Chapter 208

The use of money and how much to use, Bai Manshan has already figured it out on the way.

He wasn’t worried that Shuiqing and Fan Jin would swallow his money. Trusting people without suspicion, some people are worthy of trust.

Over there, Shuiqing continued to report: “Later, Sister Huyu brought another eight boxes. Adding the first box of gold you sent, I counted two boxes of gold and three boxes of silver ingots. The rest are mostly jewels and jade.

Shall we take advantage of the large number of people tomorrow and move them all at once, or should we do it in batches?”

She went all out for these treasures of gold and silver, opening several storage boxes in the marketplace! Afraid of being stolen in the house.

Now that Bai Manshan is moving jewelry, the storage boxes can be emptied and used, which is not wasteful.

Bai Manshan shook his head: “The gold and jewelry will stay put. We’ll only take out the silver. Take sixty ingots of patterned silver at ten taels each.”

Shuiqing got up and went to the main house, took out a cloth bag, and picked up sixty silver ingots from the marketplace storage box to put in.

Carrying the heavy cloth bag to the tea room, she asked, “Do you want to find a smaller box or basket to disguise it?”

The cloth bag can still show the outline of the silver ingots, which is inconvenient to carry outside.

Bai Manshan happily took it over, “No need, we’ll use it later!”

Seeing the two confused, he carefully calculated: “The people I brought, although I bought their sale contracts in the usual way and don’t need to give them more money, the bond formed by supporting each other all the way is different after all. Except for Hong Daniu’s family, I plan to give each family twenty taels of patterned silver, which is my way of giving them a little capital to start a new life here;

Hong Daniu saved my life, and I think it’s most practical to repay his life-saving grace with silver! He has two sons, and they will need silver for building houses in the future, so I plan to give him a hundred taels.”

Hong Daniu has always been firm in believing that he saved three of them. If there is too much silver, he will definitely not accept it, but he thinks that one hundred taels is not much, and he should be able to accept it with his heart.

The Hong family has ten, plus the other three families have six, totaling sixteen.

“This trip to Baijia Zhuang in Nanning Prefecture, a round trip will take four to five days. One man earns a hundred wen a day, one tael a day, five days is five taels, and sixty men, a round trip calculated by five days, is thirty taels.”

After the flood, the road was extremely difficult to walk, especially with bandits. The daily wage of a hundred wen also includes labor and danger, and it’s not easy to earn.

Shuiqing calculated it. There are only nineteen here, and it’s not very convenient to carry forty-one silver ingots.

So Bai Manshan took out half of the thirty or so silver ingots from the cloth bag and pushed them to Fan Jin, earnestly requesting, “Brother Jin, I know it’s not very peaceful outside, but I still need your help to go to the prefectural city to see if you can buy some well-made swords or urgently request a batch from the ironworks?

It doesn’t matter how sharp they are, as long as they’re swords!”

Huyu said that the big sword is the best, and can deter the enemy, but if it is not, the sword is always better than nothing.

And the urgent price is different from usual, it is possible to increase several times.

Shuiqing: … Is this not a coincidence?

Fan Jin’s black and shiny eyes showed surprise, and he went to see Shuiqing first time.

They heard Bai Manshan said that the emperor was cutting the feudal lords last year, and worried about the rebellious princes. From the marketplace, he bought a batch of unsharpened big knives and put them in the warehouse, waiting for the right time to use them.

After my father-in-law came, especially the outside, I’ll ask my father to help when he has free time.

For his father-in-law, Bai Manshan’s reasons are there!

Shuiqing couldn’t help but think, now is not only the right time, even the reason is ready.

Fan Jin’s eyes asked whether he said it or not?

Bai Manshan looked at the two eyebrows like passing emotions, his old face turned red, and he reminded me with a cough.

Hmm, he’s such a big man here! There’s something to be said about it after he’s gone.

Otherwise, it would be fine if Huyu was also coming!

Shuiqing concealed his smile and mentioned the large knives stored in the warehouse: “After you talked about cutting the feudal lords last year, we were worried that we wouldn’t be able to buy them when it was really messy. We bought them little by little, about fifty or sixty? Or six or seventy handles?

Worried that news of no chaos would cause panic, and fearing that people in the village who aren’t friendly with us might go to the authorities to stir up trouble, we didn’t mention anything publicly;

Only the family knows, and we told them that Sister Huyu sent them over for temporary storage! Isn’t it coincidental?”

Coincidentally, Li Huyu has sent things over several times, because they are gold and silver treasures, each time secretive. The children only knew she came, but they didn’t know why or what she brought. Moreover, with the storm, they won’t say anything.

Bai Manshan opened his mouth, wanting to say he was sent a pillow when he fell asleep!

No, the Shuiqing family is their patron!

He breathed a sigh of relief and said, “It’s not a coincidence; it’s your thorough consideration in peacetime! Alright, let’s say it’s stored here temporarily to the outside world. It’s perfect that we’ll take it out and use it tomorrow, and this silver will still belong to you.”

No need to go out to buy, saving the trouble, and not a penny less of silver.

Shuiqing pushed back all the silver, complete and intact: “We haven’t been polite with your people from outside. Dozens of hoarded knives you need to pay silver for, are we just greedy for money?”

Bai Manshan instantly understood and didn’t refuse anymore. He directly put the silver ingots back into the cloth bag with joy and said, “Then we do need to find a bamboo basket to pack the silver tomorrow.”

With things settled, Bai Manshan could finally rest assured.

Not just him, but also the people who came with him, all needed a good rest.

Since the storm, more than half a month has passed, and only this morning did they have a real meal.

During this half-month, they experienced their homeland being destroyed, family members passing away, and leaving the hometown they grew up in, coming to a new place. Each person needed a thorough relaxation.

Mother Hu and others have already tidied up the living houses.

Jiang, He, and Hu moved to Ling Ran’s house. Bai Manshan and Bai Ziqian shared one house. There weren’t enough beds in the vacant house, but fortunately, it’s summer now, and with the hot weather, sleeping on cool mats laid on the bluestone floor is also comfortable.

The house was fumigated with mugwort, no mosquitoes, the floor was clean and refreshing, which was incomparable to the damp and rotten smell all the way here.

Originally, more than twenty people thought it would be difficult to fall asleep like rushing on the road, but unexpectedly, they all fell into a deep sleep soon.

Thinking that Bai Manshan would have to take these people back and forth to transport potatoes tomorrow, it would take at least four or five days round trip. The journey was arduous, and they needed to replenish their health!

Fan Jin went to the village to handle Bai Manshan’s arrangements.

Bai Ziqian and Hu Wenhua followed.

Bai Ziqian wanted to help his father, and Hu Wenhua was just tagging along — he had already decided to follow tomorrow and now went to see the companions he would travel with tomorrow.

Not only did he go, but his father also went with him. One hundred wen a day, a round trip of four or five days is four to five hundred wen, and two people going out for a trip is nearly one or two taels of silver!

Who could bear not going?