Chapter 110

Treasure Hunt

Pushing open the doors of each room, there was only a thin layer of dust inside and the walls were empty, but there were many rolled-up calligraphy and paintings in the study.

But once you open it, you'll see footprints, dust, and red paint and scribbled marks.

Apparently, the organization had cleaned the house that belonged to Lao Nie before returning it to him.

But after all, no one had lived there for a long time, and the house had been ravaged again, and the sense of chaos could not be erased.

This study was also where Nie Gong lived before he went to college. There is a poem posted on the headboard: The moonlight shines brightly before my bed, I wonder if it is frost on the ground. I raise my head to look at the bright moon, and lower my head to write two lines.

Well, he is indeed a knowledgeable and talented Nie Gong. Look how well he revised the poem.

"Wei Min is meticulous. I'm telling you now, you come to organize the books and wipe each one clean for me. If you think the books are not valuable, put mothballs in them and leave them here. If you think the books are valuable, take them all away and return to the base for you and Sandan to read. Erdan, no, no, you can't touch these books and calligraphy and paintings with your hands. If you touch them..." A nice scroll of calligraphy and painting was placed on the bookshelf, but as soon as Erdan touched it, the rotten scroll broke into two pieces.

"Mom, I didn't mean it."

"I know you didn't mean it. Let's go. You and I have other things to do. By the way, Wei Min, you need to find a few dictionaries. There is a "Selling Child Contract" in one of them. Remember to be careful with it. It's thirty or forty years old. If you are not careful, it will melt. Put it in a conspicuous place for me later. I need it."

As she spoke, Chen Lina came out with Erdan and Sandan.

"Mom, are we just sweeping the floor and wiping the table?" Sandan asked?

"No, you will sweep the floor, slowly, and make sure every room is clean for me. Not only that, some uncles may want to play hide-and-seek with us today, so you need to watch out. If anyone peeks over the wall, call mom loudly. Mom and your brother have other things to do."

After assigning tasks to Sandan, Chen Lina went out and took Erdan to the flower market to buy hoes, shovels and other items, and came back ready to work hard.

"Comrade Chen, if you have heavy physical work to do, our comrades in the military region can help you. Why do you want to do it yourself?" Leng Qi parked the car and was smoking outside. When he saw Chen Lina carrying a hoe and Erdan carrying a flower hoe, he hurried over and tried to snatch the hoe from her hand.

"Minister Leng, let go of your hand." Chen Lina glanced at his hand coldly and said.

Leng Qi let go, took two steps back, and said, "Okay, whatever you ask, I'll be outside, ready to serve at any time. And, Comrade Nie Weiguo, on behalf of the organization, I'll send you our military region's big elbows, braised pork, and squirrel fish for lunch at noon. How about that?"

"Wow, Uncle Leng, thank you." Erdan's eyes were full of stars of love.

"No, I will arrange what my children eat myself, and we won't eat the meals sent by your military region. Minister Leng, we really don't need your car because I know the way back to the hotel. Now I ask you to leave work in front of our house, okay?" Miss Chen said righteously, with long wavy hair and eyebrows like Lin Qingxia in the Taiwanese drama.

But she is softer and more feminine than Brigitte Lin. That cold glare is really charming.

"I have to obey the organization's orders, Comrade Xiao Chen, please don't let the leaders blame me."

"Then wait as long as you want. Anyway, we won't ride in your car again." With that, Chen Lina took Erdan into the yard. With a clang, the gate of the landlord Lao Cai's house was closed tightly.

How should I put it? This is what Leng Qi felt. Hey, this woman is simply not Awarguli, she is the snow lotus on the mountain. I don’t know how that nerd Lao Nie melted this cold beauty.

"Mom, do you want to dig more?" Erdan dug up the bricks in the living room like a little pig, digging a bucket of soil at a time, then another bucket of soil, and in a blink of an eye he had dug a big hole.

"Dig, keep digging."

"Okay, Mom, but I'm thirsty and want a soda."

"No, you can only drink the water that mom boils. Soda will corrode your teeth and bones, make your belly bigger, and stop you from growing taller. Do you understand?"

"Okay, Mom." Erdan gulped down a few sips of water, just like a tumbler, wheezing, and soon he had dug a big hole with a radius of one square meter and a depth of one square meter.

