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Chapter 778: cellar
Chapter 778: cellar
??Chapter 778 Cellar
??What Xu Shiyan said about how to deal with it did not refer to the removal or retention of these things, nor did he mean to hand them over to the state.
?? It's not that he is greedy for money, the key is trouble.
?? If this is really handed in, will the original homeowner come back to make trouble after knowing the news?
??Can those so-called experts say that there are probably still things hidden in this house, and it is best to dig them out?
??Can other people be jealous and come sneaking to hunt for treasure?
?? It should be said that these are not possibilities, but will definitely happen.
??The Xu family doesn't live here. If the disturbance continues like this, will the house still be there when they come next time?
??If the house is not in order, the house can be demolished secretly, even the foundation is gone.
??In order to avoid trouble, don't even think about handing over things like this.
?? Besides, the house he bought with money, everything in the house belongs to him.
?? Regardless of whether it is a sandwich wall or a cellar, as long as there is something, it belongs to the Xu family.
??Xu Shiyan meant to say, what are they going to do with these four boxes now.
??Should I move it back to the sandwich wall, or take it back to the small courtyard at night, and wait to find a way to transport it back to the northeast?
?? "Dad, it's better to move away, you can't stay here.
??This house needs to be refurbished. If the workers find the sandwich wall while working, can they still keep it? "
??Xu Haiyuan guessed what Xu Shiyan was thinking, and proposed.
?? "Well, I also think it's better to move away.
?? But moving to the small courtyard is not a long-term solution. We don’t live in the small courtyard. We can come here once or twice a year. Who can guarantee that it will be safe in the small courtyard? "
??Xu Shiyan sighed, this guy turned out to be a hot potato, and he was quite difficult to deal with.
?? "Dad, those are things for later, there is still something to do right now."
??Xu Haiyuan didn't think it was too difficult. In his opinion, this thing is easy to deal with.
?? "What's the matter?" Xu Shiyan was taken aback, not understanding what the eldest son wanted to say.
?? "Dad, you said that this house is so big, it is said that a high official once lived there.
?? Maybe there is something hidden here? Will there be any sandwich walls, or cellars, secret rooms and the like? "
??Xu Haiyuan looked thoughtful.
?? "The point is, our house needs major repairs. If something is discovered by the workers during the repair of the house, it will be a big trouble."
??Xu Shiyan glanced at his eldest son, smiled and shook his head, "Impossible, I'm just thinking about it all day.
??How big an official must be? These are hidden in the sandwich wall, where else can they be hidden?
??The descendants of his family can still be ignorant?
?? It’s a lot to be able to hide these things. I guess something must have happened at the time, so I didn’t have time to tell future generations. "
?? It is very lucky to find these things.
??Xu Shiyan didn't dare to think that there are treasures hidden in this house, it's impossible.
?? "Dad, never mind that it might be impossible, we have to look for it first, what if?"
??Xu Haiyuan still insisted on his own ideas.
??In his opinion, this kind of high-ranking official family must have left a lot of behind-the-scenes, and it is impossible to have only one sandwich wall.
??The eldest son persisted, and besides, there was indeed some truth to it.
??Don't care if there are any treasures, you really should look around and look for them. Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case.
?? "Okay, then let's wander around and look around, don't care if there are any, just look for it and give up."
??Xu Shiyan glanced at Su Anying, thinking he was playing with the children.
??When Xu Haiqing heard this, he couldn't care less about the pain in the back of his head, so he raised his legs and ran outside.
?? It was Xu Jinping who glanced at the wall behind her, "How do you close the sandwich wall?"
??The wall can’t always be open, can it? It was closed when they were looking for Xu Haiqing just now, which means there must be an agency.
??Xu Haiyuan came to the base of the wall, stepped on the raised brick again, and the sandwich wall closed again.
?? "There should be a mechanism in there, which can be closed. I guess Xu Haiqing fell into it and directly touched it." 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, motioning for the children to play.
?? "Okay, let's all go around, maybe we can find some hidden treasures."
?? Treasure hunting, this is the children's favorite.
??Xu Haiqing was the first to jump out, found a stick outside, and started beating on the walls of every room.
??Xu Haiyuan is not that stupid, so he doesn't knock on every wall.
??The interlining wall must be much thicker than ordinary walls for the purpose of hiding people’s things. This can be seen through careful observation.
??Going back and forth into the courtyard, the children searched dozens of houses one by one, but finally found no sandwich walls.
??But found a cellar in the yard, and a dry well in the backyard.
??The cellar may be the former vegetable cellar. In front of the kitchen door of the third courtyard, there was a square opening covered with stone slabs.
??Xu Shiyan and Xu Haiyuan and his son worked together to lift the stone slab away, revealing the entrance below.
??Xu Haiqing looked at the entrance and wanted to get down anxiously, but was grabbed by Xu Haiyuan.
