In a city in northern Jiangsu in a neighboring province, there is a family surnamed Gu. The Gu family has two antiquities that have been passed down from generation to generation, and the shape is so special that it is difficult to determine the age and purpose. A few years ago, when the collection was hot, many media went to various places to organize large-scale collection of folk treasures, and recorded variety shows on the spot, and Lao Gu was also moved.

He took out two family heirlooms to participate in a folk treasure collection activity, but he did not pass the primary election, let alone broadcast it in the official program, because the appraisal experts invited by the program team failed to give a clear opinion. According to expert analysis, these two things should be antiquities, which may have come from the Southern Song Dynasty, but the conclusion is not certain, let alone their shape and use.

The first thing resembles a vajra, more than 20 centimeters long, and looking at the ornamentation and shape, it can only be suspected that it is some kind of Dharma instrument. The second thing is a statue of a woman about 20 centimeters high, with her clothes fluttering as if she were about to fly away, but she is holding a bronze mirror with her arms outstretched above her side, which is about five centimeters in diameter.

The mentality of the vast majority of folk treasure collectors is similar, and the identification can not be clear, so Lao Gu thinks that his collection of things is more valuable, and it should be a great treasure, and after going back, he rented a bank safe for special storage. Perhaps it was because he took out his things and showed his whiteness that he was targeted, and soon after Fan Yang sent someone to find the door.

Fan Yang first sent his subordinates to pretend to be appraisal experts and auction house personnel to find Lao Gu, saying that he could make a formal authoritative appraisal of his collection, and then organize a special auction, which would definitely fetch a sky-high price, as long as Lao Gu entrusted them with the auction. But Lao Gu refused, claiming that this was an ancestral heirloom, and it was resolutely not sold, and it would be passed on to the next generation in the future.

Fan Yang sent another subordinate disguised as a collector to the door, and proposed to buy it with a lot of money, even if the deal could not be negotiated, he would ask Lao Gu to take out the things for him to appreciate. But Lao Gu was very stubborn, not only did he not agree, but he also hid his treasure tighter, and no one was allowed to see it. Later, Fan Yang thought of several ways, but they couldn't succeed.

Lao Gu's son, Xiao Gu, works in Xiaojin City, the capital of Jianghuai Province. Xiao Gu studied at the university in Xiaojin City, graduated with a master's degree and passed the civil service examination. Although he is only a grassroots civil servant in a district of Xiaojin City, he has always been the pride of Lao Gu after graduating from a prestigious university, being young and having a bright future.

One day in 2014, Xiao Gu had a party at night after work, and after eating, he was dragged by his new friends to sit in the bar for a while. He flirted with a girl in a bar, an unmarried man under the age of thirty, who was already easily attracted to the opposite sex, and the other party was petite and sweet-looking, and even his voice was so loud, not to mention that he had already drunk.

The plot that follows is very old-fashioned and has a twist on the gods. Xiao Gu didn't go back to the dormitory, invited the girl to go out for supper and then went to the hotel to open a room, after some clouds and rain, the girl put away the small helmet and other physical evidence, got dressed and stood in front of the door and said: "Mr. Gu, tell you one thing, I am still half a month away from turning 14 years old, I don't believe you look at the ID card! ”

Xiao Gu was stunned at the time, this girl was petite, but her physical development was already very mature, it was credible to say that she was seventeen or eighteen years old, but she couldn't tell that she was not yet fourteen. I thought it was because of my charm that I had an affair, but I encountered this kind of thing, and after Xiao Gu calmed down, he asked, "How much money do you want?"

The girl shook her head and said, "My cousin is coming to me soon, he just came to WeChat to ask me where I was, and I told him." ”

As soon as he heard this, Xiao Gu realized that he might have fallen into a trap that had been set up a long time ago, but before he could make a move, the door behind the girl opened. Two big men rushed in from outside the door, and they had come with the police—they had already called the police. The police checked the girl's ID card, and Xiao Gu was taken away......

Xiao Gu has always been the pride of his family since he was a child, and he has been praised and praised by all he has received, and he is also the kind of "other people's child" in the mouth of his neighbors, like this kind of shameful thing, he doesn't want his relatives and friends to know about it at all.

