Gao Mingcheng spent a few days traveling to Yangcheng. After returning, he decided to take a good rest for a few days, because soon after, it was time for him to return to Gaojia Village to prepare for planting trees.
But before returning to the village, Gao Mingcheng went to see Director Wang.
After several interactions, Gao Mingcheng and Director Wang were already relatively familiar with each other. This time, there was no need to carry anything specially, just go directly to his office to find someone.
"How are you, Director Wang?" Gao Mingcheng pushed the door open and saw Director Wang reading a newspaper with a cup of steaming tea beside him.
A place like the Cultural Relics Management Office is extremely busy when it is free and extremely busy when it is busy.
For example, the ancient tomb case that was implicated in the Wang Zhi murder case last time was enough to keep them busy for a while.
We need to conduct on-site inspections and transport all valuable things back. We also need to identify the age of the ancient tomb and analyze the identity of the tomb owner. The valuable cultural relics must be well protected and reported in a timely manner after sorting them out.
But now more than half a month has passed, and I am almost as busy as I should be.
Director Wang put down the newspaper and saw Gao Mingcheng walking in, so he smiled and said: "It's Mingcheng, why are you free to come see me today? Xiao Liu, bring me a cup of tea!"
As the saying goes, don't go to the Three Treasures Hall if you have nothing to do. Gao Mingcheng came to see Director Wang, so naturally he had something to do. He came here for the ancient tomb in Taohua Ridge.
He had two and a half pieces of jade in his hand. The reason why he did not take it to Yangcheng for Fan Chengyao to look at and appraise it was because he wanted to find out the age of the tomb and the relevant information about the owner of the tomb in advance.
Another one, he accidentally discovered a clue and guessed that Fan Chengyao was smuggling antiques. However, this was just his guess. Fan Chengyao did not say it, nor did he reveal that he already knew it.
But if you directly bring antique jade to your door, wouldn’t you be asking for trouble!
Considering these two points, Gao Mingcheng had no intention of letting Fan Chengyao get his hands on his jade.
Soon, hot tea was served, and Gao Mingcheng thanked him politely before taking the tea.
He did not rush to get to the point. Instead, he chatted with Director Wang for a while. After drinking two sips of tea, he asked about the ancient tomb last time.
Director Wang was stunned for a moment, then realized what he was doing. He stood up from his seat, laughed and walked to Gao Mingcheng's side. He said half jokingly, half seriously: "Mingcheng, you are our cultural relics management office." What a lucky star! In the past two years, you have discovered two ancient tombs! You have made a major contribution to reversing the country's losses!"
The ancient tomb in Gaojia Village was discovered and reported by Gao Mingcheng. The ancient tomb in Taohualing was also discovered and seized by Gao Mingcheng. Otherwise, the murderer Wang Zhi might have run away with the antiques. In a few days, these National cultural relics will flow into gambling houses, and then their traces can no longer be traced.
The couple's tombs in the Song Dynasty are more valuable for research than ordinary single tombs, so after Gao Mingcheng captured Wang Zhi, he simply gave away two merits.
One was given to Gao Guobing, and the other was given to Director Wang.
Although there was no direct contact between the two of them, Director Wang got the benefits of the ancient tomb case.
For this reason, Director Wang's attitude towards Gao Mingcheng was quite kind.
Knowing that Gao Mingcheng came here to ask for information about the ancient tomb, Director Wang did not hide it, but told him all the information he had researched.
From Director Wang's mouth, Gao Mingcheng learned that it was a tomb from the Southern Song Dynasty. It contained nine different areas of life, including tableware, wine sets, tea sets, incense sets, study sets, boudoir sets, Buddhist sets, ritual vessels, and daily miscellaneous utensils. funerary objects.
Director Wang sighed: "We are just a small place here. Most of the ancient tombs excavated so far are small and medium-sized ancient tombs with not many burial objects. Only the ancient tombs in Chang'an and Luoyang are extremely excavable." What a value!”
"The burial objects in Song Dynasty tombs were mostly porcelain, lamps and other daily necessities at that time. There were very few precious items such as gold and silver jewelry, so it was not a surprise that these were not found in the tomb. But later I heard from the Higher Education Bureau that The tomb had been stolen once before. Wang Zhi had accidentally discovered the ancient tomb that was almost collapsing and took several valuable items from it, including four pieces of jade, a pair of silver bracelets and a Yes, porcelain cups, but those things were all used by him as gambling capital and pledged to the gambling house."
"Hey, after that, the High Bureau sent people to look for it based on Wang Zhi's confession, but until now, they haven't found it. I'm afraid it will be difficult to find those things!"
Speaking of this regrettable incident, Director Wang chattered a little endlessly, his face full of regret.
Gao Mingcheng listened quietly. He thought Wang Zhi only took the three pieces of jade. Unexpectedly, he also took other things and participated in different gambling games.
Sure enough, there is no future in betting on dogs!
If Wang Zhi took these antiques privately and sold them for money, he would be able to make a fortune. He won't be reduced to the point of killing his parents or his banker and running away.
