Li Benyuan stopped in front of a dilapidated house behind Dengshikou.
This house must have been a silk shop in the past, but the plaque on the door was covered in dust and splashed with red paint.
Half of the door panel was missing and it wasn't closed at all. There was a lot of garbage piled in front of the door, as if the business had been closed for a long time.
This should be a store that was smashed during the movement.
Li Benyuan stepped on the garbage and got in.
He was probably not sure whether he had found the right place. He stood among the ruins and took out a map on another piece of paper to check it for a long time.
Then he walked on the tiles and bricks on the ground and turned to the back of the shop.
The situation at the back of the store is completely different from this side.
After passing through the broken wall, there was a fairly tidy yard behind it.
There are intact houses all around the yard, as if people are living there.
Xie Wan has recently gained some understanding of the current living conditions in Beijing. Based on the surrounding environment, it can be inferred that this was originally a courtyard with a storefront in front.
It’s just that the shop in the front was smashed and no one dared to repair it. It has been vacant for many years and has become a ruin. But the yard at the back was arranged for people to live in by the Housing Authority.
These courtyards with shops were owned by some progressive small capitalists, and in the early 1950s, it was advocated that they continue to operate.
But then the wind changed, and the owner of the shop either died or escaped.
Because the changes were so great, Li Benyuan found it difficult to find the correct position.
Li Benyuan was seen sneaking under the windows of several houses around the yard, listening attentively to the movements inside.
It is summer now and most people keep their windows open to keep cool.
The people in the room were probably asleep, but they could still hear snoring and occasional coughing.
Seeing a shovel in front of a house, Li Benyuan picked it up.
He looked up at the moon, stopped at the window of the first room on the left, and jumped in through the window.
Xie Wan was worried that he would kill someone, so he hung the jade ring around the neck of Prince Duanduan and let it follow him in.
She herself hid in the space, monitoring Li Benyuan's every move.
Prince Duanduan was squatting on the windowsill. With the help of the moonlight outside the window, Xie Wan could clearly see that there was a bed in the room, and a person was lying on the bed snoring.
Li Benyuan took out a small bottle from his pocket, sprayed the medicine in the bottle onto a handkerchief, approached the bed, and suddenly covered the mouth and nose of the person on the bed. The person's snoring suddenly stopped.
Xie Wan guessed that this should be something like a drug.
After making sure that the person on the bed would not wake up suddenly, Li Benyuan closed the window, drew the curtains, and turned on the lights in the room.
Prince Duanduan hid in the shadow under the table leg and was not discovered by Li Benyuan.
However, from this perspective, Xie Wan could not fully see Li Benyuan's actions.
When Prince Duanduan was moving, Li Benyuan heard the noise, suddenly turned around, and saw a mouse.
The eldest prince Duanduan ran and hid under the cabinet, and even Xie Wan was startled.
Fortunately, Li Benyuan didn't take the rat seriously.
There was a sound of digging outside. Peeping out from the crack in the cupboard, Xie Wan saw that the wooden board in the middle of the room had been carefully pried open.
The shovel was digging the soil.
Xie Wan suddenly realized, is Li Benyuan here to look for treasure?
Xie Wan recalled some information from anti-Japanese dramas he had watched before.
In 1937, after the Japanese captured Beijing, they stationed a large number of troops near the Bada Hutongs.
The Japanese military doctor brought the white powder to the Eight Great Hutongs.
This has turned into a place where white powder is rampant.
And those military doctors made a lot of money and accumulated a lot of wealth.
Xie Wan suddenly thought, since the Li family is a medical family, could their ancestor be one of the Japanese military doctors who sold white powder in the Eight Great Hutongs at that time?
By 1945, the Japanese surrendered and Beijing was liberated. The Japanese army evacuated in a hurry and certainly could not take all the property with them.
Maybe what Li Benyuan is looking for is some of the wealth hidden here by his ancestors?
Although Li Benyuan was not caught contacting others, it was discovered that Li Ben's family made a fortune from the war, and the wealth left underground seemed to be quite good.
After a long time, Li Benyuan dug out a two-foot-wide copper-clad wooden box from the ground.
He took a key from his neck and opened the box. The golden light from the box suddenly illuminated the room.
Xie Wan swallowed his saliva and began to mutter in his heart: "I'm rich, I'm rich!"
This must be the treasure that Li Ben’s ancestors hid here during the war of aggression against China.
Maybe Li Benyuan's purpose of coming to China this time is not only to steal the secret recipe, but also to bring back this batch of gold bars.
But Li Benyuan simply can't take away so many gold bars now.
Gold has a high density. A box of gold must weigh at least dozens of kilograms. It must be very inconvenient for him to move around with this box.
Li Benyuan tried to pick up the box and then put it back.
He reopened the box, took out a dozen gold bars and put them into his briefcase.
He locked the box again, put it back in the pit, and began to cover it with soil.
Then restore the pried open wooden board.
As if he was worried, he stepped on the wooden board several times, found a broom in the house, swept up some of the dust nearby, and evenly distributed it on the wooden floor.
Fortunately, the floor was quite old and had cracks all over it. The owner of the house must have been a bachelor, and he was sloppy and rarely swept the floor. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't be able to tell that the ground had been dug up.
Li Benyuan looked at the owner of the house lying on the bed again, and he seemed to be struggling over whether to kill someone.
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