Rebirth of the Legend of the Red Age

Chapter 49, Underground Treasure House

The next morning after finishing his exercises, Wang Li returned to his room, took out the Vajra Sword from the camphorwood box, and walked to the corner of the living room on the first floor, where there was a staircase. Going up was the second floor of his main house, where he had his bedroom, and going down was the basement.

Wang Li went all the way to the second underground floor. At this time, the second underground floor was surrounded by antique shelves filled with small bronze and porcelain vases, bowls, plates, incense burners, etc., about 2 pieces in total.

But Wang Li did not put the sword on the shelf, but came to a shelf. He pressed a few buttons and pulled the shelf forward. He heard a creaking sound. It turned out that there were two metal folding arms behind the shelf, which made it possible to pull it open like a door.

Behind the antique display cabinet was an iron door. Wang Li took out the key, opened the door, and walked into a huge space. This was where Wang Li actually stored his collection.

This is an underground space 13 meters long, 8.5 meters high and 5 meters wide.

There are two 40cm pillars on each side of the space. Relying on these four pillars, Wang Li divided the space into: a 2-meter-wide aisle in the middle, and 1.5-meter-wide storage racks made of wood and steel that extend all the way to the ceiling on both sides of the aisle.

There is also a set of pulleys between the roof and the beams, which Wang Li designed for the convenience of moving items. There is also a movable ladder in the middle of the aisle to facilitate people to go up and down to store and retrieve items.

There are wooden signs on the front edges of the storage shelves on both sides, some of which say "porcelain", some say "books", some say "bronze", and some say "jade".

This is the classification that Wang Li made for the convenience of storage and retrieval. Each shelf is filled with elm wood boxes of the same shape and size.

Just these wooden boxes took Wang Li a lot of time. He used various means to raise the price of almost all the elm wood in Kyoto.

Wang Li came to the shelf with the words "bronze ware" and put the bronze sword into the wooden box. Then Wang Li stood in the middle of the aisle, looking at the wooden boxes on the left and right storage shelves with a sense of accomplishment. This was most of the collection he had collected through the scrap collection station in the past ten years.

The largest part of the collection is still ancient books, currently there are about 15 boxes, there are 3 boxes of calligraphy and paintings, 15 boxes of porcelain, and 15 boxes of bronze artifacts and coins.

These are the results of Wang Li and his parents' discussion to invest their rent, salary income and most of the ordinary dollars in recent years, in addition to daily expenses, into the collection. This is a quite astonishing fortune.

The biggest reason why the parents agreed was their trust in Wang Li and the box of gold. The gold was also in a wooden box in Wang Li's treasure house.

Wang Li attached great importance to this treasure house. He planned to add several layers of waterproofing to the treasure house when conditions allowed in the future, and to wrap the entire treasure house with steel plates to increase the safety factor.

Now, in order to keep the treasure house secret, he set up a fake treasure house outside the treasure house, that is, on the second floor underground of his room, and put a small part of the collections that he didn't value as a cover to deceive people.

After Wang Li admired it for a while, he took the self-made moisture absorption box out, locked the door and returned to the ground with the box. He put the box in the sun to dry, and put it back underground before the sun set.

This is done to prevent moisture and insects, because he not only added moisture-absorbing materials to the box, but also added some insect repellent powder to protect the safety of his treasures.

This is all because of the underdeveloped technology now. When we enter the modern society, Wang Li will install constant temperature equipment here and carry out modern renovations. This is the best we can do now.

(End of this chapter)