Chapter 94: 94 groundlessly appearing silver notes
Ye Jiu lay on the kang unable to sleep from excitent well into the night.
His mother approached, “We’ve struck it rich with such a big chunk of gold.”
Ye Jiu, who had never been wealthy in his two lifetis, felt his head spin from the staggering impact of this wealth; he was beside himself with excitent.
Then, being overly excited, Ye Jiu couldn’t fall asleep in the first half of the night, and in the latter half, he slept like a log, simply because he was too tired.
Early in the morning, there was the sound of gongs and drums outside.
Clan Leader’s wife nudged Ye Lao Han, “Old man, in the dead of winter, I don’t know what the Clan Leader is gathering people for at this ti. With the eldest and the second not around, you’d better get up and go have a look.”
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“I know.” Ye Lao Han, rubbing his eyes, got up, put on his clothes, and headed outside.
The sound of gongs and drums continued outside, making people’s hearts flutter with anxiety.
Clan Leader’s wife got up restlessly from the kang, her eyes falling on the two pieces of paper on the head of the kang’s cabinet.
Everything was tidied upon the cabinet by the kang when they went to sleep last night. How could there suddenly be two pieces of paper there?
Besides, since their third son had been married into his wife’s family, there had been no scholars in the house; they shouldn’t have any paper.
Curious, Clan Leader’s wife picked up the pieces of paper from the kang cabinet to have a look. The more she looked at them, the more familiar they seed, yet these two were clearly larger.
Her heart itching with excitent, yet not daring to be sure, she disrupted Ye Jiu’s sleep with an excited heart, “My dear… Jiujiu… wake up quickly…”
Groggy, Ye Jiu rubbed his eyes, heavy with sleep, and asked, “Mom, what’s going on?”
“Quick, look at this. What’s this?” Clan Leader’s wife’s eyes widened as she looked at the two pieces of paper that seed very much like the fifty-tael silver note Ye Jiu had brought ho days ago. But she could hardly believe it. How could such delightful things as silver notes appear out of nowhere on their own kang cabinet?
Her anxious voice made Ye Jiu quickly open his eyes, and what he saw were two silver notes.
Ye Jiu was shocked by the two silver notes, each valued at a thousand taels, and he bolted up from the kang, “Mom, where did you get these two silver notes from?”
Privately pinching his own leg, the intoxicating pain reassured Ye Jiu that he was not dreaming at this mont.
“I don’t know either. When I woke up, I saw these two pieces of paper on the kang cabinet. I picked them up and saw the patterns looked almost like the fifty-tael silver note you brought a few days ago, so I imdiately woke you up to have a look!” Clan Leader’s wife was also bewildered, especially after learning from Ye Jiu that these were indeed silver notes, she was even more perplexed, “My dear, how do you know for sure these are silver notes? What if… they just look similar?”
After all, such a thing couldn’t possibly just appear in their ho!
Clan Leader’s wife had never doubted that these could have been brought back by Ye Lao Han. After decades of life, no one knew his character better than she did; if these were money Ye Lao Han had brought back, he would never have placed it so casually.
Ye Jiu took the silver notes from Clan Leader’s wife and looked at them for a long ti, his emotions complex. Clearly written on them was the denomination of a thousand taels, and Ye Jiu could not fail to recognize it.
“Mom, you said that when you woke up, these two silver notes were on our kang cabinet? Can you be sure that they didn’t exist before we went to sleep last night?” asked Ye Jiu.
“Impossible. Before I went to sleep yesterday, I put the sewing basket away in the cabinet, and I cleaned up the kang cabinet spotlessly, not even a thread left. If there had been silver notes, I couldn’t have missed them,” Clan Leader’s wife said, her hands trembling slightly.
Waking up to find two silver notes, each worth a thousand taels, on their own kang cabinet – how could that be possible?
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