Siheyuan: After traveling through time, who can still be an honest person?

There is also a small box in the secret room, which contains the valuables stored by the ticket scalpers.

Some gold and silver jewelry and dollars, as well as five or six thousand yuan in cash and an account book.

There are also several antiques on the shelves.

Cao Yue first put all the boxes and bookshelves into the space.

Then, with a thought, a large hole about five or six meters deep suddenly appeared in front of his feet.

A look of surprise appeared on Cao Yue's face.

The bottom of the secret room was actually hollow.

There is actually a larger secret room underground.

Under the light, Cao Yue bent down, covered his mouth and nose and looked inside, then shone the flashlight and found that the secret room extended over a large area and should occupy the entire underground space of the main house.

The top of the secret room is more than three meters deep from the ground, but the ticket scalpers only dug two meters below the ground. Unfortunately, they failed at the last minute.

Cao Yue did not rush down to investigate. Instead, he found a candle and tied it to a long bamboo pole. After lighting the candle with a match, he extended the bamboo pole under the secret room.

After a while, he carefully withdrew the bamboo pole, and seeing that the candle was not extinguished, he jumped down into the secret room with confidence.

Cao Yue shone the flashlight around. The secret room was filled with things, and there were copper oil lamps more than one meter high every few meters.

After all the oil lamps were lit, the secret room became bright.

Cao Yue looked around and found that the secret room was divided into two parts.

There were more than a dozen large boxes in one part, and there were three wooden shelves against the wall, which were filled with various porcelains, and there were also some on the ground.

The other part was on the south wall, where five or six rifles, two submachine guns, and a Czech light machine gun were placed.

Rifles and submachine guns that often appear in film and television dramas are the M1 carbine and Thompson submachine gun.

There were more than two dozen long wooden boxes containing ammunition on the ground.

Cao Yue swallowed his saliva. Damn, there was actually a small ammunition depot here.

With excitement, Cao Yue picked up a Thompson submachine gun, which was covered with dust and seemed to have not been maintained for a long time.

Cao Yue opened a wooden box which was wrapped in oilcloth. When he removed the oilcloth, he found ten Thompson submachine guns inside.

Opening another wooden box, this time contained ten M1 carbines.

After opening the long wooden boxes one by one, they were all counted.

There were a total of twenty Thompson submachine guns, twenty M1 carbines, ten M1903 rifles, two Czech light machine guns, two Browning M1919 machine guns, thirty Colt 1911 pistols, ten Browning M1935 pistols, and two bazookas.

In addition, there were 200 pineapple bombs, more than 200,000 bullets of various types, ten rockets, etc.

Moreover, the guns and ammunition in the wooden box were wrapped in oil paper, so they all looked brand new.

These weapons can arm an entire company.

From this we can see that the identity of the ticket scalpers’ master is by no means simple.

but.

Judging from the expressions of the ticket scalper and others, they probably didn't know that there were so many arms in the secret vault.

They probably don't know the master's true identity either.

Cao Yue looked around at the ground. It was covered with dust and there was no sign of anyone walking there. It must have been a while since anyone had been there.

At this time, Cao Yue found a step in the southwest corner of the wall.

When I walked over and took a look, I saw that the stairs led straight up, but they were blocked with mud halfway.

Judging from the position, the one above should be the master bedroom.

"It turns out that the entrance to the secret vault is in the master bedroom." Cao Yue said to himself.

Before coming to the study just now, Cao Yue took a look at the master bedroom, which was the focus of the search by ticket scalpers and others, and it was also dug into a mess.

No wonder the ticket scalpers couldn’t dig into the secret vault, it turned out that the entrance had been blocked by their master a long time ago.

Cao Yue looked again, but did not find anything that indicated the old thief had stolen his identity.

It looks like it was either destroyed or hidden somewhere else.

After all, the cunning rabbit has three holes.

Looking at the watch, it's already six o'clock and dawn will be in less than an hour.

