Chapter 778: The Cellar
What Xu Shiyan said about how to deal with it does not mean that these things are left or left, nor does he mean to hand them over to the state.
It's not that he's greedy for money and reluctant, the key is trouble.
If this is really handed in, will the original homeowner come back to make trouble when he knows the news?
Can those so-called experts say that there are still hidden things in this house, and it is better to dig them all up and take a look?
Can other people blush and sneak around to hunt for treasure?
It should be said that these are not possible, but will happen.
The Xu family doesn't live here, if it really goes on like this, the next time they come, will the house still be there?
If you can't keep this house, you can tear it down, and even the foundation is gone.
In order to avoid trouble, don't even think about this kind of handing in.
Besides, the house he bought with money, and everything in this house belongs to him.
It doesn't matter if it's a wall or a cellar, anyway, as long as there is something, it belongs to the Xu family.
What Xu Shiyan meant was what they were going to do with the four boxes now.
Do you move it back into the wall, or do you bring it back to the small courtyard at night and wait to find a way to transport it back to the northeast?
"Dad, let's move out, we can't stay here.
This house needs to be renovated, and if the workers find that the wall is in the middle of the work, will it still be kept? ”
Xu Haiyuan guessed Xu Shiyan's mind and proposed.
"Well, I also think it's better to move away.
However, moving to the small courtyard is not a long-term solution, and we don't live in the small courtyard, this year can come to a trip or two, who dares to guarantee that the small courtyard will be safe? ”
Xu Shiyan sighed, this guy is a hot potato, and it's not easy to place.
"Dad, those are all afterthoughts, and there is still something to do now."
Xu Haiyuan didn't think it was too difficult, in his opinion, this thing was very easy to deal with.
"What's the matter?" Xu Shiyan was stunned for a moment, not understanding what his eldest son wanted to say.
"Dad, you said that this house is so big, it is said that there was a big official living in the beginning.
Could it be that this is the place where something is hidden? Could there be any sandwich walls, or cellars, secret rooms, or anything like that? ”
Xu Haiyuan looked thoughtful.
"The key is, our house needs to be overhauled, if something is discovered by the workers when the house is repaired, then it will be a big trouble."
Xu Shiyan glanced at his eldest son, smiled and shook his head, "Impossible, it's just a matter of thinking blindly every day."
How big a man does that have to be? These are hidden in the wall, can they be hidden elsewhere?
Can the descendants of his family not know at all?
There are a lot of things that can be hidden, and I guess there must have been some accident at the time, so I didn't have time to tell future generations. ”
I'm lucky to be able to find these things.
Xu Shiyan didn't dare to think that there were treasures hidden in this house, impossible.
"Dad, don't worry about it may not be, we have to look for it first, what if?"
Xu Haiyuan still insisted on his own ideas.
In his opinion, the family of this kind of big official must have left a lot of backhands, and it is impossible to have only one wall.
The eldest son insisted, and besides, there was indeed a little bit of truth.
It doesn't matter if there are any treasures left, you really should look around. If you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens.
"Okay, then let's go around and take a look, don't care if there is one, we will die if we look for it."
Xu Shiyan glanced at Su Anying, and the right to play with the children.
When Xu Haiqing heard this, he didn't care that the back of his head still hurt, so he raised his leg and ran out.
It was Xu Jinping who glanced at the wall behind her, "How do you close this wall?" ”
The wall can't be left open all the time, can it? When they looked for Xu Haiqing just now, it was closed, which means that there must be an organ.
Xu Haiyuan came to the root of the wall, stepped on the raised brick again, and the sandwich wall was closed again.
"There should also be a mechanism in there, which can be closed, I guess Xu Haiqing fell into it and touched it directly." Xu Haiyuan explained to his sister.
The sandwich wall was closed, and the four boxes were temporarily placed in this room, and then Xu Shiyan waved his hand and motioned for the children to play.
"Okay, let's go around, maybe you can find some hidden treasures."
Treasure hunting, it's a kids' favorite.
Xu Haiqing was the first to jump out, went outside to find a stick, and began to beat on the walls of each room.
Xu Haiyuan is not so stupid, so he doesn't knock on every wall.
The sandwich wall must be much thicker than the ordinary wall in order to hide things for Tibetans, and this can be seen as long as you observe carefully.
The children searched for dozens of houses in the courtyard one by one, but in the end they did not find any more walls.
But he found a cellar in the yard and a dry well in the backyard.
The cellar may have been the former vegetable cellar, and in front of the door of the kitchen of the third courtyard, there was a boxy opening, covered with stone slabs.
Xu Shiyan and Xu Haiyuan, father and son, worked together to lift the stone slab away, revealing the entrance below.
As soon as Xu Haiqing saw the entrance, he was anxious to go down, but was dragged by Xu Haiyuan.
