Over the past few years, because of the Holy War, prices in Great Xia had risen somewhat, especially food prices, though not by much. In Golden Light City, a steamed bun cost just over two copper coins and five hao (in Great Xia's currency system, after copper coins came hao, which were cast from iron; one copper coin could be exchanged for ten hao). A kilogram of prime beef cost roughly one silver coin and twenty copper coins, while a roughly one-hundred-square-meter home in a city in Sun River Prefecture cost only around two hundred gold coins. For ordinary people, an income of over forty or fifty gold coins a year was still enough for an ordinary family of four to live very comfortably.
Zhang Tie's family had basically all come from ordinary backgrounds. The families of Zhang Tie's two sisters-in-law were a little better off, but they likewise understood the matters of firewood, rice, oil, and salt. Therefore, when Zhang Tie opened his mouth and revealed that he had once won more than two hundred million gold coins, everyone was stunned silent.
Zhang Tie's father turned the matter over in his mind but still could not imagine just how much more than two hundred million gold coins was. Zhang Yang, on the other hand, had a vague impression. He remembered Zhang Tie seeming to have mentioned through a remote-viewing crystal that he had set up a game in the Ewindara Archipelago and made a killing. But Zhang Yang had never imagined that Zhang Tie's idea of making a killing was measured in hundreds of millions of gold coins.
Zhang Tie's single sentence had left the family not knowing what to say. Just then, Zhang Tie's mother happily pushed open the door to the command cabin and walked in, followed