Ning Qirui originally wanted to avoid the main point and only talk about content that was not so uncomfortable, but Wen Sanniang's action of rolling up his sleeves was too abrupt, and he had no time to cover them up. The old scars on his arms had already been seen by other people in the Ning family.

In this way, the old scars on other parts of his body would naturally be exposed.

His old father Ningda, ignoring his embarrassment and protests, took him to an empty room with tears streaming down his face and quickly checked his thin little body.

It is said that men do not shed tears easily, but after seeing the old injuries on his son's back, legs and arms, Ning Da let out sad cries full of pain.

With him crying like this, what else could others not understand?

Wen Sanniang and her two children, who had originally wanted to examine his injuries together, rushed over here crying. If Ning Qirui had not sensed that something was wrong and quickly dressed himself with the fastest hand speed in his life, he would have been seen naked by the whole family on his first day home.

It was socially dead, so socially dead that his hair stood on end just thinking about that scene.

Bai Jingzhou knew nothing about this as he bought pork belly and pork fat while passing through the town and then took a carriage straight to Baijia Village. He and Gu Wenxuan secretly divided the gold and silver in the carriage, each of them got three five-liang gold ingots and two ten-liang silver ingots.

They planned to keep a quarter of the money and then go back and tell their families that the selling price of Ganoderma lucidum was 1,500 taels per catty.

Bai Jingzhou gave the remaining meat buns to Gu Wenxuan, so Gu Wenxuan took one less packet of brown sugar. As for the other things that came in duplicate, the two of them quickly grabbed one each and put it next to them.

Since Gu Wenxuan insisted that Bai Jingzhou get off first, when the carriage arrived at Bai Jingzhou's house, Bai Jingzhou, under the watch of children and idlers in the village, went home with the spoils of his trip with great effort.

Gu Wenxuan waved goodbye to Bai Jingzhou through the car door. The driver cracked the whip and the horse galloped towards the end of the village.

The Gu family, who had heard from others about their children's return to the village, came to the gate of the courtyard early and looked out at the village road.

The carriage appeared in their sight after a while. Blocked by the carriage, they could not see Gu Wenxuan sitting in the carriage. Instead, they saw children running around the carriage to look at the strange children, who kept running in and out of their field of vision.

Seeing this, Gu Wenxuan's younger brothers immediately opened the gate and rushed out shouting "Sister".

Gu Wenxuan heard the noise, leaned out of the car window and waved to her younger brothers.

After a while, the carriage arrived at the door of Gu's house. Gu Wenxuan did not jump off the carriage immediately. She waved to her brothers and said, "Come and help me get my things."

Several boys from the Gu family cheered and rushed to the door of the carriage.

Gu Wenxuan then handed the things that belonged to her to her four younger brothers one by one, but soon, the wine jars, cloths and other things that were a little heavy were taken over by his father and second uncle.

After confirming that there was no one left in the carriage and settling the carriage fare with the driver, Gu Wenxuan returned to the house with her family, surrounded by them.

The children in the village ran after the carriage again. Although the idle people were curious about where Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou went to make their fortune, their two families did not take the initiative to invite them, so no matter how curious they were, they could not follow them into other people's homes to eavesdrop.

Gu Wenxuan didn't care whether they were curious or not. She sent her four younger brothers to the kitchen to heat up the meat buns. Gu Wenxuan, her grandparents, parents, second uncle and second aunt went into her grandparents' room together.

The first thing Gu Wenxuan did when she entered the room was to take out two gold ingots weighing five taels each, two silver ingots weighing ten taels each, and seven or eight taels of private silver that she had saved up.

"Three hundred taels of silver is too heavy and too conspicuous, so we asked the owner of the clinic to replace some of it with gold."

Gu Wenxuan pushed all the gold and silver to the center of the table. "The current exchange rate of gold to silver is 1 to 12. These two gold ingots are equivalent to 120 taels of silver."

"Including these two ten-liang silver ingots and the loose change that I spent part of, our family received a total of 150 liang of silver this time."

As soon as Gu Wenxuan finished speaking, two gasps were heard in the room, coming from Li and Jia Guizhi.

Although they were already strongly shocked the moment Gu Wenxuan took out the gold and silver, the number of one hundred and fifty taels still made them stimulated again.

The emotions of the others also fluctuated violently, but they were all very reserved and didn't say anything.

Gu Wenxuan pushed the gold and silver again and said, "Grandma, please keep the money for now. When you find suitable land, you can take out the money and let my grandfather go to find the village head."

Li nodded vigorously. With shaking hands, she touched the gold and silver over and over again.

Seeing this, others also touched it and released the joy of suddenly getting rich.

Gu Wenxuan kept watching with a smile until everyone had had enough of the sight. Li locked the silver and money into the box, and then Gu Wenxuan began to show everyone the things she had brought back.

The four pieces of defective cloth being sold at a reduced price were soaked in water, but they only had a few spots with uneven color.

A large bag of scraps of cloth bought for ten copper coins can be pieced together to make clothes, bed sheets, quilt covers, or used to make shoe soles, which is very practical.

Then there were the gifts they bought for their family members - facial cream, combs, wine, crispy candies, snacks, brown sugar steamed cakes, red bean paste sesame balls, and two bags of brown sugar left over as a thank-you gift for Ning Qirui.

Oh, and there were twelve meat buns heating up in the kitchen, and the pork belly and pork fat they bought from each family when they passed through Liulin Town.

There were ten pounds of pork fat and only five pounds of pork belly. Because she had meat buns to eat, Li rejected Gu Wenxuan's suggestion to make a meat dish.

The old lady said that although the family is richer now, they still cannot spend money lavishly.

Since we have meat buns to eat today, we should marinate the newly bought pork belly and save it for everyone to satisfy their cravings later.

There are also crispy candies, snacks, brown sugar steamed cakes, and red bean paste glutinous rice balls. The old lady also plans to control the amount of food the children eat every day.

Gu Wenxuan felt helpless and sad. She said, "It's okay for crispy candies, but the snacks, brown sugar steamed cakes, and red bean paste sesame balls are not long-lasting. We have to eat them all in two days at most."

After a pause, she continued, "Don't always think about saving the good things for us little ones. If you elders don't eat them, then my second brother and I won't eat them either."

The two of them exchanged glances for a moment, and finally Mrs. Li gave in to the persuasion of her son and daughter-in-law, and agreed not to leave the snacks, brown sugar steamed cakes, and red bean paste glutinous rice balls for the children to eat alone.

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