Looking at Yang Haicheng who was swallowing dryly and his face wrinkled into a papaya in discomfort, several people were speechless for a while.
When Yang Haicheng calmed down, Lin Mo asked with a smile: "How is it? How does it feel?"
"Uh..." When Yang Haicheng heard this, he swallowed dryly again, then recovered and smiled bitterly: "I don't know what it tastes like, I just feel that my body can't adapt to this taste... uh..."
After swallowing dryly for a while, Yang Haicheng put the dead knot in his hand back into the wooden box and asked: "Brother Lin, what should I do with this thing? Or just throw it away!"
Hearing this, Lin Mo said: "Throw it away? Why throw it away? This thing can be regarded as a high-end ingredient in Japan. It is not easy for us to get it. Maybe it will be useful in the future. Anyway, it is not easy to break."
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After saying that, Lin Mo took the small drawer and let everyone present have a taste. After eating the rest, he put the drawer back, then locked the box and let people move it out.
Seeing this situation, everyone started to deal with the remaining boxes. Most of these boxes contained antiques and silver coins. The antiques included ancient books, calligraphy and paintings, as well as porcelain and bronze wares. Every time they found antiques, Lin Mo would go over and take a look.
Take a look.
But I don’t know what happened. Is it because Chen Maofeng and his friends are not good at buying antiques, or something else happened. These antiques can be said to be precious in later generations, but in this era, these antiques are very common things.
In addition to antiques and silver coins, Xu Guyu also dug out two boxes of gold and silver jewelry and various jade articles. However, Lin Mo went over and took a look and found that they were all ordinary items.
A strange and doubtful feeling always surrounds Lin Mo's heart. Since Chen Maofeng and others have obtained so many antiques and treasures, shouldn't they be unable to get even one precious thing? This is not common sense!
At this time, Lin Mo was already very suspicious that Chen Maofeng should have another place to hide things, but based on the current situation, Lin Mo couldn't figure out where this place would be.
Thinking of this, Lin Mo decided to stop thinking about it for the time being and continue to clean up the things in front of him.
Lin Mo started to follow the others and continued to clean up the remaining boxes. In the end, there were only two large boxes lying in the corner.
These two large boxes were about one and a half meters long, one meter wide and one meter high. When everyone opened the two boxes, they were suddenly stunned again.
The two large boxes in front of me were both filled with silver coins. One was filled with loose silver coins, and the other was filled with silver coins wrapped in tubes of red paper. However, the red paper was old and the color had faded.
, obviously it has been put aside for a long time.
Everyone looked at the two large boxes of silver coins, and the smiles on their faces became even thicker. Under the command of Xu Guyu, it took several people to move the boxes.
But Lin Mo, who was standing aside, frowned slightly as he looked at the two boxes.
Seeing that Lin Mo was not as happy as the others, Xu Guyu, who was standing aside, asked: "Lin Mo, is there something wrong?"
Hearing this, Lin Mo shook his head and said, "I don't know either, I just don't know what's going on. After coming here to investigate, this place always gives me a weird feeling."
Hearing this, Xu Guyu nodded and said, "I feel the same way, especially the more I search, the stronger this feeling becomes."
Having said this, Xu Guyu smiled bitterly and patted Lin Mo's shoulder, and continued: "Don't think too much. After we have dealt with these things, we will check this place carefully to see if we can find anything.
Bar!"
Lin Mo listened, nodded, and then checked the empty basement with metal detectors with others before walking out.
During the inspection, Lin Mo tried the cement pillar in the basement. The metal detector actually made no sound, which made Lin Mo very curious. How could this pillar make no sound?
After careful inspection, Lin Mo found a section of bamboo strips protruding from a wall, and finally figured out what was going on. Bamboo tendons should have been used in this basement, which allowed Lin Hei and the others to stay in the house regardless of whether they were in the house.
Even in the basement, the metal detector made no sound.
Seeing this situation, Lin Mo suddenly felt like he was in a dilapidated house. However, after asking Xu Guyu, Lin Mo suddenly felt that he was a little ignorant. It turned out that in this era in China, it was very common to use bamboo instead of steel bars.
things.
Xu Guyu also gave Lin Mo an example. In the buildings of many large commercial banks on the other side of the Yangtze River in Nanjing, bamboo is used to make steel bars.
Hearing this situation, Lin Mo thought again that this small courtyard was where Chen Maofeng lived five years ago when he first entered Nanjing as a lurker. At that time, Qingmao Trading Company had not yet been established, and he probably did not have much property on hand.
Moreover, the walls of this basement are uneven, so it should have been built by Chen Maofeng and others themselves. Besides, bamboo is softer and easier to shape, making it more suitable for ordinary people to use than steel bars. It is also easy to obtain and will not attract too much attention.
