The next morning, Wang Defa was woken by the notification chime of an electronic transfer.
His wife asked sleepily beside him, "Honey... what is it... this early..."
Wang Defa rubbed his eyes and opened his phone. "Boss Qin sent the money... Holy shit!!!"
"Waaah, waaah, waaah..."
Wang Defa's sudden shout startled their son awake beside his wife, and the boy began to cry.
"Why are you shouting so loudly? You scared the baby awake!"
Wang Defa rubbed his eyes again and stared at his account information.
"F-five silver coins?!"
Looking at the money transferred into his electronic account, Wang Defa's eyes went as round as two winter jujubes.
"How much?!"
His wife immediately sat up with the baby in her arms and looked at the phone.
She patted Wang Defa. "A Fa, Boss Qin is so generous... one casual payment from him more than doubled everything we own! Doesn't that mean you've got a bright future working for him?"
"This money... would buy my life several times over!"
His wife's expression tightened at that. "What do you mean? Are you saying Boss Qin wants your life?"
"You think I'm worth this much? You give your husband far too much credit!" Wang Defa wiped his face and said through gritted teeth, "I'm risking my life no matter who I work for. If I can sell it for the price of shark fin, sea cucumber, abalone, and fish maw, why would I hang myself in a butcher's shop like cheap meat?!"
Hearing this, his wife suddenly looked worried. "A Fa, why have you been doing such dangerous work all this time..."
Wang Defa sighed and gently stroked her long hair. "There were things I didn't tell you before because I didn't want you and the baby to worry. But this time, Du