Wen Jia's eyes lit up, "Let's talk about it." ”

"I'll stay here, you go and prepare shovels and other tools, and by the way, buy a bed, buy a big cabinet, and the tools will be enlarged in the cabinet and let the workers move in. You're here to stay, how normal is this! Even if they are staring, if you bring tools in, they can still come to the door on the grounds that they are afraid of destroying the house, but if you buy furniture, they can't do it, right? Tang Yi said with a smile.

"Without further ado!" Wen Jia immediately said: "You wait here, I'll go and procure!" ”

Hu Wencheng has actually left. But not long after he left, Hufeng drove and stopped on the side of the road not far from the old house, just in the distance to see the doorway of the old house. The signal was blocked, Hu Wencheng was afraid that something would go wrong, and he had a meal at noon that could not be pushed off, so he asked Hu Fenglai to keep an eye on the movements of the two.

Now that this has begun, it must be done as soon as possible. So Wen Jia didn't feel sorry for the money, so she went directly to the furniture market and bought a bed and a big cabinet, next to the furniture market is the building materials market, and bought two sharp shovels, as well as pliers and wrenches, and nylon rope woven bags or something, all of which were put into the big cabinet.

Hu Feng was taking a nap and secretly thought, this life wasted his day's time, affecting business and making money, if there was really any treasure, cut off the beard, he couldn't ask his uncle less. At this time, the roar of a van caught his attention.

Looking from a distance from the car, the truck stopped at the door of the old house, Wen Jia and the driver got out of the cab, and there were two workers sitting on the body.

Watching the workers move a bed and a large cabinet down, Hufeng muttered: "Damn, you don't really want to live here, and you got a bed." ”

After all, it is a daily utensil, so the wind is not taken seriously.

The workers moved the beds and cabinets into the yard and left. In fact, Wen Jia directly gave them 3,000 yuan, asking them to go around this area and find a place to wait, and they had to contact them to move their things today. A driver and two workers, three people each share a thousand, which is worth it even if they don't work for a day, and the three of them agreed.

Watching the truck drive away, Hufeng's drowsiness got up again, leaning on the seat in a daze, as if he was asleep, barely able to open his eyes and glance at the door of the old mansion from time to time.

Tang Yi and Wen Jia closed the door, went to the courtyard of the third entrance, picked up a shovel and dug directly.

The soil is not hard, and soon a one-meter-square pit was dug out, dug more than a meter deep, Wen Jia went down with a shovel, and suddenly heard the crisp sound of metal colliding with "ding".

"It's really not deep!" Wen Jia greeted Tang Yi, and the two carefully began to clean up the soil layer.

A swarthy iron plate was revealed.

The two of them began to clean up around the iron plate again. Now I can see that this is an iron box about one meter long and about sixty centimeters wide.

Dig down along the edge of the iron box, which is also about sixty centimeters thick, and it is quickly cleared.

The two of them enlarged the edge of the pit again, went down to the bottom of the pit, and cleaned the bottom of the iron box, and after the four corners were cleared, they each held the two corners and lifted them with force.

As a result, it didn't move at all!

"If it's really gold, such a large volume, I'm afraid it will cost tens of thousands of catties, right?" Tang Yi said, "You still want to lift it up?" ”

"It's really too heavy. Fortunately, there is a cover, open it and take a look first. Wen Jia said, and studied the lid of the iron box.

Tang Yi also looked down carefully, the edge of the lid was the kind of buckle, there were two, the buckles were connected and buckled together, which was considered to seal the lid, and the top was firmly tied with thick wire.

Wen Jia took the pliers, broke the wire pliers, and lifted the buckle.

"Don't worry, be careful of what the mechanism is." Tang Yi reminded.

"I wasn't going to open it that way." Wen Jia got out of the pit, found two nylon ropes, tied one end to the buckle respectively, and then signaled Tang Yi to get out of the pit.

The two of them grabbed a nylon rope and walked slowly backwards in the opposite direction, walking behind the second entrance gate, and both grabbed the nylon rope at this time.

"One, two, three, pull!"

The two of them pulled hard at the same time. I only heard a "click", and the lid of the iron box was opened.

But there was no unusual noise.

After five minutes, the two of them slowly walked from both sides to the edge of the pit.

Looking down, there was no mechanism, and the lid of the iron box had been opened, and a layer of oiled paper was covered with it.

Slowly picking up the oil paper, I found that there were cylindrical things inside, each of which was wrapped in oil paper, and the iron box was densely packed and full. The oiled paper is so thick and textured that you can't tell what's inside.

The cylinder is about four centimeters in diameter and thirty centimeters long.

"Gold bars?" Tang Yi looked at Wen Jia, and then said: "But how can the gold bars be cylindrical, they are all square-shaped." ”

Wen Jia didn't rush to touch these things with her hands, "This oil paper is a little weird, and the color is a bit like dark paper." ”

"There seems to be a letter on the side." Tang Yi pointed to the edge of the iron box, and on the inside of the cylindrical oil-paper bag, there was indeed an envelope.

Tang Yi looked back and found a pair of gloves used by the workers to move furniture just now thrown under the eaves. This is when Tang Yi gave them a cigarette after moving the furniture just now, a worker threw it on the ground.

Tang Yi picked up the gloves and put them on, and then took out the envelope, and after opening it, there was a thin piece of stationery inside.

There are a few short columns written on it in small block letters with a brush: "Foreigners save all countries, loot the fat and ointment of our people, once worked for the tiger, deeply regretted, and now steal not to steal, save it to comfort my soul, and feast on future generations." ”

Look at the handwriting is really ordinary, the glyph is a little crooked, but it is quite smooth, and the meaning is clear.

"Savings of Nations?" Wen Jia doesn't seem to know much about this.

Tang Yi explained: "In the early years of the Republic of China, there was a French unemployed vagrant named Banton who went to China to pan for gold, but he never found a proper job, and he also smoked opium. In order to make money, this guy came up with a trick, using prize savings as bait, absorbing deposits, and then investing to make money. In August 1912, this fraudulent financial institution was officially opened, and its name was the Universal Savings Association. ”

"So you made a fortune?" Wen Jia knew that Tang Yi's historical foundation was very solid, so she simply continued to ask. The contents of this box seem to be related to the Universal Savings Association.

"It's not just getting rich. When they first started business, they first issued small lottery tickets of 100 yuan, and stipulated that the principal should be repaid in five years. Later, Banton found out that depositors only cared about the prize money, and did not care about the length of the fixed deposit period, and finally increased the face value of the lottery ticket to 2,000, but it would take 15 years to repay the principal! In this way, more and more deposits are absorbed! The International Savings Association grew rapidly, and the total number of deposits reached a staggering number! Tang Yi further explained.