Wang Yunshu opened the wooden door behind the straw mat, and inside was a small secret room half a person tall. She went into the space to get a flashlight, turned it on when she came out, and the light suddenly shone brightly.
Yun Shu closed his eyes with some discomfort. When he opened his eyes, he saw an old-fashioned wooden box in the secret room, like a dowry box in a costume drama.
Next to the wooden box was half a bag of noodles, weighing about 20 kilograms, and several pockets. Yun Shu opened it and saw that there were rice and millet stored in categories, each weighing one or two kilograms.
No wonder Grandma Daya and her second aunt searched for a long time, but they didn't see any fine food in their house. They just thought the three of them had eaten it. Grandma Daya even scolded them for a long time. It turned out that her mother had hidden in the secret room a long time ago.
Yun Shu didn't know whether to cry or laugh at this time, for herself and Da Ya, but now this was a good thing for herself, and she could take out the things in her space with confidence.
Yun Shu opened the big mahogany box, and inside there were several pieces of cotton and satin that were a little dull in color and looked like they had been there for a long time.
However, Yun Shu's consciousness "saw" that under the cloth there was a twenty-centimeter-square dressing box made of Hainan huanghuali inlaid with glass mirrors.
There are five layers in the dressing box. On the top layer are an old sandalwood comb and a jade comb. They are beautifully carved and look like old items at first glance.
It's a pity that the jade comb is probably not used frequently and has not been well maintained. It is a bit dry. It is a pity that it is made of Hetian yellow jade.
There are more than a dozen pieces of exquisite jewelry on the second floor, all made of red gold inlaid with rubies, including hairpin rings, hairpin bracelets, rings and earrings, which is a complete set of jewelry.
Gold or filigree beaten into paper-thin gold foil, embedded with gems as big as a fingernail or as small as a grain of rice.
When Yun Shu was in school, he was obsessed with gems and jade for a while. If this ruby is correct, it should be a pigeon blood ruby. Decades later, such a set of jewelry can be sold for hundreds of millions of yuan.
Yun Shu really didn't expect that Da Ya's family would have such a valuable thing, namely Da Ya Niang's dowry?
There was a pair of jadeite bracelets placed on the last floor. Although they were not as good as the mutton-fat jade or imperial green bracelets that the judge gave her, they were still made of glass, gold and red jadeite.
On the fourth floor were two land deeds. Yun Shu studied them carefully and found that they were the real estate certificates for the Jin family's ancestral residence and a courtyard in the capital. They were reissued after liberation.
The fifth floor is full of ten large yellow croakers.
These things made Yun Shu feel confused. What is the origin of Da Ya Niang?
It seems that the Jin family is richer than Da Ya remembers, and it is not something that a rural landowner can compare with.
In Da Ya's memory, the Jin family was in Changbai Village, a few hills away from Qingxi Village, at the foot of the hill where Tianchi was located. It should now be called the Changbai Brigade.
The Jin family has a large house with four floors in Changbai Brigade, but even when the landowners divided the land, it did not hinder the Jin family in the slightest. First, the old man of the Jin family was a red landlord. In addition to this ancestral house, even the land was sold. donated;
The second is that Da Ya’s grandfather and grandmother are revolutionary martyrs, and the country cannot let the families of the martyrs feel cold.
Thirdly, the Jin family has been the head of Changbai Village for generations.
Although great-grandfather Jin Alin passed away five years ago, his prestige in Changbai Village is still very high.
This is also the reason why Tong Jianye, the current captain of the Changbai Brigade, calls people over from time to time after Da Ya's parents are gone.
Da Ya only remembers that her great-grandpa was very kind to her. Even when the old man was dying, he still thought about Da Ya and Da Zhuang.
But she really didn't know what was special about her great-grandpa's family, but Yun Shu was different. From Da Ya's memory, she discovered with just one glance that the grandeur of the Jin family's old man was definitely not that of an ordinary landlord.
