Chapter 8: Zhang Baozai's Treasure
The next day, the four of them returned to Cheung Chau Island, and this time Niu 13 insisted that they must live on Cheung Chau Island.
It's just a metaphor, who will stop him, yesterday Qin Long wanted to live on Cheung Chau Island, he had to go to Central to buy something for Qin Feng.
There are several decent hotels on Cheung Chau Island, but Niu 13 insisted on staying in a homestay closest to the Cheung Chau Island Police Station, went out for a turn and came back, and described the situation of the Cheung Chau Island Police Station to Qin Long and several of them, from the basic setting of the police station to the specific situation of each police officer, and even the salary and family situation of each police officer were clear, and those who didn't know thought he was the sheriff of the Cheung Chau Island Police Station.
Qin Long called Qin Zhen and described the matter on the phone, Qin Zhen and Qin Long don't need to hide it, to put it mildly, the entire Daqin Industry is serving him, of course, it is a glory.
Xiao Liang and Xiao Wei also fed back information, yesterday Qin Long ordered Xiao Wei to arrange for insects to closely monitor Eighth Uncle and Ah Xiang and their people, including the buck teeth who were almost not slapped to death by him.
The news that the little boy and the little monster fed back is really wonderful, just like acting in a movie.
After Qin Long and the others left, the eighth uncle immediately arranged for someone to send Ah Xiang and Er Fei away and find a place to hide.
Uncle Eight seems to still have some prestige in their industry, and the Brother Sheng he contacted quickly rushed to Uncle Ba's Oyster Shop with a few people who looked like they were at the level of big guys, and there were hundreds of people just following those big guys.
The next thing is the Bafang ruffle, anyway, the eighth uncle is dazzled by the buckteeth, Ah Xiang and Er Fei have never been to his store at all.
This is talking nonsense with his eyes open, the eighth uncle has a high seniority, as long as he doesn't catch people in front of him, no one can help him.
This also shows that the eighth uncle must be going to die to protect Ah Xiang and Er Fei.
Ah Xiang and Er Fei's matter Qin Long also basically figured it out, it is nothing more than the Harmony Association and Xingsheng fighting for territory, Ah Xiang and Er Fei drew a lot of dead lots in the Harmony Association to be the boss of Xingsheng, Xingsheng must catch these two people Blood Sacrifice Boss, in short, that's the case, a lot of chatter and crookedness, and it also involves the matter of Bucktooth and Xingsheng competing for the head of another important leader after the death of the Xingsheng boss, it seems that the two sides agreed that whoever catches Ah Xiang and Er Fei first will be the leader of Xingsheng.
It seems that even the police are now looking for Ah Xiang and Er Fei, and even blocked the passage to the mainland and the passage for escape by water, and the matter is quite big.
However, although these things are great events in a certain circle, they have not seen the slightest in the newspapers, and the people of Hong Kong Island are still living their ordinary lives, and the protection fees that should be paid are not paid less because the prosperous boss hangs up.
In short, these crooked things are almost no different from the gangster movies that flourished on Hong Kong Island.
Qin Long lost interest in this, the dog-eat-dog matter, I didn't know if it was right or wrong to save Ah Xiang and Er Fei yesterday, but fortunately it didn't have anything to do with the two of them.
However, it was Ah Xiang's life experience that aroused some interest from Qin Long, he didn't expect that this Ah Xiang was actually a descendant of the great pirate Zhang Baozai more than a hundred years ago, including the eighth uncle, who was also inextricably linked to Zhang Baozai's generation, so it was no wonder that the eighth uncle would die to protect Ah Xiang.
Qin Long didn't know if the treasure buried under the Cheung Chau Island Police Station was related to Zhang Baozai, the place where the treasure was buried was a completely sealed stone chamber, built very strongly, and it seemed that it was specially set up for the purpose of hiding the treasure.
The stone room is full of all kinds of boxes, there are as many as sixty or seventy, the styles of the boxes are Chinese, there are also Western, among which there are more than a dozen iron boxes, just looking at these boxes, Qin Long is already a little sure that this treasure is really related to Zhang Baozai.
Who else but a pirate could have such a mess of boxes containing things?
Not to mention what exactly was in the box, the row of rusty breech guns placed against the wall alone already reflected the identity of the treasure collector from the side.
How could an ordinary person still place so many guns in the treasure place, and how could an ordinary person have the opportunity to get so many guns?
These breech guns came in at least five or six styles, and they were very messy, and most of them were made in the West.
In the middle of several boxes there were two small breech guns cast in iron, which was not something that ordinary people could obtain.
Most of these small breech guns were used on ships when Britain was on the seas a hundred years ago.
The British devil's two-masted sailing cruiser that Qin Long found in the Guanyu Strait was equipped with this kind of breech gun.
In addition, several barrels were stacked next to the two breech guns, and the skulls and fire prohibition signs were clearly visible on the barrels, so it was not surprising that these barrels should have been placed with explosives.
Seeing these things, Qin Long was already fifty percent sure that this batch of hidden treasures must have been left by Zhang Baozai back then, except for him, there would be no second person on Changzhou Island back then who could have these things.
Qin Long wouldn't let go of the contents of those boxes, he ordered the little monster to go into those boxes and check them, even if the iron box was well preserved, it couldn't stop the little monster's sharp teeth.
The items stored in the box are even more dazzling, including gold and silver ingots, jewelry, gold and silverware, and some very fine porcelain.
There are a few boxes full of all kinds of calligraphy and paintings, Qin Long is not as good as Tang Hao'er at this point, Tang Hao'er can see the handwriting of those calligraphy and paintings through his obedient eyes, and he can clearly know whose work is in the painting scroll, Qin Long can only describe it through the little monster, and there are always some unsatisfactory places in the language description.
However, Qin Long and Tang Hao'er had already made the decision to try their best to get this treasure no matter what, if nothing else, they rushed to the scroll signed Wang Xizhi in a certain box, and they must also get this treasure.
However, Tang Haoer has some doubts about the authenticity of this scroll signed by Wang Xizhi, although this scroll must be the work of a hundred years ago, but since Wang Xizhi's fame, there is no calligrapher in the next thousand years who has not imitated Wang Xizhi's work.
It can be said that Wang Xizhi's works are one of the most imitated works by calligraphers, and some people even imitate Wang Xizhi's signature seals, which has caused the hand-me-down Wang Xizhi's works to be mixed, and fakes are popular.
Another one that has been imitated the most is the works of Tang Bohu, a master of calligraphy and painting in the Ming Dynasty, so that for a period of time, people in the antique shop shook their heads when they heard Tang Bohu's works.
There are too many fakes, and some of them have even surpassed the level of Tang Bohu's calligraphy and painting, and it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity.
However, even if your works have surpassed the level of Tang Haoer's calligraphy and painting, your works are still fakes, otherwise why would you still imitate other people's works?
If you don't have the ability to create your own creation, you only rely on plagiarism to survive, no matter how exquisite you are, you won't be able to become everyone.
The largest number of these dozens of chests were some silverware, and ten of them were full of silver cutlery, plates, silver kettles, knives and forks and the like, which seemed to have not been used and should have come out of the same batch.
With this batch of Western tableware, Qin Long and Tang Haoer have more sufficient reasons to suspect that this treasure is related to the big pirate Zhang Baozai.