Chapter XXVIII deals with fires

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The ancient tomb was found in the village again, and this matter quickly spread around, and there were people from all walks of life who came to visit for several days, and there were reporters who were curious and wanted to dig up some news. There are also those who want to come to the antique acquisition after hearing the rumors, although we have long taken precautions to recycle the cultural relics dug up by the villagers before, but it is inevitable that there will be one or two fish that slip through the net, and many antique dealers who do not enter the stream take advantage of this time to buy antiques at a low price, and go back to sell them at a sky-high price in the auction house after a little repair. What's more, they also started the idea of the scientific expedition team, and wanted to exchange some cultural relics brought by the scientific expedition team, especially the blue and white Bafang flower pot in the Qianlong period that was taken out later, for it, we had to double the vigilance of the armed police around us.

Another ancient tomb was excavated, but there were still no valuable clues to the origin of this strange ancient tomb, there was no sealed door tablet, no murals, no coffins, and no inscriptions.

Professor Shi guards those bottles and cans every day, sometimes just staring at a piece of broken porcelain can be seen for a long time, especially the Bafang flower pot, he can't wait to kick it in his arms to sleep, never leave his eyes, while looking at it often sighs, it is so beautiful, it is simply the best, the best in the world.

Yun Ximing scoffed at Professor Shi's behavior, such insight really didn't dare to compliment in the antique world. If Professor Shi knew that Yun Ximing used this pot to raise a half-dead chili pepper, I don't know how he would feel.

Another happy person is the village secretary, in the past two days the village has come to the city leaders, provincial leaders, and leaders of various departments of the central government, the village secretary has already calculated, planning to change this place into a tourist base, this ancient tomb is not filled, it will be circled to develop tourism. He even quickly drafted a plan for the research base of ancient funeral culture, and asked me to correct him.

I have heard a lot of rumors from the people in the village before, saying that the village secretary actually owes a lot of money and wants to take advantage of this incident to make a lot of money. But it's all rural gossip, and I'm not interested in listening to it.

I can't say whether Professor Shi's behavior is more childish or the village secretary's ideas are more unreasonable, in short, both of them are chaotic.

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In the past two days, we have started to hold video conferences, mainly to discuss the plan with Vice Minister Zhou and the experts of the Cultural Relics Bureau, of course, the experts of the Cultural Relics Bureau also include Mr. Yun, my grandmother and Ji Ziyang.

Vice Minister Zhou is a layman for archaeology, and he can't give a Jianyi, and the experts of the Cultural Relics Bureau are all guys who look at the faces of my grandmother and Old Man Yun, so they are naturally the same as others. In the end, it was Mr. Yun who gave a reliable conclusion, let us excavate and explore around the ancient tombs, according to his speculation, there must be two ancient tombs on the other two sides, if there are really these two ancient tombs, it confirms the statement of the swastika seal, if not, it can only mean that these two ancient tombs are just a coincidence.

In fact, I still think grandma's statement is more realistic, grandma's original words are like this: "Archaeology is troublesome, layer by layer of reporting, and then layer by layer of approval, even the excavated hot tomb has also become a cold zongzi, not to mention the previous time when I went to the ground, not to mention digging first and then researching." I kind of understand the origin of grandma's mother-in-law in the rivers and lakes, and grandma was definitely a ruthless character when she was young.

We made plans to start exploring the other two directions the next day, but the variables appeared before us, and at about twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, I was awakened by the noise of the tent camp, and I put on my clothes and went out to check, only to see the noise outside, the figures shaking, and the shouting one after another. Outside the tent, the night sky was a fiery red. The smiling grass was lit, and the flames swept away from south to north by the wind.

Uncle Lu and Professor Shi organized the surrounding armed police soldiers to participate in the firefighting, and the fire was brought under control in a short time, and the fire was basically extinguished by the time the town's fire trucks arrived. The laughing grass burned a lot, especially in the two directions that we haven't excavated yet, the laughing grass burned a lot, and some places collapsed, and the entrances of the two ancient tombs were already faintly visible. We counted the damage and casualties, and because the tent camp was upwind, the damage was almost zero, but we found the body of the village secretary in the charred smiling grass.

The village secretary's lover is the women's director of the village, and she has been making strong hand-rolled noodles for us before, but we don't know each other very well. She looked at the corpse of the village secretary blankly, there were no tears, she just wiped her eyes, said a word of retribution, and turned her head and walked in the direction of the village.

This was a sudden situation, and I didn't expect that an archaeological exhumation could involve a murder. The Shandong Provincial Public Security Department sent an investigation team, headed by an old acquaintance of Uncle Lu, surnamed Lin, who is also a retired veteran of the Marine Corps, but he has obviously made a fortune, and he is not as fit as uncle. We actively cooperated with the work of the investigation team, and based on a simple investigation, it can be concluded that the suspect led the village secretary to the vicinity of the laughing grass, attacked the village secretary with a blunt object, and then set fire to the corpse in an attempt to destroy the body, but because the fire was not large enough, the corpse was not destroyed strictly, so the body could not be destroyed. This person should be very familiar with the village secretary, and it is very likely that he is from the village.

Ji Ziyang reminded me that he could help, I knew that he meant to bring the deceased village secretary directly to me like last time, but I don't think it's necessary, first, doing so will damage Ziyang's yin life, and second, it is not as good as Captain Chen, I don't have any good feelings for the always diligent village secretary, and third, this matter has nothing to do with us, there is no reason to steal the job of Team Leader Lin for no reason, and leave it to other comrades when such a good meritorious service is made.

But the strange thing is that the village secretary has two wounds on the back of his head, one is located behind the left ear, and the wound is round, a bloody hole, as if it was made by hitting a hard object such as a rolling pin. The other is caused by blunt force blows such as long sticks. I looked around the laughing grass, the burnt laughing grass emitted a scorched and slightly bitter smell, and there were burnt grass blades everywhere, Yun Ximing followed me, and after a short time at the very edge of the laughing grass, I found the answer I wanted, and Yun Ximing and I looked at each other and smiled.

"I kind of miss the old lady's cigarettes." Yun Ximing said, he made a pipe smoking motion as he spoke, and I smiled, as if I had already smelled dry smoke, and saw the wrinkled face of the old lady Yan Sù.

"I'm also a little worried, let's go and have a look?"