It's a truly wonderful place, though the light isn't as bright as it should be. It's understandable that the high cliffs block the light a bit. The ground is flat, with two trees and some vines planted along the cliffside. A pile of dead branches sits in a recess on one side of the cliff. There's even a trace of a fire on the ground, suggesting the branches were used to fuel a fire. There's a small pool of water on the other side of the cliff, but the color of the water doesn't look stagnant.
There is a triangular crack in the mountain wall opposite the pool, and a simple toilet is built in the crack, which is a very good use.
"Is the bottom of that pool connected to an underground river? This is a really good place. If we hide here and don't go out, we probably won't be found in our lifetime. How are we going to spend the night here?"
Xiao Yibai laughed heartily, "The pool is indeed connected to the underground river. Come on, I'll show you where to sleep."
The two walked to the opposite mountain wall, and Xiao Yibai opened a mechanism like a magic trick to reveal a cave.
There was also a faint light inside the cave, and there were also glowing stones on the walls. This cave was like a living room, with not only a table and chairs, but also some kitchen utensils in one corner. There were five wooden doors on the cave wall, and behind each door was a room. Two of the rooms contained beds, cabinets, tables and chairs, and the other three rooms were empty.
Although the door was always closed, there was no strange smell in the room.
Xiao Yibai opened another secret room in an empty room. Mu Xiyue was stunned. "How many secret rooms do you have here?"
"Go in and take a look. This is the last one."
As Xiao Yibai spoke, he made a gesture to invite people in. The light coming from the secret room became much brighter, as if a modern incandescent lamp was lit inside. Mu Xiyue walked in curiously, and was completely stunned by what she saw.
The walls of the secret room are covered with densely packed glowing stones, unlike the previous caves which only have scattered glowing stones, so it appears particularly bright inside.
But that wasn't the point. The point was that the huge cave hall was filled with boxes. There were over 500 standard boxes for gold and silver bars, each containing 2,000 taels. With over 500 boxes, that meant over 1 million taels. There were also hundreds of large boxes.
Mu Xiyue swallowed and asked, "How much wealth do you have here?"
Xiao Yibai put his arm around her shoulders and walked to the big wooden boxes and opened one, which was full of gold bars.
The same volume of gold is much heavier than iron. It would take several people to lift such a large box of gold bars, and even a wooden box would not be able to bear the weight!
Xiao Yibai laughed heartily after hearing her doubts. "A box of gold like this weighs 20,000 taels, so naturally no one can lift it. It's all brought here and then packed into wooden boxes. Even if someone discovers this place, it would be difficult to transport the gold away. We'd have to find a few hundred small boxes first, and those small boxes are all filled with silver."
There were more than twenty boxes of gold worth 20,000 taels, more than fifty boxes of silver worth 10,000 taels, and more than one hundred boxes of various porcelain, jewelry, jade and other valuables.
Mu Xiyue sighed sincerely, "Xiao Yibai, you should be considered the richest man in Tianqi Country!"
There were over 400,000 taels of gold and over 1.6 million taels of silver here. Adding in the other treasures, every item he could have hidden here was probably a treasure.
Xiao Yibai kissed her forehead lovingly and said, "From now on, you are the richest man in Tianqi Country. Put all these into the space."
Mu Xiyue looked up at him in confusion, "Why are you giving it to me? You know I'm not short of money. The gold and silver I collected from the Rui Palace and Mu Fengnian alone add up to nearly one million taels. And those items are also very valuable. I can't spend them all in my lifetime."
"Everything I have is yours. Besides, if I keep these here, I'll have to protect them from others. I'll feel more at ease if I put them all in your space. These are my unexpected gains. Here's only half. I'll take you to get the other half tomorrow. Be good, put them away first. Consider it safekeeping for me."
Mu Xiyue thought about it and felt that what he said made sense. Anyway, she had chosen him for life, so it didn't matter if he kept his things in her own space.
"Okay, then put it all away. What kind of accident could lead to such a huge pile of treasure?"
Xiao Yibai saw that Mu Xiyue just waved her hand and everything in the secret room disappeared, but he still found it magical.
"Is Yueyue a fairy who has descended to earth? This ability is truly incredible."
"Yes, be careful or I'll run away with all your treasures!"
"You and I have already had physical contact, where do you want to escape to, huh? If you want to escape, just take me with you."
It was already dark when the two walked out of the cave. Xiao Yibai lit a fire and prepared to barbecue.
Mu Xiyue said as she took something out of the space: "You haven't tasted my cooking yet, so I'll let you have a taste today."
Soon, the space was filled with a plethora of items: a square table and two chairs for eating, and a rectangular dining table covered with various ingredients and seasonings. There was also a pressure cooker, a wok, a soup pot, and bowls, plates, and other dishes. There was also a coal stove and some coal briquettes. She used the stove for cooking and stir-frying, and she used the fire to stew soup.
It took her more than half an hour to prepare five dishes, one soup, and a plate of grilled meat. The meat was the mutated buffalo meat stored in her space, and the meat was fresh and tender.
A plate of sour cabbage. The cabbage was placed in the space when I went to my own farm last time.
A pot of spicy fish. This fish was prepared by the steward here before Xiao Yibai came in. However, it was not a schizothorax, but a grass carp, so it was just right to be made into spicy fish. Afraid that Xiao Yibai couldn't stand spicy food, she only put a small amount of chili sauce.
A plate of spicy and sour potato shreds. People here usually steam potatoes as a staple food, stew potatoes with pork bones, or stir-fry potato cubes with sauerkraut. This was the first time Xiao Yibai had eaten it this way.
A plate of sweet and sour spare ribs. Xiao Yibai likes sweet and sour dishes. Mu Xiyue almost always has sweet and sour spare ribs or sweet and sour fish when she eats at the palace.
There is also a pigeon and mung bean soup, which is suitable for summer consumption.
"Well, would you like some wine? I have a few bottles of excellent white wine."
Xiao Yibai looked at the table and saw that the dishes looked great and smelled tempting. He could see the starry sky when he looked up. The atmosphere was so good.
There aren't many bottles of liquor in Mu Xiyue's space, only about a dozen or so, but they are all rare good wines from her previous life.
The two of them drank and chatted, and Xiao Yibai told her the origin of the unexpected wealth.
When he first discovered this underwater cave, he led people to walk through all the caves inside. At first, he didn't find anything. Later, he found traces of artificial excavation in a place in the cave. He walked along the traces and accidentally touched a mechanism. Behind the mechanism was a secret room full of treasures.
"I was only ten years old that year. Normally, a prince would leave the palace and set up his own residence at the age of fourteen. My mother passed away, and my father was afraid that I would be harmed in the palace, so he allowed me to leave the palace and set up my own residence."
Mu Xiyue was puzzled. "The palace is heavily guarded. Shouldn't it be safer inside the palace?"
Xiao Yibai chuckled lightly, "People outside the palace naturally can't harm those inside. If all of Father's children were born and raised safely, there would be at least 20 or 30 of them. Now, there are only seven sons and two daughters alive."
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