Chapter 24: The Secret of the Ancestral House (Part I)
Liu Feng left his apartment in Rongcheng early the next morning and went to his grandfather's house in the mountains of Shishan Town.
He didn't call his grandfather in advance, because he thought his current situation was very complicated, and the antiques business he was about to embark on was exquisite. What's more, grandpa is over 90 years old, and his ears and hearing are not very bright, so it is best for grandparents and grandchildren to sit face to face under the brilliant starry sky in the mountains and chat slowly.
Liu Feng knows that his grandfather now stays at home in the mountains almost all year round, and his daily necessities are ordered online, and then a courier person delivers them to his door. Even the grandfather does not leave the house to see a doctor, usually the network doctor diagnoses first, and if necessary, the medicine and medical machinery are then delivered to the door by the medical staff.
It took Liu Feng more than an hour to take a bus from Rongcheng to Shishan Town, and then he took a taxi and walked a few kilometers of winding mountain road to the village where his grandfather's house was located, and the end point of the winding mountain road was the entertainment center of this mountain village.
Liu Feng looked at his mobile phone, the time was just nine o'clock in the morning, and he glanced inside the activity center, where only a few half-aged men and women in their sixties and seventies were playing table tennis.
Liu Feng knows that his grandfather has stopped engaging in this kind of physical activity that requires a quick response in recent years, and he likes to take a walk around the back mountain early in the morning to exercise, usually coming here after dinner to sit under the stars with a group of old friends to brag.
Grandpa's house is still three or four hundred meters away from this activity center, and Liu Feng walked to his grandfather's house without hurry. As soon as he entered the mountain, Liu Feng immediately felt very comfortable, the air in the mountain was much fresher than outside the mountain, and there were green trees everywhere, birds singing and cicadas singing, no wonder his grandfather, like other people in the mountains, sold the property in the city after retirement and returned to the ancestral house to live and retire.
Grandpa Liu Feng's home is an independent villa facing south, there are no other homes around 100 meters, and the history of the construction of the house can be traced back to the generation of Grandpa Liu Feng's grandfather.
Liu Feng approached the ancestral house and saw that the door was already open, and the morning sun in the east sprinkled the garden in front of the house with a warm light.
Liu Feng walked to the gate and saw his grandfather half-lying on the rocking chair in the hall with his eyes closed. Because the sneakers Liu Feng wore had excellent earthquake resistance, his weight of 130 pounds was silent when he stepped on the floor, and the old man's hearing was no longer sensitive, so someone walked to his side and still didn't know it.
"Grandpa!" Liu Feng lowered his head and called softly.
Only then did the old man open his eyes and find that the person who came was his only grandson, and immediately came to his senses, he sat up and said in surprise: "Ah Feng, your school is closed so early?" ”
Liu Feng said noncommittally: "Grandpa, I'll drink saliva first, and I'll report to you later." ”
After speaking, he walked to the large square table in the hall and poured a glass of cold boiled water, and then said, "Goo Dong Goo Dong!" After drinking it in one gulp, he took out a tissue to wipe the sweat beads on his face and said:
"Grandpa, did you watch Dr. Wang's speech yesterday?"
As he spoke, Liu Feng pulled over a small bench and sat beside his grandfather.
"Yes, you weren't sent by him to invite me on a trip to the outer world, right? Haha..."The old man laughed loudly.
Liu Feng said with a smile: "Grandpa, your health is not bad, if the interstellar tourism business is opened, I will accompany you to travel outside the sky, but you have to help me pay the travel expenses first, and I will pay you back when I have money." ”
The old man lowered his face and said, "Your father should pay for the travel expenses of our grandfather and grandson!" Isn't he very rich? Spend some money on the elderly and children, too. ”
Speaking of this, the old man sighed, "Alas, your grandfather is old, even if he has money, those travel companies are not even willing to let Grandpa and me participate in global travel, let alone that distant outer world travel." ”
Liu Feng comforted: "Grandpa, you don't have to be sad because of this, if I have the opportunity to travel to the Outer World, I will definitely shoot the whole process, you can take a good look at it then, the effect is the same as traveling to the Outer World in person." ”
When the old man heard this, there was a vigilant look in his eyes, and he asked with an old face: "Ah Feng, are you really going to the mountain this time to travel outside the world?" I came to your grandfather and asked for money for the event? ”
"Hehe..."Liu Feng laughed loudly, "Grandpa, it seems that you haven't memorized all of Dr. Wang's speech, interstellar tourism will not be opened until at least five years, and I will have money myself." ”
Next, Liu Feng patiently and meticulously explained to his grandfather why he dropped out of the archaeology major.
The old man was deeply sympathetic to his grandson's plight, and said: "Those professors who teach archaeology have become old antiques themselves, and there is no doubt that there are aliens involved in the ancient civilization of Sanxingdui. As for why no definitive evidence was left, it is actually easy to explain, firstly, many clues have disappeared in the long river of time, and in addition, if aliens do not want to reveal their whereabouts, they have a variety of ways to eliminate all traces. It doesn't matter if you drop out of school, you won't learn anything from those old antiques. ”
Liu Feng was very happy that his grandfather had approved his withdrawal from school, and he then told his grandfather about his strategic plan to resell antiques in order to raise funds to go to school in other places.
