Chapter 106 107. Cellar

"We can also plant some fruit trees in the backyard and build some entertainment areas for children under the fruit trees. Then we can sit here and watch the children play in the future." Gu Wenheng stared at Jin Qianqian with anticipation in his tone.

Jin Qianqian lowered her head and smiled, "This matter has not even started yet, so hurry up and clear your land!"

Gu Wenheng felt full of energy, but the saplings next to him were in a bad situation. With the chopping of the knives, they would soon turn into nutrients for the earth.

Jin Qianqian looked at a rotten piece of floor on the ground curiously. There was grass growing everywhere else, so why was this place still empty?

After kicking it with her foot, the rotten wood suddenly disappeared from where it was, scaring Jin Qianqian so much that she screamed.

"What's wrong?" Gu Wenheng immediately ran to her side and looked around cautiously.

Jin Qianqian pointed at the hole that suddenly appeared and said, "I thought it was just a rotten wooden board, but I didn't know there was an entrance to the cellar. It suddenly collapsed just now and scared me."

Jin Qianqian reacted and realized that the original owner must have dug a cellar, which was usually used to store grain and dried vegetables.

Gu Wenheng stuck his head in to look, but it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything.

Jin Qianqian took out a searchlight, and as the beam of light shone, she could see the dusty soil underneath.

"Wait a moment before going down," seeing Gu Wenheng trying to approach the cellar, Jin Qianqian hurriedly grabbed him.

Gu Wenheng did not dare to go down rashly. He was also scared because he had killed a long worm before. "I know, I am afraid of my life. I still want to be with you for a long time."

Jin Qianqian, "."

"Stand away from me. I'll throw something down to see." Gu Wenheng picked up the broken clay figurine beside him, raised his hands high, and smashed it down with force. As the clay figurine fell to the ground, the whole flower scattered.

"It seems like there is no movement?" After waiting for a while, the two of them threw some things in one after another, and then slowly put their heads in.

"There seems to be something underneath, boxes of it. It might be the food stored by this family." Jin Qianqian threw another clod of earth at the boxes.

"Put out a ladder, I'll go down and take a look first." There was a wooden ladder nearby, but you could tell without even looking that it would fall apart if touched.

After the ladder was set up steadily, Gu Wenheng carefully walked down the ladder slowly. When he reached the bottom and made sure there was no problem, he waved to Jin Qianqian who was above.

Gu Wenheng carefully used a machete to pry open the first wooden cabinet, only to see a cloud of dust rising and some black objects appear in the cabinet.

He gently picked it up and took a look. "This should be grain, but after so many years, it has already rotted."

Jin Qianqian raised her head and glanced at the entrance to the cellar. "It's also because this cellar is not sealed. It seems that these things are of no value."

Sure enough, after opening the blind boxes one after another, there was no sense of surprise at all. There was nothing except some items that were so corrupted that they could not be recognized from their original state.

Jin Qianqian looked at the cellar which was less than ten square meters and asked, "Should we dig a new one or keep this one?"

Gu Wenheng shook the mud off his feet. Maybe because water had flowed in over the years or for some other reason, the mud always felt particularly soft.

"If it is preserved, it will have to be cleaned up and reinforced."

Jin Qianqian suddenly had a question, "Didn't Captain Li and his men say before that when someone came in to clean up the village, they didn't find these cellars?"

After all, it was still food. Wouldn't people at that time have looked down on it?

"I guess what happened at that time left a big shadow on these local people, so it may just be a simple cleanup." Gu Wenheng was also a little uncertain. He held the ladder and motioned Jin Qianqian to go up first.

"Wait a moment," Gu Wenheng grabbed Jin Qianqian's hand just as she touched the escalator.

The other hand pressed down hard, feeling a crackling sound, and the two looked at each other.

Gu Wenheng gently lifted the escalator, and saw a scratch on the ground and a trace of rust friction appear in front of them.

The two men carefully cleared the dirt on top, and what appeared in front of them was an iron plate.

"This is probably another entrance. Let me pry it open." Gu Wenheng wanted to push Jin Qianqian behind him to protect her, but Jin Qianqian dodged him.

"This is an iron plate. Let's do it together." He then picked up the machete and started to pry the other corner.

After several efforts, I finally pried open a small hole, and unexpectedly, yellow light leaked out through the gap.

Jin Qianqian blinked, "Is it what I thought?"

The two of them gritted their teeth and worked hard at the same time, and finally lifted the iron sheet.

A row of neatly stacked gold ingots appeared in front of them.

"Have we found a treasure?" Jin Qianqian was still a little unsure. How could such a harvest be found in this ordinary farmyard?

Gu Wenheng picked up an ingot and turned it over. He looked at the smooth surface without any markings and felt relieved. As long as it was not official silver, it would be fine.

Looking at the gold ingots transferred into the suitcase, a total of one hundred ingots, ten thousand taels of gold, Gu Wenheng couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

Jin Qianqian was also dumbfounded, "This is incredible, there is really money to be picked up."

Gu Wenheng, "Put the things away first, and I'll see if there's anything else wrong."

Looking at the empty iron box, Gu Wenheng took it out of the pit with one force. The machete in his hand kept hitting the ground until it no longer touched any other foreign objects.

When the two returned to the ground, their faces were somewhat solemn. What kind of family could store so much gold?

"How about I ask the clan leader to find us another place?" Gu Wenheng suggested while looking at the road not far from the village entrance.

Jin Qianqian shook her head, "This is a little obvious. Anyway, no one has lived here for decades. Who can say what happened in the meantime?

Let's just pretend that it never happened. It was originally ownerless, so at worst we can use it to do good deeds later."

Gu Wenheng, "It's a pity that we can't find any previous records here, and there is not a single word in the entire house."

Jin Qianqian, "It's not normal to live in seclusion in such a remote mountain village with so much gold. Even if we can find information, it's probably fake."

Jin Qianqian also felt that the gold she had just received was a little hot, but now that she had touched it, did she still have any choice?

Gu Wenheng grabbed the machete and randomly cleared the surrounding weeds. He stopped to drink some water only after he was sure there were no small reptiles.

Other families in the village also encountered various problems.

Someone also discovered the hidden cellar, but there was no food in the cellar either. Instead, there were two corpses lying there.

(End of this chapter)