Chapter 145 Su Family Treasure House
In the evening, at six o'clock.
The whole family gathered in the dining room and had a lively meal.
After the meal, Su Jiannan and Liu Zhifeng were still in high spirits and pulled Su Yang to a large double door in the indoor space.
Once opened, it turned out to be an eight-meter-high family library divided into two floors.
The open space and the bookshelves are filled with all kinds of books, which is completely comparable to Su Yang’s school library when she was in college!
In the innermost part of the first floor, there is a 7-meter-long original mahogany old tea table.
On the back wall is a golden nanmu root carving that is as long as the old tea table, forming a natural architrave shelf filled with various antiques.
Su Yang's eyes widened when he saw it: "Such a large root carving rack is made in one piece. How big of a tree does it take to make it?"
Su Jiannan said with a smile: "This carving is at least thousands of years old. This thousand-year-old golden nanmu root carving is a collection of furniture. No one can really own it. At most, it can be kept for future generations and passed on."
Climbing up the stairs, the walkways and corridors are still full of various collections of books, and there are also side doors that can connect to the living room and study room.
Su Jiannan said to Su Shengyi and the others, "You go to the living room and sit down first. I'll show the fourth child the secret project of the library."
Secret project?
Su Yang was a little surprised, but from the envious eyes of his three uncles and aunt, he knew that this thing was definitely not simple.
Sure enough, after Su Shengyi, his brothers and sisters left the library with their aunt and cousins.
Su Jiannan and Liu Zhifeng took Su Yang back to the first floor and moved a vase on a hidden bookshelf. The bookshelf automatically opened to both sides, revealing a softly lit walkway going downwards.
"Grandpa, grandma, where is this place?" Su Yang couldn't help but asked curiously.
Liu Zhifeng took her sweet grandson's hand and said lovingly: "This is actually a secret project that was set up when this house was built - the safe house."
"Safe house?" Su Yang muttered, followed her grandparents into the corridor, walked down several flights of stairs, and finally stopped at a large steel plate safety door similar to a bank vault door.
Su Jiannan held the code plate above with both hands and began to rotate it. The code plate kept making a slight metallic sound.
Not long after, there was a click, and the vault door, which weighed hundreds of tons and was over one meter thick, was slowly opened outward.
A yellow golden glow instantly caught Su Yang's eyes, making his mouth open wider and wider.
I saw that at the very back of the vault, there were gold bricks piled up like a mountain. The golden bricks, neatly stacked like bricks, were almost endless as far as the eye could see!
Incredibly shocking! !
Su Jiannan was very satisfied with his grandson's shocked expression, which gave him a sense of accomplishment. He lovingly pulled Su Yang into the vault and said with a smile: "Xiao Si'er, this safe house is also our family's vault. The wealth accumulated by our ancestors is stored here. On the shelf over there, there are family trusts set up by the family, precious calligraphy and painting auctions, private equity, etc., all placed here."
Su Yang looked in the direction pointed by his grandfather and discovered that on the side of the vault, on a wall dozens of meters long, there were rows of vacuum glass storage racks lined with various documents, top-quality jade, etc. , antique calligraphy and painting.
That crystal clear emerald green rich glass imperial green jade!
Sparkling with natural fluorescence, the bright and bright glass is the best red jade!
The finest mutton-fat white jade with fine texture, the finest mutton-fat black jade, the finest mutton-fat jasper, the finest mutton-fat topaz...
There are also the legendary calligraphy and paintings of Huang Tingjian, Qi Baishi, Wang Xizhi, Xu Beihong, Zhang Daqian, Su Shi, Li Bai and other ancient literary figures...
There are also all kinds of exquisite porcelain, such as the legendary Yuan blue and white, Ming Chenghuadou colored porcelain, Ru kiln sky blue glaze wash, imperial enamel colored, Tang Sancai, etc...
Su Yang's jaw almost dropped to the floor!
This is simply a super treasure trove!
Any thing here is a priceless treasure, and the things displayed on a wall are probably more valuable than the piles of gold.
No wonder the uncles and aunts all looked at me enviously just now.
Any treasure here is extremely coveted!
What Su Yang didn't know was that the brothers and sisters of Su Shengyi had never set foot in this vault. They knew that there were countless priceless treasures and a huge amount of gold hidden in it, but they couldn't step in without Su Yang's treatment.
Therefore, what they envied was not this pile of treasures, but that Su Yang was more important than them all in the old man's heart.
"How is it? My dear grandson, the treasures accumulated by our Su family through the generations are still pretty good, right?" Su Jiannan patted Su Yang on the shoulder and said with a smile.
"That's pretty good." Su Yang came back to his senses, rubbed his chin, looked at his proud grandpa and asked, "Grandpa, how much gold reserves are there here?"
Su Jiannan raised three fingers and shook them: "Three thousand tons!"
I go! Three thousand tons? !
Su Yang was shocked again.
"Didn't it say on the Internet that the gold reserve of our Dragon Kingdom is only 2,000 tons? There are at least 600 tons of gold stored in the United States." Su Yang asked, swallowing his saliva.
With a kind smile on his face, Su Jiannan said with high spirits: "That is the national reserve, and it is for everyone to see on the bright side. Our country has thousands of years of history, and the gold accumulated over the long history is more than 2,000 tons? There will only be more in private hands."
Su Yang still clicked his tongue and said: "Three thousand tons is scary enough. Rome, which has the second largest official gold reserve in the world, only has more than 3,000 tons. The gold here is actually comparable to the official gold reserve of a country! "
Based on the current price of one gram of gold, the value of these three thousand tons of gold is simply terrifying!
And more importantly, gold is the most valuable hard currency, and banknotes will depreciate.
Wearing gloves, Liu Zhifeng carefully took out an ancient wooden tray from a safe, and said to Su Yang with a beaming smile, "My dear grandson, come and see this thing."
Su Yang looked there, and instantly all his attention was attracted by the jade seal on the ancient wooden tray.
It was a square piece about the size of two hands, the whole body was snow-white, and the oil was shiny. On the button seal was engraved a cross-five dragon, and the front was engraved with eight seal characters of "Ordered by the sky, long life and eternal prosperity", with a domineering aura of imperial power .
From the knowledge learned in history books, one can know that the jade seal is the emperor's special seal.
The legend was invented and passed on by Qin Shihuang, and the emperors of all dynasties must have jade seals to be considered justified.
In ancient feudal society, jade seals represented the symbol of supreme power.
There are a total of nine jade seals in Longguo, seven of which have been lost, one is exiled overseas, and only one Kangxi Imperial Seal is preserved in the National Museum.
Among them, the most famous one is of course Qin Shihuang’s Jade Seal, which is said to have been carved with He’s Bibi seal. It has been passed down from the Qin Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties through the Han, Wei, Jin, and Southern Dynasties, and then disappeared. .
Su Yang stared at the gold inlaid jade on the corner of the jade seal held by grandma, and suddenly remembered a record in the history book.
That was when Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, his aunt Wang Zhengjun, the old lady, in anger, threw the Jade Seal of Chuan Kingdom on the ground and smashed a corner, which was later repaired with gold.
Suddenly Su Yang's eyes widened, his mouth opened wide, and he exclaimed, "Grandma, isn't this the Jade Seal of the Chuan Kingdom?!"
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