Chapter 777 Sandwich Wall

  The four-entry courtyard, the serious deep house compound, is absolutely different from the place where ordinary people live.

   It is said that this was the residence of some high-ranking officials in the Qing Dynasty, and wealthy businessmen lived in the Republic of China.

  Later, this place was taken over and turned into some kind of office, and it was returned to the descendants of this family only a few years ago.

  The house has gone through many twists and turns, and the damage is serious but no one maintains it.

  The original owner’s family was withered, and the descendants were useless, so they couldn’t spend money to repair it.

  Seeing that the house was declining day by day, I thought about selling it.

   Just in time for Xu Shiyan to buy a house, the deal was concluded in two clicks. Since then, such a large courtyard has been named Xu.

   "Oh, this yard is big, but it's just too dilapidated.

   It seems that a lot of money needs to be spent on repairs, otherwise it will not be possible to live. "Su Anying walked around in the yard, sighing regretfully.

  The house has been in disrepair for a long time, the carved window lattices are already broken, and the cornices and brackets are also incomplete.

   There are several pomegranate trees and jujube trees in the yard, most of which are dead due to neglect.

  The two trees that are still alive seem to be broken by naughty children, and most of the branches are bald, which is really a pity.

   "Daughter-in-law, you should think this way, if it weren't for the dilapidated house, we wouldn't be able to buy such a large yard for hundreds of thousands.

  Xiu, I told Jin Liu about this and asked him to help find someone to repair it. When the time comes, Zhendong will come over from time to time to check on the progress. "

   Such a large courtyard cost more than a hundred thousand yuan. Xu Shiyan thought it was a good deal.

  If this house is repaired and renovated, it will cost at least tens of millions after thirty years? If it's not good, it can reach hundreds of millions.

  It only costs a few dollars to repair the house, it’s just a drizzle.

   "Yuanyuan, with his younger brothers and sisters, opened the doors and windows of all the houses to let in the air.

   Then look for a broom or something, sweep all the houses, and tidy up the yard. "

  Xu Shiyan directed the children to work.

  The house has gone through a lot of twists and turns, and every part of it is not built like it should be.

   Now that the house belongs to the Xu family, they have to tidy it up anyway, and check everywhere to determine where it needs to be repaired.

   "Hey, I see." Xu Haiyuan replied very simply, and then led his younger siblings to work.

  Several children opened all the doors and windows from front to back to let the air circulate.

  There are so many houses, most of which are unoccupied and in disrepair, with a musty smell inside.

  At the beginning, the children were serious about cleaning up, and gradually they started playing.

  There are so many houses, dozens of main rooms, wing rooms and side rooms, the place is huge.

  The children can be regarded as catching up, so why not be so excited?

  Xu Haiqing played hide and seek with Xu Jinhui, looking for places to hide.

   Just play and play, anyway, there is nothing to do today, so take a day to clean up slowly.

   Unexpected, after a while, I heard Xu Jinhui's cry.

   "Father, mother, eldest brother, second sister, come quickly, Haiqing is gone."

  Xu Shiyan, his wife, and Xu Haiyuan and Xu Jinping quickly ran towards the source of the sound.

   "Huihui, where are you?"

  With such a big yard, is it not easy to hide a child?

   It would be troublesome to find one by one, so Xu Shiyan shouted while running.

   "Dad, I'm here.

  Just now Haiqing and I were hiding cats here, I heard him ah, and then he disappeared. "

  Xu Jinhui came out from the main room in the second courtyard, and raised her hand to wipe the tears off her face.

  There is a lot of dust in this room, I don't know where she touched it just now, anyway, there are dust on her hands.

   Such a smear, okay, the pretty little face directly becomes a cat.

   "Where is it? Let's go and have a look." Xu Haiyuan hurriedly dragged his sister into the house after hearing this.

  The second entrance courtyard has five main rooms with side rooms, and the east and west each have three side rooms, which are generally used for hospitality and entertainment, while the third entrance courtyard is the back house.

  Xu Jinhui pointed to the ear room on the east side, "Just now I was outside and Hai Qing was inside, so I heard him yell, and I couldn't find him when I went into the room."

  The little girl is still crying, she is in a hurry, her brother is gone, can she not be in a hurry?

  As soon as Xu Haiyuan heard this, he rushed to the ear room and shouted loudly, "Xu Haiqing, Xu Haiqing." No one answered.

   At this time, Xu Shiyan and Su Anying also came over, "Are you sure he disappeared here? Did he go to the backyard?"

   A good child, how could he disappear?

   "Dad, Mom, I went to the backyard to call just now, but there was no movement." Xu Jinping also ran in panting.

  She didn't come directly just now, but yelled around in other places in the backyard, but there was no response from Xu Haiqing.

   "Where can this child go?" Su Anying was anxious.

   What a good child, he disappeared in a blink of an eye, which sounds impossible no matter what.

   "There is something in this house, right?" Su Anying couldn't help but think about the bad side.

