Among the three, Tong Lele spoke the best German, so she drafted the money-sharing agreement.
Looking at Tong Lele who was busy writing, Dong Qiangqiang gently tugged on Lei Lanting's sleeve: "This house is so big, how are you going to find it?"
"Ahem, look for it layer by layer." Lei Lanting lowered his voice and whispered, while staring at Tong Lele's hand, for fear that she would write the wrong word.
"Are you cooperating with him to fool him?" Dong Qiangqiang suddenly realized, "I also said that I have never heard you say that you have this ability before."
"Looking at him like this, he must have searched everywhere he can. So our main goal should be to find the dark layer or hidden grid."
"Then how to find it?" Dong Qiangqiang looked confused, "I have never done such a thing."
"You haven't hunted a wild boar before today. Didn't you succeed? There is always a first time for everything. You see the treasure hunters in those European and American TV series who knock on the ceiling, wall tiles, floor, etc. with their hands. Listen with your ears to see if the sound is porcelain. If you have nothing to do, look through the books on the bookshelf and take out a few more books to take a look. What if one of the books is a trap? Clicking will open a secret door, which is filled with densely packed objects. Gold bars, gold bricks, gold..."
"Money is all about money." Dong Qiangqiang shook his head and sighed helplessly.
While the two were talking, Tong Lele had already written the content and handed it over to Lei Lanting and Mueller in duplicate.
Taking over the agreement, Lei Lanting said loudly: "At the invitation and commission of Mr. Andreas Muller, Ms. Tong Lele, Mr. Lei Lanting and Mr. Dong Qiangqiang will help Mr. Muller search for the property in Mr. Muller's ancestral home this weekend. If the property is found, both parties will share it equally based on the equivalent market value of the property. If the property is not found, Ms. Tong Lele, Mr. Lei Lanting and Mr. Dong Qiangqiang will not charge any labor fees. The two parties have reached an agreement on the above cooperation content. Party A: Andre Mr. Yas Muller, Party B: Ms. Tong Lele, Mr. Lei Lanting and Mr. Dong Qiangqiang." The bottom of the agreement is the signature place and time of signing of both parties.
After reading the content, Lei Lanting nodded with satisfaction. Everyone happily signed their names at the bottom of the agreement.
"Then let's start now?" Mueller couldn't wait to put his palms together, "Which floor should we start looking for first? The first floor or the second floor?"
"Wait a minute," Lei Lanting said, and ran out of the room. After a while, he ran back again with an extra piece of charcoal in his hand.
"You used this to find it?" Mueller was really surprised. "Oriental culture... is indeed magical."
Lei Lanting smiled and said nothing, stretched out his thumb and pressed it on the charcoal, then gently pressed his thumb on his signature, and then gestured to Mueller.
Everyone was speechless.
A few seconds later, there were four black fingerprints on the agreement.
"Is it okay now?" Mueller asked angrily.
Lei Lanting carefully folded the agreement and put it in his inner pocket. He waved his hand and said, "Go to the kitchen first. We need to complete one thing first before we can officially start the treasure hunt."
Everyone filed into the kitchen and stood in the center of the kitchen, looking around at the furnishings. Tong Lele couldn't help but ask, "Did you find anything in the kitchen?"
Lei Lanting rubbed his stomach and replied, "Old Dong, go to the basement first."
"The basement? There's nothing there. I've seen it many times." Mueller thought Lei Lanting had some special method, and a trace of disappointment appeared on his face. "We don't have to waste time there."
"Who said he was looking for it in the basement? I asked him to get the duck back first and bring up two bottles of red wine along the way."
"Why do we do this?" Mueller became more and more confused. "Can the duck and red wine help us find the property?"
Dong Qiangqiang knew what Lei Lanting was thinking, so he didn't say much. He opened the small door of the basement, ducked in, and brought out the duck and red wine in a short time.
The roast duck was covered with sawdust and loose soil, which made it look dirty, ugly and miserable.
"Rinse the duck, put it back in the oven, heat it at high temperature, and use it after five minutes." Lei Lanting ordered Dong Qiangqiang.
"Lele, open this bottle of red wine and find four more wine glasses."
Although they didn't know Lei Lanting's plan, they guessed that he wanted to eat roast duck and drink red wine. Dong Qiangqiang and Tong Lele suppressed their laughter and went to work separately.
"You...why don't you go find the treasure?" Mueller looked at the three of them blankly. "You are just wasting your time. It is simply unreasonable." He shook his head and sighed, with a very confused expression.
"Mr. Mueller," Lei Lanting patted Mueller on the shoulder, "I want to ask you something."
Mueller glanced seriously at Lei Lanting's hand patting his shoulder, and Lei Lanting immediately took it away knowingly.
"I want to ask you, how long have you been looking for this house?"
Mueller thought for a moment: "About two weeks."
"If my guess is correct, have you searched everything and found nothing?"
Mueller turned his head angrily and looked out the window. After a while, he nodded.
"Do you know why this is?" Lei Lanting pretended to be mysterious.
"Why?" Mueller couldn't help but ask.
"Because of your heart..." Lei Lanting wanted to say "insincere", but his German was not as good as the other two, and he didn't know what to say after thinking for a long time. Fortunately, he was quick-thinking and immediately changed his explanation, "Dishonest."
"Dishonest?" Mueller frowned and looked at him suspiciously, "What do you mean?"
"In our hometown, we usually ask our ancestors for blessings before looking for treasures." Lei Lanting said seriously.
"Ancestor? Bless?" Mueller became more and more confused as he listened.
