Notes of a War Photographer Chapter 1174 The Hanged Man in the Basement? After only three days at his grandma's house, Wei Ran took Suisui back to the capital by high-speed train and drove to the store he had worked so hard to find that still had a darkroom.
I spent a small sum of money to rent a darkroom for half a day in a photo studio and developed the portrait of Mr. Tao myself.
While the two of them were busy delivering the portrait to Chen Guangling's home to fulfill their promise, the Katenka sisters had already gone to play with Lu Xinda, who could act as a translator for them.
Finally, they discussed with Chen Guangling and his son and Mr. Liu on the other end of the video call what to do with the things left in Mr. Tao's small shabby building. Wei Ran and Suisui had a meal at Chen Guangling's house.
After the home-cooked meal, we immediately headed straight to Jinmen without stopping.
"Do you know how much that small building is worth?" Suisui asked while swiping the screen of her tablet computer halfway.
"I know." Wei Ran, who was in charge of driving, nodded, "It's worth 20 to 30 million at least."
"Teacher Chen and his family are really willing to give up."
Suisui said with special admiration, "You are actually willing to give up such a building to you. Mr. Tao is really courageous. He is actually willing to give such a building to you, a person who has only called you once before."
Wei Ran smiled and said, "Think again."
"What do you mean?" Suisui asked confused.
"Assuming that the piano in Youquan belongs to Mr. Chen, when Mr. Tao offered 5 million to buy the piano, do you think Mr. Chen can sell it?"
"You'd be a fool if you don't sell it," Suisui replied without thinking, then looked at Wei Ran with a flattering look, "I didn't mean that"
"You'd better not explain"
Wei Ran waved his hand angrily, "Let alone leave the piano with Teacher Chen, even if it is given to Mr. Liu, 5 million is enough to impress him."
"so what?"
"Just pick the general among the dwarves."
Wei Ran smiled and said, "In comparison, I am probably the least likely to sell that small building, and also the most likely to have the financial resources to renovate that small building. After all, I can't even look down on 5 million, right?
?What’s more, Youquan is still in my hands.”
"Just blow it!"
Suisui joked without thinking, but then said, "Anyway, at least Teacher Chen and that old Mr. Liu are not greedy, which is quite commendable."
"That's true"
Wei Ran nodded in agreement, while also slightly increasing the speed and changing the topic, "No need to pick up the Katenka sisters and Lu Xinda?"
"Need not"
Suisui waved her hand with extra assurance, "Let them play by themselves. When Kou Kou comes over the day after tomorrow, it won't be too late to pick them up at the airport and join them."
Hearing this, Wei Ran increased the speed of the car slightly, and after nearly three hours of chatting along the way, he finally drove the car to the door of the small dilapidated building.
In just three days, the iron houses built privately in the courtyard attached to this small building have been demolished, and the debris that was originally accumulated between the courtyard wall and the small building has also been cleared one by one.
It looks a lot cleaner and more spacious, at least you can drive a car in.
"You two are here"
As soon as Wei Ran and Suisui opened the car door, a distant uncle who had followed Suisui to Yinta to set up a fire bed immediately greeted him and walked over and said, "The garbage inside and outside this house has been cleaned up.
Your dad also hired a truck to take away the broken tables, chairs, and camphor wood boxes."
"Second uncle, what are you busy with now?" Wei Ran asked, taking the helmet, dust mask and dust glasses handed to him and putting them on.
"I'm shoveling the walls in the house."
As he spoke, the second uncle who led the construction team handed another helmet with a mask and glasses to Suisui, then pointed at the workers outside and said, "By the way, let's change the water and electricity lines and so on. Let's go."
, I’ll take you to take a look inside.”
Hearing this, Wei Ran and Suisui, who hurriedly put on protective equipment, immediately followed the second uncle into the small building. At the same time, they also listened to the second uncle explain, "I asked someone to help me look at this building yesterday. The main part is
The reinforced concrete structure is very strong.”
Hearing this, Wei Ran stretched out his hand and patted the wall that had been shoveled away. Before he could say anything, the second uncle continued, "We tried to simply deal with the leaky roof and windows years ago.
, further processing will have to wait until the first month of the new year. The restoration of this kind of ancient building is different from that of a new house, and there are many rules.
Wei Ran, you have to be prepared. It will cost a lot of money to make such a small building livable, and you have to find professionals so that we can do the hard work."
"Let's do it step by step"
Wei Ran responded ambiguously, and then asked the question he was most concerned about, "Second uncle, you called me and said you found the entrance to the basement?"
“Searching means finding”
The second uncle said with a headache, "Come with me, I will take you to see it and you will know."
