Rebirth of the Legend of the Red Age

Chapter 26: The concierge's surprise, a second bargain
After feeling Lai San's sincere gratitude to the Wang family, Wang Li's parents decided to clean up the 20-square-meter gatehouse, so that if he and his sister were busy, they would not have to go home, and it would be Lai San's temporary residence. After all, Lai San's younger sister was still too young, and it was not convenient to go home too late at night because she would get sick easily.

That day, Wang Li took Lai San to clean the gatehouse, because no one had used it for a long time. It was simply cleaned when the Wang family first moved in. Except for the bed which was too big to clean, other old tables and chairs and other waste were cleared out of the room and never cleaned again. Therefore, the gatehouse still needed to be cleaned thoroughly.

Because the bed had not been lived in for a long time, it had become a little moldy. Wang Li decided to move the bed out and replace it with the bed and some furniture from the original back room for Lai San to use.

After the two men moved the bed in the gatehouse, they found something wrong under the bed.

After careful study, they found that there were about 1.5 meters long and 1.5 meters wide floor tiles under the bed that could be removed. After the two removed all the floor tiles, they found an iron cover with an iron ring underneath.

The two looked at each other, and after Lai San pulled open the iron ring, a wooden staircase extending towards the first courtyard was revealed.

Wang Li said: You go find your father first, and we'll go down and take a look together later. It's a good time to get some fresh air. We don't know how long the door hasn't been opened. Let some oxygen in and give us some fresh air.

When Lai San found his father, he was resting on a lounge chair at the garden gate, waiting for someone to deliver the waste.

After hearing what the two had discovered, the father quickly locked the garden gate and went to the gatehouse with Lai San.

At this time, Wang Li was holding a candle and probing into the cave.

Wang Li's father found it very funny after seeing this and said: Wang Li, there is no need to test it. There should be oxygen inside and you won't feel suffocated. Because in the past, wealthy families all had basements, and the designs were generally reasonable with ventilation holes.

Lai San, you also take a candle and let’s go down and take a look.

He took the candle from Wang Li's hand and walked down the wooden stairs first. He took the candle to test the air condition.

Wang Li was slightly stunned, and then he was moved. It should be that his father was afraid of danger, so he chose to explore the way ahead. But his father didn't know that Wang Li's skills were already very abnormal. So he immediately followed his father and went down into the cave second.

Lai San held a candle and followed the two of them down the wooden stairs.

After the three of them walked up the stairs, they found that only the surface of the stairs was made of wood, and the bottom of the wood was made of bluestone. Therefore, they walked very steadily, and soon after passing a 20-meter-long staircase diagonally downward, they arrived at an underground space about 10 meters underground and 3 to 4 meters high.

Because the candle was not very bright, it was impossible to know how big the space was. But Wang Li had practiced the Golden Body Sutra, and his body had been fully strengthened, so his eyes could basically see at night.

Wang Li saw that this space was basically built underground in the open space of the first courtyard, with an area of ​​about 200 square meters. The underground space did not store any treasures, but steel bars and wooden boxes. These wooden boxes should have been assembled in the space because it was obviously larger than the entrance of the space.

Wang Li took out his hunting knife and opened the lid of one of the boxes. He found that the wooden box had a moisture-proof layer, which contained dry straw, and the box was filled with bags of something. At first, Wang Li thought it was rice or flour, but after a careful inspection, he found that it was cement.

After the three of them checked the space, they did not find anything else, so they quickly returned to the concierge.

After coming up, his father said to Lai San, you can live in this room first, but don't reveal what you found under the room to others to avoid trouble.

Lai San immediately assured: Don't worry, uncle, I know what's going on and I promise I won't tell anyone.

After the three of them re-paved the floor, they helped Lai San move the furniture needed in the house. A large bed was still placed on the original underground entrance to cover it. The three of them acted as if nothing had happened and went about their respective work.

That night, when Lai San came home from get off work and the three Wangs were having dinner, Wang Li's father mentioned this incident. His mother was very surprised and out of curiosity, she asked to go inside and take a look.

The father and son couldn't persuade her, and they also wanted to take a detailed count of the supplies inside.

After finishing the meal, the three of them took flashlights and went back to the gatehouse to move the bed and open the entrance to the underground space. This underground space will be called the underground warehouse from now on.

After the three of them arrived at the underground warehouse, the mother was amazed at first, and then she and her father and son counted the materials underground. After counting and summarizing, there were 100 large boxes of cement and about 5 tons of steel bars and other building materials. Wang Li estimated that these things plus some sand and gravel were enough to build a -story residential building in modern times.

(End of this chapter)