Chapter 5: The Cave Beaver

Fu Le jumped out of the water and lay on the ground, gasping for air.

He suddenly thought of something, and put his head back into the water, but he was almost washed down into the river, and at the same time it was dark underneath, and he saw nothing.

Jihe no longer protected him, and he couldn't see the globs of light anymoreβ€”like the adults.

He looked at the mouse corpse in his hand in a daze, and recalled the tentacle that reached into Shen Qiyi's mouth before, and he didn't know whether he should be happy or worried.

Why don't I have that strange tentacle in my light cluster?, Fu Le couldn't help but ask himself.

Fu Le looked at the sluggish children on the shore, including Shen Qiyi, and was sure that everyone should have suffered from that thing.

"Is it because my light cluster configuration is too low?'s level is not enough?" Fu Le couldn't help but laugh dumbly when he thought of the words engraved on Shen Qiyi's light cluster before, and the words on his own light cluster.

Perhaps, Fu Le thought in his heart, maybe since the day Jihe appeared, every child in Xiajihe has been fed by those tentacles.

Thinking of this, Fu Le couldn't help but feel a chill.

Fu Le looked back at the corpse, and he gently flicked it with a twig.

"Red Pupil ......"

Fu Le narrowed his eyes, and after brushing away the eyelids of the rat corpse, he suddenly froze.

Looking at the dark red pupils and its withered limbs, Fu Le suddenly felt that maybe this was not the corpse of a mouse.

Fu Le heard someone call for him, and he hurried to the line where he had already stood.

Teacher Yang squinted at him, suddenly smiled, and patted him on the shoulder: "What's the matter, boy, got something good?"

Fu Le scratched his head, not knowing what to say.

"Let's go, let's go out. ”

Teacher Yang waved at the team, and the children seemed to be regained their spirits, and followed Teacher Yang to the outside of the cave.

As they walked out of the cave, there was a roar in their ears, and suddenly a huge shadow approached in the sky, and the helicopter arrived just as promised.

The helicopter slowly fell in front of everyone, and the pilot did not come down, but two people, an old man and a young man in suits and leather shoes, walked down, followed by a Sven man in a Mao suit.

"Hello students, we are from the city government. "The old suit declares his identity.

"Hello teacher, my name is Li Gui, and this is an expert in antiquities research in our city. The old man in the suit introduced the man in the tunic to Mr. Yang.

"Zhang Hainian. The man bowed slightly, and his demeanor was very elegant.

"Wang Tao. The young civil servant in the back nodded as well.

Teacher Yang seemed to have been used to it for a long time, nodded expressionlessly, and stepped aside.

"Put the items you brought out on this table. Teacher Yang handed out a square cloth to each student and said to the students.

At this time, Fu Le finally understood why he didn't let anything in his pocket when he came in, so that when you came out, you only had the one you brought out of the Ji River.

The children were reassured that they had been informed in advance.

Then the same things of different shapes were placed on the square cloth under the children's feet, and the children lined up and stood still.

Fu Le shrank himself to the back of the line and looked nervously at the three adults.

The antiquarian, Zhang Hainian, took out a piece of tin foil from a quaint box, as well as a piece of green jade. These two things are more special, and the rest are ordinary things used for treasure appreciation, magnifying glasses.

Under the guidance of the elderly civil servant, Li Gui, Zhang Hainian took the things he brought out from the hands of the first boy.

It was a bronze mirror, which had slept in the Ji River for thousands of years, but now it had reappeared, reflecting a little light in the light of the sun.

Zhang Hainian did not use his tools, but simply stroked the mirror with his fingers, he gently flicked the mirror with his index finger, and his voice was dull as if he was shooting a ripe watermelon, which was not the sound of a normal mirror at all.

Zhang Hainian pondered, rhythmically tapping his index finger on the rock face.

The boy on the side looked at him nervously and expectantly, and the boy already understood that the words of this young expert were the key to how much money the two civil servants would pay him.

Zhang Hainian nodded lightly at Li Gui and Wang Tao, handed them a card, Li Gui and Wang Tao looked at each other in surprise, wrote a few numbers on a check and handed it to the little boy.

The little boy took it and looked at the numbers on the check, covered his mouth in surprise, looked at the crowd, and hurriedly restrained his expression.

The bronze mirror was carefully placed in a wooden box by Li Gui and Wang Tao, Zhang Hainian ignored them, and then walked towards the next child.

Fu Le looked at Zhang Hainian, who was getting closer and closer, and the hand holding the rat corpse trembled slightly.

The second child was a little girl, unlike the first boy, who was alone and had her father standing behind him.

The girl is holding a crown-shaped thing, although the age is old, but it still has not faded gold, everyone thinks that this is definitely a treasure.

"Hehe, expert, this is a real treasure in my daughter's hand, much better than the broken mirror of that little kid just now. The girl's father smiled and rubbed his hands.

Zhang Hainian didn't seem to hear the girl's father's words, he still didn't use his own tools, just lightly scraped his nails on the crown.

Then, he put his finger under his nose, and the wings of his nose fluttered slightly.

"Worthless, simply worthless. Zhang Hainian shook his head, took out a card and handed it to Li Gui.

After Li Gui looked at it, he hesitated, reluctantly wrote a number on the check and handed it to the girl's father.

"What?" the girl's father almost shouted, a figure that was barely enough for him to pay for lost work.

He just wanted to scold his mother, but he seemed to see the reflection of silver light in the helicopter, held back the foul words that came to his lips, pulled the check from Li Gui's hand, stuffed it into his pocket, and sat aside silently.

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Hainian had already tested the antiquities in the hands of more than 20 children, but none of them could let him use the tools in his hands, and none of them could make his expression ripple.

