Chapter 2260

At that time, there was a lot of news about the theft of cultural relics from the museum. I was still young at that time and learned about it through newspapers. It was said that the lost cultural relics were valued by experts at more than 3 billion.

Today is July 27, 2023. Counting the time, a full 40 years have passed.

There are two versions uploaded by the public about the specific process of this incident. At that time, the first version was widely reported on TV and newspapers, and the second version was mostly circulated among the people. However, what I told me personally was a completely different third version.

"He also heard what others said without any evidence. I was just repeating what I said. I am not legally responsible for what I said."

Next, let’s go back to that late night in 1983.

At around twelve o'clock at night, a boy with a crew cut in black carried a bag and a bamboo ladder across the road and arrived at the outer wall of the west exhibition hall of the museum.

There was no one on the street at this time. After smoking two cigarettes in a row, he made a decision.

Putting on his hat, he put the ladder under the ventilation window, climbed up, took out a hammer from his bag and wrapped it in clothes, and smashed the glass with one hammer.

He turned on his flashlight and poked his head in to take a look. Seeing that the hall was empty and quiet, he jumped down through the vent.

In front of you is the special Mawangdui cultural relics exhibition hall. Each exquisite cultural relic of the Han Dynasty is covered with a transparent glass cover. The exhibition hall was specially built with funds allocated by the superiors that year.

In that era, there were no cameras or advanced infrared alarm devices. There were two waves of security patrols in the museum during the night shift. This man walked back and forth, not knowing which item was the most valuable, because all of them seemed valuable.

Thinking that he would just steal it randomly, he took out a glass knife and started cutting the display cabinet glass.

As he worked, he stared at the door. The security guard patrolling the night shift might come in at any time.

As a result, he was too nervous and used too much force, causing the glass knife in his hand to suddenly break in half. He was so angry and anxious that he simply took out a hammer and started smashing the glass cover!

The glass used in the exhibition hall is not bulletproof laminated glass, but just slightly thicker ordinary glass.

There was a lot of noise and several display cabinets were smashed in succession. He had no time to take a closer look and filled them with dozens of cultural relics from the Han Dynasty.

After he succeeded, he wanted to go back the way he came to escape. Unexpectedly, the vent was too high from the ground, and the walls were smooth. There was nothing to step on around. If he continued to stay here, he would be discovered by patrols sooner or later, so he boldly carried the full bag. The bag of cultural relics went out directly from the main entrance.

The museum door was locked, so he reached out and knocked on the glass of the old man at the door, Lao Du.

"Why are you going out in the middle of the night?"

He said nothing, just nodded.

"It's true! I was woken up just after I fell asleep! Let's go quickly!"

The gatekeeper opened the door, and he walked out with a bag of cultural relics, and finally disappeared into the night.

This is the first version, but the second version is a bit bizarre, and a few people believe it.

Because the vent window was five meters high from the ground at that time, some people thought that it was impossible for a normal person to jump down like that. They said that Xu Anti-Emperor accidentally met an expert, and he learned a lost method from the expert. He had the "wall-penetrating skill" for a long time, so he went directly through the wall and stole things.

After returning home, he told his mother Xu Ruifeng about the theft. Xu Ruifeng was working in law at the time. He immediately realized that his son had committed a felony! Xu Ruifeng was helpless for a while, and finally chose to protect his son.

In those two days, it can be said that the entire Hunan police community went all out to investigate, searching the city for all suspicious persons! A white hat boss even came to find the Southern faction's general manager and the Northern faction's general leader, and spread the word to the entire underground cultural relics trading black market, no matter who it was! Who dares to collect these stolen cultural relics! Make sure he eats peanuts 24 hours a day!