ITBBS Chapter 6

After watching Xu Dani walk away, Shen Yao picked up the fermented glutinous rice dumplings on the table and began to eat. Her eyes were filled with nostalgia. It had been a long time since she had tasted such authentic fermented glutinous rice dumplings.

When she was young, she often visited her grandmother’s house. Her grandmother would always make fermented glutinous rice dumplings for her. The pure natural glutinous rice flour was rolled into small balls by hand without any filling. After cooking, she mixed in some sugar and stirred evenly. It tastes particularly delicious.

But ever since her grandmother passed away, she hadn’t had the chance to eat authentic fermented glutinous rice dumplings again.

Shen Yao had tried some outside a few times, but the taste was never the same. Later, she gradually stopped eating them. To her surprise, she has them again after crossing over.

Although there was more fermented glutinous rice soup than dumplings in her bowl, Shen Yao felt content. In these times when food and clothing were in short supply, being able to enjoy such a precious food was enough for her.

She kept this kindness in mind and thought of how to repay it. As the saying goes: kindness and favors are the hardest to repay. Too much or too little is never right.

Moreover, the grace of the rice, the hatred of the rice. Even though she wasn’t lacking in supplies, she couldn’t just keep giving unconditionally. Sorry, but she could never be a saint.

In her previous life, Shen Yao was known for her fiery temper and decisive actions. She was a powerful woman with assets worth hundreds of millions, living a colorful life.

As long as others treated her sincerely, she would certainly return the favor in double. But if someone tried to latch onto her and keep draining her resources, she would firmly cut ties without hesitation.

After finishing the fermented glutinous rice dumplings, Shen Yao washed the bowl and placed it on the cupboard, planning to return it to Auntie later.

Then she looked around the kitchen, which was simply furnished with a typical farmer’s earth stove. Having used a similar stove in her previous life, she didn’t worry about cooking.

The kitchen also contained an old-fashioned iron pot, a ceramic pot, a kitchen knife, and a few pairs of chopsticks in the cupboard, but nothing else.

She then walked into the main room, where a bicycle was placed against the wall. In the center was a large wooden table with four long benches, and there was a simple incense burner against the wall.

Shen Yao stepped into the bedroom of the original owner’s parents. The furnishings were minimal. A wooden bed, a five-drawer dresser, and an old large wardrobe.

Thinking of the original owner’s memories, she knew that the Shen family’s money was all stored in this room. However, the original owner avoided coming here to check to prevent feeling sad.

With a gentle sigh, Shen Yao approached the old wardrobe in the room and pulled out a cosmetic box made of old-fashioned rosewood.

It seemed that the original owner’s family situation was more complicated than it appeared on the surface. She took the key from around the original owner’s neck and unlocked the box to see stacks of money inside.

“Wow—so many large black tens!”

Shen Yao marveled at the stacks of large black tens inside. In a few decades, these banknotes will be incredibly valuable.

She remembered that in her previous life, a single large black tens yuan bill could fetch around 300,000 yuan in the market. Now seeing hundreds of them meant she really made a fortune!

While this was a parallel time and space and not her original time, many trends remained unchanged, so the value of these large black tens would definitely appreciate in the coming decades.

She should collect more large black tens bills and save them for future value increases. If that happened, she would become a rich woman.

Shen Yao picked up the money and counted it. There were three stacks of one hundred ten-yuan bills, two stacks of five-yuan bills, two stacks of one-yuan bills, and the rest were five-cent and one-cent coins and dozens of tickets. The total money added up to 4,336.52 yuan. Among these, 800 yuan was compensation from the factory, while the rest was the Shen family’s savings over the years, which was a considerable amount of savings in this era.

At the bottom of the box lay a letter. Shen Yao opened it to read and understood. It turned out that the original owner’s grandfather had once run a business in another province, so he accumulated a fortune.

But over twenty years ago, Grandpa Shen felt something was off. He sold his family business and went to the Shenjia Village with his wife and children and started their rural life.

Grandfather Shen had thought it through carefully. The family returned to the Shenjia Village with simple clothes and minimal belongings, almost like fleeing.

As a result, people in the village speculated that Grandpa Shen’s family had gone bankrupt in business outside and returned to the village to endure a difficult life.

As time passed and the matter faded from memory, Grandfather Shen quietly transferred the family fortune back to Shenjia Village.

Thinking of this information, Shen Yao couldn’t help but admire Grandpa Shen’s wise decision at that time. Otherwise, the original owner’s family wouldn’t be living so peacefully now.

At least she didn’t have to worry about her life anymore.

Shen Yao stored all the money in the space, the safest place she could think of. Then, she collected all the other valuable items in the room into her space as well.

Next, she went to the kitchen and felt around the inside of the stove for a hidden mechanism. After turning it repeatedly for a few times, she saw an entrance opening in the floor beside the stove. Once the entrance was fully opened, a few minutes passed.

Shen Yao used her spiritual power to scan the area. When she found no danger, she took out a flashlight from her space. Descending the stairs of about ten steps, she arrived at a 20 square meters basement filled with dozens of boxes.

Shen Yao opened the first box and found it filled with gleaming gold bars, all neatly arranged. The second box contained large yellow croakers.

Regaining her composure, Shen Yao didn’t open any more boxes. Instead, she collected all 30 wooden boxes in the basement into the space.

After checking with her spiritual power and finding no abnormalities, she turned around and exited the basement, then restored the mechanism to make the floor return to its original position.

Shen Yao was worried that she might have missed something, so she expanded her spiritual power throughout the main hall to scan all the rooms, including the five meters deep underground.

“Wow.” Shen Yao admired Grandpa Shen’s shrewdness. A clever fox has many dens. Besides the basement in the kitchen, she discovered two small cellars in the house. One containing about two thousand pounds of grain and the other holding fifteen boxes.

Without examining the contents closely, Shen Yao used her spiritual power to store everything from both cellars into her space. Finally, she checked the entire courtyard to make sure nothing was left before she felt relieved.

“No wonder the original owner’s family preferred living in the countryside rather than moving to the city.”

Previously, Shen Yao wondered why the original owner’s father had a house in the factory but refused to accept the allocated housing, insisting on living in the countryside.

Now seeing all these family assets, she finally understood.