My Divine Pet Enables Me To Become The Biggest Winner
Chapter 1336 - 554: Treasure Without Spirit_4

Chapter 1336: Chapter 554: Treasure Without Spirit_4

Aunt Doris quickly looked around, the mountain was cold and quiet. She picked up the gold, and when she looked upstream along the creek, she found another piece that was much smaller. She continued searching along the creek, finding a piece of gold every now and then. Soon, she managed to find gold equivalent to about ten gold coins!

She carefully hid the gold at the bottom of her basket, and covered it with nuts and mushrooms. At that time, she came to the entrance of a cave where the stream flowed out. Aunt Doris peered into the pitch-black cave before remembering this place and heading back.

It was quite miraculous that she didn’t get lost in the mountains, as she managed to return home smoothly. Pretending to be calm, she carried on with her daily tasks until night fell and she finally let out a sigh. Taking out the basket, she looked at the gold at the bottom and felt somewhat dreamy.

Aunt Doris’s inn earned about thirty silver coins a month, and one gold coin could be exchanged for a hundred silver coins. The gold she found today was equivalent to more than three years of income.

Aunt Doris was no naive young girl; she was well aware that the gold must have flowed out of that cave. The small town had once flourished before the Road of Despair and Treasure Fisher had appeared. Somehow, there had been a rumor that there was a gold mine nearby, leading to a gold rush. However, those gold prospectors ended up empty-handed after more than a year of searching, and gradually, the interest waned.

"Is there really a gold mine in the mountains?"

Aunt Doris prepared candles and torches, but she couldn’t fall asleep that night. Despite the dark circles under her eyes the next day, she managed to keep up with her work and patiently waited until after lunch to set out for the cave, her basket in hand. On the way, she was afraid of being followed and suspected every shadow.

Her memory was clear, and she found the cave again. Lighting a torch, she entered and found even more gold, eventually discovering the source of the stream. It was a narrow entrance high up, and the gold must have flowed out from there.

Aunt Doris returned home with the gold, but she had another sleepless night. She had thoroughly checked the cave and determined that if she wanted to mine the gold, she would have to dig into the source of the water.

However, even without mining, Aunt Doris could calculate that more gold would continue to be washed out by the stream, albeit very slowly, and it would likely be in the form of gold sand in small quantities.

What choice should she make?

By dawn, Aunt Doris finally made up her mind. She wrote a letter to her son, telling him once again to return home if life in the big city became too difficult.

Aunt Doris decided to keep this secret until she was on her deathbed, at which point she would tell her son. In this way, she would be able to harvest a few gold coins worth of gold sand every few years, and their lives would be much more comfortable.

But if they chose to mine directly... Aunt Doris knew the true nature of those nobles and masters. Her family would not only miss out on the wealth, but they would also die unnatural deaths, and a so-called "distant relative" would inherit the gold mine.

Mr. Sun had to rack his brains to arrange this "opportunity" for Aunt Doris. This was the most likely method he found to ensure Aunt Doris’s wealth lasted for generations.

Of course, if Aunt Doris chose to mine the gold, Mr. Sun wouldn’t just let it be. After all, he was trying to understand cause and effect. If mining the gold led to Aunt Doris and her family’s untimely deaths, it wouldn’t be settling the matter, but rather incurring a greater debt of cause and effect.

Mr. Sun’s backup plan was the old Treasure Fisher, Joel George, to help him become a high-level believer as soon as possible and take responsibility for protecting Aunt Doris and her family’s safety.

Thankfully, Aunt Doris made the right choice.