Chapter 38 Secret_2

Lin Nianqiang's voice grew even lower, "When Short Legs worked as a Surveyor on Chu Mountain, he secretly stashed a sum of gold. Later, he lost a leg. Combined with the compensations from the landslides at that time, which brought many people down the mountain, he was provided enough to live on for a lifetime. He was afraid of attracting attention, so he never retrieved that gold."

"Did he tell uncle about where he hid the gold?" Zhou Fengqin's voice trembled a bit, yet she remembered to keep it low.

Lin Nianqiang nodded, "That year, my younger brother was planning to take us to retrieve the gold, but we learned it was easy to take out, but impossible to carry away. We had no choice but to put it back, planning to find another opportunity to retrieve it."

"Why haven't you taken it since then?" Zhou Fengqin was confused.