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  Chapter 452 Found it! Found it!

   Treasure cave?

  Grandma actually nodded: "It seems that I really heard my third brother say that the family has dug a treasure cave. After all, it was a time of war and chaos."

   "Wow!"

  The fourth child was so happy that she jumped up and down. She just saw Shan Xing picked up a hairpin and wanted to find some treasures, so she asked casually.

  Liu Qingshan couldn't help feeling refreshed: he had heard some reports of treasures being unearthed in this old house.

   "I heard it from my third brother when I was a child, but I don't know if it really exists, let alone where it is."

  Grandma shook her head, she is the young lady of the family, and will belong to someone else's family in the future, so there are some secrets in the house that she is not entitled to know.

  The face of Xiao Lao Si was immediately full of disappointment.

  But soon, the little guy's eyes lit up: "Then we can look for it. The wall where people were hiding just now was discovered by Shan Xing and I by accident!"

  Liu Qingshan also shook his head straightly: "Such a big house, do you have to dig three feet into the ground? Fourth, don't make trouble, let's go home first."

  But at this moment, the dumb grandfather suddenly said ahhh twice, and made a few gestures with his hands.

   "Master, you said that you found out just now that there is something abnormal, so let's take a look!"

  Liu Qingshan has almost blind trust in the master, since the master said that there is something abnormal, there must be something wrong.

  The mute grandpa nodded with a smile, and then led the way ahead.

  He really doesn't care much about treasures. When he found so many treasures in the treasure cave, he just collected some gold and prepared it for his apprentices to get married in the future.

   All the way to the small garden, because no one takes care of it, it looks like a forest of grass and trees.

  Uncle Lao Mao'er's plan is to find a master who is proficient in gardening in the spring of next year, and arrange it properly.

   Stepping on the knee-deep grass, the dumb grandpa came to a stone platform.

  Grandma Qiu Ju looked around: "Oh, I remembered, this used to be a gazebo, and my lady and I used to catch crickets here."

  It’s just the ground part of the gazebo, it’s all gone, probably because the wood rotted and collapsed, and then it was cleaned up.

  The dumb grandfather paced on the stone platform, walked back and forth a few times, and finally stretched out his hand, pointing to the bluestone slab under his feet.

  Liu Qingshan also tried it in the past, and compared with the surrounding bluestone slabs, he didn't seem to feel any difference.

   Soon, the dumb grandfather found a shovel, cleaned up the area around the stone slab, and then directly inserted his finger into the crack of the stone. Without seeing how hard he was, he lifted up the one-meter-square stone.

   There is another layer of blue bricks underneath, which feels a bit weird. It stands to reason that it is enough to lay sand underneath, and there is no need to lay bricks.

   After cleaning up the green bricks and sand, a rusty iron plate finally appeared, with an iron ring on one end.

  Liu Qingshan pulled hard, but the iron ring was pulled off, and it was already corroded badly.

   The iron plate could only be pried open with a shovel, and a one-meter-square entrance appeared below, extending diagonally downward.

   "Found it, found it!"

  The youngest and fourth child clapped their hands in joy.

  Shan Xing next to him booed for a moment, and then the little fourth stuck out his tongue and stopped shouting, but his little face was still full of excitement.

   Master is still amazing, and this can find abnormalities.

  Liu Qingshan couldn't hide his excitement, it wasn't that he was greedy for money, the main reason was that if there was anything in it, it must be an old item from grandma's house. To grandma, of course, the meaning is extraordinary.

There are steep steps at the downward entrance, and the fourth child is about to go down in a hurry, but is grabbed by Liu Qingshan: "In such a closed environment, the air inside needs to circulate for a while, otherwise there will be a lack of oxygen." of."

  The fourth child nodded: "Brother, is it the same as when we went into the potato cellar in winter?"

  Liu Qingshan smiled and touched her little head. The fourth child is still very smart, and belongs to the kind who can see through a little.

  After letting it go for a while, Liu Qingshan was still not at ease. When he went down, besides bringing a flashlight, he also lit a candle.

  If the candle goes out, it proves that there is not enough oxygen in it, so you should hurry up.

  He went down with Master Uncle Maoer, leaving Master on top to respond, and if there was an emergency, it could be resolved.

   Otherwise, there will only be old and small people left on it.

  Follow the stone steps, go down step by step, and after more than one foot high, you enter a stone room.

   It is estimated that it will be the size of a room, and it is a bit damp inside and exudes a pungent musty smell.

  In the stone room, there are a few boxes, and in the corner, there are also some small utensils scattered here and there. Things that are too big may not be brought in.

  Liu Qingshan had just placed the candles, when he heard the deliberately lowered voice of the little brother from above: "Brother, do you have any baby?"