But Lao Gu, who was far away in another city in a neighboring province, received a phone call and asked if he wanted an antique or a son? The caller told him about Xiao Gu's crime and persuaded Lao Gu not to ruin his son's good future for the sake of two unknown artifacts that even experts could not identify. Lao Gu was shocked, and immediately called Xiao Gu, but he couldn't be contacted, so he immediately rushed to Xiaojin City.

Lao Gu hired a lawyer and met his son in the detention center. And Xiao Gu insisted on not admitting his guilt, and also told his father not to agree to the other party's request, he thought that he was framed by someone, and the other party was blackmail. Of course, Lao Gu also reported the case, but the blackmailer could not be found, and the girl also insisted that she did not know that there was such a thing.

Things have come to this point, and then the evidence can only speak. Xiao Gu was confident that he could win the lawsuit at first, because the girl didn't look like a minor at all, and he didn't know about it in advance, the relationship between the two parties was voluntary and voluntary, and there was no coercion or deception.

According to a judicial interpretation of the Supreme People's Court at the time: "Where the perpetrator truly does not know that the other party is a girl under the age of 14, and the two parties have sexual relations voluntarily, without causing serious consequences, and the circumstances are obviously minor, it is not considered a crime." "Xiao Gu's lawyer's not-guilty defense is mainly to seize this article.

But the girl's testimony is completely different from Xiao Gu's self-defense. The girl claimed to go to the bar because of curiosity, and met Xiao Gu in the bar. Xiao Gu invited her to have supper, and said that he wanted to buy her something, and after supper, he invited her to the hotel for tea. The girl said that she was not yet fourteen years old, but Xiao Gu said that she liked the little one, so she took her to the hotel.

Xiao Gu couldn't tell if he had a mouth now, but he took the girl out of the bar, ate supper first and then went to the hotel to open a room, all of which were conclusive evidence. In the end, the court found Xiao Gu guilty of prostituting a girl and sentenced him to five years in prison. This case occurred in 2014, when the Criminal Code had not been amended and the crime of soliciting a child was still listed separately.

After the first-instance verdict came out, Lao Gu was completely panicked. An unknown stranger approached him and asked him if he wanted to get Xiao Gu out, or if he wanted Xiao Gu to stay in prison for five years? In order for the second-instance appeal to succeed, there must be new evidence, that is, the girl had to change her confession. The other party claimed that if Lao Gu handed over the things, he could find a way to get people to change his confession.

Lao Gu finally handed over the two family heirlooms, and regretted it, he felt that he should not have listened to his son from the beginning, and should have handed over the things earlier, otherwise things would not have turned out like this.

Before the second trial, Xiao Gu's defense lawyer obtained a new confession. The girl finally changed her tune, admitting that she had never said anything before she was fourteen, and that she was just looking for something exciting at the bar...... After three months of criminal detention, Xiao Gu was finally released.

Zhu Youquan was not involved in this matter, he just heard about it. This matter was ordered by Fan Yang, and Sha Langzheng was responsible for planning it from beginning to end, and those two things were wanted by a big man, and Sha Langzheng finally got it. After Sha Langzheng succeeded, he rushed to Mr. Fan to show his merits, and Zhu Youquan also saw those two things on Fan Yang's desk.

Seeing that Sha Langzheng was proud and thought that his means were superb, Zhu Youquan also said to him in private: "Just because of those two things, the innocent people's families are ruined, this is not a lot of ability!"

Sha Langzheng didn't care, and said to Zhu Youquan in turn: "I want to know why Fan refuses to reuse you? Because you have this kind of talent, you can't do big things!"

Hearing this, Ding Qi couldn't help frowning and said: "Zhu Youquan's words about Sha Langzheng sound familiar, it seems to be Jia Lian's lines in "Red Dream Building". ”

Zhu Shanxian: "Hearing you say this, I also have a little impression that it is indeed Jia Lian's lines." ”

In the forty-eighth episode of "Dream of Red Mansions", a person named Shi Nerd collected a batch of ancient fans, but Jia Yu took a fancy to them, and Jia Yu ordered Jia Lian to get them. Jia Lian came to the door to buy it with a lot of money, but the stone nerd resolutely refused to sell. When Jia Yucun heard about this, he used a poisonous plan to frame the stone nerd for arrears and confiscate his family property.