There was a clang, and he said, "Mom, I hit a rock."

"Okay, go help Sandaner sweep the ground now, call your brother over, and he and I will dig the rest together." Chen Lina had been carrying soil and was sweating profusely. When Nie Weimin came in, she said, "Jump down and take a look at this thing."

Nie Weimin was sorting books just now, and he didn't know what his mother was going to do. He jumped into the pit, touched the edge, and said, "This is a big box wrapped in wool. Mom, is this treasure?"

"If I were to guess correctly, it should be that you open it with your own hands now, because it belongs to you four father and son."

After all, he was a grown boy now, with plenty of strength in his hands. Nie Weimin worked hard for a long time, groaning and digging out the woolen felt that was stuffing around him, and finally took out a box from it.

Fei Jin brought it out, and the mother and son sat cross-legged in the pit. Chen Lina saw the lock on it and was about to hand over the hoe, but Xiao Nie quickly waved his hand and said, "No, don't damage the lock. This lock should be old, it's a cultural relic."

He actually took out a piece of wire from behind his ear and poked the rusty lock twice. With a click, the lock opened.

"Mom, are these gold bars?" They were neatly stacked, with a bright color, just like the bracelet on Chen Lina's hand, pure gold.

"Yes, this thing is called big yellow croaker. My God, how much is it worth?" Miss Chen touched it and sighed sincerely.

You have to know that this thing fell into someone else's hands in his previous life. In order to get this thing from someone else, Old Nie fought a long lawsuit, but in the end he only got a little bit.

But in this life, she dug it out in advance, so no one else has to worry about it.

"This one weighs half a pound, right? Mom, are we going to carry it out like this?"

"Yes, let me count how many there are." Chen Lina counted them in a muffled voice and said, "Of course we can't just carry them out like this, and we can't ride in Minister Leng's car again. Now, we have to fill the soil back and put the bricks back, pretending that no one has touched it. In this way, we won't be targeted."

"Okay, Mom."

In the middle of the day, Erdan finished digging the soil and had to help Sandan clean up. When he came back, Chen Lina handed him a wooden carved Type 38 pistol. "Look, isn't it beautiful? This is a treasure that mom and your brother dug out of the soil. From now on, it belongs to you."

Erdan was sweating profusely. He rubbed the dirt off his body and wiped his eyes with his hands. "Thank you, Mom. If it weren't for the pistol given by Uncle Leng, I would think it was the best gift. But now I am also very happy."

"Okay, let's fill the soil together. After we're done, mom will take you out for some delicious food."

"Great, Mom." Erdan was the most energetic. He was very good at digging the soil and even more good at filling it. After filling, the three brothers jumped up and down, stomped on the soil firmly, and then laid the bricks back.

In order to prevent anyone from noticing, Chen Lina ran outside and used dry soil to fill the entire brick seam. When she looked at the ground again, she could not see anything. Only then did they come out.

"Mom, I'm really tired today. I want to eat the big pork elbow that Uncle Leng gave me. Please, satisfy me for once, okay?" It was already two o'clock in the afternoon.

Leng Qi was persistent and knocked on the door every now and then to ask Chen Lina if she wanted to eat. Chen Lina always turned him down, and Erdan's mouth was watering when he thought of the big pork elbow and braised pork.

"Okay, Mom will take you out for a nice meal today. But, Erdan, you have to bring something for Mom."

As she spoke, Chen Lina bundled up the gold bars that she had transferred to two empty boxes of large dictionaries when the children were filling the soil, and gave them to Erdan to carry on his back. "These are the books that Mom will teach you to read when she gets home. You carry them on your back."

"Okay, Mom." Erdan was the first to go out, carrying two books on his back.

Chen Lina then gave the small backpack containing books to Nie Weimin and said, "There are also books in it, but this book is more valuable, so you have to carry it." In order to prevent it from being discovered, Chen Lina still packed up the small suitcase and buried it in the soil.

Nie Weimin also put forward what he wanted to put forward.

Chen Lina was also carrying two large stacks of books, and Erdan was holding a small flower bucket. Chen Lina whispered in his ear, "If Uncle Leng asks what this hoe is used for, you have to tell him that we are loosening the soil for the flowers in the yard. Do you understand?"

