Chapter 396 Father-in-law's Wealth

Chapter 396 Father-in-law's Wealth

Chapter 396 Father-in-law's Wealth
"Discuss with me?" Li Jiayi asked in surprise.

"Yes, it's nothing actually. It's just some things I left behind that I want to share among you guys."

"Ah! Dad, we don't need this! Ling'er and I don't need it either. Let's give it to our eldest brother, second brother and brother-in-law!"

Li Jiayi knew that his father-in-law must have left something behind, but he really didn't need it.

Be it money, antique calligraphy and paintings, or even large and small yellow croakers, he has no shortage of them.

Some even say that he doesn't even think highly of it.

"That won't work. To me, all my sons and daughters are the same, so each of you has a share."

"Yeah, Jiayi, we should listen to dad." said the eldest brother-in-law.

"Okay, let's put Ling'er's copy with my parents. We don't need it for the time being."

"Yes, it's better to leave it in Dad's hands." Lin Ling'er nodded quickly.

"No need. This time I plan to divide it into five portions, one for each of the four of you, and one for me and your mother."

"Ah! This..."

Seeing that his father-in-law said so, what else could Li Jiayi say? He just nodded to Lin Ling'er.

"Okay! I'll listen to Dad."

Of course, my father-in-law and his family lived with Li Jia's family. There were many houses in the family, so they could accommodate a few more people.

It’s late today, so we can only go there tomorrow, so the family had dinner together in the evening.

It wasn't until after eight o'clock that I went back to the house to rest.

Silent all night.

The next morning, two cars drove out of Yard No. 7 and, with the guidance of the father-in-law, soon arrived at a small courtyard.

Yes, it’s the courtyard.

The small courtyard only has three main rooms and one side room, and it can't even be considered a small courtyard.

"Dad, is this the place?" Li Jiayi asked.

"Yes."

The father-in-law went up and knocked on the door, and the door opened quickly, and an old man appeared in front of everyone.

But when the old man saw his father-in-law, his eyes instantly turned red, and he called out tremblingly, "Master...Master."

"Old Sun."

"Master, you are finally back. I thought I couldn't wait for you anymore."

"How can that be possible! Are you feeling okay?"

"I won't die for now, please come in, sir."

"it is good."

There are three main rooms, with the middle one being the main room, which is also the living room.

The room on the east side is the living room, the room on the west side is the storage room, and the room outside is the kitchen.

I didn't see anyone else when I entered the house, so the old man must be living here alone.

Needless to say, this old man should be the servant of my father-in-law's family.

I didn't expect that my father-in-law had already made preparations, otherwise how could he have arranged a way out in advance.

Although the old man lives alone, the house is very clean, which shows that he is also a clean person.

"Old Sun, I'm sorry for wronging you over the years."

"Master, what are you talking about? This is what I should do."

After saying this, the old man, also known as Old Sun, quickly picked up the teapot on the Eight Immortals Table and prepared to pour tea.

"Grandpa Sun, let me do it!" the eldest brother-in-law said quickly.

It seems that the brother-in-law also knows the old man, but Lin Ling'er doesn't seem to be very familiar with Old Sun.

So, my father-in-law didn't start preparing before the ten years began, but had been preparing long before.

"Thank you, Master."

"You're welcome."

My father-in-law is very polite to the elderly, let alone my brother-in-law.

"Old Sun, from today on, you will live with me in old age! You don't have to guard this place anymore."

"Okay sir."

"What's going on?" Li Jiayi asked Lin Ling'er in a low voice.

Lin Linger shook her head and said, "I don't know either. I haven't even met this Grandpa Sun."

"Uh!"

"You are a young lady, right?"

"Hello, Grandpa Sun, my name is Ling'er."

"Yes! I know you and have seen you, but you have never seen me."

"Okay, Old Sun, we can talk later if you have anything to say. Open the cellar now!"

"Yes, sir. Please follow me."

Then the group came to the west room, which contained a lot of messy things.

There are a lot of things, all of them are tattered and must be cleared out.

Li Jiayi also went up to help. The work could be done more easily with more people. Half an hour later, all the things in the house were moved to the yard.

At this time, Lao Sun brought in a pickaxe and a shovel from outside.

"Old Sun, just don't move, let them do it!"