After Gao Mingcheng stayed here for a while, he found out everything about the ancient tomb and had a rough estimate of the jade in his hand.
After leaving the cultural relics management office, Gao Mingcheng went to the police station.
As soon as he entered, someone he knew told him that Gao Guobing was not at the police station but had gone to the city for a meeting.
When it comes to going to the city for a meeting, everyone is beaming, which is obviously a good thing.
Gao Mingcheng didn't come to see Gao Guobing for business, so it didn't matter if Gao Guobing wasn't there, so he turned to find Huang Dazhi.
Huang Dazhi looked a little haggard, not just him, but other people in the police station also looked a little haggard.
Originally, the New Year had just ended, and even the poorest people could eat a few big meals of fish and meat. It was the longest meat time of the year, but Huang Dazhi and the others were all exhausted. Because of the Wang Zhi murder case, they could not eat at all this year. Just didn't have a good time.
With the help of Gao Mingcheng, they quickly arrested Wang Zhi. However, after interrogation, they learned that Wang Zhi had lost some cultural relics before, so the people in the police station had to follow what Wang Zhi said. Information, go find it.
After searching for more than ten days, I got the news that someone had melted the pair of silver bracelets. This made everyone angry!
As for the porcelain cup, it was hidden at home and was still in good condition, but the four jades were still missing.
They then went to the place where Huang Dazhi had picked up the jade and searched for it. They dug three feet into the ground but still couldn't find it.
Later, I visited nearby villages to find out the news, but to no avail.
But during this process, Huang Dazhi was very anxious inside, but he didn't dare to express it.
Now that he saw the only insider, Gao Mingcheng, coming, he immediately put down what he was doing and showed a little excitement in his eyes.
Not everyone can keep secrets. When people hide secrets, people with poor psychological quality will be under great pressure.
Or they may leak secrets unintentionally.
"Mingcheng, come here." Huang Dazhi winked at Gao Mingcheng, and the two of them came to the yard one after another. The view here is wide, and if someone gets close, they can see it clearly.
Huang Dazhi had suppressed it for a long time, and a strong desire to talk grew in his heart. Now he could finally tell all the things he wanted to say.
His voice was very low, but he spoke very quickly. Fortunately, Gao Mingcheng knew the cause and effect, so he could understand it.
Seeing Huang Dazhi's anxiety, Gao Mingcheng said: "If you want to hand it over, I have no problem with it, but you have to find a good way to cover it up so that no one knows that you took it secretly before."
After such a long time, Huang Dazhi has integrated into the police station and gained everyone's trust and love. However, human trust is difficult to establish but easy to break.
Once there is a precedent, if something similar happens in the future, everyone will doubt you.
This is obviously not good for your career.
Huang Dazhi's face was full of surprise and he said: "Do you agree to my handing it over? I heard that it is from the Song Dynasty or jade, and it should be very valuable."
Huang Dazhi had previously agreed that after selling it, each person would receive half of the money, so he did not make the decision to hand it over. Firstly, he was concerned about his own reputation, and secondly, he felt embarrassed for leaving Gao Mingcheng Bai busy.
Gao Mingcheng just made a fortune, so I really want to say something right now - I'm not interested in money!
Ahem, but we have to keep a low profile!
Gao Mingcheng recounted the information he had received from Director Wang, and then revealed his own valuation, clearly telling Huang Dazhi the price of the two pieces of jade.
Oh, as for the half piece of jade pendant, it is generally worthless due to its incompleteness.
But there are also people who will use it to make fake jade pendants. They will make a fake half of the jade pendant, stick it on with special glue, and then sell it as a fake.
Counterfeiting has always existed in antiques since ancient times. For example, people in the Song Dynasty forged famous paintings from the Tang Dynasty. But if the fakes have been passed down to this day, then they themselves are also real antiques.
"Dazhi, you picked up the thing, you can make your own decision. The jade is still at my house, I will bring it to you later." Gao Mingcheng said.
Huang Dazhi was shocked and hurriedly shook his head and refused: "Let me go where you are first. My place is inconvenient."
Gao Mingcheng said: "In a few days, I will go back to the village. The mountain I contracted needs to be dug in advance to plant trees."
At this moment, Huang Dazhi didn't know what to say.
He lowered his head and turned his feet unconsciously.
Finally, he breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had thought about it.
"Ming Cheng, I didn't steal the thing, I didn't steal it, I picked it up! I've seen it before in "Shaolin Temple" and it talks about destined people. I think this is my destiny."
"I didn't know who I wanted to say these words to before. I kept them in my heart. I thought about this and that again. But now I understand. I may be hypocritical and greedy, but I really need money."
Gao Mingcheng was not surprised by this result. He only said sincerely: "You can decide what's yours. Don't sell it yet. You can keep it yourself. What do you think?"
At this moment, Huang Dazhi was completely relieved. He finally saw his heart clearly. Now that he had made a decision, he would no longer be hesitant.
Many times in a person's life, he is trying to understand himself and the world.
(End of chapter)
