Chapter XVIII Special Discoveries
Mr. Lin seemed to have a premonition of something, his expression was also gloomy, he refused my invitation to play chess, he almost didn't eat, he said he was very tired, he needed to rest and think about things, and then turned his wheelchair back to the inner room.
Dr. Song was not there, and I said that I would accompany him in the hall tonight, but he also refused.
Lin Xiyin drooped her head, and only ate a little food and went back to the house. Aunt Wu sighed and went back after cleaning up the table.
It was the only dreary day I've had since I moved here and I don't know what's going on. And what can make them depressed and anxious with a prominent family?
I also went back to the house and lay down on the bed.
I wanted to look at my phone, but suddenly I thought that I had only paid attention to training in this room full of books, and I hadn't read any of them. So I pulled a book wrapped in cotton linen cloth with no cover and only an inner husk, and when I opened it, the book was very old, and the text was all in traditional Chinese. I was able to read from the beginning: "The Complete Story of the Dragon Veins of China" Panlong Kaigu Mr. Book, and when I opened the second page, it was densely written, because the printing was uneven, and it felt like it was connected. There are annotations and illustrations in the book, and although the text is obscure, the illustrations are understandable at a glance, because the dragon pattern has been drawn with a red pen according to the figure.
Because the printing was rough and old, and some of the words were missing, I couldn't understand it after reading a few pages and closed it.
It's better to take the time to ask the old gentleman for advice on this book, he must have read it all, and it would be good to explain it to me directly.
After closing the book, I sat at my desk and looked out the window at Lin Xiyin's room. It seems that I still haven't walked into her heart, and she hasn't fully opened up to me.
It's boring, it's not appropriate to go out, just want to get up and sleep, suddenly I saw a corner of the same old map under the closed book, it turns out that although this table is made of mahogany, but because of the age, some cracks are larger, probably Xiyin's father is worried about affecting the use of a piece of glass on the table with the edge off. The map is in its entirety under the glass, and there are two photocopies written vertically next to it. The map is about the size of two sheets of A4 paper, and it is also in traditional Chinese, but I recognized this map as a 1930 map of Jinan City.
The map was crooked, but it was marked with a pencil to the east, west, north and south, and several places were circled with pencils. I didn't know why, so I looked at the two handprints again.
I was amazed when I took a cursory look!
The first is a shooting warrant issued in October 1949, which reads: The criminal Li Shengwu (Huayanzi Li San) was detected by the public security organs, and witnessed 65 witnesses such as survivors and victims' families, and the criminal Li Shengwu committed 40 cases of robbery, 15 cases of theft, 10 homicides, and 3 rapes. The evidence of his crimes was conclusive, and all the criminals pleaded guilty and reported to the Jinan City Government of the People's Republic of China for approval and execution. Jinan Municipal Public Security Bureau, October 1949.
On this copy paper, Li Shengwu's name and the execution were respectively fingerprinted, and it was vaguely clear that they were the same fingerprints.
Could it be that this is the famous snitch thief Swallow Li San in history? I have heard the story of Yanzi Li San, which is a very famous character in the Republic of China period, good at light skills, flying eaves and walking on the wall, chivalrous and righteous, and once used a body of kung fu to fight against the Japanese army.
I looked at the second photocopy, which was the first and second volumes of Yanzi Li San's interrogation file record.
It reads:
Li Shengwu, a native of Lijiazhuang, Yucheng County, Shandong Province, was born in January 1914, has no wife and no children, his parents died early, and his relatives are only 3rd brother Li Shenghua, who lives in Lijiazhuang, Yucheng County, a total of five people.
