Chapter 1654: Chapter 1654: Preparing to Build a House 6
Feng Qingxue was stunned for a mont, “Your brother is being naughty. There’s always Dad and Mom to discipline him, and things get resolved face to face. Dad and Mom have always been fair; if he does sothing wrong, he’ll definitely be punished, maybe by skipping als or writing lines. But you shouldn’t get into the habit of plotting against Erxiong behind his back. You’re brothers, and your cleverness shouldn’t be used in this way.”
After listening to Feng Qingxue, Dundun thought for a mont, then looked up and said, “I understand, Mom.”
“I’ll rember too!” Zhuangzhuang said, then turned his head and coughed a few tis, feeling a little better than yesterday. “Mom, I also want to drink rock sugar pear water. Can you make a little extra so Fourth Brother can have half a bowl more?”
Feng Qingxue said tenderly, “Alright, Mom will make you so sweet soup in a bit. Let’s go wash our faces first.”
Dundun and Zhuangzhuang obediently followed her to the doorway of the main room, where there was already a half-basin of warm water on the sink fra.
Lu Jiang had a tough ti explaining, finally making Lu Erxiong understand that wearing girls’ clothes wouldn’t turn him into a girl. The kid trudged inside, pulled off the scarf, kicked away his fur shoes, and took off the red wool coat to return it to Fubao before slipping into his room to change clothes.
Under Feng Qingxue’s guidance, when Erxiong, who had buttoned his clothes wrong, ca out, Dundun and Zhuangzhuang apologized to him.
“Wow, you guys are really bad, deliberately making look silly!” Lu Erxiong shouted, bouncing around, “I’m mad, I’m really mad! I want to eat three bowls of rice and eat both Dundun and Zhuangzhuang’s eggs, otherwise, I won’t forgive you!”
Dundun and Zhuangzhuang pondered for a mont and agreed to his demands.
It’s just two eggs, right? If not today, they can eat them tomorrow; after all, they get an egg each day, so gaining their brother’s forgiveness left them unburdened.
Everyone was still laughing uncontrollably, thinking about how today’s events could be recalled for a hundred years.
Guan Yu and Zhou Zhou didn’t stay long; they returned to the Capital after two days, taking along the clothes, shoes, socks, letters, and monetary items Feng Qingxue had prepared for the elderly at ho.
Though there were fewer places to spend money, money was still needed.
The day after they left, Xibao secretly rushed to his parents’ bedroom, handing a handkerchief-wrapped bundle to his mother.
“What’s this?” Feng Qingxue felt a heaviness when she took it.
Xibao sat down on a chair, “Sister-in-law Zhou Zhou gave it to before leaving. She said that Mom might not have enough foreign exchange when going abroad for an exchange conference next year. Due to foreign exchange regulations, Mom could sell the gold bars abroad for money.”
Opening it, Feng Qingxue found two large gold bars the thickness and length of an index finger.
According to the old system, each bar was 10 taels, two bars would be 20 taels, with each tael being 37.8 grams, totaling 756 grams.
While international gold prices were rising, the dostic bank’s purchase price was still over eight yuan per gram; at eight yuan, these two gold bars could be exchanged for six thousand yuan, a huge sum, more valuable than the current market price of that box of jewelry.
The sky-high value of jewelry would co with economic developnt decades later; at this ti, it wasn’t worth much.
“This child, what’s there to be courteous about? They know our family doesn’t lack money.” Feng Qingxue frowned, not expecting Zhou Zhou to have gold bars, seemingly issued in Shanghai during the Republic of China era.
Xibao raised an eyebrow, “Because everyone cares so much about Mom! Mom is good to us, so we’re good to Mom!”
If Mom wasn’t good to them, they naturally wouldn’t think of Mom in everything.
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