Chapter 7: Haunted House
Mrs. Gao first told us, "...... If you want to talk about how this store became a haunted house, it has to start with a long-term tenant who sold clothes in the past. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
After a pause, Mrs. Gao told us that the long-term tenant was a family from Dongguan who went north to work in clothing.
There are three members of this family, and the leader is a middle-aged couple, and there is a daughter about 20 years old, the head of the household is surnamed Xin, what is the specific name, Mrs. Gao forgot.
At that time, although the couple surnamed Xin were middle-aged, they had a lot of southerners' own aggressiveness and drive, they started from a small local stall, and then made a desperate bet, and scraped together 300,000 yuan in our urban area, signed a one-year lease contract with Mrs. Gao, and vowed to use this year to gamble on its future on Heihu Street.
After that, they bet right, the couple has been doing business in this prosperous shop, it has been unusually smooth, and they made a profit of more than 100,000 yuan that year, and they returned to their original capital in two years. Later, in this small store, their clothing business became bigger and bigger, and they saw that they were about to repeat the route of Mrs. Gao and her husband, and they also took advantage of the east wind of the shop to become a successful family.
But at this time, the couple did a small thing in this store, and it was this small thing that completely changed their lives.
At that time, the couple who rented the shop had always used our basement as a clothing warehouse, but there was a hidden danger in storing clothes there, that is, the basement was too poor in terms of fire resistance.
At that time, the basement of my hotel was full of old solid wood floors, and the wires and wiring were still old things left over from the Republic of China era, which were catastrophic safety hazards for modern storage warehouses, and in order to prevent their property and homes from being built on the crater, the couple offered to pay for Mrs. Gao to help Mrs. Gao renovate the transmission lines and floors in the basement to make the warehouse safer.
Others paid to renovate her house, and Mrs. Gao, who loved to take advantage of it, was exactly what she wanted, but after happily agreeing to the renovation plan, Mrs. Gao made another request.
This requirement is that she should supervise the whole process of the renovation of the house to prevent the Dongguan couple from "destroying the main structure" in the process of renovating the room.
In fact, Mrs. Gao doesn't understand anything, and she is not afraid of others destroying any structure, and the reason why she made this request is only because...... She doesn't want anyone else to pick up the possible "treasures" in her house.
At that time, Mrs. Gao felt that this prosperous shop in the Republic of China period existed to this day, and I am afraid that there will be many preserved relics of the Republic of China, and its previous owner, the shopkeeper Tong, is an antique master who is proficient in antiques, so it is inevitable that there will be some treasures hidden in this basement.
After the idea of such a small citizen was formed in Mrs. Gao's heart, it lingered, and Mrs. Gao wanted to participate in this event very much, the purpose was to grab it as soon as possible when she found any valuable treasure, and never let outsiders take it.
Her wife Gao is very rich, but she even cares about these things that she has and does not have, which is strange enough, but also because of her strange thoughts, everything that happened that night, she still remembers it vividly!
Originally, the time for the basement renovation should be about three days, but the Dongguan couple was also a anxious person, so they let the workers who modified the circuit and the workers who modified the floor work together, thinking that it would take one day to complete the work of three days, and compress the three days into one day, so they could only continue to construct until the night.
In this way, Mr. and Mrs. Dong Wan worked until the night, and Mrs. Gao took her younger brother with her little brother to supervise the work with big eyes on the light bulbs, lest the workers who worked would fill their own pockets and deduct some pieces of jade or gold coins and porcelain between the floors and walls, but did not give them to herself.
However, Mrs. Gao's ideal is plump, but the reality is very skinny. From morning till night, our big landlord didn't find anything of value in the basement of the small western-style building, except for the lime that filled the cracks in the floor and some fragments of old Republic of China newspapers, she only found an agate bead that could be sold for more than three dollars in the market.
It took a lot of eyes and a lot of attention, but I only found a small and small agate bead. Such a discovery really made Mrs. Gao sad, but in the face of such a result, Mrs. Gao was very unwilling.
Therefore, under the increasing stubbornness, Mrs. Gao stayed up late with everyone in this way, staring from morning to about twelve o'clock in the evening, she couldn't stay up, so she stood up in exhaustion and wanted to go upstairs to exercise her muscles.
But at this time, a worker in charge of laying the floor suddenly stopped what he was doing, waved his hand at everyone with a solemn expression, and said, "I...... Got something!"
With his words, the construction site, which was originally in full swing, suddenly quieted down, and the workers present, Dong Wan and Mrs. Gao and his sister and brother all looked in the direction of the worker, and looked at the ground that the worker had planed.
When everyone gathered, they all saw that under the worker's hand, an old wooden floor was being pried open, and under the floor was a square hole five feet square, and at the bottom of the hole lay a boxy box.
In the dim light, Mrs. Gao found that the box seemed to be wooden, covered with dust, and sealed very tightly, so she couldn't see anything inside, but from the appearance of the box, it should be the kind of food box that ancient people often used, specially used to serve rice.
Later, for the sake of safety, Mrs. Gao personally gave the workers who worked 50 yuan a hush money, and asked them to hold the box with both hands and take out the hole in the ground.
After holding the box outside, Mrs. Gao was so excited that she couldn't wait to wipe the dusty surface of the food box with cotton yarn, wanting to see what this thing was.
What does the box look like after it has been dusted off...... Sure enough, Mrs. Gao was not disappointed.
And as she continued to clean up, this box gradually showed its true appearance.
According to Mrs. Gao's recollection, the box had been wiped clean and had a ninety-percent new appearance, not at all like something that had just been dug out of a wooden plank.
What particularly surprised Mrs. Gao was that on the surface of the food box, in addition to the exquisite grain of the wood, there were also some mysterious patterns carved by the ancients.