The Prosperous Years of Siheyuan

Chapter 195 Old Liu's Discovery

The newlyweds were the most relaxing and comfortable days for Chen Jisheng. He didn't care about anything and only occasionally did some daily chores.

The eldest sister, Gu Yizhou, is similar. She finally feels real and reliable, even though the first few days were a bit unbearable.

As they gradually got used to it, the relationship between the two of them has become a bit like honey in the past few days.

The materials Gu Ting brought back from Hong Kong City have also become common learning materials for the three Gu sisters.

Chen Jisheng occasionally made a guest appearance as a lecturer, which made the three siblings improve by leaps and bounds.

It is worth mentioning that Chen Xiaobao of the Chen family.

He only occasionally listened to the information about Hong Kong City, but the conclusions he drew were remarkable.

With such a performance, as the male member of the Chen family, Chen Jisheng naturally had to train him carefully.

School has already started for Chen Xiaobao and Chen Xue, and the burdens on their shoulders are getting heavier and heavier.

Chen Xue has to study university courses, but Chen Xiaobao has many thread-bound books waiting for him to recite.

The result of not being able to memorize it is simple, that is, spending most of the night being a sandbag for Gu Ting and the third and fourth son of the Zhang family.

There was also a double punishment for running in the morning. With such supervision, Chen Xiaobao, who was just fifteen, experienced the most difficult ordeal in his life.

In less than half a month, his eyes already had obvious dark circles.

But the result is also good. Under the strict supervision of the third brother Chen Jisheng, the [-]-word ancient prose has become thoroughly familiar.

Everything in the family is developing in a good direction, and Chen Jisheng feels much calmer.

The sense of urgency of the impending storm has also calmed down a lot.

"Master, there is something different at the Qin family's old house..."

It was Old Liu from the manufacturing office who broke the tranquility.

During the first half of the wedding, except for sending goods to Lao Ma twice to pay off debts, Chen Jisheng didn't have much time to go out.

Listening to Lao Liu's tone of asking for credit, Chen Jisheng smiled.

When Beizi Mansion was digging the cellar, they discovered an underground secret room surrounded by walls.

It's just that these places are empty, and searching for hidden treasures is not as simple as it sounds.

The wall was somewhat useful, but the underground secret room was in disrepair and was about to collapse.

The wine cellar dug by Chen Jisheng also depends on that secret room.

A large area of ​​expansion and reinforcement has been done. After the expansion, it is easy to store [-] tons of wine.

During this period, in addition to the income from work, Lao Liu also made a small fortune with his fellow workers.

Sixty or seventy pieces of large furniture and hundreds of small pieces of furniture were arranged, and the work was not delayed at all.

In one month, I earned as much work as I did in the previous half year.

A small circle with Mr. Liu from the Manufacturing Office as the core is slowly consolidating the relationship between them.

The house in Beizi Mansion also needs to be renovated in many places, but due to material constraints, it will take one or two months to prepare.

In their spare time, Lao Liu and the others not only renovated the small stronghold where Sister Lou lived, but Lao Liu himself also thought about the Qin family's old residence.

This morning, Lao Liu went down alone to the old well in the back room, and finally found some clues.

"Then go over and take a look..."

He did not greet the Gu family siblings who were studying materials.

Chen Jisheng took the third son of the Zhang family and followed Lao Liu to the Qin family's old house in Zhima Hutong.

"Master, there is a part of the wall of this old well that was built at the back. It is at least 20 years old, so I didn't find it when I went down before.

This time I also made the discovery after lying down and feeling a different strain on my hands. "

Previously, Lao Liu had someone hang him up with a windlass to have a look, but a cursory inspection found nothing.

Lao Liu is a careful person and has been thinking about this when he went home.

The old well in the house is just like the owner said, very weird!

Thinking about it over and over again has almost become a mental illness.

With the idea of ​​giving it a try, Lao Liu went down to the old well alone this morning.

