"Do you know that for a young girl, seeing this kind of videotape will greatly subvert my world view?"
Wu Xie asked doubtfully, "Is this why you investigated this matter?"
"Yes, actually I have a speculation in my mind that after so many years, my aunt should be no longer alive."
Fatty and Wuxie looked at each other, obviously thinking of the corpse in Yunding Tiangong.
Wuxie hesitated for a moment, but still felt that he should tell her the matter, "We discovered it when we were at Yunding Tiangong..."
Wuxie told Huo Xiuxiu in detail what they found in Yunding Tiangong and Banai, because Huo Xiuxiu was not qualified to go in when she chatted with Mrs. Huo before, so she didn't know what Wuxie talked about with her grandma.
There were so many things that Wuxie had gone through, and Wuxie talked about them back and forth for more than half an hour.
After hearing Wuxie's words, Huo Xiuxiu was silent for a few minutes and then began to tell her story.
"Since I can remember, my grandma has been looking for the whereabouts of my aunt Huo Ling, but there has been no progress. Over the years, my grandma has followed the traces of my aunt's last disappearance and has been to many places. My grandma has been to Banai and Xisha. ”
"The investigation into my aunt's whereabouts took a particularly big turn in 1995. Grandma no longer went to the places where my aunt had been before she disappeared, but stayed put. All the people sent out to find my aunt were Taken back.”
"I didn't know the reason at first, but then I accidentally found out that in March 1995, my grandma received a package. The content in the package was a video tape. After receiving this package, my grandma looked for me. Auntie’s actions just stopped.”
"When I checked the records, I found that starting in 1995, for six consecutive years, someone would send my grandma a videotape in March every year. My grandma is a very old-school person, and she has no idea about videotapes. Interested."
"I became very interested in this video tape. I searched all over the house. Finally, I discovered that the floor under my grandma's closet was movable. When my grandma was out, I randomly picked a video and ripped it. Put it back again.”
The fat man asked with a frown. "It's that simple?"
Huo Xiuxiu retorted, "Is this simple? I'm so nervous."
Lu Yao said lazily, "Of course it's simple. I even suspected that your grandma deliberately let it slip. After all, even a fool like Wuxie can tell whether his things have been touched and whether someone has entered the house." As an outsider, how could someone like your grandma not even know that the things in her hands have been touched by others?"
Wuxie thought it made sense, but I didn't know what was going on. It always felt like something was weird. "After you tampered with that video tape, there's no way your grandma wouldn't notice it!"
Huo Xiuxiu ignored them and continued: "After I found this video tape, I was too scared to go to my grandma. But this desire for the truth prompted me to continue investigating."
"I didn't have any direction at first, but I found a lot of old letters at home. I didn't have any direction for investigation, so I thought of a more adventurous way. I spent a long time imitating my grandma's handwriting. I wrote back to all the addresses on those old letters.”
"Although these letters are very old and may not be able to be sent, and the contents are also some business transactions, but I adhere to the idea of casting a wide net and catch more fish, so I sent them all."
There was no response for the first few months. It was not until the fifth month that I received a letter with only one line on it.
Don't bring up old things again.
The address sent was a small shop in Liulicheng. When she arrived at the shop, there was only one old man in the shop. Look at her smile and reveal the gold teeth in her mouth.
Wu Xie frowned and looked at her in confusion. He was not familiar with the name Jin Wantang, but the image of the old man with golden teeth was very familiar to Wu Xie. The beginning of all this was when an old man with golden teeth came to his shop to look for him. rubbings.
For so long, Wu Xie subconsciously thought that the appearance of this person was an accident. It seemed that his appearance was inevitable or planned. No wonder Lu Yao wanted to ask him who asked him to go to Wushan Residence. .
Huo Xiuxiu had a strange expression as she talked about everything Jin Wantang told him.
At that time, Jin Wantang was also well-known in Beijing's university circles as an eye-catcher and a know-it-all. From Hardman's cigarette case to a woman's bellyband, there was nothing he was not familiar with.
In the early 1960s, he relied on a pair of eyes in Liulichang, starting with two yuan, and in the sluggish collection market, relying on old books one by one, he became a millionaire. He is also considered to be a wealthy person in the category of ancient books. gained a great reputation.
Later, the crackdown on speculation led to the opening of the office. Jin Wantang stopped at the right time, and his net worth of ten thousand yuan was saved. Although the business could not be continued, the reputation among the people remained.
At that time, major institutions, big families, university research laboratories and even foreigners came to ask him for evaluation. It was almost the happiest time of his life.
At that time, almost all major antique families in Beijing had cooperative relationships with him. This time it was the Huo family who took the lead. Huo Xiangu personally asked him to participate in this operation, and he readily agreed.
However, Jin Wantang did not expect that the transaction he participated in would be so involved. It may be the largest tomb robbing activity in the history of tomb robbing.
The number of people involved in this transaction was over two hundred, including those who were involved but did not actually go to the ground. It was estimated that there were thousands of people.
However, these are not enough to highlight the specialness of this transaction. The real reason that made Jin Wantang think this deal must be special was that it was said that there were nine people in total leading the deal.
