Yang Jing walked around the other rooms in the main house and found that no one lived in them, so he asked, "Why don't you live in the main house?"
Peter Wu said, "Boss, I am a Chinese. There are some rules in our country that cannot be broken casually. For example, only masters like you can live in the main house. We workers cannot live in the main house. Anyway, the conditions in the wing rooms are also very good, and it is great for us to live there."
As Peter Wu said, after the courtyard was rebuilt, the decoration inside was luxurious even in 2017. All the furniture inside was bought from Europe, and it cost more than one million US dollars to buy these furniture alone. The decoration of all the houses in the courtyard cost two million US dollars. Including the two million US dollars spent on the reconstruction and the five hundred thousand US dollars spent on the purchase of the house, the courtyard cost nearly five million US dollars in total.
That’s five million dollars in 1981, which is more valuable than fifty million dollars in 2007!
Yang Jing wanted to decorate the house according to the prices of later generations, but in this era, the decoration price of two million US dollars is already the top. Unless Yang Jing wants to be a nouveau riche and use gold and real money to decorate...
Yang Jing doesn't want to be such a tasteless person.
"Peter, you four can live in the main house from now on. You know I am quite familiar with Chinese civilization. I know that if a house like this is not occupied for a long time, it will lose its popularity. So, I don't mind you living in the main house."
Peter Wu nodded and said, "Since you, Boss, agree that we can live in the main house, then the four of us will live in the main house for a period of time every month."
"Let's go to the basement and take a look."
Pete Wu immediately led the way and took Yang Jing towards the easternmost house of the main house.
"Boss, according to Mr. Ale's instructions, we opened a basement when we rebuilt this courtyard last year. We originally wanted to build a two-story basement, but because the water leakage was too serious, we had to give up the plan to build the second basement and only built one basement. There are two entrances to the basement. The exit of the back house is currently closed, and only the exit of the main landlord's ear room is open."
Yang Jing understood that this place was on the north bank of Houhai Lake, and the gate was only about ten meters away from the north bank of Houhai Lake. It was indeed difficult to build two basements at this location. However, one basement was probably enough. After all, this was a courtyard that was 40 meters wide and more than 70 meters long. Even if the basement area was only 70% of the ground area, it would still be more than 2,000 square meters.
After Pete Wu walked into the east wing, he fiddled with a combination lock on the wall that looked like a safe, and then opened the safe. There was nothing inside but a switch button.
"This is the switch that controls the basement door. Currently, only Dwyane and I know the password. Every time the basement is opened, both of us must be present."
A white man in his forties next to him nodded slightly. Yang Jing knew from the introduction just now that this was one of Mike Aller's confidants, Dwayne Miller.
After Pete Wu pressed the switch, accompanied by a low sound of an electric motor running, the roller shutter door of the east ear room rolled up, and on the ground on the north side of the room, a large crack suddenly appeared in the bottom plate. Then the crack, which was as wide as the entire room, became larger and larger, and a downward slope appeared in front of Yang Jing.
After all the floor doors were opened, Pete Wu walked in first, followed by Yang Jing. As soon as they entered, they could hear a "buzzing" sound in the basement, as if some equipment was running.
"Boss, the total area of this basement is 2,275 square meters, and the height is 3.2 meters. The floor, top and four walls are all made of reinforced concrete walls that are 70 centimeters thick. There are two layers of waterproofing inside, and the entire top is supported by 32 reinforced concrete columns. In addition, eight high-power dehumidifiers are installed in the basement, running 24 hours a day to keep the basement dry. All the antiques and cultural relics I have acquired from Yanjing and other regions in the past two years are placed in the basement."
This basement is very large. In the middle and at the four corners, there is a large cement concrete wall connecting the ground and the ceiling, as if there is something isolating it.
Seeing Yang Jing looking there, Peter Wu explained, "Because we need to plant plants in the yard, especially the transplanted locust tree, we reserved areas for planting flowers and trees when we built the basement. Those five areas are the reserved areas."
The basement doesn't feel damp at all, on the contrary it feels quite dry, and you can't feel it's a basement at all. This is enough to prove that the moisture-proof work of this huge basement is quite well done.
All the old items that Pete Wu acquired in the past two years are placed in several separate rooms near the entrance to the east wing!
Looking at these old items, Yang Jing finally felt that these millions of dollars were not wasted...
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