Brother, We're Rich! The Mysterious Silver-Haired Woman

As he spoke,

Zhao Linchuan walked over to the two corpses.

He crouched down and began carefully searching their bodies.

Pockets, cuffs, belts, shoe soles... he overlooked no place where something might be hidden.

Before long, he found an inconspicuous black ring on the middle-aged man's left pinky, and a silver-white ring on the middle-aged woman's right ring finger.

Two small Storage Soul Tools.

Zhao Linchuan held the two rings in his hand, closed his eyes, and sent his Soul Power inside to examine them.

The storage space within each ring was roughly fifteen cubic meters. It was not large, but it was not small either.

Inside were some daily necessities, along with two heavy bags of Gold Soul Coins.

He estimated that the two bags alone contained at least a thousand coins.

"Well now, looks like we made a killing this time."

Zhao Linchuan withdrew his senses and quickly swept his gaze over the surroundings.

The dirt road was empty, and there was no one in the distant fields either.

But he did not dare let his guard down. Who knew whether those two traffickers had accomplices nearby?

"Let's go. We shouldn't stay here long. We have to leave as soon as possible."

After saying that, Zhao Linchuan bent down, removed the silver hairpin and earrings from the middle-aged woman, stuffed them into his clothes, then hurriedly grabbed Xiao Wu's hand and led her into the fields beside the road.

The two of them ran unsteadily across a large stretch of harvested cornfields, climbed over an earthen slope, and slipped into a sparse grove before finally slowing down.

A long while later, behind a secluded hillside.

Sunlight slanted down from overhead, casting their shadows across the withered yellow grass.

Zhao Linchuan sat against an old poplar tree and dumped out everything from the two storage rings, counting through the items one by one.

Xiao Wu squatted beside him, curiously watching the pile on the ground. Every now and then, she reached out to touch this thing or poke that one.

Once he finished counting, Zhao Linchuan let out a long breath.

Between the two Storage Soul Tools, they had found a total of 3,211 Gold Soul Coins.

Besides that, there was also an unregistered black card, a high-grade deposit certificate that could be redeemed at any bank on the continent.

He sent his Soul Power into the black card to inspect it—

"Hmm?! Holy—!"

He could not help crying out in shock. The black card contained a full thirty thousand Gold Soul Coins!

Zhao Linchuan muttered in disbelief,

"Two one-ring Soul Masters, and they even had white rings... How the hell did they save up this much wealth?"

He checked the amount on the black card again and again. Once he confirmed that he had not seen it wrong, he could not help cursing again.

"Is trafficking people really that profitable?"

More than thirty-three thousand Gold Soul Coins was an astronomical sum for an ordinary family!

Even some nobles from small cities might not have that much in their entire fortune.

Zhao Linchuan shook his head and put everything away again. He slipped one of the storage rings onto his own hand and handed the other to Xiao Wu.

"Put it on properly. Don't lose it."

Xiao Wu accepted the ring and turned it over in her hands before happily slipping it onto her finger. It was a little too big and wobbled around at the base of her finger.

Zhao Linchuan glanced at her, thought it over, and continued,

"Let's visit a nearby town and buy you a few sets of new clothes. Then we'll rent a carriage and travel the rest of the way by cart."

"That's great!" Xiao Wu sprang up from the ground, her eyes curving into crescents as she spun around excitedly. "New clothes! I finally won't have to wear this ragged dress anymore!"

"Let's go." Zhao Linchuan had already gotten to his feet, brushing grass clippings and dirt from his backside. "If we're late, we'll miss lunch."

"I'm coming!" Xiao Wu happily followed after him.

Their figures gradually disappeared over the other side of the hill, leaving behind only the patch of dead grass rustling in the autumn wind.

Not long after the two left,

A woman slowly emerged from the shadows of the woods.

She was exceptionally tall, standing half a head taller than an ordinary adult man.

A long silver dress outlined her perfect yet frosty figure. Its hem trailed over the yellowed grass without picking up a speck of dust.

Her beautiful silver hair fell to her waist, gleaming with a dreamlike luster beneath the sunlight.

Her face was as cold as frost, and her features were so exquisite they seemed almost unreal, as though she were not a creation meant for the mortal world.

Her pale violet eyes were deep and calm, like two bottomless pools of icy water.

She stood at the boundary between shade and sunlight, her gaze following the two receding figures as she remained motionless for a long time.

After a long while, her thin lips parted slightly as she murmured to herself,

"He resembles a dragon, yet is not a dragon. But he is nobler, older, stronger, more mysterious, and more majestic than the dragon race."

"If I mate with him... could I give birth to offspring even stronger than the Dragon God?"

With that thought, she lowered her gaze and pondered for a moment.

Then she stepped forward and silently followed after them once more.

Half a month later.

At the foot of Ox Fence Mountain, Ox-Horse Town.

This place was rich in cattle and horses, and it was one of the most fertile ranches near the outskirts of Heaven Dou City.

As far as the eye could see, vast grasslands rolled in waves. Herds of cattle and horses leisurely grazed beneath blue skies and white clouds, forming what looked like a richly colored oil painting from afar.

Speaking of which, the cattle and horses here were especially intelligent.

When cattle and horses elsewhere fell ill, their ranch owners would panic, call veterinarians, brew medicinal soups, and keep watch over them night after night.

But the cattle and horses here were different.

When they got sick, they were even more anxious than their owners. They would run to the edge of town themselves and ask elderly people knowledgeable in herbs for medicine.

Among them were even cattle and horses wearing white lab coats, the finest specimens of their kind.

Not only did they not require their owners to spend a single coin, they even paid for their own feed and begged ranch owners to raise them.

(This is fictional plot material. Please do not take it seriously.)

In Ox-Horse Town.

Zhao Linchuan and Xiao Wu pushed open a wooden gate and slowly entered a small courtyard.

The courtyard was spacious, built with gray bricks and black tiles, and kept spotlessly clean.

There were three main rooms, with two side rooms each to the east and west. Bluestone slabs paved the center of the courtyard, with green moss growing in their cracks.

Including the vegetable plot enclosed by a fence behind the house, the whole property covered roughly one mu of land.

This house had not come cheap. Zhao Linchuan had spent several days looking around town, comparing place after place, before finally gritting his teeth and paying a full 130 Gold Soul Coins to buy it.

"This will be our home from now on."

As Zhao Linchuan walked toward the main hall, he looked around with a trace of satisfaction in his voice.

"From now on, the two of us will sleep together, just like we did when we were on the road."

"I'll save the money we spare and use it to buy you tasty food."