"Row."

He was very aware of his physical condition, so he did not insist.

The father-in-law pointed to the middle of the room and said, "Start digging from here."

"Okay, Dad." My brother-in-law took the pickaxe and started digging.

No wonder I didn’t see any secret door or anything just now, it turns out it was buried directly.

Four people took turns, and half an hour later, a pit one meter square and about two feet deep appeared in front of them.

There was a stone slab underneath. Several people lifted the slab out and a hole appeared in front of them.

"Come on, go down and have a look."

First, Old Sun went down with a lantern.

There is a particularly steep staircase leading down from the cave entrance.

Then comes the father-in-law.

Next came my brother-in-law and his family, with Li Jiayi and Lin Ling'er walking at the end.

It doesn’t look obvious from above, but I didn’t expect there to be a whole new world underneath. Yes, the cellar is very big.

Especially when seeing the things below, even Li Jiayi was surprised.

I don’t know what’s in those boxes, but I can see the neatly stacked piles of yellow croakers.

Li Jiayi was fine, at most he was a little surprised, because the things in his space were many times more than those here.

But my brother-in-law and his friends were not so calm. They probably had never seen so many yellow croakers before. They opened their mouths wide, looking unbelievable.

At this time, Lao Sun adjusted the lantern to the maximum and hung it in the middle position.

Suddenly the cellar became much brighter.

"Go and open all the boxes." said the father-in-law to my eldest brother-in-law.

"Okay... okay." My brother-in-law has not yet recovered from his shock.

Li Jiayi also hurried over to help, and when he opened the box, he found that it was full of various antiques and jewelry. Not to mention the antiques, even the jewelry was old at first glance.

"There are a total of 20,000 gold bars here." The father-in-law suddenly said.

"Twenty thousand?" asked my brother-in-law in surprise.

You know, these are all big yellow croakers! One is 312.5 grams.

Twenty thousand roots equals twelve thousand five hundred catties, six thousand two hundred and fifty kilograms, or six point two and a half tons.

With so much gold, not to mention the future price, even based on the current price, this is also a huge sum of money!

Since the reform and opening up, gold trading has resumed, and the price changes every day. Now if you exchange it at a bank, one gram costs 41.82 yuan.

In other words, the price of this large yellow croaker is now 13,068.75 yuan.

How much is 261375000 sticks? That’s RMB!
What does more than 200 million mean? If he were to give this amount to others, he would at least be the richest man in the country in public.

"There are 837 antiques here, and there are also some jewelry. Divide them among yourselves! Divide them into five parts."

Li Jiayi glanced at Lin Linger and said, "Forget about the gold! We are not short of money, otherwise we can just ask for some antiques and jewelry."

"I'll listen to you." Lin Ling'er nodded, turned around and said, "Dad, we don't want the gold, just give us some of the jewelry and antiques."

Hearing his daughter say this, thinking that Li Jiayi was not short of money, he nodded and said, "Okay, in that case, then keep the antiques and jewelry, which will count as two shares, and the gold will count as three shares."

"Ugh! This..."

"Okay, your mother and I also want jewelry and antiques. It just so happens that your eldest brother, second brother and your brother-in-law are short of money for their business, so give the gold to them!"

"Brother, second brother, brother-in-law, do you agree?" Lin Linger asked.

The three of them looked at each other, nodded quickly and said, "Agree."

In fact, antiques at that time were not valuable, including jewelry.

And it’s not easy to sell them. If you put a few antiques out to sell now, there’s no guarantee that anyone would buy them.

But gold is different! You can exchange it directly at the bank.

If you want to sell it for more money, you can also trade it privately.

It used to be illegal to buy and sell gold, but it is not illegal now because it is allowed.

"Add one! Then these jewelry and antiques will be handed over to you." said the father-in-law at this time.

"Ah! Dad, you and Mom..."

Before Li Jiayi could finish, his father-in-law interrupted him and said, "We live in the countryside now, and we have nowhere to put these things. Let's put them at your place first!"

The father-in-law knew that although this way of division seemed fair, Li Jiayi was actually at a disadvantage.

These jewels are not worth much according to today's prices.

