Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 470 - 332: Actually, There Are Treasures Here Too

Chapter 470: Chapter 332: Actually, There Are Treasures Here Too

Cheryl entered the courtyard, and Ralph Knight said:

"Sean, go pick some grapes for our guests and pour the water."

Sean introduced Cheryl to his grandfather:

"This is my Grandfather."

"Grandfather...good!" Cheryl surprisingly greeted Ralph in Chinese.

"Eh? This foreign girl can speak Chinese?" Ralph curiously asked, and then said to Cheryl:

"Hello, young lady."

Cheryl only knew this one phrase, and then replied with a "hello,", afterward she didn’t know what else to say.

"Not bad, not bad." Ralph said with a smile,

"The young lady is polite. Alright, Sean you guys can chat."

Ralph went back to his chores in the vegetable field. Sean and Cheryl began to chat under the grape trellis.

Sean picked two bunches of grapes, and after washing them, gave one to Cheryl and the other to the female bodyguard standing watch outside.

While eating the grapes, Cheryl said:

"You don’t need to be so polite to Layla, as a bodyguard, she has her own professional code."

Sean shook his head and said:

"If it was your country, that would be a different story. Here, everyone who comes is a guest and should be treated properly. By the way, where have you been?"

"The Great Wall, Terracotta Army, Imperial Palace...I have been to so many places!" Cheryl exclaimed with pride, "The historical relics of your country are truly marvellous, completely different from the ones in Europe... But it seems like there aren’t as many in your hometown... Oh right,"

Cheryl fiddled with her mobile phone and continued:

"I heard at the Terracotta Army site that the ground is packed with tombs and relics. It’s said that you can find all kinds of treasures just by digging. Sean, why don’t you seek treasures underground here? Is it because there is nothing in your hometown?"

Sean shook his head and said:

"No, our country’s law dictates that unless it can be clearly proven that the items were buried by our ancestors, the unearthed items belong to the country. There are actually many underground treasures and ruins in Xinjiang, but we can’t just dig recklessly."

"But I haven’t heard of anything..." Cheryl replied candidly.

Sean turned to ask his grandfather who was in the vegetable field:

"Grandfather, didn’t you once say that when you were young, you unearthed a money warehouse while farming?"

"Yes", Ralph put down the water hose he was using to water the crops and asked quizzically, "Why do you ask this?"

"She claimed there was nothing under the ground in Xinjiang. I just told her there must be something."

"Even there is, it’s illegal to dig. It’s regulated by the country..." Ralph thought his grandson was considering digging and uttered with a stern face, "We had no such law back then, but now we do, and they don’t allow digging."

"I know that. I was just mentioning it to her..."

"Not only do we have it, but we also have a lot!" Once Ralph was reassured that Sean wasn’t planning on digging, he opened up:

"Not to mention the money depot, there once was a wealthy landlord in our village, who owned over one thousand acres of land.

Later on, when the Ussuri banditry broke out, they were afraid of getting robbed, so they took the portable stuff and buried the rest in a big hollow place. They then used an ox to plow the location and cover it up, and sowed the seeds overnight. The whole family then fled to live with their relatives.

They never came back afterwards – nobody has dug up whatever they buried there yet!"

This was the first time Sean heard his grandfather mention this, so he asked curiously:

"Did nobody in our village dig it up, or did nobody know about it?"

"Well, only the old guy Mr. Ma knew then, and he told me. We didn’t have advanced equipment at that time, and the whole area had been plowed. How could we locate the exact spot? Soon nobody remembered..."

Sean thought to himself, if this was happening now, using a metal detector could easily find it.

However, he didn’t have the intention, and also the country doesn’t allow digging anyway. Even if something was dug up, it would be hard to determine the ownership.

But when he told Cheryl the story, she became quite interested and kept asking Sean for more details. Sean waved off:

"I can’t tell you that. The village has changed its location, and it’s not easy to locate the original spot."

Thus Cheryl had to ask about the money warehouse instead.

"The money warehouse is easy to understand. It’s just a warehouse or a cellar for storing money. When my grandfather was young, he plowed lands for the village’s collective farming. One night, he heard a rustling sound whenever he plowed over a piece of land."

He thought it was because of the existence of sand in the soil in that area, and did not pay much attention to it. When it was daybreak and his shift was over, he realized the area was covered with copper coins, almost ten tons of them.

However, many of them had corroded into soil because they weren’t preserved properly. They crumbled into pieces once you clapped them. They only picked up the coins that hadn’t rusted and packed them into sacks.

They packed the coins into several 100-kilogram sacks, the kind used for packing wheat. Later, they sold all the coins to a waste recycling station in the county, and bought an ox with the money. The whole village had a feast."

"Did they later find out where that money depot was from," asked Cheryl curiously, "was it from the landlord you mentioned earlier?"

"No, it wasn’t that. The elderly in the village said that there used to be a temple there. The money was probably from the temple. But the temple was later demolished and the monks ran away because of the bandits. No one knew there was something inside."

Cheryl was fascinated by the stories:

"I can’t believe there are such stories in your place..."

"Actually I can take you for a spin now, there’s an ancient city ruins here too, which counts as a historical relic."

There is an ancient relic known as the ’ancient city ruins’ in Sean’s hometown. It was said to be an ancient city from the Qing Dynasty that was abandoned for unknown reasons.