A month later, Yang Jiayan's daily profit was around 1,500. No matter what he did in the hotel, he had his own habits. Yang Dongxu finally had time to spare and didn't have to go to the hotel to stare.
"Dongan Fu Hutong? Why are you going there? Someone is selling the yard again?" Yang Dongxu said in surprise.
"Are you going to leave the big yard you bought just like that?" Old Man Xuan held a palm-sized teapot in his hand and took a sip.
These days, he is living more and more prosperously. He got a set of purple clay pots from nowhere half a month ago and keeps them as treasures. Yang Dongxu wants to touch them but won't let them. This made Yang Dongxu think to himself more than once, how many people have used such an old thing in their mouths, I don't care about it.
"Let's leave it alone for now. That place is too big. Let's not talk about how much it will cost to renovate it. It will look empty if all of us live in it, right? By the way, where did the old man come from to buy the house?" Yang Dongxu said lazily. Reclining on the deck chair and enjoying the sun, the sunshine after the beginning of spring always makes people want to sleep.
Yang Dongxu had long been curious about the original owner of the house, but he never had the chance to ask. Even if Yang Dongxu is an outsider in courtyard courtyard antiques, he still knows that Guangliang Gate is not something ordinary people are qualified to use.
"Imperial Merchant." Old Man Xuan spat out two words simply and directly.
"So awesome?" Yang Dongxu's squinted eyes suddenly opened, he turned to look at Old Man Xuan who was drinking tea leisurely and asked in deep thought: "Are you particular about letting me buy that yard?"
Now Yang Dongxu understood everything, why the homeowner, whose ancestors were businessmen, could buy such a large yard in Dong'anfu Hutong, and the gate could use such high specifications.
"Fortunately, you're not that stupid. Do you think I asked you to buy that crappy place just because I knew the landlord and wanted to help him?" Old Man Xuan winked at Yang Dongxu with a meaningful smile on his face.
There really is a secret. Yang Dongxu sat up from the recliner with a sound, and came behind Old Man Xuan with a diligent look on his face. He first squeezed his shoulders and then slapped his back in a dog-like manner.
"In the past, it was most suitable for people like you to be sent to the palace to be eunuchs." Old Man Xuan glanced at Yang Dongxu.
Instead of calling Wu Aibing, he went out and called a scooter, and the two of them went straight to Dong'an Fu Hutong. Before leaving, Old Man Xuan put two flashlights in his arms.
Without going through the main gate, the two people entered the yard through the side door. Spring had already begun for some time, so the weeds in the yard began to sprout buds and showed signs of life in a panic. Ignoring anything else, they walked directly through the large courtyard and arrived at the back room of the last row.
Except for the back wall, the hood has basically collapsed, leaving only the broken eaves and broken walls. Old Man Xuan stood at the door of the house on the east side that had not completely collapsed, took a look, and then got in like a cat.
"I'll go, Old Man Xuan, won't this place fall down and shoot us to death?" Yang Dongxu gritted his teeth and followed in, looking at the gently sloping roof above his head, waving his hand to clear the spider webs in front of him.
"It's perfect for taking pictures. You can stay underground and be a bastard." Old Man Xuan made a sidestep and walked around in the dusty room. He came to a lamp holder and took a few steps to the left starting from the lamp holder. He turned around and measured again. Finally he squatted down in front of a dusty floor.
"Why are you still standing there? Why don't you come over and help me?" Seeing Yang Dongxu standing aside with his head shrinking, ready to rush out at any time, Old Man Xuan shouted.
"Oh oh oh, here it comes, here it comes." Yang Dongxu hurriedly walked over, looked around and found a tattered rag that had been kept here for who knows how many years. He followed old man Xuan to clean up the ground. While cleaning up, Yang Dongxu looked at Old Man Xuan with bright eyes: "Is there a treasure underground here?"
"Nonsense, of course there is a baby, or why don't you come here because I'm full and full for the old man?"
"You're always resting, you're always resting, how can I let you do this kind of rough work? I'll do it, I'll do it." Yang Dongxu burst out with enthusiasm like a volcano in an instant, and his body seemed to start a small motor. Hula la, a big chunk of the ground was cleared.
"Give way." Seeing that the cleaning was almost done, Old Man Xuan waved to Yang Dongxu, then walked to the lamp holder and twisted it again.
Yang Dongxu, who had already stepped aside, only heard a click, as if something had been opened, but after the sound, he looked at the stone slab and then around, as if nothing was different.
"Is the mechanism broken?" Yang Dongxu scratched his head and looked at Old Man Xuan.
"If you break it, it won't be broken." Old Man Xuan snorted, walked to the cleaned floor and stamped his foot while hiding from the slate on the ground. In Yang Dongxu's incredible eyes, the big slate that was cleared out It actually turned up.
The stone slab was two meters wide and three meters long. When it was tilted up, a large dark hole was revealed. Yang Dongxu looked at the edge of the stone slab. There were concave stone grooves. He leaned down and took a look at the edge of the hole where there were several bulges. Received it back.
"How is this done?" Yang Dongxu looked at the lamp holder a few meters away, and then looked at the stone slab in front of him with a look of astonishment on his face.
