Li Wei was very drunk, and in his drunken eyes, he didn't forget the reason why he had dinner with He Jianguo today.

He told He Jianguo that according to the information he heard in the office, Chen Yu used to be a staff member of the municipal government, but at that time in the finance department, and later was transferred to work in a poor and remote place by Chen Sanchuan, and now he took the path of the deputy mayor and was transferred back, that is, from the original accountant to the clerk in the office of the municipal party committee, the level is the same as before, with the good education he received since childhood, it is estimated that he can be promoted to a clerk in two or three years.

Chen Yu's family history, is a college student in the fifties, the cultural process is extremely high, and he is also quite good at things, relatively sleek, and he has only been in a few days with everyone.

"I haven't even heard of it. ”

Li Wei hiccuped, and the house was full of alcohol, "Several staff members from more than ten years ago said that they received their wages from Chen Yu at that time. Chen Yu is a person, the reputation is not very good, it has nothing to do with the family composition, and his mind is relatively deep. However, I felt limited and my mouth was not strict, so I was invited to dinner and drink that day, and when I drank too much, he said that his family gave a heavy gift to the deputy mayor's family and arranged work for his family. He also wanted to go my way to give gifts to my father-in-law, but I refused. ”

Secretary He is about to retire in a few years, and he will keep to himself all his life, be innocent, and even if he has savings in his hands, he has saved them all by his salary, so how can he stumble? Li Wei took his wife and daughter to his father-in-law's house for dinner, and his father-in-law often taught him that being an official should not be a greedy word, and that developing step by step is not necessarily worse than following the evil road.

Except for the pain of not having a son, Li Wei has the same views as his parents-in-law in other aspects.

Granny Jin, who came over to relieve Li Wei's hangover with honey water, heard this passage and couldn't help asking, "Give a gift to your father-in-law? What are you going to give? ”

Li Wei drank the honey water, and after a while, his mind cleared up a little.

He didn't have much friendship with Chen Yu, but he was very good with the He family, and replied: "I didn't say it." In my opinion, the gift to my father-in-law is certainly not light. ”

"Why do you say that?" Professor Jin and He Jianguo were also curious.

Li Wei said with a smile: "Do you know what Chen Yu gave to the deputy mayor? He was drunk and cruel to me, and he muttered that he gave away a big yellow croaker." It's just a few words he confided, and I don't believe it's just a big yellow croaker. ”

He Jianguo was taken aback, the heavy gift given by Chen Yu was a gold bar? Even if there was only one big yellow croaker, the gift was very heavy.

Qi Shufang often chattered about the gold price released by the bank, and wanted to sell some of the gold at home to return Professor Jin and Granny Jin when the gold price was high, so He Jianguo knew very well that a big yellow croaker was now worth thousands of yuan.

Granny Jin said suddenly: "The big yellow croaker is actually a gold bar, only the old Shanghai is called that, and it is minted by the Bank of Shanghai." ”

In addition to the big yellow croaker, there are also fire oil diamonds, except for old Shanghai, other places are not called gold bars and diamonds.

Li Wei was slightly stunned, he was also knowledgeable, and said with a smile: "You are always right." Chen Jiazu is not poor, it may be that he bought the big yellow croaker minted by the Bund Central Mint in Shanghai in the years before the founding of the People's Republic of China. "Anyone with a little asset will store gold in troubled times, so won't he share a lot of gold from his ancestors?

After he left with the wild meat given by He Jianguo, Professor Jin and He Jianguo packed up and rested.

When Granny Jin sat in front of the dresser to comb her hair, Professor Jin said, "Shufang, you seem to be very concerned about the affairs of Old Chen Chafu. ”

Putting down the boxwood comb in her hand, Granny Jin looked back at him, the corners of her mouth twitched slightly, "I don't believe you haven't thought that Lao Chen came from such a big fortune, more generous than Chen Ning's family." ”

Chen Lao is the eldest grandson of the Chen family, Chen Sanchuan is after the third room, in the old days, the long house inherited the ancestral business, and the rest of the property was divided equally with the brothers, Chen Lao's house and Chen Sanchuan's house were divided into the Qing Dynasty, before the Republic of China, Professor Jin and Chen Lao accidentally heard Chen Lao mention such a sentence.

