Chapter 747: Something Is Happening in the Neighborhood Committee

If the rat hole hadn't backfired, Du Fei wouldn't have paid much attention to the terrain here.

But now that he knew that the tunnel led to this place, this large pit under the water looked particularly abrupt.

Du Fei didn't hesitate and immediately let Xiaobai swim over and use his claws to dig away the silt on the surface.

The silt under the water was like boiled rice soup.

Xiaobai rushed in and dug with all four claws.

The originally clear water around him suddenly became turbid mud soup, submerging Xiaobai's figure.

Xiaobai didn't care and dug up nearly half a meter of silt before finally hitting something hard.

After two more flutters, he used the water flow to completely wash away the silt in front, revealing the granite texture.

"Found it!"

Du Fei shouted excitedly.

After another ten minutes, Xiaobai cleaned up a larger area.

Some general outlines could already be seen.

This turned out to be an arched water outlet, nearly four meters high from top to bottom and more than one meter wide from left to right.

There is also a sluice gate at the entrance.

There are square iron railings on the gate, but because it has been underwater for many years, it has been rusted.

Just now, when Xiaobai was digging the mud, he accidentally touched it and broke several bars directly.

The iron core can no longer be seen at the broken end, all of which are fluffy and fragile rust.

Du Fei couldn't wait and immediately let Xiaobai go in through the hole to see what was going on.

He was even more confused in his heart, what exactly is this hole used for?

As Xiaobai went in through the hole, he didn't swim far inside, and this question was answered.

After leaving the scope of the hole, the water flow in the hole was almost still, and it was obviously clearer than outside.

Several horizontal marks can be clearly seen on the granite wall.

Du Fei has raised fish and often saw marks formed by moss and green algae near the waterline of the fish tank.

This made him suddenly realize!

The water level of Shichahai is not constant.

Especially during the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, the situation was turbulent and the government changed, so there was no money to maintain the water system of Shichahai.

At that time, there were even many rice-growing farmlands around Shichahai.

Originally, there was little water entering the upper reaches of Shichahai.

In order to irrigate farmland, more than half of the water was saved, causing the water level of Shichahai to drop rapidly.

It was not until after liberation that the situation was completely stabilized.

After large-scale dredging, Shichahai returned to its current water level.

Du Fei estimated that when this tunnel was built, the water level of Shichahai was lower.

According to the position of the waterline on the wall, a small part of the hole should be exposed outside.

At this time, Du Fei suddenly

remembered the small wooden boat upside down in Shichahai and the dead skeleton below.

If it was that kind of small wooden boat, it would be a bit cramped to enter and exit here, but it would definitely be passable.

Xiaobai continued to go in along the tunnel.

After about 20 to 30 meters, he finally climbed out of the water.

Du Fei adjusted his perspective and looked back at the dark water surface.

Because the water surface completely submerged the entrance of the tunnel, forming a closed space.

Du Fei did not let Xiao Bai go forward to explore immediately, but stayed for a while to adapt to the air here and see if he could breathe normally.

After a few minutes, Xiao Bai did not feel any discomfort, so Du Fei let him crawl inside.

It is estimated that there should be other ventilation holes in this underground palace.

Although Xiao Bai's body is heavy, it is not difficult to crawl after the transformation.

Moreover, the straight-line distance from Du Fei's compound to the shore of Shichahai is not far, only about five or six hundred meters in total.

Before, Xiao Hong and the others dug the hole for more than ten hours, but Xiao Bai only took more than ten minutes to walk back.

Finally, this underground building, which is more than 20 meters long and more than 10 meters wide, made of hard granite, appeared in front of Du Fei.

Du Fei's first impression was that it was empty inside.

Rather than calling it an underground palace, it is more appropriate to call it an underground warehouse.

At the entrance of the tunnel, there was a two-wheeled cart. Because of the darkness and dampness, the cart had rotted, and both wheels had fallen off, and it was tilted on the ground.

Next to the cart, there were several wooden boxes. I don’t know what was inside, but they were all locked and sealed.

Du Fei was a little curious and was about to ask Xiao Bai to go over and open the box to have a look.

But suddenly he saw a white foot bone sticking out next to the box!

Du Fei’s heart trembled.

As Xiao Bai walked forward a few steps, a completely skeletonized corpse was revealed.

The clothes of the corpse had long been rotten, leaving only a few pieces of black cloth, and a rusty revolver in his hand.

Du Fei couldn’t help but take a few more glances at the pistol.

He was only half a military fan, and he didn’t recognize the model and origin of this gun.

However, before liberation, those who could use revolvers must not be ordinary people.

I don’t know why he died here, and there was not even a body collector.

At this time, Xiao Bai had already reached the box.

The wood of these boxes is good, it should be camphor wood, which is more corrosion-resistant.

But after being placed in such a damp basement for decades, the wooden boards were rotten and collapsed immediately after being hit by Xiaobai.

With a splash, a large number of black coins poured out from inside.

Du Fei looked closely and found that they were all oxidized silver coins.

He immediately thought of Zai Zhenjian's tomb in Dayang Mountain.

