What was gold to Zhang Chen?
Ever since he had mastered the power of the Five Elements, gold was no different from a lump of iron to him—just another worthless chunk of metal.
Fifty jin of gold did not look particularly large, because gold was simply too dense.
Although housing prices in the capital were outrageously high, fifty jin of gold was still enough to buy most houses.
Fifty jin of gold was roughly twenty-five thousand grams. At eight hundred yuan per gram, it was only twenty million yuan or so—enough to buy most houses in the capital.
Xie Lingyun looked at the gold Zhang Chen had taken out and said with faint reproach, "Why are you being so formal? It is merely a residence. If we wish to stay and settle down in the capital, do we really need to spend our own money? Do you think the Inspection Directorate's name is just there to eat for free?"
Xie Lingyun's voice was full of dissatisfaction. With her current official position, if she wanted a particular residence, she only needed to let word slip, and someone would naturally handle it for her.
"We cannot do things that harm heaven and reason. Besides, we are not short of money. If we want to buy a residence, we should simply pay for it." Zhang Chen said to Xie Lingyun, "For matters that can be solved with money, solve them with money whenever possible. Money is the least valuable thing there is."
He knew that the Xie Family Father and Daughter had no money. Otherwise, he would not have needed to stand on ceremony with them; he could have simply sat back and enjoyed the fruits of their labor. But the crucial point was that the Xie Family Father and Daughter had no