Chapter 8: Jewels on the Floor
This abandoned house originally belonged to a lonely old man who came to Tianhua Town from other places to care for the elderly, because he had no children and no relatives and friends, so that after the old man died, it became a paradise for children nearby, and in recent years, Tianhua Inn happened to be built nearby, so the house was temporarily occupied by the big shopkeeper of Tianhua Inn and used to place some sundries after a simple repair.
And the jade merchant had a lot of goods, and he definitely couldn't fit them in the inn, so this abandoned house became the best choice.
Su Yu'er and the three of them quietly bypassed the two strong men who were sleeping soundly at the door, and sneaked towards the back of the abandoned house.
This is a wooden house, which was made of the best wood that the lonely old man spent a lot of money to buy, although no one repaired it for a long time, but the wind and rain of these years still did not cause much damage to it, especially the wooden planks on the back of the house, which are extraordinarily thick, looking like they are forty or fifty centimeters wide.
"I hope that the secret passage back then was not discovered by the shopkeeper of the Natianhua Inn. ”
Lao Jiu said, stretched out his hands and touched it lightly on the thick wooden board, and after a while, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at Su Yu'er and Er Hei and smiled.
"Found it!"
I saw Lao Jiu's right hand pressed on a wooden board, and suddenly he pulled it outward, and a piece of wood the size of a brick was pulled out of the wall directly by him!
"Looks like the secret passage is still there!"
Su Yu'er also laughed, in order to climb onto the roof of the abandoned house to play, they secretly used the small saw at home to make a path on the wooden board behind the house that only they knew.
"It's a big project, and it wears us out back then. ”
Erhei's little eyes bent, looking at the strangely shaped wooden block in Lao Jiu's hand and grinning.
Relying on their memory, the three of them quickly took out all the wooden blocks on the wall, nearly a dozen pieces of large and small, and Su Yu'er threw them all into an inconspicuous bush.
"Up!"
Su Yu'er looked at the 'ladder' that appeared on the wooden wall, and took the lead in stepping on the dozen or so gaps to climb to the roof, and soon the three of them were squatting on the roof of the abandoned house.
Su Yu'er frowned and looked at the roof made of wood, which was nailed out of wood, and after thinking for a while, she bent down to the corner of the house and gently stretched out her hand towards the most inconspicuous dilapidated board there.
"This is it!"
The dilapidated wooden board was gently lifted by Su Yu'er, and the three of them glanced at each other and smiled at the same time.
When the three of them looked down, the hay-covered ground was densely filled with large black boxes more than one person high, and they thought that they were the jade that the merchants bought and sold.
Su Yu'er pointed to the big black box on the ground below, and then looked at the two strong men who were sleeping at the door of the house and shook their heads, signaling Lao Jiu and Er Hei to move lightly for a while.
The three of them got into the big hole in the roof, carefully climbed to the beams, and stepped on the big black boxes stacked up in the corners of the wall and went down one after another.
"I'm good, I've never seen so many jewels when I'm so big!"
The three of them struggled to open a large black box, and the jade piled up inside made the eyes of the three children who were not deeply involved in the world subconsciously widen.
Erhei picked up a piece of jade and jade, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully.
"I heard my grandmother say that this kind of jade is very valuable, such a big piece, it is estimated that you can buy several catties of meat, right?"
"How many pounds? It's estimated to be dozens of pounds!"
Lao Jiu said, and also picked up a piece of jade and looked at it, his eyes were full of love.
"No matter how good it is, it's someone else's thing, we can't take it, not to mention that now is not the time to talk about this, it's almost dawn, we have to hide it quickly. ”
Su Yu'er shook her head and said with a frown.
"Hey, let's just see, we don't do stealing!"
Lao Jiu smiled, snatched the jade and jade in Erhei's hand, and threw it into the box with his own.
"Hey, so much, it's nothing if I take a piece, right?"
Erhei reluctantly looked at the box full of jewels and muttered dissatisfied.
"No, no amount is ours. ”
Su Yu'er shook her head resolutely.
"Okay, okay, one day, I will have such a room of treasures in Erhei, and when the time comes, I will live in Quanguxiang Village, no, the best house in Quantianhua Town!
Erhei shrugged his shoulders and gestured as he spoke, his eyes shining.
"Well, there will be such a day! The three of us brothers will definitely get ahead!"
Lao Jiu smiled, hugged Su Yu'er and Erhei's shoulders and said seriously.
"Little fish, these boxes are so full that we can't hide them. ”
The three of them opened a few more boxes, and sure enough, they were all filled with jade.
"If you really can't do it, you can only hollow out one!"
The sky was already a little cloudy, Su Yu'er looked at the big boxes all over the ground, and said a little anxiously.
"Hollow out one, so many jade, where are you going to put it? If you move them out again, I'm afraid you won't be able to finish them by noon!"
Erhei looked at the dilapidated wooden board that had been re-put on top of his head, shook his head and said.
"Do you remember that toilet we dug up?"
Su Yu'er thought for a while, looked up and said.
Lao Jiu and Erhei were stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at the innermost corner of the house.
A large, dusty bookcase leans silently against the shadow of the wall, seemingly long forgotten.
"You... Seriously?"
Lao Jiu looked at Su Yu'er a little speechlessly.
"You don't want you to give it to me, tyrannical things!
Erhei pointed at Su Yu'er and beat his chest, his face was painful and reluctant.
Su Yu'er shook her head, looked at the big bookcase and sighed.
"We don't have time, we can only put it there first, even if I owe this jade to that merchant, I will definitely return it to him tenfold in the future!"
The three of them moved the big bookcase, and a big hole that was quite deep appeared in front of several people, followed by a pungent smell!
"Wow, after so many years, why is it still so delicious!"
Erhei covered his nose and ran to the side retching.
"It's not the most you use!"
Lao Jiu couldn't help but retch.
"Stop complaining, move quickly. ”
Su Yu'er held her breath and grabbed a handful of jade from a black box not far away.
At this time, in the Tianhua Inn, a white and chubby middle-aged man was sitting up from the bed with a yawn.
He casually put on a piece of clothing, walked to the window and pushed open a window, looking at Chu Yang, who had already exposed half of his head, slowly stretched.
"Well, it's time to get up. ”
After a while, the Tianhua Inn, which was originally silent, suddenly became noisy.
"Xiao Qi, Shunzi, when is the time to get up quickly, it's time to go!"
A strong man walked up to a guest room and shouted loudly as he banged on the door.
"Liu Mazi, you eat less, there are still a few people who haven't eaten!"
A bald man snatched the steamed bun from another man's hand and said dissatisfied.
In the large courtyard of the Tianhua Inn, more than a dozen men were noisily moving.
"Boss Li, see if you can make your people quiet, after all, there are other customers in our small shop. ”
The shopkeeper of Tianhua Inn said respectfully to the white fat middle-aged man, this is a rich man, of course he doesn't want to offend.
"I'm sorry shopkeeper, my subordinates are not used to it, so I'll let them be quiet. ”
Li Guofu smiled apologetically, turned his head and shouted at the dozen or so people.
"Everyone be quiet, whoever shouts loudly again will punish him for not eating for a day!"
The men shrugged their shoulders with a smile when they heard this, and their voices became quieter.
"Uncle Zhang, please take a few people to the stable to take our horses out, I will go to the warehouse to see the goods, and by the way, I will send some food to the Daqing and Xiaoqing brothers, it must be very hard to work the night shift all night." ”
Li Guofu nodded to a gray-bearded old man not far away, then turned around and walked in the direction of the abandoned house.