?? "What are you in a hurry for?
?? This cellar has been untouched for a long time, and we don’t know what’s in it.
??What if there are no vents and no oxygen inside? It's too dangerous to venture down. "
??Xu Haiqing was taken aback for a moment, scratched his head, and laughed.
?? "I'm too anxious, I just want to see what's below. What if there is still a baby?"
??Xu Shiyan raised his hand and tapped his youngest son on the forehead.
?? "Stupid, this is a vegetable cellar. It is used to store radishes and cabbage in winter. What treasures can there be in it?"
?? "Dad, not all cabbages are stored here."
??Xu Haiyuan glanced at his father and younger brother, and explained something awkward.
??“In the past, ordinary people couldn’t afford to dig cellars, they had to be rich and have their own yards to dig cellars.
??Some cellars are very large, more than ten square meters, and people can live in them.
?? In times of chaos, you can hide in the cellar.
?? There are also some rich people who specialize in digging cellars to store wine. "
??Xu Haiyuan was afraid that if he explained too much, his father would feel uncomfortable, but if he didn't explain, he would panic again.
?? "Oh, there is still so much to learn about co-authoring.
??I thought it was similar to Caijiaozi in Northeast China. "
??Xu Shiyan didn't think it was embarrassing or anything. His eldest son felt very normal when he knew this, and there was nothing surprising about it.
?? "Then when shall we go down? Just open the lid like this, let's chat here?"
??Xu Haiqing couldn't bear his temper, and eagerly wanted to go down and have a look.
?? "Well, you and the second sister, go to the surrounding shops and find out if there is a blower.
?? If there is one, buy one, and then buy a long length of wire and a socket.
??Let's use a blower to blow the inside, so that the ventilation can be faster. "
??Currently I don't know the situation below, so I really dare not go down rashly.
?? You must know that carbon dioxide is heavier than air, and the lower you go, the more dangerous it is.
?? This is not a joke. People die in the cellar every winter, so be careful.
?? Blowers are available in the Northeast. Nowadays, some people burn sawdust and need to use blowers.
?? I don’t know if there are any in the capital, so I can only inquire.
??The most important thing is to pay Xu Haiqing to save this kid from always worrying and nagging, which is too annoying.
??Xu Haiqing didn't know that his brother thought he was annoying, so he sent him away on purpose.
??As soon as I heard that I was going to buy a blower, I followed the two sisters away.
??The younger siblings were sent away, Xu Haiyuan asked Su Anying to watch from above, he and Xu Shiyan were going to go into the cellar.
?? "No, didn't you just say that the cellar is dangerous and you won't let it go down?"
??Su Anying saw something was wrong, so she hurriedly stopped the father and son.
?? "Mom, I was fooling Xu Haiqing.
??The cellars of this kind of rich family have ventilation holes at the bottom. Don't believe me? "
??While talking, Xu Haiyuan took out a box of matches, lit one and probed into the cellar, but the match did not go out.
?? "My dad and I walked down while lighting a match.
??If there is something wrong with the match, we will return immediately. "
?? It would be better if there was a candle, but unfortunately, they just came here, and there is nothing here.
?? That match was Xu Haiyuan's pocket at some point.
?? Just like that, the two struck a match, and under Su Anying's worried gaze, they walked step by step into the cellar.
??After walking two steps, Xu Haiyuan lit a match, bent down to test it, and if the match didn't go out, it meant there was oxygen below.
?? "Dad, did you see that? The flame of this match is biased.
?? This means that the bottom is ventilated, and once the cellar door is opened, the air can circulate. "
??Xu Haiyuan's observation ability is naturally extraordinary, Xu Haiyuan told his father while the two were walking.
?? Just like that, the father and father carefully descended to the bottom of the cellar.
?? Based on the light coming from above, you can roughly see that this is a very square cellar.
??It should be less than two meters high, and the surrounding area should be made of strips of stone, which are neat and clean. There are probably large stone slabs on the top of the head, and there are also stone slabs underneath.
??The cellar is not too big, and it feels about seven or eight flat, very regular.
?? It's just a mess on the ground, covered with pieces of paper and broken porcelain.
??Xu Shiyan bent down to pick up a piece of broken porcelain, and took two steps outside before glancing at it.
?? "Unfortunately, this should be a fragment of porcelain."
??Seeing these fragments, what else do you not understand?
??Twenty years ago, the owner of the house should have hidden some porcelain, calligraphy and paintings in the cellar.
??It's a pity that this cellar is too conspicuous to be discovered.
?? Then someone came down and found those things. It was probably destroyed after a meal, and it became the scene in front of us.
?? "It's useless, if these things are kept until now, I am afraid that any of them will be worth a lot of money."
??In those years, too many good things were really ruined.