"What are you anxious about?
I don't know how long no one has been down this cellar, and we don't know what's in it.
What if there are no vents in there, no oxygen? It's too dangerous to go down. ”
Xu Haiqing was stunned, scratched his head, and smiled.
"I'm in such a hurry that I want to see what's down there. What if there is still a baby? ”
Xu Shiyan raised his hand and knocked on his youngest son's forehead.
"Stupid, this is a vegetable cellar, which is used to store radishes and cabbage in winter, what treasures can there be in it?"
"Dad, it's not necessarily all cabbage here."
Xu Haiyuan glanced at his father and younger brother, and explained with some embarrassment.
"In the past, ordinary people could not afford to dig cellars, and they had to have rich people with a separate yard to dig cellars.
Some cellars are very large, more than a dozen square meters, and people can live in them.
If you encounter a time of war and chaos, you can hide in the cellar.
There are also some wealthy people who specialize in digging cellars to store wine. ”
Xu Haiyuan was afraid that he would explain too much, and his father would feel uncomfortable, but if he didn't explain, he would panic again.
"Oh, there's so much more to learn from co-authoring.
I thought it was similar to the vegetable cellar in our northeast. ”
Xu Shiyan didn't feel that he couldn't get over his face, his eldest son could know this, it felt very normal, and there was nothing surprising.
"When are we going down? It's just an open lid, let's chat here? ”
Xu Haiqing couldn't bear it, and eagerly wanted to go down and take a look.
"In this way, you and your second sister and the others go to the surrounding shops and ask if there are any blowers.
If you have one, buy one back, and then buy a long length of wire, a plug strip back.
Let's use a blower to blow inside, so that the ventilation can be faster. ”
At present, I don't know the situation underneath, and I really don't dare to go down rashly.
Know that carbon dioxide is heavier than air, and the further down it goes, the more dangerous it becomes.
It's not a joke, there are deaths in the cellar every winter, so it's better to be careful.
Blowers are available in the Northeast, and now some people burn sawdust and need to use blowers.
I don't know if the capital has any, so I can only inquire.
The most important thing is to spend Xu Haiqing away, so that this kid is always anxious and chattering, which is too annoying.
Xu Haiqing didn't know that his brother was annoying him, so he deliberately took him away.
As soon as I heard that I was going to buy a blower, I followed the two sisters in a hurry.
took away his younger brothers and sisters, Xu Haiyuan asked Su Anying to watch from above, and he and Xu Shiyan were going to go to the cellar.
"No, didn't you just say that there was danger in this cellar, so don't you let it go down?"
Su Anying saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly stopped the father and son.
"Mom, I'm from the lake to Xu Haiqing.
The cellars of such large families have vents underneath. Don't believe me? ”
As Xu Haiyuan spoke, he took out a box of matches, lit one and went to the cellar, and the match was indeed not extinguished.
"My dad and I walked down the match as we struck it.
If there is anything unusual about the matches, we will return immediately. ”
It would have been better if there had been a candle, but unfortunately, they just came over, and there was nothing here.
The match is still in Xu Haiyuan's pocket.
In this way, the two of them struck a match, and under Su Anying's worried gaze, they walked to the cellar step by step.
After taking two steps, Xu Haiyuan lit a match, bent down and tried it, but the match was not extinguished, which meant that there was oxygen underneath.
"Dad, do you see that? The flame of this match is biased.
This means that the bottom is ventilated, and as soon as the cellar mouth is opened, the air circulates. ”
Xu Haiyuan's observation is naturally not ordinary, and while the two of them are walking, Xu Haiyuan will tell his father.
In this way, the two men carefully descended to the bottom of the cellar.
As far as the light from above can be seen, this is a very square cellar in front of you.
The height should be less than two meters, and the surrounding area should be made of strips of stone, neat and clean, and the top of the head is estimated to be paved with large stone slabs, and the bottom is also a stone slab.
This cellar is not too big, and it feels like it is seven or eight flat, very regular.
It's just that the ground is a mess, covered with scraps of paper and broken porcelain.
Xu Shiyan bent down to pick up a piece of broken porcelain, took two steps outside and looked at it.
"It's a pity, this is supposed to be some kind of porcelain fragment."
What else do you not understand when you see these fragments?
More than 20 years ago, the owner of the house must have hidden some porcelain paintings and calligraphy in the cellar.
It's a pity that this cellar is too conspicuous and has been discovered.
Then someone came down and found those things, and it was probably a blow before it became a sight in front of them.
"It's blind, if these things are left until now, I'm afraid any of them will be worth a lot of money."
In those years, it really harmed too many good things.
"Let's go, let's go up, even if there was anything in here, it has been destroyed, it's a pity."
