Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 406 Jade Seal
He looked out the door, and after making sure that no one else would come over at this point, he bolted the door from the inside.

Walking to that corner, in order to save time, Zhang Yu directly collected all the garbage on the ground into the secret space, then took out a new shovel from the space, and quickly dug in the previous direction.

It wasn't until he cleaned up all the soil around the slate that he saw the specific shape of the slate.

The round stone slabs used here are slightly smaller than the ones used by my grandfather. Zhang Yu felt that he should be able to move them by himself.

He pried up a corner of the stone slab with a shovel, then bent down, put his hand into the pried up place with the shovel and began to exert force.

After the stone slab was removed, a dark cellar was exposed. Zhang Yu poked his probe inside and smelled a decaying smell. He hesitated for a while, but decided to let the cellar ventilate first, and then go in later .

He was not idle when the cellar was being ventilated, but casually looked at the place where the original house was. After looking at it for a while, he suddenly found a strange place.

When he was passing there, he accidentally stepped on a floor tile made of bluestone slabs. When he looked down at the floor tile, he suddenly discovered that it was a fire point.

Although the bricks and tiles of the house have been taken away, the bluestone slabs on the ground are still there. The traces on those slabs clearly tell Zhang Yu that this is the place where the whole house caught fire first, not the place where the whole house caught fire. Kitchen like those people suspect.

The house was on fire, and it is not surprising that there is a fire point, but yesterday he asked the old people in the yard, and the old people said that the yard caught fire suddenly, and when someone found out to put out the fire, the girders of the house and everything would be damaged. It was already on fire, and when they broke open the door and came in, all the rooms were on fire together, and the kitchen was the most burned, so some people suspected that the kitchen was the first place to catch fire.

The old man still clearly remembered that they had been busy for most of the night that night, but failed to put out the fire. In the end, it was a sudden heavy rain that stopped the house from continuing to burn.

After the fire was brought under control, when a few young people ventured in to rescue people wearing wet quilts, they found that the whole family had died unfortunately.

The original owner's family of six, including a newborn daughter, all died in the fire, and none survived.

Because it was discovered late, and the fire was too strong at that time, and it was night, so no one can clearly tell where the fire started?

The subsequent heavy rain also caused many traces to disappear. As a result, the owner of the house had no relatives, and no one would pursue them for them. Coupled with the inaction of the government at that time and the slackness of the police, this matter was closed. Accidentally closed the case, and then nothing happened.

The original owner had no relatives, and the police didn't care. Naturally, no one took the risk of offending the police to check for the fire.

When talking about the original owner's family, those old people showed regretful expressions.

Such a good family just disappeared, especially the young children who went with them.

The old man sighed when he thought of the little corpses carried out from that room. The child was still so young and hadn't seen this world yet, so he walked away with him.

Thinking of what those old people said, and looking at the fire point in front of him, the structure of the house and the distance between each house, Zhang Yu suddenly had some ideas in his mind.

Is it?

In order to verify this idea, he checked all the floors of the houses carefully, and finally identified six fire points in total.

As soon as these six fire points came out, the cause of the fire became clear.

He can now say with certainty that the fire was definitely not an accident. If there were only one or two fire points, it could still be involved in the accident.

But there are six fire points in total, six places, who can have six fire points in a house fire?

Looking at the fire point in front of him, Zhang Yu's eyes flickered, wondering if all this has something to do with the cellar he discovered?
It happened that the cellar had been opened for half an hour at this time, full of doubts, Zhang Yu bit the flashlight in his mouth, clenched the tools for self-defense in his hand, and slowly climbed down the stairs.

The moment he landed, following his movements, a burst of dust rushed towards his face.

"Cough, cough, cough." Zhang Yu covered his nose with his hands and coughed vigorously. After a while, he felt better.

He shone it with a flashlight, and it was easy to see what the cellar looked like.

The space in the cellar is not large, about seven or eight square meters by visual inspection, and there are two large boxes near the corner, and there are no locks on the boxes.

Zhang Yu slowly approached the box, and carefully opened the cover with the tool in his hand, revealing a piece of something wrapped in yellow silk, and he used the tool to pick the silk as well.

"Yuxi, it's actually Yuxi!" Zhang Yu exclaimed in disbelief, he couldn't believe his eyes.

When his mind was still in shock, his body reacted first, and he didn't care about the danger anymore. He rushed up and hugged the jade seal in his arms, looking it up and down.

Yes, this is that treasure, that legendary thing.

The book describes that this jade seal is four inches in diameter, with five dragons in Shanghai, and engraved on the front with eight seal characters of "ordered by heaven, long life and eternal prosperity".

All right, all right.

Zhang Yu turned his gaze to the corner of the jade seal again, where there were traces of gold-inlaid repairs, which matched the legend.

Legend has it that Wang Mang, a power official in the Western Han Dynasty, felt that he was a good material to be an emperor, so he proposed to try it out once.

Empress Xiaoyuan of the Western Han Dynasty faced Wang Mang's usurpation of power and forced the palace and asked for the imperial jade seal.

Wang Mang grinned his teeth distressedly, and urgently ordered the craftsmen to mend it with gold. Since then, the Chuan Guo Yuxi has been called "Jade inlaid with gold".

Zhang Yu recalled all the records about this jade seal in the history books, and compared it. After all the details and all the anti-counterfeiting were matched, he finally confirmed that this jade seal was really the one that was passed on to the country.

The result he got made his body go limp, and he almost fell over like this.

But thinking of what he was holding in his hand, he felt full of strength again.

It wasn't that he was excited, but it was said that the Chinese people's concept of jade seals is different from any other cultural relics. Since the Qin Dynasty, this jade seal has been endowed with special meanings, and it even contains the hearts of the people.

(End of this chapter)