Chapter 14: I Went to the Rich Woman.

“About that… there are quite a few reasons.”

Tang Yingjie thought for a moment and decided not to beat around the bush. He directly stated the core point.

“Because if you don’t work, you won’t have money. Surviving requires spending money, so staying home without working means spending your parents’ money. Over time, the country would have to subsidize you, which means spending the country’s money… In short, not working means causing trouble for others. That’s why everyone dislikes people who don’t work.”

After listening, Alice had a sudden realization.

“Oh, so the essence is the same. People just dislike the poor.”

Alice felt this was familiar territory.

In the empire, no one liked poor people, and she didn’t like them much either. In her perception, poor people were usually dirty, had bad appearances, and often committed illegal acts.

Some slum areas in the empire were labeled as dangerous zones in the eyes of residents from upper districts.

With Tang Yingjie’s explanation, Alice naturally understood why not working would make people dislike someone.

Knowing the reason made her feel slightly more at ease.

Although she felt a bit lost about whether she could find a job in this world in the future, she was definitely not going to become poor!

Tang Yingjie could understand Alice’s thoughts. He was about to explain that the two worlds were different and that people didn’t entirely dislike the poor.

But then he saw Alice reach into her magic bag to take something out.

“This should be quite valuable in your world, right? I heard you talk about the value of this thing before. Our two worlds are similar in this regard.”

Tang Yingjie watched as Alice casually pulled out a fist-sized gold brick right in front of him on the street. His eyes widened in shock.

He quickly grabbed it and stuffed it back into her magic bag.

“What are you doing? Don’t you know the principle of not revealing your wealth?”

He looked around nervously on both sides.

Fortunately, the boss was idly scrolling on his phone and didn’t notice them. Plus, they were sitting by the roadside with dim street lights in the early morning and few pedestrians. No one had seen the large piece of gold Alice had just taken out.

Only then did Tang Yingjie breathe a sigh of relief and sit back down.

“You even brought gold? How much did you bring?”

“I brought all my belongings. About three thousand dragons.”

Three thousand dragons?!

He quickly took out his phone and did the conversion.

The “dragon” Alice mentioned was the empire’s official standard unit, equivalent to ten kilograms in this country’s standards.

So 3000 × 10 = 30,000 kilograms…

Holy shit, thirty tons of gold!!!

Tang Yingjie’s heart pounded violently.

After defeating the Demon King in the other world, although he had wished to return to his original world, the king still gave him a considerable amount of reward. Excluding silver and copper coins, there were ten dragons in gold coins alone.

That was a hundred kilograms of gold.

However, before returning, he had distributed some of that reward to his other teammates. He only symbolically brought back one dragon in gold coins.

According to the empire’s official weight standards:

Dragon: 10 kg
Bear: 5 kg
Tiger: 1 kg
Leopard: 1 jin (0.5 kg)

That was also ten kilograms of gold.

He opened a webpage and checked the current gold price. It was about eight hundred yuan per gram.

His one dragon in gold coins was worth eight million yuan.

And Alice was holding thirty thousand kilograms of gold!

How much money was that?

He pressed zeros on the calculator until his fingers ached. The final number displayed on his phone was an astronomical figure.

More than twenty-five billion!

Tang Yingjie was instantly stunned. Only at this moment did he realize that the blonde girl sitting opposite him had been a noble Saintess in the other world.

Now that she had come to Earth, although she was no longer a Saintess, she was still a respected billionaire.

And a pure gold-stream billionaire at that!

Would throwing such a large amount of gold into the market crash the gold price…?

This was obviously Tang Yingjie overthinking it.

Thirty tons of gold might be an enormous fortune in one person’s hands, but on the global gold market, it would simply be slowly absorbed by users worldwide. Unless he chose to dump it rapidly in a short period in a certain region, but that would only hurt his own interests and have almost no impact on the overall market gold price.

But from a personal micro-level perspective, this amount of gold was extremely exaggerated.

“So? Is the gold I brought enough to live on in this world?”

“Enough. Not to mention domestically, it’s enough for you to live in America.”

“What is America?”

“America is… similar to the empire. It’s a place full of people with golden hair like you. However, their king changes every four years. I think their king this year also has golden hair.”

Tang Yingjie searched for a photo of the US president and showed it to Alice.

“He looks… a bit unkempt.”

Alice looked at the person on Tang Yingjie’s phone with flowing golden short hair, who liked to gesture while speaking and wore a red hat. After thinking for a moment, she gave an honest evaluation.

“He doesn’t look like a king at all.”

“He’s not really considered a king. They call him president over there. But another country does have a queen.”

Tang Yingjie searched for a photo of Elizabeth and showed it to Alice.

“Wow, a very elegant Majesty.”

Alice nodded in approval.

“This is the queen of another country? There are so many countries in your world.”

“Indeed, quite a few.”

Tang Yingjie and Alice began discussing the differences between countries around the world. The shock from the gold earlier gradually faded.

As the sky began to lighten, the barbecue stall owner had already packed up early.

Only then did Tang Yingjie reluctantly take Alice back to the hotel.

Sure enough, once they started talking about world affairs and such topics, Tang Yingjie felt he could keep chatting forever.

Alice also listened with great interest. This was her first time gaining a preliminary understanding of Tang Yingjie’s world as a whole.

“You rest well here today. I’ll come find you again tonight.”

After sending Alice back to the hotel, Tang Yingjie checked his watch and decided to return to the dorm for a shower before attending the early morning class.

Actually, if possible, he would rather shower at the hotel before leaving.

But being alone in a room with Alice made him feel embarrassed.

Besides, he hadn’t brought any change of clothes. There was no point in showering here only to put on dirty clothes again.

“Alright, I’ll wait for you here tonight.”

Alice stood inside the doorway. After speaking, she playfully winked at Tang Yingjie.