Chapter 5: Treasure Hunt

In early April, Xingcheng is neither too hot nor too cold, with just the right temperature and humidity. It is the most suitable month for living and the best weather.

Xingcheng is an ancient city that has never changed its name for more than 2,000 years.

However, during the Anti-Ghost War, this ancient city full of culture, poetry and Jiangnan gardens was burned down by a fire.

The current Star City was rebuilt after the war and is a national project. At this time, there were many building materials factories on the outskirts of Star City, specializing in the production of red bricks and tiles for use in the construction of Star City.

Therefore, in the 1960s, most of the housing in the urban area of ​​Xingcheng were red brick and tile houses. The Wang family now lives in a two-story red brick building.

Fortunately, the ancient city walls of Xingcheng had been demolished at this time, and the road between urban and rural areas was smooth, so Wang Yuanchao had no trouble leaving the city.

Walking on the road in the countryside, looking at the rape flowers blooming in the fields, smelling the fragrance of rape flowers floating on the dirt road,

The fresh and natural air and the fragrant aroma along the way helped Wang Yuanchao relieve the fatigue from his urgent journey and he felt refreshed.

Along the way, Wang Yuan pulled a lot of rapeseed from the fields, picking one here and one there, and planted them in the black soil of his own space 5:1 time. Before he knew it, an acre of black soil was planted with rapeseed, and it wouldn't be long before he would have an endless supply of rapeseed oil.

After Wang Yuanchao returned to the road, he quickly walked towards the house where the treasure was hidden.

The house where the old man hid the treasure was in an abandoned small courtyard in Shili Village, Muyun Town, north of Xingcheng.

At that time, in order to hide the treasure, the old man bought a piece of land and built a house. He built a shabby thatched house that was uninhabitable. He built a shabby wall one person high outside with mud piles.

The main purpose was to prevent the house from being unoccupied for a long time and being occupied by someone else. Therefore, there was nothing inside the house, and the walls were leaky on all sides and full of holes, making it completely uninhabitable.

Jogging and speeding all the way, drinking spiritual spring water three times on the way, it took Wang Yuanchao more than three hours to finally arrive at his house in Shili Village under the starlight.

The house doesn't even have a gate, and from the outside it looks like an abandoned yard.

After Wang Yuanchao stepped through the gate and entered the house, he quickly came to the backyard, pushed open the back door of the yard, walked forward more than 100 meters, and came to a dry well.

The ancient well was more than 20 meters deep. Wang Yuanchao stepped along the well with his legs, grabbed the hemp rope that lifted the water with both hands, and leaned down little by little.

The treasure switch designed by the old man is very clever. The switch is neither at the bottom of the well nor on the top of the well,

but in a crevice in the middle of the dry well. In this way, even if someone accidentally discovers the dry well and accidentally falls into the well, no one will be able to find the mechanism.

Wang Yuanchao, hanging on the hemp rope, slowly came to the middle of the well and began to look for the switch of the treasure room according to his memory.

After feeling around on the wall of the well for a while, Wang Yuanchao finally found a crack where he could put his palm. After Wang Yuanchao put his palm in, he grabbed the stone in the crack and pulled it out with force.

Suddenly, he heard the sound of stones moving from the bottom of the well. Seeing this, Wang Yuanchao quickly descended to the bottom of the well along the hemp rope and waited at the door for a while to let the air in the treasure room ventilate.

At the same time, Wang Yuanchao couldn't help but sigh, no one dares to underestimate the wisdom of the ancients.

Who would have thought that the switch of the treasure room was not pressed into the wall of the well, but was pulled out by the stone switch? Even if someone came here to look for treasure, they would not be able to find the switch.

After waiting for a while, Wang Yuanchao began to walk into the treasure room.

After walking in from the door of the treasure room at the bottom of the well, there is a steep uphill slope. The slope is not long, probably only a few dozen meters.

After crossing the slope, Wang Yuanchao arrived at the treasure room.

Wang Yuanchao estimated that if the light was turned on here, the outside world would not be able to notice it, so he took out the candle he brought from home and lit it.

After a round, I found that the entire treasure room was about 100 square meters,

and it was filled with 88 rosewood boxes.

Wang Yuanchao's heart was about to jump out of his chest at this moment.

Who could understand how Wang Yuanchao, who had been a cow and horse all his life in his previous life, suddenly became so rich? He was almost going crazy.

After a while, Wang Yuanchao calmed down. He didn't plan to open the lid to check the contents of the box. He began to quickly put the boxes into the bamboo house in the space.

After all the boxes in the treasure room were collected, Wang Yuanchao checked the treasure room carefully again. After finding that nothing was missing, Wang Yuanchao grabbed the hemp rope with both hands and began to climb up the well.

After reaching the mechanism in the well and restoring it and closing it, he climbed onto the ground and started heading towards Wang's house in the city.

After a long journey, when Wang Yuanchao arrived at the room, it was already dawn.

The sun's rays were rising slightly, and the darkness before dawn was gradually fading away.

Wang Yuanchao took off his clothes and quickly lay down on the bed. He put his shoes into the space, cleaned the mud off the shoes with his consciousness, put them next to the bed, pulled up the quilt and went to sleep.

Wang Yuanchao thought that since he was injured yesterday, he could be lazy today and have a good sleep.

However, Wang Yuanchao was pulled out of bed by his aunt who broke into the room just as he was lying on the bed and had not yet fallen asleep.

"Fourth child, why don't you get up and make breakfast? The whole family is waiting for breakfast. Hurry up and make breakfast. You are so lazy."

Wang Yuanchao was about to fall asleep, but his aunt pulled him and he was instantly awakened. A surge of effort surged from the bottom of his heart into his head.

Wang Yuanchao subconsciously glared at his aunt in anger, and blurted out unconsciously:

"Aunt, my eldest brother beat me up yesterday and I almost died. You dragged me to cook early this morning. Does that mean you won't have to eat after I die?"

"Hey, you bastard, you disaster, you unwanted bastard, you are rebelling, you are going to rebel.

Well, our family has worked hard to raise you for more than ten years, but now you have turned out to be an ungrateful person.

Oh my god, please let thunder strike this ungrateful bastard to death."

It had been many years since I had seen an aunt as prickly as Wang Yuanchao's. After she realized what was going on, she howled loudly and reached out to hit Wang Yuanchao.

Wang Yuanchao was not the original owner, and he would not allow this aunt to beat and scold him. Moreover, after drinking the spiritual spring water, Wang Yuanchao was very strong and his body reacted very quickly.

After grabbing the wrist of the aunt who was hitting him, Wang Yuanchao regained his mind and pulled the aunt's arm to his side.

Seeing that the aunt's knees were weak, her body staggered, and she almost fell to the ground.

Wang Yuanchao ignored her and got up, put on his shoes and said:

"Okay, I'm going to cook. Anyway, you guys won't care whether I live or die."

After saying that, Wang Yuanchao ignored his aunt who was cursing behind him and walked quickly to the kitchen.

(End of this chapter)

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