Chapter 826: Ninth Granny's Dark Room
When Wang Cuihua and Village Director Niu heard that Granny Jiu wanted to give them such a valuable thing, the couple quickly refused.
“No, no, no, Aunt Jiu, we don’t want this thing, you can keep it.”
Wang Cuihua took several steps back. Although she really wanted to take it, she felt too embarrassed to ask for it.
In my entire life, I have never seen such a big gold bracelet and so many dollars.
Especially that gold bracelet, it weighs at least two taels.
To say I don't like it would be a lie.
But she knew that she was too embarrassed to take it.
After saying this, Granny Jiu didn't take it back.
He took Wang Cuihua's hand and put the gold bracelet directly on her hand.
"I give it to you with all my heart."
"If it weren't for you two, I wouldn't have lived so comfortably these years."
"I know better than anyone what kind of people are in this place."
"Half of the people in the village used to be tenants of the Niu family. They feel unhappy when they think about the past."
"After all, the Niu family used to be a big family, so there were always some things that were not well thought out."
"And that's how people are. Most people don't remember favors."
"But if there is even the slightest bit of unhappiness, they will remember you for the rest of their lives. Only you two will help me."
"Take it. It's a token of my appreciation."
At this point, Director Niu Village and his wife had no choice but to accept the gifts and expressed many words of gratitude.
At the same time, they repeatedly assured her that they would help her cultivate the land and manage the house.
The couple also promised that when Grandma Jiu's centenary comes, they will wear mourning clothes and see her off in glory.
But Grandma Jiu doesn't care about these at all.
At this age, she has really figured it out.
Her life was saved by her adopted granddaughter. Is she still afraid that no one will be a filial son?
"Okay, okay, I won't say any more."
"I know exactly what kind of people you two are."
"Otherwise, I wouldn't have left these things for you."
"I'm going to pack up and move to the army with Zijin. From now on, this house will belong to her."
"Heipi, there must be someone in the Niu family who feels unfair. Please help Zijin and his wife more in the future."
Village Director Niu immediately responded: "Aunt Jiu, don't worry, I will do it well. Xiao Xu is a great benefactor of our village."
Just remember it.
Granny Jiu is afraid of ungrateful people.
They talked for a while longer, and half an hour later, Director Niu and his wife left with many thanks.
As soon as they left the house, Granny Jiu asked Lu Hanzhou to close all the courtyard doors and the main gate.
"Hanzhou, carry grandma to the bedroom."
"good."
After entering the bedroom, Grandma Jiu asked Lu Hanzhou to carry her to the head of the bed.
This is a large old-fashioned carved wooden bed. Although the wood is not expensive, the pattern is very beautiful, and the overall look is like a small house.
She stretched out her hand and gently pressed a button on an inconspicuous mechanism...
A few seconds later, with a slight noise, the whole bed slowly slid to the side.
Soon, the large carved wooden bed was completely moved away, revealing an exquisite brick wall.
Granny Jiu's hand pressed on a green brick again.
Then there was another slight noise, and a secret door appeared.
"Girl, I have two flashlights next to my bed, go get them."
Xu Zijin did as he was told. After taking the flashlight, he turned it on with a "click", instantly illuminating the dark room.
"Hanzhou, carry me down, girl, you follow me."
"good."
Lu Hanzhou immediately picked up the old man...
The three of them entered the secret door, inside was a staircase leading downwards, at the end of the stairs, there was a cabinet.
Granny Nine waved her hand and instructed Xu Zijin, "Open the cabinet door and pull open the second drawer. There are three buttons inside."
"The first one is twisted all the way to the left, the second one is twisted all the way to the right, and the third one is snapped down three times."
Xu Zijin did as he was told.
Following a low sound, she realized that this was not a cabinet, but a door.
When the door was opened, there was a long passage inside, and at the end of the passage, there was another door.
After entering this door, Xu Zijin realized that there was a dark room of about 15 square meters.
I don’t know what the walls of the darkroom are made of. It’s not mud, but it’s dry and rough.
Jiupo reached out and touched somewhere on the wall, and the dark room became bright.
"Come in."
The three of them entered the dark room, where there were at least twenty boxes of varying sizes.
Seeing the surprised look in Xu Zijin and his wife's eyes, Granny Nine asked with a smile, "Are you scared?"
Xu Zijin nodded: "A lot! Jiupo, are these all treasures?"
Jiu Po continued to laugh and asked Lu Hanzhou to put her on a chair by the wall. Then she said, "Yes, they are all treasures."
"Among the ten boxes here, most are gold bars, and two or three of them are dollars."
"The boxes over there are all ceramics and jade artifacts, and they are from a very early time, so they are quite valuable."
"Don't worry, this money is very clean. It was all accumulated by the hard work of our ancestors."
"Fifty years ago, the Niu family had a wide range of businesses in Hai City, and the Shili Foreign Company was also on the list."
"Later, Hai City was occupied by the Japanese invaders, and the Niu family retreated to the base camp in Q Province."
"Even so, several streets in the provincial capital were owned by the Niu family at that time."
Several streets in the provincial capital...
Xu Zijin finally understood what a truly wealthy person was.
"I can't imagine it."
When Granny Nine heard this, she was delighted: "At that time, I also thought that the Niu family was too rich."
"But what I have now is basically just a drop in the bucket."
Are these just a drop in the bucket?
Xu Zijin has a toothache.
"Grandma Jiu, the Niu family is too rich, isn't it?"
That is.
The Niu family was extremely powerful at that time, how could they be without money?
Granny Nine smiled.
"That's all there is now. In 1937, the war against the Japanese broke out, and the people of the whole country fully supported it."
"The Niu family donated several million silver dollars to the government, and later quietly donated three million to our own team."
"In 1949, when the whole country was liberated, many people handed over their property, and the Niu family was no exception."
"Of the houses, factories, banks, and porcelain kilns in the provincial capital, the Niu family only left a few houses, and the rest were donated along with the land in the village."
"More than a decade ago, there was a famine across the country, and it was even worse here, with almost no harvest."
"The team was afraid that everyone would starve to death, so they almost distributed all the grain seeds to everyone to eat."
"But if the grain seeds are eaten, what will we do next year?"
"That time, I led everyone to dig up the cellar in the yard, and handed over five boxes of silver dollars, a box of gold bars and my dowry."
"We used those things to exchange for two years' rations for everyone in the brigade."
"It wasn't until the third year that everyone really started to live frugally and ate some grass roots and tree bark."
"With such a severe disaster, many people died of starvation in other places, but not a single person died of starvation in our brigade."
"The family assets now are less than one-tenth of what the Niu family had back then. It's really not much anymore."
Not much yet?
Xu Zijin's face twitched.
"Girl, you two can decide what to do with the things."
"If people don't live here anymore, their things must be moved away."
"Besides this dark room, there are some other things in the cellar outside."
"The porcelain inside was all fired in the Niu family's own kiln, and some are two or three hundred years old."
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