"Yes, if you want to find the treasure left to you by your father, Old Muller, you must seek his guidance."
"But he is already dead." Mueller was completely confused, "How can you give me advice?"
Lei Lanting smiled: "So you need a ceremony."
"ceremony?"
Tong Lele washed four goblets at this time, poured red wine into each, and placed them on the operating table.
"Who are they?" Mueller looked at Lei Lanting, wondering what they were up to.
"Come." Lei Lanting handed Mueller a glass of red wine, then picked up another glass and whispered to the stunned Mueller: "I say something, you say something, you do what I do, do you understand?"
Mueller looked at Dong Qiangqiang mechanically, and Dong Qiangqiang nodded seriously.
"Please Mr. Müller's spirit in heaven protect us from finding the treasures you left to your son Andreas Müller and daughter Michelle Müller. We swear that we will use these treasures correctly and never abuse them."
After saying that, Lei Lanting solemnly raised the red wine glass above his head for a few seconds, then leaned over and poured the wine on the ground.
Mueller had never experienced anything like this, and he was completely dumbfounded. After Lei Lanting's reminder, he mechanically followed Dong Qiangqiang and Tong Lele's footsteps and did the same thing again.
When he finished, Lei Lanting poured another glass of red wine for Mueller and himself, and then touched Mueller's glass gently: "I wish our treasure hunt well. Cheers!" After that, he drank the red wine in one gulp.
Mueller looked at him blankly, drank the red wine in one gulp, and asked urgently: "Then what's next?"
"It's done." Lei Lanting shrugged.
"It's over?" Mueller was shocked, "Is it that simple?"
"This is a blessing ceremony. We pay more attention to efficiency." Lei Lanting cleared his throat, "I announce that the treasure hunt... now... officially begins!"
Since Mueller had already searched the first and second floors, the four people started searching directly from the third floor.
What surprised Muller was that Lei Lanting's treasure hunt was not very different from his approach. If you insist on finding a difference, it is that Lei Lanting hardly looked through any cabinets and drawers, but focused more on the floor, corners, ceiling and bookshelves.
But a few hours passed, and as the time slowly reached 12 o'clock in the morning, everyone still found nothing.
Dong Qiangqiang sat cross-legged on the floor, leaning against a log-colored, two-meter-high wardrobe. He rubbed his shoulders and said, "I don't have any strength at all. Even if there is a golden mountain, let's talk about it tomorrow."
Tong Lele's situation was similar. She leaned against the wall and kept breathing heavily.
The only ones who maintained strong fighting spirit were Muller and Lei Lanting.
Mueller's coat was thrown away somewhere, and his shirt was stained with sweat and dust. Lei Lanting's situation is similar. He also tied a cloth strip above his head. The two of them rushed from one room to another, standing in the corridor and talking intensely from time to time.
Tong Lele looked at Lei Lanting and Mueller in confusion, and asked Dong Qiangqiang in surprise: "When did these two become like this?"
Dong Qiangqiang gave a feeble "hum", waved his hand, lay down on the ground, looked at the ceiling, and slowly closed his eyes.
"Hey, why are you asleep? Get up quickly and look for gold bars." Just when Dong Qiangqiang was about to fall asleep, Lei Lanting walked into the room quickly and shouted to wake him up.
"Where are the gold bars in this house? Let's talk about it tomorrow." Dong Qiangqiang picked up a piece of clothing next to him dissatisfied and covered his face.
"Just now, Mueller found a box of photos of his childhood in the closet of another room under a movable wooden board." Lei Lanting rubbed his hands excitedly, "Maybe there are treasures in this room too."
Hearing these words, Dong Qiangqiang suddenly remembered that there was such a movable wooden board in the room where he lived. He took off the clothes covering his face and thought about something thoughtfully.
"Get out of the way quickly and let me see if there is anything good hidden in the closet next to you." Lei Lanting said as he stepped forward and chased away Dong Qiangqiang.
Dong Qiangqiang was afraid that he would step on him, so he quickly moved to the side, but he was still lying on the ground.
Lei Lanting opened the cabinet door so fast that he almost hit Dong Qiangqiang's leg. Dong Qiangqiang quickly dodged to the side. Looking at Lei Lanting who was rummaging through the cabinets and dripping with blood, Dong Qiangqiang couldn't help but sigh from the bottom of his heart: He is really rich. It can make the devil grind the mill.
Lei Lanting hummed a tune while reading. The room they stayed in was an attic with a pitched roof. The top of the wardrobe was the highest point of the pitched roof, and then the slope dropped. Dong Qiangqiang was lying directly under the sloping roof. Since the closet door blocked his view, all he could see were the columns of interior wooden strips above his head.
"Unfortunately, there is nothing here." Lei Lanting said bitterly, looking quite disappointed.
The moment Lei Lanting closed the cabinet door, Dong Qiangqiang suddenly discovered that the color of a piece of wood above his head looked much lighter than the surrounding wood strips. He subconsciously reached out to touch that piece of wood. When his hand touched the wooden bar, Dong Qiangqiang felt that the wooden bar seemed to be movable. He tried to move the wooden bar up, down, left and right, but it could not move.
Dong Qiangqiang thought, and pressed in again, but the wooden bar still didn't move at all.
Dong Qiangqiang pulled hard, and the wooden bar was suddenly pulled out. There was a rope attached to the other side of the wooden bar.
Dong Qiangqiang heard Tong Lele, who was sitting beside the bed, exclaim.
The bed sank into the floor.