The life and death of the stone nerd is unknown, and the fan was sent to Jia Yu. Jia Yu scolded Jia Lian: "Why did people get it?" Jia Lian said: "For this little thing, it is nothing to make people ruined!" This sentence is very similar to Zhu Youquan's sentence about Sha Langzheng.

Ding Qi shook his head again and said, "Actually, Jia Lian is not a good thing. ”

Zhu Shanxian smiled bitterly: "You want to say Zhu Youquan, right? Being in the rivers and lakes, conscience has already let the dog eat half of it, but the other half has to be kept." This is another line from another book, "The Earth Master".

Ding Qi asked: "Is that girl really a minor?" What kind of eyes is that Xiao Gu, I'm afraid there is something wrong with this!"

Zhu Shanxin sighed and said: "Of course, Xiao Gu's defense lawyer has also checked this issue, and it is strange to say that some records and materials cannot be found. The girl was born in a remote village, the original health clinic is no longer there, and the birth certificate is no longer available. Because of a flood, the earliest paper settlement records are gone.

The date of birth can only be determined on the basis of computer records and ID cards, and she is legally a minor. Although bone age can be determined from a medical point of view, there is an error in the measurement of bone age, and there is no legal evidence that the age registered on the ID card is valid. And the girl finally changed her confession, and Xiao Gu was released, so there is no need to investigate this matter again, it is even more unclear. ”

Ding Qi: "What happened to that family?"

Zhu Shan shook his head and said, "According to Zhu Youquan, Xiao Gu is dead. Although he was released, he was hit too hard, his job was lost, his reputation was over, his good life was ruined, he was a little mentally disturbed, and later fell into the water and died. It is said that he fell and drowned, but some people believe that he committed suicide by jumping into the water. Lao Gu was seriously ill, but he was rescued, and he should still be alive now. ”

Ding Qi didn't know what to say, and it took a long time before he gritted his teeth and said: "What happened five years ago? Fan Yang died well, he should have died a long time ago!"

Zhu Shanxian: "Something like this, Zhu Youquan just said three things. Later, Fan Yang died, but there should still be people who know the inside story and have the evidence, and Sha Langzheng may have been caught. ”

Ding Qi: "This is also an immortal jump, right? There is such a vicious routine!"

Zhu Shanxian asked rhetorically: "Then what do you think? So just now I said that if Teacher Ding encounters similar things in the future, he should also keep a few more eyes on it, and it is impossible to prevent it!"

The fairy jumping that I usually hear about is often to introduce the object to the single, and the woman disappears after defrauding the property. What's even more excessive is to take off the suit with beauty, and as soon as he takes off his clothes at the hotel, there are people outside who claim to be the woman's husband and the like slam on the door and extort a sum of money. But playing so hard, Ding Qi had never heard of it before, and it was indeed a bit of a breakthrough in imagination.

Ding Qi: "Those two things should have been taken away by Zhang Wangxiong, so he knows the inside story and has the evidence." After Fan Yang's death, Zhang Wangxiong also recruited Sha Langzheng's gang to continue working for him. A few days ago, they followed me to Huangtian Village, and brought down a few ancient bricks from the mountain. ”

Zhu Shanxian: "Fan Yang and Zhang Wangxiong have cooperated a lot, and they should have been using each other all the time...... Teacher Ding, haven't you noticed anything else? Do you have any impression of those two artifacts?"

Ding Qi was slightly stunned, then reacted and exclaimed: "Fang Wai Tu Zhi!"

As he spoke, he took out his mobile phone, although there was no signal in Xiaojing Lake, but he could open the album and files, and the set of high-definition photos of "Fang Wai Tuzhi" was saved in the mobile phone, and one of them was opened, and three artifacts were painted on it.