   "Mom, don't think about it, this house should have a sandwich wall.

   In order to avoid disasters and other things in the deep house compound, there are sandwich walls when building the house. Wait, I'll look for it. "

  Xu Haiyuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but my mother could really think about it, what else could she think of.

   What can there be? In this big capital, what dares to make trouble here?

  As Xu Haiyuan said, he carefully observed the room, especially the footprints on the ground.

  The house has not been cleaned for a long time, and there is a layer of dust on the ground, and Xu Haiqing's footprints can be seen.

  Xu Haiyuan identified it carefully, and followed the footprints to the wall between the side room and the main room.

  Xu Haiyuan raised his hand and tapped on the wall, but it really sounded wrong.

   "It's empty inside, there must be a sandwich wall. Wait, I'll find the switch."

  As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Haiyuan noticed a brick protruding slightly at the base of the wall.

  So he stepped on it hard, and the wall in front of him suddenly cracked a hole about two feet wide.

   Sure enough, this is a sandwich wall with an empty interlayer in the middle.

   Then, everyone found that Xu Haiqing was leaning against the wall.

  This mezzanine is not wide enough to allow one person to pass through.

  Just now the secret door was not opened, Xu Haiqing was standing inside, now the door opened, Xu Haiqing slipped down along the wall, his body softened, and he half fell to the ground.

   "What, what's the matter?" Both Xu Shiyan and Su Anying were terrified, and hurried forward to support their son.

   These two couples are behind Xu Haiyuan, so naturally they are not as fast as Xu Haiyuan.

  I saw Xu Haiyuan scooped up his younger brother, raised his hand to touch the back of Xu Haiqing's head, and sure enough, he found a big bag.

   "It's okay, he probably stepped on the mechanism by accident just now, touched the secret door, and fell into the interlayer wall.

   Coincidentally, a bump was touched on the back of his head, and he should have passed out temporarily. "

   While talking, Xu Haiyuan held his younger brother in his arms, squatted down, and pinched Xu Haiqing's waist with his right thumb.

   Not long after, Xu Haiqing snorted and opened his eyes. "What's the matter? I seem to have stepped on the ground just now."

  Xu Haiqing frowned, feeling something was wrong, the back of his head hurt, and the top of his lips also hurt.

   "You're really good at hiding a cat, and you can fall into the sandwiched wall. You hit the back of your head and passed out.

  Thanks to Huihui being with you, otherwise, you would be suffocated inside, and we would not be able to find you. "

  Xu Haiyuan rolled his eyes angrily, and helped his brother up.

   "Huh? The sandwich wall? Let me see if there is any treasure hidden inside."

  Xu Haiqing suddenly became energetic when he heard about the sandwich wall, and asked with widened eyes.

  When Xu Haiqing shouted, Xu Shiyan and his wife also cheered up.

  Generally speaking, a large family builds a wall, either for hiding people or for hiding things.

   Just now, I was just focusing on saving Xu Haiqing, but I didn't check to see if there was anything in the sandwich wall.

   The couple hurried forward, looking into the interlocking wall with their probes.

  The inside of the sandwich wall is only as high as one person, and there is a gap of about 40 to 50 centimeters in the middle, and the two sides should be single-layer bricks.

   Looking in from the outside, the space on the left hand side is small and there is nothing.

   There seems to be a lot of space on the right hand side, and there are indeed some unknown things in it.

   "Oh, there is really something inside." Su Anying exclaimed.

   "Yuanyuan, you are waiting outside, I will go in and have a look."

  Xu Shiyan was worried about any accident, so he went in by himself and moved the things inside out.

  In the mezzanine, there are several wooden boxes that are not too big.

  The box is rectangular, about forty centimeters long, thirty centimeters wide, and only twenty centimeters high.

   Although the box is not too big, it is quite heavy and heavy.

   "Oops, it's not very brisk, I don't know what's inside."

  Xu Shiyan carefully moved the box out and placed it on the ground outside.

   There are four boxes in total, all of the same size. Xu Shiyan took a bit of effort, and at least he moved all the boxes out.

  The inside of the sandwich wall was quite dry, but it was dusty. After a while, Xu Shiyan's head and body were all covered with dust.

  However, the box was well preserved, and it was not damaged by moisture.

   "Hey? There is a lock on it. We don't have a key. How can we do this?"

  Xu Haiqing also ignored the pain in the back of his head, wandering around those boxes, looking at them curiously.

   "Pingping, lend me one of the clips on your head."

  Xu Haiyuan glanced at the lock, it was an old copper lock, not too big, small and exquisite.

  So turning around, Guan Xu Jinping wanted to issue a card.

  Xu Jinping's ponytail, the little girl's hair is broken, and she will use a few black hair clips to pin the broken hair.

  As soon as she heard that her brother was going to issue cards, Xu Jinping quickly took off two and handed them to her brother.

  Xu Haiyuan took one end of the hairpin and put the other end into the lock.

  I saw his wrist twist slightly, three or two times, and then heard a sound, and the lock unexpectedly popped open.

