Chapter 106: A Trip to Hotan (7)

Ouyang Ping and Li Yuhua's wedding banquet made the Ouyang Shi brothers famous in the county overnight. It is this effect that Wenle wants, so that the people who have bullied the Ouyang family will regret it. Besides, the Ouyang brothers are here, with Li Xinmin, deputy secretary of the municipal party committee, and Li Qiutian, Li Changshan and others taking care of them. What's more, they all have martial arts and have the ability to protect themselves, so they don't have to be too low-key anymore, so as not to continue to be bullied.

Speaking of which, people are still masters who bully the weak and fear the hard. It turned out that in the small county town, the Ouyang brothers, who were already very famous because of their mother's affairs, became famous again, and there were no more people who scolded them before, and there were more people who flattered them. The family held a red and white wedding event, and being able to invite Ouyang's family also became a face and honor. The people who had bullied them before turned around and approached, which was especially numb, but fortunately, Bunraku had analyzed them in advance, so they didn't get lost in flattery.

Three days later, everyone was busy with Ouyang Ping's marriage. Wenle called Lu Yuping and Ren Hongmei, and entered the secret passage of the Xia family in the middle of the night. The reason why Wenle called these two girls is that one of them has been on the battlefield, and the other is a public security scout, both of them are relatively bold and will not panic in case of trouble. The other women, although they have martial arts, will inevitably panic when they encounter some things. Wenle, Xiaoping, and Hongmei entered the secret passage late at night, walked all the way, and found a lot of remains.

Despite its location in a warm and waterless area, the remains appear to be intact. However, the fresh air that Bunraku brought in as they walked around quickly turned the remains into a pile of ashes. With his second daughter, Bunraku quickly figured out the purpose of this secret passage. It turns out that this secret road is all made of large bluestone, leading directly to the belly of the mountain, where there are two jade veins, one has been mined, and the other has been sealed and has not been touched. After Wen Le inspected it with the eyes of heaven, he knew that this place was on the edge of the Jade Dragon River, that is, this secret road was more than ten miles long. Seeing several burial pits, it is not difficult to understand that the Xia family will suffer a great disaster.

In this secret passage, there are also many clay workshops that process jade, in order to keep the secrets of this place. Digging jade and some craftsmen who made it, the Xia family naturally wouldn't let them out. From some of the remains, Bunraku is easy to find, most of them are the remains of poisoned death. Seeing these two veins, some of the jade was of the highest quality, and he was thinking about a plan for how to mine it. In order not to let their own people come to mine, they are frightened by these remains. Bunraku swept away the ashes all the way and buried them on the spot.

At the place where he was about to get to the entrance, Bunraku found a secret room, opened the stone door of the secret room, and the jewels inside, so that Bunraku secretly praised his good character in order to have a chance to know. It turned out that this was the treasure house of the Xia family, and Bunraku carefully searched for the recorded words, but still found nothing. Lu Yuping and Ren Hongmei, seeing the boxes of gold bars and jade, excitedly "chirped" and asked non-stop. Bunraku looked through boxes and found a codex. After seeing it, he was thoughtful for a moment and told Xiaoping and Hongmei about it.

The dozens of codex in this book should be the records left by the head of the Xia family in the Qing Dynasty. It records that the ancestors of their Xia family, who were rewarded by the emperor and moved here from Yanjing in the Tang Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, the head of the Xia family, when they discovered that this secret room could lead directly to the jade mine, decisively blocked the passage outside. Let the quarrymen at that time build a passage from the underground to the jade mine. After the cultivation is completed, all the remaining jade miners will be killed and buried alive. He also recruited some jade miners from abroad to quietly excavate jade and process it into jade. Sent to the capital as a gift, and was named a royal official by the dynasty. This also made the Xia family develop to its heyday, widely purchased fertile land and property, and sold jade, making the Xia family a wealthy gentry.

The prosperity of the ancestors continued until the Qing Dynasty, and the Xia family was still named the imperial official. But the rich life also raised some sons of losers. By the time he took over as head of the family, it was already the last years of the Qing Dynasty. The secrets hidden by the Xia family were also leaked. As a result, the Xia family has encountered kidnapping and robbery many times. In order to keep it a secret, he had to poison and poison the other side houses, leaving only his Xia family bloodline. But he also knew that this kind of secret was always difficult to keep for long. Therefore, he let his descendants learn some skills of finding jade and carving, and poisoned all the jade mining and jade workers in the secret passage. Then, this secret passage was sealed, and everything here was left to the virtuous.

Wen Le, Lu Yuping and Ren Hongmei, after discussion, decided to transport all these treasures back to Yanjing. The jade mine here also allowed Ouyang Ping to hire someone to mine, and at the same time, he went through the approval procedures and established a jade mining and processing trade company. Bunraku asked Hongmei to call the family and bring the treasures home first. When they heard that Bunraku had found the treasure, everyone was excited and ran to help. There was a lot of strength in numbers, and more than forty boxes of treasures were moved back to their homes before dawn.

The next day, Ouyang Shi and Ouyang Ping went to report the procedures for jade mining and established a jade mining and processing trade company. It cost another 200,000 yuan to requisition this back mountain. When the formalities were complete, the barbed wire fence was pulled up and the mountain was fenced. The land was also hired and a wall began to be built. Qin Shanshan helped purchase cement and steel bars from Yanjing, and used the power in her hands to transfer a car company to transport building materials, and when she returned, she transported these jade stones to Yanjing.

Wenle designed Ouyang Shi's original house, along the side of the road, into a jade trading market. At the back, near the side of the mountain, three villas were designed. The plan is for the two Ouyang brothers, as well as Ouyang Yu'er, one villa each. Between the villa and the market, another row of improvised bungalows was built, temporarily for quarrymen to live in. Later, when this area develops, it is possible to build hotels, guesthouses, or expand the market. Everything was clearly explained to the two brothers and sisters Ouyang, Hu Yuting, and Li Yuhua, and Wen Le took the daughters and treasures to the military airport in the neighboring county and returned to Yanjing.

Because, when returning to Yanjing from Hetian, Wenle and his party took more than 40 boxes of treasures left by the Xia family. Among them, nearly 30 boxes are jade made in various periods of the Xia family, if these jade objects are used to open an exhibition, it will definitely cause a sensation throughout the country and trigger a new round of Hetian jade collection fever. Of course, now is not the best time to exhibit, Wenle doesn't want to provoke the relevant state departments to fight the idea of this batch of jade, he can pay attention to these treasures. Because Wan'er's family can't put it down, it is not possible to recover the adjacent rental house for a while. Therefore, Wenle transported these treasures to Yuanping Village for storage, and he also lived in Yuanping Village.