1979 The Life of Idle Fish

Chapter 70 The Ice Cellar
The house I have been thinking about for so long is finally in my name. I have only bought two houses in so many years, which is a bit too little. I must buy a few more houses quietly next.

Early the next morning, after the whole family had breakfast, they hurried over to take a look for fear that it would fly away in a blink of an eye.

Luo Tao took the key and unlocked the door. Hey, the lock should be changed. This is not opening the door but picking the lock.

After entering the gate, you come to the hanging flower gate, which is the so-called front yard. There is a moon gate on the right hand side leading to the left courtyard.

Luo Tao pointed to the hanging flower door and asked them: "Dad, Mom, how do you feel? Is it impressive or not?"

"It's grand, it's really grand. I just never thought that one day I would be able to live in such a high-end mansion. It's great."

Luo Shaoyi touched the door and was very impressed that he could live in such a magnificent house. This was his childhood dream, but he never expected that his son would fulfill it today.

Otherwise, people still have to set a small goal for themselves, and I don’t know which day it may be achieved.

Besides, the hanging flower door is a very particular door in the courtyard. It is the dividing line between the inner house and the outer house (front yard) and the only passage.

The main purpose of this door is to have a defensive function, and secondly to have a shielding function, that is, it can protect the daily privacy of the owner's back house within a certain range.

The vertical flower gate is generally in the middle of the north side of the outer courtyard, opposite to the middle room of the inverted south room facing the street.

After entering the inner house, there are corridors on the left and right, but the pillars and floor tiles are a bit broken. If there is no tree in the large yard, there should be one in the past.

This courtyard must be more than 300 square meters, and the north room has seven rooms, two rooms, and nine rooms. This is the standard configuration of a large courtyard. Luo Tao's house can only be regarded as a middle courtyard, with the north room having three rooms and two rooms.

The middle cross corridor is separated to the left and right with the vertical flower gate as the central axis, and the gray bricks used on the road surface are also often damaged.

The north room is connected to the left and right side rooms by a corridor. It's a coincidence that the right side room is exactly level with the Luo family's left side room, mainly because the Luo family's house is set back a lot.

There is another family behind the Luo family. The house is a bit small. The entire courtyard is only about [-] square meters. .

The doors and windows of the house were also damaged to varying degrees, and the tiles on the roof also looked a bit messy.

The family passed the left ear room, which was divided into two halves, one half was reserved for worshiping the ancestral tablets, and the other half was the aisle leading to the backyard.

Entering the last entrance, there is a moon door on the right, leading to a small garden, where there is also a crabapple tree full of flowers.

Entering the two-story building first, the area with nine rooms after opening the door seems very empty. There are still a few blackboards left here and there. There is not much else, except for a thin layer of dust.

There is a wooden staircase on the left hand side of the entrance leading to the second floor. Luo Tao did not take his family up, mainly because Zhu Lin had a big belly and it was difficult to move, so he had to look around here.

When she came out, Su Guilan said, "The house is too big. This cleaning should not exhaust you to death."

Su Guilan was frightened when she thought about cleaning. It was scary just thinking about it.

"Mom, don't worry, I won't fall in love with you. I'll do it myself."

Luo Tao had no choice but to comfort him first. Then he would have to clean up even if he didn't help, which was unacceptable.

When we entered the garden, there was not much scenery. No one had taken care of it in the past few months, and the weeds had grown free. There were no flowers, but there was a jujube tree and a few unnamed evergreens.

Fortunately, the rockery is still there and the pool is dry. This large garden looks very empty, without any beauty at all.

While they were not paying attention, Luo Tao walked into the rockery and found that the secret door at the entrance of the cave had not been touched.

This rockery is not just for good looks. Its main purpose is to cover up the underground ice cellar. The person who built this ice cellar must have thought of it as a life-saving place.

There is a walkway more than one meter wide inside the rockery. There is a different stone slab in the middle of the rockery. From the outside, it looks the same as other stone slabs.

The difference is that this stone slab is movable. At an inconspicuous location on the inner wall of the rockery, there is a small protruding secret door that blocks the stone. As long as the small secret door is removed, the stone slab can be moved. opened.

There is a shallow stone groove four fingers wide on the slate. You can gently move the slate away with your hands. When you move it, you will find that the slate is very thin, about two or three fingers thick. There is an iron plate underneath, which can be used around It's push-pull, and it obviously has tracks and slots.

Pulling away the iron plate, there is a platform about half a meter deep from the ground. If you jump on the platform, you will see the slope stairs leading to the ice cellar.

