When Dong Qiangqiang walked into the kitchen, he saw a light brown rectangular wooden box placed on the kitchen counter, with the lid of the wooden box aside.
He turned his head and glanced at Lei Lanting, who smiled and nuzzled at the wooden box, gesturing for him to go over and take a look. Dong Qiangqiang glanced at Tong Lele again, and Tong Lele happened to be looking at him too.
"What is this?" he asked as he approached the console.
I saw twelve dark brown glass wine bottles stacked quietly in the wooden box.
Dong Qiangqiang reached out and picked up one of the bottles. He saw that the top of the bottle was sealed with thin golden tinfoil. There was an eagle pattern printed on the tinfoil, and three letters were printed below the eagle. He looked down and saw a hollow light gray pattern intertwined with manors and fields printed on the wine label at the bottom of the bottle. It looked like the logo of the winery brand. There was a row of golden artistic characters printed under the pattern. Dong Qiangqiang whispered. Read out: "Kühling-Gillot, 2000 Oppenheim Riesling."
"This is Oppenheim's Riesling." Dong Qiangqiang turned the bottle and looked at the label on the back of the bottle, "Where did you find this wine?"
Before Tong Lele could speak, Lei Lanting said first, "Lele discovered the basement, and I moved the wine box up from the basement."
"Basement?" Dong Qiangqiang asked suspiciously, "Where is it?"
"Well, it's right here." Tong Lele ducked and saw a wooden board on the floor behind her. Next to the wooden board was a hole about the width of a person's shoulders.
Dong Qiangqiang put the wine back into the wooden box, walked lightly to the entrance of the cave, and looked down: "How did you discover such a hidden basement?"
Lei Lanting didn't rush to talk this time. He glanced at Tong Lele with a smile. Tong Lele blushed and whispered: "I found it accidentally..."
Dong Qiangqiang didn't understand her words and asked: "Did you discover it by accident?"
Lei Lanting took two steps closer and interjected: "Hey, this is the entrance of the cave..." Tong Lele quickly glared at Lei Lanting, and Lei Lanting immediately changed his words, "Lele... by chance... found it. You happened to be checking upstairs. I didn’t call you. It’s not big inside, it looks like a wine cellar, and there are many empty wine bottles. I saw that this box was unopened, so I brought it up.”
"Wine cellar? Here?" Dong Qiangqiang felt strange, "But this house looks like no one has lived in it for a long time. Why is there such a new vintage of red wine?"
This question stunned both Lei Lanting and Tong Lele. Lei Lanting scratched his head: "Yes. When you said that, I remembered that when we came in just now, the mailbox at the door fell into the grass. The letters inside are all from 1995 and 1996. Who would put the wine here?" He asked while turning to look at Tong Lele, as if asking for her opinion.
"Maybe... maybe the owner of the house forgot it here. This wine cellar is so hidden. Or maybe other people who came over to clean the house liked to drink and brought it here." Tong Lele analyzed.
Dong Qiangqiang said nothing and stared at the entrance of the cave in a daze.
"Why do you two care so much?" Lei Lanting said nonchalantly, "Let's just drink red wine and eat roast duck. How nice. By the way, Lao Dong also found a lot of records upstairs just now. We can listen to it at the same time. It’s so nourishing to listen to music while drinking red wine and tasting roast duck. Hey, Old Dong, go up and pick a better song and wait for the roast duck to be cooked..."
Dong Qiangqiang said angrily: "Everything in this house belongs to the landlord. Even if he forgot it here, you can't drink it casually. If someone complains that you stole something, you will not only have no wages, but you may also go to jail." Yeah. This is Germany. I advise you not to use this crooked idea."
"How can you be so stupid after just drinking two bottles of wine?" Lei Lanting shook his head, "Besides, the three of us know about this matter. Even if the landlord later says that he lost the wine, I can still say that he didn't see it. He can take me What's wrong?"
"There is a god in your head. There is no need to try some things randomly." Dong Qiangqiang said from the bottom of his heart, "If you really like drinking, I will buy you a few bottles of good ones when you get back to the city center so that you can drink enough in one go. . Forget about other people’s wine, it’s not worth the loss.”
