He was wondering, Lu Qingman came out of the bedroom with a smile, looked at him and said, "Dad has been waiting for you for a long time, let's leave quickly." Li Ruiqi said: "Where are you going, just leave quickly, what's going on?" Lu Qingman smiled: "Go back to your hometown and share the treasures." Li Rui frowned, unable to believe her words, firstly, she said this with a smile, as if she was joking; secondly, there is no treasure in her hometown, her own family knows her own affairs, not to mention that her family has no house or land in her hometown, even if she has it, the Li clan where she is located, the three generations of poor peasants in her ancestors, how can there be any treasures?"

Li Jianmin interjected: "What Qingman said is right, just go back to your hometown, share the treasures, hurry up, and I'll tell you on the way." ”

Li Rui saw that his face was serious, and he knew that this was true, but he couldn't believe it, how could there be any treasure in his hometown? Even if there were, when his grandparents passed away one after another, they would have already been distributed to his father, brothers and sisters, that is, how could these uncles and aunts still be able to wait until now? But he didn't ask again, put the briefcase on the shoe cabinet in the door, went into the bedroom to find the key to the BMW X5, put the public and private mobile phones in his pocket, and told Lu Qingman to sleep first, and then went downstairs to drive in the garage.

Li Jianmin followed behind him in a hurry, his expression always serious and a little anxious.

After driving out of the community, Li Rui finally couldn't help it and asked: "Dad, what kind of treasure is it, is it our family's, or is it our family's?" Li Jianmin said: "It can also be said to be our family's, but now it is not; it may be our family's, but it may not be ......" As he spoke, his face became confused again. Li Rui secretly slandered, and said in his heart What is this what his father said, and said it as if he didn't say it, and asked: "What is it?" Li Jianmin said: "Silver ingots, and gold bars." Li Rui was taken aback, turned his head to look at him, and asked, "Is it really fake?" Li Jianmin said: "I haven't seen it either, but since your second brother Fucai said so, it must be true." Li Rui began to get excited and asked, "Where did you come from?" Li Jianmin said: "Dig the foundation and dig it out." Li Rui shouted, "Won't it?!"

Li Jianmin didn't wait for him to ask more questions, and carefully explained the original story of the incident.

This matter starts with Li Jianmin's old house. Li Jianmin has three elder brothers in this lineage, namely Li Rui's eldest uncle, second uncle and third uncle, and these brothers have separated after they got married one after another. Li Jianmin is the youngest, and according to the tradition of the countryside, he wants to inherit the ancestral home. In fact, when Grandpa Li Rui was still alive, he gave the ancestral house, that is, the old mansion of the Li family, to Li Jianmin. Of course, it is said that it is an ancestral house, but in fact, there is no grandeur of an ancestral house at all, it is a dilapidated earthen walled courtyard, which has two north rooms and an east wing room and a total of three adobe houses, with a total area of about 200 square meters. Li Jianmin married his wife in such a dilapidated courtyard, Li Rui was naturally born in this courtyard, and grew up to six years old, when the old man of the Li family had already died for nearly ten years.

When Li Rui was six years old, Li Jianmin moved his family to the city to make a living, got rid of the identity of a farmer, and became a relatively popular worker in the 80s. Since he was no longer a peasant, the cultivated land allocated by Li Jianmin was also taken back by the village collective, and the old house was abandoned because it was uninhabited. After two years like this, Li Fugui, the eldest son of Li Jianmin's eldest brother's family, found Li Jianmin and proposed to the old uncle to buy the old mansion for 300 yuan to live in. Li Jianmin didn't think much about it at the time, so he agreed. So the old mansion changed hands, and since then it has become Li Fugui's house, and more than 20 years have passed.

Li Fugui has no interest, although he is almost the same age as his uncle Li Jianmin, but he has been a farmer all his life, and his children are all farmers facing the loess with their backs to the sky, and the family has worked hard for most of their lives, but they have only supported two generations of children to grow up, but they have not saved a few dollars, and they have no money to repair the old house. The old house was already dilapidated, after more than 20 years of ups and downs, it was already a leaky roof, the courtyard wall collapsed, crumbling, not suitable for living anymore, if you want to live, you have to demolish and rebuild. Li Fugui had no choice but to borrow thousands of yuan from his parents, brothers, relatives and friends, invited a few bricklayers from the village, plus himself and his two sons, formed a small construction team, and began to demolish the old and build the new, planning to tear down the house with the courtyard wall and build the new one. This is what happened two days ago.

