Chapter 14: Chapter 14: The Ancestors’ Pain
Inside Jiaoyang Temple.
Xia Xin talked until his mouth was parched and his tongue was dry. After a whole three hours, he finally gave Jiangli a basic understanding of modern society.
Jiangli also felt a bit dizzy as she grasped one fact, “So you’re saying you owe Boss Cao six million, and that’s really a lot?”
Xia Xin made a bitter face and nodded.
Jiangli couldn’t help frowning, “Then do you have any quick ways to make money?”
Xia Xin forced a laugh, “Ancestor, what can I possibly have? I can only take a part-time job…”
“Part-time job? What’s that?” Jiangli was confused again.
Great, more explaining to do.
Xia Xin helplessly said, “A part-time job is like work. It’s like the odd jobs and casual labor you used to do to earn money. The internet cafe where you found me, that’s where I work part-time.”
“How much does that pay?” Jiangli was only concerned about this.
Xia Xin touched his nose and held out a dry finger, “A month, it’s, it’s just over a thousand yuan…” That was when the boss was feeling generous.
Jiangli: “…Over a thousand yuan?!”
That was six million!
How long would it take to repay that, until the Year of the Monkey?
Xia Xin chuckled nervously and shivered, not daring to speak.
Seeing his cowardly demeanor, Jiangli rolled her eyes, “Forget it, I’ll figure out something myself.”
Since she had come back, she might as well settle in.
With her abilities, earning six million was only a matter of time.
Who asked her to end up with such foolish descendants!
Jiangli inevitably thought of her confiscated mansion. According to Xia Xin’s explanations, those mansions she left behind would all be courtyard houses.
Yet during the special period, they had all been confiscated, and now she didn’t have a single one left.
With that in mind, Jiangli couldn’t help but ask, “Xia Xin, how much is a courtyard house worth around here nowadays?”
Xia Xin counted on his fingers, “At least several tens of millions… If the courtyard houses the Ancestor left had been preserved, they would be worth at least a hundred million—”
For the first time, she knew what it felt like to experience heartache.
You have to understand, the mansion she left behind were all grand five-entry compounds!
All that money, all those whitewashed coins, gone!
And now she had to shoulder such a huge debt.
Could anyone be more miserable than her?
If only she had known, she wouldn’t have come out of seclusion!
Jiangli glared at Xia Xin with resentment as if looking at someone who had failed her, “You wastrels!”
Xia Xin shrank his head, too scared to speak.
Jiangli took a deep breath to calm herself and said, “Forget it, what comes is fortune, what goes is fate; I won’t get angry. It’s been a long time since I returned, it’s about time I paid respects to our founding master.”
“Yes, yes, yes, I’ll take you there, Ancestor!” Xia Xin couldn’t wait to change the topic, almost crying tears of relief, and promptly took Jiangli to the main hall.
However, the little ghost couldn’t follow.
As he was a ghost, the Taoist Temple was naturally his bane.
He carried Jiangli’s handkerchief, and Jiangli’s fate was tied to the Taoist Temple, so that was the only reason he could enter without harm.
But he couldn’t dream of entering the main hall.
Once he entered, he would most likely scatter into oblivion.
Jiangli then glanced at the little thing, “Stay here quietly, and once I find your parents, I will send you home. But if you don’t behave, I might just have to release your soul early.”
He pursed his lips, looking fearfully at the person before him.
He knew it, this sister was no kind-hearted soul!