Chapter 254: The House Is Bought
Su Hongmei saw Lu Qiaoge coming over and knew that this girl had gathered enough money to buy the house.
She first took Lu Qiaoge to the general office, checked the form, then notified finance to transfer the money to the military factory neighborhood committee.
After these things were done, Su Hongmei took Lu Qiaoge to the housing management office.
Having someone to help made things easy, plus Lu Qiaoge had enough money in hand and didn’t haggle, so the transaction was completed directly.
Even Lu Qiaoge thought changing the name would take a week, but unexpectedly it was done in one afternoon.
But actually the leaders were all there, the procedures were legal, the existing house deed just needed the name handwritten on it, and plus Lu Qiaoge had originally brought the household registration book and letter of introduction, so it was done in one hour.
After it was done, Lu Qiaoge also got the key.
On the way, Lu Qiaoge went to the department store to buy a lock, a flashlight, and batteries.
Xiao Cangcang saw Lu Qiaoge and Elder Sister Su riding bicycles over, happily told Rat Big and Rat Two: 【The little master is too amazing, she has already bought this house!】
【Oh, then from now on we can live here, and we don’t have to worry about disturbing the other people in the Lu family.】
Xiao Cangcang said: 【I’ll go tell the other little friends.】
Then told Lu Qiaoge again: 【I’ll be right back.】
Lu Qiaoge let it go ahead.
The courtyard was big, with walls all around, so as long as the little ones didn’t make too much noise, they could play freely here.
Even though it was a standalone house with its own courtyard, people nowadays liked to visit neighbors and watch the excitement,
This really couldn’t be stopped.
So Lu Qiaoge proactively went to the neighbor’s house to borrow a screwdriver.
She needed to change the lock on the main door.
She had screws ready, what she lacked was the screwdriver, the neighbor happily lent her the screwdriver, and even followed over to watch the excitement.
This was an aunt in her forties.
Of course she asked who Lu Qiaoge was, Lu Qiaoge smiled and said to her, “My surname is Lu, I work at the military factory.”
As for the rest, Lu Qiaoge deftly brushed them off without a word.
This neighbor was surnamed Bai, Aunt Bai knew her limits, smiled and didn’t continue asking.
The few women chatted in the courtyard for a while, and Lu Qiaoge noticed that all the small animals from her house had basically come.
Even Old Black and the little yellow dog were standing outside the main door looking this way.
The calico cat stood majestically on top of the wall, just like it was the owner.
The pretty round cat eyes stared at the neighbors talking to Lu Qiaoge and said: 【Little master, I’ll guard the house for you, whoever dares to come steal things, I’ll scratch them to death…】
The little yellow dog also barked a few times, perhaps feeling embarrassed to interrupt Lu Qiaoge, said: 【Little fairy, your house is so big!】 then shook its tail and ran off.
Lu Qiaoge thanked Elder Sister Su who had been busy back and forth, and told her that when she had time she’d treat her to a meal at the state-run restaurant.
Elder Sister Su waved her hand: “Why be polite with me, who are we to each other?”
Lu Qiaoge was her benefactor, after getting to know her, not only did she save her child, after that everything she did went smoothly, even got exceptionally promoted to deputy section chief, if not for Lu Qiaoge, she’d still be in her big office doing statistics on banknotes.
After chatting for a while, Su Hongmei rode her bicycle away.
The neighbors who came to watch the excitement also left.
The newly bought house was left with only Lu Qiaoge and a group of small animals.
Lu Qiaoge glanced at the watch on her wrist, it was a little after three in the afternoon.
The sun was still in the west side sky, emitting the bright light unique to late summer early autumn.
Lu Qiaoge closed the main door properly, and sure enough, she felt a bit excited, she actually really had her own house.
But now that the house was bought, she definitely couldn’t hide it, tonight she had to tell her parents.
They would definitely be shocked, and would rush to come see the house.
But they wouldn’t move here to live.
Grandmother wouldn’t come either, the Lu family was crowded, but surrounded by old neighbors.
Not only wouldn’t they come, they wouldn’t let her come either.
But right now Lu Qiaoge had no time to worry about these, what she cared about was the basement.
The entrance to the basement wasn’t in the main house.
It was in the front yard.
There was a water well in the courtyard, covered with a stone slab, an old hand-pumped well, the bucket and well rope hadn’t been taken away.
This basement was built very cleverly, right in the well.
Of course not at the very bottom, but at a spot more than two meters down from the wellhead.
Lu Qiaoge opened the stone slab and looked down, her brows involuntarily furrowed.
If the entrance was here, how did they put things in back then?
And did they have to make it so complicated?
Or was there another entrance?
But Xiao Cangcang and Rat Big, Rat Two, they only found one entrance.
They didn’t even see where the vent was.
Lu Qiaoge couldn’t hold back, wrapped the well rope a few times, then holding the well rope went down.
When she was more than one meter down the well, Lu Qiaoge’s hand touched the button that Xiao Cangcang had told her about, a stone that wasn’t too obviously protruding.
Then she pushed open the door.
If not for her great strength, this door actually couldn’t be pushed open.
The door was designed ingeniously too, round on the outside, fitting against the wall, impossible to see at all.
Inside it was pitch black.
Lu Qiaoge took out the newly bought flashlight, shone it inside, surprisingly it was a smooth-looking downward passage.
Xiao Cangcang told her: 【Little master, we now found an exit, it’s a slope, like a slide, but it probably isn’t clean, might get your clothes and pants dirty.】
Lu Qiaoge looked at the clothes she was wearing.
Blue plaid shirt, labor cloth pants, and warrior shoes,
She had worn them for convenience riding the bike to run errands.
It really was a case of good things come with complications.
Lu Qiaoge waved her hand: “It’s fine, I’ll go down and take a look.”
She eyeballed it, squatting should be no problem, so Lu Qiaoge tied her hair into a bun, and really squatted and shuffled down.
It was about as she saw, just over five meters long, a slope, soon she was standing on the ground.
Lu Qiaoge walked forward more than ten steps, suddenly the view opened up.
This was a basement of nearly over a hundred square meters.
The north wall was stacked with wooden boxes.
Exactly the same as Xiao Cangcang and the others counted, precisely twenty-nine.
Surprisingly well preserved, no damage or rot.
Lu Qiaoge didn’t rush to open them, but walked around the basement, then saw Japanese script on the wall.
Besides this, nothing else was found.
Those few lines of Japanese script probably had no special meaning, translated they were just haha ha.
Probably just randomly scratched.
So Lu Qiaoge felt her guess was correct.
It really was another hideout of the gang that illegally mined the old gold mine.
Lu Qiaoge put the flashlight by the box, then took down one box.
The box was wooden, no iron lock, but the four corners were wrapped in iron sheet.
The basement was filled with an indescribable smell, but no suffocation.
Lu Qiaoge opened the box, even in the basement, the gold inside emitted a golden glow.
It really lived up to that saying, gold will shine wherever it is.
Lu Qiaoge opened ten boxes in one go.
Just like opening treasure chests.
Seven boxes were full of gold sand, no different from what was dug under the tree.
Two other boxes contained gold nuggets and gold lumps, and one box held seven large rocks…
