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!
Railway stations and bus stations must all cooperate with bag opening and inspection.
All the major antique markets and cultural relic shops have secretly deployed police to ambush them.
As long as the other party dares to come to sell something, they will definitely be killed on the spot!
Such a big movement made the mother and son scared, especially Xu Ruifeng! Even more frightened.
Of the thirty cultural relics, she chose to flush eight of them into the sewer, and burned two silk fabrics with fire, including the national treasure cultural relic "Dan Clothes", which were made of ice silk. The total weight is less than that of an egg. When stacked, it can be stuffed into a matchbox. It can be said that it is as light as a feather when worn on the body. Modern clothes makers simply cannot make it.
At this time, there were about 20 cultural relics left in the hands of the mother and son. Xu Ruifeng divided them into two packages. One package was lost at the door of the post office, and the other was lost in the green belt around the museum. She thought that returning the items would be fine.
Soon, within a few days, Xu Fandi was caught stealing someone's wallet in a restaurant. When the police searched him, they accidentally found a half-broken glass knife.
As it happened, the other half was left at the crime scene.
The evidence was so solid that they were immediately arrested.
Xu Fandi was only 17 years old at the time and was a minor. He was immediately sentenced to death and suspended for two years. His mother was also sentenced to fifteen years. Later, one went to Hengyang Prison and the other to Changsha Women's Prison.
This crime is different from the crime of tomb robbing. It is a crime of stealing and damaging cultural relics of individuals or organizations. I have researched it. According to the current law, he will be sentenced to more than ten years to death, even if you steal a hundred pieces, or if you use a pack of explosives to destroy Leshan If the Buddha explodes, it is still of this age and there will be no immediate death penalty.
The case ended in this way, and all sectors of society generally believed this statement. Not long after Xu Fandi was imprisoned, he became severely mentally ill. He was so crazy that no one knew him. After he was released from prison in the late 1990s, reporters came to interview him and he bit people.
His mother, Xu Ruifeng, was still alive a few years ago. Some people saw her picking up vegetable leaves and eating them at the vegetable market. I don’t know if she is still alive now.
This is the whole story, but he said to me with a solemn face: "Yunfeng, it's not that simple. In the end, the kid is just a sheep. If you think about the whole process carefully, is there anything that doesn't make sense or is unreasonable?" .”
After thinking about it for a while, I found that it really does.
Let’s just talk about the old man at the gate of the museum. He has been working for a long time, so he must know all the staff! In the middle of the night, I saw a completely unfamiliar young man, holding a big bulging bag in his hand, and wanted to open the door to go out. Without asking, he just opened the door and let him go? Is this consistent with normal logic?
Now, why did people go crazy soon after Xu Anti-Emperor entered?
In the end, only about 20 pieces of those things were recovered. Ten of them were said to have been damaged, and some plain gauze garments were said to have been burned. Who saw it with their own eyes? Or is there video evidence?
No, this all depends on the parties’ self-reports.
There are more than thirty cultural relics, fifteen of which are first-class cultural relics. The first-class represents nobleness.
What a coincidence, the ten missing cultural relics are all the most valuable first-class cultural relics!
After thinking for a long time, I immediately asked suspiciously: "Boss, is it possible that the gatekeeper was an insider?"
He shook his head and said, "That old man from Mengang is not a mole."
"The old man was secretly given obedient water that night, so he let him go without asking. After the incident, the police took notes, and the old man also insisted that he did not remember what happened that night. This was all just obedient water. the sequelae.”
"No one has seen the real ghost's face and doesn't know its identity and background. But Xu Anti-Emperor went crazy later and is definitely related to this person. The ten missing cultural relics are also related to him."
He raised his head and said seriously: "This person has no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life. In a real sense, he has deceived people all over the country."
