I didn't expect my grandfather to be so resolute about the national treasures exposed to the open air and not being properly dealt with in a timely manner, what is the perseverance that makes the old man always pay attention to the historical relics that have not been included in the effective protection facilities of the state?

Although Zhuo Feng was a little puzzled, he could also feel Chen Yucai's firm will, and he couldn't say anything, so he had to withdraw from the study first.

Chen Xiaoyan on the side also withdrew from the study and found Zhuo Feng in the corridor by the lake.

"What's wrong?" Chen Xiaoyan was worried that her grandfather had reprimanded Zhuo Feng just now, which made Zhuo Feng feel a little embarrassed.

"Oh, nothing. Maybe I'm not doing well enough in some places. Zhuo Feng didn't pick up the next sentence.

"You mean grandpa said that you gave up the investigation of the information on Ms. Zheng's giant painting?"

Zhuo Feng nodded.

"Do you know what all the efforts that grandpa has put into finding national cultural relics in his life?" Chen Xiaoyan asked Zhuo Feng.

Zhuo Feng shook his head, in the past almost a year, Chen Yucai, who he knows, only knows that the other party has been looking for national cultural relics, whether it is domestic or foreign, as long as he has the ability, he will do his best to find it, and donate it to the country for free, without asking for anything in return.

Is there any other story in this?

"Grandpa does this, not for fame or profit, why is that?" Zhuo Feng asked.

This is actually the reason why grandpa's long-cherished wish in his heart for many years has not been repaid. Chen Xiaoyan thought about it, and still told Zhuo Feng the reason.

"Long-cherished wish?Grandpa still has a long-cherished wish in his heart that hasn't been paid off?" Zhuo Feng was shocked.

I can't imagine that such an old man who does not seek fame or profit has worked hard all his life in the cause of China's cultural relics protection, and recovered as many lost cultural relics as possible for the country, and there are still things that have not been completed for many years?

"It's hot here, let's find a place, I'll tell you about grandpa's long-cherished wish, when you fully understand, you will know why grandpa is so worried about these cultural relics that are either destroyed or lost." ”

The two came to a quiet teahouse in the city, entered a small private room, and ordered a pot of new tea of Tieguanyin that had just been put on the market, and Chen Xiaoyan began to explain to Zhuo Feng the story of his grandfather's past.

"When my grandfather was young, he was nimble and bright-minded, and he was soon recommended to work as a handyman at the former National Central Museum, which is now the Nanjing Museum. Grandpa was only 15 years old at the time. After entering the museum, the grandfather quickly gained a deep understanding and cognition of this industry, and was promoted to a protégé, who could start to look at the stored cultural relics, and organize and protect them.

At that time, Japan had already begun to invade China and launch a war of aggression. After the 918 Incident, in order to keep the national treasure from falling into the hands of the Japanese invaders, the cultural relics of the Forbidden City in the capital had to be "moved south" in 1933, and the most important treasures in the collection were boxed, and in the next 15 years they were transferred from the capital to Nanjing and then to southwest China.

The former National Central Museum also had valuable national treasures to be transferred, so his grandfather Chen Yucai joined the transfer escort team and became a cultural relics protection worker. At that time, in order to avoid mixing with the cultural relics of the Forbidden City in the capital, the escort team took another route, loaded in Nanjing, transported Jiujiang, and went to Changsha through Nanchang, after Changsha was raided, it moved to Guilin, Guangxi, transferred to Guizhou, and finally arrived in Leshan, Sichuan. ”

"But when entering Guangxi and entering the Guizhou area, he was pursued by a Japanese squadron and had an accident. During the rainy season, the mountain roads are rugged and muddy. The road ahead could not be taken, there were enemy troops behind, and the mule cart in charge of Grandpa and the other two people broke down, and the mule was alarmed, and rolled down the mountain stream together with the mule cart. At that time, it took a day to recover some of the lost artifacts, but some of them could not be found. When the three of them found the large army, they counted the lost cultural relics and found that twenty valuable cultural relics were missing.

Later, after liberation, my grandfather often went to this area to look for something, trying to find or find something, but to no avail. Slowly, grandpa also had his own career and his own family, but he never let go of this matter and was always in guilt. So as long as my grandfather knew where there were cultural relics for sale or auction, he would do his best to buy them back or auction them back, and then donate them to the state to make up for this guilt in his heart. ”

Chen Xiaoyan said this, only then stopped and took a big sip of a cup of tea.

Zhuo Feng hurriedly poured her full again, "So that's the case." ”

"Grandpa only mentioned these things to a few people in his family, and never talked about them with outsiders. Grandpa thinks that this is something that he feels guilty about in his heart, and it is not worth outsiders to know. Therefore, when donating cultural relics, it is only said that it is to preserve the essence of the country's cultural relics, and it is never said what the reason or motivation is. But our family knows what Grandpa thinks in his heart, so the whole family is very supportive of Grandpa doing this. ”

"So whenever there are cultural relics that are stolen and excavated and lost abroad, grandpa is very sad, as long as there is a trace of information about cultural relics, grandpa is very concerned. ”

Chen Xiaoyan paused and said: "So the books in the study room on the second floor of our house are grandpa's lifelong efforts and essence collection, and they are a rare treasure trove of cultural relics and knowledge. This is the result of nearly 40 years of financial, material and human resources of the Chen Group. It can be said that without that little obsession in the grandfather's heart, there would be no today's glory and influence of the Chen Group in the cultural relics industry. ”

Now Zhuo Feng is no longer a simple reverence for Chen Yucai and the Chen Group, but a heartfelt admiration, I can't imagine that the leadership of an enterprise will stick to the interests of the country for 40 years, in today's material society, there are really no other such group enterprises.

