This time he stayed in the capital for too short time, and relationships are a very troublesome thing, so Liu Dong has no plans to find Jiang Tingting now, but he also decided that when he comes back from the United States this time, he must find her.
, let’s put an end to this matter.↑,
After thinking about this clearly, Liu Dong drove to the place he agreed with Shao Tiejun.
This time Liu Dong came to the capital. In addition to flying to New York to attend the Christie's auction, he also wanted to check how the project of converting the courtyard into a hotel was going. Of course, Liu Dong was more concerned about the things that had been buried underground for decades and hundreds of years and had not been moved.
Hidden treasures discovered by people.
"Chairman!"
Seeing Liu Dong get off the car, Shao Tiejun, who had been waiting outside the door for a long time, hurriedly greeted him. Of course, he was also greeted by employees of the Beijing branch of K. Wah Hotel Group.
Of course, because he had known for a long time that Liu Dong didn't like too many people to greet him, almost all the people he brought out to greet him now were managers from various departments. Many of them were meeting the legendary legend for the first time.
The chairman of the company. While he was full of curiosity, he was also a little surprised because the chairman was so young.
"Okay, let everyone go to work, Mr. Shao, just accompany me for a walk!"
"Yes, Chairman!"
After sending everyone away, Shao Tiejun accompanied Liu Dong for a walk around the office space of the current branch, and then went to Nanluogu Lane.
"Mr. Shao, how is the courtyard hotel project going now?" Liu Dong asked.
"In general, it's going smoothly. So far, 80% of the residents in the hutongs we have invested in have been relocated. It will take up to two months. The remaining 20% can be completely moved. In addition, the design plan of our hotel has also been completed.
It has been completed, and construction can start after all residents leave! Our hotel will be put into operation by the end of next year at the most." Shao Tiejun said in an encouraging tone.
No wonder he is like this, because once this hotel is completed, it will easily become a world-famous seven-star hotel. As its builder and manager, Shao Tiejun is extremely honored.
Listening to Shao Tiejun's introduction, the group came to Fuxiang Hutong, which is no longer noisy in the past. It has been bought by Jiahua Group, and the old residents have moved away long ago!
Without life, Fuxiang Hutongs have become even more dilapidated after years of vicissitudes! Of course, it will take at most a year and a half before they will be full of life again.
"Mr. Shao, the design of the courtyard hotel must restore the original functions of the courtyard. In the future, wires and electrical appliances like these must be hidden and not exposed! Also, all the courtyard walls made of cement should be replaced with blue bricks. Finally,
At least it should be 100% retro in appearance!”
"Understood, Chairman!"
After nodding, Liu Dong said: "Let's go inside and have a look!"
After Liu Dong finished speaking, the company employee accompanying him immediately took out the key and opened the courtyard door.
If Liu Dong looked around the alley outside, he would only frown at the condition of the courtyard, but when he took a look inside, Liu Dong's excitement before taking out the treasure was completely gone.
Gein, the interior of the courtyard has completely lost the seclusion, secluded and elegant atmosphere he imagined. All that can be seen are messy and dilapidated bungalows, surrounded by all kinds of domestic garbage and debris.
The garden road that was originally supposed to be a winding path has been turned into a winding path by houses.
A large courtyard house covering an area of about 800 square meters has actually squeezed in 12 households. Except for the courtyard wall which is still intact, the rockery pond and back garden that originally existed inside have long since disappeared.
To restore the original appearance of this courtyard house, almost everything must be bulldozed and rebuilt.
"Mr. Shao, are all the yards in the alleys we bought like this?" Liu Dong couldn't help but ask.
"Not entirely, but more than 50% of the yards are like this!"
Although he had guessed that this might be the case, Liu Dong couldn't help but feel a little disappointed after actually hearing it.
"In the future, except for a few single sculptures and ancient trees that have preservation value, all courtyards like this will be torn down and rebuilt! Ask the best classical garden designers to restore them!" Liu Dong said immediately.
"Understood, Director Liu!"
Coming out of the yard, Liu Dong said: "Okay, you don't have to accompany me anymore. Go and do your business. I'll go shopping by myself!"
"Director Liu, how about I leave a few people for you?"
"No, just give me the keys to these courtyards!" Next it was time for Liu Dong to dig out his treasures. How could he let outsiders follow him?
Seeing what Liu Dong said, Shao Tiejun did not insist anymore. He indeed had a lot of work at hand.
After they left, Liu Dong returned to the yard just now, and then went straight to the bottom of an old locust tree in the backyard. Because of the relic Yuanguang, Liu Dong did not have to dig it out by himself. With a thought, he realized that it was about one and a half meters high.
A black pottery jar with a diameter of nearly 40 centimeters at its widest point has appeared in my hand.
