"That’s fine, tell me how to renovate this courtyard. I’ll get someone to fix it in the next few days."

"Hmm... just open up the two rooms on the west side. At the beginning, there won’t be that many students, right? One classroom is enough. We can live in the three main rooms on this side, and move all the furniture out of the west rooms. I’ll make you a study." Huang Jiao had already considered it. On weekdays and weekends, morning and afternoon, she could handle four classes. With twenty students per class, and each student paying one and a half per month, that’s quite a bit of money every month. Of course, this was the most ideal expectation; how many students she could actually enroll would depend on how well she did her preliminary work.

Over the years in this line of work, she wasn’t just some naive young girl. She could handle this.

"Alright, I’ll listen to you." Lu Guoqi liked how his wife always had a plan for everything, which relieved him of a lot of worries while he was in the army.

The couple moved all the cabinets and the bed out of the west room. Huang Jiao asked Lu Guoqi to sell the old furniture, which could still fetch some money.

It wasn’t easy to handle, so Huang Jiao planned to clean up the west room and, along with Lu Guoqi, find a tricycle to take it to the used furniture market to see if they could get a desk.

Who could have known that with one sweep of the broom, Huang Jiao would uncover a room full of money? Seeing the room full of cash, she was momentarily stunned, thinking she was dreaming. They had spent so much money recently, and she had been worrying about money every day.

Huang Jiao thought she was hallucinating, shook her head, and swept again, and even more bills flew everywhere.

Huang Jiao went ahead and touched them, and realizing their real texture, she found it wasn’t a hallucination. Looking at the room full of money, she joyfully knelt and scooped up a pile of cash in both hands, laughing foolishly, and yelled out to Lu Guoqi outside, "Guoqi, Guoqi, come quickly, you have to see this."

When Lu Guoqi heard his wife’s urgent calls, he thought she was in trouble and quickly ran inside. When he saw the room full of cash, he was dumbfounded.

"Quick, quick, shut the door, no, no, close the main gate fast." Huang Jiao snapped out of it, laughed excitedly, and quickly told Lu Guoqi to close the door.

Lu Guoqi was stunned for a moment but went out and shut the courtyard gate immediately. When he returned, the couple picked up all the cash, and after counting for a long time, they finally came up with a total.

"Sixty thousand... Guoqi, a whole sixty thousand bucks, we’ve struck it rich." Huang Jiao said, smiling with the money in hand.

Lu Guoqi wasn’t as cheerful as his wife, frowning as he said, "Jiaojiao, this money probably belongs to the previous owner of the house, and we mustn’t be greedy for it."

Huang Jiao frowned, looked at the money in her hands, and said, "I heard that the previous family also bought this house from someone else last year. It could belong to the owner before them. Besides, with such a large amount of money, if I were the previous owner, I would have taken it all before selling the house. Since they didn’t take it, it proves they didn’t know about it. If they did, they would have come to claim it by now, wouldn’t they? Now that we’ve found it, doesn’t that make it ours?"

Lu Guoqi frowned, seeing how the money had been pressed under the bed leg, he thought it less plausible. He examined it closely, discovering that there were holes dug under the bed leg where the money was buried, and it was pressed with the bed leg; it wasn’t noticeable on casual observation.

The money wasn’t even wrapped in oil paper or plastic but was just placed inside. If it had been left for a long time, it surely would have gone moldy or rotten, and the money they found was only slightly damp. The soil looked freshly dug.

Lu Guoqi concluded that this was left by Mei Langchi. Whether he forgot about it or for some other reason, he somehow neglected this money.

"Jiaojiao, this money was placed recently, it should belong to our last homeowner. Listen to me, we can’t touch this money; it isn’t rightfully ours, having it in our hands would not bring us peace."

Not willing to give up, Huang Jiao looked at the money and said, "But... but we need money now, and he hasn’t come looking for it, maybe he forgot about it."

"Even if he’s forgotten now, what if one day he remembers? Even if we need money, we can’t misappropriate it. Besides, we don’t have kids yet, we have to think of our future children and accumulate virtue for them. Listen to me, I’ll handle this." In matters of principle, Lu Guoqi still had a say before his wife, especially as he was a soldier.