Chapter 240: The Ins and Outs
The leopard said with a red face: "What north latitude and south latitude, sister-in-law, I don't understand these things, I know Bermuda, you mean it's as dangerous as that place, isn't it?" ”
Hai Ruyu just wanted to say that Shennongjia was not as exaggerated as Bermuda, and the leopard had already shouted: "Then I can't stay here, I might as well count on myself to count on those guys from the research institute." Big brother, you came back just in time, come with me to find Qianwen! ”
Li Qingcang naturally would not refuse, nodded and said, "I'm fine, don't worry!" I'll accompany you to find my senior sister. ”
When Catherine heard this, she said with great interest: "I'll help you find it too, leopard!" ”
The leopard was even more pleased when she heard this, thinking that this second sister-in-law was not even her opponent with the fuse, and with one more powerful person like this, she would have a greater grasp, and thanked her again and again.
Catherine waved her hand and said, "No, no, you are Qingcang's brother, I should help you, no need to thank you!" ”
As soon as Hai Ruyu heard that Catherine was going, she immediately took Li Qingcang's hand and said, "I'm also going to find Senior Sister." ”
Li Qingcang frowned and said: "Ruyu, you just said that place is very dangerous, you are a girl's house, don't go, don't worry!" I'll definitely bring you back my sister in a good way. ”
Hai Ruyu was not happy when she heard it, and pouted and said: "You are eccentric, Catherine's sister is also a woman, she can go, why can't I go?" You can tell me a reason, I helped the leopards catch the tomb robbers last time! Hum! ”
As soon as Li Qingcang heard it, now the two goblins began to compete, and hurriedly said with a smile: "Okay, why did I forget this stubble!" You go, I'm not worried about you! ”
Hai Ruyu turned her anger into joy at this time, and happily pulled Catherine's arm and looked at Li Qingcang, her little head raised high, and she looked like her mother had taken your seat.
Xiao Meng didn't need to say much, he immediately took out his mobile phone and told Meng Xiaolian that she didn't have to come to Beijing, and they would go back as soon as they had something.
Meng Xiaolian was baffled, but when she heard that Li Qingcang would return to Nanjing, she didn't say much and hung up the phone.
Li Qingcang saw that everyone had decided to look for Senior Sister Zhu, and he was also pleased with the spirit of mutual assistance between his two brothers, and of course he was even more satisfied with the two celebrities around him.
He had been taught by the captain for so long in his iron blood, and after a little contemplation, he began to announce the plan to find someone, "Since everyone has decided to help the leopard find Senior Sister Zhu, then we will go to Nanjing immediately now, and find someone from the Institute of Archaeology to ask Senior Sister where they went, whether they went to find an ancient tomb or something else."
"Xiao Meng, you go and see what means of transportation can get to Nanjing quickly, whether it is an airplane, a train or a car, we will take which one comes first."
Xiao Meng nodded in understanding.
Li Qingcang continued: "After arriving in Nanjing, the leopard first went to the senior sister's house to inquire about the situation, and tried to collect as many clues as possible to see what news they knew. ”
The leopard nodded in agreement.
Li Qingcang said to Hai Ruyu and Catherine: "When Ruyu arrives in Nanjing, I will go to the Institute of Archaeology to ask first, and Xiao Meng will take Catherine to prepare some medicines and weapons for survival in the wild. Xiao Meng, everything you buy is under the command of your second sister-in-law, she is an expert in jungle warfare, and she has more experience in jungle exploration than me. ”
Catherine saw Li Qingcang's order, and habitually stood up and saluted: "Yes!" Major, mission guaranteed to be completed! ”
Xiao Meng hurriedly followed suit and raised his hand to salute, but his appearance was not standardized at all, and everyone who was a little worried laughed.
Catherine asked, "Qing Cang, should I contact the captain and ask him to tell us the contacts on the Chinese side and ask them to provide some weapons?" ”
Li Qingcang thought for a while and said: "No need, we are going to save people this time, there are at most some fierce beasts and poisonous insects in the forest, and the danger factor is not very great, so we can't use guns."
"Besides, firearms are very tightly guarded in China, and we don't know if there are any national security people watching us when we come back this time, in case they know about our use of guns, it will be an unnecessary trouble.
"If you need a long-range weapon, go to Nanjing and buy a few short crossbows, that thing is not small."
Catherine thought about it too, and she stopped insisting.
Hai Ruyu saw her sweetheart for a moment, and arranged things in an orderly manner, everyone performed their own responsibilities, without confusion, and they were secretly happy in their hearts, and they were sincerely proud of Li Qingcang.
After announcing the plan, everyone began to pack up and check out, and Xiao Meng went to the lobby to inquire which means of transportation could get to Nanjing the fastest.
After a while, everyone went downstairs with their luggage to settle the bill, and Xiao Meng had also found the earliest plane, which could take off in three hours, and the ticket had been booked.
Everyone hurriedly called a taxi, hurried to Beijing International Airport, ate something at the airport, and then boarded the plane, and the plane landed at Nanjing Lukou Airport at one o'clock in the afternoon.
As soon as he got off the plane, the leopard first dragged a lot of things bought by Li Qingcang and others to his house, and then hurried to Zhu Qianwen's house to ask for news.
Xiao Meng took Catherine to various knife stores and outdoor goods stores in Nanjing to buy various equipment for the operation.
