Elena had brought far more than Su Li had imagined.
The carriage was stuffed to the brim. Two exquisitely crafted iron birch chests were stacked in a corner, each engraved with the Iris Family crest.
Su Li lifted the lid of the first chest and ran his fingers through the heavy metal pieces inside.
They were not gold coins.
These were a size larger than gold coins, tinged violet, with an extremely fine serrated pattern around their edges.
"Purple Gold Coins." Elena leaned against the carriage door with her arms folded. "One is worth a hundred gold coins. There are three hundred in this chest."
Thirty thousand gold coins.
Su Li did the calculation in his head at lightning speed.
This single chest had ground the savings of several of his lifetimes into dust.
"Does your father know you took so much out?"
"My dowry." Elena flicked her fiery red hair. "I didn't spend it all in my previous life, so I took it out early this time."
Dowry.
The corner of Su Li's mouth twitched, and he did not pursue the subject.
When the second chest was opened, it revealed a heap of brightly colored silk gowns, leather armor with silver clasps, mink-fur cloaks, and a pile of bottles and jars whose names he did not know.
"What are these?" Su Li casually picked up a fist-sized glass bottle containing a mass of dark red, viscous liquid.
"Potions."
Su Li's hand froze.
"Advancement potions." Elena's tone was utterly flat. "My father left them for me."
Su Li cradled the glass bottle in his hands and turned it over several times.
This was something he had dreamed of obtaining in his previous life.
For it, he had served as a conscript, a blacksmith, and a live-in son-in-law. He had traveled