While he was wondering, Lu Qingman came out of the bedroom with a smile. She looked at him and said, "Dad has been waiting for you for a long time. Hurry up and go." Li Ruiqi said, "Where are you going? Hurry up and go? What happened? "Lu Qingman smiled and said," Go back to your hometown and divide the treasures. " Li Rui frowned. He couldn't believe her words. First of all, she said it with a smile as if she was joking. Second of all, how could there be any treasures in his hometown? He knew his family well. Not to mention that his family didn't have a house or land in his hometown. Even if they had both, the Li Clan was a poor farmer for three generations. How could there be any treasures? He smiled and said, "Stop fooling around. Let's be serious. What happened?"
Li Jianmin interrupted and said, "Qingman is right. We are going back to our hometown to divide the treasures. Hurry up and go. I'll tell you on the way."
Li Rui saw his serious face and knew that it was true. But he couldn't believe it. How could there be any treasures in his hometown? Even if there were, when Grandpa and Grandma passed away, they would have been given to Dad and his brothers and sisters. How could these uncles and aunts wait until now to give it to them? But he didn't ask any more questions. He put the briefcase on the shoe cabinet inside the door and went into the bedroom to find the key to the BMW X5. He put both his personal and private mobile phones into his pocket and told Lu Qingman to go to bed first. Then he went downstairs to the garage to drive the car.
Li Jianmin hurriedly followed behind him. His expression was solemn, but there was also a hint of anxiety.
After driving out of the neighborhood, Li Rui couldn't help but ask, "Dad, what treasures are they? Is it our family's or our family's? " Li Jianmin said, "You could say that it's our family's, but now it's not. Maybe it's our family's, but maybe it's not …" As he spoke, his face became confused again. Li Rui cursed inwardly, thinking that what his father said was the same as not saying anything at all. He asked, "What exactly is it?" Li Jianmin said, "Silver ingots and gold bars." Li Rui was shocked, he turned his head to look at him and asked, "Really?" Li Jianmin said, "I haven't seen it either, but since your Second Brother Fu Cai said so, then it must be true." Li Rui began to get excited, he asked, "Where did it come from?" Li Jianmin said, "We dug it out from the foundation." Li Rui cried out involuntarily, "It can't be?"
Li Jianmin didn't wait for him to ask any more questions and told him the whole story in detail.
The story started from Li Jianmin's old residence. Li Jianmin had three older brothers, they were Li Rui's First Uncle, Second Uncle, and Third Uncle. After the three brothers got married, they all separated from the family. Li Jianmin was the youngest, according to the tradition of the village, he was to inherit the ancestral residence. In fact, when Li Rui's grandfather was still alive, he gave the ancestral residence, which was the Li family's old residence, to Li Jianmin. Of course, although it was called the ancestral residence, it didn't have any of the grandeur of an ancestral residence. It was just a dilapidated small courtyard surrounded by mud walls. There were two rooms in the north and one in the east, a total of three rooms made of mud. The total area was about two hundred square meters. In the village, this kind of courtyard was very small. Li Jianmin married his wife in this dilapidated courtyard. Li Rui was naturally born in this courtyard and grew up until he was six years old. At that time, Li Jianmin's grandfather had already passed away for nearly ten years.
When Li Rui was six years old, Li Jianmin moved his family to the city to make a living. He shed his identity as a farmer and became a relatively popular worker in the 1980s. Since he was no longer a farmer, Li Jianmin's farmland was taken back by the village and the old residence was abandoned because no one lived in it. Two years passed like this. Li Jianmin's eldest son, Li Fugui, went to Li Jianmin's uncle and proposed to buy the old residence for three hundred yuan. Li Jianmin didn't think much and agreed. Thus, the old residence changed owners and became Li Fugui's residence. In the blink of an eye, more than twenty years had passed.
Li Fugui wasn't very promising. Although he was about the same age as his uncle, Li Jianmin, he had been a farmer all his life. His children were farmers who faced the earth and the sky. His family worked hard for most of their lives and only supported two generations of children. They didn't save much money and didn't have the money to repair the old residence. The old residence was already dilapidated. After more than twenty years of ups and downs, the roof was leaking and the courtyard walls had collapsed. It was on the verge of collapse and was no longer suitable for people to live in. If they wanted to live in it, they had to tear it down and rebuild it. Li Fugui had no choice but to borrow a few thousand yuan from his parents, brothers, relatives and friends. He hired a few bricklayers from the village. Together with himself and his two sons, they formed a small construction team and began to tear down the old residence and build a new one. They planned to tear down the old residence and build a new one. This happened two days ago.
