Chapter 10: The Mystery of the Gold Ingot
The county government was not open to the public many years ago, the last time ordinary people were able to come in, it should still be in the Cultural Revolution period, dilapidated it, naturally to enter the county government to smash it, after the reform and opening up, the county paid for repairs, and sealed it, and gave a "municipal cultural protection unit" the name of throwing it here.
It was the first time I had come to the county office, and I climbed in through the outer wall and found that it was the backyard. The yard was not large, and weeds, gravel, and creepers had grown in a heap, because it was already winter, and most of the plants had withered, which looked even more bleak.
"What about the big tortoise?" Chu Ying seemed to be only interested in the big turtle.
"It came in from the front, it should be in the front yard." I said.
Chu Ying nodded, glanced around and saw that there was nothing, so she pulled me through the main hall and came to the front yard. But the turtle is really gone, and I don't know where it went. The hole in the corner of the wall was not blocked, and it seemed that the turtle did not go out.
"There's a well here!" Chu Ying suddenly shouted at me.
I turned and walked over, and sure enough, there was a swarthy well on the ground, and the well stone was long gone, but I could still see the water in it in the sun.
"How many years has this county government been? There's still water in the well! I sighed.
"You're really asking the right person!" Chu Ying said with a smile: "When I just graduated and came over, I went to see the county chronicles, the existing county government has a long history, it was built during the Northern Wei Dynasty, and later, after several dynasties of reconstruction and repair, the appearance has changed a lot, but the location has never changed." ”
"Hmm." I nodded: "I remember that we were not a county here before, and it seems that it used to be a county." This county government looks a little shabby anyway. If this well had existed in the Northern Wei Dynasty, it would have been a long time. ”
As soon as the words fell, I heard a thin sound coming from the outer hall on one side, and hurriedly pulled Chu Ying to hide aside.
After a few seconds, the turtle slowly crawled out of the outer hall, looked around, and saw that there was no one, so it turned and drilled out of the hole again, and pushed the stone over to block the hole.
"I'm so nervous!" Chu Ying patted her chest: "What if it eats the two of us?!" ”
I clapped my hands and looked up: "It's okay!" I'll call Ultraman to save us! ”
Chu Ying smiled and scolded me: "Go over and see, what is this big turtle doing in the outer hall!" ”
The two of them got up and pushed the door into the outer hall, and found that there was nothing in the outer hall except for a Buddha statue. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, Buddhism arose in the Central Plains and developed very rapidly, and the rulers of the Northern Wei Dynasty also respected Buddhism very much.
"What is this?" Chu Ying stood in front of the Buddha statue and said.
I walked over and looked, and saw two things on a very narrow wooden table: the same was a folding fan, tattered, and the wooden teeth and the yellowed words on the fan were rotten, and I could not see what was written on it; On the other hand, it was a black thing, which looked like an irregular stone.
"Stones?" Chu Ying stretched out her hand and took the black thing in her hand and played with it, turned her head and pouted to look at me: "Look at what this thing is?" ”
I reached out and took it and joked casually: "Girl, you said that you were wearing a police uniform, and you were cute at me, my little heart was pounding!" It's okay to be serious! ”
Chu Ying immediately put on a little aggrieved face: "The concubine can't do it......"
Burst! I simply turned around and ignored her, and looked at the black egg in my hand: "It's quite heavy, not like a stone, you say, what did that big turtle run in for?" Is it worshipping the Buddha? ”
"Pull it down!" I glanced at Chu Ying: "It knows what a Buddha is?" Even if I come to worship you, I won't worship the Buddha! ”
As I spoke, I picked off the black egg in my hand, but I didn't expect this pick, picking off a little something, frowning, and hurriedly grinding it in my hand for a while, grinding off the black thing on the surface - this thing turned out to be a golden ingot!
"Gold?" Chu Ying's eyes widened.
"Hmm!" I nodded vigorously: "Gold! ”
"That big turtle came in to worship it!" Chu Ying pointed to the gold ingot and said.
"How do I know! I'm not a turtle! I flipped around the heavy gold ingot in my hand, and saw that there seemed to be a few words under the gold ingot, and I came to my eyes and looked at it carefully: "This is ...... Gifted ...... Father, Guozhen...... Who is Guozhen? ”
Chu Ying looked at me with a confused look and shook her head: "I don't know." ”
"This ......" I checked the gold ingot, thought about it, or walked outside the door, re-wrapped it into a black egg with the mud outside the door, and put it on the wooden table: "Let's go, let's compare with the turtle!" ”
Chu Ying didn't say anything, laughed and climbed out with me, and walked out of the park: "By the way, what do you want to eat at noon?" Don't I owe you a big meal! ”
I thought about it for a moment and was about to speak, when my phone rang and I glanced at an unfamiliar number: "Hey, hello, who?" ”
"It's me." Over there, there was the voice of Liang Ruoyi's ice beauty: "Where are you?" ”
"Benefiting the people in Binzhou." I smiled bitterly: "Don't you say you're going out again?" ”
"You guessed it." Liang Ruoyi's words were also cold: "I just asked if you still have the guts to go, after all, something happened to Mazi." ”
I was stunned for a moment and said with a smile: "It's okay, you have the guts, when will you go?" ”
"In the last few days, it's still preparing. You can go back to Jinan immediately and stand by. ”
"Oh, where are you going? Do you need it...... Feed? Depend on! Hang up the phone! Liang Ruoyi hung up the phone directly after speaking, I put away my phone and turned my head to look at Chu Ying: "That, I have something to go back, it's only nine o'clock now, forget about lunch, I'd better go back." ”
Chu Ying pursed her mouth again: "Okay, I'll take you to the station......"
At one o'clock in the afternoon, I returned to the antiques shop.
The second uncle sat at the counter and slept on the recliner, I went up and pulled down his wine gourd, and sat up all of a sudden: "Who?" Damn, you're back? What do you do to scare me? ”
"Hey, hey, I'm back." I poured a glass of water, and saw that there was still pig's head meat on the table that the second uncle hadn't eaten at noon, so I sat down and started eating: "Second uncle, do you know that there are people called Guozhen in the past dynasties?" Looks like he's still a man! ”
"Guozhen?" The second uncle stared at me with a pair of red eyes: "Boy, you don't want to arrange your second uncle, do you?" What kind of aunt are you looking for for me?! ”
I pouted, "Look, I'm telling you about business!" I found a gold ingot in the old county office of Huimin County this morning! It reads 'Gift Daughter, Father, National Treasure', do you know who this is? ”
"Huimin County Ya?" The second uncle frowned: "That was established during the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Northern Wei Dynasty...... Hu Guozhen?! What about gold ingots? ”