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Su Yuniang returned to the Su family at noon the next day.
Su Xiaoxiao originally thought that she went out to ‘handle affairs’ to avoid any malicious rumors with Father Su. After all, everyone in the family had gone out, and she was the only one at home with her father, so Su Yuniang is probably afraid of attracting gossip.
Little did she know that this wealthy woman had really gone to do something big.
Inside the east room, Su Xiaoxiao was keeping the account.
Su Yuniang took a few sips of tea and said, “I have been busy for a few days, my legs are weak, my mouth is dry, and I am exhausted. God will help those who work hard, and I really found some clues.”
“What were you investigating?” Su Xiaoxiao asked.
“The background of the Old Su family.” Su Yuniang said, “It’s somewhat related to your family.”
Su Yuniang planned to set up her own household, and to prevent interference from the Old Su family, she wanted to hold some leverage against the Old Su family.
She had originally gone just to try her luck, but unexpectedly, she really gained something.
Su Yuniang suddenly sneered and said, “Do you know how much money my great grandfather sold the jade pendant he took out back then?”
Su Xiaoxiao humored her, “How much?”
Su Yuniang held up one finger.
Su Xiaoxiao guessed, “Ten taels?”
Su Yuniang glared at her, “Do you think a family heirloom would only sell for ten taels?”
Su Xiaoxiao said, “Wasn’t it during a famine? Prices would have been low, and pawnshops would drive the price down.”
This made Su Yuniang pause for a while.
Yeah, it was during a famine, and yet it could still be sold for so much, if it hadn’t been for a famine……
Oh my god, how valuable must that jade pendant have been!
She sighed, “That’s true, but there’s always someone who knows the value of good things.”
Su Xiaoxiao said, “One hundred taels?”
Su Yuniang said, “One thousand taels.”
That was one thousand taels thirty years ago, Such a large sum that could feed a family for generations!
The Old Su family spent less than a hundred taels on charity for the villagers.
What kind of nonsense they said about eating bark and eating wild vegetables?
Their family still had 900 taels of silver, they could even afford to eat bird’s nests everyday!
Thinking of this, Su Yuniang felt sick, “I have investigated the price and quantity of the grain back then, and I have also brought the account book.”
If the Old Su family didn’t hadn’t put on a show of eating bark and wild vegetables, maybe people wouldn’t have said anything.
After all, they could spend their own money however they wanted, and it was up to them how much they gave to charity.
No matter how much they gave, it was still a good deed.
“The Old Su family has done some shameful things. There’s going to be a good show to watch, but……”
Su Xiaoxiao paused and asked, “You just said it’s related to our Su family. What do you mean?”
Su Yuniang chuckled, not at Su Xiaoxiao, but at the shameless Old Su family.
She took out a jade pendant and tossed it onto the table, “Here.”
The moment Su Xiaoxiao saw the pendant, she instinctively touched her own neck. Her pendant was still there, it hadn’t fallen off.
Then she picked up the one Su Yuniang had brought. No, it wasn’t her half of the pendant.
Su Xiaoxiao took out her own pendant.
When placed together, the two pieces formed a complete pattern.
“Are they a pair? No, that’s not right, this material……” Su Xiaoxiao touched the pendant that Su Yuniang had brought, “It’s a replica, right?”
This girl really had sharp eyes ah, even she herself could only tell the difference after more than an hour.
Su Yuniang asked, “Does it look like the real thing?”
Su Xiaoxiao ran her fingers over the pendadnt’s lines, “It does, it’s genuine jade, but the quality is too low, is it dyed?”
Su Yuniang was surprised, "Do you even know about this?”
Su Xiaoxiao replied casually, “I know a little.”
She had learned some from Mrs. Li in her past life, though she wasn’t an expert.
Su Yuniang said, “If I hadn’t seen your pendant, I would have been fooled and thought it was the real thing. This is a replica of the jade pendant that the Old Su family pawned. The original genuine one and your pendant are a pair”
“Didn’t you say that your father picked up this jade pendant when he was a child? My grandfather had seen your jade pendant before, and if the jade pendant was originally from the Old Su family, my grandfather’s reaction at that time would not have agreed to let Sanlang return the jade pendant to you.”
“Moreover, in all these years, I have never heard anyone in the family mention that the pawned jade pendant was part of a pair, with one piece missing.”
Su Xiaoxiao pondered, “It seems that the jade pendant that the Old Su family sold wasn’t really a family heirloom either, it was also a thing of unknown origin.”
They picked up someone else’s belongings and sold it, then they boasted that it was their own ancestral jade pendant, how shameless!
Su Yuniang recalled, “My grandfather’s reaction to your family was very strange, I suspect he knows something.”