5. Despair(1/2)
As it turns out, Takasaki's idea was too funny.
That night, he dug the hole as big as a fist down for a meter and a half until he could no longer get the soil below.
As a result, the following is still in the field.
In his opinion, the cellar must be smaller than the side room above. If he could not dig an empty place, it means that it was not where the cellar was.
So, after get off work the next afternoon, he came back from dinner in the factory canteen, filled the hole he dug the previous day to death, covered it with red bricks, and started digging in another place.
As a result, no empty place was found.
In this way, I dug five or six holes in different places in the house, and it was all the same.
He was a little desperate. Could it be that he misread while watching TV that the cellar was not in this small courtyard?
He is so familiar with this place that he should not read it wrong.
Otherwise, the world he came to was not exactly the same as the original world.
There is no cellar underground here.
During this period, except for coming back in the evening, he dug holes in the side room, and spent the rest of his time in the factory, just like his previous life, sitting in the repair workshop, waiting for the team leader Wu Youchen to arrange work, and then work.
He is usually taciturn and only knows how to work.
Sometimes when he goes out to work in the workshop and meets his wife occasionally, he will smile honestly at his wife like in his previous life, and then quickly lowers his head and walks over.
He can face his wife calmly.
That was because he was afraid that if some place would be changed by himself, his wife would not say that word to him that afternoon in the summer.
His wife is beautiful and has a gentle personality. Any unmarried young man in the branch will like his wife, and he is of course no exception.
When he saw his wife, he would blush, so he just smiled and quickly lowered his head and walked away.
He was afraid that his wife would blush when she saw him.
However, in this life, he suddenly realized that he would not blush when he saw his wife.
I hurriedly lowered my head and then walked by, just deliberately imitating the actions of my previous life, afraid of any change from the previous life.
When he saw his wife, the only thing he wanted to do was to hold her into his arms.
But he dared not.
As we were getting closer to that special moment, there was still no shadow in the cellar and silver dollars.
He was really desperate.
When he came back that afternoon, he didn't plan to continue digging the hole.
He had already hit more than thirty holes in the side room, and it was almost right next to each other, but there was still no sign that there was an empty place under the room.
He filled the last hole to death, covered the original red brick, then took the poke, went down the tunnel, and prepared to put it in the original place.
After putting down the poke bar, he turned around and saw the wall on one side of the stove.
By this time, it was already early May, the sky was already long, and it was still bright outside at six o'clock.
The walls were built with gray bricks around the tunnel.
He discovered that there was a little strange thing on the wall on the left side of the stove.
Although they are all gray bricks, the walls are not built like this.
Generally, brick joints are staggered when building walls. However, in this place, brick joints are not staggered, but a straight line.
The setting sun just fell on the straight brick crack, and he discovered the abnormality.
In the factory, we should pay attention to helping each other at that time.
Anyone who needs to build a courtyard wall, build a kitchen, or build a chicken coop or a coal shed will do it yourself, prepare the building materials, and then call a colleague to come and help.
Gao Qi is tall and strong, and he often helps his colleagues with these jobs after work. He is not unfamiliar with the walls and can build them himself. He is considered half an expert.
So, he could see at a glance that something was coming from the wall.
A straight crack appeared, indicating that there was a gate or something in that place, but it was blocked and gray bricks were built.
He picked up the poke strip, followed the straight crack, and pried the gray bricks on one side down.
Behind the gray bricks, there was nothing.
But this soil is not the raw soil excavated from new land, but the cooked soil that has seen the sun.
It is not difficult for Takasaki to distinguish between raw and cooked soil.
The grey bricks are cooked soil behind it, which means that the soil was artificially filled in, not the original appearance of the underground.
He pried off a few rows of gray bricks and then used poke strips to dig the cooked soil behind the bricks to form a hole.
When he dug in half a meter deep, a "bang" sound hit the hard object with a "bang".
He expanded the entrance of the cave and the hard object appeared, which was a large stone slab.
When it got dark, he had already pried out the stone slab, and a dark hole appeared inside, and a bad smell came to his face.
He covered his mouth and nose, called the flashlight, and shone it into the hole, and saw a downward slope below the hole.
At this time, he had realized that he had found the entrance to the cellar.
But he still kept his clear mind.
For some reason, his ability to control himself in this life was much stronger than that in the previous life.
He could control himself and pass by his beloved wife in a simple way. This was something he could not do in his previous life.
He found a lot of waste paper, lit it one by one, threw it into the hole, and saw that the waste paper was burning normally inside, so he felt relieved to use the flashlight in.
No wonder he could not find so many holes in the side room.
This cellar is deeper underground. The slope has a very large inclination and can hardly stand on its feet. It leads to the bottom of the side room. The top is located at least two or three meters deep. How can he find it in the side room?
The cellar is completely earthy and the surrounding walls are still dry.
It turned out that outside the yard was a river bank. The river had dried up decades ago, and the bank turned into an incomplete slope wall.
In other words, the money treasury is buried deep underground from the yard. But from the embankment, it is still on the ground, so it is easy to keep it dry.
Perhaps, this is also an important reason why the owner puts the money here.
The cellar is only one meter square, just a small hole, and it can only accommodate the large jar, and people cannot stand upright inside.
The large jar is about one meter high, with a black layer covering it, I don’t know what it is.
Takasaki shone the flashlight and wiped the layer of things with his hands. It was sticky and seemed to be greasy.
Under the greasy area, it is slightly yellowed and has a thick layer of oil cloth.
There was a hemp rope around the cylinder. He opened the hemp rope and lifted the oil cloth down. There was a full tank of silver dollars inside.
He can't calculate how many silver dollars there are in this tank.
It said on TV that there are more than 100,000 yuan.
He grabbed silver dollars, filled his two trouser pockets, and then covered the tart cloth.
The hemp rope has rotted, lost its strength, and has broken into several sections.
He came out of the hole, returned to the main house, took out the silver dollars from his pocket, put them on the Eight Immortals table in the outer room, and counted them, and there were 114.
Then he turned over and went out, went to the side room to find a rope, went down to the cellar, and tied the tart cloth back to the tank.
Turn around and move the bluestone slab back in, and then put the gray bricks outside the bluestone slab.
I found a broom and a shovel, swept up all the soil on the ground, put it into the yard above the pit, scattered it on the wall, stepped it firmly, cleaned everything, and then returned to the house again to see the silver dollars.
Silver dollars are the kind that everyone has seen.
It is said that many of the people on the market are fake, but these are definitely true, because they have been reported on TV.
Besides, people a hundred years ago would not be full and would have eaten so much, so they got so many fake silver dollars and hid them here.
After this thing is put, one may be worth tens of thousands of yuan.
However, he needs money now, so that his wife can live a good life with him and cannot wait.
On Sunday, he went to the antique market in the city and asked the vendors selling antique coins for the price.
The so-called antique market is an ordinary urban street. There is a free market in the street, and everything is sold. Opposite is the flower and bird market.
There are many street stalls selling so-called antiques in the middle of the street. However, the really larger antique merchants do some mount calligraphy and paintings, make old and sell antique porcelain and jade in the shops behind these street stalls.
There are also silver dollars sold on street stalls, most of which are fake.
Takasaki went to find out the price.
"Eighty ones." The stall owner told him.
After seeing the real silver dollar, Takasaki took the stall owner's silver dollar and weighed it, he knew it was fake, and the sound became much crisper.
"Are you cash register?" he asked the stall owner.
"Cake it." The stall owner answered him.
To be continued...