Tong Lele was not very interested in wine, and she thought Dong Qiangqiang's analysis was very reasonable. She advised: "I think Old Dong is right. You'd better stop drinking."
"Hey," Lei Lanting sighed, "You can't drink a good box of wine. I've never seen you two so stubborn. Hey... what, I brought this wine, but I don't have the energy to do it anymore. After moving it down, the little ladder is so steep, I was already exhausted after moving it up."
Dong Qiangqiang smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Okay, Uncle Lei, you have a good rest. We will wait for the roast duck later. I will bring the wine back."
The entrance to the basement was very narrow. Dong Qiangqiang first stood on the ladder in the basement, and then moved the wooden box to the entrance. With Tong Lele's help, he placed the wooden box above his head, holding the box with one hand, and walked backwards little by little. up the stairs.
Suddenly going down to the basement, Dong Qiangqiang felt it was pitch black and couldn't see anything. After standing on the ladder for a few minutes, his eyes gradually adapted to the light in the basement.
This wine cellar is exactly what Lei Lanting said. It is small in area, only about a dozen square meters. There are some old wooden boxes and empty wine bottles scattered on the ground. There are three entire walls of wooden red wine storage racks. , one grid next to another, like a honeycomb. Only one wall was not designed as a wine rack, but instead hung an oil painting of red wine.
Dong Qiangqiang gently placed the wine box on the ground and turned back to the kitchen.
"Hey, Old Dong, how long will it take for your duck to be roasted? My belly is so tight that my chest is touching my back." Lei Lanting said with slight dissatisfaction.
Dong Qiangqiang looked inside through the glass of the oven, then looked at the temperature, and muttered: "Ten minutes will definitely be the time when the color, flavor and flavor will be the best."
"There are still ten minutes left. Hey..." Lei Lanting frustratedly pulled the fish that had been cleaned and coated with honey sauce with his hand, "If I had known, I might as well have grilled the fish first, and now I have eaten it..."
"By the way, Dalei, I think the rooms in this house are quite clean. What should we clean up? Isn't it sweeping the floor and cleaning the windows?"
"Well, actually I'm also wondering. Although the first and second floors are old, they are not messy. Is the third floor particularly dirty? Did you go to the third floor just now?"
"You caught me just after I finished looking at the second floor. I didn't have time to look at it. But there are no particularly dirty rooms on the second floor."
Before he finished speaking, there was suddenly a "bang bang" bell ringing upstairs, which sounded like it was coming from the third floor.
Lei Lanting and Dong Qiangqiang looked at each other. Dong Qiangqiang strode towards the stairs on the first floor. Before going out, he said: "The roast duck will be ready in ten minutes."
Lei Lanting glanced at Tong Lele and whispered, "I'll go up and have a look too. I'll leave the duck to you." He ran out of the kitchen before he finished speaking.
Seeing the two of them leaving the room, Tong Lele was stunned for a moment, and then shouted: "What's going on with you two leaving me here?"
She turned around and closed the oven, locked the first floor door from the inside, and walked up the stairs unsteadily.
What none of the three people expected was that the third floor was really chaotic.
The doors of all the rooms were wide open, and old furniture, clothes, appliances, and books were randomly thrown into the corridors, everywhere, as if every room had just experienced a tornado.
At the end of one side of the corridor, a dark brown European-style grandfather clock was still knocking, and the sound kept echoing in the corridor.
Dong Qiangqiang walked over and pressed a few times on the big clock, and the bell stopped suddenly.
"That's weird," Dong Qiangqiang glanced at his watch, "It's not the hour now, so how can it tell the time?"
"It's been a long time and we're not sure where to go." Lei Lanting shrugged, "Since everyone is here, let's check every room."
The three people briefly inspected all the rooms, and found no place to step into any of them.
"Lao Lei, have you seen this situation before?"
"How many days have I been in Germany?" Dong Qiangqiang asked. He pulled out the wooden chair blocking the door of a room and walked in casually.
