The basement is about 2 meter wide, 3 meter long and 3 meter deep. [Photo/IC]

A villager in Central China's Henan province has gone to great lengths to recover his dead wife's buried treasure.

The man dug a big basement in his sitting room in search of a deposit passbook his dead wife left in Luji village, Lutai town, Huaiyang county, according a local website.

His wife told him she hid a deposit passbook of 40,000 yuan ($64,480) under the floor of their sitting room. Never expecting how difficult it would be to find it, he dug a hole which is about 2 meters wide, 3 meters long and 3 meters deep in the room and still hasn't found the passbook.

"My wife will never lie to me and I will keep digging until I find it", the man insisted.

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