After checking the location of the secret room as expected, I found a difference in the walls of the well.

"What are you waiting for?
Break it open and take a look. "

Chen Jisheng didn't know how to see through things. After giving Old Liu a rollicking look, he found a bamboo stool and sat by the well, watching Old Liu and his third son working.

When it comes to building walls and tearing them down, Lao Liu can be considered a professional player.

Nearly a hundred bricks were lifted out by him in just half an hour.

"In the master's house, there is an iron door, which is locked.

Take the guys with you when you come down. "

Listening to Old Liu's echoing instructions in the well, Chen Jisheng went out to find a hammer and a lantern.

Then he and Lao Liu changed places, and followed the windlass down to where the secret door was.

He raised the hammer and dropped it, and the palm-sized lock fell on the stubble of the green bricks.

There shouldn't be any traps in the Qin family's secret room.

After all, it was hidden in a secret room in his own home, leaving behind traps. If he harmed his family, he would regret it.

The iron door that opened inward was rusty on the door frame. It took a little effort to push the iron door open.

A damp, musty smell filled the shaft.

I looked through the light of the lantern and saw that the secret room was quite large and there was something inside.

After taking a general look, Chen Jisheng asked Lao San to pull him up.

Due to its long-term sealing and the fact that it was built on an old well, the smell in the secret room was not very pleasant.

Just in the yard, Chen Jisheng was not in a hurry to look at anything, and the best choice was to spread the smell.

Lao Liu is also good at loose flavor.

I rode the bicycle in the yard for a spin and got back a wind box and a roll of pipe.No need to go down the well, Lao Liu just lowered the pipe into the well and slowly began to pull up the wind box.

It seems it's almost time to cook.

Zhang Chong, the third eldest son of the Zhang family, who was recently used as a cook, also hurried back to the courtyard.

As the saying goes, the punches never leave the hands and the music never leaves the mouth. This period of running-in has made Zhang Chong's skills improve by leaps and bounds.

According to Silly Zhu's evaluation, Zhang Chong could feed a family by opening a small restaurant with just those home-cooked dishes.

Nowadays, learning to cook does not have the same conditions as in later generations. If you want to seriously learn to be a chef, ten or eight years is just the beginning.

Meet a master like Shazhu.

If it weren't for Chen Jisheng's suggestion, Zhang Chong would have become Sha Zhu's assistant cook like Ma Hua and Fatty.

If you want to become a monk, you have to wait!
Silly Zhu is willing to teach sincerely, except for Chen Jisheng's relationship.

Another one is that Zhang Chong is unemployed and will not cause any impact on the canteen of the rolling mill.

Silly Zhu is not really stupid, he has a lot of tricks up his sleeve and his brain is very good.

When it was almost time to eat, Chen Jisheng didn't waste any time. He asked Old Liu to hold the windlass and went down into the well shaft.

Adjusting the brightness of the lantern to the maximum, Chen Jisheng took a rough look at the secret room in the pale light.

There is no gold and silver in the imagination, but there are a lot of gold coins in the corner.

According to the valuation at that time, it was almost enough to buy a cow. It was at least two or three tons, which was heavier than any cow.

In addition to the large piles of gold coupons, there are even more gold, stone and porcelain of various colors.

Chen Jisheng took a general look at the porcelain and found that there were not many high-quality ones.

Most of them are still mainly porcelain from the mid-Qing Dynasty, but most of them are bottles and jars for decoration, and there are not many plates, bowls, cups and saucers for daily use.

There are dozens of bronzes, most of them without inscriptions, and those with inscriptions only have a few words.

These will be worth some 800 to [-] million in the future.

As for now, the [-] units may not be sold, as the market does not recognize them, and the more, the cheaper.

After a general turn, Chen Jisheng continued walking inside. The underground secret room was quite large.

When it was originally built, a lot of money was spent, and the supporting columns were all large I-beams.