Therefore, Chen Lao's house has been divided into most of the property, and the development is the best, although Chen Sanchuan's house is ten times stronger than ordinary people, but after troubled times, it has gradually declined, and only the fourth word of the scholarly door preserves the glory of the ancestors.

The bottom of the family is there, even if the Chen family values books, calligraphy and paintings and light property, their family retains more property than Chen Sanchuan.

When the house was raided, Chen's family was not completely raided, and the family of four lived by selling Mrs. Chen's dowry, and it has been nearly ten years now, which shows its number. However, Mrs. Chen's dowry has been sold, and her current life is very frugal, and she has not squandered it because she has been rehabilitated, and because Mrs. Chen's retirement salary has not been repaid, she likes to wander in the thrift market to buy antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc., and their family can be said to be stretched.

On the other hand, Chen Sanchuan's family, his overseas relationship guide zhì and his whole family were tortured and copied upside down, and now there is gold and silver hidden in advance to improve their lives, but they can't be so generous, right?

"Being sent to the Helou Brigade, you and I don't have gold and silver to Shufang, because you think we have no way to live, so we all take it away from Tianli, and in the face of Lao Ma taking what he hides to improve everyone's life, we have to keep silent. However, Lao Chen's family is in Gupeng City, and it is much closer to the Helou Brigade than Shanghai, right? Since he has hidden property, why hasn't he said it? Isn't it easier to secretly take it out than Lao Ma's? On the contrary, he is a man who has bought things with the wealth of Lao Ma? It is not in line with common sense. ”

Professor Jin defended: "Maybe Lao Chen was afraid of getting into trouble, so he didn't take it out and ask Shufang to buy clothes, bedding and other things. ”

"Trouble? Don't laugh. A sneer crossed the corner of Granny Jin's mouth, "Is it more troublesome to take the property he hides than to use the old horse? The old horse is far away in Shanghai, and it is extremely secretive, and it takes a lot of effort to take it out without attracting attention, if he himself has money, can he be so at ease? Moreover, during the time of getting along, Lao Chen said that he has always been poor and happy, and is not bound by foreign objects. Do you need me to explain to you what it means to be poor?"

Professor Jin sighed, even if he didn't want to admit that Chen Sanchuan was this kind of person, he agreed with his wife's statement.

They have been with Ma Tianlong for so many years, and they are very clear about Ma Tianlong's scheming methods, and he himself has boasted that he is not incapable of being a big boss, but he feels that being a big boss is too risky, so he is willing to be a small leader, anyway, he has food, drink, wife, concubine and money to spend, and he is no worse than the big boss. It turned out that he was the right person, and the big boss was the first to be dealt with after the founding of the country, and he died not long after. And although his family is ruined and the hero is at the end, he has lived well for more than 20 years.

If Ma Tianlong died suddenly and didn't have time to explain a last word, Professor Jin would not doubt Chen Sanchuan, but it was Chen Sanchuan who said that Ma Tianlong's words were halfway through that the flaws were revealed.

Ma Tianlong is so shrewd, and he will definitely say the most important information first instead of talking nonsense first.

The reason why Professor Jin is so sure is that Ma Tianlong joked about the vernacular novels he used to read, and all kinds of poetry and novels in old Shanghai emerged one after another, Ma Tianlong was not so illiterate on the surface, he liked to watch plays, and he also liked to listen to the book, and he satirized that someone in the book always confessed his last words before he died, and the important information was unknown because of his death, which led to a series of grievances.

Professor Jin didn't want to speculate on Chen Sanchuan with malicious intent, but the facts left a lot of doubts.

is also from Shanghai, and was sent to the Helou Brigade together, Professor Jin is culturally compatible with Chen Sanchuan, but in terms of living habits, he is similar to Ma Tianlong, Ma Tianlong's relationship with himself is much better than that between him and Chen Sanchuan, there are many things and many things Ma Tianlong is willing to say to himself, but he doesn't like to communicate with Chen Sanchuan.