Xu Shiyan shook his head and sighed, and turned to leave.
"Dad, wait a minute." Xu Haiyuan didn't rush up, but looked around.
"It stands to reason that the cellar shouldn't be so small."
Xu Haiyuan said as he groped and knocked on the wall.
Sure enough, one of the walls was tapping on the wrong thing.
"Dad, I think there should be another room in here. Wait a minute, I'll look for the mechanism. ”
As soon as the words fell, I didn't know what Xu Haiyuan had encountered, and I heard a squeaky movement.
The wall in front of Xu Haiyuan actually cracked a hole more than two feet wide.
Xu Shiyan was directly dumbfounded, this is too evil, right? Did he really make his eldest son right?
"Well, there's another room here."
How do you feel that today's experience is as bizarre as the story tells? How could it be such a coincidence?
Xu Haiyuan didn't care how surprised his father was, and stepped into the compartment inside.
There was no light in it, it was dark, and the Xu family father and son didn't bring anything in for lighting, so they had no choice but to light another match.
In the faint light of the match, you can see that this secret room is about ten square meters, as neat and clean as the outside.
There were several boxes on the floor, and I didn't know what was inside.
Xu Haiyuan just wanted to go over and take a look, but the match went out, and he hurriedly stroked another one to light it up.
But how long can the match last, just two steps, and then it goes out again.
"Dad, go and move those four boxes, it's going to be fine to hide them here.
Tonight or whenever, let's prepare flashlights and come over, otherwise it's pitch black and we won't be able to see anything clearly. ”
Xu Haiyuan could only sigh, he didn't have a suitable lighting tool in his hand, so he couldn't do it at all.
When Xu Haiyuan struck the match just now, Xu Shiyan also saw the box on the ground.
Needless to say, it must have been something that the owner had hidden.
It is very likely that the family knew that something was going to happen, so they put the worthless ones outside to attract attention, and put the valuable things inside.
At that time, those people came to search, and when they saw a pile of porcelain, calligraphy and painting outside, they directly smashed and destroyed them, thinking that was all there was to them.
So I didn't search carefully, and I didn't find that there was another room in the cellar, and I didn't know that the house still had a sandwich wall.
"Okay, then I'll move the boxes."
There is no place to catch up with this place is the safest, as long as they don't mention it, it will be difficult for outsiders to find this place.
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It's good that there is such a place, but it solves a big problem.
I said that I was going to move the box to the small courtyard, but where can I hide it when I move it? There are a lot of people over there, and you can't hide them anywhere.
In this way, Xu Shiyan went up from the cellar and said to Su Anying.
Then the couple took the box down and hid it inside.
After that, the three of them came out of the inner room, and Xu Haiyuan touched the mechanism to restore the wall.
"The people in the past were really amazing, they could build such a place underground, and they still had a mechanism. That's amazing. Xu Shiyan couldn't help but sigh.
Not long after the three of them came out of the cellar, sisters Xu Haiyuan and Xu Jinping returned.
It's just that the three of them have empty hands, and it is clear that they have not bought a blower.
"Big brother, we inquired about several places, and they all said that there were no blowers." Xu Haiqing said with a sad face.
"No, no, no, after such a long time, it is estimated that the ventilation underneath is about the same.
Do you want to go down with me? Xu Haiyuan pretended to ask his younger brother.
"Okay, okay, let's go down together."
When Xu Haiqing heard this, he immediately became interested and came to the cellar with joy.
"Let's go, let's go down and have a look."
The little kid was very curious about the situation down there, and he thought, what if there were so many treasures hidden like the wall below?
Xu Shiyan and Su Anying looked at each other, and they didn't dare to laugh.
This stupid boy, he has to be brothers with Xu Haiyuan, otherwise, he wouldn't have to let Xu Haiyuan play around?
"Mom, Dad, won't you go down and have a look?"
Xu Haiqing followed his brother down a few steps, suddenly turned around and asked Xu Shiyan and his wife.
"Don't go, what's there to see in a broken vegetable cellar? As long as you two are curious, I'm not interested at all.
You two go down, if there is really any treasure down there, remember to call me, and I'll go down and have a good time. ”
Xu Shiyan couldn't help but smile and said with a serious face.
"Oh, okay, then I'll go down with my eldest brother, and if there's a treasure down there, I'll call you." Xu Haiqing nodded.
Well, then the two of them will have to go down and explore.
"Second sister, fourth sister, forget it, it's dark and winter down there, it's not good for you two to be afraid of anything if you go down."
Xu Haiqing waved his hand at Xu Jinping and Xu Jinhui, turned around and followed Xu Haiyuan to the cellar.
After a while, I heard Xu Haiqing's voice from below.
"Why did these losers smash all the good things? It's a shame. ”