Why? It turns out that the origin of this hibiscus stamp is not simple.

The Great Liao Kingdom also has its own stamp system. The first set of stamps in the history of the postal system of the Great Liao State was the gold hibiscus stamps.

But the first in history is not enough to make the well-informed old shopkeeper feel so excited, and more importantly, the gold hibiscus stamp in the hand of this Madame Hu happens to be a pair of stamps he holds!

It is said that it was more than 400 years ago, and Lin Xiu, the first minister of the Postal Department of the Great Liao Empire, designed the first set of stamps of the Great Liao Empire based on the unique hibiscus flower of his hometown Zichuan County. He designed a set of two stamps of different denominations for different distances.

As the saying goes, good things don't come in pairs, after four hundred years, it is rare to have a complete hibiscus stamp, but if you can make a pair, it can be said to be priceless!

In this set of two stamps, the one with a lower face value has a larger circulation, about 500,000 pieces, and about 1,000 stamps will survive 400 years later. The larger one had a petite circulation, about 100,000 of which were issued at the time, and no more than 100 were in existence.

If any collector can get together this set of two hibiscus, then in the collecting circle can be said to be the envy of many people!

Looking at the golden hibiscus flower in Mrs. Hu's hand, the old shopkeeper immediately recognized it, this is the legendary priceless treasure with very low survival! His heart was pounding, and to be honest, since he met the girl who fell in love at first sight at the temple fair at the age of sixteen, the old shopkeeper had never been so excited.

"Shopkeeper, this stamp, see if it's the one you want!"

Mrs. Hu said this, and the old shopkeeper knew that he had also met an expert - everyone who is engaged in collecting knows that there is no good or bad in things, only whether it is the one he wants! For example, the old shopkeeper, his main business is stamps and their peripherals, and whoever takes a porcelain - even if it is the secret color porcelain of the Tang Dynasty, he does not want it. Why, if it's not what you want, it's worthless. You can't be greedy, there are too many good things, and you want not so many blessings.

The old shopkeeper carefully placed the hibiscus on a silk tray and took out a magnifying glass to examine it carefully. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Hu suddenly sneezed and blew away the stamps as thin as cicada wings!

The old shopkeeper was in a hurry: "What about the stamps?" Blow where! ”

Mrs. Hu was also anxious: "Look for it, look for it...... That's my family heirloom! She was so anxious that she lifted her skirt and rushed to the back of the counter to find it, and the old shopkeeper was scared to death—if it was really gone, she would not be able to tell. Gotta find it! He looked around in the direction that Mrs. Hu was pointing, but he didn't expect to be cut by something on his neck, and he fainted all of a sudden. By the time he woke up, the Madame Hu was gone.

The old shopkeeper touched his neck, and suddenly slapped his thigh: "It's broken!" Fooled! ”

He hurriedly went out to take a look, fortunately the lady was a woman after all, although he gave him a knife around the neck, but after all, he was not able to catch it, only called the old shopkeeper to be in a coma for a while, the old shopkeeper rushed out of the door just to see the lady coming out of the bookstore in front, hurriedly chased forward, and grabbed it: "You man, why hit me!" ”

In this way, the two went to the public security business, and the old shopkeeper met his nephew and told him about it, and the prosecutor also felt strange when he heard this, but after all, they were women, and it was not easy to search her body, so he could only order the messenger to take her to an inn and invite her to stay for the night. It wasn't until this morning that he brought her through the hall and invited the old shopkeeper over to confront her.

The old shopkeeper said: "After I came back yesterday, I searched for a long time. I kind of knew she stole something from me, but I didn't figure out what she was going to do with me. ”

The three strangers urged together: "What is it? ”

The old shopkeeper said: "It is a letter from my great-grandfather - my great-grandfather used to be a seafarer in the South Seas. A letter he sent to his family is also his last news, it is said that his old man disappeared in the typhoon, and his family remembered him so he specially framed his last letter and left it, and it has been passed down to this day, although it is not a valuable thing in my hands, but it is also an old piece of the family, so it is a memorial of the ancestors to stay in the hall. It used to sit in this shrine behind me. I searched for a long time yesterday, thinking that she would steal a stamp, grab a celebrity's handwriting or something, and after looking for a long time, I found that nothing was lost, but there was one above the shrine, only to find that my great-grandfather's family letter framed in a glass frame was gone. ”

"Don't even have frames?"

"No, there's cardboard behind the frame, and it comes down as soon as you remove it." The old shopkeeper said, "She took away my great-grandfather's letter." Is this worth it? If she took a gold, silver, jewelry, rare stamp, or something, if she could tell the reason, the little old man would not be an unreasonable person. But she took away my ancestral relics, and I can't easily finish with her. ”

Speaking of which, Cheng Qi felt as if these things were connected. He asked, "Did you find the letter?" ”

The old shopkeeper shook his head: "This is the strange thing - it didn't take long for me to catch up with her from being knocked unconscious, but I didn't find anything on her." And today she doesn't admit it either, she doesn't admit anything. ”

"Did you find her house?"

