Walking with the Villain, Lou Xiao'e's Alternative Love

time flies.

Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e were working intensively while renovating the house they had bought.

In the office, Zhu Zirui said with a playful smile: "Sister E, how about the craftsman I introduced to you?"

"Not bad, as expected of a 'know-it-all' like you who recommended it. The workmanship is meticulous and the efficiency is high. The yard was repaired much faster than we expected."

Lou Xiao'e responded with a smile, her eyes showing recognition for Zhu Zirui.

She looked out the window. The sun was shining brightly and her thoughts drifted uncontrollably into the distance.

That was two days after I received the letter from Xiao Sanzi.

After discussing with Xu Damao, Lou Xiao'e still felt that they should ask Uncle Zhao to help take a look at the condition of the new house.

In their reply, they wrote down every detail from Xu Damao's first accidental intrusion to Lou Xiao'e's guess, including her and Xu Damao's birthdays.

They wanted to ask Uncle Zhao if there were any taboos in blocking the moon gate and raising the courtyard wall?

When is the right time to check, start construction, and move?

In addition, one thousand dollars in cash was sent along with the letter.

Fearing any accidents might happen along the way, they sent the letter directly to Sister Zhao, asking her to take the letter to Uncle Zhao in person when she returned home.

Mailed on January 1962, 1

I didn't receive a reply until March 3th.

The signature on the envelope is Sister Zhao.

The general content of the letter was, "On the fifth day of the second lunar month, check at noon (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.).

On the eighth day of the second month, construction began at Mao time (5 to 7 a.m.).

Move on April 9th, at Si time (11 to am).

About ten meters away from the main house, under the oldest jujube tree in the backyard, there are things that can be found.

There is no problem with blocking the moon gate and raising the courtyard wall.

There is nothing wrong with the house as a whole, but it has been a little unpleasant for many years. I will give you a Bagua mirror to hang above the door of the main house."

After receiving the letter, Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e couldn't help but suspect that Uncle Zhao had calculated the time well!

The couple were full of admiration.

At 3 a.m. on March 10, which was the fifth day of the second lunar month, Lou Xiao'e and Xu Damao took their tools and opened the house that belonged to them in broad daylight.

The first impression you get when you enter the yard is desolation.

The towering trees beside the courtyard wall have not yet sprouted new buds, and the withered yellow weeds growing in the cracks between the stone slabs are entangled and independent.

Next to the old well in the yard, the wooden windlass looks shaky due to years of disrepair, and a few yellow leaves are entangled on the rope, as if whispering about the prosperity of the past and the loneliness of today.

The originally quaint house has long since become mottled with window frames and peeling paint, revealing the wooden base.

The door hinges creaked as it opened.

According to Uncle Zhao, there is a two-room house ten meters away from the main landlord. Although it is called two rooms, it is actually separated by a wooden partition in the middle.

There was nothing else in the room except spider webs of various sizes and thick dust.

So the question is, where is the warehouse? That is, where is the "treasure" hidden?

The two searched the entire house inside and out, and checked the partitions from top to bottom, touching and knocking, but they didn't find anything suspicious.

"Is there a basement? Where is the entrance?" Lou Xiao'e suddenly thought of something, "Bluestone floor tiles?"

Her eyes suddenly lit up, and she squatted down, looking carefully at the blue brick floor under her feet.

Although these floor tiles are covered with dust, each one looks unusually neat, and it is obvious that they have been carefully selected and laid.

Her fingers gently slid across the gaps in the blue bricks, and an inexplicable premonition welled up in her heart. Perhaps there were unknown secrets hidden beneath these seemingly ordinary blue bricks.

"Da Mao, look at these blue bricks." Lou Xiao'e lowered her voice and motioned Xu Damao to squat down and observe.

"The whole brick has an area of ​​about 600 centimeters, and they are arranged neatly. The texture and color of each brick are almost the same. This is unusual. Do you think there will be something underneath..."

Upon hearing this, Xu Damao immediately understood what Lou Xiaoe meant.

He stood up, looked around, and after confirming that there were no other abnormalities, he squatted down and carefully studied the blue bricks with Lou Xiao'e.

He reached out and gently knocked on one of the bricks, then another...

Lou Xiao'e also knocked along with him.

Until Xu Damao knocked on a piece of wall near the corner, "Wife, you try it."

Lou Xiao'e didn't even bother to stand up and almost crawled over.

She tapped it twice with her fingers, and twice more, confirming the dullness and hollowness of the sound, completely different from the echoes of the other blue bricks around it.

"There is a way!" Xu Damao's eyes lit up, and he pointed at the blue brick, "This might be the entrance to the basement."

The two looked at each other, their hearts filled with anticipation and nervousness.

They cleaned off the dust and cobwebs around the brick, and then tried to push the brick to one side, using all their strength, but it didn't move at all.

Lou Xiao'e took out the chisel and carving knife that she had used to open the secret compartment of the dressing table last time from the bamboo basket and handed them to Xu Damao.

Xu Damao took the carving knife and imitated him, scratching the edges of the blue brick.

And these blue bricks seemed to be deliberately reinforced, and it was not easy to scratch them.

After rowing several circles, it showed no sign of loosening, but Xu Damao was already sweating on his forehead.

Lou Xiao'e wiped Xu Damao's sweat with a handkerchief and said, "Thank you for your hard work, my husband. I will make you some bone soup tonight."

"Wife, if you really care about me, just kiss me and give me some strength."

"Xu Damao, you are never serious." Lou Xiao'e said as she took two steps back.

Xu Damao smiled and said, "I'll tell you more about it in the evening."

As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of being missed.

Although the term is not used properly, this is the situation.

After a lot of scratching and lifting, I finally got the floor tile off.

A dark entrance was revealed.

The two men's heartbeats quickened, as if they had already seen the precious treasures in the warehouse.

Xu Damao took out a flashlight from the bamboo basket, first looked into the cave, and after confirming that there was no danger, he slowly climbed down the ladder.

After landing, he confirmed again that there was no danger before signaling Lou Xiao'e to come down.

He held the ladder tightly, fearing that his wife would fall down accidentally.

As the two landed safely, an underground space as big as half a room appeared before them.

The place is almost filled with boxes and cages, which are filled with various kinds of jewelry, jade ornaments, gold and silver ingots, precious medicinal materials, and two large boxes of large and small yellow croakers.

Each one amazed Xu Damao and Lou Xiaoe.

After calming down her excited "guilty heart", the next step became easy. Lou Xiao'e waved her hand and emptied the warehouse without taking away a speck of dust.

The tiles were first glued on, and then all traces were carefully covered with dust.

The two stood at the door, watching the fairly perfect restoration, and turned to the backyard to look for their next target, "the jujube tree."