Chapter 1026 Relics of the Ancestors (2nd
watch) It was quiet in the night, even the chickens and dogs were sleeping. There were only a few insects chirping and frogs chirping from far away.
Listen, there were only the breathing sounds of people in deep sleep upstairs and downstairs.
Even so, Le Yun was still a little uneasy. She listened to the analysis again and again and confirmed that when the handsome boy, the elders, and the black dragon were in deep sleep, she crept into the kitchen and turned on the light. The light spread and illuminated the whole room. Le Yun moved to the fire pit to study a
brick
. Firepits in rural areas are built with thick wooden strips on all sides or surrounded by stones. Generally, brick-built firepits will not be moved unless moved. Lejia's firepit is made of
thick wooden strips and is square in shape. It is located in the south-facing corner of the north and on the south side. There is a brick on each side facing the south. The bricks are irregular ordinary stone slabs. The two stone slabs are next to the wooden strips surrounding the fire pit. Le Yun
touched the brick on the north side of the fire pit and looked at it for several minutes, then took out a pointed She dug her hoe into the ground. When she was cooking, washing dishes, and boiling water at night, she took the opportunity to splash water on the ground so that the soil could absorb water and make it easier to dig.
Because the kitchen fire pit was lit all year round, the soil in the entire kitchen was so dry that it looked like it was frozen. The concrete floor was still dry and hard even after being splashed with water several times and was difficult to dig.
I carried the hoe and dug a few times and listened carefully to see if it woke anyone up. I heard people digging quietly around and digging the ground with confidence. The sharp
tip of the hoe was polished. It is very sharp, but it is still very laborious to dig up the hard ground. The depth of eating mud is limited. The most important thing is that Le Xiao's classmate is afraid that the mud will splash all over the ground if he uses too much force, so he can only use his strength. He digs the soil one by one
. , prying the mud blocks around the two sides of the stone, and digging seven or eight centimeters deep into the stone slab before reaching the bottom. Le Yun roughly calculated the time, and it took more than twenty minutes, but she was still sweating. Time waits for no one, so she wielded the hoe
. Keep digging, complaining while digging, looking for something in your own house and still acting like a thief. She is probably the only one in the world. Of course, you can’t blame her for having a guilty conscience. It’s her grandpa who got it from hiding. Great.
After digging for another ten minutes, I removed all the soil on the edge of the stone, and then moved the stone. However, I couldn't move it, so I had to continue digging the soil on the other side, cleaning off some of the soil, and digging out some mud under one corner of the stone slab. After prying the stone slabs several times, I finally pried one stone slab loose and moved it away. There was a layer of dry mud underneath.
Because I didn’t know how thick the soil layer was, and I was afraid that vigorous digging would damage the things buried in the soil layer, I dug lightly into the soil layer and dug to a height of five centimeters. I dug out a cedar core board along the edge of the board. Clean away the dirt and pry the planks.
After prying open a wooden board, there was a square wooden board underneath. Leyun carefully dug a small hole in the corner of the board, used a hoe to pry the board loose, and then moved it away.
The second piece of wood was about one centimeter thick. After it was removed, a rectangular pit was exposed at the bottom. Thick wooden strips were built around the pit, and one end of a red-painted wooden box was exposed in the middle. There was not much space around the red-painted box.
"Finally found it." When she saw the tip of the iceberg where the treasure was hidden, Le Yun muttered briefly, then moved quickly, grabbing the side slots of the box and lifting it up.
According to the data she collected, the box was painted eight times. The paint was made from tung oil mixed with a variety of raw materials. It was an earth-made paint that was countless times purer than the tung oil currently on the market.
The box was painted multiple times with waterproof and insect-proof tung paint, and it was stored near a fire pit. The box was not affected by moisture and was in good condition. The paint did not fade, and the edges of the box were sealed with wax.
The box was placed on its side in the hole. Leyun raised it up by grabbing the edge, then hugged it and moved it up. The box was quite heavy. In order to ensure that it did not hit the surroundings, she had to be careful and careful. It took several minutes to lift the box. Removed from the pit, the red lacquer box is about fifty centimeters long, less than thirty centimeters wide, and about twenty centimeters thick. It has no lock, only a copper buckle, and a thin copper strip is used as a plug across the lock hole to prevent the lid from opening.
The bottom of the pit where the box was placed was sprinkled with moisture-proof plant ash, and there was a little bit of plant ash stuck to the downward end of the box.
Her great-grandfather and grandpa hid treasures so secretly that Le Yun admired them. If it weren't for the fact that her grandfather and grandma repeatedly told them where the treasure was before they died, even she wouldn't have known that there were relics left by her predecessors hidden by the fire pit. .
Dong XZ is in the soil and has no spiritual energy. Even if she has a pair of strange eyes, she knows where the treasure is hidden. If the grandparents had not left a last word to tell them that there was something hidden by the firepit, no one in the family would know, and if the base of the house was sold at some time, no one would know who would get an advantage.
After sighing with emotion, he laid it flat on the ground and used a scalpel to carefully dig out the wax in the seam where the box merged. The wax was also made from honey nests and was filled in the seam. The glue was very strong and hard. The scalpel It was very sharp, and it took two blunt knives to get the wax out of the cracks in the box.
Remove the copper plug and open the lid. The inside and edges of the wooden box are also painted with tung oil. There is also a brass box inside. The two ends of the copper box are filled with waterproof plant ash. There is no moisture in the box, and the ash is still there. Dry.
Use a soft cloth to sweep aside the plant ash on the brass leather box, take out the copper box, sweep away the dust, and open the buttons. The copper box is stuffed with cotton wool, the color is a bit gray, remove the cotton wool, and reveal the box wrapped in waterproof oil paper. packet.