Chen Lina was indeed very careful. You know, Hongyan is the den of the underworld. The evil forces are concentrated here. It will take another 30 years before Yu Donghai comes to clean it up.

Especially Leng Qi, that guy is the mortal enemy of the workers, so Chen Lina has to be on guard against him.

We came out of the old house and bought two kilograms of soybeans fried by an old lady on the street. Nie Weimin and Sandan didn't eat them, but Erdan liked them very much. He ate one at a time, chewing them with a crunching sound.

"Nie Weijiang, what did you guys do just now? What happened in half a day?" Sure enough, as soon as they went out, Leng Qi asked the youngest one.

Erdan was the one who was most likely to sell out information, but he was too busy eating soybeans to talk.

Sandaner, who was a thief, immediately said, "We helped loosen the soil in the garden and also took care of the sanitation."

"We are also sorting out the books. Look, I have them all in my hands." Nie Weimin also said.

"Xiao Chen, you really don't want to take my car? Come on, I'll take you there." Leng Qi followed behind and asked closely.

"No, Minister Leng, it's really not a bother for you. We can leave by ourselves." Chen Lina was very impatient.

But at this moment, suddenly, a man appeared from somewhere in the corner, snatched the small backpack from Nie Weimin's hand, turned around and ran away.

"Mom, someone is stealing things." Before Nie Weimin finished his words, Erdan rushed out like a cannonball and bumped into the man, knocking the young man to the ground. His backpack also fell apart, revealing several large books inside, all of which were "Simplified Edition of Jin Ping Mei", "San Yan Er Pai" and other books.

Chen Lina was holding a hoe and suddenly turned around. The sharp blade of the hoe almost cut off Leng Qi's head.

Leng Qi was a martial artist from Lianxi, and he had never neglected to exercise in the army. He leaned back, and just dodged it. Chen Lina's hoe came from the other side and hit him directly on the temple. She stepped forward and kicked the boy who stole the book. "You bastard, you dare to steal things in front of the leader. I think you don't want to live."

Erdan, with several large rhetoric books on his back, punched the boy several times. Just when he was about to say, "Mom, look, I caught him," the boy jumped up and ran away.

From beginning to end, Leng Qi did not take any action.

"Minister Leng, your Hongyan is in such chaos that people are stealing things on the streets. Besides, my son was just carrying a few books. What do you think he was stealing?" As she spoke, Chen Lina picked up the books one by one and deliberately put them back into her bag in front of Leng Qi.

Erdan didn't know that he was carrying something of great value on his back. He followed his mother to the door of a clay pot restaurant. Chen Lina took out two yuan and ordered four bowls of clay pot.

The casserole of braised pork meatballs, egg slices and fish pieces, bean sprouts, vermicelli and kelp shreds, made the three children so full that they couldn't even walk.

After strolling around the street for a long time, the mother and her two sons bought some toys and fruits for the three little ones, and then returned to the hotel.

Lying on the big bed in the hotel, Erdan stroked his belly and said contentedly, "Mom, this trip is so enjoyable. I will be even happier if I can really see you dancing again tomorrow night."

"Silly boy, Hongyan is our hometown. We are going home, not traveling, do you understand?" Nie Weimin said as he solemnly placed the box of three volumes of the dictionary on the side of his bed.

This is gold, something truly priceless, but the young man didn't know that and thought what he had in his hand was the most precious thing.

Little Nie Yin laughed at his mother, saying that she was really smart.

As for Erdan, the two guns on the bedside table, one made of alloy and the other of wood, are all treasures. He shoots them one after another and beeps the next, really treating the wooden gun as a treasure that he dug out at great expense of money.

The old lawyer that Chen Lina found also came and was talking to him outside.

This lawyer got his bar license in 1950 and has been working as a carpenter for half his life. When he suddenly received the lawsuit, his hands were shaking and he had no idea what to do.

However, according to the list prepared by Chen Lina, she explained everything clearly to him, from collecting evidence to how to file a complaint.

The lawyer could get 500 yuan for a lawsuit worth 8,000 yuan, which is a worker's annual salary nowadays. The lawyer was so excited that he took the documents and left.

Of course, the lawsuit of Nie Gong Simei may take some time, but in the end, it will be promoted in legal textbooks as an example of a rural woman who has stood up.

