Chapter 117 Small money depends on earning, big money depends on life
Three years ago, Zhao Yonggang and his wife were still contracting orchards in Beishan, Huanggang Town.
In the autumn of that year, Zhao Yonggang was preparing to expand his winter storage cellar, but he accidentally dug up the paulownia box filled with treasures.
After digging up the treasure, Zhao Yonggang felt guilty and immediately backfilled the cellar. Later in the year, he took his wife and children to work at the chicken farm in Fenghuang Village.
For three whole years, this guy didn't dare to cash in the treasure he dug up. It wasn't until his son got a "terminal disease" that he took it out and was discovered by Lu Fei.
Lu Fei's evaluation of this guy is that he is not as honest as a man.
During the day, the Gao brothers conducted on-site inspections based on the location mentioned by Zhao Yonggang.
Even though it had been three years, the traces of Zhao Yonggang's backfilling of the cellar still could not be hidden from the brothers of the Gao family, who touched Captain Jin.
With the Gao brothers' daytime reconnaissance and the cover of night, Lu Fei and the others found the location accurately.
Next, we did not rashly dig, but put down a pole to test.
The so-called pole is the Luoyang shovel mentioned in the tomb robbery. This thing was an important invention in the Chinese archaeological community in the last century.
The arc-shaped shovel head breaks through the ground easily, and the pole at the back is equipped with a threaded buckle to freely increase the length.
Insert the shovel into the ground and use the quality of the soil to identify whether there is a tomb underneath.
The quality of soil that has not been excavated is fundamentally different from that of secondary backfill. Even after thousands of years, it can still be identified, and the accuracy is almost 100%.
The Luoyang shovel used by the Gao brothers is an improved and upgraded version. The shovel head is made of alloy and the blade is made of diamond. It can handle even the hardest soil.
The pole is made of aluminum alloy, which is lightweight, convenient and not easily deformed.
The name of the patent holder of this improved version is Kong Fanlong.
Judging from experience, the three brothers lowered the pole at the same time, five meters apart. As a result, a major discovery was made in the first round.
The tall pole suddenly encountered a hard object when it was nine meters down. When the pole was pulled out, the soil it brought out was a bit gray and contained stone chips.
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Lu Fei picked up some soil and smelled it, then tasted it again and said happily.
"It's down there, it should be a treasure cave."
"It is built with blue strips of stone, grouted with glutinous rice for waterproofing, and compacted with lime and loess."
"Hit a few more shots and see if you can find the hole."
After a few more shots, it was not a blind shot. After judging the mountain and the direction of the mountains and rivers, the three brothers concentrated on the northeast direction and shot at the same time. In less than half an hour, they found the entrance to the hole.
The next step is excavation.
It would take an average person at least a day to dig through a layer of soil more than nine meters deep.
But for a professional player like Mo Jin Xiaowei, don’t take it too easy!
An hour later, a fifty-centimetre-diameter tunnel was completed and connected directly to the cave entrance.
Lu Fei asked the Gao brothers to stand guard, and despite their obstruction, he went down to the robbery cave himself.
The entrance to the cave is about 1.5 meters high. It was previously sealed with green strips of stone, but now it has collapsed and been filled with loess. Next to it is the soil layer that Zhao Yonggang once backfilled.
Needless to say, Zhao Yonggang got the treasure chest from here.
Lu Fei lamented that Zhao Yonggang's luck was ridiculously good.
When expanding the cellar, the blind cat hit the mouse and hit it right in the middle of the hole.
At that time, if you expanded it by half a meter on both sides, you could touch the collapsed blue stone, which would completely expose the treasure cave.
As a result, this guy thought that there was only one box, and he was as timid as a mouse, so he hurriedly backfilled it without any intention of going deeper.
Otherwise, I would have nothing to do now.
So small money depends on earning, big money depends on life, obviously Zhao Yonggang does not have this
A life.
There were less than five hours before dawn, so Lu Fei did not dare to delay and immediately cleaned up the collapsed soil.
Twenty minutes later, the soil was cleared, and another Paulownia box appeared in front of Lu Fei's eyes. Behind this box was a dark space less than two meters high.
When I looked over with a strong flashlight, I saw rows of paulownia wood boxes of the same size neatly stacked up. I counted about thirty boxes.
Lu Fei felt very excited and quickly climbed up to the ground to briefly communicate with the Gao brothers.
Next, the three of them worked together to expand the hole. An hour later, the first Paulownia box was hoisted up, followed by the second one.
At 3:30 in the morning, a total of thirty-three Paulownia boxes were hoisted to the ground.
Then Lu Fei and Gao Meng were responsible for the transportation, while Gao Yuan performed the backfilling alone.
At dawn the rooster crows, and all the work is completed without any danger.
Carefully inspect the traces left behind, not even a cigarette butt.
After making sure everything was safe, the three brothers left quietly.
At dawn, all the boxes were carried into the private house temporarily rented by the Gao brothers yesterday afternoon.
Next comes the exciting treasure hunting time.
More than 30 boxes are generally well preserved. There are slight signs of decay on the paulownia wood surface, but they are not serious.
But the copper lock on the box was completely rusted, so it had to be dismantled.
Although the copper lock is rusty, it is still worth a lot of money if it is cleaned out.
However, compared with the contents of the box, the copper lock is obviously worthless.
The first box was opened, and all that came into view were flintlock guns.
There are a total of sixty guns in a box, and each gun is wrapped in oil paper. After more than three hundred years of baptism, it is still well preserved.
This is also due to the key role played by the treasure cave built with bluestone, especially the glutinous rice Grouting effectively blocks the penetration of rainwater.
The flintlock gun in Zhao Yonggang's box rusted to death because it was at the entrance of a collapsed cave, so it suffered misfortune.
Next, four boxes were opened in a row, all containing flintlock guns. Gao Meng, who had a hot temper, could no longer keep his temper.
"Hold!"
"It's this crap thing again, it has a purpose."
Lu Fei patted Gao Meng's shoulder and said with a smile.
"Don't look down on these things. Let me tell you, these things are worth a lot of money now."
"With such a well-preserved flintlock gun, it's no problem to sell it for 4 to 50 million."
"Especially foreigners love this kind of antique gun."
"If they knew about it, a man with two hundred thousand dollars would definitely be easy to sell."
"What the hell, is it so valuable?" Gao Meng asked in surprise with his eyes wide open.
"Just one red girl worth five hundred thousand, sixty in this box, five, six, thirty, this box is three million!"
Gao Yuan slapped Gao Meng's ear and said.
"Has your kid become a fool after being detained for three years?"
"One hand costs 500,000 yuan. Sixty coins means 30 million, okay?"
"Brother, how much did you say?"
"Thirty million, doesn't that make you rich?"
Gao Yuan smiled and said.
"Thirty million yuan will motivate you like this, look at your potential."
"As long as you listen to Lu Fei, this little money will be just water!"
Lu Fei handed the two brothers a cigarette and said with a smile.
"Brother Yuan is right, this is just the beginning. In the future, I will take you to enjoy all the prosperity in this world. When the time comes, you will make you want to vomit when you see the money."
"Hey, if we have a good relationship, we will hang out with you." Gao Yuan said with a smile.