In order not to damage the items in the paper bag, quickly move a small table and place it next to the fire pit, then cover it with a soft cloth, then carefully take out the items from the box, place them one by one on the surface of the small table, and finally take out a rectangular bag Four squares of strips.
Arranging several packages of items neatly, Le Yun first opened the heaviest rectangular package, unwrapped the oil paper and a layer of cloth. The cloth layer was wrapped with four golden gold bars, pure gold, with a gold content of up to 99.99%. Nine.
One gold bar weighs about one kilogram, and four gold bars total four kilograms.
"Gold bars..."
In an instant, countless conjectures flashed through Le Yun's mind. There were gold bars at home, but grandpa would rather pretend that he didn't have them. He didn't exchange them for money even though life was so hard. It was definitely not stingy, it could only be There is a reason why you cannot reveal your wealth.
If gold bars could come out and be exchanged for money, her father's leg would not be delayed, and her grandfather would not be dragged to death after a fall.
Le Yun's mood dropped. She wrapped the gold bars intact and put them aside. She unwrapped the square oil paper package. The things were wrapped very carefully. There were two layers of oil paper and one layer of cloth. After removing the cloth layer, there was still a layer of silk. silk, and finally a layer of tissue paper.
Open the tissue paper, and inside is a hand-stitched book with a cowhide cover. The binding thread is silk thread. Open the cowhide filling, and there is tissue paper inside.
After turning a page, Leyun turned the book over and turned it forward from the back. The first page was blank. Then she turned another page and there was a line of words written in traditional Chinese characters. The characters were written in ancient Chinese characters and arranged in a straight line from right to left. There were two lines, one of which was in ancient oracle bone inscriptions, which she couldn't fully recognize, and the other line, which was in seal script, but she could barely recognize them all. There were four big characters in total: Le Family Genealogy. In the space where about three characters were left blank, there were two small characters "三." ".
If I guess correctly, that family tree is the third one.
The characters on the cotton paper are as clear as new, and the seal characters are upright and serious.
Seeing the seal script, Le Yun's eye sockets felt hot, and a sudden surge of sourness surged in her heart. She was too familiar with that font. Her grandfather taught her how to read and write with a brush using that font.
However, she knew that the music book was not written by her grandfather, because she recognized her grandfather's handwriting. Grandpa's handwriting imitated the writing style and shape of the fonts on the music book. Each font can be imitated. If you imitate it well, it will be like a person writing it. For example, imitating Song Dynasty is easy to imitate.
She didn't read it and closed the book. She could study the score slowly. The most important thing now was to look at the relics left by her grandfather and great-grandfather.
Then he opened another oil-paper package, which was still two layers of oil paper, cloth, satin and cotton paper. There was still a musical score inside, with "Fifth" written on it. He opened two oil-paper packages again and found "Two" and "One". "Two genealogy books.
The four music books were originally stacked and placed in one place, and then another pile of oil-paper packages was unpacked. Inside the layers of packages was still a music book, written in traditional seal script and simplified regular script.
With just one glance, Le Yun recognized that the simplified characters written in regular script were written by her grandfather. She still put them aside first, and then opened the oil paper package. What she took out were several letters, one with "Le Yun Qi" written on it, and the other with "Le Yun Qi" written on it. It’s my grandfather’s name, and there are two copies without a name.
She refrained from opening and reading them yet, and continued to open several other oil paper packages, and took out four hand-written medical books, two hand-written manuscripts, and a thick stack of hand-written prescriptions.
Finally, I took apart a small square object, peeled off the oil paper, and revealed a wooden box. Inside the box were several small items wrapped in silk, including a mutton-fat jade pendant, a beautiful white jade hairpin, and a two-finger-wide and six-inch-long hairpin. Jade slip is a rectangular sign made of material that looks like a shield but not a shield, and looks like jade but not jade.
Every item was extremely primitive, especially the sign, which was engraved with complex and exquisite patterns, with word-like patterns engraved on both sides, exuding a chilling air.
Seeing the items in the small box, Le Yun's eyes suddenly jumped a few times. She wiped her hands and gently picked up the sign made of special materials in silk. She held it up to her eyes and looked at it for a long time before recognizing the characters on each side. -medical.
That character is composed of dozens of patterns, and its structure is exquisite and unparalleled.
Holding the sign and looking at it for a long time, he put the sign back into the box without packaging, moved the things together with the small table back to the space, and moved the red paint box and copper box back to the space, and immediately started to deal with the subsequent problems. Cover the hole where the box is hidden with a wooden board, then mix it with water and mud, cover the surface of the wooden board, then cover it with another layer of wooden boards, then cover it with soil, and put the stone slab in its place.
Place the stone slabs, rub them with water and mud until they are sticky, then fill the dug area with a layer of concrete, layer by layer, and press the surrounding areas of the stone slabs hard and solid so that no one can tell that they have been moved. look.
It took a whole hour to fill the ground. In order to prevent people from noticing that the soil around the stone slabs and other areas were immobile, Leyun took the ashes from the fire pit and sprinkled it on the surface, then swept it clean. When she felt that it was done, she cleaned the kitchen and made it spotless.
Seeing that it was already past three o'clock in the morning, I washed my hands, lit a stick of incense and placed it in the main room. I flashed back to the space, took out the night pearl for lighting, took a few deep breaths, and moved the suicide note left by my grandfather in front of me.
Happy New Year, little fairies!
I wish you all a lot of money and the best family love in 2019! I hope that I can find money every day when I walk out of the house, that I can pick up a rich and handsome man immediately if I don’t have a boyfriend, that I have twins who are about to have a baby, and that I can pick up a “clairvoyance eye” plug-in for those who are studying, and that everyone can start a happy life as a winner from now on.
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