Comfortable life in Siheyuan

On this weekend, Liu Qingshan's family and Sha Zhu's family went to Niu Niu's new house together.

Since the two families bought the house from the second uncle, they have never visited it.

Liu Qingshan just took a quick look at the second uncle's housewarming party at the beginning.

Now that he had become the brother-in-law, he began to look at it carefully.

"Qingshan, it's worth buying this yard! I spent all the money I earned from this store and I almost can't pay the salaries!" Sha Zhu walked up to Liu Qingshan and joked with a smile.

"Just this house has emptied your pockets. Who would believe it if you told others about it?" Liu Qingshan glanced at him and said with disdain.

"Hehe! I quite like this uncle's house! It's very close to home." Sha Zhu said with a naive smile.

When the second uncle bought this house, he did so because it was close to the courtyard. He wanted to show off to his old neighbors.

As a result, his family member Guangfu threw his face to the ground and stomped on him twice.

The front yard of this house is not as big as the one where the third uncle lives, but it also has several rooms. The main house at the back is much bigger, and the east and west wing rooms are also very neat.

"Wow! Is this the house where Liu Guangfu and his wife live? It's as messy as a doghouse." Sha Zhu pushed open a room in the front yard and frowned when he saw the things on the floor.

Liu Qingshan also leaned over to take a look, and then suddenly laughed. "Zhu Zi, before you married my sister-in-law, you didn't seem to be much better than this!"

"Go away, go away. The rain helped me clean up the mess at that time!" Sha Zhu's old face turned red and he defended himself.

"Didn't Yu Shui live in the school dormitory when he was in high school? I remember it seemed like..." Before Liu Qingshan could finish his words, Sha Zhu covered his mouth.

"Brother, I call you brother. Come to my restaurant for lunch and I'll open a bottle of good wine for you!" Sha Zhu knew what Liu Qingshan was going to say before he finished listening, and hurriedly stopped him.

"Maotai?"

"Okay!" Sha Zhu squeezed out two words from between his teeth.

"Then I won't say much! Thank you!" Liu Qingshan smiled and slapped Sha Zhu on the shoulder.

The two of them stopped looking at the front yard and walked into the middle yard together.

"Sister-in-law, are you two going to move in here and live together? The main room is almost the same size as the one in your house!" Feng Yu said, pulling Tian Xiuyun.

"Not necessarily. Zhuzi and I come home late at night and they are all asleep when we get home, which is not very convenient." Tian Xiuyun didn't think about moving here. She lived quite well in her own house and it was quite lively over there.

"We haven't said we'll move here yet. It's better to live over there than here. We came here just to take a look." Xixi heard the conversation between the two and immediately retorted.

"It doesn't matter where you live! Xixi is going to give birth soon, so we can take care of her if she lives there! If you don't want to move, then don't move!" Liu Qingshan said lovingly.

"Just spoil her!" Feng Yu rolled his eyes at this daughter slave.

A few people were still chatting here when Yu Wen suddenly shouted loudly over there.

"Mom and Dad, come here quickly!" Yuwen shouted loudly in an anxious voice.

A group of people heard the sound and walked over.

"Girl, what's wrong?" Liu Qingshan asked with concern.

"Dad, look!"

Xiao Yuwen pointed to a piece of land in the corner and said to Liu Qingshan.

"What?" Liu Qingshan looked at it for a while but couldn't see anything wrong.

"Dad, look at this!" Liu Yuwen picked up a stick next to her and scratched the ground twice. Then she said, "There is a lock over here and a door underneath."

When Liu Qingshan heard this, he understood that there must be a cellar under the land.

"Let me take a look." Sha Zhu walked to the front, found a shovel, and spent a long time digging out the entrance to the cellar.

"Why is it still locked?" Sha Zhu was a little puzzled. He tried for a long time but failed to open it.

"Dad, try this!" Niu Niu found an iron rod from somewhere and handed it to Sha Zhu.

Sha Zhu and Liu Qingshan spent another half a day and finally opened the entrance to the cellar.

"Are you going down or am I going down?" Sha Zhu turned to look at Liu Qingshan and teased with a smile.

"Why are you in such a hurry? Go find an oil lamp first. This door hasn't been opened for who knows how long. We need to ventilate it first." Liu Qingshan was not in such a hurry. The house had already been bought, and nothing could happen underneath it.

"That's right!" After waiting for a long time, they stood at the entrance of the cellar again.

This time, Sha Zhu didn't call Liu Qingshan again, but climbed down first.

Liu Qingshan was worried about him going down alone, so he followed him down.

The space below is not very big, only about ten square meters.

As soon as the two came in, they covered their noses.

The smell here is not very pleasant, it has a strong musty smell.

Liu Qingshan looked at some food bags in the corner and guessed that this might be the life-saving food for the family. They were rarely touched at ordinary times and were only taken out at critical moments.

I turned over a few grain bags, which were filled with rice and soybeans, but now they were too old and smelled moldy.

There are a few jars of oil in the corner, probably used for the same purpose.

Sha Zhu took the lamp and walked to the wooden shelf in front and looked at it carefully.

"Wow! These are gold bars!" Sha Zhu exclaimed, and even the kerosene lamp in his hand shook.

Liu Qingshan heard the sound and walked over. Looking at the gold bars covered with dust, he was also surprised.

"That's quite a lot. There are about thirty or forty of them here."

Liu Qingshan picked up a gold bar and weighed it, estimating that it was a one-liang gold bar, or about thirty grams.

Sha Zhu counted them one by one, one, two...

"Forty-one in total. All the money for this house has been returned?" Sha Zhu joked with a smile.

"See if there's anything else." Liu Qingshan started rummaging through the wooden shelf again.

After a while, Liu Qingshan touched a pistol.

Liu Qingshan took the pistol in his hand and looked at it.

This gun is not a valuable one, just a homemade gun. It is probably kept by the original owner for self-defense.

Sha Zhu took out many bottles and jars from the wooden shelf, all of which looked quite old.

"We don't understand these things, so just keep them. I see they are quite old, maybe they are antiques!" Liu Qingshan was afraid that Sha Zhu would drop something by mistake, so he reminded him quickly.

"Why did this family leave in such a hurry? Don't they want so many things anymore? These are all gold!" Sha Zhu sighed.

"You also lived through the war era. You said this family didn't take their belongings with them. What could have happened?"

Liu Qingshan didn't say it explicitly, but there are only two possibilities.

Either the whole family was killed, or they fled too fast and didn't have time to take these things, and eventually they didn't survive on the road.

In short, it is unlikely that there are any alive.