"Huh?" Picking up a bronze beast from the next little boy's hand, Zhang Hainian's expression, which had been unwavering, suddenly changed.

"Valuable?" asked the little boy's mother tentatively.

"No," Zhang Hainian replied without raising his head: "Something like waste,"

The boy's mother looked gloomy.

"But......" Zhang Hainian took out the milling cutter and wanted to gently scrape some of the mud that remained on it from the teeth and eyes of the copper beast, but he couldn't scrape it off.

"I've tried, too, but I can't get it. The little boy explained timidly.

"Hmm. Zhang Hainian nodded, took out the prepared jade, the green tendons in his hands burst out, and he used force violently, but he only scraped off the mud and a trace of powder, and the fine powder was attached to the jade.

Zhang Hainian gently lit the jade, and the flames rose like huge waves, and then quickly extinguished.

Seeing this scene, everyone was stunned.

"Good, good ......" Zhang Hainian suddenly clapped his hands, said a few good words in a row, and laughed out loud.

He turned his head, looked at the stunned Li Gui and Wang Tao, and said slowly: "Bring it and I'll write it for them." ”

He took the check and wrote a few numbers vigorously, and Li Gui on the side turned pale instantly when he saw the latter numbers.

"Mr. Zhang, we ......" He had to remind Zhang Hainian that Zhang Hainian's behavior was too irrational.

Zhang Hainian threw the check to the boy's mother and looked at Li Gui, with a strange brilliance in his eyes: "I think I found the mysterious resource at the bottom of the river that the commander wanted." ”

Li Gui was also overjoyed when he heard it: "Really?"

At the same time, behind Zhang Hainian, there were unbelievable exclamations from the mother and son, and the boy's mother covered her mouth, leaving tears in her eyes.

"Thank you country, thank you country ......"

The inspection continued unhurriedly, and the antiquities after that were all unsatisfactory, and Zhang Hainian also recovered his initial calmness, and those tools were never used again.

Zhang Hainian walked in front of Shen Qiyi, and Shen's father stood behind, bowing slightly to Zhang Hainian, signaling him to continue walking.

Zhang Hainian understood his intentions, this kind of thing actually happens often, as long as it is not too important, it doesn't hurt to let these powerful people stay privately.

Li Gui walked up just right on the side: "This is Mr. Shen Liang." ”

He gently tugged at Zhang Hainian's sleeve: "Mr. Zhang, let's take a look at the next one." ”

Zhang Hainian didn't bother to pay attention to these complicated things, and walked to the next student.

The three of them continued to walk forward, and they raised their heads and looked at the empty square cloth under the feet of the next student, and they were all stunned.

Seeing this, Teacher Yang on the side hurriedly stepped forward and reprimanded Fu Le: "What's the matter with you, hurry up and take it out." ”

Fu Le slowly raised his head, not daring to look at Teacher Yang, and said to Teacher Yang in a hurry: "It's not that I don't want to take it, it's just that I ......"

"It's just nothing, no matter how precious your things are, they will compensate you, and if you keep that thing, even if it is precious, it is worthless in the hands of your students. ”

Teacher Yang was very angry, and secretly blamed Fu Le for being a student who was really ignorant.

"What did you really bring out something amazing, can it shake Asia?"

Teacher Yang was curious and said with a slight sneer.

"Okay," Fu Leyi shrugged as he looked everyone in the eye.

"I'll take it. ”

The rat corpse was taken out from behind by Fu Le and placed in front of the stunned crowd.

"How much is this 'baby' worth of the kid? ”

Li Xiaoqiu, who was in the distance, saw the dead mouse in Fu Le's hand, and suddenly covered his mouth, and tears couldn't stop flowing. She could imagine how much of a joke Fu Le would be after today.

Shen Qiyi was also stunned, he didn't expect that there was such a thing under the Jihe River.

"Classmate, don't make trouble. ”

Li Gui stepped forward and kindly touched Fu Le's hair.

"This little classmate is quite cute. Li Guichao smiled at everyone, and several parents also laughed awkwardly.

"There's only one thing I have on me. Fu Le reluctantly opened his empty pocket.

Li Gui's smile also disappeared, and he finally realized that the kid was not joking with him.

"This ......"

The three of them looked at each other, and then at the corpse of the rat, which was already emitting a pungent stench.

"Uncle Zhang, check it out, maybe it's the carcass of an extinct animal, in case it's very valuable for research, you can take it away." ”

Fu Le instigated the three of them while staring at the check in Wang Tao's hand behind him.

Zhang Hainian suddenly smiled, shook his head and said, "No need, this thing is indeed not an ordinary mouse corpse." ”

"Really?" Fu Le shouted in surprise, and hope suddenly ignited in his heart.

Zhang Hainian smiled and put away all his tools, closed the wooden box and said: "This thing is called a cave beaver, it is indeed scarcer than mice, and in the Jiangnan Water Town, its number is a little less than that of humans." ”

Fu Le was stunned, and his last hope was shattered.

"Mr. Li, take it. Zhang Hainian pointed to Li Gui and said lightly.

Li Gui and Wang Tao looked at the stinking corpse of the cave beaver, and the corners of their mouths twitched.

"I don't think the archaeological institute or the science institute want this thing. ”

Li Gui sighed, waved his hand and said, "I'm sorry, children, if we bring this thing back, it is estimated that those old scholars will also think that we are making fun of them, although it violates the rules, but ......"

"You'd better keep it for yourself. ”

Li Gui and Wang Tao put the purchased things in different boxes in turn, and boarded the helicopter with Zhang Hainian.

"Let's go, Mr. Yang, this trip to Jihe is over, we should go back. ”