95 Chapter 95: Wasn’t It Agreed That She Was the Family’s Pillar?
After choosing the shoes and paying for them, the couple finally set off for home.
The rest of the journey was relatively quiet until the two of them left the town.
“Hubby, do you want to hear a story? I’ll continue.” Qin Xiaoyao suddenly said.
Her husband had already felt her kindness and was even responding to her. She felt that she could be more caring towards him.
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Song Que turned around and glanced at Qin Xiaoyao.
“We’ve already reached the part where the monk and his disciples arrived at the Great Thunderclap Temple. If we continue, the story should be almost over.”
If the tale ended, would he still get to listen to other stories at night?
Qin Xiaoyao chuckled.
It was as if she had seen through Song Que’s thoughts.
“If the tale ends, I’ll tell you another one as long as you want to hear it.”
Song Que’s ears suddenly turned red.
After a while, he asked Qin Xiaoyao, “You have another story?”
“I do. There are many martial arts tales, such as the ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’, ‘The Water Margin’, and so on. If you want to listen to these, I can tell you one by one.”
Just the four famous works were enough for her to tell stories for a long time.
Of the Four Great Classic Novels of Chinese literature, she really liked the other three except for ‘A Dream of Red Mansions’, which she didn’t really read.
In addition to reading the original works, she had watched a lot of related TV shows before the apocalypse, so it was not difficult for her to retell the general tale.
There were also TV drama series that everyone was familiar with before the apocalypse, such as the ‘The Legend of the Condor Heroes’, ‘The Return of the Condor Heroes’, ‘Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils’ and so on. She had so many stories to tell.
“Romance of the Three Kingdoms?” Song Que became interested.
“Yes. This tale talks about the final years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, where the warlords were fighting each other to establish their own supremacy, and the political and military struggles between the states of Wei, Shu, and Wu.”
“Of the Four Great Classic Novels, my favorite is ‘Three Kingdoms’!” She couldn’t bear to miss any episode when this tale was made into a TV series.
She had even watched the latest version three times.
She could be considered a die-hard fan of the Three Kingdoms.
“Eastern Han? The states of Wei, Shu, and Wu?” Song Que looked at Qin Xiaoyao quizzically.
Qin Xiaoyao was stunned.
“Oh, it’s the dynasty fabricated in the book,” she explained.
To people in this time and space, wasn’t it just a fictional dynasty?
According to her investigation, she already knew that the history of this era was somewhat different from the history of China.
How should she put it? Perhaps this was a parallel universe of China.
Song Que glanced at Qin Xiaoyao and then looked away.
“Let’s wait for nighttime before continuing with the tale,” he said.
Just as Qin Xiaoyao was feeling a little disappointed, she saw Song Que open the box he had been holding.
When she saw the contents inside, she was stunned.
“Hubby…” she yelled out unwittingly.
Song Que turned around.
He frowned when he saw Qin Xiaoyao’s shocked face.
Only then did Qin Xiaoyao quickly adjust her exaggerated expression.
Then, she asked Song Que excitedly, “Hubby, where… where did you get the silver from?”
There were actually silver ingots inside, and they were huge!
Furthermore, there seemed to be more than one!
She had earned quite a lot recently and had seen what silver looked like, but she had never seen silver of this size!
With this size… each piece would be worth five taels?
No, no, perhaps it was more than that. Maybe it was ten taels!
Seeing that there was no one around, Song Que took out a silver ingot from the box and let Qin Xiaoyao take a closer look.
While playing with the silver ingots in his hand, he said, “I earned it from a business deal with Mr. Wang.”
Qin Xiaoyao’s eyes flashed.
“What business is so profitable?” she asked immediately.
Even when she worked hard from dawn till dusk, she could only earn around two taels a day.
Her Hubby, on the other hand, didn’t seem to have done anything, but he actually earned so much silver.
Hah! As expected of her husband, he was really capable!
Song Que glanced at Qin Xiaoyao.
“You can’t do my business,” he said with a faint smile.
He was able to do this business because he had read those books after he came into power in his previous life. And because he liked them, he memorized them.
As for this woman, he didn’t think she would be able to memorize any good books.
However, the stories she told were not bad.
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If he were in a place like the capital, he could work with a bookstore and maybe earn some money by writing stories.
However, in Mountain Spring Town, few people were willing to spend money to buy storybooks.
Seeing Song Que smile, Qin Xiaoyao felt the atmosphere lighten up.
“Tell me! Maybe I can find an opportunity in it,” she said to Song Que.
The corners of Song Que’s mouth turned upward.
“I sold six volumes of sole-copy books to Mr. Wang,” he said.
Qin Xiaoyao was stunned.
“How much is a volume?” she asked quickly.
Even if she didn’t know what a sole-copy was, she knew how expensive books were in this world.
The term ‘sole-copy’, as the name suggested, referred to books that were out of print.
Those things were probably as precious as those antique calligraphy and paintings!
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No wonder her husband could earn so much money in just one trip.
That was not right! She had taken stock of everything in the house. (She did this mainly because her predecessor had plundered her house many times before.)
However, she did not find any old books at home.
In fact, even for new books, she had only seen one or two copies, and those were the ones her husband had copied on the spot.
However, this was not important.
The most important thing was that her family was going to be rich.
No wonder her husband mentioned to her that he wanted to buy a courtyard dwelling in town.
As it turned out, her husband had already made plans for it.
“50 taels,” Song Que said indifferently.
After speaking, he took a side glance at Qin Xiaoyao from the corner of his eyes, waiting to see her reaction.
And Qin Xiaoyao didn’t let him down. Her eyes instantly widened a lot, making her look particularly intriguing.
“Then… then how much is an ingot of silver in your box?” Qin Xiaoyao suppressed the shock in her heart and asked again.
Good grief! 50 taels! She had been working her ass off for more than a month, but she probably hadn’t saved that much money.
Her Hubby, on the other hand, simply sold a book for 50 taels!
Boo hoo hoo… and she still thought that she was the pillar of support for the family, but she didn’t expect…
“10 taels for an ingot. There are 50 taels in total here,” Song Que replied. His expression was still calm.
Seeing Qin Xiaoyao’s expression becoming more and more interesting, Song Que felt even more pleased.
“I have five books left. I took ten taels less for the last book. That’s 240 taels in total.”
“I’ve already made an appointment with Mr. Wang. From now on, I’ll send him a book every two days and sell it to him for 50 taels each time. I’ll charge him 40 taels for the last book.”
Without waiting for Qin Xiaoyao’s response, Song Que continued, “In addition, I’ve asked Mr. Wang to help me find a courtyard dwelling in the west of the town.”
Qin Xiaoyao’s eyes flickered.
“The west side of the town is good!” she immediately said.
“But if it’s on the west side of the town, why do we need Mr. Wang’s help? My father and brothers live in the west of the town. He definitely knows more than Mr. Wang!”
For as long as she could remember, she lived on the west of the town.
Her father was also a butcher who sold meat. He knew many people, and there must be people from the real estate brokerage among them.
Wouldn’t it be more convenient and reliable to ask her own father for help than to ask Mr. Wang?
Song Que glanced at Qin Xiaoyao.
When he saw her mention Qin Dazhuang and call him ‘Father’ so naturally, he was a little puzzled.