Rebirth 13, starting from the big demolition treasure hunt

Chapter 4 Arriving at the demolition area for the first time

On his way to Xudong Community to resign on his bicycle, Wu Yuansheng saw the words "Demolition Area" written on the walls of some houses on the Pawnshop Street side of Danjiang Road and the signs at the intersection.

When he passed by there before, he saw a two-story house on the opposite side of the road from a distance. The windows on the second floor were smashed and the door was removed.

This household's house must have been expropriated, otherwise the doors and windows would not have been smashed out.

"I don't know if some of the things in the houses of the residents who have moved out have been swept away by others. Let's go and check the situation first."

On the way to the pawnshop street, Wu Yuansheng thought in his mind.

He knew that after many people's houses were expropriated and they received demolition money, they threw away their belongings.

When he went to the demolition area, he also wanted to find things that had been left behind by residents who had moved away because they didn't know how to do it or had left them for too long and had forgotten to take them away.

When you go treasure hunting in demolition areas, you can often find something valuable.

He is no stranger to demolition areas.

There was a time, that is, in his previous life, the year before he was reborn, he used a detector to hunt for treasure.

He had been to places like that and hunted for treasures in the homes of residents who had moved away.

I remember that at that time, a river embankment behind the old street in Zhangwan Town, XZ District, was built to build a road and a green belt along the river.

In order to build roads and greening projects, many houses were demolished in that area.

At that time, a lot of dirt was dumped on the river embankment every day.

Most of this muck is excavated from nearby muck dumps and transported on muck trucks.

At that time, large-scale demolition had ended, and large-scale house building was rare.

There are fewer houses to build, so there is less time to dig basements to collect soil layers and dump the muck elsewhere.

Generally, when muck is needed, some will be dug from the previous soil yard.

Just like he did when he went to explore the old dirt field before, after a while there might be a place where some dirt needs to be dug out, and then the soil layer inside would be exposed.

This gave him the opportunity to re-explore the treasure hunt.

Of course, at that time, in addition to detecting the old slag fields nearby where the slag was excavated, he also went to the places where the slag was dumped to build river embankments and green belts along the river.

[Wu Yuansheng was able to discover that there were treasures to be found in the demolition area, and he had to start with a treasure hunt. 】

I remember it was a cloudy day. He got up in the morning, washed up, took the detector and other tools, got on his bicycle and went out.

After breakfast, he went directly to the embankment behind the old street.

In some newly dumped mounds of dirt on the edge of the river embankment, when he used a detector to detect the possible presence of copper coins and other metal objects in the muck, it started to rain heavily.

Maybe it’s because I thought it wouldn’t rain when I went out, or maybe I’m used to not bringing an umbrella.

When it rained heavily, he had no choice but to pack up his detectors and other tools and hide from the rain nearby.

The nearest place to take shelter from the rain happens to be the house of a demolished resident who was moved away due to road construction next to the river embankment.

In a hurry, he took his things and ran quickly to the homes of those residents who had moved out.

Wu Yuansheng remembered that the place where he took shelter from the rain that day was a three-room red brick house in a herringbone shape.

At that time, the door and windows of that house were smashed.

The ground inside the house was very messy, with old clothes, old shoes, broken jars, cans, bottles and other things thrown everywhere.

He was bored while hiding from the rain. After putting his things on the cement floor, he started looking at this family's house.

I remember that he found a pair of iron candlesticks on a cabinet opposite the door of this family's home.

This pair of iron candlesticks is an old object, at least a hundred years old.

The reason why Wu Yuansheng remembered it so clearly was because later a man liked the pair of candlesticks, and he also liked that man's portrait of Guan Yu, the God of Wealth, and the two bartered.

In addition to the pair of iron candlesticks, he also found a large porcelain bowl from the 70s and [-]s in the kitchen behind the house.

There are patterns of grains and grains painted on the surface of the bowl, and the words "Do it yourself, have enough food and clothing" and "Happy Harvest" are written on it.

This bowl looked like something from a special era, and he sold it for 100 yuan at the antique market.

After the rain stopped that day, he stopped detecting for the time being.

Because not every detection can detect something, sometimes the upside-down soil is not the living soil layer, or is not in the tomb area, so basically nothing can be detected.

After going back and putting away the detectors and other things, Wu Yuansheng returned here and started searching in the homes of other residents who had moved away.

After more than a week of sweeping the demolition area, he swept through all the homes of the residents who had moved out.

Whether it was something that could be sold directly for money or something that he could use himself, he found a lot.

The harvest gained in that more than a week was no less than the harvest he gained from using the detector to detect treasures.

