Seeing that his son had guessed for a long time and still hadn't guessed where his family's money came from, the rich man Hu sighed lightly and glanced at Mrs. Hu. Madame Hu stood up calmly, opened a sturdy cabinet hidden deep in the bedroom, and carefully took out a gray and dirty copper basin from it.

"What's wrong with this basin? It's so dirty, why are you still so precious about it?"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Mrs. Hu hurriedly scolded Hu Dali, "This is not an ordinary basin, it is a cornucopia!"

"Cornucopia? what is that?" Hearing his mother say this, Hu Dali couldn't help but be even more confused.

"Haven't you ever heard of a cornucopia? It is a treasure that can continuously produce gold and silver treasures, and with it, gold and silver treasures will roll in, and they will not be able to eat and use them inexhaustibly, and future generations will enjoy glory and wealth forever!" Mrs. Hu said, her eyes shining brightly, "We have such a cornucopia in our family!"

"What? There is such a magical treasure, and it is still our family?" Hearing his mother say this, Hu Dali couldn't help but feel like a dream, "Is this the lifeblood of our family—the cornucopia?" He cautiously stepped forward and gently touched the basin.

"My parents are illiterate, their own family neither farms nor does business, they eat and dress all day long, and they are still bullying men and women in Yanling County, and they are all relying on it - this magical cornucopia!"

"This baby will spit out two ingots for our family every day!" "The rich man Hu gently stroked the treasure of the Hu family, and said to Hu Dali proudly.

"This is really a good baby! With it, our family can eat fragrant, drink spicy food, dress and food, call the wind and rain, and cover the sky with one hand!" Hu Dali is also proud that his family can have such a good baby.

"However, even if our family has a cornucopia, making money every day, and being rich enough to rival the country, we can't do whatever we want so that we don't take the government in our eyes?" Hu Dali's mind was not yet carried away by the sudden good news.

"The cornucopia has to spit out two ingots for our family every day, but our family only dares to leave one, do you know where another ingots go?" said to Hu Dali very calmly.

"Uncle's house!" Hu Dali knows the answer to this question, his family sends dozens of boxes of silver to Wu County every New Year, to Hu Dali's uncle Hu Batian, he has seen this since he was a child. But he never understood: "The uncle's family is obviously richer than his own family, why does my father send money to their family every year?"

In addition to Hu Dali's family, his second uncle, aunt and other relatives also send almost the same amount of silver to his uncle Hu Batian's family every year, according to which his second uncle and aunt should also have a cornucopia.

"So many of our families send silver to the uncle's family every year, how much silver should their family have?" When asked this question, Hu Dali was a little scared.

"Your uncle's family property is more than ten times that of our family! I can't spend it in eighteen lifetimes!" When Hu Caizhu said this, he didn't raise his head, and his tone was very calm, obviously, silver was not a big thing at all for Hu Dali's uncle Hu Batian.

"What? more than ten times that of our family?" Hu Dali has heard that those famous rich people in history, such as Fan Li or Zigong, have a family property of only millions of taels of silver, and his uncle is just a squire without an official position in Xiaoxiao Wu County, and his family property is actually more than those rich people who are rivaling the country, which is simply incredible!

Hu Dali's uncle, Hu Batian, with such abundant financial resources, not only raised thousands of family soldiers, but also colluded with some powerful people in other states and counties to form a powerful local force, they bought off many civil and military ministers in the court, and even could influence the government and politics.

"But, then again, why does our family have to send silver to the uncle's family every year? Our family has sent silver to the uncle's family for so many years, and they don't seem to think much of us?"

"Our family sent money to your uncle's family, not to support their family, but to protect themselves!"