Zhou Shuren sat up and watched Zhulan rummaging around in the room. She dug out a cloth bag from the corner of the kang, and found another bag from the bricks on the wall. There was also another bag on the ground and on the beams. She could reach it by standing on the kang. The whole room was unsightly, with holes everywhere. There were not even many holes for hiding money, even rat holes.
By the time Zhulan had searched everywhere, she was panting heavily and exhausted. Her body was really in bad shape. No wonder she stopped working at the beginning of the new year. Not only was her back soaked, but her legs were also so weak that she had to sit on the kang for a while before she recovered.
Zhou Shuren's tone was filled with worry. He remembered that his wife was in poor health. "Are you okay?"
Zhulan waved her hand, "It's okay. There's a pottery jar in this room. I can't pull it out. It's full of copper coins. I counted them in strings and there are five taels of them. The rest have all been taken out."
As he spoke, he put on his slippers and got on the kang. Looking at the pile of cloth bags, he felt stronger.
Zhou Shuren's eyes were also on it, "What are these?"
"Well, these are all the cash in the family. The dynasty was in chaos at the end and the beginning. Although the owner of this body is not very wise, he is very cautious. There are no silver bills in the family. All the money is cash."
Zhou Shuren thought to himself, isn't that stupid? He only dug a hole in one house and grasped the key point. He was stunned, "You mean, this family has enough money for silver notes?"
Wow, there is really a lot of money at home. As far as I can remember, there are no small silver notes of one, five or ten taels. The minimum starting amount is fifty taels, and they are all large amounts.
In the original body's memory, when the dynasty was established, he took out a sum of money to build a house and buy land. The family had nearly 20 acres of land, ten acres of paddy fields and ten acres of dry fields. He thought he had spent all his family fortune.
When the Later Dynasty was first established, taxes were exempted for three years, and life became a little better. However, there were many children in the family, and the expenses for their education were high, plus the need to marry a daughter-in-law. The original owner thought that with the good weather in the past few years, it would be good for the family to have a dozen taels of silver.
But now, listening to Zhulan's words and looking at these cloth bags and money boxes, I can't help but think of my original mother, who was so capable!
Anyway, I don’t think my original wife has this ability.
Zhulan counted the cloth bags, eight in total. She first opened the money box and poured out everything in it. "Here are the deeds for twenty mu of land, the deeds for the house, fifteen taels of silver, and one thousand three hundred and fifty copper coins. I still have more than one tael of silver left from the money I took today. This is all I have in the money box."
Zhou Shuren nodded. The money in the money box was about the same as the original owner's estimate. He looked at the cloth bag, "What about these?"
Zhulan put the money box back and began to unpack the cloth bags. The cloth bags were of three colors and had signs of being gnawed. This would attract mice. But she was not afraid of being bitten, but she felt uncomfortable. She had never seen a mouse before. If it weren't for the money, she would not have touched it.
As Zhulan unpacked the boxes, the two could see clearly that there were ten taels of silver in each of the gray cloth bags. There were three gray cloth bags in total, which made thirty taels. There were two red cloth bags, and the contents of each bag blinded Zhulan and Zhou Shuren. Oh my god, it was gold. In modern times, no one would buy a dozen gold ingots and put them together. There were five gold ingots of one tael in each bag, which made ten taels of gold.
One tael of gold and ten taels of silver can be converted into one hundred taels of silver.
Zhulan knew what was going on and was calm. These were the five largest cloth bags, all of which were made from adobe bricks. The remaining three were smaller, two of which were taken down from the beams, and one was made from the ground.
Zhou Shuren looked at the remaining three cloth bags expectantly. Zhulan opened them one by one. In one cloth bag there were two pairs of silver bracelets, several pairs of silver earrings, and several silver hairpins. In another cloth bag there was a pair of gold dragon and phoenix bracelets, two rings, and several small gold earrings. In the last bag there was a jade pendant, which was made of the finest mutton-fat jade.