Rebirth: 1977

The twins Ye Jin and Ye Yi, as well as the siblings Yun Feiyang and Yun Yueyue, all came to Jiangnan for the first time.

The temperature in Jiangnan in summer is several degrees higher than that in Beijing. Ye Jin and Ye Yi were sweating profusely while playing in the yard.

Feiyang and Yueyue picked a lotus flower for each of them, and the buds were just beginning to bloom.

Ye Tianshui took Zi Lan around and said, "Before you came here you were only in the front room and yard.

You haven't seen the rooms at the back.

You see, there were three rooms decorated at that time, one for Grandma Pan, one for Grandma Ding, and... my eldest sister, each of them had a room.

The kitchen, dining room, and bathroom, with a few empty rooms next to them for storing sundries.”

He walked to the back door and saw that it was bolted. He immediately unbolted it, opened the door and pointed to the alley outside:

“There is a street right outside here, with a vegetable market, supply and marketing cooperative, post office, bookstore, snack bars and restaurants on both sides of the street, making shopping very convenient.

So, the front door will only open when I go home.”

Zi Lan looked around, closed the back door, and pulled Ye Tianshui under the shade of the pine and cypress trees. Pointing at the lotus pond, he asked in a low and careful voice:

"That's where those things were dug out?"

She had practiced with Ye Tianshui and Xiao Zhan in this yard before, and she remembered clearly what this place was like.

That night, Tianshui took Zilan into the cellar of Lan Garden. She was dumbfounded when she saw the dazzling array of gold, silver, jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings in the open boxes.

If it were another woman, it would be difficult to accept that kind of shock for a while.

Or after knowing this, they may rely on these enormous wealth and become forgetful of everything else.

But Zi Lan is not an ordinary woman. Ye Tianshui dares to tell her without reservation, which shows that he has complete trust in her.

It was at that time that Ye Tianshui told her heartfeltly about the treasure that had been dug up from under Grandma Ding's house in Xiaolou Lane.

Ye Tianshui never wanted to hide it from Zi Lan. The question that troubled him was how did Zang Bao discover those things himself?

What kind of explanation would make Zi Lan accept and believe it?

Mr. Ye only said that there was such a thing, but how did he find out? He didn't say, and Ye Tingfeng didn't ask to get to the bottom of it.

He had to admire the boss's level of thinking.

But Zi Lan is his lover, his wife, and his bedmate. Women’s minds are much more delicate.

There has to be a plausible reason to explain all this.

It just so happened that, taking advantage of the opportunity of transporting the coffin to the capital, Ye Tianshui had a natural reason to tell Zi Lan.

“When I was digging the foundation for building a house in my hometown, I found that there was a cellar under my grandmother’s old house.

When we went down, we found four brand new nanmu coffins inside. We didn't know what was hidden inside, and it was not convenient to check at that time.

But I guess, since it is hidden so well, there must be something valuable inside.

Besides, the four brand new nanmu coffins themselves are worth a lot of money.

It was Brother Xiao and a few others who helped me borrow a tractor to transport the coffin to my home in Xiaolou Lane.

At that time, the two grandmothers and my eldest sister lived in the backyard. It was fine to keep the coffin in my room for a day or two, but I had already been admitted to university and had to leave Pingcheng.

So I thought I must dig a cellar to hide it.

When Brother Xiao was helping me dig a cellar in my room, we discovered that there was actually a cellar under the Ding family’s house.

It is much larger than the cellar of the old house in Panjiawan.

When I first started buying houses in Beijing - the predecessor of our Lanyuan, the royal mansion, the rich family's houses in Shichahai, and those courtyard houses, I used the money I earned from exchanging the contents of the coffin in Grandma Pan's old house.

You know Sang Nianzhong, who helps us manage the jade mine, is Director Sang’s nephew. At that time, he returned to the capital due to illness after being sent to the countryside to work, but his household registration remained in the countryside and he could not be assigned a job.

His health was not suitable for working in a factory at that time, so he secretly bought gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and then sold them through channels, making a profit from the difference.

