"Welcome, to be honest, I didn't expect that after so many years, there are still people who care about my experience of excavating these cultural relics!"

Professor Saito and Kanako met at his villa in the northern suburbs of Kofu City, surrounded by endless vineyards and the fragrance of fruit wafting through the air. The price of real estate here is not comparable to that of Tokyo, but the fact that only the rich have the right to live in such a place.

"Yesterday when we were visiting Kofu Castle, we happened to meet your student Kazukosuke Yamazaki. He talked to us about your experience of discovering the gold buried in Xinxuan. Even a layman like me, who knows nothing about archaeology, admires you......," Hayashi Shuichi complimented Professor Saito.

"There, there, it was seven years ago!" Professor Saito replied cheerfully.

When he first met Professor Saito, Lin Shuichi was a little surprised, because Professor Saito was younger than he imagined. He looks like he's just in his early forties. Being able to be a full professor at a public university in RB at this age is definitely not an easy task in a society like RB that emphasizes seniority.

"Professor Saito, we're here today to ask for some information about the costumes and culture of the Sengoku period, and we're working on a script for a New Year's special for a series of mystery dramas that are popular, and we want to bring to the screen the murder incident that took place in the secret room at the Ubutu Temple ten years ago......," Kanako explained to Professor Saito the purpose of her visit. Professor Saito nodded knowingly.

"Professor Saito, I heard that you still have a piece of gold in your hand that was excavated back then, and if it is convenient, we would like to see this legendary treasure with our own eyes. Lin Xiuyi then said.

"Of course, please come here with me!" Professor Saito didn't mind taking Shuichi Hayashi and Kanako to his study. This room has a European look, with a soft wool carpet on the floor and two rows of imposing bookcases on either side of the books. The desk is placed by the window, and from here, you can see the beautiful natural countryside as far as the eye can see.

"This is the gold judge, which looks like a standard oval shape, with Takeda Ryoshi marks on both ends of the head. There are horizontal lines on both sides of the small judgment, which is designed to prevent people from deliberately scraping off the gold dust, and the text in the middle marks the weight of the small judgment - ten taels, in the Warring States period, the small judgment of the Takeda family was only used for large-scale trade with those powerful merchants, and it is difficult for ordinary people to have the opportunity to see this kind of thing......" Professor Saito took out the small judgment placed in the crystal box from his bookcase and placed it on his desk for Lin Shuichi to see. And on the side, he explained the knowledge to the two of them.

Lin Xiuyi leaned down and carefully observed this little judgment. Probably because of the age, although it is a pure gold product, it no longer has that golden luster, but gives people a warm feeling. Lin Xiuyi often watched treasure appreciation programs when he was in China, and he knew that it was the years that left a layer of pulp on the surface of the goldware.

"Ah, it's so beautiful! I really didn't expect the small judgment of the Warring States period to be like this!" Kanako exclaimed sincerely. Although the Jin Xiaoju seen here is the same kind of gold as the one seen in Koshu Castle, it may be that the distance is closer, and many details can be seen more clearly. This gives Kanako a sense of witnessing history.

After admiring the goldware, Professor Saito beckoned everyone to sit down in the study and served refreshments. Then he began to talk about some of the experiences of discovering the treasure of Shingen.

"When I was studying for a master's degree at Yamanashi University, I came across some information about Shingen's buried gold, and I became interested in the whereabouts of the buried gold. Later, when I was looking up police records from the Yamanashi Prefectural Archives during the Meiji period, I happened to read that the police had found a record of ten gold judgments with the Takeda family mark on a man who had fallen off a cliff and died, which made me even more sure that Shingen had buried the gold. ”

However, because the recorded events took place during the Meiji period, the whereabouts of these Kim Xiao Ju can no longer be verified. Moreover, the police records also mentioned that there was also a notebook recorded Shingen's buried gold that was found together, and the whereabouts of this notebook were also missing. The only thing that is certain is that this incident caused a great sensation back then, and thousands of people made a special trip to Koshu to find clues to the treasure for this purpose......"

"Since then, I have made it my life's goal to find out the whereabouts of the buried gold. I'm ashamed to say that I was so stubborn at the time that I had a hard time with Yamanashi University, where I studied, but I finally found the clue to the buried gold......"

Saito recounted his legendary experience, and Lin Shuichi listened quietly there. As soon as Lin Xiu heard it, Saito seemed to be very familiar with his experience, and he could tell the events of a few years ago almost without thinking. But it's not surprising to think about it, after all, Professor Saito immediately aroused a lot of interest after discovering these golden judgments. He must have talked to a lot of media about this experience.

After the interview, Professor Saito invited Shuichi Hayashi and Kanako to have a light meal together, but Kanako refused, so she agreed. But I didn't think that Professor Saito's so-called light meal was actually a very high-end kaiseki cuisine.

"It's really a shame to let you spend so much!" Lin Xiuyi and Kanako hurriedly thanked them.

"Don't mind, this is also a restaurant that my friends and I run together, and I hope to recreate the food culture of the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods!" explains Professor Saito.

"I didn't expect you to be so good at diet!" Lin Xiuyi complimented, to be honest, Lin Xiuyi had never eaten kaiseki cuisine! After all, the days when he had just left the poor student were only a few months.

"Kaiseki originated from Zen Taoism, which originally meant that monks in order to resist hunger in the process of listening to Zen for a long time, a piece of kaiseki in front of the abdomen, and then there were refreshments during listening to Zen, and gradually evolved into kaiseki cuisine......"

The name of this ryoti run by Saito is Kazebaya, which seems to be a metaphor for the Takeda family's four-character formula of the Kazeyama volcano. I have to say that this seems to be a place of high-end consumption, not to mention the decoration and environment, even the menu here is handwritten calligraphy, and the taste is not ordinarily high.