HCB Chapter 113: Busy raising a family in a foreign land 113
Chapter 113: Busy raising a family in a foreign land 113
Wei Miao looked around the cellar again and knocked on the walls that were full of time one by one.
After confirming that he had not found any flaws, he took out a blackened silver ingot and a gold ingot from an opened box, finally dropped a few copper coins on the ground and returned without any reluctance.
Regardless of the dampness of the pit wall, Lu Pingsheng leaned against it, staring at the bottomless black hole without blinking.
Why did he let the little brat walk away alone?
What if there are flying needles or hidden weapons underneath?
Will the little brat be drowned by mercury?
Could there be a cemetery in there with thousand-year-old zombies?
Lu Pingsheng, who had already done hard labor all night, became more and more confused the more he thought about it.
"Forget it, if we can't sleep together in life, then let's be buried together in death." After he muttered, he felt goosebumps all over his body.
Then he regained consciousness and remembered his identity, his mission, the information that had not been passed on, and the plans that had not been completed.
Lu Pingsheng felt like his heart was torn in two. One person told him to go down and save the little brat, and the other said that as an agent he needed to stay calm.
Wei Miao poked his head out of the cave and saw Lu Pingsheng covering his head with a look of pain on his face, mumbling something.
The conflicted expression is like that of little boy Weidong who has to decide whether to eat first or poop first every morning.
"Brother Lu, do you want to poop too?" Wei Miao blurted out.
When Lu Pingsheng heard the boy's voice, he rushed forward and hugged the boy tightly in his arms in the blink of an eye.
Wei Miao could smell the earthy smell on him, frowned and tried to break free, but found that this boiled chicken was extremely strong at the moment, and his body was shaking instinctively.
I guess he was ecstatic because he wanted to know that he was going to get rich.
After waiting for a long time, Wei Miao tried to push Lu Pingsheng.
"Wait a minute, my leg seems to be cramping." A muffled voice came from above my head.
The two men climbed out of the pit, and after a simple wash, they stared at the three things in front of them.
Lu Pingsheng took the lead in analyzing:
"First of all, there are words on this gold and silver ingot, so it should not be official silver."
"Secondly, judging from the degree of corrosion on the silver, I guess it is not from the last few decades."
"Finally, what does the copper coin say?"
Wei Miao picked up a few copper coins and felt them carefully. The aura of wealth and worldly affairs on them was very faint. They must have been thrown directly on the ground after being struck.
What she liked most was the copper coins circulating in the market. Even if she only had a little wealth, the rich smell of fireworks could make her feel relaxed and happy.
"You mean, these things are privately made?" Wei Miao asked Lu Pingsheng.
"Well, since ancient times, gold and silver have been circulated by the government, and all of them must have official seals."
Wei Miao shook his head, but still played with the more attractive gold ingot and said:
"No matter where they are from, there are more than a dozen boxes below. In addition to the gold, silver and jewelry, they are all ours, but I always feel that there are more than these things."
After hearing Wei Miao's description, Lu Pingsheng had already been itching to go down and find out what was going on.
Unfortunately, time did not allow it, and he was very happy that Wei Miao could come up. When he was about to say something else, the phone rang suddenly.
While Lu Pingsheng was answering the phone, Wei Ran and Wei Ling were already knocking on the door outside.
Wei Miao opened the door.
"Brother, I knew right away that you were at Brother Lu's house." Wei Ling said with a smile, happy that she guessed correctly.
Wei Ran placed the food in the yard and shared school news with Wei Miao:
"Brother, tomorrow is Sunday and the school is organizing a spring outing to the park."
Wei Miao smiled and said, "Then let mom prepare a sumptuous meal for you, exchange it with your classmates, and have fun."
Wei Ling smiled proudly and said, "Auntie promised us to bring a box of dim sum from Gui Lai Fang."
After Lu Pingsheng hung up the phone and went out, he heard the children talking in the yard and laughed:
"Auntie Ayu is becoming more and more generous. There is nothing you can't buy at Kwai Lai Fang for two dollars."
Wei Miao saw the two little guys were so happy that he did not expose the careful planning of Xu Ayu.
Wang Sanqiang had sent many gifts before, among which cloth and tea were relatively easy to deal with and could be exchanged for dollars after a little depreciation.
But a few boxes of high-end snacks made Xu Ayu feel troubled.
I gave one box to my uncle Xu's house, shared one box with neighbors, ate one box at home, and kept the remaining three boxes at home. As the weather was getting hotter day by day, I could never find a use for them.
Seeing the two people jumping out laughing, Lu Pingsheng said to Wei Miao:
"The dye will arrive tonight. I'll transport it here secretly. How do I tell your parents about this?"
Wei Miao drank a mouthful of white porridge, ate a bite of shrimp and salted fish, and then said:
"This thing is already finished, so it shouldn't take much time. I'll tell my parents that you want to teach me the knowledge I learned abroad, and they won't bother me."
Lu Pingsheng nodded, and instead of eating the sumptuous breakfast in front of him, he lit a cigarette, squinted his eyes and blew smoke rings, looking at the sunless sky and said:
"I'll buy some stuff, lay the floor in my bedroom, and make a simple secret compartment at the entrance. Let's not move anything until we figure out what's inside."
Wei Miao nodded. After finding the thing, she was not so anxious anymore.
"I'll go to the university and library this afternoon and get a batch of books, especially county and prefecture annals, so we can study them."
Wei Miao nodded obediently.
In the next few days, the weather was cloudy with occasional light rain.
Wei Miao didn't go anywhere. He stayed at home with Xu Ayu all day. When he saw her belly bulging slightly, he reached out and touched it carefully.
Wei Ada, who was repairing the braised meat stove in the yard, looked at the interaction between the mother and daughter under the eaves and smiled so hard that his teeth were exposed:
"Ah Miao, he still can't feel it now, but by June or July, he will be able to hear you talking in his stomach."
When Wei Miao first arrived, he saw a newly married woman in the alley was pregnant.
The family she married into had a white jasmine tree in the yard. It bloomed in the summer, and every morning the whole alley was filled with a faint fragrance.
It is a reserved and gentle fragrance, like a noble and elegant woman.
Wei Miao met her several times when he was going out early and coming back late to make a living.
Her hair was tied up, and a white orchid with a branch was pinned to the back of her head, which looked very fresh and beautiful.
With a smile on her face and her big belly sticking out, she walked towards the entrance of the alley, carrying a basket of white jasmine flowers.
After a while, her soft southern Jiangsu accent could be heard on the street:
"Gardenia~ White orchid~"
Wei Miao listened and felt that the scent of the white jasmine left behind when she passed by was even more fragrant and glutinous.
Xu Ayu touched her growing short stubble and said, "Ah Miao, what are you thinking about?"
Wei Miao turned around and asked Xu Ayu, "Mom, do you still remember the young woman who sold white jasmine in our alley?"
Xu Ayu thought for a while before he realized who Wei Miao was talking about.
"Her, you forgot, her pregnancy was ruined, the baby was gone, her innocence was gone, she just jumped into the Huangpu River."
Xu Ayu touched his belly, feeling a bit sad.