Chapter 315: Food in Hand
How could they not know? If it weren’t for the fact that there were so many people living in the small factory, the street would have mobilized the people who moved into the city to settle there.

One dead of night, Wang Deming borrowed a tricycle and transported all the information left by Alexi and others in Yongkang Hutong to the real boss.

The real boss will arrange for it to be transferred to the technical department in need.

After the handover, he returned to Yongkang Hutong, listened to the noise coming from the courtyard next door, and came to the third courtyard carrying the prepared crowbar, pickaxe and shovel.

The toilet of this courtyard is next to the west wing of the second courtyard, while the third courtyard has a patio, a moon gate, and a single-room house, which is the ear room of the north main house.

If you close the moon gate, it will be a very quiet place.

Before digging, Wang Deming listened attentively to the noise next door again. When he first got this yard, he did not start digging immediately because the bedroom of a senior leader was next to this patio.

He was worried that the digging action would alarm the leader, and then he would report it directly to the emperor.
That's why he brought in Tan's cuisine first, and after the public-private partnership, he encouraged Alexei to redecorate the place and set up a club, just to give the leader a different place to sleep.

Sure enough, the leader is very busy and has a light sleep. He finds it noisy here and I haven’t seen him come back here to sleep for a long time.

While the leaders of the neighboring courtyard were away, Wang Deming carried away the flower bed inside, tied a flower with the hoe with one hand, and dug it into the ground in an instant.
This courtyard house in Yongkang Hutong and the courtyard house next door were formerly the residences of Li Lianying in the late Qing Dynasty. Of course, Li Lianying had several houses in the capital, such as Zhang Boju's house in Gongxian Hutong, which was also his.

But this house is his main residence, and it contains the treasures he has collected over the years.

Wang Deming dug for almost one and a half meters before he found the entrance. After clearing the soil, he covered it with a stone slab. When it was removed, a dark section of stairs leading downwards was revealed.

After smoking a few cigarettes and waiting for sufficient ventilation, Wang Deming walked slowly down with a flashlight.

After walking about 2 or 3 meters underground, I finally arrived at the treasure room.

Judging from the location, this treasure room is right below the house where the big leader lives.

This treasure room is a rectangle, about 15 meters long and 5 meters wide. When shining a flashlight upwards, there are several hidden ventilation holes, and no one knows where they are on the ground.

After coming down, I found that one side of the treasure room was filled with iron boxes, one side was an antique display shelf, and there were two smaller boxes that gave off a faint smell of mothballs.

I first walked up to the antique display cabinet and shone the flashlight on it. Hey, it was really an interesting thing, a blue-and-white and yellow-colored plate with pomegranate flower and fruit patterns. It is rare and must be a good thing from the middle period. I turned over the plate and looked at the inscription. Sure enough, it was from the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty.

Then I looked at the antique display stand carefully. The patterns were fine and the gold threads were shining. It was 100% made of golden nanmu wood.

The camphorwood box was not locked. After opening it, he casually took out a scroll, bit the flashlight in his mouth, and slowly unfolded it. Hey, it’s really beautiful, with water flowing around the mountains and the immortals in the misty air. It was Zhan Ziqian’s "Group of Immortals Worshiping Buddha".

After putting the painting back into the camphorwood box, Wang Deming finally turned to the iron box. The iron box was locked, and he twisted the lock off with a slight twist, opened it, and saw a golden glow.

"Pah, pah, pah!" After opening more than a dozen boxes in this row, most of them were shining with golden light, and only a few boxes were full of oceans.

Damn, when it comes to making money, the eunuchs are the ones to look at.

Wang Deming did not rush to move the things away. After he came out, he started digging in the patio on the east side of the third courtyard. After a while, he dug out a basement that was no smaller than the treasure room, which was also directly below the main house. After using the bricks, stones and cement stored in advance to support and waterproof, he put the things transferred from the small factory in it first.

Then he moved all the items in the treasure room to the basement he had dug.

After all, the house over there is not in his name, and he probably won't be able to buy it in the future. If the leader doesn't live there, the house next door won't be sold. If the house is renovated and an air-raid shelter is dug deep, or if there is an earthquake in a few years, the house collapses and the treasure is exposed, Wang Deming will be out of trouble.

This batch of gold and dollars is like a timely help.

After all, it is not clear how much food is lacking in the country? Now it is still exporting. What if the 3000 million gold rubles in the Soviet bank and the hundreds of millions of US dollars in several bank accounts in Hong Kong are not enough to buy food?
After a few days without finding anyone to calculate the date, Wang Deming directly called on Master Woboer, who had helped him in the Traditional Chinese Medicine Association and is now the captain of the Beijing Construction Team.

A large group of people quickly emptied out the small factory and officially moved into Yongkang Hutong.

Zhang Shouchun and Jin Yuqing strolled slowly back and forth in the courtyard, holding their children, constantly commenting on the courtyard, and occasionally mentioning Jinyu Hutong, Qinlao Hutong, Qingwang Mansion and other houses for comparison. Then they both chose the three-courtyard house together.

The godmother, Zhang Ma, Bai Ma and other elderly people went to the cellar of the courtyard first. Every courtyard had one. After seeing the bags of grain, bacon and ham piled up in the cellar, the elderly people finally felt relieved.

There are not only food and meat, but also a lot of cheese, wine, honey, etc., because it was a club before, which are specially stored in the cellar of the house behind the fourth courtyard.

After looking at the food at home, the old people happily went to choose their own rooms.

Godmother and Qin Huairu also chose a three-courtyard house with their children so that it would gather people. Aunt Zhang, Old Zhao and Aunt Bai lived in the second courtyard. It was a perfect arrangement.

My godsister Yan Baozhen and my brother-in-law Chang Youguang and their family moved to the separate courtyard of Xiaojingchang. The happiest people were not the adults, but the three children, Renchun, Yichun and Lichun.

Renchun is already 15 years old and is studying in the high school department of Beijing No. 12 Middle School. Yichun is also 9 years old and will enter the junior high school department in September. They both want to have their own separate room. Lichun is still young, but he is 8 years old.
The two east wing rooms that the family lived in at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang were becoming increasingly cramped.
After both families moved into their new homes, they invited friends and relatives to a dinner party to warm up the pot according to custom. By the end of August, the Beijing Workers' Stadium was completed!
Soon in mid-September, the newly built Workers' Stadium was put to the test with its first major event, the first national sports meeting, referred to as the National Games, with hundreds of thousands of people participating.
In the same month, the newly built Beijing Railway Station was completed and opened to traffic. Qianmen East Railway Station ended its history from the late Qing Dynasty to the new China and became a museum.

Good news came one after another. The ten major architectural projects celebrating the 10th anniversary of the National Day: the majestic and solemn Great Hall of the People, the quiet, elegant and traditional Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, the Museum of the Chinese Revolution, the History Museum, the Military Museum, etc., held their completion ceremonies one by one in September.

Then the 10th anniversary National Day came.
Needless to say, the atmosphere was enthusiastic.
After the National Day, Wang Deming went south again on the pretext of autumn raw silk trade, this time to Hong Kong.

(End of this chapter)