The next day, Huang Dazhi took the opportunity and went alone to the place where he arrested the person last time.
It was in a village in Wangqiao Town. Although it was a village, the gambling house was not in the village, but in a mountain near the village.
Someone built a simple house in that mountain, which is usually used to store firewood and no one lives in it. When there are more people gambling at the end of the year, the banker will call the gamblers here.
Not long ago, there was an arrest here, and the banker and some gamblers were arrested. Now when Huang Dazhi came over, there was not a soul in sight.
This is just right!
The mountain road is not easy to ride a bicycle. Huang Dazhi pushed it uphill. Now he put the bicycle aside and walked into the house.
The room was in a mess, with some playing cards scattered on the floor. The gamblers used to play poker.
The hole in the ground is still there, somewhat loose and messy.
Perhaps because he was afraid of being contaminated, no one from the nearby village had come in yet. Huang Dazhi looked around and picked up a wooden stick. There was some loess stuck to one end of the stick, which had been used to dig soil before.
He bent down and began to rummage carefully with a wooden stick.
This house is crudely built, with mud bricks on the walls, but the floor is not hardened with cement, it is just loess. The doors and windows here are not big, and the lighting is not good, but there are some candle stubs and candle drippings scattered in the house. There were traces of fallen candle oil, apparently the dealer would light candles for lighting during gambling.
Although the lighting was not good, it was daytime, and Huang Dazhi had good eyesight. The light coming in through the doors and windows was enough to rummage through the pit.
He rummaged around with a wooden stick, but found nothing.
In order to find all the gambling money, the police had already dug this hole very big and deep.
But because of the existence of the jade pendant, Huang Dazhi did not lose heart, but searched for it inch by inch.
Finally, Huang Tian paid off. Huang Dazhi found another jade pendant in the soil. It looked the same as the previous one, like a pair, but this piece had been broken, only half of it.
Although disappointed, Huang Dazhi became more energetic in his search after reaping the rewards.
He had a lot of strength, and even though a wooden stick was not as useful as a hoe, he still dug vigorously. After some searching, he finally found another topaz shaped like a lying cow.
The lying cow was covered in mud. Huang Dazhi wiped it with his sleeve, and then he saw clearly that it was shaped like a cow.
As for the quality of the craftsmanship and the quality of the jade, he didn't understand this, but he was still happy. He felt that he might make a fortune.
He had rummaged through the entire house, and except for a broken jade pendant and a yellow jade cow, Huang Dazhi found nothing else.
He put the things in his arms and walked out the door.
There was still no one around. Huang Dazhi breathed a sigh of relief, walked to the place where the bicycle was placed, and rode his bicycle down the mountain.
While Huang Dazhi was digging hard here, Gao Mingcheng didn't rest.
Carrying two pounds of wild boar, he found a man.
This person, he once had a chance encounter with, but never interacted with him again, that is Director Wang of the Cultural Relics Management Office.
Gao Guobing and Director Wang had some personal relationships. Gao Mingcheng told Gao Guobing about the tomb robbers who came to rob the tomb in the mountains. After Gao Guobing arrested the tomb robber and brought him to justice, he notified Director Wang first.
But this was a big deal. When the ancient tomb was being excavated later, Bureau Chen from the police station and Bureau Lu from the Cultural Bureau also came together.
The tomb robbery case will be of certain help to the career of both Gao Guobing and Director Wang. I heard Gao Guobing mention it before that Director Wang can take a further step after Director Lu retires.
Although I had heard about Director Wang's deeds, since the two sides did not have any more interactions, Gao Mingcheng and Director Wang never met again.
Now, in order to determine whether the jade pendant Huang Dazhi obtained was an antique and whether it was valuable, Gao Mingcheng decided to meet Director Wang.
He was carrying two kilograms of pork, and with Gao Guobing's connections, it was not difficult at all to talk to Director Wang.
Sure enough, after he reported the identity of Gao Guobing's nephew, he met Director Wang soon.
