Farming Family's Pocket Dimension: A Charmed Little Lady Comes to Farm

Chapter 34: Chapter 34: Where Did the Gold Come From?

Gu Fei was waiting anxiously when she saw Stone walk in with a young lady.

Who else could it be but the Second Miss!

The moment the Second Miss saw Gu Fei, she threw herself at her, clinging to her and sobbing uncontrollably. "Jadeite, I knew it was you! I knew you were the best, that you would come and save me! SOB... I was so scared... SOB SOB SOB..."

Gu Zhang, watching anxiously from the side, said, "Uh, Second Miss, your hands are pressing on Little Fei’s back injury!"

"Ah!" The Second Miss quickly pulled her hands back, her face filled with alarm. "I didn’t mean to! Jadeite, does it hurt?"

Gu Fei shook her head. "I’m fine."

Stone finally found an opening to hand the Second Miss’s indenture contract to Gu Fei. "It cost 1800 taels of silver to redeem the Second Miss. Here is her contract. She is the family of a convicted official, so she cannot have her status revoked. She can only be a servant for the rest of her life."

The Second Miss cried out, "That expensive?"

In over ten years, she had only managed to save 1400 taels of silver. She had given half of that to Jadeite. Even if Jadeite put all of it forward, plus her own golden hairpin and pearl flowers, it still wouldn’t be enough!

She looked at Gu Fei anxiously. What were they going to do if they didn’t have enough silver?

Gu Fei was stunned as well. She had already given Gu Qing 200 taels to buy a mule cart. She had thought one thousand taels would be enough, but she never expected it to be this expensive.

She only had 1200 taels on hand. She was still short 600 taels. What was she going to do?

’Silver, silver, where can I get more silver!’

Beads of sweat formed on Gu Fei’s forehead from the sheer panic.

Seeing Gu Fei’s reaction, the Second Miss’s heart sank to the floor.

She had finally seen a glimmer of hope. If she couldn’t leave because they didn’t have the silver, she would really hang herself with a handkerchief.

Suddenly, Gu Fei said, "Brother Stone, please wait a moment. I have the silver hidden on my person. I’ll go inside and get it for you."

Xiao Yu watched her with cold eyes. Gu Fei walked into the inner room, her consciousness sinking into her dimension, where she began to search frantically.

She suddenly remembered finding a few gold bars while hiding from zombies in an abandoned villa one time. Gold had been useless back then, but Gu Fei, ever the materialist, couldn’t resist the temptation and had stored them in her dimension.

She practically tore her tent apart, finally finding three gold bars in a corner.

The gold bars were engraved with the words "FINE GOLD 999.9" and below that, "NET WT 1000g."

Gu Fei quickly did the math. One kilogram of gold was equivalent to twenty taels. The exchange rate here for gold to silver was one to ten, which meant one gold bar was worth 200 taels of silver.

Three gold bars added up to six hundred taels. Combined with the 1200 taels in silver notes she had on hand, it came out to exactly 1800 taels—not a tael more, not a tael less.

Gu Fei let out a sigh of relief and walked out with the gold bars and silver notes.

She placed the items on the table. "Brother Stone, this is exactly 1800 taels. Please count it."

Xiao Yu’s eyes narrowed as he looked at the gold bars on the table. He picked one up and examined it closely. Gu Fei’s heart pounded in her chest. ’The gold bars have English letters and Arabic numerals on them,’ she thought, ’but there’s no way this young master can read them. It should be fine, right?’

The Second Miss was also staring at the gold bars. ’Where did Jadeite get this gold?’

At this moment, besides concluding that Gu Fei was some kind of Fairy, she couldn’t think of any other explanation.

Xiao Yu studied it for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Miss Jiefei, you couldn’t even produce twenty taels of silver for your own freedom before. Where did this gold come from? And don’t tell me it’s a family heirloom!"

Stone had told him everything when he returned—that the Gu Family had been so desperate for twenty taels of silver that they had even mortgaged their deed.