Chapter 135 Discovery at the Bottom of the Well
Jiang Hongyu also took a look at the courtyard, but it was too dark and he couldn't see anything.
Seeing that he was silent, Ye Mingzhu asked with some doubts: "What's wrong?"
Jiang Hongyu finally came back to his senses: "Didn't you say you didn't believe there were any treasures in this courtyard?"
Ye Mingzhu argued, "I just felt that this house has been occupied by several families. If there really were treasures, they would have been taken away long ago. How could it be our turn?"
Jiang Hongyu found it a little funny: "You don't even believe there are treasures here, and you're still looking for them?"
Ye Mingzhu just thought that since she was free anyway and had nothing else to do, she might as well treat treasure hunting as a game, but it was difficult to explain the reason.
In the darkness, it was difficult to see each other's expressions. Ye Mingzhu lowered her voice and asked, "Where do you think the treasure is hidden?"
Jiang Hongyu thought seriously for a while: "When we moved in, the whole house was empty. If there were any treasures, they would be either in the soil or in the walls."
Ye Mingzhu thought for a while and asked, "Should we start from the wall or dig from the soil?"
Seeing her interest, Jiang Hongyu also became interested: "How about we start with the walls of each room?"
Ye Mingzhu rolled up her sleeves with great interest: "Which room should we start with?"
"Let's start with the bedroom." Jiang Hongyu chose the place he went most often.
The two men lit the oil lamp and leaned close to the wall to examine it. Then they lay on the ground to examine it again.
After checking several rooms, Ye Mingzhu found nothing unexpectedly. She was so tired that she sat down on a stool and said, "If I can't find the treasure, it will be a shame for all my hard work."
Jiang Hongyu found it a little funny. She said she was tired after searching for just a short while. It seemed that she really treated treasure hunting as a game.
"If you're tired, let's get some water and rest. We'll be staying here for a long time anyway, so there's plenty of time to look for one."
Ye Mingzhu knew that the treasure was not so easy to find, otherwise why so many people bought this house but couldn’t find it.
Anyway, there are plenty of treasures in my space, so just pretend that I have no chance of getting this treasure.
After comforting herself, Ye Mingzhu relaxed a lot and the fatigue in her body also subsided.
"I'll go get some water. Let's boil some water and wash up before going to bed." Jiang Hongyu could see that Ye Mingzhu was tired.
"I'll fetch some water and you go and light the fire." Ye Mingzhu was self-aware.
"I'll go with you. It's so dark. What if you fall into the well?" Jiang Hongyu was a little worried and held the oil lamp in his hand.
"Don't worry, I grew up by the sea. Even if I fall into a well, I can climb out by myself. I'm not afraid of water." Ye Mingzhu was not worried at all.
Jiang Hongyu carefully protected the oil lamp in his hand and said casually, "You have to be careful. When you fell into the sea, you didn't float up for a long time. When I rescued you, you were already dead."
Ye Mingzhu recalled the scene when she just came back: "I was in the sea for a long time and hadn't eaten anything. I felt dizzy and fell into the sea without feeling anything. I will never feel that way again."
Jiang Hongyu thought Ye Mingzhu meant that she would not go to the sea for a long time in the future. In fact, Ye Mingzhu meant that she was carrying the pearl and had nothing to worry about in the sea.
Neither of them continued to discuss what happened before, and they came to the well together. This was the first time they saw a well.
"The broker said that this well has been in use and the water quality is very good." Ye Mingzhu recalled what the broker said at the time. Jiang Hongyu threw the bucket down and drew up a bucket of water.
The water was clear and looked fine, so Jiang Hongyu poured it onto the ground anyway: "This well has been empty for a while, so let's pour two more buckets of water on it before using it."
Ye Mingzhu looked down along the well mouth. It was pitch black inside and she couldn't see anything.
"Do you think the treasure is in the well?" Ye Mingzhu suddenly asked.
Jiang Hongyu stopped just as he was about to throw the bucket and looked at Ye Mingzhu: "The well is full of water, how can we get the treasure out?"
"Everyone thinks so. The well is slippery and used every day. No one would think the treasure is in the well, but precisely because of this, this possibility exists."
The more Ye Mingzhu spoke, the more it made sense.
"The whole house has been almost emptied. I guess someone has looked inside the ground and walls, but most people wouldn't go down into this well."
Jiang Hongyu put his head into the well and felt a chill. He was a little uncertain: "This well is very cold, and the buckets are thrown directly in. Is there room in it for treasures?"
Ye Mingzhu was a man of action. She took off her coat, skirt, and shoes and said, "I'll go down and take a look."
Jiang Hongyu stopped her and said, "I don't know what's going on down there. Let me go down."
"I go to the sea often, and I can see clearly in the water. I'll go down and take a look first. If it doesn't work, you go in later." After saying that, Ye Mingzhu pushed Jiang Hongyu's hand away, pulled the rope, and slowly slid down.
Jiang Hongyu quickly pulled the rope, fearing that she might get into an accident.
Ye Mingzhu slid down while touching the wall of the well, but didn't find anything different.
She slid all the way to the bottom of the well, where she stood completely in the water, squinting her eyes to check the wall of the well. She had a hunch that if the treasure was in the well, the wall of the well would be the best place to store it.
Jiang Hongyu, who was lying on the edge of the well, asked in a low voice from time to time.
Ye Mingzhu agreed while knocking on the wall of the well. She knocked around once and then knocked again at the place where she thought there was a problem, and she really found something different.
There seemed to be nothing behind some bricks, and her eyes lit up, thinking that maybe there really was a treasure in this house.
She was just about to find tools in the space to pry open the well bricks, but then she remembered that she came down empty-handed, and it would be difficult to explain even if she got the treasure.
She pulled the rope, and Jiang Hongyu felt it from above and immediately pulled her up.
With Jiang Hongyu's help, Ye Mingzhu sat on the edge of the well and said impatiently, "There are a few empty bricks at the bottom of the well. I think there is something behind it."
Jiang Hongyu's face was full of surprise. He didn't expect Ye Mingzhu to be so lucky that she really found the treasure.
"I'll go see if there's anything. You come up first." Jiang Hongyu asked Ye Mingzhu to change her clothes first.
Ye Mingzhu shook her head: "You go find something first, I'll go down later, my clothes are all wet anyway."
Jiang Hongyu was worried, but Ye Mingzhu insisted.
Finally, he went to the kitchen to find the newly bought kitchen knife: "This is a new kitchen knife, it's very sharp, please be careful."
Ye Mingzhu went down with a kitchen knife and pried open the two bricks without much effort. There was actually a small box inside. She took it out. There was another box behind it, which she took out with great effort.
She tied the two boxes to a rope and asked Jiang Hongyu to pull them up, and then she climbed up along the rope.
Jiang Hongyu ignored the two boxes, one long and one short, on the ground. He took a cloth to wipe her body and fetched a bucket of water. "The well is too cold. I'll go boil some water. Soak your feet first."
When Ye Mingzhu saw him go to the kitchen, she reached out to move the boxes on the ground. The two boxes weighed about twenty or thirty kilograms, and it took her a lot of effort to move them into the house.
After she wiped herself clean and changed her clothes, Jiang Hongyu still hadn't come. She felt a little strange and went to the kitchen.
As soon as I entered the room, Jiang Hongyu was kneeling on the ground picking out the ashes from the stove...
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