In this way, from the aspects of financial resources, concealment and maneuverability, it is indeed quite appropriate to choose bamboo instead of steel bars.
When they got outside, other people had already put things away in categories. Lin Mo took a look and found that most of the things in the basement were ordinary antiques and property, and the rest were some messy things, including gold.
Silver jewelry, jade jewelry, and some other things.
As for the belongings, they were a box of large yellow croakers and silver coins. In addition to the two boxes found at the beginning and the two large boxes at the end, there were six boxes of silver coins, large and small.
After looking at the things found in the basement, Lin Mo looked at what others found elsewhere. There were three M1910 Browning pistols and corresponding bullet magazines, and the rest were some scattered property and other things.
After Lin Mo checked what he found, he, Xu Guyu and Zhang Hongxin, carefully explored the small courtyard together.
However, the three of them explored the first floor, but found nothing, so the three of them decided to go to the second floor to investigate. The three of them first explored from the rearmost wing.
However, they still didn't find anything, so the three of them went to the main room in the middle and planned to go to the second floor to take a look. However, at the entrance of the stairs, they met Yang Haicheng and someone digging in the space on the stairs. They didn't know what they were digging.
When the three of them saw this, they stopped and wanted to see if Yang Haicheng and the others could make any new discoveries.
"Xue Feng, please move this ladder out. It's blocking me and I can't dig it out." Lin Mo and the other two people just stopped when they heard Yang Haicheng's voice coming from the bottom of the stairs. However, because there were stairs blocking the way, the three of them could not dig.
I didn't see what was going on inside.
"Okay, okay... I'll move right away." Du Xuefeng's voice came, and Lin Mo and the other three saw a person emerging from under the stairs.
Seeing Du Xuefeng, the three of them almost laughed, because at this time, Du Xuefeng's black clothes were stained with gray, his hair was covered with spider webs, and the sweat and dust on his face were mixed together.
, dyed Du Xuefeng into a big painted face.
Du Xuefeng, who was halfway out, saw the three people standing outside the stairs and quickly said hello with a smile.
"Haha..." Du Xuefeng's smile made the three of them laugh unkindly, leaving Du Xuefeng a little confused.
Du Xuefeng just wanted to wipe his face with his hands, but he suddenly saw his hands were covered with ash. He immediately knew what was going on, and his face turned red with shame, and he lowered his head in embarrassment.
Seeing this situation, Lin Mo smiled and said: "Xue Feng, go wash up quickly, I will help you get the ladder."
After saying that, Lin Mo bent down and put one end into the bamboo ladder under the stairs and pulled it out. The bamboo ladder was about four meters long and could not be placed vertically on the first floor, so Lin Mo laid it flat and leaned against it.
Beside the wall.
Lin Mo looked at the ladder a few times and found that it was quite clean, and there were traces of use on one end. It should have been used normally.
After looking at the ladder, Lin Mo looked down the stairs and saw Yang Haicheng bent over, pulling something back, with one butt already stretched out.
After a while, Lin Mo saw what Yang Haicheng was dragging. It looked like it was a clay pot covered with soil.
When Yang Haicheng came out, Yang Haicheng was even dirtier than Du Xuefeng, but the eyes of the three of them were already focused on the clay pot covered with mud.
Xu Guyu on the side saw Yang Haicheng pull out and asked: "Haicheng, what did you dig?"
When someone asked, Yang Haicheng noticed the three of them, greeted them quickly, and then said, "It's a jar of silver ingots."
Hearing this, Lin Mo stepped forward and saw most of the black ingots in the clay pot. He took one out, looked at it and said, "It's from the Qing Dynasty."
Hearing this, the three of them were a little disappointed, because it was obviously impossible for Chen Maofeng and the others to bury these things, so these things were just some property.
Looking at the dirty Yang Haicheng, Lin Mo said: "Haicheng, look how dirty you are? Go and wash yourself quickly."
After hearing this, Yang Haicheng took a look at his clothes and found that they were indeed stained with a lot of dust.
Yang Haicheng took off the metal detector battery and earphones from his back, gave the metal detector to Lin Mo, and quickly ran to clean it up.
Seeing this, Lin Mo put the battery on his back, carried the metal detector, and went up to the second floor with Xu Guyu and others.
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On the other side, the teacher mentioned by the brother and sister Ji Feng and Lin Wengui had arrived at a residence and were talking to the housekeeper inside.
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On the other side, the boss whom Zhang Hongxin pointed his gun at had returned to his hardware store. He had already ordered another clerk to go out, and he was waiting anxiously.