This type of material was mainly imported during the Republic of China and was the basic material for bridges.

If there are such steel beams as support in the secret room, the Qin family at that time was probably a wealthy family in collusion between government and businessmen.

Most of the things are gold, stone, porcelain and the like. Taking the golden coupon as a reference, maybe that was the time when the secret room was finally opened...

Going to the innermost part, there is a corridor, which is completely made of stones like the ground of the house.

Looking back at the entire secret room, the area is almost [-] square meters. It is made of strips of stone and large I-beams are added in key places.

Humidity is not bad, the initial musty smell is mostly due to the age.

After roughly looking at the structure of the secret room, Chen Jisheng walked along the corridor to the main room.

There is a wooden door at the top, and behind the wooden door is a wall. Judging from the location, it is almost on Fangshan Mountain of the West House.

I pushed and pulled the secret door on the wall, but it didn't move. It was obviously sealed.

I don’t know whether the contents inside were originally passed down to future generations, but according to Chen Jisheng’s opinion, it is probably not passed down here.

Eighty percent of the time something happened to someone who knew the inside story.

Otherwise, the things in the secret room could be worth a thousand or eight hundred, and Qin San would not give up in vain.

Maybe if you choose carefully, there will be surprises in the things in the secret room, but for Chen Jisheng now.

These are not a surprise. Among the 680 boxes of antiques in the warehouse, Zheng Banqiao's bamboo was found.

No matter how good the things in the secret room are, by the time they see the light of day again, I'm afraid I'll be too old and have no abilities anymore.

It is almost something that can only be passed on to future generations, and they can only discover the surprise themselves.

Pressing down the emotion in his heart, Chen Jisheng also hoped that he could play and bathe with his grandson by then. This result would be better than just watching.

Returning along the original path, Chen Jisheng collected some things. Lao Liu also had to clean up this place recently.

The [-]-square-meter warehouse is close to a well. If you put some military rations in it, you can stay there for a month without any problems.

"Old Liu, I'll have people clean up in the past two days, and you still have to clean up next.

Let's go over and find the location of the secret door. "

After getting to the wellhead, Chen Jisheng made some rough arrangements, and then came to the west room with Lao Liu.

With a clear direction, Lao Liu knocked on the wall.

Soon, I found the approximate location of the secret door behind the entrance door of the west house.

Like the well wall, the secret door was also built with blue bricks.

Chen Jisheng made a rough estimate that the old people of the Qin family might have wanted to run away, but they didn't run out after the accident.

Maybe he had run away, and Qin San's family just stayed to look after the house. Anyway, Qin San left and the house was transferred.

Regardless of whether the Qin family ran away or failed to escape, the moment Qin Sanyuan left for the Northeast, these things had nothing to do with the Qin family anymore.

After getting a secret room full of gold, stone and porcelain, although he wasn't very excited, it was still a lot of antiques for free, so Chen Jisheng was still in a good mood.

After arranging for Lao Liu to prepare a cabinet to cover the secret door, Chen Jisheng didn't stay in the old house for long and wandered back to the courtyard.

The best choice is not to open the secret room of the Qin family's old house, but it is really useless to keep it.

To the point of hiding in a secret room for safety, Chen Jisheng believed that the situation at that time was absolutely desperate for him.

Facing a desperate situation, what is needed is desperate resistance. It is not as satisfying as hiding in a secret room to be found and killed.

In fact, the best use of this secret room in the Qin family's old house is to serve as a wine cellar, but unfortunately it has been promised to Zhang Fen, the eldest son of the Zhang family.

If you have to store old wine for decades, it is better to store it in your own wine cellar with peace of mind.

The wine cellar at the second sister's house is also about to start construction. Not to mention the house, even half a cellar of tiger bone wine will definitely be enough for the second sister and their future expenses.

According to the plan given to brothers Gu Lei and Gu Ting, the second sister's half cellar of tiger bone wine may still be an important official capital in the future.

(End of this chapter)