   "Brother, when did you practice this hand, isn't it too good?"

  Xu Haiqing and the others were all dumbfounded, the lock was opened so easily? Impossible?

   It wasn't just Xu Haiqing and the others who were taken aback, even Xu Shiyan and his wife were dumbfounded.

  The eldest son played this trick beautifully, did he open the lock easily?

   After this, do I need to go somewhere to prepare a case?

   "Those students in our class learn not to lock their heads all day long.

   Paper clips, pins, hairpins, they use whatever they can find. The locks in my class have to be changed three or four times a semester, and they are all broken. "

  Xu Haiyuan smiled, explained something casually, then took off the lock and opened the box.

   Inside the box was a layer of red silk. When I opened the red silk, everyone in the room was dumbfounded.

   Inside turned out to be golden ingots.

  Looking at the appearance, it should be old-made five-two-one ingots. There are three layers in the box, with a layer of more than ten ingots. It seems that there are almost fifty ingots in this box.

   If calculated according to the current measurement standard, it would be about fifteen or six catties, which is really heavy.

   "Dad, is this gold?" Xu Haiqing was also dumbfounded, and murmured.

   "Xu Haiqing, you have to make a promise to me now, you are not allowed to tell anyone what happened today, did you hear me?"

  Xu Shiyan glanced at his youngest son and said solemnly.

  Although only one of the four boxes in front of me has been opened, the others can guess that there must be valuable things hidden inside.

   This house was bought by the Xu family, so no matter what is in it, it should belong to them.

   But if it gets out, I am afraid that the original owner of the house will have to come back to fight, and the relevant departments will have to come if there is trouble.

  The children in the family, Xu Haiyuan and Xu Jinping, ghosts and ghosts, understand the severity, and Xu Jinhui is honest and stable, and never talks too much.

  Only Xu Haiqing's mouth has no door. He can speak out from all over the world, from the first five hundred years to the next five hundred years.

  Usually those parents are just short-sighted, but today's matter is very important. If Xu Haiqing goes out to mess around, it will definitely cause trouble.

  That's why Xu Shiyan stared at the youngest son, and made the youngest son promise not to go out and talk nonsense.

  Xu Haiqing saw his father's face, and knew that something was going to happen. He fell into trouble.

   "Dad, I promise, I will never tell when I go out, and I won't tell anyone, even the third brother and the others."

  Although Xu Haiqing likes to play and make trouble, he still understands what is right and wrong.

   "Okay, your promise today, Dad believed it.

   But in the future, if you go out and talk nonsense, you will cause trouble. Be careful I can really kill you, you hear me? "

   At this time, the youngest son must be frightened so that he has a memory.

   Sure enough, Xu Haiqing turned pale with fright and nodded repeatedly.

  He is too clear, don't look at his father not beating them easily, but if he really annoys his father, his father will be ruthless, and he will peel off his skin if he doesn't die.

   "I know, Dad, I definitely won't tell." The child was frightened and almost cried.

  Xu Shiyan frightened Xu Haiqing, but Su Anying, Xu Haiyuan and others remained silent, and no one made love to Xu Haiqing.

   Xu Haiqing must remember this matter, knowing that the consequences will be serious.

  Xu Haiqing repeatedly assured, Xu Shiyan nodded.

  Over there, Xu Haiyuan opened the other three boxes in turn.

  In the second box, there is still gold, but it is gold bars, not gold ingots.

   It is said that antiques in prosperous times and gold in troubled times, one can tell at a glance that the owner of this house is quite smart.

  The third and fourth boxes contained all kinds of jewelry.

   Hairpins, hairpins, necklaces, bracelets, bead strings, jade pendants, pendants, gold, silver, pearls and jade, all kinds of materials, Xu Shiyan can't name them.

  Those jewelry are not only beautifully made, most of them are also inlaid with various precious gemstones.

  These things are well preserved, and have not become old and dim because of the age, they are still bright and shining.

   "The value of these two boxes is more valuable than those two boxes of gold." Xu Haiyuan glanced at it and said.

   This, without Xu Haiyuan saying it, Xu Shiyan is also very clear.

   In the past, the amount of gold mined was small, so it was very precious, and it was a precious metal that preserved its value.

   But as mining technology becomes more and more advanced, gold reserves are increasing.

   Regardless of the fact that the price of gold is rising all the way, in fact, if calculated according to purchasing power, gold is depreciating.

  But those jewelry are old and considered antiques.

  Especially those jade bracelets, jade pendants, gemstone bead strings and other things, any one of them is worth a lot.

   It is estimated that these things have been in the interlayer wall for many years, and the incompleteness is left by that senior official and his descendants.

  For some unknown reason, the secret of the hidden treasure was not passed on, and in the end no one discovered it, and Xu Haiyuan stomped it out.

   "What should we do with these things?" Xu Shiyan looked at the four small boxes in front of him, feeling a little embarrassed for a moment.

  (end of this chapter)