On the left seems to be a statue, a woman's clothes fluttering as if about to take off, her arms holding up a mirror diagonally above her body, and next to the mirror there is a small letter: "Shadow of the Kingdom of Beasts." ”

On the right is a short pestle-shaped utensil, which is engraved with flowing cloud-shaped lines, the lines are very fine, and it seems to outline a lot of freehand animal patterns, and there are also small characters next to it: "The body of the beast country." ”

In the middle is a sculpture of a strange beast, like a unicorn not a unicorn, there are wings carved on the back of the shoulder, I don't know what kind of animal it is, or it is fabricated, and the small print next to it is marked as "The treasure of the country of birds and beasts outside the square, the name of the beast charm." ”

Just listening to the language introduction, it is difficult to have an intuitive corresponding impression, which is different from the feeling of looking directly at the image, Fang Cai Ding Qi only paid attention to the story told by Zhu Shan, and when he heard the reminder at this moment, he remembered that the two utensils in the story seemed to have been seen in the "Fang Wai Tuzhi", and when he opened the picture, he saw that it was indeed the case.

The so-called beast country is one of the worlds outside the Fangwai recorded by Zhu Jingyi, which is described in the "Fangwai Tuzhi": the water outside Long'an Village is returned, and the high wall stands and looks at Longtan. The iron cliff is deeply locked in the beasts, and the people of the world have gone to their clothes. The wilderness of the lonely country is covered with clouds, and the rain washes the scenery. Yanjing is full of robes and belts, so why do you need to look for distant mountains.

This is a poem that makes people feel confused when they read it, and I don't know what Zhu Jingyi wants to express? This poem is inscribed on another painting, which has a high cliff and a waterhole under the cliff, and a hovering dragon is drawn in the waterhole. A small circle is marked on a certain position on the high cliff, marked with the words "Beast Country".

Presumably, the location of the circle is the gateway to the outside world, and the beast country is the name of the outside world. As for why it's called that name, and what kind of world is inside? There is no other introduction to it except the poem, and even if there was an introduction, it has not been preserved today.

Ding Qi and the others have not yet found the place of the Beast Country, and it is difficult to find it, because the records are not clear. The poem mentions Yanjing, which is now Beijing, but does not say that the beast kingdom is near Beijing.

As for the two place names of Long'an Village and Longtan, they are almost everywhere in the country. As long as you search at the beginning, you can find out hundreds of large and small "Longtan", and there are many in Long'an Village, and the detailed information is almost impossible to count, because many place names have changed many times in history.

For example, Jinghu City found a Long'an Village and two Longtans, and after research, these two Longtans are scenic spots that have only been named in recent years, and the origin of Long'an Village is difficult to verify. Adjacent to Jinghu City, Wanling City also found a Longtan, which is the name of the place in ancient times, and there is no Long'an Village now, but I don't know if there was one in ancient times.

Ding Qi and the others have been very busy recently, and they haven't bothered to look for the beast country, but they didn't expect to find clues today. It is now clear what the treasure of the realm is, but what the hell is the "shadow weapon" and "body weapon", so far everyone has not figured it out. Unexpectedly, these two antiquities had already been obtained by Fan Yang, and he probably helped Zhang Wangxiong collect them.

Ding Qi muttered: "In 2014, at that time, the "Fangwai Tuzhi" was not found at all. This could just be a coincidence. Zhang Wangxiong was collecting special utensils, and the Gu family's things were exposed, which happened to make him take a fancy to him. ”

Zhu Shanxian: "It may be a coincidence, or it is possible that Zhang Wangxiong is also looking for something similar or a place, and what clues does he have." Fan Yang may have heard something from him, otherwise he would not be so interested in the legend of "Fangwai Tuzhi" later, so he set up a bureau for you to find it, and also used us people. ”

Ding Qi: "But there are three artifacts painted in the "Fangwai Tuzhi", if they are inherited in the hands of the Gu family, then what is missing! Where is the other most important treasure of controlling the realm?"

At this time, Xian Hao's voice came: "It's very simple, the treasure of the world control should still be in the hands of the Gu family." Lao Gu took out the family heirloom treasures for identification, and he would not take them all out at once, he might only take out two of them. It was impossible for Fan Yang and Zhang Wangxiong to have read "Fang Wai Tuzhi" at that time, and they should not know the specific origin of these things, let alone know that there are three ......"

With the words, Xian Hao and Tan Hanchuan also walked in.