I thought to myself, "Could it be that all the silver coins over there were shipped out box by box from here? In the end, due to some accident, the remaining ones were not shipped away."

I immediately counted nine boxes in total.

According to previous experience in Dayang Mountain, a box usually contains five thousand silver dollars.

It's not that the box can't fit in it, but it's too heavy to carry.

Generally, a silver dollar, regardless of variety, weighs more than 20 grams.

Ten thousand oceans is more than two hundred kilograms.

It weighs more than four hundred kilograms, and two ordinary laborers would definitely not be able to move it.

Five thousand oceans, more than two hundred kilograms, it is suitable whether it is carried manually or placed on a small boat.

To prevent his guessing from being wrong, Du Fei asked Xiao Bai to open several other boxes.

Without exception, all of them contained silver coins, including not only "Standing Man", but also "Yingyang", "Longyang" and "Ziyang"... The one with the most was Yuan Datou.

According to the number of boxes, these silver dollars should be between 40,000 and 50,000. According to the current exchange price at the bank, each one is about 2 yuan, or nearly 100,000 yuan.

Du Fei couldn't help but feel secretly happy.

Although he now has a fortune of hundreds of thousands, he is quite excited to increase it by one hundred thousand at a time.

In addition, if these silver coins are placed here, does it mean that this is where the treasures of Prince Qing's Mansion were stored?

Thinking of this, Du Fei's mood became even more agitated.

If those treasures from Prince Qing's Mansion can be found, their value must be much higher than the more than 10 million silver dollars in Dayangshan Tomb.

Ignoring the scattered ocean, Du Fei asked Xiaobai to walk to the other side of the warehouse.

The entire underground warehouse was empty, with two rows of thick pillars standing in the middle.

There are still several corpses scattered here and there.

On the opposite side, there was a large piece of canvas, bulging and covering something.

Du Fei couldn't help but feel worried.

It is really too damp here. If moisture-proofing is not done, except for precious metals such as gold and silver, all other cultural toys, calligraphy and paintings will be destroyed after being left there for so many years.

As Xiao Bai walked over, Du Fei saw a long wooden ladder standing next to a pillar.

Going up, there is a dark entrance.

According to the location here, it is probably where the pavilion in the back garden is located.

However, the wooden ladder, like the wooden boxes, was completely decayed.

It will fall off as soon as you touch it, so it will definitely be unusable.

Looking up, the top has also been covered with

Sealed.

On the wall behind the ladder is a tunnel entrance leading outside.

If you go west here, it will probably be connected to Prince Lao Qing's Mansion.

Du Fei thought about it and ordered Xiao Hong to come over.

Although the entrance here is underwater, it is definitely not possible for Xiaohong to go into the water to explore the way, but swimming in along the existing route is not a problem.

As for the ice surface on the water, it is not difficult to drill a hole with Xiaohong's ability.

Then, Du Fei's attention returned to the canvas.

Let Xiaobai go over and prepare to lift the canvas to see what is inside.

Although he felt that it was unlikely to be something particularly valuable, Du Fei still had some expectations in his heart.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door at his house.

Du Fei had no choice but to be patient and disconnect his vision synchronization.

I thought it was the pillar that had gone and returned, so I stood up impatiently and asked "Who?"

Unexpectedly, the person who answered was not Zhu Zhu, but Yu Xiaoli in the front yard.

Du Fei made a slight difference, walked over, opened the door, the impatience on his face disappeared, and he called "Sister Yu" with a smile.

Yu Li had been here several times, and her relationship with Yan Tiecheng had been having some problems recently, so she simply didn't care about this and walked in openly.

"Chief Du, there is something going on at the neighborhood committee!" Yu Xiaoli went straight to the topic as soon as she entered the room.

Du Fei's heart moved, and he estimated that it was almost done.

The neighborhood committee made a report and Section Chief Qian stamped it.

If Director Lian is so impatient, he will definitely not waste time.

However, if it was just to start building a house, Yu Xiaoli would not be in a hurry to come over.

Du Fei asked her to sit down, poured her a glass of water, and asked her to speak slowly.

Yu Xiaoli took the hot cup and without taking a sip, she hurriedly said, "Chief Du, a person came here during the day. I thought he seemed quite strange. He was holding a piece of gossip in his hand. He said something like this." Look, then look…”

"Gossip?"

Du Fei was stunned for a moment and then realized that it was probably a compass used to read Feng Shui.

Yu Xiaoli didn't recognize the compass, but she knew the gossip on it.

However, the neighborhood committee is only renovating the house, not choosing a location to build a new house, so what is the purpose of having a Feng Shui consultant?

Because the house needs to be renovated, the neighborhood committee has been in a mess these past two days. There are moves and construction, and there are too many people coming in and out.

The crow that Du Fei left there to stare at could not tell who had a problem and did not report the situation.

Yu Xiaoli continued, "By the way, I also heard that Director Lian called that person 'guru'..."

"Master?" Du Fei raised his eyebrows, Li Jiang actually went there in person!

End of this chapter