After the child left, Feng Qingxue cleaned up the kitchen and returned to the main room, where she was greeted by a bunch of keys handed to her by Lu Jiang.
A bunch of old-fashioned copper keys, as shiny as new.
"Where did so many keys come from?" Feng Qingxue felt very strange when they fell into her hands. They were heavy. Some of the doors, cabinets and boxes in her home had old-fashioned copper locks, while others had new locks sold in department stores.
Besides, she had the key to every lock.
Lu Jiang smiled and said, "The locks of these keys are related to all our belongings."
Feng Qingxue immediately recalled Lu Jiang's words that day. Her intuition was hot and heavy. He then said, "Dad told me yesterday that before we built the house, he secretly dug up the gold and other hard currencies hidden somewhere else and buried them under the homestead, right under our bedroom. He buried it very deep because there would be no chance of someone digging three feet into the ground in our house. Besides, there is no need to worry about the gold being improperly stored when it is buried in the soil. We can dig it out when peace comes."
Feng Qingxue suddenly opened her eyes wide and pointed in the direction of the bedroom. Could it be that she and her husband had been sleeping on gold all this time?
"Yes, it's under our bed." Lu Jiang showed a smile in his eyes, reached out and held her hand, and held the key in the palm of their hands, "Outside, part of it is under the cowshed."
"Wait, you said under the cowshed?" Feng Qingxue interrupted him.
"That's right. There is a cellar under the cowshed made of glutinous rice juice and cement. It is said that it is so strong that even artillery shells cannot blow it open. When the door made of glutinous rice juice and cement is pushed up, it fits tightly together, and there is no air inside. Dad and grandfather dug the cellar themselves when they were young, and they didn't let anyone else know. The calligraphy and paintings, books, four treasures of the study, small antiques and jades that our family has accumulated are hidden in it, as well as some of the valuables that mother and sister-in-law brought as dowry. The Sanxitang calligraphy that Dad gave you and the jewelry that I gave you before were all taken out of it."
Lu Jiang shrugged when he said this.
He remembered his father saying that he was afraid that someone would dig deep into the main hall and yard of his house, so he deliberately chose an inconspicuous place to dig a cellar. As a result, the main hall and yard were dug into pits everywhere, and a small amount of gold and a large amount of silver coins buried in the main hall underground to conceal the truth were gradually discovered. However, no one patronized the dirty places such as the stables and cowsheds.
So, his father lived and ate in the cowshed not only because of the arrangement of the production team, but also to protect his own property.
Feng Qingxue was stunned. "You just said part of it? Is there more?" Isn't the Lu family just a landlord? How much property do they have? They hide one in the east and one in the west, like a cunning rabbit with three burrows.
"There are three more. One is the batch of gold that my father dug up and moved to the bottom of our homestead. There's no need to tell you where it was hidden before. There are four small boxes half a foot square in total. Two boxes are given to us by my father, and two boxes are from my eldest brother and his wife. They contain gold bricks, gold cakes, gold ingots, large and small yellow croakers, and the like. One is in the deep mountains and old forests, hiding bronze, ancient porcelain, wood carvings, stone carvings and other things. I wanted to take you to see it, but when I got home I remembered that I couldn't go into the mountains in my wheelchair. I can only wait until next time I come back to take you there."
After hearing what Lu Jiang said, Feng Qingxue hurriedly said, "Since it has been hidden for so long without being discovered by anyone, just keep hiding it. Don't open it all the time. What if someone notices it? As I said, it doesn't matter whether I see it or not. Just knowing it is enough."
Lu Jiang also told her about the last place, which was actually under the private land west of the cowshed!