This ice cellar should be four to five meters deep from the ground, surrounded by water and made of granite, which has a very good heat resistance effect. It covers an area of ​​about ten square meters, all under the rockery and pool.

Luo Tao didn't know where the vent inside led to the outside. The design was really clever, and it was like a cunning rabbit with three caves.

I don’t know if anyone else knows about this place?

At this time, Luo Tao did not open it and went in. He came here to check to see if anyone had touched this place. The main purpose was to verify whether the Hu family knew about it? .

"Why did you go into the rockery?" Luo Shaoyi asked suspiciously.

"It's okay, I lost a lot of money playing here before, I'll check to see if I'm still there." Luo Tao could only tell a boring lie, and now he didn't want anyone but him to know. "It will be nonsense, it happened many years ago, and now I can still find it"

Su Guilan said with a smile, "Luo Tao's mouth is very careless. If you say this, it will make people laugh out loud. Although it is not as stupid as searching for a sword, it is almost the same."

Zhu Lin also smiled and said that Luo Tao didn't know whether he was naive or innocent.

The family left the garden with a smile and started to return the same way. They walked out of the hanging flower gate and crossed the courtyard to the left to take a look at the courtyard here. Well, it's better not to look at it.

It's worse than entering the hospital three times. It seems that this needs to be seen by Master Wang early. This is a big project and cannot be done by one or two people.

Luo Tao supported Zhu Lin and said to Su Guilan and Luo Shaoyi: "Let's go back! It won't work if we don't repair it. After we repair it, we can go shopping again."

"Is it easy to find a repairman?" Luo Shaoyi asked Luo Tao.

"It's easy to find. Lao Zhangtou knows a master named Wang who has good skills. I'll go find him tomorrow."

"It's good to have people, and it doesn't matter if you spend more money."

"Tao'er, can you open the door and make it easier to come and go in the future?"

"Well, what you always said is, I'll find someone to check it out. Once I get through, I won't have to run back and forth."

"Yes, the wall happens to be connected to the wall. Just smash down the wall of the penthouse and make a door."

The family walked out of Guangliang Gate and just locked the door.

Uncle Wang came over and said, "Hey, I thought it was the Hu family? How come this is like this? Did your family buy it?"

This sentence was three consecutive questions. Uncle Wang's curiosity was really over the top. When Luo Tao asked about this house, he was a little doubtful that the Luo family would buy it, right?
Unexpectedly, it had only been so long before the whole family came to visit the house together, without the Hu family accompanying them.

This matter was left to his father Luo Shaoyi to handle. He smiled and asked Uncle Wang: "Old Wang, why can't I buy this house?"

"Old Luo, I don't mean anything else, I just didn't think of it."

"Hey, I know, I'm just kidding you, why can't I help but be funny? I really bought it, and all my family's capital was spent." Luo Shaoyi started with a smile, and then a look of pain on his face.

"Buying a house is a good thing. It's not that I don't know about your family. The shop in Liulichang will come back soon. How can your family be short of this money?" Uncle Wang acted like I understand, I understand everything.

Luo Shaoyi said quietly: "I don't know what the year of the monkey is, but fortunately the old man left some money, otherwise he really wouldn't be able to afford this house."

What could Uncle Wang say when he heard this? He could only blame himself for not having a good father.

He smiled and said: "I heard about it soon, so don't worry, it's your family who can't escape."

"Hey, why are you thinking about buying this house? It's not like you don't know what's going on inside. Just repairing it will cost a lot of money."

"Hey, the old man wanted to buy this house before he was alive. Didn't they not sell it? Now that they want to sell it, it's the old man's wish to buy it." Luo Shaoyi recalled the past with a look of sadness on his face.

"Oh, that's what you said. People always have something to think about when they are alive."

"Well, I won't invite you in today. I'll invite all the neighbors to come when the repairs are completed."

"Haha, if you're so kind, I'll congratulate you first. It's really a double happiness. I bought this big house and now three generations live under one roof. Lao Luo, you are so lucky."

Su Guilan said: "You have honey on your lips today."

"Sister-in-law, your words have changed now?"

"Has it changed?"

"Hey, why haven't you changed? If you change, you will praise me. You have never praised me before."

"Ha ha"

……

When Luo Tao and the others arrived at the gate of the small courtyard, they said goodbye to Uncle Wang.

From now on, everyone in this alley knows that the Luo family bought the Sanjin mansion next door, and it was used as a topic of discussion after dinner, and it was discussed for a long time.

　Thank you [Liao Chengjun] for the big reward
　　Thanks to friends for their recommendation and support
　　There have been very few collections and recommendations in recent days, and I don’t know how much it can rise with this small push.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)