In his early years, he became a Taoist priest in Jinan Tiantai Temple due to poverty and studied under Tianchizi. After the death of Tianchizi in 1932, he traveled all over the world, but was forced to make a living, raised 5 silver dollars and sold Lijiazhuang roast chicken in Jinan City, but due to the turbulence of the times, the business was not successful and mixed in the streets of Jinan City, and he often rented the second house on Buzheng Si Street in the city. In April 1935, after being discovered for theft of a trading house, he hid in a house (burned down) on Chasi Street and found a cellar containing books left by Li Jinghua (Li San, a thief of the Republic of China). Written above (oral screening confirmation): I am Li Jinghua in the narrow sense of Yanjing, known as Yanzi Li San. I stole a total of 6 treasures such as President Duan Qirui and Premier Pan Fu, and the government strictly ordered them to be investigated, so I left Fengtian to recuperate in Jinan. In May, when trading the marching token of the generalissimo of the Tang Dynasty Xuanzong in Daming Lake, I ambushed the police trap, and I tried my best to escape by throwing myself into the water, but unfortunately the token was lost, and it was estimated at about 20,000 silver dollars. Now I leave half a book of light power cheats, and those who have won it will cultivate it, and pass on my mantle to be chivalrous and righteous. The other half of the martial arts cheats and 5 treasures are hidden in the hidden places of the houses in the city, leaving a poem to hope that the fate will crack this intention in exchange for silver dollars to save the people. The current government is arresting me everywhere, and I am willing to give up if they are playing tricks with me?
If you have the opportunity to visit me in Yanjing, this silver swallow is a token.
Three trees of green willow and light lotus, and a hundred flowers in the meandering water of Minghu Lake. The west wind blows without frost, and the east road drinks horses and smoke and rain.
However, I was not very literate, and I was stupid and uneducated, so I didn't crack the meaning, and I dug all over the Quehua Mountain on the north bank of the river and didn't find the treasures and the rest of the cheats. I am familiar with water, but I have not touched the token of the Tang Army dozens of times in the lake, and I have only learned half of the cheats of light skills, which have not been used for chivalry and righteousness, and I have done everything I can to steal and rob people.
Li Shengwu's confession was confirmed as above.
The history of the crime is as follows:
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I saw that Lin Xiyin had turned off the lights over there, and it seemed that she had fallen asleep. So I rethought the idea and combined these three materials, the content is easy to understand:
During the Republic of China, Yanjing thief swallow Li San stole six treasures from the president and the prime minister, because Yanjing was arrested and traced strictly, so he fled to Jinan, and was fished by the police when trading one of the Tang Xuanzong worth 20,000 silver dollars. When he escaped by jumping, he lost this token, so he hid five other treasures and left books for those who were destined to be cracked and used to save the country and save the people. But this Li Shengwu did not crack the meaning of the treasure poem, but instead learned half of the cheats and did something harmful in the name of Yanzi Li San, and was finally arrested by the police and shot.
Although the story line is clear, many questions come to mind:
How did the copies of these two top-secret materials end up here? Who is the old gentleman's son?
Could it be that the old gentleman took advantage of the convenience of the museum to make copies of the museum's collections and do his own research?
Have you found the last six treasures?
Lin Xiyin's light skills are excellent, is she the descendant of Yanzi Li San?
Why don't you put away such important information, I'm an outsider after all, so I'm not worried that I will have questions after reading it?
Six treasures, one of which was worth 20,000 silver dollars seventy or eighty years ago, how much is it now?
This is certainly not the most expensive of the six, it must be the best to carry or easy to sell, and the other treasures are not even more expensive!
I opened my phone and looked at it, and it gave me an astonishing number: a silver dollar was worth 800 to 2,000 yuan depending on the age and condition, and the wrong version was worth no market. In this way, this golden token is worth at least 20 million or more today.
I leaned back in my chair, stunned by tonight's discovery.
I haven't found any information about the discovery of Yanzi Li San's treasures in a lot of Baidu content, could it be that these treasures are still hidden somewhere in Jinan City?
Thinking of this, I hurriedly looked at the poem:
Three trees of green willow and light lotus, and a hundred flowers in the meandering water of Minghu Lake. The west wind blows without frost, and the east road drinks horses and smoke and rain.
The poem clearly points to the location of Qushui Pavilion Baihuazhou, is the treasure hidden in this piece?
My head buzzed, and the hairs on my body immediately stood up, could it be that the treasure was hidden in the old man's house?
No, if you had dug three feet into the ground here and found it, these materials should have been put away a long time ago.
The city of Jinan is known as the lotus on three sides and willows on all sides, a city with mountains and half a city lake, the most important thing is the lotus and weeping willow trees, where are the three trees of green willow and light lotus in the poem, this is undoubtedly too difficult, no wonder the fake swallow Li San can't find it.
