Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

The house transfer procedures were completed quickly. After leaving the housing management office, Li Yan handed a bunch of keys to Gu Jiu: "The house will be yours from now on."

"Thank you Uncle Li for giving me the key." Gu Jiu handed the key to Lin Shu.

Li Yan suppressed his grief and said with a smile, "It's better to sell the house to you. If it remains in my name, with no one living in it and no one maintaining it, it will fall into disrepair in a few years. After I sell it to you, and someone lives in it, this house can be passed down for a long time."

"Uncle Li, it's best if you think this way. The house really can't be left unoccupied, otherwise it will fall into disrepair too quickly."

"Okay, now that the deal is done, I won't keep you any longer. We'll see you later."

"See you later."

After saying goodbye to Li Yan, Tang Jianjun returned to the office, and Lin Shu and Gu Jiu walked back.

"What do you want to do with the house?"

Lin Shu took his arm, looked at the drizzling streets, and said with a smile: "Clean it up first and let my brother and his family move in. Help us increase the popularity of the house first."

Gu Jiu nodded in agreement. After all, it wasn't a big deal for his brother-in-law and his family to rent a house in the county town. It would be nice for them to live in their house and bring some popularity to it.

Taking advantage of the rain during the past few days, Gu Jiu ran to his brother-in-law's rental house the next day.

The two brothers-in-law who were staying in the rental house were worried about not being able to work on rainy days. They wanted to go home but the road was muddy and inconvenient. It was too boring to stay in the rental house. Just then, Gu Jiu came to them, and they agreed without thinking.

When the two brothers-in-law saw the dozen rooms upstairs and downstairs, they were shocked and asked, "Brother-in-law, how much did you spend on such a big house?"

"Thirteen thousand, do you think it's expensive or cheap?" Gu Jiu gave each of them a pair of gloves.

Lin Wei scratched his head. "How should I put it? 1,300 yuan is definitely too expensive to buy a house like this in our countryside. It's hard to say whether it's expensive or cheap in the city."

Lin Guang nodded: "Brother is right. Fortunately, this house has many rooms. If we rent them out, we can earn a lot of money every month."

Gu Jiu: "We don't plan to rent it out. Let's clean out the house first. Then you two can choose two rooms to live in and return the rental house."

The two brothers looked at each other, and Lin Wei was the first to object: "No, how can we live in the house you bought with your own money?"

"Brother, please don't be polite. It's not good to leave this house here without anyone living in it. You can move in and help us look after the house." Gu Jiu walked around the house and pointed to the back and said, "Can you help me check whether the well in the backyard needs to be cleaned?"

There is a back door at the back of the house, and a wall surrounds the backyard. For convenience, the original owner used the space in the backyard to dig a well.

With this well, we don't have to worry about having no water even if the tap water here is cut off in the future.

"Let's go take a look."

The three of them went into the backyard and drew up half a bucket of water. The well water was very clear.

But Lin Wei still said: "Since the owner of the house has changed, I think it would be safer to clean the well first. However, there is no rush now. Let's clean the house first before we deal with the well."

"Okay, then let's do as Big Brother says. Let's go clean the room first."

The original owner of the house passed away, and although Li Yan cleaned up his father's belongings, there were still a lot of items piled up in the house after several generations of people lived there.

The piled up items were mostly useless junk, with a small amount of usable furniture and some broken furniture.

Without saying anything else, first clear out all the useful and useless things in each room, and then tidy them up slowly.

Here, three grown men were cleaning up items in each room, and Lin Shu was also quite busy.

The time in the morning was limited, so after Gu Jiu left, she started washing clothes and cleaning. It was already ten o'clock when she finished.

Several people were going to eat at noon, so she immediately started buying a lot of vegetables and ingredients from the farmer's market, and then bought a piece of meat and a fish from the system mall to prepare lunch.

After lunch was ready, I took a few bites and then packed up the food and sent it to the old house in Jianshe.

As soon as I reached the door of the old house, I heard the sound of wood being thrown inside.

"Why are there so many sundries?" Lin Shu walked in with a basket, and was faced with the courtyard filled with sundries, including furniture, bottles and jars, old clothes, old daily necessities, etc.

"When we came to see the house that day, there weren't many things there, but after we cleaned them all out, there were quite a few piles." Gu Jiu walked over and took the basket from her hand.

Lin Wei and Lin Guang saw her coming and greeted her one after another.

"Brother, Brother, stop busying yourself, go wash your hands, let's eat first."

Lin Shu cleaned the old table so that they could place their lunch boxes there.

The three men washed their hands and sat down to eat. Lin Shu looked around the rooms when he had nothing to do.

The floor tiles on the first floor had been used for many years, and some places had a layer of black mud. Moreover, this kind of earthenware floor needed to be replaced, and she planned to have it polished with water.

The old windows on the first floor were too small, so we went to the countryside and asked a carpenter to custom-make some carved windows of the same style, enlarge the size, and increase the brightness of the room.

There is also the roof of the first floor, which is very delicately done and only needs a few coats of paint after renovation.

The wooden floor on the second floor needs to be renovated. Some areas near the windows have become rotten due to rain seepage, so the rotten floor needs to be replaced.

The tiles on the roof also need to be re-turned, and the broken tiles and rotten beams need to be replaced.

If we just make a calculation and list the places that need to be repaired, the cost will probably be not much different from the house price.

Tsk, as expected, it costs a lot to maintain a house.

When I came down from the second floor, the three grown men had finished their meal and started working again.

"Little sister, tell me which of these things you want and which you don't want, so I can clean them up." Lin Wei kicked the pile of debris.

Lin Shu: "Keep the useful things, clear out the useless things, and don't take any personal belongings."

"You can keep this chest of drawers."

Lin Wei was cleaning the items inside as he spoke, and then two ding-dong sounds attracted everyone's attention.

Gu Jiu picked up the round coin that had rolled to his feet, saw the portrait on it, raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Brother, you are lucky. You can find silver dollars even when cleaning the cupboard."

"Is it really a silver dollar?" Lin Guang picked up another one in disbelief and found it was a real Yuan Datou. He said excitedly: "Brother, it is real. Can you see if there is any more in the cabinet?"

Lin Wei hurriedly poured out everything in the cupboard, and actually found two and a dozen copper coins.

"Hey, I can find silver dollars when cleaning up the clutter. I've never seen such a thing before." Lin Wei looked at the clutter piled on the ground excitedly. "It seems that we need to clean up these clutters carefully. Maybe we can find unexpected wealth in some old pocket or box."

"Ha, I found this in the pocket of this old clothes. This should be some kind of proof and it looks extraordinary. Brother-in-law, can you see what's written here?" Lin Guang excitedly held up two yellowed pieces of paper and handed them to Gu Jiu.

His call attracted everyone's attention.

Lin Shu walked up to Gu Jiu and asked, "What is it?"

Gu Jiu looked at it over and over again, and couldn't help laughing: "This is just a pawn ticket from an old pawn shop. It's a few years old."

"Pawn ticket?"

Lin Shu became interested. She had only heard of this thing in legends, so she was curious about what was written on it.

Gu Jiu handed it to her.

Lin Shu took it and looked at it. It was all in traditional Chinese characters. No wonder his second brother didn't recognize the characters...

Uh, it seems like she doesn’t know him either.