?? "Go, let's go up, even if there used to be anything in here, it has been destroyed, it's a pity."
??Xu Shiyan shook his head and sighed, then 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 groped and tapped on the wall while talking.
?? Sure enough, the sound of knocking on one of the walls was wrong.
?? "Dad, I think there should be another room here. Wait a minute, I'll look for the agency."
?? As soon as the words fell, and Xu Haiyuan didn't know what happened to him, he heard a creaking sound.
??The wall in front of Xu Haiyuan unexpectedly cracked a hole more than two feet wide.
??Xu Shiyan was dumbfounded, isn't this too evil? Did his eldest son really hit the mark?
?? "Well, there really is another room here."
??How do you feel, today's experience is just like the one in the story, so bizarre? How can there be such a coincidence?
??Xu Haiyuan didn't care how surprised his father was, and stepped into the inner compartment.
??There was no light in here, it was very dark, and the Xu family father and son didn't bring any lighting things in, so they had no choice but to light another match.
??With the faint light of the match, it can be seen that this secret room is about ten square meters, and it is as neat and clean as the outside room.
?? There are several boxes on the ground, and I don't know what is inside.
??Xu Haiyuan just wanted to go over to have a look, but the match went out, so he hastily struck another one to illuminate it and move forward.
?? But how long can the match last? After just two steps, it went out again.
?? "Dad, go and move those four boxes over here, it will be fine to hide them here.
??Tonight or sometime, the two of us will prepare a flashlight before coming here, otherwise it will be pitch black and we won’t be able to see anything clearly. "
??Xu Haiyuan could only sigh, because he didn't have a suitable lighting tool in his hand, it was impossible.
??When Xu Haiyuan was lighting a match just now, Xu Shiyan also saw the box on the ground.
?? Needless to say, it must be something hidden by the homeowner.
?? It is very possible that the family knew that something was going to happen, so they put the worthless things outside to attract attention, and put all the valuable things inside.
??At that time, those people came to search and saw a pile of porcelain, calligraphy and paintings outside, and smashed them directly, thinking that it was all there.
??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."
??Nowhere is the safest place than this place, as long as they don't mention it, it will be very difficult for outsiders to find this place.
?? Very good, there is such a place, but it solves a big problem.
??It was said before that it was going to move the box to the small courtyard, but where can it be hidden? There are so many people over there, no matter where you hide, you can't hide it from them.
?? Just like that, Xu Shiyan went up from the cellar and talked to Su Anying.
?? Then the couple moved the box down and hid it in the inner room.
??After that, the three of them came out from the inner room, Xu Haiyuan touched the mechanism and restored the wall.
?? "The people in the past were really amazing. They were able to build such a place under the ground with a mechanism. It's really amazing." Xu Shiyan couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
?? Not long after the three of them came out of the cellar, sisters Xu Haiyuan and Xu Jinping came back.
?? It's just that the hands of the three are empty. Obviously, they didn't buy a blower.
?? "Brother, we have inquired in several places, and they all said that there is no blower." Xu Haiqing said with a mournful face.
?? "If you don't have it, then you don't have it. After such a long time, it is estimated that the ventilation at the bottom is almost the same.
??Do you want to go down with me to have a look? "Xu Haiyuan asked his younger brother pretending.
?? "Okay, okay, let's go down together."
??Xu Haiqing immediately became interested when he heard this, and came to the entrance of the cellar happily.
?? "Come on, let's go down and have a look."
??The little kid was very curious about what was going on underneath, so he thought, what if there were a lot of treasures hidden underneath like that sandwiched wall?
??Xu Shiyan and Su Anying looked at each other, both holding back their smiles.
??This silly boy, thanks to the fact that Xu Haiyuan and Xu Haiyuan are brothers, otherwise, wouldn't Xu Haiyuan play around?
?? "Dad, Mom, why don't you go down and have a look?"
??Xu Haiqing followed his brother down a few steps, then suddenly turned around and asked Xu Shiyan and his wife.
?? "No, what's there to see in a broken vegetable cellar? You two are just curious, I'm not interested at all.
?? You two go down, if there is any treasure under there, remember to call me, I will go down to join in the fun. "
??Xu Shiyan held back a smile and said solemnly.
?? "Oh, okay, then I will go down with my elder brother. If there are treasures down there, I will call you." Xu Haiqing nodded.
??Okay, then the two brothers can only go down to explore.
?? "Second Sister, Fourth Sister, let's forget about you two, it's dark down here, it's not good for you two to be afraid when you go down."
??Xu Haiqing waved at Xu Jinping and Xu Jinhui, then turned around and followed Xu Haiyuan to the cellar.
?? Not long after, I heard Xu Haiqing's voice from below.
?? "These prodigal sons, why are they smashing good things? It's a pity."
??(end of this chapter)