Chapter 65 A letter from home is worth ten thousand dollars
This house has been in debt for too long, and the wires have been cut. Someone will not come to do the wiring until tomorrow at the earliest.
But Xu Youyou was afraid of long nights and many dreams, so she didn't dare to wait any longer.
The room is full of debris, almost all of which are waste products that the Xie family threw in there and are inconvenient to dispose of.
Xu Youyou held up the flashlight of her mobile phone and walked into the kitchen. Following the system's prompts, she stopped behind the stove.
The house is old and uses an old-fashioned wood stove. Even Xie Datou's family no longer uses wood.
It is precisely for this reason that behind the stove, in addition to a small stool with a missing leg, there is also a mess of firewood that is as high as Xu Youyou's knees.
A thick layer of dust had accumulated on the firewood.
Xu Youyou put the mobile phone with the flashlight on on the dirty stove, and the light was pointed at the messy firewood on the ground.
She hesitated for a long time, but finally decided to do it herself, put on a pair of labor protection gloves she bought on the road, and moved the firewood aside in one swift movement.
After working for nearly half an hour, Xu Youyou finally emptied all the piles of firewood, leaving only the dirty ground.
This old-fashioned bungalow doesn't even have a cement floor, and the ground is filled with compacted yellow soil.
The system instructions poked straight to the ground.
"Things dug out of the soil belong to the country." Xu Youyou said.
The system slowly explained: [Items that have been clearly stated and passed down by the family are not considered national. 】
Xu Youyou was startled when she heard the words and understood the system's hint. However, the ground had been tamped for a long time and had now become extremely hard. It was obviously not something she could dig with her hands.
The door of the dilapidated bungalow was opened, and Xu Youyou walked out of it with a disgraced face.
"Boss?" Xu Fang stepped forward with surprise on her face and patted the dust off Xu Youyou's body. Seeing Xu Youyou's current situation, she couldn't help but wonder if the boss had rolled on the ground several times, and then said: "You can definitely let me We help with the cleaning, why do you have to do it yourself?”
Xu Youyou shook her head and said to the bodyguard who was nearby: "Go buy some farm tools like shovels and hoes, and buy a few barrels of mineral water by the way."
The bodyguard didn't ask any questions, turned around and drove away from the alley.
It's late at night, but Xu Youyou has no intention of leaving, and the others can only stay here. In any case, Xu Youyou will pay high overtime pay in this case.
Half an hour later, the bodyguard returned and brought back a complete set of farm tools, including shovels and hoes.
Xu Youyou didn't let anyone else do anything, and walked in personally carrying farm tools and several large buckets of water.
The soil on the ground was too hard, so Xu Youyou poured two buckets of water down directly.
The sufficiently moist ground was much softer, and when Xu Youyou swung the hoe down, she didn't encounter much resistance.
When Xu Youyou was in the orphanage, she just picked up some garbage. She had never done farm work directly like today. After a while, she was so tired that her back ached.
After digging for more than half an hour, her hoe finally touched something.
Xu Youyou perked up, and then dug the thing out of the soil. It was a box the size of a takeaway box.
The box was wrapped in three layers of sacks, but with the erosion of time, the outer layer had become rotten.
Xu Youyou untied the sacks and threw them aside. She shook the wooden box and heard no movement. The things kept inside were probably not heavy. When she saw the copper lock hanging on the dark wooden box, she hesitated for a moment to choose. Just smash the lock open.
[You are not afraid that the really valuable things are boxes and locks. 】The system suddenly made a sound.
Xu Youyou's heart skipped a beat, but she didn't learn anything during this period. She said, "This box is a box made by an ordinary carpenter. It has a layer of paint on the outside and not even carvings. How can it be valuable? This copper The same goes for the lock. "The system stopped talking.
After Xu Youyou opened the box, there were also layers of packages inside. After finally removing the protective materials, only two things were exposed, which she dared not touch until she changed into a pair of clean gloves.
The first is a genealogy.
"Zeng Family Genealogy", Xu Youyou opened it and saw that the first name on the genealogy was Zeng Wendinggong, followed by an introduction to his life, also in classical Chinese, but Xu Youyou immediately knew who this person was.
"Zeng Gong! One of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties!"
She carefully picked up another item. It was only one page, but it was well kept.
"This seems to be a letter." Xu Youyou said.
The handwriting on the paper was clear. It took Xu Youyou a long time to read it before he roughly understood that this letter was written by Zeng Gong to his younger brother Zeng Bu. The letter was full of earnest words, exhorting his younger brother to work diligently as an official. It didn't look like he was teaching. A younger brother is more like a godson.
Xu Youyou checked the two people again and found that Zeng Gong was seventeen years older than his younger brother. Zeng Gong lost his father when he was eighteen, and his younger brother was only one year old at that time. It is not an exaggeration to say that the eldest brother is like a father.
Xu Youyou is a layman and immediately checked the value of Zeng Gong's letters online.
Check out the 16-9 book bar and see the correct version!
"So valuable?" Xu Youyou searched for the "Bureau Affairs Post" that popped up first, and rubbed her hands excitedly.
"Ju Shi Tie" is Zeng Gong's only calligraphy work that has been handed down from generation to generation. It is also a letter. It has been auctioned several times. The last auction was in 2016, and the price was as high as 200 million. It is true that a book is worth ten thousand yuan. .
Xu Youyou carefully put away the piece of paper and kept it close to her body. She then turned around and stuffed the box back into the ground, then filled it back with soil, and even restored the moved firewood to its position.
It was already three o'clock in the morning when she finished all this.
Several people waiting outside the house were already drowsy.
The sound of Xu Youyou opening the door made them almost jump in fright.
"Go back to the hotel." Xu Youyou said.
In the eyes of a few people, Xu Youyou looked like he came back from mining. His head and face were dirty, his big-name bag worth hundreds of thousands was also dirty, and he was holding a book in his arms ( Genealogy), but her eyes are amazingly bright.
Xu Youyou asked someone to lock the door of the old bungalow before returning to the hotel.
She slept until noon.
After lunch, she idly flipped through her book-like family tree.
Although this is Zeng Gong's genealogy, it is actually recorded by the descendants of Zeng Bu's branch.
"Wang Shengli said earlier, what was the surname of the original owner of the house?" Xu Youyou asked Xu Fang.
Xu Fang hesitated for a moment and then said: "The surname is Zeng, which is not very common."
Xu Fang thought to herself that next time she would get a small notebook and write down everything she heard, so that she could answer Xu Youyou's temporary questions.
Xu Youyou immediately linked up the legal ways for him to obtain this thing. Qian Datou inherited the Zeng family's house as a relative, and then sold the house to Xu Youyou. Xu Youyou unexpectedly found Zeng, who was worth thousands of gold, in the house. Gong's letter.
There is a real estate sales contract, written in black and white, everything in this house belongs to Xu Youyou, and Qian Datou can't make trouble even if he wants to.
Besides, Xu Youyou will take away the things in two days. A collection of this level must be handed over to a big auction house for auction.
(End of chapter)