   "There should be some."

  Liu Qingshan looked at the silver dollars scattered out of a wooden box, but these silver dollars have turned black due to oxidation.

   "Then let's go down too!"

  The little fourth child has long envied the experience of the elder brother and Shan Xing discovering the treasure cave, and wanted to experience it for himself. Unexpectedly, this wish came true today.

  Liu Qingshan opened his hands at the bottom, picking up the two little guys.

   There were still several steps to go, and the fourth child jumped straight down, clucking into Liu Qingshan's arms.

  Shan Xing is more honest, climbing down bit by bit.

   "Yuan Datou, a lot of Yuan Datou!"

  The little old four let out a loud cry, then remembered something, and covered his little mouth hard.

  Opening the wooden box, there were letters of Yuan Datou inside, and the outside was wrapped in oiled paper. Except for the scattered ones that were a little black, the rest were very shiny.

  Liu Qingshan reckoned that there are still several thousand of them.

  At that time, Yuan Datou was a hard-to-find, wealthy family, and it was not uncommon for a few hundred coins to be as many as several thousand coins.

  The fourth little brother was not greedy, and grabbed three Yuan Datou from inside: "Shanxing, I'll give you one, and I'll give Xiaohuo another one when we get up, one for each of us, hee hee."

  After speaking, she held Yuan Datou and put it near her mouth, blew hard, and then put it to her ear to listen. She didn't know who she learned from, she was a little money fan.

   After listening with squinted eyes, I don’t know if she heard anything, so she took Liu Qingshan’s arm with her small hand, and said in his ear:

   "Brother, the book says that everything dug out of the ground must be handed over to the state, so what should we do, or should we hand over half and keep the other half?"

  Liu Qingshan poked her on the forehead with his hand: "These things are left by grandma's house in the past, and of course they belong to grandma. Why do you have to hand them in?"

Yes! The little fourth child immediately smiled: "Then we will leave it to grandma."

  You little money junkie.

  Liu Qingshan calculated in his mind, with the amount of Yuan Datou, it is definitely a huge sum of money even now.

   Calculated on the basis of 5,000 pieces, each piece can be sold for 7 or 8 yuan, that is 30,000 to 40,000 yuan.

  In the era when households with ten thousand yuan were scarce, of course it was a huge sum of money.

   What's more, there are several boxes in this basement.

  When they were checking Yuan Datou, Lao Maoer had already pried open another box, and now even he exclaimed:

   "It's all small yellow croakers and big yellow croakers!"

  After speaking, he bent down and moved the box, and then weighed it: "It must weigh forty or fifty catties, at least."

  At that time, gold bars were rarely circulated in the market. Even if they wanted to spend them, they had to be exchanged for silver dollars first. Therefore, these gold bars were usually stored by wealthy families for preservation.

   As the so-called "gold in troubled times", in that war-torn era, it was normal for rich people to store some gold.

   This time, the fourth child didn’t take it anymore. Liu Qingshan thought she knew the gold bars were valuable, but she and Shan Xing were discussing:

   "This one is too heavy, it's hard to put it in your pocket."

  A large yellow croaker, more than 300 grams, more than half a catty, and small in size, of course it feels heavy.

  Liu Qingshan made a rough estimate, based on the weight of fifty catties: a total of twenty-five kilograms.

  The current price of gold is about 80 yuan per gram, that is to say, the price of these gold is two million!

   Be good, even if Liu Qingshan has made a lot of money now, he is a little stunned by this figure.

  He can only say: Grandma, your family is really rich!

   Moreover, in the basement, there are not only these yellow and white things, but also two or three boxes.

  With excitement, Liu Qingshan opened a bigger wooden box, but was a little disappointed in the result, it should be filled with silk and other silk products.

  Because the basement is relatively humid, these silks are all moldy, and they must not be used.

   Open it again, it’s still moldy silk, it’s a pity that these good things, otherwise, the price would not be lower than those silver dollars.

   There is the last box left, and it is also the smallest, but it is tightly sealed, with brass decorations on all four corners, and a lock on it.

  Liu Qingshan didn't have the heart to destroy it, so after moving it up, try to find a way to open it.

  Besides these boxes, there were some other things piled up in the corner, Liu Qingshan went to look through them, his face full of resentment.

   There should be some antiques and the like, probably piled up here in a hurry, so there are basically no protection measures.

  Those dozen or so scrolls, at first glance, should be calligraphy and paintings, but they are all rotten and out of shape.

  Think about the fate of the silk in those boxes, let alone this paper thing?

  Among the pile of paintings and calligraphy, there are some utensils, like two Buddha statues, but Liu Qingshan didn't dare to do it.