The meaning of the phrase "no frost blown by the west wind" should refer to the spring water, because the spring water does not freeze in winter, but Jinan is known as the seventy-two springs, which spring does it refer to?
East Road Drinking Horse Smoke and Rain Building, this poem is also very large, Quancheng has the reputation of Quehua Smoke and Rain, but there is no record of Smoke and Rain Building, the famous Smoke and Rain Building in history is in Jiaxing, is Jinan also have a Smoke and Rain Building in the Republic of China period? Or is Yanyu Building an abbreviation, but it is actually Quehua Yanyu Building?
I looked at the 1930 map again, and found no trace of the Smoke and Rain Building. Only a mountain-like place on the edge of the Yellow River in the north of the city is circled with the words Yanyulou, but there is a question mark on the back.
It takes ten miles from Baihuazhou to the Yellow River, and there are countless houses in such a large land.
I lifted the glass and found that there was nothing underneath except for these three documents, and I didn't find any research materials left by Xiyin's father.
I don't want to, my brain hurts, look at the time, it's past eleven o'clock, what's the problem, ask Xiyin and the old gentleman tomorrow, sleep.
The next day, it rained.
I was knocked on the door by Hee Yin, I didn't sleep well last night, and my sleep was only the inference of the poem.
Lin Xiyin saw that I had dark circles under my eyes, and her expression was sluggish, and she asked me what was wrong.
I let her into the house and showed her what I found last night.
"Xiyin, do you know this?"
"Well, I know this, my dad has been studying this information before, but he hasn't figured it out. I heard my grandfather say that someone was going to sell this material to a museum, so he made a copy of it and studied whether there were any of these things in history, but I don't know the specifics. Did you find anything? ”
"I don't have a clue, the guidance given in this poem is too messy, maybe your dad can find out, you can ask him. If that's true, it's a big discovery. ”
"Let's go ask grandpa, I can't contact my dad now." Lin Xiyin looked sad, it seemed that his father didn't know what was wrong.
"Do you want to bring these documents with you?"
Lin Xiyin told me to ask first, maybe this information is meaningless at all.
Lin Xiyin and I came to the hall, and it turned out that Aunt Wu came in advance and made us shredded noodles with eggs and meat, and the old gentleman was eating noodles.
As soon as I mentioned this matter, the old gentleman interrupted me: "Teacher Wu, you go out first, and I will talk to Chen Yuan about something." ”
After seeing Aunt Wu go out, the old gentleman said: "In the past two years, Xiyin's father has studied these materials for a long time, and he has also communicated some questions with me, but the meaningful information is not big. ”
"Sir, do you say that the content in this information is true?"
The old gentleman's face was solemn: "This information is now one of my old subordinates, the director of the Museum of Culture and History copied to me, he said that this information came from an old public security, at that time just after the founding of the People's Republic of China, many of the storage of case files and materials are not rigorous, he said that the public security bureau will not be less than ten times to relocate, at that time the case files are not easy to carry, so they were distributed to each sub-bureau, and then collected by the sub-bureau personnel, but it was lost when it was lost, in which era the information docking was not smooth, and he did not report it truthfully. Unexpectedly, when the old public security officer moved, he found this file from the corner again, and he wanted to return it to the bureau but was afraid that the bureau would hold him accountable, after all, retired people attach great importance to reputation and retirement benefits. It just so happened that the old public security officer knew the current director of the Museum of Culture and History, so he gave him these materials. The curator of the Museum of Culture and History was skeptical about these contents, after all, I had been dealing with cultural relics for decades, and I thought I could study the golden tokens mentioned in the materials, so I made a note and gave me a copy. At that time, I also identified the original dossier, and it was true, but the words of this fake swallow Li San were suspicious, and I speculated that it should be to deliberately distort the facts to hide the origin of the master and delay the time of shooting. ”
After listening to the old gentleman's words, I still have some questions.
"Old gentleman, if this old police officer was the person who handled the case at that time, he should be able to judge the authenticity of the fake Yanzi Li San's confession."