Chen Sanchuan is a cultural person, and often says that Ma Tianlong is insulting to Sven, but Professor Jin has never said so, although Ma Tianlong's personality is very arrogant, but he doesn't necessarily care.

There is also a suspicion that Professor Jin went to Shanghai to meet Chen Sanchuan, what did he do in Shanghai?

Lao Chen said that he was buying books, and that his grandson was going to take the college entrance examination, so why bother to go far? Professor Jin paid attention to it at that time, but there was no evidence, so it was difficult to say, and he was not sure whether Chen Sanchuan's last words about Ma Tianlong's last words to give half of the treasures to Qi Shufang and half to his descendants were true or false.

According to Professor Jin's understanding of Ma Tianlong, that batch of treasures will definitely be given to Qi Shufang, especially the jade lion head paperweight among them, he said that he would give seven catties, and I don't know how much treasures will be given to Qi Shufang. As for the words to his children and grandchildren, it is up for debate, Ma Tianlong has a lot of resentment towards some of his wives and concubines and children, and has never forgiven.

"Yes, what is Lao Chen doing in Shanghai? Is it really to buy books? Chen would rather ask Shufang for the manuscripts and notes he borrowed. Granny Jin also began to suspect Chen Sanchuan at this time, and it was finally determined that Chen Sanchuan was suspicious of the Chen family.

The family is reunited, the family is happy, thriving, and there is no estrangement at all, why? Unlike the situation in which the old Chen family of four never abandoned, Chen Sanchuan has been delegated for so many years, but he has not received a letter from his children and grandchildren, and he has not received a single thing. The state does not restrict the distribution of bad elements to receive and send letters and things from relatives and friends, but they will be checked, otherwise Qi Shufang would not have bought clothes and bedding and sent them from Shanghai under different names, and Yu Li's grandson also sent letters to Yu Li Tongguò.

Isn't it strange that they haven't had contact with each other for so many years, and they reconciled immediately after being rehabilitated? Obviously, it was because Chen Lao had property in his hands that they didn't know at all.

Granny Jin is so sure that Chen Sanchuan's descendants don't know because they have severed their relationship with Chen Sanchuan.

It's not that Granny Jin is maliciously speculating, but she thinks that there are many people in the world who love money, if Chen Sanchuan's descendants know that Chen Sanchuan has a large amount of property hidden in his hands that has not been stolen, he will definitely not break off with Chen Sanchuan so cleanly, even if he has high consciousness, he will report it to the state if he knows, instead of treating it as if it didn't happen.

Based on the above suspicions, Granny Jin can conclude that Chen Sanchuan must have concealed the whereabouts of Ma Tianlong's treasure.

After listening to Granny Jin's words, Professor Jin couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "This matter is not easy to solve. I don't know what to say now, but what about Lao Chen's ability to give up dozens of silver dollars in the first place? How did Lao Chen treat money like dung? How did it become like this, is it really as people say, time and interests will change?"

Granny Jin disagreed: "At that time, the silver dollars in his hand were of no use at all, and there were not many of them, so of course it was easy to give up." Now it is the largest batch of treasures hidden by the old horse, and the wealth is moving, and the merchant may give up for various reasons in the face of several times the profit, and will go crazy when faced with a thousand times the profit. Therefore, it is not that Lao Chen has changed, but that dozens of silver dollars are not worth Lao Chen to give up his dignity as a scholar. Sven, Sven, fake Sven can be a lot. ”

"Do you tell Jianguo and Shufang about this?" Professor Jin asked.

"What do you think?"

"Sue sù, we have no evidence, it's all based on speculation, if Jianguo and Shufang remember, it will be easy to cause trouble, and the previous friendship will be lost. It's not a matter if you don't say it, the treasures left by the old horse originally had Shufang and a share of seven catties, and we shouldn't hide it from her. Professor Kim was to the point.

Granny Kim pondered for a moment and made a decision.

This matter involves Shufang's interests, and we have to take it to heart, and as for whether Shufang decides to take back these treasures or not, it should be up to Shufang to decide. ”

"I'll tell her when Shufang comes back. Professor Jin thinks what the old wife said is reasonable.

"Hmm. ”