Hearing this, Wei Ran and Suisui looked at each other, and under the leadership of the other party, they walked into a small windowless room on the first floor near the kitchen.
Like the other rooms, the walls of this room have been shoveled away, and the obviously back-paved terrazzo floor tiles on the ground have also been pried open, revealing their original appearance.
At the very end of this small room that was suspected to be a storage room, against the wall, on the concrete floor with some exposed steel bars, there was obviously a large door panel, which was covered with red bricks and cement as if it had been patched.
At the corner of this patch, a piece as big as a washbasin was cut out. When I looked closer, I saw that even after five or six layers of bricks had been cut, the bottom had not yet been reached.
"I guess there might be some treasure hidden in here."
The second uncle lowered his voice and said, "Let me ask, the people who lived here were all wealthy owners. If there weren't any treasures hidden in this basement, it would definitely not be so solid."
Having said this, the second uncle motioned to Wei Ran and Suisui to come over, "Wei Ran, when you come forward later, you will treat everyone to a meal as an early New Year greeting. I will take the workers to have a dinner.
I've found the place.
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! You two took advantage of this time to smash open the basement window and the window on the north side of the small building. The bricks there were the worst.
It's best to take action.
I put a chemical barrel there in advance, with electric picks and other things in it. Be careful when using it. If there is anything valuable in the basement, you two should quickly load it into the car and take away the rest.
I'll handle it.
If there is nothing, we can speed up the progress and try to clear out the basement before the New Year."
Hearing this, Wei Ran and Suisui, who was obviously already on top, looked at each other and finally nodded.
No matter what, this uncle who is cousin to his mother still stands by him and Suisui, so even if there is nothing in the basement, he cannot sway the other party's kindness.
Wei Ran happily agreed to the second uncle's proposal. Wei Ran, with Suisui looking excited, followed the second uncle's pretentious tour upstairs and downstairs, and in the end, according to the script given by the second uncle, he invited
Everyone ended today's work early on the pretext of having a meal.
Watching her second uncle take the workers away in two vans, Suisui ran towards the dark side of the small building. Seeing this, Wei Ran shook his head and followed him leisurely.
After finding the conspicuous white chemical barrel, Wei Ran discovered that his second uncle had not only prepared tools such as electric picks and crowbars, but also brought over a power strip in advance.
"You don't know how to use it, right?" Suisui said impatiently when Wei Ran didn't make a move, "Why don't you let me do it?"
"Go and stand sentry in front and close the iron gate of the courtyard."
Wei Ran said as he put the pickaxe on the red brick blocking the basement window and pressed the start button.
Without much effort at all, he easily pried open a crack in the bricks, and with the help of this crack, he expanded it little by little, and finally removed all the two layers of red bricks blocking the window.
This basement window is only one meter wide and half a meter high. The wooden window edges are slightly decayed, but the glass is still strong and intact. Inside the window, there seems to be something like blinds hanging.
After some observation, Wei Ran took out a pair of rubber gloves from the chemical barrel and put them on. He carefully removed the long piece of patterned glass and put it aside. Then he used a crowbar to pry off the rotten wooden window.
frame.
Gently lifting the soft curtain inside the window, Wei Ran was stunned when he put the flashlight prepared by his second uncle in advance into the basement.
This dusty basement was far drier than I imagined, but there were far more things in it than I imagined.
"Suisui"
Wei Ran greeted the girl who was standing under the ginkgo tree looking around with a wary look on her face.
Before he could finish his words, Suisui rushed over and asked, "What good things are there?"
"Don't go in yet." Wei Ran stopped Suisui who was about to put his head in. "Just take a look. Be careful of lack of oxygen."
"What are all these things?"
Suisui shrank back, her eyes moving back and forth following the beam of the flashlight held in Wei Ran's hand.
"Those look like old printing presses"
Wei Ran pointed the beam of his flashlight at the four dusty machines placed against the wall of this semi-underground room and said, "I remember when I was in elementary school, there was a similar one in the teacher's office.
That thing, the test papers I used at that time were all printed with that crappy thing."
"Why are there so many printing machines here?" Suisui took the flashlight held by Wei Ran and swung it around to observe, but then she let out a scream and took the flashlight she had just taken from Wei Ran.
, it also spun and clanked and fell into the basement.
"What's wrong?"
When Wei Ran saw Suisui trembling, he hid back, and his face turned pale. He immediately increased his vigilance and blocked Suisui with his body.
"There's someone! There's someone there! It seems like he was hanged with a rope!" The frightened Suisui rolled around and hid behind Wei Ran, but she didn't even dare to open her eyes.