It seems that his path has just begun, and there is still a long, long way to go, although the road is long and the difficulties are unknown, he must have firm perseverance and determination like his teacher.

The two returned to the villa study from the city, Chen Xiaoyan nodded to her grandfather, and Chen Yucai knew something.

"Since Xiaoyan has already told you some things about my youth, you must also know my determination towards cultural relics. The main responsibility for the loss of these artifacts that I escorted lies with me, which is why I feel guilty for decades. Fortunately, I tried my best to make up for the country's losses with all my own strength, so that I had a clear conscience. But if I can find those artifacts again in my lifetime, my old bones will be enough for this life. ”

Chen Yucai seemed to feel guilty that he had not been able to find the lost cultural relics, and he blamed himself.

"Grandpa, what can I do for you?" Zhuo Feng knew that he should stand up at this time and shoulder the responsibility.

"Ah!?Xiaofeng, would you like to help me? If so, that would be great. Eighty years have passed, but it's great that you use your special abilities to increase your chances of finding those artifacts by 20%. There is hope. ”

Chen Yucai clapped his hands and fists excitedly.

"I promise to help you, and I will do my best to recover this lost cultural relic, no matter how tired I am, I will not complain, I will untie your heart knot, and repay your long-cherished wish for 80 years, so that you can enjoy your old age carefree and peaceful. ”

Zhuo Feng expressed his determination.

"Xiao Feng, since you promised to help me retrieve the artifact, then I will tell you that the last time you asked you to think about it was my long-cherished wish in my heart for eighty years. I immediately set about arranging, arranging supplies, arranging your teaching at the school. By the way, if you have any good helpers, you can also ask to come and help you, all the costs and remuneration are from our group. ”

Zhuo Feng is willing to help him find the cultural relics he lost when he was young, and now all his worries must be solved for him, so that they will not lose one or the other.

"In terms of manpower, I already have an arrangement, and after communicating with them in the past two days, I will give you the list of purposes. ”

"That's good, find a few people who know the roots to go on the adventure together, and take care of them on the way. Also, here's a list of the artifacts I lost at that time, along with the lost addresses, and the route map of the escort at that time, which are now in your custody. ”

Chen Yucai took out a yellowed notebook from a drawer at the bottom of his desk and handed it to Zhuo Feng.

Zhuo Feng took it and flipped it over, which neatly recorded the names and numbers of some cultural relics, and there were records of where they went, what happened, how they were lost, etc., and then there was a similarly yellowed map in the notebook, which used a red pen to outline in detail the road map of the migration of cultural relics at that time.

These two things alone have been preserved for nearly 80 years, and they have become antiques in their own right, and they are really precious.

Zhuo Feng carefully put these two things away and put them in his backpack.

and Chen Xiaoyan walked out of the study, and the two came to the living room on the first floor.

"Your knowledge of cultural relics was all taught by your grandfather?" Zhuo Feng asked.

"Hmm. When I was a child, my grandfather was the closest to me, telling me everything and everything. In addition, I like to tinker with these old objects, and whenever I find something old that I have never seen, I will pester my grandfather and ask him to explain it to me, and gradually I will also fall in love with cultural relics and those old tombs. You may not know, when I was in school in the United States, there were a lot of things that brought old objects left by their ancestors to the school for me to identify, and then I also participated in a cultural relics identification conference in the school, and I won the first place, hehe. ”

Chen Xiaoyan said it so casually, but her face was full of a sense of honor and achievement.

It's so powerful, even the historical relics of the United States can be recognized, and all I am in contact with now are domestic cultural relics, hehe.

"You said you already had a candidate for the assistant?" Chen Xiaoyan asked again after a while.

"Well, the people who can be basically determined at present are: Liu Sheng, Hanwa, me, Zhang Niuhai. A lot of people can also feel very ostentatious, and if you want to participate, you can do it, and I will protect you. Hehe. ”

"I said that this big thing is still related to my grandfather, why didn't you let me participate? I thought you wouldn't let me go. Thank you for your protection in advance, and then the tiring and dirty work will be all covered for you, and I will be responsible for sightseeing. Hehehe. Chen Xiaoyan said mischievously.

For some expeditionary archaeology, there are not too many people, and not too few, Chen Xiaoyan feels that Zhuo Feng is very appropriate.

Liu Sheng and Hanwa were arranged by Zhuo Feng early in the morning to strengthen their bodies, they can adapt to the complex geographical environment, and Zhang Niuhai has many years of experience in going to the countryside to escape deserted goods, and they are very good at dealing with people, so they are a good candidate in terms of communication. And men and women are not tired of working together, and they will not be too boring along the way, on the contrary, they can increase friendship.

"No problem, there will be more people at that time, so it's no problem to carry you on your back and play together. Ha ha. ”

"It's like I'm good for nothing, huh. Chen Xiaoyan pretended to be angry, and she was extremely happy in her heart.

"Let's arrange it like this for the time being, take some time in the next two days, and make an appointment with everyone to discuss this matter, we can't force other people's wishes, we have to agree to everyone's own, right?" Zhuo Feng said.

"Well, you can arrange to call me or send me a message, I have time at any time, and I would like to thank everyone for their help to my grandfather then. ”