Xia Rui opened the box, inside was a pile of silver ingots.
Initially, Zhou Yin and Xia Xia had agreed that he would leave the fields, shops, and also the house in Shangzhou to them for care. All the rents would be collected by them, and he would come back once a year or every other year to collect them, and also to pay respects to the family.
Therefore, Zhou Yin specially reduced the rent by forty percent as a reward for them.
The annual rent was eighteen taels, every year Xia Xia would put eighteen taels of silver in it, thinking that when someone came to reclaim it one day, he wouldn't be unable to pay, thus breaching trust.
In these fourteen years, their family didn't always have smooth sailing, but no matter what happened, no matter how difficult, they never touched the money in this box.
As Xia Xia said, the main thing in life is to keep one's word.
