Paper horse incense shop

Chapter 412 Blackmail and Lies
The middle-aged man was stunned by my question and subconsciously replied:
"Eight pounds and six taels."

Eight pounds and six taels of gold.?

That's a lot of money!

According to the current gold price of 550 yuan per gram, the total value of a pound of gold can be around yuan!
Not to mention that was thirty years ago!
Although the price of gold at that time was much cheaper than today, the purchasing power of money is still there!
In an era when a household with ten thousand yuan could be called a ten thousand yuan household, eight pounds of gold was enough to catch up with the development of the times and become a local rich man.

To take a step back, even if you don’t invest and just buy a house and a car, you can still have a lot of wealth now!

But the middle-aged man in front of him clearly had no money.

He has a thin body, thin cheeks, simple clothes, and a sloppy appearance. The mud spots between his fingernails are almost deep into his skin.

Not to mention showing signs of being wealthy, he didn't even look like he had enough to eat for a long time.

Why are you so poor?

What about the original money?
"Eight pounds of gold, how many millions does it cost?"

I looked at the middle-aged man across from me who seemed a little nervous and anxious, and suddenly thought of a possibility:
"Did you get into gambling?"

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then waved his hands repeatedly:

"There are so many there. In 94, gold was only 98 yuan per gram. What I got was only a few hundred thousand."

"Besides, what fun is there in gambling?"

"Those things are all lies. To be honest, even if the money is thrown into the water, it makes a pop sound and is put on the gambling table, then there is really no splash at all."

"I don't play gambling, and you young people are not allowed to play either. You should spend your money in the most appropriate place."

Don't want to gamble?
really?
Is there any way that a middle-aged man who has not spent money on his own enjoyment can spend hundreds of thousands in 94 and put it into millions today?
The famous three-word hazard flashed through my mind, but I couldn't match it with the middle-aged man in front of me.

A little weird.

"May I?"

Seeing that the two of us were silent, the middle-aged man asked anxiously again:

"We're going to Longhu together anyway. You two just said that I'm some kind of cousin too. If we can really get the extra two pounds of gold, each of us will get half of it."

There was no response. The middle-aged man gritted his teeth and stamped his feet:

"Two pounds are divided into three shares, and I will take one share. Is that okay?"

"That's real gold. If you don't take it, you won't get it!"

Gong Shuji squeezed my hand gently and gently under the table. His movements were gentle and slow, but he could let people understand his meaning just right——

We don't have gold, so we'll accept it as soon as it's good, and continue to follow what the other person says. After all, the lie will be self-defeating.

I scratched the other person's palm back to show that I knew, and then raised my eyes to look at the other person:
"You seem to need more money than we do, brother."

"We just use our words. It doesn't take that much, and we'll leave it all to you."

"It's just that my eldest brother is more experienced than us in what we are going to do now, and I just have another question to ask."

Give him all the extra parts that can be replaced? !
The middle-aged man's eyes were instantly filled with unbelievable ecstasy:
"Old sister, old sister, tell me if there is anything I know, I will definitely tell you!"

I pondered for a few seconds and pointed at Gong Shuji and I:

"We haven't decided yet where to exchange the flesh for gold. We would like to exchange some money for a fun trip, but we are afraid of the pain."

"I want to ask, brother, how did you change it at that time?"

"What invisible place did you choose to change on your body? It looks pretty good now." "Brother also knows that although my parents are married to daughters from Longhu Village, the details of the change are... , how can anyone know about it if they haven’t exchanged it before?”

Maybe it was because I was the first to tell the cause and effect frankly, but the middle-aged man not only did not refute, but nodded in deep agreement, obviously acquiescing to the extent to which Longhu Village keeps secrets.

He only mentioned a little bit about one thing, and that was:

"How can you young people be afraid of pain for such a huge good thing?"

"If you are cruel and two of you go out on four legs, even if you can't stand up in the future, won't you still have a wheelchair?"

"You have to understand selfless risks and take a longer-term view. This is how it works."

The middle-aged man seemed to want to reprimand him endlessly, but the moment his red eyes met ours, he immediately shuddered and woke up:
"However, it still depends on what you want, haha."

"Brother, I talk too much. Don't mind. Don't mind. Let me tell you about the first time I went to Longhu."

"Thirty years ago, that was thirty years ago, when my wife and I had only been married for a few years."

"It was not like now. There were fewer places to play, and there were even fewer things for poor people to play. My wife and I were young when we got married, and her family didn't agree. We were together by ourselves, so there was nothing we could do. Wine and no photos taken.”

"Later, people around me gradually got married, and their conditions were better than ours. My wife has been thinking about this."

The middle-aged man looked sideways out of the window, his face full of reminiscence:

"My wife said: 'I am willing to endure hardship with you, but that doesn't mean I can only endure hardship in this life.'"

"That's right, so right."

"She married me despite her family's objections and stayed with me for many years. I opened a small noodle shop, and she helped wash the dishes. She got up before dawn every day and closed the shop when there was no one on the street. The two of us lived next to each other. In the room separated from the back of the store."

"The business of the noodle shop is not that easy. People often pay for the shredded pork noodles for $1.50 on credit. After two years of hard work, neither of us was able to save any money."

"Nothing, really nothing."

"So when my wife said this, I thought -

'Indeed, a big girl followed me, but I didn't have anything. I had to give her something. '"

The middle-aged man sighed a little:

"Then we discussed it and found a place to play and relax."

Where do these conclusions and causes and consequences come from?

My daughter-in-law wants wedding photos and a replacement wedding, but ends up taking someone on a trip?
A bad premonition immediately gripped my mind.

The middle-aged man continued:

"We came to Longhu and happened to catch up with the Longhu Immortal's celebration. At that time, my wife was just nine months pregnant. She was accidentally touched by someone in the parade and had a miscarriage."

"That's a boy, weighing eight pounds and six ounces."

"Someone told us we could exchange it for gold, so we exchanged it for gold."

The carriage was still so noisy, and the group of young people were so energetic that it was breathtaking, but here we were in a rare place of silence in the carriage.

I stretched out my hand and knocked on the table:
".continue."

The middle-aged man suddenly came to his senses and said helplessly:

"There is nothing to continue, there will be no more after that."

My throat is a little sore. I just came back from the drip, and it's a little bit late. There's another chapter later.