Cao Yue quickly began to put the things in the secret vault into the space.

First, they collected all the guns and ammunition in the south, then went to the north and opened a large wooden box. There was a layer of red silk on the top, which revealed the gold bars inside.

Cao Yue swallowed and quickly turned it over again. Inside the red silk were gold bars.

He opened another box, and found gold bars wrapped in red silk.

These gold bars are slightly darker in color and have the reign title of Tongzhi engraved on them, so they must have been cast during the Tongzhi period.

The next box was full of dusty jewels.

Cao Yue opened another slightly smaller box.

This box looks relatively new.

When they opened it, they saw gold bars wrapped in yellow silk.

Pick up one and take a closer look. On the left side of the front is the mark of "China Mint", and on the right side are clearly engraved information such as number, weight, purity, etc.

This is a big goldfish weighing fifty taels!

All together there are more than a hundred gold bars.

Cao Yue estimated that the first two boxes of gold bars should have been hidden by the original owner, and the later ones were stored by the ticket scalper.

He opened the door and glanced at the other boxes. They were full of silver ingots, porcelain, jade, treasures, calligraphy and paintings, etc., which dazzled the eyes.

Cao Yue took away all the big boxes and three shelves one after another, and then went to pick up the porcelain scattered on the ground.

"Ding dong!"

"Five-color flower-and-bird flat vase, made in the official kiln during the Xuande period."

"Ding dong!"

“Blue and white plum-patterned vase, made in the imperial kiln during the Yongzheng period.”

"Ding dong!"

“Azure-glazed sunflower-shaped brush washer, made during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty.”

……

Cao Yue was stunned.

Any few pieces of porcelain are actually ancient treasures.

This must be the secret vault of some high-ranking official in ancient times.

This reminded Cao Yue of the treasury of the world's richest man and his baby in the 18th century.

The treasure hidden there was not discovered until more than forty years later.

The things here are just a drop in the bucket compared to that person’s vault.

"Why don't we go to the palace again when we have time..."

Cao Yue suppressed the greed in his heart. Now was not the time to think about these things. He hurried to take away the remaining mahogany furniture.

In the end, even the copper oil lamp was not spared.

Until the entire vault was empty.

Cao Yue turned around and found nothing missing, so he returned to the ground and poured the soil in the space back into the cave entrance.

However, because of a large hole, all the soil poured into the secret vault below.

Cao Yue didn't care about all this. After he jumped out of the courtyard, it was already dawn.

……

Cao Yue ran back to Courtyard No. 95 with a smile on his face, and he even felt much more favorable to Yan Laokou when he saw him.

"Morning, Uncle."

"Chief Cao, he went running again."

Yan Bugui gave a thumbs up and said, "You are so determined. You get up early every day to exercise, while my three kids are still sleeping in."

But in my heart I cursed Cao Yue for having nothing better to do.

Running helps digest food faster, so you eat more afterwards.

If the three brothers Yan Jiecheng, Yan Jiefang and Yan Jiekuang dared to do this, the third uncle would have cursed them long ago.

This stingy old man would rather eat without defecating, so that food will never be wasted.

Cao Yue smiled and said, "I understand. Young people sleep more."

After a few pleasantries, Cao Yue left quickly.

Yan Bugui looked back at Cao Yue entering the middle courtyard and muttered, "You seem not to be a young man anymore, you look old-fashioned. Even your tone of voice is different now that you are an official."

……

When Cao Yue returned home, he immediately closed the door, then took out all the cash and tickets and counted them.

All together it was more than 8,000 yuan, and there were hundreds of tickets.

This was obtained by looting part of the money and tickets from four ticket scalpers, and the other part from the secret room in the courtyard.

The four ticket scalpers have all started their own families and businesses, and the cash left by their master had long been divided among them and taken home.

Otherwise you can get more money.

However, Cao Yue did not plan to go to their house to plunder again, so he decided to quit while he was ahead.