Let's put it this way! Maybe an antique is not as valuable as a gold bar, but you know, this gold bar is worth more than 13,000 yuan!
If an antique is sold for 10,000 yuan now, few people can afford it.

More than 800 antiques, plus those jewelry, are probably not worth more than a thousand gold bars.

Of course, this is only the current price, not the future price.

And the reason why Li Jiayi wanted these antiques was because he had no intention of selling them.

My uncle and his friends are different! They want to do business, so of course they want to exchange these things for money.

If these antiques and jewelry were exchanged for money now, it would be a huge loss.

"I know dad!"

"Ok!"

In the next few days, my father-in-law did not go back but stayed in the city.

Of course, he didn't stay here for nothing! He wanted to ask for the house back from above.

As for my brother-in-law and his family, of course they took the gold bars away.

My father-in-law is a well-known businessman, so it was easy for him to get back his previous house, which included not only a villa but also several courtyard houses.

However, the courtyard houses are now occupied by quite a few people, so they cannot be reclaimed for the time being.

Despite this, the land deeds and house deeds were retrieved, and the rent was also compensated. Not only that, but I will be able to collect the rent myself from now on.

As for the villa, since only one family lived there, they vacated it directly.

So now my brother-in-law and his family live in the villa.

Of course, the gold bars they were allocated were also moved to the villa.

As for those antiques and jewelry, they have now been stored in the space by Li Jiayi.

As for the villas and three large courtyard houses that were reclaimed, Li Jiayi did not want any of them. He only wanted the small courtyard where Lao Sun lived now.

He has no shortage of houses, he has three large courtyard houses, and his eldest uncle, second uncle and brother-in-law's family just happen to have one.

Of course, the villa is reserved for my father-in-law and mother-in-law.

Half a month later, after the situation in the imperial capital was sorted out, my father-in-law returned to Lijia Village.

He was the only one who went back. Not only that, his elder brother-in-law and his family also returned to the city with their wives and children.

The three large courtyard houses could not be taken back, so the three families temporarily lived in the villa.

That morning, Li Jiayi was drinking tea alone in the house when his brother-in-law and his family came.

"Brother, how come you have time to come here?" Seeing three people coming in, Li Jiayi quickly stood up and asked.

You know, the three of them are very busy now! Ever since they divided up the property, they have been busy.

"Brother-in-law, we came to see you for something."

"Sit down and have some tea first, and then we'll talk slowly."

"Ok!"

After they sat down, Li Jiayi poured tea for them and then asked, "Brother, what do you want to say?"

"It's like this. We went to the bank to exchange some money and came back, so we wanted to do something, but we couldn't think of anything. Do you have any good ideas?"

Hearing his brother-in-law ask this, Li Jiayi scratched his head and asked, "Brother, is there anything you want to do?"

"No." The eldest brother-in-law shook his head and said, "We are completely in the dark right now and don't know what to do. That's why I came to ask you!"

If you ask what is the most profitable business right now, it is definitely not real estate, because real estate is just starting out.

The most profitable industry now is definitely the food industry. Let’s put it this way! If you open an instant noodle factory now, it’s no different from robbing money.

But this thing requires a recipe.

Although he had eaten a lot of instant noodles in his previous life, he really didn't know how to make them.

"Brother, I do know what kind of business is more profitable, but I don't have the skills!"

"Oh! What business?"

“Convenience food factory.”

"Instant food factory?"

"Yes, it's instant noodles. I went to the Japanese country before and ate this stuff. It's really delicious and it's also suitable for our country now. It's a pity that we don't have the technology to make it."

"Hey, how difficult is that? We can just go to the Japanese country and recruit a few people who are good at this."

"Uh!"

Li Jia was stunned for a moment, worthy of being from a merchant family!

"Brother, this is really great. With talents in this field, we can develop instant noodles that suit the tastes of Chinese people."

Hearing what Li Jiayi said, the elder brother-in-law turned around and asked, "Who will do this? If you don't want to do it, then I will do it."

"Brother, let me do this! I happen to know Japanese. I'll get ready and go to the Japanese country in a few days. It would be best if I could come back with a few production lines." said the second uncle.

"Yes, yes, second brother, bring back more production lines. This thing is definitely popular. It will be troublesome to expand production later."

"Plus one, what other business is better besides this?"

(End of this chapter)