The so-called second report is among the things that Tu Wenhai took out next, but it is not the value of the thing itself.

What Tu Wenhai took out was a lacquer box.

This box is very ordinary, it is a lacquer box in the Republic of China, but the size is relatively large, similar to a shoe box, and the process is also regular.

Opening the box, he took out the two things he had said.

One of them, to be exact, is a pair, white copper paperweight, no ornamentation, two pieces of paperweight each engraved a sentence, made up: the book mountain has a road for the path, and the sea of learning is endless.

This pair of white copper paperweights, Yu Yao knew at a glance that it was a common product of the Republic of China, and it was not interesting.

There is also a pen holder, square, with four legs, fish algae pattern, pastel porcelain, this Yu Yao looked at it twice, but it is still from the Republic of China, something of thousands of yuan.

This paperweight and pen holder are expected to be placed on Tu Wenhai's father's desk. It can be seen that I should have liked it very much at the time, and the pulp was more obvious.

The two things, plus the lacquer box in place, are from the Republic of China period, and they should have been purchased by Tu Wenhai's father back then.

However, there is also an old-fashioned hard-shell notebook in the lacquer box, with a column of large characters printed vertically: work notes, a line of small characters printed horizontally: Dongjiang Provincial Library, and a pen name in the middle: Tu Yuanshan. Yu Yao looked at the notebook, and his heart moved slightly.

At this time, the two things had been taken to the coffee table, and Tu Wenhai smiled: "Please take your eyes." ”

Yu Yao even told the truth about Fu Qingzhu's paintings, and he didn't want to be subtle about these two ordinary things, "Mr. Tu ······"

"Hey, you keep calling me that, I sound weird, 'old' doesn't sound good, I should be older than your father, you can call me Tu Bo!"

"Okay, Uncle Tu, these two are ordinary things during the Republic of China, and now they don't add up to more than 10,000 yuan. ”

Tu Wenhai showed disappointment, but then smiled heartily, "It seems that I can only be right if I am crooked!"

Yu Yao pointed to the hard-shell notebook, "This is also what Ling Zun left behind, right?"

"That's right! There seems to be a map in here!" Tu Wenhai seemed to suddenly remember, took out a hard-shell notebook, and then opened it in front of Yu Yao, and there was indeed a thin paper map inside.

Yu Yao looked at it, this map is nothing, it is the urban division map of Jiangzhou during the Republic of China. Yu Yao is also telling the truth.

Returning the map to Tu Wenhai, Tu Wenhai folded it again, Yu Yao picked up the spread notebook and glanced at it a few times.

It is not for nothing that Yu Yao pays attention to this notebook. At that time, the government of the Republic of China did not have an independent Ministry of Culture, nor did it have an independent cultural relics management department. In Dongjiang Province, the Department of Education is responsible for cultural relics, and the Provincial Library under the Department of Education is responsible for the specific work.

Attention is just a kind of psychological inertia, but Yu Yao didn't expect that on the spread page, he found four words:

It's too upside down!

"Uncle Tu, can I take a look at this note?" When Yu Yao said this, he actually couldn't wait to read it.

"Of course, but this is my father's work record back then, and I skipped through a few pages, and it was boring. Tu Wenhai replied casually, and put the map in the lacquer box first.

"Ling Zun used to work at the Dongjiang Provincial Library?" asked Yu Yao as he flipped through it.

"Well, I guess he went to work in the province in early 1937! He had just turned twenty years old when he was first an assistant librarian, and then he was transferred to the Department of Historical Museums······ Tu Wenhai introduced a few words in passing.

The earliest record of Taidian Fangding in the notebook, according to the Republic of China year he wrote, was changed to the A.D. year on July 27, 1937. At that time, the Japanese had already begun a full-scale invasion of China, attacking North China on three fronts. However, Jiangzhou was south of the Great River and did not fall at that time.

At this time, Tu Wenhai's father, Tu Yuanshan, had been transferred to the Department of History and Museum, and on this day, it was related to Taidian Fangding.

On the morning of July 27, 1937, Tu Yuanshan received a phone call in his office, who called himself "Mr. E", expressing the idea of donating a cultural relic, and at the same time saying that he could not contact the curator and hoped to convey it on his behalf.

At that time, the director of the Dongjiang Provincial Library was newly arriving, and after the old director died of illness, the position of director was still vacant for more than a month.

"Mr. E" was written by Tu Yuanshan himself, and he shouldn't know who it was, but how could Yu Yao not think of Yi Tiehan?

Tu Yuanshan asked what kind of cultural relics it was, but the other party didn't say, and asked the other party to leave a contact information, but the other party said that it was inconvenient. So I made an appointment to call again in the afternoon.

During this period, Tu Yuanshan also asked a question, why did he donate to Jiangzhou? Regarding Mr. E's Q&A, there were only four words in the note: convenient transportation.

Yu Yao was also figuring it out when he was watching. The so-called "convenient transportation" is, first of all, at that time, the Japanese were bound to invade all the way south, and the Taidian Fangding was in the north at this time, so it was necessary to cross the river faster than the Japanese invaders; moreover, Jiangzhou was adjacent to the great river, and it was not such a key target as Huhai and Jinling in Jiangdong.

The afternoon call was personally answered by Lian Dongsheng, director of the Dongjiang Provincial Library.

Lian Dongsheng talked to the other party for half an hour, but Tu Yuanshan couldn't listen to it. After ending the call, Lian Dongsheng called Tu Yuanshan and instructed him to keep the matter of "Taidian Fangding" secret and not to leak any news!

In fact, it was the curator who "leaked" it first-because Tu Yuanshan only knew what this cultural relic was after listening to it! Even Dongsheng Xu mistakenly thought that the other party had already told Tu Yuanshan, and at the same time, he didn't ask in detail on the phone.

After Tu Yuanshan was explained, he did not participate in the intermediate process, and he didn't know how Lian Dongsheng planned it. He couldn't say anything about it, but he also found out the rarity and importance of this tripod, and couldn't help but write it down in his work notes. It is said that it is a work note, but it is not a public property, but his private record.

The next record of Taidian Fangding is August 13, 1937. At this time, the Battle of Songhu had begun, and the Japanese were attacking Shanghai. As for Taidian Fangding, Tu Yuanshan has not yet received any clear news.

It was the height of summer, the heat was unbearable, Tu Yuanshan was worried about it, but he couldn't run to ask the curator, and in the notes, the word "boring" appeared. But on this very day, he received another mysterious phone call.

The other party did not identify himself, but asked him if he knew about the transfer of Taidian Fangding to the provincial library, and promised to meet him with a large sum of money.

After Tu Yuanshan hung up the phone, he was worried. If you don't report to the curator, this responsibility is too great, but if you report to the curator, will the curator suspect that it was he who revealed the news, and the thief shouts to catch the thief? This job is not easy to come by, and if you lose your job, you will be in trouble.