In addition to here, when he later went to some old houses in demolition areas in the countryside to search for treasures, he would also first look for valuable things that the residents did not take away after moving.

Through his own personal experience, he knows that hunting for treasures in the homes of residents who have moved away from the demolition area is just like using a detector to find treasures. If you are lucky, you can gain a lot.From then on, Wu Yuansheng would go to the demolition area to sweep up on rainy days or when there was no better place to search for treasures.

In the morning, he went to the demolition area over the pawnshop street to hunt for treasures, exchange some money for living expenses, and then buy a detector to detect some soil fields. That was the purpose of his coming here.

There are no bicycles anymore, so Wu Yuansheng can only walk.

It would have only taken 5 minutes to get there by bicycle, but he walked almost 20 minutes to get there.

"After you get money, you must first buy a car! Without a car, just walking will waste a lot of time hunting for treasure."

When they were almost there, Wu Yuansheng thought.

Pawnshop Street is located at Lane [-], Ninth Street, F City, which is a shanty town.

Just from the superficial name "Pawn Shop Street", we can tell that this must have been a very prosperous place.

During the year and a half he had been involved in antique treasure hunting, he had heard others mention this place many times.

It is said that when houses were demolished to build riverside avenues and high-rise buildings were built, a lot of good things were produced here.

Someone detected a jar of silver coins, someone detected a large bag of gold and silver jewelry, someone detected a few "little yellow croakers", someone picked up a few complete pieces of porcelain, someone picked up some good bricks...

During the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the Nine Streets and Eighteen Alleys were considered the most prosperous places in the entire city.

At that time, there were brothels, teahouses, restaurants, guild halls, etc. here.

As soon as he got there, he heard the sound of breaking glass. It should be workers arranged by the demolition office smashing the windows of the residents who had moved out.

After walking inside for a while, he saw a few people riding tricycles recycling scraps. These people were traveling with Hei Lei, and maybe they all knew each other.

Their car stopped at the entrance of the alley, and someone on the tricycle kept shouting:

"Recycle old refrigerators, old air conditioners, washing machines, televisions, computers, water heaters, electric vehicles, motorcycles, mahjong machines..."

Wu Yuansheng observed the surrounding environment while walking, especially the homes of those residents who had moved away.

After walking forward for a while, he saw a few women in their 30s standing on the side of an alley, dressed coolly and fashionably.

As he approached them, the women waved to him and shouted:

"Handsome guy, come in and play for a while!"

"Handsome, do you want to relax?"

"Handsome, do you need a massage? Come in and enjoy it!"

………………

Although he has not had direct contact with these women and the business they do, he has heard from others.

Ignoring these women, he continued to walk forward, intending to take a look at the demolition area as a whole.

Wu Yuansheng worked as a security guard and had never been here before. When he came here again a few years later, it was already a high-rise building.

The place he was walking on now had later turned into a wide road.

After walking about 800 meters further, this straight alley ends, with a repaired road ahead.

Where he just walked, on both sides of the alley, there were also women of different ages doing business.

The houses on both sides of this long alley are mostly one- and two-story houses. Most of them are blue-brick and blue-tiled houses. Some houses have signs hanging in front of their doors that read "Historic Buildings."

Houses labeled as historical buildings generally have a history of more than a hundred years.

Wu Yuansheng stopped and looked at the notice posted on the wall in front of a house for a while, and learned about the general situation of the demolition.

The demolition of this alley with a total length of more than 1000 meters is to build a road, a thoroughfare along the river.

From what is written on the notice, this long alley is called Zhongshan Back Street, and this area is within the scope of Nine Streets and Eighteen Lanes.

Wu Yuansheng had just seen it. Not many residents have moved out here. Walking from the pawnshop street to the riverside and along this long alley until here, no more than ten residents have moved out so far.

After reading this, he returned to the original route and continued to look at other places.

On the notice posted on the wall of a house on the Pawnshop Street, he took another look at the scope of demolition.

Not only the Pawnshop Street, but also the Ermi Factory and the Ma Daokou area are also within the scope of demolition and expropriation.

The houses here include private houses, old factories, and unit buildings.

Most of the houses are taller than those in the back streets of Zhongshan, especially the unit buildings. There are several seven-story buildings.

He also learned about it here, and after observing the current expropriation situation, he found that not many residents had moved out.

It's better if not many residents move out. If more residents move out, your chances will be even less.

Just after the demolition, there will be more opportunities.

After knowing the approximate demolition area of ​​the demolition area and the current demolition progress, Wu Yuansheng found a nearby household that had moved out and walked in.

(End of this chapter)