The old man also thought of it, and asked someone to inquire, the old police officer is almost ninety years old this year, and he was only a police officer of the substation at the time, but he said that he was sure that the confession of the fake swallow Li San was true, because before the execution of the swallow Li San, the city's police and the People's Liberation Army had mobilized the city's police force and the People's Liberation Army to search the location of the fake swallow Li San's confession, and at that time, a sterling silver swallow was indeed found from him. Not only that, the light skills of the fake swallow Li San and the Yanjing swallow Li San are out of the same family, but this fake one does not know how to shrink bones and various lock-picking skills, so most of the cases he does are mainly robbery. ”
I frowned: "It seems that the content of this information is eighty percent true." However, it stands to reason that the Tang Xuanzong Terracotta Token lost in Daming Lake should be able to flow to the people, after all, Daming Lake has been renovated and expanded, and the dredging and cleaning have been carried out many times, so it is impossible not to find it. ”
After speaking, I looked at the old gentleman and continued to ask, "Have you seen this token?" ”
"There is no such collection in museums around the world, and I have not found anyone holding this gold medal from various cultural relics and art appraisal institutions and private collection circles."
"Could it be that the gold medal is still at the bottom of Daming Lake?"
The old gentleman smiled: "I don't know." If I were young, I would really like to go down to the lake and touch it. ”
At this time, Lin Xiyin spoke: "I have a classmate working in the Daming Lake Management Office, when I saw that my father forgot to sleep and eat, I found my classmate to inquire, and the classmate gave me some archival records, and the record of digging up the token, and they made a clear record of the historical relics and some wild historical materials, etc., and there was really a record of the military police rounding up the swallow Li San in Daming Lake in 1933, I saved it on my mobile phone and sent it to you to see." ”
"Old man, I told you before that I would teach me about the identification of cultural relics, in case I missed the treasure that day, I didn't expect that there was really a treasure in front of me, I hope I can solve this mystery, haha, then the value of this treasure is beyond imagination."
"Silly boy, these cultural relics belong to the state, and even if you find them, you can't keep them for yourself. Besides, there were so many things that the Public Security People's Liberation Army dug three feet into the ground and didn't find back then, can you find them after seventy or eighty years? ”
"Sir, it's up to people, I couldn't dodge any of Xiyin's kicks at the beginning of the term, but I think I can make a few moves with her now."
Lin Xiyin glanced at me: "Beautiful you, try it if you don't believe it, or let you lie down with one foot!" ”
The old gentleman laughed: "Okay, young man, it's really artificial, maybe you can really solve this mystery and find these national treasures and contribute to the country." ”
"Shouldn't the country give me some rewards?" I rejoice.
"It's definitely not just a certificate of honor for you, this gold medal was worth 20,000 silver dollars in those days, and it's probably at least 50 million today."
I was so shocked that my mouth grew: "Just give me 5%." ”
Lin Xiyin sneered: "250! Ha ha. ”
"I'll give you all the bonuses, let's 250 together!"
"You bastard!!"
I chatted with the old gentleman about other questions, and when I asked Xiyin's father why he stopped researching, the old gentleman's face changed instantly, and Xiyin hurriedly pulled me out and rushed to the development center.
In the car, I saw the information sent by Lin Xiyin.
One of the many records, I clicked:
In May 1933, the famous Yanjing thief "Swallow Li San" was found by the plainclothes police and military police when trading stolen goods on the north shore of Daming Lake.
"Xiyin, it seems that this is true, those treasures are still hidden in this city."
I went on to say, "Any one is 50 million, and if there are six, it's at least 300 million!" ”
I am reminded of the guiding poem:
Three trees of green willow and light lotus, and a hundred flowers in the meandering water of Minghu Lake. The west wind blows without frost, and the east road drinks horses and smoke and rain.
I couldn't stop thinking, what does that mean?
Lin Xiyin laughed at me and thought about money, I said that you have never been poor, how do you know how good money is, but I am not greedy, if I find out that I will change the bonus!
Lin Xiyin said then come on, just use the method taught by Hua Rong to practice holding your breath, go to Daming Lake and follow the escape route of Yanzi Li San, maybe you can find the token.
This beautiful girl, what she said makes a lot of sense, then I'll try it tonight!!
I asked her to go together, but she said that the mud in Daming Lake was dirty, so she didn't go!
Yes, I don't know how thick this silt should be, it has been dredged many times, can I pick it up when I go into the water? Then I'm so lucky!