Chen Lina had been digging the soil for a whole day and had found a box of gold bars. She was extremely tired. She took a hot bath, forced her three sons to sleep with her, closed the curtains, and fell into a deep sleep.

Let’s talk about the other side.

It’s still the old house of the Nie family.

Leng Qi had been to this old house, which was taken over by the Logistics Department of the Military Region, many times.

The previous owner of this house, that landlord, did much more than Liu Wencai. In the end, he handed it over, and the organization gave it to Commander Nie to live in.

Commander Nie was a simple man with a refined temperament and a love for antiques, calligraphy and paintings. However, those things of real value had been taken away by others in the past ten years. Leng Qi had always been curious about the treasures left by the former landlords. He wanted to know whether those things really existed.

To do this, he stayed up late at night with a lamp, and to be honest, except for dismantling the rafters, he searched almost every part of the place, but he found nothing.

He has been in a hurry recently. He even tried to get a surveying instrument from the geological team. If there weren't so many people watching, he would have taken action long ago.

Chen Lina's arrival today certainly made him feel that there must be something inside.

But Chen Lina was also very cunning. Not only did she not allow him to enter, she also closed the door tightly and sent a little guy to clean the house from front to back.

The kid was only about six or seven years old. As soon as the person he had sent to secretly monitor him showed his head from the corner of the wall, the kid shouted, "Mom, someone is playing hide-and-seek with us."

So, Leng Qi himself didn't know what Chen Lina and the children were doing in there.

There were only three children, and they came out with a few tattered books, which was in line with the style of Nie Bozhao's family, a family of scholars.

The most important thing is that Leng Qi has also read it. It's really nothing. He is too lazy to read those crappy simplified versions of "Jin Ping Mei" and "San Yan Er Pai" even if you give them to him.

Leng Qi was in the living room, staring up at the large beams above his head that were burned by smoke and fire, racking his brains to think, is there really something in Nie Gong's old house? If so, did Chen Lina take it away?

"Leader, there are no signs of tampering in this place. It seems that they are just doing some sanitation." The windows are clean and the bricks underfoot are solid. They are still old and rustic, and they do not look like they have been tampered with.

"Okay, let's retreat, but we can't give up on this place. We still have to keep looking."

People said that the big landlords had hidden their wealth. Leng Qi didn't believe that he couldn't do it. Sooner or later, he would have to find that wealth.

Back in the hotel, Miss Bao, who is enthusiastic and beautiful and doesn’t look her age at all, is here again.

"Xiao Chen, I have a very beautiful dress that is perfect for you to wear tomorrow night. Look, I have already ordered our dance troupe to have it dry cleaned and sent to you.

But have you thought about what show you are going to show tonight? The students are waiting impatiently." She said.

Chen Lina glanced at the long dress with a hanger, a cover, pink color, and puff sleeves. What, is this like she has a princess bubble and a glass heart?

Her skin and figure can handle this, but for a mother of three children to wear it like this, wouldn't that be a joke?

"Sister Bao, you are so polite. I want to come, can I not prepare clothes? Don't worry, I made the skirt myself, I guarantee it will look beautiful when I wear it. Besides, it's only four o'clock in the afternoon, and my laborer hasn't come back yet. You can go back first, okay?"

"Okay, but can I give these three kids a kiss goodbye, especially Nie Weimin? You are so handsome, handsome auntie. I am so happy."

Bao, who was wearing a lake blue long dress and was as beautiful as a snow lotus, was, to be honest, a truly graceful and charming beauty.

Beauty has nothing to do with age, it lies in her every move.

She wanted to go over for a kiss, and Sandan was frightened and immediately threw himself into Chen Lina's arms.

Erdan was even more afraid to take it, and shouted "Grandma Wolf" and ran away. Only Nie Weimin didn't run away in time, and was caught by Miss Bao and kissed hard.

"Okay, Nie Weimin, go wash the lipstick off your face quickly." Miss Chen said after seeing Miss Bao off.

"Will you kiss me again in the future?" Xiao Nie asked Miss Chen with a bitter face.

"You've grown up. I used to like to put on lipstick and kiss you, but that was a joke. I can't joke about it anymore from now on. Now, go read a book." Miss Chen was still cold.

Xiao Nie thought to himself, what is this? When a pretty female classmate and her mother are facing each other, shouldn't the father be the one getting caught in the middle? Why did it become me?