In the past two days, the construction team has been demolishing the north house in the old house. Due to the compact and narrow layout of the courtyard house, it is impossible to use large demolition machines, and everything can only be done manually, so the speed is not fast, and it took six or seven people two days and two midnights to dismantle it cleanly. After the house was demolished, it was time to dig deep into the foundation and rebuild it with a stronger and more durable foundation. Before lunch today, they had already dug a circle of foundation tunnels more than one meter deep, similar in area to the original north house, and slightly larger circles, and began to dig again in the afternoon, deepening about a foot. But just as he was digging deep in the tunnel in the northwest corner, a bricklayer went down with a pickaxe, and the pickaxe touched something like a clay pot. Not knowing what he had come across, he put down his pickaxe and carefully picked up the earth around the pot, and dug out a pot about a foot and a half high and more than half a foot wide. The clay pot was very strong, and because of its depth, it was not broken by the pickaxe, but it was cracked, and a deep gap was formed on the surface.

Seeing this, a group of craftsmen dug up a jar and gathered around to watch the excitement.

Li Fugui walked closer and hugged the clay pot, which was so heavy that he could hardly hold it. His two sons also came up to try their hands, but they couldn't hold them. The grandfathers are all farmers, and they have no other income, but they have the strength to pick up a hundred catties of white flour bags casually, but they can't hold this clay pot. You can imagine how heavy the clay pot is.

When the craftsmen saw that the clay pot was so heavy and buried deep in the ground of the old house, they all superstitiously believed that it contained either gold or silver. It may not be accurate to say superstition here, but to be precise, it should be a superstitious rumor of the old generation. According to the old generation, the landlord and the old wealth like to bury the unused gold and silver treasures into the ground, one is to use the treasure to gather feng shui, the other is to avoid theft, and the third is to ...... Fourth, sometimes it is also to avoid trouble, such as war, bandits, or whatever, if you run away with a large ticket of gold, silver and jewelry, it is estimated that you will not be able to run at all, and it is not safe, but if you are buried in the ground, there will be a lot less burden, and others will not be able to take it away. When the war is over or the bandits return to the mountains, they can go home and dig up.

Moreover, the Chinese have a tradition of burying gold and silver treasures. It can be said that in the old society and even earlier, the best way to preserve gold and silver treasures was to bury them in the ground, and this idea is deeply ingrained and well known. Therefore, these craftsmen, including Li Fugui, who have lived in the countryside since childhood and have never seen much of the world, feel that the things in the clay pot are either gold or silver, which is reasonable.

However, Li Fugui was a little clever, he didn't open the clay pot on the spot, but moved the clay pot to the east wing with his two sons, afraid that if the clay pot was really gold, silver and jewelry, it would be remembered by the other four craftsmen, and maybe they would shout to share part of the profits, it would not be fun, not to mention that it might be spread outside, if it was really known to everyone in the village, it would inevitably cause trouble.

After putting the clay pot, Li Fugui asked his two sons to guard the door of the east wing, and then told the four craftsmen that this clay pot was left by the ancestor of the Li family, and it was not a valuable item, so let the four of them not worry about it. The four craftsmen were all honest people, and they believed him when they heard him, and they didn't dwell on the "treasure" in the clay pot anymore, and continued to work. After working until the evening, Li Fugui took care of the food as usual, and after inviting the four craftsmen to eat and drink, he drove them home. Only Li Fugui and his family were left in the old mansion, so the grandfather and his wife gathered in the east wing and tried to open the clay pot to see what was so heavy inside.

As a result, Li Fugui's eldest son smashed the upper part of the clay pot with a pickaxe. The clay pot shattered, and several silver ingots rolled out of it, white flowers, dazzling under the reflection of the light. Li Fugui's family was dumbfounded, surprised and delighted, and dumbfounded. Li Fugui's eldest son went up with a few pickaxes and smashed the lower half of the clay pot, but saw that there were also silver ingots below, but there were two layers of yellow and clear "little goldfish" at the bottom. Li Fugui took it in his hand and saw that it was a gold bar, and he bit it with his teeth, which could leave a tooth mark. This made Li Fugui's family beautiful, and they were so beautiful that they were foaming with snot, and they all began to look forward to a better life of getting rich overnight.

However, the Li family was too happy, and just discovered the existence of silver ingots and gold bars, and before they could put them away, a large group of people poured into the courtyard, including several ruthless characters in the village, as well as cadres of the two village committees, and several neighborhoods nearby. It turned out that although the four craftsmen were all honest people, they were all big-mouthed, and when they returned home, they told the story of digging up the clay pot under the Li family's old house. These people rushed into the courtyard and surrounded the east wing when they came in. Li Fugui asked them what they were going to do, but these people were all happy, and they didn't beat around the bush, they all stated on the spot that they wanted to share the treasures in the clay pot, and they all had their own reasons.