181: Chapter 174 So much gold! So much US dollars!!

Looking at such a down-to-earth girl, Yang Tian was a bit dazed.

After a while, he called out to King Cobra under the bed, "Come out!"

"Hiss~"

King Cobra slithered out from under the bed like a swimming dragon.

Although Zhang Jingque already knew of King Cobra's existence, she still ran out of the room in fear upon seeing him.

"Hiss~ Cowardly woman!"

Yang Tian pointed at the wardrobe. "Keep an eye on the room; don't let them escape."

"Hiss, understood. With Lord Feng here, not even a single hair of theirs will leave this room."

"Mhm."

Yang Tian walked to the door and turned back to give another reminder.

"Don't get any ideas about them, or I'll skin you and serve you as a three-course snake meal!"

"Hiss~~ Don't worry, Lord Feng is already full!"

Yang Tian returned to the living room and glanced at the dining table.

Three dishes: stir-fried eggplant with chili, water spinach, and braised pork.

The elderly woman smiled embarrassedly, "There aren't many dishes at home to entertain you with; please don't take offense!"

Yang Tian and Zhang Jingque immediately waved their hands.

"Not at all, these are very good."

For a lonely elderly woman in her eighties, this was already the best she could offer.

After finishing the meal.

The elderly woman looked at Yang Tian curiously and asked, "I remember you said this afternoon that you came to handle some business for Shaohua. What kind of business is it?"

Yang Tian thought for a moment and replied, "I'm just helping him bring some things from his hometown. If you have anything you'd like to send, you can give it to me, and I'll take it to him."

"I..."

"What should I send him?"

The elderly woman, who had been sitting at the table, suddenly stood up. She went into the kitchen, then the storeroom, and finally her own room.

When she returned to the dining table, she suddenly realized something.

"Shaohua loves the Gongcheng Oil Tea I make; he says mine is more fragrant than what's sold outside. Help me bring some Gongcheng Oil Tea to him!"

"Alright."

After getting Yang Tian's answer, the elderly woman suddenly remembered something and asked, "Young man, when are you leaving?"

"We're leaving early tomorrow morning."

"Then the oil tea must be made tonight."

The elderly woman's expression became somewhat anxious.

"I need to go to the small shop at the entrance of the village to buy the ingredients for the oil tea."

"I also need to go to Old Gen's house to borrow a tool."

"No, I have to go right now!"

After muttering this, the elderly woman walked toward the door. Yang Tian gave Zhang Jingque a meaningful look.

"Xiao Xique, go with Grandma and give her a hand."

"Okay."

As soon as the two of them left, Yang Tian immediately went back to that room. He took a bamboo tube from his pocket, unscrewed the plug, and Cockroach Xiao Qiang crawled out, jumping onto the floor.

"Zi zi zi~~ I, Brother Qiang..."

Before he could finish, he saw King Cobra, King Rat, and a small mouse standing in front of him.

Xiaoqiang stretched as if to feign composure, then quickly ran behind Yang Tian.

"Zi zi zi~~ What a huge mouse!"

"It's fine, they're all defeated by Lord Feng!"

Yang Tian praised him, and King Cobra immediately became smug, straightening his body and looking down on everything.

"Oh! Lord Feng is indeed awesome!"

Yang Tian didn't waste any breath and pointed to a hole in the floor. "Jump down and see how much gold is inside!"

"Gold??"

Xiaoqiang was instantly delighted. Rubbing his front legs together, he immediately ducked into the mouse hole.

The next second, Yang Tian shone his flashlight through the mouse hole.

After a while.

Xiaoqiang jumped out of the hole and looked at Yang Tian excitedly. "So much gold! And so many foreign old men!"

"Foreign old men??"

Xiaoqiang: "Yes! They look a bit like your human banknotes!"

"Hmm?? Could it be US dollars?"

After saying that, he immediately tapped on the surrounding floorboards but found no entrance leading down.

So he found a wood-chopping knife in the house.

Just as he was about to chop open the mouse hole, King Rat walked up to Yang Tian and majestically extended a front paw to stop him. "Noble High-Order Lord! How can you do this yourself? Let me!"

The next second.

King Rat began to gnaw frantically at the hole.

In the blink of an eye, he had gnawed out a massive hole over a meter in diameter.

"Not bad! As expected of a rat who has lived for ten years!"

Yang Tian praised King Rat and immediately jumped into the hole.

After landing, he was stunned by the sight before him.

In this narrow underground space, there was not only a ton of gold but also two piles of US dollar bills, each a meter high and half a meter wide.

He picked up a gold bar and weighed it in his hand, estimating it to be about one kilogram.

At one kilogram each, that made a total of one thousand gold bars.

Yang Tian thought for a moment and climbed back out of the hole.

He walked to the door, went around the villa, and finally parked the Prado at the back door. After opening the trunk, he returned to the room.

"Go and summon your subordinates again!"

Yang Tian said, looking at King Rat.

King Rat glanced at King Cobra.

"He... he won't eat my subordinates again, will he?"

"He wouldn't dare!"

"He would!"

Yang Tian glanced at King Cobra, who was coiled up lazily on the side. "As long as they don't call me Erjing Tiao, I can let them live!"

Hearing this, King Rat immediately summoned his subordinates again.

Yang Tian looked at the over one hundred rats and shouted, "In a moment, I'll go down and bring the gold bars to the opening. You'll be responsible for transporting them to the car. Can you do it?"

The hundred-plus rats trembled and looked at King Rat in unison.

King Rat repeated Yang Tian's words.

"Can you do it?"

The rats nodded collectively.

"You be the supervisor!" Yang Tian shouted to King Cobra before jumping back into the hole.

He passed the gold bars through the hole onto the floor, and several rats stepped forward to lift them and carry them toward the Prado.

Under King Cobra's supervision, the rat transport army formed an orderly transport line.

King Rat was responsible for arranging them neatly inside the car.

After a while.

The gold bars and US dollars were all neatly loaded into the Prado, filling the entire trunk and three seats.

He immediately parked the car back in its original spot, then went to the kitchen to reward the rat army with the leftover rice and dishes.

11:00 PM.

After the elderly woman finished making the oil tea, she had Yang Tian and Zhang Jingque each drink a bowl.

It was rich and fragrant.

"It's delicious." Yang Tian smiled.

The old grandmother smiled along.

She took a 1.5-liter mineral water bottle, packed the oil tea, and handed it to Yang Tian.

Those mottled, thin hands tightly gripped Yang Tian's arm. With a heavy tone, she said, "When you see Shaohua, help me give him a message. Just say..."

She paused, her eyes involuntarily blurring with tears.

"Just say, 'No matter what he has done, Mom is proud of him!'"

Hearing this, Yang Tian felt a mix of emotions and looked at Zhang Jingque with some curiosity.

Zhang Jingque nodded slightly to him.

Yang Tian immediately looked at the old woman and replied, "Alright, Grandma! I will pass it on to Brother Shaohua!"

After that, he looked at Zhang Jingque. "Let's go!"

At the door.

The old grandmother saw off Yang Tian and Zhang Jingque.

When she returned to her room to sleep, she suddenly felt something hard under her pillow.

She lifted the pillow to take a look.

A yellow light flashed.

She suddenly realized that this was a large gold bar.

The next second, she held the gold bar, old tears streaming down her face!