"What is that? It's shining gold—could it be real gold?"
"How can gold be hidden inside stones? That must be fake!"
"How did the streamer even do that?"
After Li Ran removed all the stones on top, the golden object in the middle finally appeared in full.
It was a gold ingot shaped like a horseshoe or a boat, with a small raised part in the center—the famous gold ingots!
"Damn, it's really gold! And it's a gold ingots!"
"The streamer really is the God of Wealth! Finding treasures every day!"
"Li Caishen is rich again!"
Mid Lane King sent a rocket tip.
Mid Lane King: "Li, just tell me straight— is this thing real or not?"
Li Ran: "It feels a bit heavy in my hand, probably weighs about 250g. As for whether it's really gold, I've never seen this kind before, so I can't guarantee."
Smoker Uncle sent a rocket tip.
Smoker Uncle: "I want this thing, Li, give me a price!"
Mid Lane King threw an egg at Smoker Uncle.
Mid Lane King: "Don't fight me for it, uncle, I came first this time!"
Smoker Uncle: "You didn't say you wanted to buy it earlier; I said it first."
Yukinoshita Is My Wife: "You two stop fighting. There are many stones like these on the ground. I guess there's more than one gold ingots."
Li Ran picked up two round stones about the size of pomegranates. He knocked them together, and the stones burst open, revealing two identical gold ingots.
"Whoa, two more gold ingots! Yukinoshita Is My Wife really called it!"
"So many? Is this a treasure vault?"
"How did these things get here?"
"The smart ones are already digging to remove stones…"
Li Ran kept smashing stones while explaining.
"I think I can guess where these gold ingots came from."
"When I was a kid, I heard a rumor that a wealthy landlord once lived on Shiyu Mountain. How rich was he? Nine-tenths of the land in Shiyu Village and nearby villages belonged to him. Other farmers could only rent land from him and had to pay most of their harvest as rent every year. Over the years, who knows how much wealth he accumulated."
"Later, war broke out and was about to reach Shiyu Village. The landlord was scared and fled with his family. To prevent his wealth from being robbed on the way, he left some gold ingots hidden in a secret spot on Shiyu Mountain that only he knew."
"To make the gold ingots less conspicuous, he hired craftsmen to cover them with a layer of stone and shaped all the stones in a special way so he could recognize them when he returned."
"That landlord was ruthless. After the craftsmen finished all the stones, he had his servants kill them. But the craftsmen weren't all fools; some suspected their fate and secretly passed on the secret of the gold ingots through other means. So, the rumor about treasure on the mountain has been circulating in Shiyu Village ever since."
After Li Ran finished telling the story, the live chat fell silent for a moment, then a flurry of rocket tips flooded the screen—
Mid Lane King sent a rocket.
Smoker Uncle sent a rocket.
Celestial Dragon Supreme sent a rocket.
Lawyer Zhang sent a rocket.
Li's Little Cutie sent a rocket...
Mid Lane King: "I didn't expect these gold ingots to hide such a bloody and tragic story!"
Smoker Uncle: "Ancient laborers really had it rough, only oppressed and exploited. This isn't a joke—the landlord's rent collection and killing craftsmen, my grandma told me about similar things when I was little. Different reasons, same result."
"So these gold ingots are the treasure left by that wealthy landlord?"
"The streamer's ancestors must have been craftsmen. Maybe this treasure map was passed down from his great-great-grandfather!"
"If that's true, it's only natural the streamer got these gold ingots!"
Li Ran: "…"
He hadn't expected that the fabricated origin of the treasure map would backfire and be linked to his own identity.
Mistake…
He hurried to explain: "It doesn't necessarily mean my ancestors were craftsmen. Maybe they were just close to those craftsmen and helped keep this treasure map safe."
But no one in the chat was listening now. Everyone's attention was on the gold ingots.
"I roughly counted just now. There are over thirty round stones in the cave. So, at most, only about thirty gold ingots?"
"Only thirty? Haha, upstairs probably doesn't realize how valuable one gold ingots really is."
"Are these gold ingots really valuable?"
"Obviously! gold ingots are both gold and antiques. How could they not be valuable?"
"How much is one gold ingots worth? Any experts here? Let us learn something and also cheer for the streamer."
Smoker Uncle: "It's not fixed. The value varies greatly depending on the era, weight, and gold purity. We can't tell clearly inside the cave. Let's wait till Li comes out."
Li Ran smashed open all thirty stones. Not every stone contained a gold ingot—some were empty.
After counting, there were twenty-five gold ingots in total, weighing over 5kg.
Li Ran took off his jacket, folded it into a bundle, put all the gold ingots inside, and strapped it on his back. Then he began climbing back up the vine path he had come down by...
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