Brave and Wimpy

That pile of cyan, different-sized gems was worth about 90 gold coins after a rough evaluation by the six bandits, and with the addition of 60 more gold coins, they had scavenged about 150 gold coins from the castle.

If converted into yuan, it would be just over two million.

This money might not sound like much, but almost all the players felt that it was a huge sum of money.

Money was something that depended on purchasing power and also on the current demands of society.

For example, in the 70s and 80s in China, it was about 60 to 70 cents for a catty of pork—cheap—but there were still very few people who could afford to eat pork. At that time, eating meat itself was a luxury. Imagine what it was like to have a savings of over two million yuan in the 70s and 80s when pork cost less than a yuan a catty.