Everyone in the family knew that inside the small cloth pouch were the treasures Little Tangbao had collected herself.
Usually, whenever Dapan and Erpan found pretty feathers, they would offer them up to their little aunt like presenting valuable treasures.
At any rate, their little aunt simply loved things with pretty colors.
Su Dahu, Su Erhu, and the others would also bring back any nice-looking stones or trinkets they happened upon for their little sister.
Whenever Little Tangbao was carried outside to play, she would also pick up a few things she liked to bring back.
In short, regarding the contents of her small cloth pouch, everyone assumed they were just silly playthings a little girl enjoyed.
Now, seeing his little daughter pull out a dirt-clod-like object from her small cloth pouch, Old Man Su felt happy in his heart, but didn’t pay it any real mind.
He laughingly coaxed his little daughter with a few words and casually set it aside.
“Father?” Old Lady Su looked at the object her husband had set down, her expression shifting slightly.
“What’s wrong?” A look of confusion appeared on Old Man Su’s face, and following his wife’s gaze, his eyes fell back onto the stone.
“Is this… gold?” Old Lady Su spoke with a hint of uncertainty.
Yet, her heart couldn’t help but skip a beat.
As soon as Old Lady Su spoke, the whole family’s eyes widened in shock.
Immediately, every single gaze snapped toward the yellow lump, which was about the size of a child’s fist.
“Mother… are you saying… this is gold?” Su Erhu’s voice trembled slightly.
Gold?!
He had never seen gold in his entire life!
Old Man Su was startled.
He knew that his wife was never one to make a fuss over nothing.
Since she said so, there was a very high possibility!
But could it really be possible?
His own little daughter casually pulled out a yellow stone, and how could it suddenly turn out to be gold?
Why did it feel so unreal?
Old Man Su felt a bit dazed.
Unable to contain himself, Su Erhu grabbed it in one swoop and shoved it straight into his mouth.
“Aiyo!” Su Erhu cried out.
“What’s wrong? Second Brother, did you chip a tooth too?” Su Liuhu asked eagerly.
He still vividly remembered how he had chipped a tooth the first time he bit into a silver ingot.
Su Erhu couldn’t care less about answering his younger brother. Looking at Old Man Su, he said in shock, “Father, it’s a bit soft! Look, tooth marks…”
Su Erhu pointed to the faint bite mark he had left behind.
Although he had never seen gold before, he had heard people say that gold, just like silver, could be bitten to leave a tooth mark.
The gaze of the entire family landed right on that tooth mark.
As if it weren’t just a bite mark, but a golden mark of destiny.
Besides, this definitely wasn’t a stone.
How could anyone leave a tooth mark on a rock?
“Father, could this really be gold?” Su Dahu’s voice trembled as well.
Old Man Su: “…”
Don’t ask him!
His heart and liver were both trembling right now.
Old Lady Su rubbed her brow, feeling a bit of a headache coming on.
“So reckless! How old are you now, yet you still put everything into your mouth? Isn’t that dirty?” Old Lady Su regained her composure and scolded Su Erhu.
Even if this might truly be gold, popping it straight into one’s mouth like that was simply improper.
Little Tangbao knew her mother was a bit of a mysophobe.
If those hadn’t been her own treasures inside that small cloth pouch, her mother would never have allowed them to be placed on the kang bed so casually.
Thus, she hurriedly defended herself: “Mommy, not dirty, Tangbao washed it.”
She meant that she had already washed it clean.
Hearing her little daughter’s words, Old Lady Su dotingly patted Little Tangbao’s head.
Even though her daughter was small, she had rarely ever wet her pants since infancy and was a clean, good child; it was she herself who had made too big a fuss.
“Mm, it’s not dirty,” Old Lady Su immediately went back on her word without a shred of principle.
As if Su Erhu cared whether it was dirty or not!
This could be gold, hey!
Even if it were picked up from a latrine pit, he wouldn’t find it dirty at all!