Chapter 12 Space
After Gao Xiaoping left, Yun Qiao cleaned out all the wardrobes in the house.
All the quilts were taken out and put in the yard to dry to get rid of the musty smell. Winter clothes were also picked out, washed and hung out to dry. I would take all these with me to the Northeast at the same time to save myself the trouble of having to buy them later.
Then Yun Qiao picked out some clothes that he couldn't wear and put them into a pocket separately. When his boss had time, he would take them to the state-owned second-hand store to sell them and get some money.
After tidying up the wardrobe, Yun Qiao fetched water in the enamel basin, washed the rag, and wiped all the furniture in the house.
When cleaning the room where Grandma Liu Zhujun used to live, Yun Qiao felt that the depth of the desk drawer was a little off, so he raised his hand and knocked on the bottom of the drawer, but the sound was a little hollow.
She was a little unsure, so she opened another drawer and knocked on it. Sure enough, the sounds were inconsistent and the weight of the drawers was also different.
After confirming that there was a partition inside the drawer, Yun Qiao tried to pry open the partition.
Her grandmother Liu Zhujun died of cerebral hemorrhage.
She was alone the other day, in good health, but she had just fallen while going to the toilet at night. It was nothing serious at the time, and Yun Qiao got up to help her, but she refused and got up and went back to bed. Who knew that she couldn't be woken up the next morning? Yun Qiao sent her to the hospital, but she couldn't be saved.
Later I found out that her grandmother hit her head when she fell. Although she looked fine at the time, she had actually suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.
She left in a hurry and didn't leave a single word for Yun Qiao before she left. If she hadn't felt like cleaning today, she would probably have been like she was in her previous life, never realizing there was a compartment in the drawer.
But when she struggled to pry open the wooden board of the partition, she found that it was empty.
Yun Qiao was stunned for a moment, a little bit unable to believe that it was empty.
She turned the drawer over, moved the one next to it aside, and after knocking and touching it for a while, she realized that the width of the drawers at the end seemed different. The board with the partition was narrower, while the board without the partition was wider. Moreover, the grain of the wood was misaligned, as if it were made of two pieces of wood.
The compartment of this drawer was more hidden and harder to pry open than the other one. It took Yun Qiao more than twenty minutes to pry it open little by little along the gap in the middle.
This compartment was finally no longer empty. When I opened it, I saw that the small compartment was filled to the brim.
Several property certificates, land certificates, several house rental approval documents, as well as the procedures for handing over the property and the government's acceptance certificate.
In addition, there are several small cloth bags made of yellowed cloth.
Although the small cloth bags looked gray and inconspicuous, Yun Qiao did not dare to underestimate the contents inside.
After all, it was something her grandmother had gone to so much trouble to hide, so it was impossible that the things hidden inside were ordinary things.
Thanks to her grandmother's cleverness, she had set up two compartments, one open and one dark, so the items were not found during the previous two house searches.
Yun Qiao casually picked up one of the small cloth bags and felt what looked like two circles through the bag. Yun Qiao pulled open the cloth strips and found two large gold bracelets as thick as thumbs inside!
It is probably solid, and it feels heavy in my hand. Maybe because it has been stored for a long time, the color of the bracelet is not as bright as before, but this does not affect the value of the bracelet.
Yun Qiao widened his eyes in surprise.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the circulation of gold and silver among the people was prohibited throughout the country. Everyone rushed to take their gold and silver jewelry to the bank to exchange them for money, for fear that they would be stuck with something if they were late. Yun Qiao didn't expect that her grandmother still had two big gold bracelets in her hands.
Even though gold could not be traded at that time, the price at which banks accepted it was very low, only about three or four yuan per gram. After eight or eighty years, when gold could be circulated, the price skyrocketed, more than ten or twenty times!
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