freenovelworld Chapter 1124 More Valuable Than Gold
Chapter 1124 More Valuable Than Gold
Zhou Guo said: "Dad, don't worry about this. You can keep the ones with good hands and feet. Big brother has given me several thousand people before. My escort company is still small now, so it is enough. I will figure out a way to take care of the rest myself."
Xu Xiushan made the decision and said straightforwardly: "Okay, I won't ask you what you can do. I still have 4,000 wounded soldiers in my camp. You can take them all away."
He was afraid that she would ask him for those good hands and feet, so he couldn't give them to her, as he had to keep them for future use.
Xu Sibei curled his lips, "You are too stingy, not as generous as my brother at all."
Xu Xiushan glanced at him and said unhappily, "Where your elder brother is, I am there. How can we compare?"
One is in the impregnable north, and the other is in the south, with enemies on all sides. Several armies have returned, and the others are not around, so they must have more people around.
Zhou Guo said: "Young man, don't worry, I have found a way, the escort agency will not have to worry about manpower."
She spoke with certainty and didn't seem to be lying, so everyone couldn't help but become curious again.
It’s not easy to ask.
She did not plan to take this group of people with her, but planned to ask Lao Zheng to take them back to the north, and then let Hu Zi take over.
He has already taken over several groups of people. In addition, every village in the north is short of people. It is not difficult to resettle these people as long as they have land to go.
Old Zheng readily agreed, "Okay, it's just 4,000 to 5,000 people, I'll bring them all back to you."
Anyway, it doesn't matter whether he is herding one sheep or a flock of sheep, it's not a big deal for him.
When she returned from Lao Zheng's place, Zhou Dacang was already waiting in her tent with some things in his hands.
When she saw the big bundle, she felt it was very familiar, "Is it for my baby again?"
Zhou Dacang said, "I got these on the battlefield. Take them back with you. You need money everywhere now. If you take them, it will help you out in an emergency."
Zhou Guo opened the bundle without hesitation and saw six boxes. He opened them one by one and his eyes were almost blinded.
Three of the boxes contained neatly arranged gold bars, and two of the boxes were filled with large pearls, each as big as a longan. She thought of the box of gems that was still hidden in her house and swallowed.
"Uncle, how come you always get so many good things?"
She flipped through the gold bar box and weighed the gold bars. They weighed about eight taels. There were thirty gold bars of this weight in the box. Three boxes, ninety bars!
More than 40 kilograms of gold bars!
This is too much!
Heavy too!
Zhou Dacang said casually: "We are the vanguard, always running ahead of others."
So what he got was naturally the best, and what was left behind were what he had left over.
Zhou Guo asked: "Then how can you always lead the front line?"
Zhou Dacang raised his eyebrows, "Because your uncle is the best at offensive warfare. In terms of action, we are usually twice as fast as others. We are best at long-distance raids and rapid assaults. In this regard, no one in the Xu family army wants to surpass your uncle."
The first one to run to the front can naturally get the best things. He is the general and can always get the best things.
Zhou Guo said sincerely: "Uncle, you are so awesome! You are my pride!"
Zhou Dacang smiled knowingly, "Take all these things. They are for your immediate relief."
Zhou Guo shook his head. How could he bear to do that?
"These things are so hard to come by. I can't just spend them so easily. I'm going to keep them at home and give each of them a few pieces as a souvenir."
Such things are of great commemorative significance. "Let your descendants remember your bravery, take you as a benchmark, and make it the family tradition of our Zhou family."
Zhou Dacang couldn't help but laugh, and his eyes became wet as he laughed. He looked at her like a little hamster, happily touching these gold bars and pearls, and he laughed, "You are so rich, why do you act like you have never seen these things before?"
The hundreds of thousands of taels of silver she earns every year, isn't that much more than this?
Zhou Guo said, "How can it be the same? Although I earn so much every year, I spend it before I even get it. Normally, I use silver notes for convenience. I have never seen so much gold."
She had been doing business for a few years and had some gold bars, but not this many.
The main reason is that she doesn’t have any spare money every year. If she doesn’t have any spare money, she naturally can’t save it, and she has no money to exchange for gold.
"It must be said that this golden one is much more beautiful."
After that, she looked at the last box and asked, "What is this?"
He opened it while speaking.
A unique aroma hit her face, gentle and deep, and her eyes lit up again, "Is this spice?"
She had burned a lot of incense this year, and had tried many different kinds of incense, but she had never smelled a scent like this one. She couldn't help but ask Zhou Dacang, "Uncle, what kind of fragrance is this?"
You can tell just by smelling these spices that they are not cheap and are very expensive.
Zhou Dacang said: "The original owner said it was top-grade ambergris."
"The original owner?" Zhou Guo was stunned. "You stole it from the original owner?"
Zhou Dacang glanced at her and said, "How can you talk like that? Did I rob them? They gave it to me by force, and I had no choice but to accept it. It's useless to me. You're a young lady, so I'll give it to you."
He never burns any incense.
Zhou Guo shook his head. "This is really good stuff. You know the incense I ordered, the best quality ones, are far less delicious than this. One tael costs more than twenty taels of silver. This one, you can't get one tael without one hundred or eighty taels of silver."
Zhou Dacang finally raised his eyes, "This thing is more valuable than gold?!!"
He had been in the army for many years and only knew that gold, silver and jewelry were valuable. Did he know that spices were so valuable? ?
"No wonder the old man looked so strange. I thought he had given all the gold away, but was reluctant to give up such a small amount of spices."
Zhou Guo weighed it and said, "Such a big box would cost at least 1,500 taels of silver."
Zhou Dacang didn't say anything for a long while, then he said, "You like this, I'll pay more attention to it next time, and I'll keep these spices for you."
Zhou Guo didn't dare say anything after seeing his expression, but the gold was too heavy.
"Uncle, why don't you keep all this gold for yourself? I don't have a carriage, and it will be too heavy to carry all this on the road."
Zhou Dacang spread his hands and said, "Where in the barracks is there a place to hide these things? Do I have to carry these dozens of kilograms of things every time I go out to fight?"
"That's so inconvenient." Zhou Guo sighed, "Then I'll take it. These longan-sized pearls are rare. Who is this family that has so many of them? If you don't know, you might think they were taken from the palace."
"The Imperial Palace~~" Zhou Dacang narrowed his eyes, "It should be here soon."
As long as the capital city can be breached, they will be the first to enter. They cannot take large items, but they can still take those insignificant small things.
Otherwise, aren't the brothers fighting so hard and serving as the vanguard just for this little thing?