By the way, the Jin family is Manchu, and Changbai Mountain is the place of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty, and Jin is the name before the Qing Dynasty.
Yun Shu is a little confused. Does the Jin family have any hidden identities?
Thinking of this, as soon as Yun Shu had a lawsuit on her head, she wanted to take care of herself and her children. Otherwise, would you please step back?
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There are also several tanned skins in the wooden box: two sable skins, one white fox skin, and one lynx skin. These should be Da Ya Daddy's trophies.
Under the leather were a hunting bow, a bundle of arrows, a can of malted milk, and a large iron box. Inside were ten large black coupons worth ten yuan.
In the corner of the secret room, Yun Shu also found half a can of salt and half a can of lard. There were no various tickets at all. It was probably that the eldest girl had used them or had left them outside and was taken away by her grandmother and second aunt.
Yun Shu put the jewelry box into the space, thinking about giving it to his brother when he got his wife.
Then she took out the flour, rice, and eggs from the space and put them away. She also took two cans of canned peaches and tore off all the words on the packaging before she felt relieved.
After looking again and again, she replaced the chosen milk bottle with the most common one. With the can of malted milk in the secret room, milk powder could also be secretly mixed in. Xiao Zhuang couldn't speak now anyway.
At this moment, Yun Shu was really grateful to Daya's parents for having an idea at that time.
A Cartier watch appeared out of thin air in Yun Shu's hand. He looked at the time and found that the whole process actually took more than an hour, and it was already past 2 p.m.
Putting the watch into the cabin, Yun Shu's feeling could be described in one word - sour.
There are all kinds of brand-name watches, jewelry, high-end bags, and advanced customization in the mall. Many luxury goods that even she would have hesitated to buy before buying them are now beyond her reach.
However, finally being able to indulge in luxury has led to death in the light of the sun, which is tragic.
In this day and age, the whole of China is gray, black, and blue except for blue, black, and gray. Green military uniforms are popular, but there are no soldiers in the family, and they can't even get old clothes.
If you want a red scarf, you have to go to a department store in a big city to buy it, and you still need to have tickets and money.
Now Yun Shu can only be happy on his own, after all, there is no cotton for the winter yet.
There were quite a few beddings of various colors in the space. Not to mention cotton, down and silk were considered high-end products, but she didn't want to challenge other people's IQ. It would be too dangerous to use them directly.
However, Yun Shu was glad that he persisted in painting. He studied fashion design in college.
Needless to say whether she designs or not, if it was so easy to get ahead, she wouldn't go home and be a stay-at-home girl.
However, in four years of college, she at least learned how to tailor, use a sewing machine, and make clothes.
In this era where even ready-made clothes are rare and working people pay attention to "do it yourself and have enough food and clothing", tailors have become unemployed.
After leaving the cellar, Yun Shu strolled around the backyard and used the toilet.
Today's toilets are just two boards on a pit, and then surrounded by wooden boards or adobe, leaving a door.
The more elegant ones will have a cover on top, while the less elegant ones will be able to see the blue sky when they raise their heads, and they will be able to see pedestrians passing by when they stand up.
Such toilets are still found in rural areas in the 21st century. Flies and mosquitoes are essential, but there is not much time to fly around.
In the 1960s, when the greenhouse effect was not very obvious, people in the Changbai Mountain area already wore long clothes and long trousers in August.
Back in the main room, Yun Shu scooped up some water with a gourd and washed his hands directly.
The bright red enamel washbasin has been taken away by Aunt Da Ya. There is only a wooden footbath left in the house, and the clean towels are missing. The whole house seems to have gone through the "Three Lights Policy".
Yun Shu saw that there was not much water in the water tank, but fortunately the wooden bucket for carrying water was still there. There is no well at home, or in other words, there is no awareness of drilling a well in Qingxi Village.
Therefore, the advantage of living at the foot of the mountain has emerged again. When you open the door, you can see the upper reaches of the creek, close to the water source.
