Rebirth 13, starting from the big demolition treasure hunt

After May Day, excavators have begun to demolish houses intermittently in the shantytowns that were once called "men's paradise" under the embankment of Yanjiang Avenue in the old city.

Although the houses in that area are not considered historical buildings, many shanty houses are built with ancient bricks picked up from other places.

If there are ancient bricks, there may be some with words or patterns.

When the excavator was being dismantled, he took his free time to search and found some text and pattern bricks.

Text tiles are basically guild hall tiles or academy tiles.

There are many patterned tiles, but most of them have simple geometric patterns.

He also found more than a dozen pieces of valuable ones, such as profile or front figures, beautiful flowers, etc., complete or incomplete.

While searching for these bricks, Hei Lei also called him and told him that a man had found some silver jewelry in a house that had been excavated by an excavator and asked him to buy it.

(In these demolished houses, steel bars or other steel pipes, residual wires and other metal items can occasionally be found on the roofs and walls.

People who engage in recycling will pick up some items when they go around the neighborhood and see things that can be sold in old demolished houses.

Although the scale and scope of the demolition area below the river embankment is not large, it is still a demolition area no matter what. )

The man who picked up the silver jewelry was a bachelor who rented a house nearby and was about fifty years old.

This person likes to play in teahouses when he has nothing to do, and occasionally goes to construction sites or demolition areas to pick up scrap items such as iron and sell them for money.

Having lived in this area for a long time, we often meet each other. Wu Yuansheng also knows him and hears others often call him Lao Wei.

The silver jewelry he picked up seemed to be quite a lot, weighing about three kilograms.

According to Hei Lei, he saw Master Wei picking up these things with his own eyes.

The items were packed in a small bag sewn from old canvas and tied to the wood of one of the rafters.

These silver jewelry include hairpins, bracelets, rings, longevity locks, earrings, etc.

When he saw them, he just smiled and said, "He who sees them is rewarded!" Lao Wei gave him a bracelet and a hairpin as "hush money."

(Based on Hei Lei's character, he is not greedy. He said he wanted to share it equally. If it were some other people, it might be an equal share, otherwise no one would want it.

And no matter who takes the thing, it is a person with interests and will not talk casually. )

While Master Wei asked Hei Lei not to tell others, he also asked him to find a familiar person to "deal with" it.

So he called Wu Yuansheng.

Lao Wei was also very careful about the things he picked up, fearing that the owner would come to find him.

However, there is no need to worry about this. The things were hidden on the wood on the roof and were not removed until the house was demolished. It is estimated that more than 90% of the people who hid the things have met the Buddha and gone to the Western Paradise.

In addition, no one stipulates that you cannot pick up things. Most people will sell the things they pick up to make a living.

There are more than 130 pieces of silver jewelry weighing about three kilograms.

The main reason is that there are a few large bracelets and hairpins inside, otherwise the number would be much larger.

Among these accessories, a small number of hairpins, rings, and earrings are inlaid with agate, jade, colored glaze and other items.

However, such small stones are not considered expensive gems and are not valuable.

The price they negotiated for packaging all the silver jewelry was 15000 yuan.

(Basically, the price is based on the gram. The current gram price of silver is about 4 yuan. Because it is an antique collectible, they charge 10 yuan per gram.

In fact, the price of many silver jewelry is not as valuable as silver dollars or silver ingots. If the workmanship is not good, it is not much more expensive than silver. )

Lao Wei sells these, and he basically knows the market.

When doing business, when others spend money to buy it, there must be a profit. This price is considered a moderate price.

After getting the money, Master Wei went to the teahouse to play cards.

As a single person, this money is probably enough for him to live freely for a year and a half.

The bracelets and hairpins that Master Wei gave to Hei Lei were both large, and they were considered two of the largest items in this batch of "goods."

The hairpin is a long, flat, double-pointed hairpin decorated with floral longevity characters. It is about 10 centimeters long and weighs about 20 grams.

The silver bracelet is twist-shaped, relatively thick, and weighs about 85 grams.

These two pieces of silver jewelry, as well as others, are from the Qing Dynasty.

Hei Lei didn't keep them either, and sold them to him as well.

For two items, Wu Yuansheng gave him 1500 yuan.

This is basically an unprofitable price.

He has introduced many businesses to him, and it was the same this time.

(I originally offered him hard-earned money, but he didn’t want it. He could only make some compensation from the purchased items.)

After buying the things and asking where they were found, Wu Yuansheng put on the metal detector and went to the house to scan it again.

There was also something gained during this period. When he scanned a beam of wood, he found that the signal at one location on the wood was very strong.

After careful inspection, there were obvious signs of digging.

Seeing this, he could guess that there must be something valuable hidden inside.

Wu Yuansheng took the small piece of wood away directly.

He found a place with no other people, determined the signal location, and after using a small foreign pickaxe to pry it open, he found 20 Yuan Datou in this location.

In addition to the ordinary three-year-old silver coins, there are also eight-year-old and nine-year-old silver coins, which are no less valuable than those silver jewelry.

He wasn't surprised that there were silver dollars hidden in the wood. After all, anything could be hidden anywhere.

After sweeping through other demolished houses under the river embankment, he found some copper coins, a few silver dollars, a small amount of silver jewelry and other items.

Among the copper coins, there is a large coin "Xianfeng Yuanbao worth a hundred".

(They were all secretly hidden by some people in the past, either because they are no longer there, or because too much time has passed and they have been forgotten.)

Just like the previous construction of the Yanjiang Avenue, after the bricks and slag of the demolished houses in the shanty towns here were dug out, some colleagues would also dig out coins, ceramic tiles and other valuable items at the foot of the walls.

Everyone knows that under the river embankment, the area where the "business girls" used to do business is the old wharf. After the floods, there must be a lot of good things lost or buried underground.

It's a pity that the soil here is a mixed soil layer that has been disturbed. There are some coins or other items in it, but they are not very valuable.

Even if there was something better, it would probably be at least three meters below.

Unlike building roads and building houses above, this is greening, and it is impossible for an excavator to dig deep.

If there is not enough soil, some soil layers will be transferred from other places to pad the surface.

Wu Yuansheng had time to dig with others in some houses that looked like they could be sold.

But compared with the real historical buildings and old houses above that have not been touched, they are still far behind.

He didn't find anything particularly good here.

Maybe it’s not digging deep enough!

(I have something to do this weekend. I am very busy during the day and have no time to type. I came back to catch up on the chapters in the evening and updated them a bit late.)