It was getting late, and the lanterns at the Duke's Mansion were starting to light up.
"But I'm going to die!" Deng turned over lazily and curled her feet.
Li Jinglong leaned on the bedside and glanced at his wife's feet, "But her mother is dying!" As he said this, he randomly picked up a piece of clothing to wipe his sweat, "Thirty is like a wolf, forty is like a tiger...
..”
"Tsk!" Deng gave him a dissatisfied look, "There are so many people and so few days? The clay figures are all angry!" As he said that, he hooked his instep again.
"Let me take a break! Take a break!" Li Jinglong stared and gasped, "When you fire off cannons in a war, you have to look at the barrel of the gun. If you keep spinning, you'll cripple this old girl!"
Deng's eyes were silky, "Bah, it's better to be useless, so you don't have to worry about it!"
"No!" Li Jinglong grabbed his clothes again and wiped his sweat. "Get up quickly and follow me to the library to take a look!" He said with a smile, "I brought a lot of good things to our family!"
, wiped the sweat again, but felt something was wrong, so he put the sweat-wiping clothes under his nose and smelled it.
"Haha!" Deng was rolling with laughter.
Li Jinglong realized what this was and threw it aside, "Bad luck!"
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Cao Guogong's residence has a separate courtyard with thick walls and high rooms. This courtyard has thirteen rooms in the upper part and twenty rooms on the left and right. It is taller than ordinary houses, but the windows are very small, and the windows are covered with dense iron.
strip.
This is the warehouse of Li Jinglong's family, which contains the wealth of the Li family.
Even if the owner of the house, Li Jinglong, didn't look at the account books, he couldn't tell exactly how many things were stored in these warehouses. The warehouse in the main building was filled with Li Jinglong's favorite things, and the side rooms were filled with old objects.
In fact, his family's wealth is much more than that, including mines, forests, land, hunting grounds, etc. In addition, there are shops, carriages and horses, and pawn shops in the capital.
Li Jinglong held a lantern and came in with his wife from outside, leaving the housekeeper and a few confidants outside to watch the door.
"What are you doing here in vain?" Deng said dissatisfiedly, "Isn't it unfair to say that you are a money man? You are also a prince after all. I have never seen such a greedy prince like you!"
"If you have money, you will always be a prince. But if you are an empty prince with no money, you might as well not do it!" Li Jinglong muttered, opened the first door of the main room with a bunch of keys in his hand, and continued,
"Money is a good thing anytime, even the emperor doesn't mind having too much money!"
With that said, he opened the door, went into the house, lit the lamp, and then covered it with a glass lampshade.
The scene in the warehouse suddenly became clear. There were wooden boxes neatly stacked in the room, and each box had a seal and a lock on it.
This warehouse is in the Li family, and only Li Jinglong and Mrs. Deng can come in. Mrs. Deng has long remembered everything in the house, which part contains jewelry and which part contains gold and silverware, all family treasures.
But the next second, her eyes widened.
I saw Li Jinglong struggling to move a box in the corner, and then lying on the ground to pry open the stone slab.
After prying it open, he struggled to pull out a few wooden boards, and then a narrow passage suddenly appeared in front of him.
"This is?" Deng was confused.
"Don't make any noise and come with me!" Li Jinglong said, holding the lamp in one hand and holding his wife in the other as he slowly walked down.
There is a large cellar downstairs, and the cellar is full of boxes.
"The twenty boxes here are filled with gold bricks that my father snatched during the war!" Li Jinglong said as he opened it with a key. As soon as he opened the lid, a golden light suddenly appeared.
"Ah!" Mrs. Deng covered her mouth and exclaimed. Each box was as tall as half a person. Inside were gold bricks the size of one side, like city bricks, with marks on them. How much gold was in those twenty boxes?
?
Moreover, this was the first time she had met Li Jinglong after so many years of marriage.
Seeing all the treasures in front of her, Deng's heart became furious, "Okay, you've been complaining about poverty all these years so that I risked my skin to go back and raid my parents' house. How dare you, the Li family, have such a strong foundation?" Then he cursed, "They say husband and wife are of the same mind.
You actually hid this basement of your home from me for so many years. Li Jinglong, I’ve spent all my life in vain with you, you are a murderer..."
"The thirty-seven people over there are full of gold sand!" Li Jinglong ignored his wife's anger and continued, "My father snatched it from the Tatar emperor the year he attacked Xanadu outside the Mongolian Great Wall!"
"You fucking..."
"It's not that I didn't tell you!" Li Jinglong looked at his wife solemnly, "It's just that I didn't have time before..."
"Haha, if it's too late, if you suddenly die outside, who knows?" Deng was still cursing in a low voice.
"Someone will tell you!" Li Jinglong whispered, "I have thought about it since I got married to you. If I die in battle one day, the housekeeper will tell you this place!" He said, smiling, "This
At home, the one I trust most is you, who is my first wife. The other one is the housekeeper, who has been serving me since my grandfather, for so many years!"
"Go away, you trusted me and you told me?" Deng said angrily.
"Don't you know your own temperament?" Li Jinglong looked at him, "If you knew there were so many things at home, how could you keep your mouth shut? It's okay for your mother's family to know, but what about my brothers! I
I am not the only son, if they find out, why don’t they come and make trouble?"
Deng said in confusion, "Don't your brothers know?"
"My father told my mother, and my mother only told me!" Li Jinglong gently touched the boxes with his hand, his movements were very gentle, "My mother told me back then that the day when all the credit, power, people, and family ties are used up, the family wants to be prosperous.
If future generations are to have a bright future, this kind of family wealth is indispensable!"
"When my father passed away, what happened to our family's noble family background? I've worked hard all these years, but our family's prestige is incomparable to what it was when my father was here!"
"When my Li family was at its peak, I was in charge of the Ministry of War and the entire Fifth Army Commander's Office. Now I'm just looking at the scenery!"
"You know a little bit about my grievances these years. I have been working as a cow and a horse outside for this family. For us? Yes, our family's money is inexhaustible. But in the future, it will be for future generations!"
"If nothing else, our son has a son, and our grandson has a grandson. If they want to make a living in the future, it won't be enough to rely on the dignity of their ancestors. When the time comes, they will have to speak with real money."
"I have been working hard to get money from my family these years, but I am also afraid. I am afraid that if something happens to me, you mothers will have to endure hardships, do you understand?"
After hearing what he said, Deng's expression softened a lot.
But he still said, "You have such a mouth that you can talk about life and death. You didn't tell me that you got married all these years. Isn't there a layer of separation in your heart?"
"I told you, I won't tell you because you are not a housekeeper!" Li Jinglong frowned and said, "This involves the foundation of our Li family! Only the head of the family can know!"
As he said that, he looked at his wife, "Haven't you heard of this saying?"
"What did you say?"
"When women are in charge, the walls will collapse!" Li Jinglong said.
"you........"
Li Jinglong held down his wife's hand and said, "Back then, my father told my mother that he had so many concubines and no one knew about it!" After saying that, he paused and said, "I'll tell you today, if I have a good life in the future,
You only tell our son, and your daughter-in-law can’t know about it!” Then he smiled and said, “Unless she gives birth to a boy in our family!”
Deng's heart warmed up and she dropped her pink fist, "What's wrong with you to say such depressing words?"
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