Although he had seen many mechanisms in ancient tombs in movies and TV series, some of which looked more impressive than the intelligent and automated sensor doors of later generations, he still couldn't help but be shocked when he saw such a mechanism with his own eyes.
"You ask me, who should I ask?" Old Man Xuan glared at Yang Dongxu angrily, then turned on the flashlight, bent down and walked towards the exposed cave entrance from the raised stone slab.
Yang Dongxu didn't hesitate and quickly followed after Old Man Xuan took a few steps down, but his heart couldn't help but beat wildly as he looked at the dark place below, "There won't be any pythons or anything like that here, right?"
"The entire basement is sealed with granite, and the ventilation openings above are no more than the thickness of chopsticks. Not to mention pythons, even mice can't get in. Moreover, the granite has been soaked in potion before use, and insects that can get in will not be able to get in." Close here.”
Old Man Xuan took a flashlight and took a look inside, then walked down, not worrying about the lack of oxygen inside. After walking down a few steps, Old Man Xuan stretched out his hand to hold them up. The stone slab that had originally sunk in front of them rose upwards. There was only a click sound as the stone slab returned to its original position. It was a tight fit and not a single ray of light shone in.
Looking at the hole-like thing on the closure, I raised my head and took a flashlight to observe it carefully. I was surprised that this thing was quite advanced, and I followed Old Man Xuan and started walking down.
The steps in the cave were a bit steep, but they were more than two meters wide like the stone slab above the head, so there was no feeling of depression when walking. After walking down for about ten meters, Yang Dongxu estimated that according to the steepness of the steps, how could he reach it? Five meters underground, the steps came to an end.
Holding the flashlight under his arm, Old Man Xuan took out a box of matches from his arms and lit them with a bang. Then a yellowish light lit up in the basement. He walked around with the flashlight in one hand and the oil lamp in the other. , the originally dark basement suddenly lit up.
"Eternal lamp?" Yang Dongxu looked at the surrounding lamps full of ancient beauty and asked in surprise.
"Bullshit everlasting lamp. The everlasting lamp is for dead people, okay? That thing will ignite as long as it is in a ventilated place. If this was an everlasting lamp, it would have burned out long ago." Old Man Xuan glanced at Yang Dongxu.
Yang Dongxu touched his nose in embarrassment, and then he realized that the ever-burning lamps in the ancient tombs were made of phosphorus. When the tomb was closed, the air inside was exhausted and extinguished. When the tomb was opened again, air poured in and the ever-lasting lamp automatically ignited when it encountered air. .
Therefore, there is a legend that the lamp in the cemetery will remain bright for thousands of years. But the huge stone chamber in front of us obviously has ventilation holes, and the air underground is circulating. These lamps are obviously just ordinary oil lamps. At most, the lamp oil has been modified to make it less volatile and has nothing to do with the ever-lasting lamp.
As old man Xuan continued to move around, the oil lamp in the stone room was gradually lit. Yang Dongxu's eyes grew bigger and bigger, and his mouth grew bigger and bigger, as if he had seen a ghost.
"This... how big is this?" When they came to the center of the stone chamber, they looked up at a height of at least twenty meters. Because there were several steps every step they walked forward, the stone chamber went up layer by layer. Extended downward.
The entire stone chamber is like a circular awl shape, like an inverted terrace. Each floor is inlaid with several large wooden shelves. This place was obviously a huge warehouse before, but unfortunately the wooden shelves are empty.
"Except for the pond in the yard, the ground from the back room to the front gate of the house has been hollowed out." Old Man Xuan pointed at the granite wall not far away that had obviously bitten off a piece of the inverted awl-shaped terraces.
"Where are these things?" Yang Dongxu looked around in shock and swallowed.
"The things have been emptied out a long time ago, otherwise you kid, do you think you can buy this place for how much money you spend? If it were in the past, you wouldn't even be able to buy a wooden shelf here with that little money, let alone one that costs so much. The underground stone chamber that I built with all my strength." Old Man Xuan patted the wooden frame in front of him with a look of reminiscence on his face.
"These wooden shelves..." Yang Dongxu walked to the wooden shelves and touched them with his hands. They were covered with dust, and the outer layer was coated with something that was very smooth. With Yang Dongxu's two-knife knowledge of wood, With my eyesight, I can't tell that it is made of wood.
"The golden nanmu is all high-quality golden nanmu transported from the Land of Abundance. A shelf like this can only be built with at least two golden nanmu. At that time, one golden nanmu was worth thousands of gold. You must know that the golden nanmu Even if it is buried underground, it will not rot for a thousand years." Old Man Xuan sighed.
"Golden nanmu? Wow, you're rich." Yang Dongxu jumped up. Although he didn't know the price of golden nanmu in later generations, he knew that there were so many pieces and there were more than a hundred wooden frames, so he just bought one by himself. The money for the house was also earned back with interest.
"This...will the landlord find these things back in the future..." Yang Dongxu looked at Old Man Xuan worriedly.
"Don't worry, he doesn't know about this place. Otherwise, do you think he will sell this yard to you?" Old Man Xuan snorted, seeming to be dissatisfied with helping Yang Dongxu take over this yard.