Hai Ruyu took Li Qingcang straight to the Institute of Archaeology and asked Senior Sister Zhu what task she had accepted, and how many people had gone to "Shennongjia".
In the Nanjing Institute of Archaeology, a director surnamed Wang received them, and when he saw that he had come to inquire about Zhu Qianwen and others, he did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly told the two of them the whole story.
It turned out that last week, a staff member of the research institute went to Beijing on a business trip, and out of professional hobbies, he went around the Panjiayuan antique market, and inadvertently sent a man dressed as a peasant at the next stall who was selling a celadon vase with the stall owner.
The stall owner didn't know if he didn't know the goods, or he wanted to lower the price, and he was not very interested in the celadon bottle that the man took out, so he just shook his head and refused to agree to the price of 2,000 yuan proposed by the man.
The clerk stood on the side and watched for a while, and when he saw the peasant man and the stall owner ink for a long time, they wasted a lot of saliva and left in disappointment.
He hurriedly followed, and after walking for a while, he stopped the man and asked for the celadon vase to observe carefully for a while.
The celadon bottle mouth is trumpet-shaped, the bottle belly is oval, the style is simple, the glaze is verdant, but the dragon-shaped crank on the bottle belly is broken, and it is a little bad condition.
Judging from the shape and weight, the clerk knew that this bottle was definitely a product of the Tang Dynasty with his many years of experience, and immediately asked the man where he got this porcelain vase.
The man looked like a peasant, but he was not stupid, and when he heard the clerk ask him about the origin of the porcelain vase, he shook his head and said: "If you want to buy it, you can buy it, and if you buy it, I will tell you, if you don't buy it, you will return it to me, I know that this thing is valuable!" If it weren't for the lack of a handful, I wouldn't have sold it so cheaply. As he spoke, he snatched the porcelain vase from the clerk's hand and hugged it tightly in his arms.
The clerk couldn't, so he had to take out two thousand yuan, hand it to the man, and force the anxiety in his heart, and after the guy dipped it in saliva and counted the banknotes a few times, the man bent down and handed him the porcelain bottle sandwiched between the soles of his feet.
Then the two found a secluded place and began to talk about the origin of the celadon vase.
It turned out that this person was a farmer in Baokang County, Hubei Province, and because his place of residence was very close to the Shennongjia Nature Reserve, he would often go to the mountains to collect medicinal herbs and buy some pocket money to supplement his family.
Some time ago, they had a rare rainstorm, which caused flash floods to erupt in the streams around Kowloon Mountain.
After the rain stopped, he went into the mountains to collect medicine, and when he fetches water in a stream in the dense forest near Jiulong Mountain, he found this porcelain bottle, and he also estimated that it was an antiquity, and he didn't make a noise with others after picking it up, so he secretly took the bottle and thought of selling it in Beijing, a big place, and made a windfall.
However, I asked a few stall owners in Panjiayuan, and they all said that his thing was a fake and worthless. It's no wonder that he doesn't understand the antique industry, he rushed in to sell things in a stunned old man, even if it is genuine, no one may dare to accept it.
There is no acquaintance in this antique trade, and these shop owners don't dare to collect indiscriminately.
The clerk picked up a leak from his hand, patiently and carefully inquired about the place where he had picked up the bottle at that time, and immediately rushed back to Nanjing by car to report the situation to the director.
The director was also very surprised when he heard it, and hurriedly summoned his experts and scholars to identify this celadon vase, and finally concluded that it was a genuine product, and it was also a royal thing, which was worth a lot of money.
Everyone was happy, and couldn't help but discuss why this Tang Dynasty imperial porcelain vase appeared in the stream of Shennongjia.
A professor pushed the plastic glasses on the bridge of his nose and said: "Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the Shennongjia area has been under the jurisdiction of neighboring prefectures and counties in successive dynasties (only Suiyang County was set up from the Three Kingdoms to the beginning of the Sui Dynasty).
Among them, the biggest one is the Tang Zhongzong "Li Xian" who made the "Liuwei Dihuang Pill", he was demoted to the queen of Luling, and he was sent to Shennongjia.
And it was there that he relied on a variety of rich plant resources that he invented the "Liuwei Dihuang Pill". After becoming emperor, he also named the Shennongjia Mountains "Imperial Boundary".
"If this celadon vase was washed down from the stream by a flash flood, I personally estimate that the flash flood may have washed away the ancient tomb of a relative or official who accompanied him to Shennongjia during the Tang Zhongzong period, so this porcelain vase flowed down the stream."
Everyone nodded yes when they heard it, this explanation is indeed reasonable, the director of the institute heard that there was an ancient tomb of the Tang Dynasty in Shennongjia, and immediately became interested, and immediately held a meeting to study the manpower plan, and prepared to go to Shennongjia to investigate to see if he could find an ancient tomb, adding another piece of news to the archaeological community.
Everyone also signed up enthusiastically, Zhu Qianwen participated in the excavation of Blackwater City with Professor Hai last time, and at this time he was already a rising star in the archaeological field, and of course he would not be left behind if he had this opportunity.
He also signed up for the archaeological team composed of elite soldiers and strong generals drawn from the institute, eight men and two women, a total of ten people. The day before yesterday, I went to "Shennongjia" in Hubei.