Dragon's Origin

Chapter 521: Dividing the Spoils (Part 2)

With such a large pile of things, there definitely wouldn't be only gold. There must be other things inside as well. What everyone had agreed upon was just the method of dividing the gold, which was simple and crude.

Other things definitely couldn't be distinguished so easily. Only gold could have its value estimated by weight. This already smoothed out any handicraft fees for ornaments or the added value of antiques, only measuring it with the simplest method.

"There's also a batch of pearls here!" An expert from the Shi family who was searching in the distance suddenly shouted, attracting everyone's attention. However, his next sentence immediately followed: "They've all turned yellow and cracked. They're useless!"

Pearls are like this. Once they get old, if they aren't properly preserved and maintained, they easily turn yellow and crack. Once this happens, they basically become useless garbage, not even good for making pearl powder.

This place hasn't been opened for nearly five hundred years. Five hundred years is enough to turn the best pearls into garbage.

Everyone understood this common knowledge. After hearing the second half of the sentence, they all shook their heads and stopped paying attention to that side, continuing to slowly search in front of them.

Everyone wasn't searching blindly, but cleaning with a purpose. Goldware would be piled up in one direction, making it easier to separate later. The jewelry and weapons that Wang Sheng wanted were also sorted into another direction, to be checked piece by piece later.

Basically, everyone was following this approach. No one was hiding anything from each other. It was just a little gold. To put it bluntly, which of these three forces would let such a small amount of secretly hidden gold affect their cooperative relationship?

"There are some gemstones here!" Someone else discovered something different, piled on the other side, next to the goldware. It was only revealed after a pile of goldware was pushed aside.

"How do we divide them?" Wang Sheng asked without even raising his head.

"Time is short. How about we sort them by color, roughly dividing them into three piles?" This time, it was the Great Elder of the Gan family who proposed the plan. His expression was also as usual, as if he wasn't facing gemstones that could at least be measured in piles, but a pile of stones.

"Alright!" Wang Sheng and the Great Elder of the Shi family also had no objections, unanimously passing it.

Just as the Great Elder of the Gan family said, time was short, which was an important prerequisite. If they really had to appraise the gemstones in detail according to their size, color, purity, and then evaluate their value before dividing them, it would probably take a month or two to sort them out.

This was more convenient, simple and crude. They would roughly sort them evenly by color, and then roughly divide them according to the proportions of the three families. Whoever took them would take them. The amount wouldn't be so much that the other two families would be envious, and they wouldn't feel like they were suffering too much of a loss. For the three families, it was just the value of some gold coins, not worth everyone arguing over until their faces turned red.

Next, they really found a pile of jewelry. These things were relatively well preserved. Some were pure gold, some were inlaid with gemstones, and some were exquisitely crafted, but the total number wasn't large.

Wang Sheng had already said that he wanted jewelry, so he naturally didn't stand on ceremony. He jumped out directly: "You guys pick a few that you're interested in, and leave the rest for me. I'll roughly estimate the value later and compensate you with gold."

What else could the two families say? They weren't taking everything. You could pick first, and Wang Sheng would compensate for the rest with gold. Even if the two families suspected that there were any secrets in the jewelry, they wouldn't have any objections. If you couldn't find anything good even when you were allowed to pick first, then you deserved to be deceived.

"Alright!" The two Great Elders both nodded in agreement. In the end, it was still that sentence: gold or gemstones, anything that could be measured in gold coins wasn't worth them having disagreements at this time.

Along with the clanging sounds of everyone sorting things and the goldware being thrown around, more and more things were discovered.

Some clothing materials that were considered luxurious back then were now about to turn into powder when touched. Next to them was a batch of various grades of demon beast furs, which were very well preserved.

The furs were easy to divide. They were separated according to the star rating of the demon beasts, still using weight as the unit, and divided proportionally. When there were a few pieces of fur that couldn't be split, they all went to Wang Sheng. The two great principalities wouldn't argue with Wang Sheng over a few pieces of fur, lest they lose face in front of Wang Sheng.

The discovery of demon beast fur wasn't surprising at all. Everyone thought that these demon beast furs were the source of the scent that allowed Wang Sheng's two snow rats to lead them to their destination. Therefore, it was normal to have demon beast furs, and it would have been abnormal if there weren't any.

When they searched here, everyone had already seen it. Although these things couldn't be transported out at the time, when they were piled up here, the ancestors of the two families had already sorted them first. Basically, things of the same type were together, very regularly.

At this time, someone had already seen weapons, but relatively speaking, there weren't many weapons, only two or three hundred, some long, some short, some knives, some swords, and some others, with a wide variety.

"You guys pick first, leave the rest for me, estimate a number, and compensate with gold." This time, Wang Sheng didn't wait for the two Great Elders to speak, and directly solved it according to the distribution method of the jewelry just now.

The two Great Elders weren't surprised by this, and there was no reason to object.

Whether it was jewelry or weapons, Wang Sheng let the two families pick first. Everyone didn't know the inside story, so naturally they didn't find it strange. Wang Sheng was very confident and not afraid that the two families would pick away his target first.

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When he came in, Wang Sheng had already discovered that the golden hairpin and the long sword he wanted didn't have the appearance of being particularly good things at first glance.

The golden hairpin looked like a very ordinary golden hairpin, without even a gemstone inlaid on it. Compared with the surrounding pieces of exquisitely crafted jewelry, it was simply an ugly duckling, inconspicuous at all.

The long sword also looked ordinary in style. What was even more special was that the long sword was the same as the surrounding ones, with some nicks on the blade. At first glance, it was obviously a waste weapon. It was estimated that the ancestors of the two families were in a hurry when collecting it, and they didn't have time to sort it out. Even if it fell into the hands of the two families, the long sword would be discarded as garbage.

So Wang Sheng wasn't worried at all that the things he wanted would be taken away by them, and he was very relaxed.

"Is there going to be some peerless good medicine next?" Wang Sheng suddenly asked, listening to the sound of those people sorting and throwing things around.

"Medicine is probably impossible." The Great Elder of the Gan family replied with a smile: "Don't talk about peerless good medicine, there probably won't even be the most ordinary healing medicine. When the ancestors collected these things back then, they didn't know how many battles they fought and how many injuries they suffered. How many medicines should have been distributed to those who participated in the battle at that time? Besides, medicine is not easy to preserve, and it would be useless if it was placed here."