Chapter 407 The priceless treasure in the rattan box
Chapter 407: The Priceless Treasure in the Rattan Box
........."Hurry, move the things in quickly!" As soon as the car stopped at the door, Li Yuncong started shouting anxiously.
"Li Yuncong, I'm stepping on your tail, what are you yelling about!" Miss Jiang was inexplicably forced to drive back by Liu Dong, and Miss Jiang was angry.
"Hey, you don't know, Xiaodong got another treasure this time!" Li Yuncong said enviously.
"Baby, what baby, why didn't I see it!" Then, Jiang Tingting's eyes stopped at the four big boxes behind the car, "The treasures you are talking about are not these four broken boxes, right?"
Seeing the look of disbelief on Jiang Tingting's face, Liu Dong took out the key and opened the door, turned around and smiled: "Tingting, although these boxes are inconspicuous, there is something else in them!"
"Is there another universe? You mean there is something hidden in here?" Zhuang Wen asked curiously.
"Haha, you will know later!" As he said that, Liu Dong began to untie the ropes tied to the car.
"Tch, you're still trying to hide it!" Although she said this, Liu Dong successfully aroused Jiang Tingting's curiosity, and she immediately came to help. Naturally, Li Yuncong and Zhuang Wen were not idle either.
"Damn, why is it so heavy! Isn't this thing made of rattan?" At first it seemed that Liu Dong and the two were very relaxed, but when Li Yuncong got started, he realized that what he thought was very light was enough.
It's about forty kilograms.
"Okay, let's put the things there for now. I'll get them later!" After saying that, Liu Dong held two boxes in each hand and walked sideways through the door.
Considering that it was still early and Zhang's mother hadn't gotten up yet, Liu Dong deliberately walked softly when he walked to the patio. He pushed open the door of the east wing where he lived and walked in. He put down the box and put it in the living room.
I packed up my things and made sure all four boxes could be put down before turning around and going out.
Soon, the last two boxes were brought in, along with the knife Liu Dong bought.
After Liu Dong opened the door in the room, Li Yuncong rubbed his hands and said impatiently: "Xiaodong, take out the baby quickly and let us open our eyes."
"Haha, don't worry! You guys take out all the things in the four boxes first, and I'll find something!" After finishing speaking, Liu Dong stood up and walked out of the door without waiting for anyone to reply, and then walked to the main room.
After sitting on the sofa for half a minute, he stood up. When he went out again, a hacksaw appeared in his hand.
Of course. This was what he had stored in the Mustard Seed Space before. Since the Mustard Seed Space was doubled when Taishan Houshan became a disciple, he had enough storage space. Therefore, for the convenience of his own life, Liu Dong stored it in it.
There are a lot of things, food, use, clothing, big and small, everything you need, all in the supermarket!
"Xiaodong, what are you doing with that hacksaw?" Li Yuncong asked in surprise after Liu Dong came in.
"How can we find treasure without a hacksaw?" After replying with a smile, Liu Dong walked to a rattan box and squatted down. Different from ordinary boxes, the thickness of this rattan box was about six centimeters.
In the space occupied by the inner and outer layers of rattan, there is a mezzanine of nearly five centimeters.
According to the young man in the jacket, these four boxes have steel plates and wooden blocks inside the mezzanine, so they are extremely strong. They have been used in his home for seventy or eighty years, and there is still no damage at all.
However, Liu Dong understood that the real situation was not as simple as what the young man in the jacket said. There were priceless treasures hidden in the inner mezzanines of these four boxes!
Noticing Liu Dong's movements, the three people around him also saw the clues.
"Liu Dong, the treasure you mentioned is in the mezzanine of these boxes?" Jiang Tingting asked hesitantly.
"good!"
"Then how did you know? Did you not see it?" Jiang Tingting expressed deep doubts about this.
"Intuition!" Liu Dong looked up and smiled mysteriously.
Jiang Tingting was obviously not satisfied with this answer, but seeing Liu Dong immersed in his work, she wisely did not ask any more questions.
With the harsh friction sound of 'chila...', the outer wall of the box was gradually sawed open. However, these rattans boiled in tung oil are really strong enough. Even after hundreds of years, Liu Dong's strength in his hands
It's not too small, but it still took a lot of effort to cut off the left side of the box along the corner.
"Hey, look, there's really something inside!!" Zhuang Wen's angle was right at the cross section Liu Dong cut, so she could see a corner of the khaki package exposed from the cross section of the rattan box.
"There's really something in there!"
After Liu Dong completely cut off the section, the three of them could see clearly that there were two extremely thin steel plates between the two layers of rattan, and between the two steel plates were two oilcloth wrappers.
After Liu Dong pushed aside the rattan and steel plates, he took out two yellow oilcloth packages with a length of nearly 80 centimeters, a width of nearly 40 centimeters, and a thickness of nearly 5 centimeters.
