The renovation project of Li's old yard on Lushan Road just started today. During the day, we mainly did some cleaning work.
They moved the furniture out to the temporary awning set up on the ground, and then carefully checked every inch of the walls and floor under Li Ya's supervision, but found nothing.
After dinner, everyone else went to the People's Barber Shop to give money to Tang Qing, but Tsai Tou Tou did not go. He knew that going there would be in vain. Tang Qing could not accept the money. They were just trying to win Tang Qing's favor.
Cai Jiaotou was exposed to dead people all year round, and all the excitement seemed like nothing to him, so he continued to clean up the old yard alone under the light.
The old courtyard of the Li family on Lushan Road is a typical ordinary residence in Shancheng, with three main rooms and two side rooms.
There are three main rooms, the middle one is the hall, and the east and west rooms are the master bedroom and auxiliary bedroom respectively.
There are two wing rooms, the east wing is the kitchen and the west wing is the study.
The kitchen needs fire, so it should be located in the east. The sun shines first in the east, which means that the kitchen fire is strong. If the fire is strong, the food cooked will be delicious. If the food is delicious, the family will have a good appetite and good health.
Caitou Toutou deliberately checked the kitchen again this evening because he had heard some legends about the kitchen in the old yard of Li's family on Lushan Road.
Cai Jiao Tou Tou's family has lived on Lushan Road for generations, not far from the Li family's old courtyard.
Unlike the Li family on Lutai Mountain who have been doing business for generations, the Li family on Lushan Road has been in the official career since the Qing Dynasty and once held high officials. Originally, the old courtyard of the Li family on Lushan Road was also a mansion. By the time of Li Ya's grandfather, a fire broke out
Destroyed once.
It is normal for a fire to occur due to improper use of fire, but the strange thing is that the fire originated in the kitchen, but the kitchen was intact except for the doors and windows that were damaged in the fire.
At that time, Li Ya's grandparents were both important figures in the city of Shan. In order to show their integrity, they chose an ordinary house style of "three rooms and two bedrooms" when rebuilding. The kitchen was not rebuilt, and the stove that survived the fire was used.
Strangely enough, Li Ya's father cried and fussed all day after he was born. Only when he entered the kitchen did he feel at ease and even laugh, even when he went to bed at night.
Li Ya's grandparents had no choice but to temporarily set up a small bed in the kitchen for the nanny and Li Ya's father to sleep.
According to people familiar with the old yard of Li's family on Lushan Road, Li Ya's father still slept in the kitchen until the night before leaving Shancheng, including his wedding night, and owned Li Zhen.
The kitchen has not been used for a long time. Last time Li Li and Li Ya were doing funeral arrangements for their parents, the kitchen was also useless. Fatty Sun set up a temporary shed in the tunnel to cook the food.
In the early days, Li Ya lived in the old yard looking for treasures, and had three meals a day cooked by her neighbor next door.
This time the old courtyard was being renovated, so the kitchen would naturally not be used. Tang Qing’s parents and father-in-law were boiling tea and cooking for the engineering staff in a corner of the courtyard.
Huh?
What's this?
The hand that reached into the furnace touched something soft.
The hearth is the place where the stove burns fire.
During the day, Cai Tootou carefully checked the kitchen under Li Ya's supervision. From the cabinets to the chopstick cages, from the stove to the pots and pans, nothing was left open, not even the small wall hole for putting matches. There was nothing.
Discover.
In the evening, Cai Tootou wanted to light a fire to see if the stove could still be used. Before lighting the fire, he was afraid that there was something hidden in the stove, so he put his hand in and groped around, and found something soft.
The master's first reaction was to quickly retract his hands, not daring to touch the soft thing again.
What could it be?
Small animals?
Snake? Cat? Rat? Or something else?
Snakes, that's impossible. It's almost May 1st and they should end their hibernation and come out of their burrows early.
Cat, it's possible. Cats have the habit of sleeping in furnaces, but I haven't seen a cat all day long.
Rats, it's possible. Rats like to dig into holes, but it's so busy during the day. It's impossible for rats to be so bold and still hide in the furnace.
What on earth could it be?
The hand that has touched the object is put under the nostrils to smell it. This is a sign of experience. First, smell it. Is there any special smell?