I found him and did a few deals with him. It was a very risky business at that time.

After several contacts, I feel that he is a good person, honest and decisive in doing business, and has a keen eye.

He wanted to start a jade mining business, but he had no capital, so I partnered with him.

Those capitals were obtained by exchanging the things in the coffin.

What was dug out from under Xiaolou Lane must have been passed down from Grandma Ding’s ancestors.

Grandma Ding’s husband once called him Ding Bancheng, but unfortunately he did not survive.

After these things were transported from Pingcheng, they were all piled here and have never been moved.

Apart from the few paintings and calligraphy that my father donated at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Museum, which I also donated, which were taken from a box underground in Xiaolou Lane, I have not touched the others.

Zilan, I have told my dad that we have enough money now, so these treasures should be put aside for the time being.

The ancestors of the Ding family sealed this very well, so we don't need to take the trouble to maintain it if it's not opened.

We will clean the things inside in detail when we have time.

I have told my father about this idea. If our country encounters a natural disaster as big as the one in Tangshan again, we can use some of these things to participate in disaster relief, donate money and materials, and help with post-disaster reconstruction.

There is another part. I am planning to set up a charitable foundation, but the timing is not right right now.

In addition, I promised my father that if he needs military expenses one day, we can provide part of the funding within our means.

Anyway, I have no intention of using these treasures in our family life.

Zi Lan, I'm sorry, I made this decision without discussing it with you in advance, because I thought you would support me."

That day, after the couple came out of the cellar, they stayed in the room for half a day.

Everything Ye Tianshui said was true, except that he actually had 'precognition' but changed it to 'accidental discovery'. Those were lies he had to tell, and everything else was true.

The secret that he is a reborn person is something that Ye Tianshui will never reveal, even if Zi Lan and he have a good relationship.

Rebirth is a secret he can't tell anyone.

Xia Zilan had long known that Ye Tianshui had a secret, but she didn't know it was such a big secret.

What she didn't expect was that there was a mountain of gold and silver hidden under the ground of Lanyuan!

So, when Xia Zilan stepped into the house in Xiaolou Lane, she immediately discovered that the positions of the two pine and cypress trees had changed.

She walked around the lotus pond several times, her eyes sparkling.

She wanted to ask something, but there were always people around her. Now that she had finally gotten away from others and the child was taking a bath, she couldn't help but ask.

Ye Tianshui laughed softly: "Yes, in fact, this cellar does have an exit, but time was tight and we didn't have enough time to look for it.

So they had to find a spot, use a cutting machine to cut the stone slabs covering the cellar, and then lower people down to carry the things up.

Hehe, I talked to you so much since we entered the house, but your attention is only focused here?

You don’t know, we were pretty lucky and got it done in two days.”

If you analyze Ye Tianshui's words carefully, there is actually a loophole that he himself has not discovered.

At that time, he told Zi Lan that when he was digging a cellar to hide the coffin, he discovered the treasure hidden under the Ding family's ground.

But when he told Xia Zilan now, he said "there is no time to find a way out"!

Contradictory!

Fortunately, this happened a long time ago, and Zi Lan had digested most of what he said to her last time, and she didn't think about the details carefully.

The incident itself had shocked her.

Therefore, Zi Lan didn't even notice what Ye Tianshui had let slip.

"Fortunately, Dad believes in you and fully supports you. Otherwise, it would be very difficult to transport all these things to the capital."

Zi Lan couldn't help but sigh.

Ye Tianshui was also very grateful for the old man's trust and support. Although he had a way to get the matter done without his help, it would still involve a lot more trouble.

"Yes, Dad not only trusts me, he doesn't even question me at all."

In fact, he was also grateful for Zi Lan's almost unlimited trust in him.

They have lived together for so long, and there are so many inexplicable things that have been revealed about him inadvertently. Could it be that Zi Lan didn't notice anything at all?

My own 'unusual' behaviors? !

But she never showed any doubt about him.