"Open it quickly and see what's inside?" Jiang Tingting said impatiently. Of course, no one is not curious at this moment, even Liu Dong himself wants to know.
Therefore, several people hurriedly carried two paper bags, which weighed nearly five kilograms in total, to a table aside.
The oilcloth packages must have been hidden for a long time. A thick layer of dust fell on the outer eaves. After everyone took towels and wiped the two oilcloth packages clean, they were ready to open them from the seal.
"What are these white things?" Zhuang Wen asked, pointing to the white hard substance glued between two layers of oilcloth.
"This is wax, it's waterproof!" Liu Dong took out a carving knife from the mustard space. Now the other three people's attention was all on this mysterious oilcloth package, but they didn't pay attention to Liu Dong's hand.
The knife suddenly appeared.
When Liu Dong carefully cut along the opening and opened the waterproof tarpaulin, a thick stack of light yellow paper with a hint of ink appeared in front of the four people.
"This looks like an architectural design drawing. It's so beautiful!" Li Yuncong was the first to say.
"Why does this picture look so familiar?" After hearing Jiang Tingting's words, Zhuang Wen nodded in agreement, but judging from the confusion on her face, it was obvious that she couldn't remember where she had seen it before.
"This is the design drawing of the 'Haiyan Hall' in the Western-style Building Complex of Yuanmingyuan!" Liu Dong said with a hint of excitement in his tone.
"Hey, it's true. When Xiaodong said it, I remembered that I saw it last time when I went to the Old Summer Palace!" Li Yuncong clapped his hands and laughed.
"Liu Dong, how did you figure it out?"
Listening to Jiang Tingting's words, Liu Dong pointed to the upper right corner of the design, where there was a line of small regular script that read, "Imperial System of the Yuanmingyuan Western-style Building, Haiyantang No. 1"! And on this line of small regular script, there was also a circle stamped on it, the size of two on each side.
The different seals are 'Qianlong's Imperial Treasure' and 'Tianfu Treasure'!
"It's true, Liu Dong, you have really sharp eyes!" Zhuang Wen leaned over to identify it and said in surprise.
"Okay, let's look at the next one!" Liu Dong said after smiling.
Carefully take this piece of paper, which is 40 centimeters wide, nearly 80 centimeters long, and nearly three A3-sized pieces of paper, to one side. What is exposed is still a design drawing. However, compared with the first one, this design drawing is divided into
There are six parts, and there are also words such as dimensions, explanations, and design ideas written next to it. The whole paper looks very full, but it does not feel messy at all. There are also detailed numbers and Qianlong's seal next to it.
Then several people looked at a dozen pictures in succession, all of which were interior design drawings and exterior design drawings of Haiyan Hall in Yuanmingyuan. They were very detailed, almost down to every corner, and were almost as good as modern engineering design drawings and interior design drawings.
Finally, the four people counted them separately. In this five-centimeter-thick paper package, there were actually two thousand such design drawings. They almost included the interesting things in the Old Summer Palace, such as the Yellow Flower Array, the Bird Cage, the Five Bamboo Pavilion, and the Square.
The detailed landscape design of more than a dozen Western-style buildings such as the exterior, Haiyantang, Shuishui Building, Yuanyingguan, Dashuifa, Guanshuifa, Xianfashan, Fanghe, Xianfahua, etc., has not missed any corner.
How did the ancients draw such neat and rigorous design drawings without computers?
Moreover, two thousand sheets are 80 centimeters long and 40 centimeters wide, which is equivalent to the same writing area as more than five thousand sheets of A3 paper. The weight is less than three kilograms, and the thickness of two thousand sheets of paper is only less than five centimeters, which is even more rare.
What's amazing is that on such a thin and light paper, the handwriting shows no sign of staining. This level of papermaking was unimaginable in ancient times two hundred years ago.
If you switch to modern times and ordinary A3 design drawings, if you want to achieve such a writing area, it must be at least 60 centimeters thick and weigh 30 kilograms. This is only possible!
"Perhaps only by concentrating the wisdom and financial resources of a country can we accomplish such a miracle!" After thinking about it, Liu Dong shook his head. There are many miracles of ancient wisdom that modern people cannot imagine, and this is just one of them.
"Xiaodong, you've made a lot of money again this time!" After reading it, Li Yuncong couldn't help but envy him.
Every design drawing here is unique, and each one is stamped with the seal of Emperor Qianlong, and many of them also have the signatures of designers such as Lang Shining, Jiang Youren and Wang Zhicheng. Take any one of them individually,
It is no less valuable than a famous painting from the Qing Dynasty.
And with so many things added together, even Jiang Tingting and Zhuang Wen, who didn't know much about the value of antiques, understood that Liu Dong had made a lot of money.
The value of these drawings is more precious than any priceless treasure. They are true national treasures that cannot be exchanged for any money!
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