  He felt that it was better to call Uncle Lu and Erye Bai and let these two professionals see whether these paintings and calligraphy were worth saving.

  As for gold bars and silver dollars, they can be shipped back first.

   But you can’t say anything. It’s better to avoid outsiders. After all, this kind of thing is too troublesome to explain, and it is easy to make people jealous.

   A few people went back to the ground first, and told their grandparents about the situation in the basement. Grandma kept wiping the corners of her eyes:

   "Sanfeng, those things, you can just figure it out."

  Liu Qingshan comforted with a smile: "Of course, grandma has the final say on the things in grandma's house."

   "We're all so old, there's nothing we can't take care of, these extraneous things, we don't bring them with us when we die." Grandma thinks about it.

  Liu Qingshan smiled: "I'll keep that for you too, Grandma, at least it's just a thought."

   So it was decided, the stone slabs were covered again, and when they came to the front courtyard, Liu Qingshan simply gave the construction team a few days off and told them to start work after the National Day.

  The workers have received the money, and now they are on holiday again. After tidying up, they happily go home for the holiday.

   But the old hat didn't leave: "No, there are so many good things, we have to leave someone here to guard them."

"Uncle, let's go, you still have to pull people with three rounds. When I didn't know it before, didn't you put it there for decades." Liu Qingshan dragged the uncle out, locked the door, and Let's talk at home.

   When I returned to the small courtyard, I saw Erye Bai leading Zhang Chunyu, still busy in the temporary study.

   "Second Master, you don't rest this holiday season, and you make me feel embarrassed, so why not work harder on you." Liu Qingshan said with a smile, and told Bai Erye about the situation.

   Liu Qingshan is quite trusting to Bai Erye, with good craftsmanship and tight mouth, just like these calligraphy and paintings he repaired, without revealing his tone to the outside world.

   "Then you have to go and have a look. According to you, the damage is more serious, but don't worry about Qingshan, as long as it doesn't turn into mud, the second master can try to restore it for you."

  Second Master Bai was also in a hurry, so he rushed to see it immediately, but was stopped by Liu Qingshan: "It's a big holiday, let's go tomorrow."

  Those yellow and white things, he plans to bring them back with Mr. Lao Maoer and Uncle Lu in the afternoon. Of course, the fewer people know about these things, the better.

  After lunch, the three of them took their tools and set off on a three-wheeler, dumped everything into the sack, and then pulled it back with a three-wheeler.

  Walking on the street, no one noticed at all. Who knows what kind of rags are in your sack?

   "There are quite a lot of gold bars and silver dollars. It seems that there will be no need to collect these in the future."

  Uncle Lu thinks quite long-term.

  He and the old hat walked around the streets, and the silver dollars were indeed collected.

  Liu Qingshan thought about it and said: "Silver dollars can still be collected. Gold bars are a rare thing. Even if they are collected, they can't collect a few in a year."

  The current price of gold is about 80 yuan per gram. Is this price cheap? It was definitely not cheap at that time.

  One month’s salary of an ordinary worker can buy one gram of gold.

  Yuan Datou, who is worth a few yuan now, will be at least a few hundred yuan in the future, and the room for appreciation is bigger than gold.

   Not to mention, some rare varieties in silver dollars, the price is even more boundless.

   While it is still possible to collect, of course we have to charge more.

   As for this batch of gold, Liu Qingshan felt that it would be good to keep a small part as a souvenir, and dispose of the rest if possible.

  In the future, with the rapid development of mining technology, the output of gold will increase, but it will actually depreciate.

  The journey was safe and sound, but when I arrived at the entrance of my own alley, I saw two police officers in uniform standing in front of me.

   "Hey, Mr. Mao, what's wrong with you today?" The person who asked the question was a middle-aged policeman, a police officer here, and he also knew what the old Mao did for a living.

   "Master Zhan, the festival is still going on."

  The old hat grinned and leaned over to pass cigarettes to the two policemen.

   "Hey, old Maoer, you've made a fortune, and you've smoked peonies." Police officer Zhan lit his cigarette, then nodded to Liu Qingshan, he also knew this young man.

  Of course, Liu Qingshan also looked as usual, and greeted cheerfully: "Comrade Zhan, sit at home for a while."

  Zhan Gongan took two puffs of his cigarette, and said in his mouth: "National Day is coming soon, don't forget to hang the national flag at home, if there is any situation, report it in time."

   "Okay, how about you." Old Maoer agreed, and rode three rounds into the alley.

   When he got to the door, Uncle Lu let out a sigh of relief: "I was so scared just now, I didn't dare to breathe out."

  Liu Qingshan said calmly: "There is nothing to be afraid of, this is our own home."

  (end of this chapter)