Tong Lele walked out of another room. Lei Lanting glanced at her: "Is it chaotic?" Tong Lele nodded.
"Humph, that's good. I'll do some work anyway, so I don't have to go back and tell the agency that I did it as if I didn't." Lei Lanting clapped his hands, "Everyone should go to bed early tonight and work early tomorrow morning. This floor only lasts one morning. That's it. Let's go home and have a big dinner in the afternoon."
Tong Lele walked into the room where Dong Qiangqiang was staying, and saw him standing by the window in a daze, and asked curiously: "What are you looking at?"
"There," Dong Qiangqiang pointed out the window, "it's so beautiful!"
Tong Lele came to his side and looked out the window. I saw that more than half of the setting sun had fallen below the horizon, and the remaining small part on the horizon was still shining bright and warm light. The light passed through layers of fiery clouds, forming straight pillars of light, and the sky showed a kind of purple light. Red, a mixture of red and yellow, a bird soars between the sky and the earth, motionless for a long time, the picture is like a freehand oil painting.
The two of them stood side by side in front of the window, with a tacit understanding in their hearts that they didn't want to break the tranquility, and neither of them spoke.
"What are you looking at? What are you looking at? Let me see. Let me see." Lei Lanting squeezed in between Dong Qiangqiang and Tong Lele from behind, and Dong Qiangqiang glanced at him angrily.
"Hey, this scene is so beautiful, it's absolutely amazing." Lei Lanting said, clapped his hands.
Tong Lele rolled her eyes: "We have studied an ancient article, and there is a classic sentence in it that describes this kind of scenery. How about you two guessing and going down to get the duck if you didn't guess?"
Just as Lei Lanting was about to refuse, Dong Qiangqiang already gave the answer: "In the Tang Dynasty, Wang Bo, "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion", the setting clouds and solitary swans fly together, and the autumn water is the same color as the sky."
"You? Here? How can there be Gu Wu and Qiu Shui?" After a while, Lei Lanting said unwillingly, "If you say anything else, you will not say a word."
"The old county of Yuzhang, the new mansion of Hongdu. The stars are divided into wings, and the ground is connected to Henglu. The three rivers lead to the five lakes, and the wild bushes are controlled to lead Ouyue. The treasures are rich and natural, the dragon's light shines on the ruins of the cow fight; the people are outstanding, Xu The child is lying on Chen Fan's bed. The mist in Xiongzhou is lined with handsome stars. The Taiwan God rests on the crossroads of Yi and Xia, and the guest and host enjoy the beauty of the southeast. The governor Yan Gong looks forward to his elegant look, and the halberd is far away; Yuwen Xinzhou's Yi Fan, the curtain is temporarily stationed . During the ten-day vacation, there are a lot of winning friends; thousands of miles away, the guests are welcome. The flying dragon and the phoenix are the poets of Meng Xueshi; the purple lightning and green frost are the arsenal of General Wang. The king of the family is the butler, and the road is famous; how can the boy know that he bows Bonus." Dong Qiangqiang actually opened his mouth and recited the first paragraph of "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion".
Looking at the dumbfounded Lei Lanting, Dong Qiangqiang patted his shoulder with a smile: "I'm willing to admit defeat. Go down and get the duck. My Uncle Lei."
"Humph, you two..." Lei Lanting pointed at Tong Lele and Dong Qiangqiang, turned around and went downstairs angrily.
The two of them continued to admire the scenery outside the window, and Dong Qiangqiang suddenly asked: "How did you guess that I would say that just now?"
Tong Lele smiled slightly: "What do you think?"
Just as Dong Qiangqiang was about to speak, he heard Lei Lanting's exclamation coming from downstairs.
Dong Qiangqiang's expression changed, he took Tong Lele's hand and ran downstairs.
The moment he grabbed her hand, Tong Lele's face turned red, but Dong Qiangqiang didn't notice the change on her face at all.
Behind a tree not far outside the villa, several black shadows flashed past.