After hearing this, the old man looked at a few pieces of old furniture in the hall and said, "When your grandfather and I moved into this ancestral house, we not only repaired it inside and out, but also cleaned up the old things in the house. I remember that there were no ancient coins or porcelain or anything like that, and our ancestors had always been poor mountain people, and there would be no rare treasures to collect. ”
Liu Feng stood up and said with a serious expression: "Grandpa, as long as these antique furniture are still there, my plan is very likely to succeed." ”
The old man stood up with the handle of the rocking chair and asked with a puzzled face, "Ah Feng, do you think these ancient furniture can be sold for a good price?" But these furniture are made of ordinary trees that grow in the mountains, and the style of the furniture has long been outdated, and it has worn out so badly that you grandfather and I really can't think of anyone spending a lot of money on these things. ”
Liu Feng said mysteriously to the old man: "Grandpa, you can't guess how one of my classmates found the treasure left by his ancestors, it is in the mezzanine of these antique furniture, his ancestor wrapped a few silver coins in coarse cloth and stuffed them in the bottom mezzanine of a wooden cabinet, and later because he wanted to sell the ancestral house to clean up these old furniture, because the wooden cabinet was very dilapidated and I didn't want it, so my classmate smashed him and wanted to eat it as a firewood barbecue, but I didn't expect to throw out millions of yuan."
Grandpa, you think, in ancient times, there were often wars and bandits, and our ancestors in the mountains had to hide if they had some silver coins or something, and it was easy to rot if they were hidden underground, so they often hid in these inconspicuous furniture mezzanines. Over time, some of them have forgotten that hundreds of years have passed, and those silver coins have appreciated tens of thousands of times.
So I came up with a clever plan to make money, as long as I searched the mountains door to door in the name of buying old furniture, once I found ancient furniture with a mezzanine, I bought it, and as long as I found a few ancient coins, I made a fortune. Moreover, the ancient coins hidden by the ancestors in the mezzanine of the furniture are absolutely genuine, and there is no wind and sun and air oxidation, the quality of the ancient coins is much better than those ancient coins that are turned upside down, and the auction price is the highest! ”
The old man's face that had experienced the vicissitudes of time showed an innocent smile, and his tone was a little excited, "Hey, Ah Feng, your idea sounds very feasible, there are hundreds of families in this mountain, and I know all grandfathers, and our grandparents and grandchildren will look for them one by one, maybe we can really find a few valuable antiques." ”
As soon as he heard that his grandfather offered to cooperate unconditionally, Liu Feng was more confident that he would make a fortune soon, and he said excitedly: "Great, grandpa, when you make money by reselling antiques, I will take you to travel to the outer world together, you don't have to worry about your age, I will spend some money to give you a cosmetic surgery, and then you take my father's ID card to the interstellar travel company to sign up."
"Hey, hey..."
"Haha..."
The grandfather and grandson laughed happily.
After laughing, Liu Feng began to rummage through the cabinets to find antiques, and the old man followed behind his grandson with wide eyes to see if there would be a miracle in this ancestral house.
After a while, the house that was originally neatly cleaned up was in a mess.
In order to realize their dream of making a fortune and traveling to the outer world, the grandfather and grandson can't take care of so much for the time being, and the two of them are all focused on finding the mezzanine of furniture.
Liu Feng first turned several pieces of ancient furniture in the hall upside down, and he mainly used two methods of observation and knocking on the wooden board to see if there was a mezzanine. Because he knew that there must be a difference between the sound of striking a single layer of wood and a sandwich plank, and the other thing was to examine whether there was a significant difference in the spatial scale between the inside and outside of the cabinet.
There was nothing to find in the hall, and Liu Feng's next focus was on a guest room that his grandfather had vacant on weekdays, which was Liu Feng's bedroom tonight. He emptied a large wardrobe, a locker, and two bedside tables in the room, then turned the wooden cabinets upside down one by one and repeatedly tapped the bottom planks on the ground floor while listening for unusual sounds.
Seeing that his grandson was busy for more than an hour and did not find a mezzanine, the observer's mind calmed down first, and he looked at the messy debris still on the ground and said: "Ah Feng, your grandfather and my room will not be checked, it seems that the ancestors of my family have not been in the habit of collecting." ”
Although the air conditioner was turned on in the house, Liu Feng was still sweating at this time, although he was a little disappointed in his heart, the light of hope still did not disappear, and said with a smile: "Grandpa, haven't you always taught me not to give up easily?" Now it's your turn to search your room! ”
The old man's face was full of helplessness, and he sighed and said: "Alas, check it, but, Ah Feng, you can't just leave after you finish checking, whether you find antiques or not, you have to return the things in the house to their original places." ”
"Of course! Grandpa, don't worry, I'm going to stay with you for a few days this time. Liu Feng said and walked into his grandfather's bedroom.
This time, because it was his grandfather's bedroom, and the urgency at the beginning gradually slowed down, Liu Feng changed his work procedures, and he started with a bedside table first.
He put the objects that his grandfather put in it on the bed one by one in order, and when he emptied all the items in the wooden cabinet, Liu Feng hurriedly turned over the cabinet to check the bottom wooden board.
When the bottom of the wooden cabinet was facing upwards and the lowest plank was exposed under Liu Feng's eyes, he immediately let out an exclamation: "Ah, grandpa! ”
As soon as the old man walked into the hall and took a sip of water, his grandson's unusual cry startled him to drink the water in his mouth, "Poof! A sound was sprayed out, and he didn't bother to wipe his mouth and walked back in a panic.
"Found it! Grandpa, you see, the color of this board is completely different from the rest of the cabinet, which proves that it was added later, and the sound is not the same when you hear it! There is a mezzanine! ”
Liu Feng said excitedly as he tapped the plank hard.
The old man was excited, and although he didn't hear any difference in the beating, the difference in the color of the planks was a major discovery.
He said eagerly: "Sun Tzu, quickly find a way to knock open the bottom plate, anyway, this cabinet is broken enough, and it is not a pity to knock it out!" It seems that there are still people in my ancestors who like to do some collecting. ”