For a small cultural relics management office, this is a very quiet position. There is nothing to do at ordinary times. I just drink tea and read newspapers at work.
Gao Mingcheng said with a smile: "I got some wild boars in the mountains yesterday, and sent some to my uncle in the afternoon. At that time, my uncle said that you should also send some to Director Wang."
"This wild boar meat is not wood-fired. It is quite delicious when stewed. Director Wang, you can try it when you go home tonight."
Gao Mingcheng said it very politely, and Director Wang accepted the sentiment and accepted the things.
After the pleasantries, Gao Mingcheng went straight to the topic: "Director Wang, have all the ancient tombs you dug in Niuweiling been cleared out last year? Everyone in the village said that the ancient tombs were left by ancestors, so I am very curious about what is inside. Something. Can you take me to see it?"
Gao Mingcheng did not take out the jade pendant directly, but asked to see the contents of the ancient tomb excavated last year.
Director Wang did not hesitate, because Gao Mingcheng had a strong identity and the request was not too excessive, so he naturally had to agree.
So Director Wang took Gao Mingcheng to the warehouse where the antiques were kept.
The reason why it is a warehouse is that the county museum has not yet been built. The plan was proposed, but it was not completed until 1992, and then the stored antiques would be sent to the county museum.
The conditions of the warehouse are naturally poor, far from meeting the conditions for preserving valuable antiques. But fortunately, the things that a small county town can have are not that valuable.
Gao Mingcheng saw that the shelves in the warehouse were filled with some objects, most of which were rough. There were some ancient ironware, copperware, carved bricks and tiles, as well as some pottery, porcelain and copper coins. There were even some shabby clothes piled in the corner.
"The piles on the shelves here are the things excavated from Niuweiling last year." Director Wang pointed to a shelf and motioned to Gao Mingcheng to take a look.
Gao Mingcheng only glanced at it and frowned.
In his previous life, he and the tomb robbers had opened the coffin and divided up the funerary objects inside, so he knew exactly what was inside!
But now, several of the most expensive items are obviously missing from the items on the shelves!
He remembered that there was a book in the coffin, and the tomb robbers quickly took it away first. At that time, he did not recognize the traditional Chinese characters in it and did not know the value of the book, so he did not fight for it. But he saw a porcelain vase. The porcelain vase is very beautiful. The porcelain body is very thin and can transmit light when viewed against the sun. The paintings on it are also exquisite and very beautiful.
Because the tomb robber took the books first, he then took the porcelain vase. In the end, the porcelain vase was indeed very valuable.
But now, the books taken by the tomb robber and the porcelain bottle taken by him are not here.
"Director Wang... are all the things here? These things don't look very valuable! The old people in the village say that our ancestors in Gaojia Village were officials and squires and were very rich." Gao Mingcheng wanted to confirm.
Director Wang smiled. He had a good relationship with Gao Guobing and naturally learned some of the history of Gaojia Village from Gao Guobing. So he smiled and said: "Your ancestors were indeed very rich. After opening the coffin, we found several things in the coffin. It is a very valuable item, but unfortunately our place is small and there are few talents who know this area, and the skills of maintaining antiques are even worse. Therefore, after the Lu Bureau reported the matter, people from the Municipal Cultural Bureau came and looked at the things. He just said that he wanted to take the things to the city, saying that we don’t have the conditions for research here.”
"But those things were not taken away by the Municipal Culture Bureau in the end, but by the Provincial Culture Bureau! If you want to see them, you can only go to the museum in the provincial capital to see them!"
After Gao Mingcheng heard this, he could understand that the official level was overwhelming, and when he met a good thing, who wouldn't want to get it to the place under his jurisdiction? After getting it, it can be regarded as his political achievement to some extent.
Not to mention porcelain, calligraphy and painting antiques are indeed difficult to preserve without the conditions for research, and it is impossible to accurately extract some of the information inside.
Gao Mingcheng decided that if he had a chance in the future, he would still have to go to the Provincial Museum to see if those things were really there.
(End of chapter)
