Hu Laoshuan is the most senior person in Hujiatun. Most families in the whole village have the surname Hu, and there are only 13 families with the surname Jin.
Hu Laoshuan has two sons and one daughter (married away from home). The second son is married and has not separated. He has four grandchildren, the youngest one is 8 years old.
One evening, 8-year-old Gou Sheng came back from herding sheep. He held two stone eggs in his hand and ran to him and asked: Grandpa! Look, what kind of stone is this?
The moment he took it, he almost dropped it to the ground, and his heart suddenly tightened. Quickly wash and dry the stone and look at it carefully. The stone is uneven and yellow, and the sound of impact is muffled. When you bite it with your teeth, bite marks appear on the surface of the stone.
He almost fainted because he knew what Gou Sheng picked up, but he didn't tell Gou Sheng or his family.
After he found out where the dog was, he picked up these two stones. He didn't even eat dinner, so he asked his son to prepare a carriage and a wheelbarrow. His daughter-in-law found a sack and a basket that could hold stones. The whole family was puzzled. When
was ready to go out, he whispered: Let's go pick up the golden hammer ! Our ancestors said hundreds of years ago that there was gold distillery in our village. The ancestors of the Jin family also came to our village in search of gold coins!
There are eight people in the family (the dog is left to sleep at home), without lights, guided by the hazy moonlight and the sound of the stream. He was extremely shrewd and asked each person to hold an ordinary stone in his hand. As long as the stone he picked up was heavier than the stone in his hand, he would throw it into the basket.
After struggling until around 4 o'clock in the morning, I made two deliveries to my house. How many gold coins were found? Outsiders don’t know! He warned his family not to mention what happened tonight, not to pick up gold coins again, and not to use them to exchange money or goods without permission. Violators would be kicked out of the house.
Five days later, he divided the cash that his family could produce equally between his two sons, and asked them to go out to do some crafts or learn some skills, and agreed to return home after one year.
A year later, the eldest son opened a farmhouse in Tunli; the second son opened a rural tourism company, which happened to catch up with the gold rush outside Tunli.
Does the wise Hu Laoshuan look like a man who got rich overnight?