"The public gate followed where she said, hey, it's a ruin, and a group of construction workers are busy at work. It is said that it is an old house that has been abandoned for many years, and after the heavy snow collapsed last year, the house collapsed into terra nullius, and the prefect's yamen was ready to clean the land and use it for other purposes. ”

"Hey, isn't this a goblin?" Guo Shan said in shock.

Huang Yang said: "It seems that all this is still the key to that lady." Let's go see her. ”

The messenger happened to come over: "It's okay, she has no one to protect her anyway, and she is still holding it in the yamen, if you have a way to make her tell the truth, it would be the best." ”

Cheng Qi stood up: "To tell the truth, you may not have that ability, but I have basically figured out this case." ”

He said this confidently, and Zhang Pei's expression was full of admiration when he saw him.

This district belongs to the thirteenth public security official jurisdiction under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture, and maintains the law and order of the entire college area. The officer took them to an inn opposite the peace office.

"Anyway, this Mrs. Hu is also a noblewoman, and she was afraid of damaging her reputation by keeping her with those ** thieves, so according to the prosecutor's instructions, she was settled in this inn."

While talking, everyone went upstairs, and the messenger accidentally made a full embrace with a young man with a copper basin: "Ouch, I'm sorry uncle, it's a small one who didn't pay attention, you're okay." ”

Seeing that this little guy is so sensible, no one can be angry. The errand officer was also polite: "It's okay, it's okay, it's me who didn't pay attention to the road...... Is the woman in room 24 okay? ”

"Everything is fine, according to the orders of your yamen, the windows are locked, and the outside of the door is also locked, and no one enters except for eating and delivering water."

"Have you eaten lunch?"

"After eating, I personally sent it, and I asked for water to clean her face just now, and I will serve it to her."

"Alright, give me the key, I'll go see her."

The young man put the copper basin down first, and then handed him a copper key.

The messenger took the key, took the three strangers and the little beauty Zhang Pei to the door of room twenty-four, and knocked on the door: "Mrs. Hu, we are in." ”

Let me remind you that there is also a difference between men and women, so as not to cause any embarrassment.

I took the key and opened the door, and everyone rushed in. As soon as he entered the room, before the errand brother could speak, Zhang Peixian exclaimed: "It's you......"

The beautiful woman who was originally sitting quietly on the bed also stood up, and looked at Zhang Pei and seemed to blush a little: "You found ...... so quickly"

Cheng Qi took a step forward: "Madam, maybe you can tell us your true identity now, as well as those stories related to your ancestors." ”

Zhang Pei looked at the lady in disbelief: "Aren't you my father's good friend?" Why did you get involved in such a crime? ”

Madame sighed: "Child...... I'm also very embarrassed to say this...... Do you remember how I met you? ”

Zhang Peidao: "I remember that it was last winter when you came to my house for the first time and asked my father some historical questions with some documents from the early colonial era of the South China Sea. You claimed to be a female scholar of early maritime trade, and my father praised you for your intelligence. ”

"Forgive me, son, for lying to you and your father, I am not a female scholar, but a descendant of pirates. My great-grandfather was once a subordinate of the famous pirate of the South China Sea, the monk Mingshan. After the monk Mingshan and Wang Qiaocui returned to seclusion, their former pirates also disappeared, but they left a treasure map. ”

As soon as they heard the treasure map, everyone present pricked up their ears, and their spirits were even more concentrated.

"These treasures were left to his subordinates by Monk Mingshan before he went into hiding. However, these subordinates could not agree on how to distribute it for a while, so they could only hide it in a very secret place for the time being. Wait for the distribution plan to be discussed in the future before making the allocation. However, the days at sea were not peaceful, and some of these scattered pirates changed careers to become maritime merchants, some returned to their hometowns to become landlords, and some went to other seas to resume their old business. Slowly, this legacy was forgotten. ”

"But my great-grandfather, who was a participant at the time, was still thinking about these treasures. Although he kept his oath and did not seek the treasure in private, he told the secret to his son, my grandfather, who was already the admiral of the fleet of a state in the South China Seas at that time. My grandfather and his old man spent half their lives trying to track down their former pirate companions, hoping to get the whereabouts of these treasures from their mouths. ”

Huang Yang suddenly interjected: "This means that your family wants to swallow these treasures alone?" ”

Madame's face flushed: "I know most people think so, but we have decided that if we can really find these treasures, we will only extract the part that we deserve according to the rules of the South China Sea, and give the rest to the government of the United States." ”

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