Professor Qiao's cousin, Qiao Yisong, is a sturdy man with a small head, with the vicissitudes of life and dark skin that squatting on the construction site all year round, wearing a wide suit with gray flutters, and looks much older than Professor Qiao. He was standing outside the courtyard, directing the others to stand up.

Professor Qiao's business is a small general contracting project, and his cousin takes care of his cousin, and the design fee will use the school project to declare some additional expenses, so that the construction team can share more money. Party A deliberately mentioned expensive materials to calculate the money, which is pure fat work.

Seven members of their construction team came to Beijing from their hometown, and some time ago they were just scattered to other construction sites to do odd jobs, to find out the number of ways to do projects in Beijing, and after learning from each other, they used it on this new project, full of ambition.

In the renovation of the courtyard house in Beijing, where to report the construction procedures in advance, and how to save time, they all inquired. For example, now to make a fence, one is to let the city appearance management department look neat and formal, so as not to find fault and pick thorns, and second, it is also convenient to cover the eyes and ears of others.

In addition to transporting garbage out, they can also secretly dismantle what should be demolished, and the pipelines in the yard are dug up first. As long as the house is not out of the height of the fence, the patrol department outside will take care of it, and no one will interfere with their "advance construction".

Many of Professor Qiao's classmates have now held important positions in places such as planning and construction committees, and it is not difficult to trust people to go through the relationship.

Professor Qiao also deliberately said that this courtyard renovation project, he should design according to the level of the International Habitat Award, and the international award selection is not only to evaluate the drawings, but also to have photos after completion, so the architectural level must also highlight the characteristics of China's traditional culture.

In Qiao Yisong's team, carpenters, stonemasons, masons, oilers, and even complex classical paintings can be done, and it is not difficult to restore the pure courtyard.

In the future, with this project proofing, are you still afraid that you will not be able to take on high-end work in Beijing?

Therefore, these people have worked hard early in the morning, and they have to do it at the top level, and they can't lose Professor Qiao's face. What's more, the funds given by Party A are so abundant, of course they should cherish this great opportunity.

What's the point of getting up early and working overtime? The dismantled garbage and discarded wood do not need to be explained by others, they have been designed, and those that can be repaired and reused must be retained, helping the owners save a little is a little.

Lin Ruoyan actually looked forward to the courtyard being repaired as soon as possible, and when she walked around the site to see that the workers were so active, and the project site was formal and orderly, she was immediately relieved.

She was afraid that she would always wander around the yard and cause pressure on the construction team, and was about to leave, when she heard a worker shouting: "Old Joe, come down and have a look!" The basement of this courtyard is so big, after tearing down a wall, there is also a huge warehouse, which is full of old furniture made of yellow rosewood. ”

Lin Ruoyan can't leave at this time, there is actually a basement in this courtyard, and there are a lot of old furniture in the key basement. Let's not talk about the style and workmanship of those furniture, just listen to the material "rosewood", which is a precious wood with the scientific name of fragrant rosewood, also known as Hainan rosewood, Hainan rosewood, second only to red sandalwood.

Huanghuali is the main material of high-end hardwood furniture in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and is favored by craftsmen in the Ming and Qing dynasties because of its yellow color, fine material, soft texture and aroma. Due to the excessive logging of the predecessors, in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the domestic Huanghuali was almost extinct, and it was gradually replaced by mahogany.

Later generations knew that mahogany furniture was precious, but they didn't know that it was just a substitute for rosewood. Just ten years after the millennium recorded in the book, the price of rosewood furniture has been rising. Some people buy a simple Huanghuali Luohan bed for more than 30 million yuan, and a pair of Huanghuali official hat chairs in their early four years can also be sold for more than 20 million.

Therefore, Lin Ruoyan followed the workers into the basement with that kind of apprehension, thinking that if there was really any expensive furniture, then she must notify the homeowner to take it away quickly.

At first glance, this basement is just an ordinary ten-square-meter cellar. At that time, many old courtyard houses built cellars to store vegetables or ice, so the workers didn't care about this dark place at first, thinking that they would clean it up in the future and use it as an ordinary utility room and equipment room. Unexpectedly, when I cleaned the wall, I smashed open a brick partition wall, and found that there was a warehouse inside.

This warehouse is larger, it is full of old furniture objects, and there is no door on the wall, and the outside is directly sealed with bricks, perhaps the original owner's family sealed the old things, not wanting to let the later ones find out.

The workers rummaged through a few chests, but they were all empty except for rotten fabrics, and there were no other paintings, calligraphy, porcelain, gold or silver. Thinking that those small and soft items were taken away or sold, this kind of bulky furniture items are not easy to hold, so they are sealed here.

Later, the units that worked here did not carefully survey the various places of the house. At that time, the living conditions were limited, and people's knowledge was limited, and even if they found old-fashioned furniture, they would definitely abandon it with ideological taboos. There are so many rooms on the ground that can be used, and the basement storage briquettes are disgusted with the trouble of moving them up and down, so they simply lock them up.

The unit was vacated, and the descendants of the original owner did not live in Beijing for a long time, and they did not come to take a closer look when they had the idea of immigration. It made Lin Ruoyan, who bought a second-hand house, cheaper.

Lin Ruoyan still clearly remembers that in order to give the owner an extra 100,000 yuan, she signed a contract to buy a house, saying that the decoration furniture in the house belongs to her, and now it seems that the painting has been added.

Where would she have thought that the basement of the yard was sealed with such a pile of old furniture. The key is not the tattered tables and chairs, but the yellow rosewood, the Ming and Qing dynasties. Because it has been sealed better, the environment in the underground secret room is dry, and the rosewood itself is also insect and rot-proof, so that when the wall is opened, the fragrance of the room can be smelled from afar.

Wipe off the dust on the furniture, you can see the color of the furniture itself, bright yellow and glossy texture is clear, lift it to the sun and look at it, the gold is as if coated with gold leaf.

The carpenters in Qiao Yisong's team looked at it with bright eyes, and said in a loud voice that they had never seen such good old furniture for decades. Any piece of furniture in this room, such as a pair of chairs, can be worth tens of thousands.

Lin Ruoyan was silent in her heart, thinking that if it was tens of thousands, it would be fine, after asking experts to see this thing, it was estimated that the total price would be millions, but fortunately it was not rosewood.

Lin Ruoyan hurriedly contacted Professor Qiao Yizhi and said that he would see if he could find an expert to evaluate the furniture matter. Then she was able to contact the original owner and mail the things abroad.

It's okay that she doesn't ask the expert, and when she asks, questions come again.