The jar is covered with a white porcelain bowl, but it may have broken due to pressure. Under the bright sunshine, an attractive gold and silver luster is faintly revealed from the cracks.
Liu Dong, who couldn't wait, walked to the empty room next to him, found a cleaner place, and poured out all the contents of the jar.
For a moment, Liu Dong's eyes were filled with jewels.
Large pieces of gold and silver ingots, almost each of which is worth more than ten taels, gold-inlaid jade jewelry, Hotan jade ornaments, gold hairpins, jade rings, etc., not to mention anything else, the value of them alone is about 300 taels of gold.
It’s close to 3 million Chinese coins. Counting others, the wealth in this pot is at least tens of millions, or even more!
Because these gold and silver jewelry not only have decorative value, over hundreds of years, they also have value and are works of art.
But looking at the pearl necklaces that had completely turned into powder, Liu Dong couldn't help but sigh.
The shelf life of pearls is no more than a hundred years, and this jar of jewelry has been buried underground for at least three hundred years, so the current situation is understandable.
In addition, Liu Dong would not waste his precious relic Yuan Guang for these strings of pearls.
"It's visible and tangible. It's really different from the feeling of 'seeing' with the relic's light. This kind of excitement and this sense of anticipation are the biggest motivation for treasure hunting!" Liu Dong couldn't help but sigh.
Of course, after sighing, Liu Dong immediately put away the gold jewelry he found. He didn't have much time, and there were hundreds of yards waiting for treasure hunts behind him!
However, not all courtyard houses have treasures buried underground. After Liu Dong searched for the 11th courtyard house, he found another harvest. However, this time the harvest was not as good as the first time. Although there were many gold, silver and jewelry, there were more
The money was still copper coins, so the value of what I found this time was only half of what it was last time.
"Hey, this courtyard is quite impressive!"
When Liu Dong almost finished searching the entire Fuxiang Hutong, he found the gate of a large house at the end.
However, the original beautiful gatehouse in the courtyard at the gate of this mansion has long lost its former glory. Not only is the top of the gatehouse overgrown with weeds due to disrepair, but the original red painted gate with brass inlays has also lost its former glory.
It has long been mottled and decayed.
Only the two finely carved stone lions on both sides and the complete bluestone steps can remind future generations of the house's former grandeur and grandeur, filled with guests.
Opening the iron chains randomly attached to the two doors, Liu Dong heard a hoarse friction sound, pushed the door open and walked in.
Compared with the previous mansion, although the gate of this former mansion is dilapidated, the overall layout is still relatively intact. It should have been used as an office space for a government department after the founding of the People's Republic of China, so it has not been harassed by civilian residences.
After bypassing the screen wall and passing through the front yard, Liu Dong came to the middle yard, then walked into the living room of the main room. After looking around for a while, he walked into the room on the left.
If you follow the general layout of a courtyard, the room on the left should belong to the study. But except for an empty room, a few worn-out furniture, and dust on the floor, nothing can be seen here at all.
If it weren't for Liu Dongyi's boldness, few people would have dared to wander alone in such a dilapidated and ghostly room, even though it was still broad daylight.
"What a good thing. This is what I want!" He looked at the thick wall on the far left side of the main room. Under the light of Liu Dong's relics, the things hidden in the mezzanine of this wall were invisible.
As he thought, three boxes of different sizes appeared in Liu Dong's mustard space.
The first box was 20 centimeters wide, 50 centimeters long, and 30 centimeters high. It contained yellow, orange, and orange gold, with one ingot for every fifty taels. Liu Dong counted a full 100 ingots, which is 5,000 taels.
In ancient times, the purchasing power of 5,000 taels of gold was no less than the current 1 billion Huaxia coins.
Those who can come up with this money are all real princes and nobles, or big businessmen who dominate the world.
Of course, Liu Dong was not interested in who the owner of this gold worth 50 million Chinese coins was. Anyway, now that it fell into his hands, it was his own, and no one could snatch it away.
However, although the yellow, orange and orange gold makes people's hearts intoxicated, what really excites Liu Dong is the contents of the other two boxes.
There are not many things in the two boxes, only three items in total.
But the value of these three items is higher than all the antiques Liu Dong found before combined.
Taking out the first long box, which was 60 centimeters long, about 10 centimeters high, and 25 centimeters wide, from the mustard space, Liu Dong's face showed a look of excitement and anticipation.
When he opened the lid of the box with some caution, two pairs of oilcloth rolls of different lengths appeared. After removing the wax layer on the oilcloth rolls and peeling off the oilcloth, what appeared in front of Liu Dong was an old and yellowed painting.
of silk cloth.
Liu Dong quickly took out a clean long table from the mustard space, then put the silk cloth on it, and after carefully unfolding it, a beautiful painting appeared! (To be continued...)