For the past two days, the construction team had been tearing down the north house of the old residence. Because the courtyard was small and compact, they couldn't use large dismantling machines. Everything had to be done manually. Therefore, the work wasn't fast. It took six to seven people two days and two nights to completely tear down the house. After the house was torn down, they dug the foundation and built a sturdier and more durable foundation. Before lunch today, they had already dug a hole that was more than a meter deep and about the same area as the north house. They started digging again in the afternoon and deepened it by about a foot. But when they were digging in the northwest corner of the tunnel, one of the bricklayers used a pickaxe and hit something that looked like a clay pot. He didn't know what he had hit, so he put down the pickaxe and carefully used his hands to dig up the soil around the clay pot. As a result, he dug out a clay pot that was about a foot and a half high and half a foot wide. The clay pot was very sturdy and because of its depth, it wasn't broken by the pickaxe. It only cracked open and a deep crack appeared on the surface.
When the group of bricklayers saw this, they dug out a jar and gathered around to watch.
Li Fugui walked closer and hugged the clay pot. It was very heavy and he almost couldn't lift it. His two sons also tried one after another, but they couldn't lift it. The three of them were farmers. They didn't have much talent, but they had some strength. They could easily lift a hundred pounds of flour, but they couldn't lift this clay pot. One could only imagine how heavy the contents of the clay pot were.
When the bricklayers saw that the clay pot was so heavy and buried deep under the old house, they all superstitiously believed that it was either gold or silver. Perhaps it wasn't accurate to say that they were superstitious. To be precise, it was a superstitious rumor from the old generation. According to the old generation, the landlords liked to bury the gold, silver, and treasures that they didn't use. First, they used the treasures to gather feng shui. Second, they didn't want to be stolen. Third … maybe it was a personal hobby of these old rich people. They didn't want to show off their wealth. Fourth, sometimes it was to avoid disaster, such as war or bandits. If they ran away with a large amount of gold, silver, and jewelry, they wouldn't be able to run away and it wouldn't be safe. But if they buried it underground, it would be less of a burden and no one would be able to take it away. When the war was over or the bandits returned to the mountains, they could go home and dig it out.
Moreover, the Chinese had a tradition of burying gold, silver, and treasures. It could be said that in the old society or even earlier times, burying gold, silver, and treasures underground was the best way to preserve them. Moreover, this concept was deeply ingrained and everyone knew. Therefore, these bricklayers, including Li Fugui, who had lived in the countryside since childhood and hadn't seen much of the world, thought that the contents of the clay pot were either gold or silver. It was a reasonable thing.
However, Li Fugui was a little smart. He didn't open the clay pot on the spot. Instead, he moved the clay pot to the east wing with his two sons. He was afraid that if the clay pot really contained gold, silver, and jewelry, it would be remembered by the other four bricklayers. They might even want to share a part of it. That wouldn't be fun. Moreover, it might spread outside. If the whole village knew about it, it would cause a lot of trouble.
After putting the clay pot away, Li Fugui asked his two sons to guard the door of the east wing. He then told the four bricklayers that the clay pot was left behind by the Li family's ancestor and that it wasn't valuable. Therefore, he told the four bricklayers not to think about it. The four bricklayers were honest people. When they heard what he said, they believed him. They didn't care about the "treasure" in the clay pot and continued to work. They worked until the evening. As usual, Li Fugui provided meals for the four craftsmen. After treating them to a full meal, he drove them back home. Only Li Fugui's family was left in the old house. The three bricklayers gathered in the east wing and tried to open the clay pot to see what was inside that was so heavy.
In the end, Li Fugui's eldest son knocked on the top half of the clay pot and broke it. The clay pot shattered and a few silver ingots rolled out from within. They were shining white and dazzling under the illumination of the lantern light. Li Fugui and his family were all dumbfounded. Each and every one of them was pleasantly surprised, dumbfounded. Li Fugui's eldest son smashed the bottom half of the clay pot with a few more picks. They saw that the bottom half was also filled with silver ingots. However, at the bottom, there were two layers of glistening yellow "little goldfish". Li Fugui took a look at them. They were actually gold bars. If he bit them with his teeth, he would leave teeth marks. This made Li Fugui's family very happy. They were so happy that snot bubbles came out of their noses. They began to look forward to the beautiful life of getting rich overnight.
However, the Li family was happy too early. They had just discovered the existence of the silver ingots and gold bars. Before they could put them away, a large group of people rushed into the courtyard. There were a few fierce people in the village, as well as the cadres of the two village committees. There were also people from the nearby neighborhood. It turned out that although the four bricklayers were honest people, they were all blabbermouths. When they returned home, they told the story of the clay pot being dug out from under the Li family's old house. This news spread like wildfire and soon spread throughout the entire village. It also alarmed these people. These people rushed into the courtyard like a swarm of crows and surrounded the east wing as soon as they came in. Li Fugui asked them what they wanted. These people were very straightforward and didn't beat around the bush. They all said on the spot that they wanted a share of the treasure in the clay pot. They all had their own reasons.
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