he keeps it a secret from his family members living under the same roof.
As the saying goes, brothers should settle accounts clearly. It is also human nature not to want to tell others about such a magical thing as the Philosopher's Stone.
He just kept his wealth to himself and got along with his brother as if nothing had happened for three years, and even gave his brother, who worked as a helper in the restaurant, some gold as a reward... Yang Dabai really had no idea what was going on in his brother's mind.
"Is it this will that changed him?" Yang Dabai listened with bated breath.
Then I heard my brother grit his teeth and slowly say:
"In that will... the chickens, ducks, and vegetable garden were divided into 80:20, 80:00 for my brother and 20:00 for me!"
After the words were spoken, there was silence in the room for a long time.
I wasn't shocked, I was just a little speechless.
"That's it, that's it?" Qiao Mu was shocked.
"Oh, you are an outsider, so you naturally don't know the seriousness of this matter." Yang Xiaoqian sneered:
"That's eighty-two! Eighty-two!"
"I leave this big tiled house to you, my brother, and I leave the chickens and ducks to you... What can I get in return?" Yang Xiaoqian's emotions kept fluctuating.
Qiao Mu was even more speechless, and pointed at the room full of gold and silver:
"You have a little gold and stone on hand, and an inexhaustible supply of gold and silver, and you broke up with your parents because of the 80% and 20% of the family property, chickens and ducks?"
Not only is the gold created by the Midas Touch, but the silver is all genuine.
Mother Yang was originally worried that it was your youngest son who stole the things, but now it seems that this is not the case. It seems that... there is a conflict between the brothers
Mother Yang also said quickly:
"Your brother has always been generous. We are all family. As long as you ask, why make things so unpleasant?"
"... .Yes." Yang Dabai felt inexplicably depressed and whispered;
"That's because Dad is sick and confused. If you told me, I would definitely split it in half with you."
"You are so generous?" Yang Xiaoqian laughed dumbly:
"Do I care about this little fortune?"
"What I care about is the relationship between father and son, mother and son!"
"As the saying goes, when a bird is about to die, its cry is sad, and when a person is about to die, his words are kind. My father's will when he was seriously ill revealed his innermost thoughts."
"Between us two brothers, there is a difference in importance after all, it's still 80-20!"
Gambler Lao Yang was speechless and didn't know what to say for a moment.
But Qing Li beside him said faintly:
"You have two small tiled houses at home."
"You just said it, one is yours and the other is your parents'."
"You keep saying that your parents treat your two brothers differently, but if they favor your brother, how could they be like this?"
Gambler Old Yang looked at Qing Li gratefully and said with a wry smile:
"Actually, I was sick and confused at the time, and I thought I was going to die, so I made the will."
"I was thinking at the time, Dabai, as the older brother, was very sensible and started working as a helper in a restaurant to supplement the family income. Sometimes he even had to use the money he earned to cover the expenses of a gambler like me."
Speaking of this, the gambler Old Yang's face turned red.
"So when I was seriously ill, I thought to myself that I had treated Dabai unfairly over the years."
"As a father, it's really inappropriate for me to not be able to treat everyone equally."
"This will is 80-20. It is indeed true. In fact, it is just to compensate your brother."
However, this explanation did not satisfy Yang Xiaoqian. Instead, he sneered:
"Compensation, huh? Okay."
At this point, he was not even afraid of Qing Li who threatened him, and pointed to two boxes full of silver in the secret compartment.
"Come, I'll count for you."
"I am twenty years old, and I rely on you for my food, clothing and other expenses."
"Food costs twenty coins a day, which is seven or eight taels of silver a year. In twenty years, that's about one hundred and fifty taels."
"There are also clothes and other daily expenses. In a year..."
"When I was eight years old, I fell ill and could not leave my bed. My mother took care of me for three days, so I will count it as three taels here."
"When I was twelve, I broke my leg..."
"... My parents have raised me for twenty years, and all the expenses are in these two boxes."
Yang Xiaoqian stretched out his legs and gently kicked the two boxes filled with silver, and said coldly:
"Three hundred taels on the left, mother, keep them."
"The two hundred taels on the right, Dad, keep them."
"This is my compensation to my parents for all these years. From now on, we will have nothing to do with each other anymore!"