Chapter 66 Broken House

After dinner, Lu Jiaxin said she wanted to go for a walk and asked Gu Wenfeng to accompany her. Xue Mao wanted to follow, but she found an excuse to stay.

Walking along the road to a more remote place, Lu Jiaxin said, "You didn't tell Zhao Dajun about the treasure hunt, did you?"

Gu Wenfeng shook his head. Before Lu Jiaxin expressed her opinion, he didn't tell Zhao Dajun a word.

Lu Jiaxin was relieved immediately: "Brother Gu, don't tell him about the treasure hunt, find an excuse to let him go back to Sijiu City."

Although Gu Wenfeng had just guessed from this, he still asked: "Miss Lu, can you tell me why?"

Lu Jiaxin was silent for a while and said: "Through the contact these days, I think with Zhao Dajun's temper, he will most likely ask me to donate the treasure after finding it."

Gu Wenfeng was surprised: "Miss Lu, why do you think so?"

Lu Jiaxin had this idea for a reason: "My second uncle and his family wanted to occupy my house, and I fought back. He thought I was disrespectful to my elders. A niece of my family dropped out of school due to family changes, and I sponsored her to continue studying. He thought it was more meaningful to sponsor others than for me to spend money recklessly."

How to say it, Zhao Dajun has no problem with character and ability, but he likes to stand on the moral high ground and point fingers. And she hates this kind of people the most.

Gu Wenfeng didn't want Zhao Dajun to go back. After thinking for a while, he said, "Miss Lu, I will test him tonight. If he really means this, let him go back."

"You test him first!"

Lu Jiaxin hoped that Gu Wenfeng would stay to help her, so she was willing to give him this face.

Gu Wenfeng was tight-lipped and capable, and he also had connections in the ancient capital. The last one was beyond her expectations. But it was also a good thing, because there were people to help him when he encountered difficulties.

At night, Gu Wenfeng chatted with Zhao Dajun and turned the topic to antiques, saying that one of his comrades had an ancestral treasure at home. Later, because there were too many people in the family and they always quarreled, the father of the childhood friend sold the treasure and bought a house for each of his three sons.

"What treasure?"

Gu Wenfeng said, "The imperial edict of Emperor Yongzheng, he wrote it himself. The emperor's handwriting is very popular and is said to be of great research value."

Zhao Dajun frowned and said, "Brother Feng, didn't you persuade your comrade to donate the things?"

Difficulties are temporary and can be overcome, but if the things are sold, there is no way to study them.

Gu Wenfeng sighed in his heart. Zhao Dajun couldn't stay. The treasures in his comrade's house were handed down from his ancestors, and he wanted them to donate them. It's even more so if Lu Jiaxin really found treasures in that house. They spent so much energy and money, can you ask them to donate them? And whether to donate or not is up to them to decide.

The next morning, Gu Wenfeng said to Lu Jiaxin: "Miss Lu, give me five days, I will let Dajun go back."

"Okay, but you must not let him know about the treasure hunt."

After the conversation last night, Gu Wenfeng dared not tell Zhao Dajun: "Don't worry, I won't tell him. Miss Lu, the house is too broken, it needs to be repaired before it can be lived in. These few days, let Dajun help me repair the house."

Free labor, don't waste it.

After the two talked, the group set off. On the way, Gu Wenfeng told Lu Jiaxin that the house was a large courtyard with three entrances, and Sun Xun lived in the first entrance; the second and third entrances belonged to Sun Xun's uncles. Sun Xun's father had three brothers, and the first one to move into the courtyard was drawn by lot when the family was divided. Sun Xun's family was the only adult male, so the family lived in such a spacious house. His uncles and aunts were prosperous, with more than 20 people living in the house. "

Lu Jiaxin couldn't help but frowned: "When buying this house, did the Sun family do anything bad in secret?"

Gu Wenfeng didn't hide it: "Those gangsters were found by a cousin of Sun Xun. But we bought the house with our own money, and the procedures are complete. It's a waste of effort to use such a despicable means."

Lu Jiaxin was mainly worried that the Sun family would suspect their intentions.

Gu Wenfeng smiled and said: "Don't worry about this, the house is in Xue Mao's name, and it is said to be for him to start a family. Later, they inquired about Xue Mao's background and said that he was lucky. ”

She was relieved that the Sun family didn’t suspect anything.

After two bus rides and more than ten minutes of walking, they finally arrived at the Sun family’s house.

Gu Wenfeng pointed at the open gate and said, “There used to be three gates here, and there were small gates on both sides. Later, only one door was left, and the others were built with bricks.”

Lu Jiaxin looked at the mottled old doors and walls, which had a heavy sense of history. Unfortunately, these would be demolished to build high-rise buildings in a few years.

After crossing the entrance door, Lu Jiaxin found a door on the left and a long corridor on the right.

Gu Wenfeng opened the door and closed it after everyone went in: “If the door is not closed, the Sun family will come in and out and treat this place as their own home. After Xue Mao lost twenty yuan, the axe I bought also disappeared, so I didn’t allow them to come in again. "

At first, they were afraid that the Sun family would suspect them of having ulterior motives, so they tolerated it even if these people were excessive. But after they lost money and things, they had no more concerns and refused to let them in. The reason was legitimate and they were not afraid of being suspected.

As soon as she walked in, Lu Jiaxin understood why Gu Wenfeng said that the house was uninhabitable. The original color of the walls could not be seen, and there was even a lot of grass growing on the walls of the yard. The doors and windows were all broken, and two of the rooms did not even have doors. In the house, sunlight shone in through the gaps. If it rained, the house would become a pool.

The yard was originally very spacious, but on the left was a vegetable field, on the right was a tin shed and a chicken coop, and in the middle were three poles for drying clothes.

Lu Jiaxin said in disbelief: "Didn't Sun Xun's family live here before? Why is the house so dilapidated and messy?"

This house doesn't look like anyone lives there.

Gu Wenfeng said: "Sun Xun likes to gamble and never cares about his wife and children. But the doors and windows were broken by other people in the Sun family before they moved out. When we first came here, it was even dirtier and messier. Xue Mao and I cleaned it up for a long time."

Lu Jiaxin thought the two families were disgusting. They didn't have the money to buy the house, so they used such a shabby house: "The iron shed and chicken coop were all demolished, and the clothes drying pole was moved to the wall."

Gu Wenfeng was not surprised that she wanted to live here. If the group didn't live here, going back and forth every day to find the entrance to the secret passage would arouse the suspicion of the Sun family.

Lu Jiaxin and Xue Mao stayed to clean up the house, and Gu Wenfeng took Zhao Dajun back to the rental house to move things.

After Lu Jiaxin looked at the six rooms, she wondered where the entrance to the secret passage would be built. It couldn't be in the yard, otherwise it would be discovered when planting vegetables or turning the soil or building iron houses and chicken coops.

The probability of the kitchen and the woodshed is also very low. In the feudal era, men in large families did not enter the kitchen. It was said that a gentleman should stay away from the kitchen. According to the TV shows I watched in my previous life, the entrance to the secret passage is either in the bedroom or in the study.