Chapter 1030 Relics of the Ancestors (2 updates
It was quiet at night, even the chickens and dogs were sleeping, and there were only a few insects chirping and frogs chirping from a distance.
Listen, there is only the sound of breathing from 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 after confirming that the handsome boy, the elders, and the black dragon were in deep sleep, she tiptoed into the kitchen and turned on the light.
The lights spread out, illuminating the room.
Le Yun moved to the fire pit to study a brick. The fire pits in rural areas were surrounded by thick wooden strips or stones. Generally, the fire pits made of bricks would not be moved unless moved.
The fire pit of Lejia is built squarely with thick wooden strips. There is a brick on each south-facing corner in the north and on the south-facing side in the south. The bricks are irregular ordinary stone slabs, and the two stone slabs are adjacent to the wall surrounding the fire pit. Wood strips.
Le Yun touched the brick on the north side of the fire pit and looked at it for several minutes, then took out a sharp-nosed hoe and dug into the ground. When she was cooking and washing dishes and boiling water at night, she took the opportunity to splash water on the ground to let the soil absorb water and facilitate digging. .
Because the kitchen fire pit is lit all year round, the soil in the entire kitchen is as dry as frozen cement floor. Even if water is poured several times, it is still dry and hard and difficult to dig.
I carried the hoe and dug a few times and listened carefully to see if I woke anyone up. When I heard the silence around me, I dug the ground with peace of mind.
The tip of the hoe is polished very sharp, but it is still very laborious to dig hard ground, and the depth of eating mud is limited. The most important thing is that Mr. Le is afraid that if he uses too much force, the mud will be splashed all over the floor, so he can only use his strength.
Digging the soil with hoe after hoe, prying the mud blocks around the two sides of the stone, and digging seven or eight centimeters deep into the stone slab to reach the bottom. Le Yun roughly calculated the time. It took more than 20 minutes, and she was still sweating from exhaustion.
Time waits for no one, so I continued to dig with the hoe, complaining while digging, and looking like a thief when looking for something in my own home. She was probably the only one in the world!
Of course, we can't blame her for having a guilty conscience. It's because grandpa hid things too well.
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, a piece of stone slab was loosened and moved 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, digging down to a depth of five centimeters, and dug out a core board of a cedar tree. Clean away the dirt along the edge of the board and pry the board back up.
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."
Seeing the tip of the iceberg where the treasure was hidden, Le Yun muttered something and 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 various raw materials. It was an earth-made paint that was many times purer than the tung oil currently on the market.
The box was painted with tung paint that was waterproof and insect-proof. It was stored near a fire pit. The box was not affected by moisture and was intact. The paint did not fade. The edges of the box were sealed with wax.
The box was placed on its side in the hole. Leyun lifted it up by clasping the edges, 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 out of the hole. Move out of 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 prong to stick across the lock hole to prevent the lid from opening.
Moisture-proof plant ash is sprinkled on the bottom of the pit where the box is placed, and a little bit of plant ash is stuck to the downward end of the box.
Her great-grandfather and grandpa hid treasures so secretly that Le Yun admired them immensely. If it weren't for the fact that her grandfather and grandma repeatedly told them where to hide the things before they died, even she wouldn't have known that there were relics left by her predecessors hidden by the fire pit.
The thing is hidden in the soil, and there is no spiritual energy. Even if she has a pair of strange eyes, she doesn't know where the treasure is hidden.
If the grandparents had no last words 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 any 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, but it took two blunt knives to get the wax out of the cracks in the box.
Remove the copper plugs 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. Both ends of the copper box are filled with waterproof plant ash. There is no moisture in the box, and the ash is still dry. of.
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 to reveal a small bag wrapped in waterproof oil paper. .
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..."
Instantly, countless guesses 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 stinginess, it could only be a reason not to reveal his 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, then opened the square oil paper package.
The things were wrapped very carefully, with two layers of oiled paper, one layer of cloth, another layer of silk cloth, and finally a layer of tissue paper.
Opening the tissue paper, there is a hand-stitched book inside, with a cowhide cover. The binding thread is silk thread. Open the cowhide cover, 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 could not fully recognize. The other line 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 more copies that I haven’t written my name on.
She refrained from opening and reading them yet, and continued to open several other oil paper packages, taking 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 and peeled off the oil paper to reveal 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 is extremely simple, especially the sign, which is 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, the corners of Leyun'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 she recognized the word "medical" on it. .
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 they have been moved. look.
It took a full hour to fill the ground. In order to prevent people from noticing that the soil around the stone slab was immobile and other places were immobile, Leyun took the ashes from the fire pit and sprinkled it on the surface, then swept it clean. She felt that it was about the same, so 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 will have money to pick up every day when I walk out of the house, that I will pick up a rich and handsome man immediately if I don’t have a boyfriend, that I will pick up twins who are about to have a baby, and that I will pick up a “clairvoyance eye” plug-in for those who are studying, and that everyone will start a happy life as a winner from now on.
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