The copper lock on the box was already rusty, and Xia Zhongguo struck it open with a few taps with a small hammer. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Xia He and the old lady both widened their eyes, and Xia Li, who came in later, washed her hands before sitting down.

Xia Zhongguo opened the box in front of everyone when he saw his eldest daughter coming, not the scene of blinding people with jewels and jewels as everyone thought, because the box had been in the soil for too long, the moisture was too great, the silver ingots inside were all pitch black, and the gold bars were also a little black.

Xia Zhongguo carefully took out the contents of the box and laid them out on the square table in the hall.

Xia He hurriedly made a basin of hot water and sprinkled some alkaline noodles and began to clean them, which he learned from Master Tang in the provincial store.

Seeing this, Xia Li took laundry detergent and poured some into it, it was just gold and silver, and it was okay to wash it with laundry detergent.

The old lady also quickly fetched clean water to help rinse it on the side, and then wiped it clean with a towel one by one and put it on the table again.

Xia Zhongguo had already taken out all the gold and silver and was sorting it out at this time, while Xia Li picked up the wooden box and walked to the window to look at it.

How do you feel that from the outside, this box should be a little deeper than expected, while thinking so, Xia Li tapped the inside of the box with her hand, "Dong Dong Dong" A crisp sound came, Xia Li raised her eyebrows, it seems that there is a mezzanine.

Xia Li wiped the box clean from the inside to the outside with a rag and then knocked it again, Xia Zhongguo saw this and leaned over and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xia Li tapped once on the inside and outside, and the sound was different, one crisp and the other dull, Xia Zhongguo said in surprise: "There is a mezzanine?"

Xia Li nodded and said: "Eighty percent of it is, but this box should be a very old kind of machine box, and it needs to be opened with the right technique." ”

If it is opened violently, maybe the things inside will be destroyed, Xia Zhongguo also tried for a long time, although the knocking sound is not right, and the depth of looking from the inside to the outside is not right, but the tightness of the bottom of this wooden box looks like it is one, could it be specially made for this thickening?

Xia Li didn't agree with Xia Zhongguo's opinion, she put the box away, planning to study it idlely, and the old lady found out the scale of the family's vegetables, put all the gold bars in a plastic bag and weighed it, Xia He was also interested on the side.

Gold bars plus plastic bags, three catties and eight taels! Silver ingots are a little more than ten catties!

The old lady smiled and said to her two granddaughters, "Go back and make a set of jewelry for each of you!"

Xia Zhongguo smiled and said, "Okay, mom and sister have to do it too!"

When the old lady heard this, she hesitated: "Give your sister a bracelet, I'll just hit it with silver, I'm old enough to wear silver!"

Xia Zhongguo looked like he was not negotiable, and packed up all the gold and silver and locked it in the old lady's room.

Xia Zhongguo went to bury the pit, and the old lady went to cook happily, and even dug up the baby, what a happy event, I have to celebrate!

After burying the pit, Xia Li and Xia Zhongguo discussed, planning to turn over the backyard and confuse those traces, lest those people find out that they have dug up the things when they leave.

After eating at noon and taking a brief rest, Xia Zhongguo began to turn over the soil in the backyard, and only after making a mess did he call four or five people to come over and help turn over the ground.

After dinner, Xia He accompanied the old lady to talk to the old sisters in the village, Xia Zhongguo went out to chat with the people in the clan, and Xia Li was alone in the house holding the box and knocking and pondering.

After tossing for half an hour and still no result, it seemed that the tapping was useless, so Xia Li closed her eyes and reached into the box to concentrate and began to grope around.

First touched horizontally, then vertically, and touched downward, and suddenly Xia Li felt her hand being scratched by a tiny particle, and the slight feeling was almost negligible.

Xia Li pressed it on that position with her hand, and then opened her eyes to look at it, that position happened to be a position at the bottom of the box near the side, Xia Li wanted to find a needle, and was afraid that the position would be difficult to find after moving, for a rare moment, there was a needle sewing the quilt on the other hand.

Xia Li was stunned for a moment, and then heard Jinbao's disdainful sneer.

Xia Li then remembered that she had put a lot of daily necessities in the space, and at this time, she couldn't care about Jinbao's goods and laughed at herself, so she quickly groped and pierced it.

With a crisp "pop", Xia Li saw a small gap open at the bottom of the box, Xia Li tried to move it with her hand, and the plank was pushed, revealing half of the bottom of the box.

It turned out to be a mechanism with a buckle.,You can open it at the top.,And the bottom layer is still a movable board.,It's quite exquisite.。

The contents of the bottom of the box were revealed, no wonder she shook it without making any noise, it turned out that the contents underneath were wrapped in water-oil paper.

As soon as Xia Li picked it up, she felt that the oiled paper that put the water had been broken, which showed that the age was not short.

Wrapped layer by layer, the more you go inside, the better the paper is preserved, and finally Xia Li saw the wrapped things inside when she was on the seventh layer.

It is a folded animal skin, but this skin is extremely white, soft and thin, and very tough.

Xia Li gently spread it out on the bed, folded into a palm-sized skin, and it was only a centimeter thick, and it would be so big when it was spread out.

Xia Li estimated with her eyes, this skin is half a square in size, densely drawn with curves on it, and there are various marks on the thick and thin.

Xia Li recognized that this was a map, and then a westerly location was marked with a red dot, Xia Li frowned, could it be a treasure map?

Xia Li opened another small paper bag, which was a piece of yellowed kraft paper, and then nothing was written on it, just a blank piece of paper.

Xia Li flipped it over and looked at it several times, and made sure that it was not the handwriting that disappeared because of too much humidity, so she put it aside again.

Xia Li rummaged again, there was nothing else except these two things, and she thought that there would be some more precious treasures hidden underneath, but she didn't expect it to be a map and a blank brown paper.

Xia Li was too lazy to look at the map and brown paper, so she folded it and threw it into the space, this box is not bad, because it is wrapped in copper and iron, it is not very rotten, and it can be displayed in the store or sold for money.

As soon as Xia Li put the box in the corner, she heard Jinbao ask eagerly, "Where did you find this map?"

Xia Li lay lazily on the bed: "Didn't you see it all, and asked!"

Jinbao couldn't wait for the golden bead Huo Ran to appear directly from Xia Li's neck.

A little boy suddenly floated in the air at the position of his belly, and Xia Li sat up in shock.