If it is a small animal, such as a snake, cat, mouse, etc., it must have a special smell.
Um?
Why does it smell so good?
It's definitely not a small animal, but a valuable object. I have to tell Manager Li Ya quickly.
Caitou walked out of the kitchen, closed the door of Li's old home, and hurried to the downtown street.
Halfway through the walk, I thought, I can't go to the People's Barber Shop. There must be a lot of people there now. Once everyone knows about it, it will be regarded as a priceless treasure if not a treasure. In that case, the old yard of Li's family on Lushan Road will really not be peaceful.
So, Cai Tootou came to the hotel to wait for Li Ya. Li Ya told him the room number and told him to come to her at any time if anything happened in the old courtyard.
"Something soft?"
"Well, it still smells good!"
"Very fragrant?"
When Li Ya heard what Cai Tou Tou said, she felt particularly urgent.
Baby, baby, do you really exist?
Dad, what is the treasure you are thinking about so much?
Soft? Very fragrant?
It's definitely not objects like gold, silver, jewelry, or antiques, calligraphy and paintings.
What could it be? Still hiding in the hearth.
Li Ya couldn't help but speed up her pace, but she couldn't walk too fast or too hastily to avoid arousing suspicion from passers-by.
"Master Caijiao, you should go home early and rest early in the evening. There is nothing valuable in this old yard."
"Manager Li, I asked you to come over and take a look because I planned to go home and sleep. I can go straight to work when I get up tomorrow morning."
Caitou Toutou understood what Li Ya meant, he was telling others.
Walking into the old courtyard of the Li family, Li Ya's heart was beating so fast that she was about to jump out of her throat.
Walking into the kitchen, Li Ya faced the stove and couldn't move forward, let alone reach into the stove to take out the thing.
Cai Jiaotou stood behind Li Ya, quietly waiting for Li Ya to make further moves. If Li Ya didn't move, he couldn't move either. This was the rule.
After all, Li Ya was Li Ya. After a brief moment of daze, she first faced the hall and closed her eyes to pray. Then she walked to the stove, faced the stove and closed her eyes to pray.
After praying, he took a deep breath, bent down, and stretched his slender white hands into the furnace.
A sachet, but it is much larger than an ordinary sachet.
The object Li Ya took out from the furnace was jade white in color and similar in shape to a sachet hanging on a child's chest, but it was very large, as big as a woman's satchel today.
The body of this sachet is made of silk, embroidered with jasmine patterns, and two tassels tie the mouth tightly.
Li Ya held the sachet in her hand, tears streaming down her face.
Although the sachet was hidden in the furnace, it was not stained with dirt at all. It was still as white as grease and extremely holy.
What's even more amazing is that after so many years, the scent of the sachet is still fragrant and refreshing.
Li Ya walked out of the kitchen with the sachet in hand, ready to go back to the hotel room to open it and see what was inside.
But when I walked to the courtyard, the sachet in my hand quietly melted away, and white jasmine flowers floated out of it and flew away with the wind...
When Li Ya reacted, not a single trace of the sachet was left in her hand, and the blossoming jasmine flowers disappeared into the night sky...
"Dad! Mom!"
Li Ya cried until she fell to the ground. In her tearful eyes, she seemed to see her biological parents gazing at her lovingly like the stars in the sky.
"Dad! Mom!"
Li Ya was so miserable that she hated herself for not being able to protect even a sachet.
"Manager Li, everything in this world has its destiny, you'd better be more open-minded."
Caitoutou comforted Li Ya.
"What should I do? What should I do?"
Li Ya was still shouting at the sky and the earth, and was extremely sad.
"Manager Li, how about I ask Master Jiu Jin to come over?"
Caitou Toutou asked Li Ya for her opinion.
"Uh-huh, uh-huh, go and invite her over, go and invite her over!"
There was a glimmer of hope in Li Ya's desperate eyes.
"Manager Li, don't be too sad. I'll ask Master Jiujin to come over right away."
Cai Tootou hurriedly walked out of the Li family's old yard.
"Dad! Mom!"
Li Ya's wail penetrated the night sky, drifted over Lushan Road with the evening wind, met the white jasmine flowers, and floated to the distant sky...