Chapter 26 Treasures Left Behind by Our Ancestors
Gu Yuehuai felt a chill down his spine. Listening to the familiar voice, he forced himself to calm down.
She looked at the dark outer room, pursed her lips, and responded, "Dad?"
"Hey! What are you doing, girl? What are you carrying in your hands?" Gu Zhifeng was wearing clothes and using the light from outside to see Gu Yuehuai, who was wearing a straw raincoat and struggling to carry a wooden box. She hurried forward to lend a hand.
Gu Yuehuai adjusted to the light in the darkness, glanced at the closed door of the inner room, and said in a serious tone: "Dad, don't ask anything yet, help me move the box into my room, and I will talk to you."
Gu Zhifeng was a little surprised, but hearing her daughter's bad tone, she didn't dare to ask more questions. She just nodded repeatedly and carried the wooden box into the house.
He had just put the box away when he saw Gu Yuehuai coming back with another box of the same size.
Gu Zhifeng was a little dazed. Looking at her daughter's silent face in the dark, she just kept working. After several trips, she finally moved all four boxes back into the house.
Gu Yuehuai lowered his voice and said solemnly: "Dad, stay in the room and close the door. Don't let my second brother find the box."
Gu Zhifeng nodded blankly.
After giving the instructions, Gu Yuehuai went out in the rain again, turned behind the house, looked at several deep pits, and filled the pits with all the surrounding weeds and stones. If there were not enough, he dug up soil from far away to fill it in. Until all four large pits were filled, the rain gradually subsided.
The sky was still as dark as ink. Gu Yuehuai stood there and looked for a while, making sure nothing was missed before returning to the house.
She took off her raincoat, cleaned the mud off the hoe, and returned to her room, all wet. She fastened the door bolt with her backhand, carefully and cautiously.
Gu Zhifeng was squatting on the ground looking at a few lacquered wooden boxes, completely confused.
As soon as he saw Gu Yuehuai coming back, he asked, "Daughter, what is this? Why hasn't Dad seen it before?"
Gu Yuehuai said nothing. He wiped the rain off his hands and face, took out the matches and candles from the drawer, lit them up on the corner of the table, and illuminated the small room.
"Daughter?" Gu Zhifeng called again in a low voice.
Gu Yuehuai looked at several red-painted wooden boxes of the same size placed side by side and said, "Dad, Chen Yin hit my head a few days ago. When I was dazed, I heard our Gu family's ancestor appear and say that he left us a treasure."
"I thought it would rain heavily tonight and no one would see us, so I dug in the place where the ancestors pointed out, and sure enough, I dug out four boxes of things. The ancestors must have seen that our family was in trouble and came to help!"
Gu Yuehuai's words were so convincing that Gu Zhifeng's legs were trembling.
He looked around and said in a cowardly manner, "Ancestor? Nan... Nan, is there really an ancestor?"
Gu Yuehuai laughed in his heart, but nodded seriously: "Dad has noticed that I'm different, right? That's all because of what our ancestors have taught us. They said that if our family doesn't do the right thing and goes to the black market, people will definitely die!"
When her father was young, he angered her grandfather to death because of gambling. Although he has changed his ways now, he still has a deep shadow on his body. Whenever he mentions his ancestors, he feels guilty and afraid.
"Dead person?" Gu Zhifeng's face turned frighteningly pale when he heard it.
"Think about it, our ancestors said there is a treasure, if there really is a treasure, then they said that going to the black market again will kill people, that must not be nonsense, Dad, our family just needs to be stable, you must never go to the black market again, understand?"
Gu Yuehuai frightened and deceived Gu Zhifeng so much that she nodded repeatedly and promised that she would never go there again.
Seeing this, she felt a little more relaxed.
Although being caught by his father was unexpected, it was good for him to know. It was a good opportunity to let him know that the family was not penniless and there was no need to take the risk of going to the black market. It also put an end to his restless thoughts.
When Gu Yuehuai squatted down and prepared to open the box to take a look, Gu Zhifeng asked in a low voice: "Nannan, what does the old ancestor look like? Have you seen your grandfather? Does he blame me?"
"Dad, don't worry. Revitalize our Gu family in the future. Can grandpa blame you?" Gu Yuehuai said.
Gu Zhifeng sighed heavily, "How can it be easy? It's a new society now. Even doing small business can be considered speculation and profiteering. How can we revive it? I'm afraid we won't have a chance in this lifetime."
Speaking of this, Gu Zhifeng felt a little discouraged.
Gu Yuehuai glanced at him and said nothing.
It may not be a good time now, but in another ten years, agricultural development will enter its golden age, the national economy will start to take off, and there will be many people going into business. Most of them will seize the opportunity and become the first batch of wealthy people.
That is undoubtedly an opportunity.
However, this is a story for later, so let’s not talk about it for now.
Seeing that Gu Zhifeng was a little discouraged, Gu Yuehuai couldn't help but ask: "Dad, aren't you curious about what our ancestors left behind?"
Gu Zhifeng raised her eyelids and said weakly, "What has your father not seen before?"
"Really?" Gu Yuehuai glanced at him.
She wiped the mud off the box, and the rusty lock opened with a slight pull.
Gu Zhifeng said that, but when she heard the lock was opened, she still came over curiously.
When the box was opened, it was filled with a variety of porcelains, including lotus leaf jars with unique shapes and lids, colorful and magnificent plum blossom vases with gold ribbon lids, snuff bottles with skillful brushwork, and so on.
There are more than ten pieces of porcelain of various sizes in this box, but unfortunately some of them have been oxidized and damaged.
"Hiss - these are all antiques!" Gu Zhifeng exclaimed, and leaned over the box to take a closer look. His originally calm expression became serious. Only then did he realize that the treasures left by his ancestors were extraordinary.
Gu Yuehuai had seen these things in his previous life, so he was not surprised.
She then opened the second lacquered wooden box, which was filled with neatly arranged jewelry boxes, some large, some small, some long, some short, with exquisite color paintings on them.
Gu Yuehuai then opened a long box, inside of which was a pair of flat round jade bracelets of excellent quality, high transparency and bright emerald green. In terms of value alone, they were worthy of being heirlooms.
Gu Zhifeng took a deep breath. "When I was a child, I saw your grandma wearing a pair of bracelets. The material was very transparent. Your grandpa spent a lot of money to buy them for her. Your grandma liked them very much. Unfortunately, she bought them to pay off my gambling debts..."
Speaking of this, Gu Zhifeng's tone was full of regret again.
Gu Yuehuai didn't say anything and then opened the third box.
If the things in the first two boxes can only be regarded as heirlooms and cannot be sold now, then the things in the third box are real things that can be exchanged for money.
In the third box were piles of foreign currency wrapped in newspapers and neatly stacked gold and silver bars.
Foreign money is the currency in circulation during the Republic of China, commonly known as the ocean.
After the country implemented a new monetary policy, it began to free up its hands to recover the yuan for destruction. However, there are always omissions. To this day, some rural areas in remote areas are still using "Yuan Datou" for transactions.
The gold bars are stacked up so high that they are even a little dazzling to look at.
Gu Zhifeng held his breath, looked at the lacquered wooden box in disbelief, then looked at his daughter who had a calm expression. For a moment, he felt that as a father, he was too unworldly.
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