Su Nuan walked out of the room and felt hungry. It made sense. The original owner had been in a coma for three days and three nights without eating and had lost too much blood due to suicide. Although the Ten-Ingredient Pills restored his blood immediately, he had consumed a lot of physical strength when he cleansed his essence and marrow.
Su Nuan planned to go to the restaurant downstairs to eat first, fill herself up, and then go find Eric.
The main reason I went to see Eric was to go to the basement to see the dozens of boxes of gold, silver and jewelry. Even though I am a country bumpkin, I also wanted to go and broaden my horizons. I also wanted to try and see if the 50 square meters of storage space given by Tongzi could store all the gold, silver and jewelry.
After Su Nuan went downstairs, she went to the kitchen with a clear goal, found the cook Mary, and asked her to prepare food for her. She sat at the dining table and waited. A few minutes later, Mary brought two or three maids, carried the meal, walked to the dining table, and carefully put the food down.
"Miss, the meal is ready, please enjoy."
"OK, thanks"
After saying that, Su Nuan picked up the cutlery and started to taste the food. Although Su Nuan was very hungry, the dining etiquette engraved in the original owner's bones always dominated her. Su Nuan ate a little faster, but her dining etiquette did not fall behind at all.
After a while, Su Nuan finished her meal and called the nearest maid to ask
"Uncle housekeeper, what are you doing?"
Maid A: "Miss, you were in a coma for the past few days, and the housekeeper has been handling the master's funeral. He is now sorting out the master's belongings in the master's room."
"Go call the butler over, I have something to discuss with him."
Maid A: "Okay miss, I'll go right away, please wait a moment"
The maid bowed and left to find the housekeeper.
A few minutes later, the butler and the maid appeared in the restaurant together.
Eric bowed and said, "Miss, what do you want to talk to me about?"
"Uncle Butler, Grandpa told me before that he left something for me in the basement of the manor. Did you know about it? Can you take me to see it now?"
"Okay, Miss, follow me," Eric bowed and guided
Su Nuan followed Eric out of the restaurant and went directly to the west corner of the manor courtyard. There was an inconspicuous room that looked like a tool shed. After the two walked in, they saw Eric lifting a piece of decorative cloth on the tool wall, revealing the switch of the basement inside. Eric turned it back and forth twice with his hands, and 10 meters to the right of the tool wall, two cabinet doors slowly opened in the middle to reveal a flight of stairs.
Eric found a kerosene lamp on the cabinet next to him, lit it with a match, and walked towards the stairs holding the kerosene lamp. After a few steps, he raised the kerosene lamp high and lit the kerosene lamps hanging on the walls on both sides of the stairs one by one.
"Miss, please follow me."
Su Nuan followed Eric down the stairs. Looking up, she saw that the inside of the large open space was pitch black and she couldn't see anything clearly. Eric held up a kerosene lamp and touched a stone on the right wall of the stairs. He pressed it hard and the lights in the basement lit up. The dim light illuminated the dark basement.
Looking up, I saw that the basement was very spacious. There were several rows of wooden shelves on the ground with several wooden boxes neatly placed on them. These wooden boxes should be the things my grandfather mentioned. There was a smaller wooden shelf next to the rows of large wooden boxes. There were exactly 10 wooden boxes in total, and the color of the wooden boxes was different from most other black wooden boxes. These wooden boxes were all red.
Su Nuan thought this must be the antique that her grandfather said should be handed over to China.
Su Nuan walked a few steps towards the red wooden boxes and opened one at random. Inside was a bronze head that looked like a snake's head. It was one of the twelve animal heads of the Old Summer Palace - the snake head. Many experts in the 21st century said that the snake head was in Country A, and some said it was in Country Y. Unexpectedly, it was really in Country Y, and in the Su family.
Su Nuan opened several wooden boxes one after another to check. There were enamel bowls from the Qianlong official kiln, bronze utensils from the Warring States Period, Qianlong pink-glazed hexagonal bottles, bronze tiger-shaped jars and many other cultural relics that Su Nuan didn't know much about. Su Nuan didn't know much about antiques. The reason she had an impression of them was that she had seen them in the Old Summer Palace Museum during the holidays. Now these appeared in the Su family's basement. Grandpa specifically instructed that they be returned to the country. Presumably, Grandpa must have gone through many twists and turns to obtain these cultural relics. This shows that Grandpa Su has a sincere heart towards the Chinese nation.
Su Nuan then looked at several boxes of antiques on the large shelves, and checked several boxes of gold and jewelry. Few women can resist the attraction of beautiful jewelry. When Eric saw Su Nuan looking at the gold antiques, although his eyes were shining and shocked, his eyes were almost glued to the jewelry. Eric knew that the lady liked these jewelry.
Su Nuan didn't notice that Eric walked to the back of the shelf and placed 5 wooden boxes on the ground, and said to Su Nuan
"Miss, the jewelry on the shelf is mostly Chinese jewelry. The master knows that girls like jewelry, so he specially collected some jewelry from Western countries, but there are not many. Would you like to take a look?"
Su Nuan looked in the direction of Eric's finger. Not many? 5 boxes aren't many? Come to think of it, compared to dozens of Chinese jewelry boxes, 5 boxes of Western jewelry boxes are indeed not many.
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