My domineering ex-husband is living off his wife in ancient times.

Chapter 69 A Loving Couple Again

In the end, Cheng Ruoan reluctantly accepted Si Shaoheng's suggestion and shuffled in backwards with her buttocks.

"I swear, once we reach the next prefecture, we're going to stay at an inn! I'm going to have to sneak into my spatial dimension and heal my leg!" Cheng Ruoan gritted her teeth as she stood up and patted the mud off her buttocks.

Then, in the next second, I was stunned by what I saw.

Before she came in, Si Shaoheng had her bring a tinderbox and a gas lamp.

So after Cheng Ruoan got up from the ground, he could see everything clearly under the light.

Friend, have you ever seen a bank's vault?

Cheng Ruoan had never met him.

But she discovered an ancient version of the "treasury"!

This space is only about five or six square meters, which is about half the size of a typical modern secondary bedroom.

But it is almost two stories high.

This vertical rectangular space was filled with gold and silver jewelry!

"The magistrate of Qingshan County's private treasury is probably less than a quarter the size of this place!"

Si Shaoheng was playing with a gold brick.

He had some knowledge of jewelry appraisal. Just by holding the gold bars in his hand, he could roughly judge that the purity of the gold was only about 90%.

It's unclear whether the gold refining technology of that dynasty was limited, or whether these were actually high-quality gold ore roughs.

After all, it was all gold bricks; I didn't see a single gold ingot or gold bar.

Si Shaoheng was deep in thought, but as he looked at it, the mountain of gold in front of him disappeared.

Si Shaoheng: ...

"Couldn't you have told me before you accepted the package?"

Cheng Ruoan grinned from ear to ear, chuckling, "With so much gold laid out in front of me, I have no way to say a word."

She gestured towards the two boxes of scattered jewelry on the ground: "If you want to see more sparkly items, look at those. So many gold and silver ornaments, jewels and jade, isn't that sparkly enough?"

Si Shaoheng: ...

"You hurry up and pack them all, I'll go to my space to move them first."

Si Shaoheng put his arm around Cheng Ruoan, and as soon as they entered the villa, they saw gold and two boxes of jewelry on the ground in front of the villa.

In the blink of an eye, Cheng Ruoan also came in.

"Quickly, quickly, move it into the yard!" Cheng Ruoan rushed in and grabbed her delivery cart!

The two of them worked hard for two whole days to move all the gold into the space.

Then he quickly slipped out of the space, crawled out of the square hole, and walked out of the cave.

"Brother-in-law, let's hurry back!" Cheng Ruoan hopped out on one foot, calling to Shao Yang to head back.

Shao Yang glanced at them and saw that both of them had empty hands.

Didn't you say you were coming to move a lot of sleeping powder?

But he didn't ask any more questions, or even dared to think about it.

He immediately squatted down, picked up Cheng Ruoan, and quickly used his light-footed skill to rush back.

Si Shaoheng quickly followed.

When the three returned to the dilapidated temple, it was not yet the hour of Yin (3-5 AM), but the whole family had already packed up and were waiting for them on the mule cart.

Cheng Ruoan glanced at it and secretly wiped away a bead of sweat. "Luckily, I had already collected a lot of things into my space this afternoon. Otherwise, if they had packed everything up before we got back, four mule carts might not have been able to fit it all."

Si Shaoheng nodded: "Let's go, you get in the car too. The four of us men will each drive a mule cart, and you can all sit inside."

"Boss Qian will come and let us know once things are settled. After he starts driving away, no matter what you hear, don't come out or peek out."

"it is good."

When Si Shaoheng returned, he handed over twenty bottles of sleeping pills to Boss Qian at the intersection outside.

Before long, Boss Qian rushed over, shouting, "It's done! It's all gone!"

Si Shaoheng took out a fifty-tael silver note and stuffed it into his hand, saying, "Thank you!"

Then he turned around and shouted to the three mule carts behind him, "Let's go!"

Boss Qian hurried after the car, saying, "Hey, that mask! The mask that Madam Cheng gave to the patrol team when she went to spread the sleeping powder. We haven't returned it to you yet!"

Knowing that Cheng Ruoan and the women had made a lot of gauze masks, Si Shaoheng waved his hand and said, "Here you go. Even if the village is locked down, you must wear masks. Wishing you safety!"

Mr. Qian felt a bit emotional.

The Cheng couple were the most generous and unpretentious people he had ever met in all his years of running a tea stall on the official road.

He stood on the country road, watching the mule cart disappear into the distance, and murmured, "Have a safe journey."

Of the four mule carts, only the one belonging to Dr. Hu was occupied by an old man and his belongings; the other three were filled with people.

Honestly, it's very crowded.

The cart was moving so fast that the mules were almost as fast as the horses.

Everyone was so shaken they felt like throwing up.

But Si Shaoheng said that he couldn't stop taking even one pill outside of Bachuan Prefecture.

Currently, all we know is that the plague has broken out in villages and towns along the route from Qingshan County to Huilan City. We do not yet know the situation in other counties of Bachuan Prefecture.

Si Shaoheng had considered things one step further. To avoid refugees who might be fleeing from other counties, the first car he drove to lead the way deliberately bypassed the official road and took the mountain road instead.

Therefore, the journey out of Bachuan Prefecture was about 1.3 times longer than taking the official road.

"Shaoheng, take a rest. The old man's bones are about to fall apart," Doctor Hu said, lifting the curtain and peeking out of the carriage to Si Shaoheng, who was driving the carriage.

Si Shaoheng didn't even turn his head: "Dr. Hu, we can't stop. Also, don't stick your head or hands out of the window."

Dr. Hu angrily lowered the curtain and loudly chirped inside, "This is a mule, not a horse. It can't go very fast, and it doesn't stop for a moment. A person can stand it, but a mule can't!"

Si Shaoheng: "You can just sit here comfortably."

Cheng Ruoan had said on the way out of Panlongzhai that they should travel overnight and exchange all the mules for horses at the post station outside the next county town.

Do you have to queue to buy horses?

To buy at market price, you obviously need to queue up and pre-order.

But if she pays extra to buy it, why should she wait in line?

They've already moved a mountain of gold from Panlongzhai, why would they care about a little money to change cars?

Around noon, Si Shaoheng led his team to the outskirts of Daxian County.

The post stations outside the city didn't sell horses, but Cheng Ruoan offered them a lot.

Cheng Ruoan used the money that would have bought ten horses at market price to buy four horses.

Her heart bled when she handed over those 1,500 taels of silver notes.

But Shao Yang and Cheng's mother both checked, and all four horses were plump and strong, in their prime, and each horse would cost 150 taels.

The postmaster, seeing the money, didn't make things difficult for Cheng Ruoan or interrogate her too much, but he did ask curiously, "Why did you spend so much money to change horses and travel? What happened?"

He noticed that the family's road sign indicated they were moving back to their ancestral home.

However, the regulations of the Great Xia Dynasty stipulated that even if the original place of residence issued a "departure" permit, the government of the destination city had to accept it before the relocation could be completed.

We don't even know if we'll be able to settle down there smoothly, and we're already spending so much money on the way?

Even if it guarantees that I can settle down there, there's no need to waste money on the journey.

Cheng Ruoan and Si Shaoheng exchanged a glance and said in unison, "An elder in our family is critically ill..."

Cheng Ruoan: "I want to see the whole family together..."

Si Shaoheng: "No regrets are priceless, aren't they?"

The postmaster said, "Good heavens, you two are such a loving and well-matched couple, you even talk like you're performing in a play."