Although the old man of the Li family said this, he still winked at the old lady next to him.
The old lady pretended to serve tea and followed Xu Jiaguo.
Xu Jiaguo listened to the footsteps behind him and didn't pay any attention.
He pushed the door open and walked into the house.
Even if the old lady doesn't look at it, Xu Jiaguo still won't feel at ease!!
Everything in the room was on view. As Xu Jiaguo's grandfather was the eldest son in the family, he was naturally entrusted with important tasks.
He had to help with housework at a young age and gradually became the breadwinner of the family.
The house we live in is one of the larger ones in the family, and now the room has been divided into two rooms.
One room is specially used for the big bed, and the other side is a study room specially set up by the old man of the Li family for his grandson.
Seeing the old lady sticking her head out of the door, Xu Jiaguo scratched his head and said directly to the old lady: "Second grandma, grandpa only told me a general direction.
Where exactly is it? I'm still a little confused, why don't you come in and help take a look?"
The old lady glanced at the old man of the Li family imperceptibly, and when she saw him nod, she stepped in.
Her old face was wrinkled like bark, and she smiled and said, "When we said that this house was for Dabao to live in, we also renovated it.
You can see that there is an inner and outer room, and we didn’t see anything there at first!”
The old lady still wanted to fool Xu Jiaguo at this time. They really didn't know whether there was anything in the house.
Nothing was discovered during the previous renovation, and the most important thing is that the floor tiles were basically not moved.
So for a moment the old lady couldn't figure out whether her uncle had left anything behind.
Since Xu Jiaguo said so, it is very likely true. If they can trick Xu Jiaguo away and take those things for themselves, then...
Just thinking about it made the old lady feel happy.
Xu Jiaguo pretended to be confused and said, "No? But my grandfather made a solemn promise before he died.
Second grandma, can you help me find a small wooden hammer?
I'll knock around to see if there's a hidden compartment."
Seeing that he was determined to insist, the old lady had no choice but to wave her hand and said, "Then you wait, I'll go look for it in the warehouse."
When Xu Jiaguo heard the word "warehouse", he just found it ridiculous.
Housing is tight everywhere now, and some families even have three or four people squeezed into one room.
For the eldest daughter and son in the family, at most a curtain can be drawn in the middle to separate them.
I didn’t expect that they even had a house used as a so-called warehouse!
The old lady walked very slowly, and only after she walked out of the room did Xu Jiaguo walk leisurely into the inner room.
There was a desk and a bookcase in the inner room. After looking at the position in the corner, Xu Jiaguo quickly moved the bookcase away.
He gently raised his hand and knocked on the floor tile, then took out a piece of iron from his pocket.
It took a lot of effort to pry open the floor tiles.
What’s different from other places is that it would be good if the whole house could be laid with two layers of floor tiles, but this place has four layers.
After much difficulty, I pried open all the floor tiles and took out the iron box inside.
Xu Jiaguo took out another handkerchief from his pocket, wrapped the small weapon, and put it into his coat pocket.
Then he stuffed the tin box into the drawer under the desk.
Hearing the old lady's footsteps at the door, Xu Jiaguo restored all the floor tiles to their original state.
The old lady walked into the house and didn't see Xu Jiaguo. Her face changed and she shouted quickly: "Jiaguo, where are you?"
Xu Jiaguo responded from the inner room: "Second Madam, I'm here!"
When the old lady walked into the inner room, she discovered that Xu Jiaguo was reading a book on the bookshelf with great interest.
The old lady breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time she said with some dissatisfaction: "Jiaguo, I know that your family had a misfortune when you were young, and your grandparents passed away early, so no one taught you these etiquettes.
But at least we should understand the principles of being a human being. When we go to someone else's home, how can we just rummage through their things?
Besides, these are the books my eldest grandson will need for further studies.
If you tear it apart and a page is missing, how will I explain it to you, old lady?"
The smile on Xu Jiaguo's face gradually faded, he slowly closed the book, pointed to a line of words on the second page of the book and said: "Since Second Madam said so, then I also want to ask.
These books were collected by my grandfather and passed on to me.
My name and my grandfather's name are also on it. When the accident happened in our family, the whole house was cleaned out, even the books were not spared.
Logically, these should have been confiscated, so how come they were in Second Grandma's house?"
This startled the old lady. She didn't know many words, but she could still recognize the words "home" and "country". She laughed dryly and said, "This, this, this is what Dabao bought at the scrap collection station.
Who would have thought it was your book? Could it be that after it was taken away, it was thrown into a scrap recycling station?
Yes, it must be like this!"
Xu Jiaguo casually threw the book on the desk: "Oh, that's such a coincidence.
Second Grandma, have you brought the hammer I asked you to fetch earlier?"
The old lady was afraid that Xu Jiaguo would look through other books, so she quickly handed the thing in her hand over: "No one usually uses this thing. I searched for a long time before I found it."
After Xu Jiaguo took it, he knocked on the wall again and again.
The wall, which was already a little cracked, started to flutter down with dust after he knocked on it.
The old lady waved her hands in distress: "Jiaguo, please be a little gentler.
It took a lot of effort to get the paint for this wall, so don't knock it all off."
Xu Jiaguo turned a deaf ear to her. Just when the old lady could no longer bear it, Xu Jiaguo suddenly screamed, "Ah, the sound here is not right!"
The old lady didn't care about getting angry at this time, and rushed up quickly with her little feet: "What's wrong?"
Xu Jiaguo then moved the bookcase away and knocked down along the wall.
"Second Madam, listen to the bricks in this corner. Are the sounds different?"
The old lady is now in her seventies or eighties and is a little deaf, so she can't hear the difference at all.
For a moment, I felt anxious: “Ah, ah, it seems a little different.
Come on and try to pry it open, or I'll get you a shovel."
Xu Jiaguo nodded repeatedly, and when the old lady came back, the house was in a mess.
The books were scattered on the floor, and the basin of water on the shelf in the corner fell down.
The books were soaked through, and the old man and woman felt very disappointed.
This is his grandson's treasure for further study...
The old man of the Li family was so angry that he pounded his cane twice: "Jiaguo, what do you mean by this?"
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