The fat man's life was picked up, according to him, he didn't know anything from the moment he fell, and the water quickly dragged him into the depths, and finally he could be considered to be the green smoke from the ancestral tomb if he came back to life. We stayed in Shanghai for a month, and we went back with the old Gu, Yuan Xiaobai's teacher, who was very interested in the hairpin on the fat man's hand. The old man took a telegram back to the United States, saying that there was a major discovery in China, that the dispute between the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty can be said to be the most wonderful in ancient Chinese history, the high economic development of the Song Dynasty and the decline of his national strength did not match, and what made the old man even more excited was that he was sure that the hairpin in the fat man's hand was not an item from the Central Plains, but from the Uighur country of Xizhou, that is, the country of Qiuzi!

Qiuzi country, perhaps no stranger to those who like history, about a thousand years ago, was its land in today's Xinjiang for generations. The Flaming Mountain mentioned in "Journey to the West" refers to the story of Master Xuanzang passing through the country of Qiuzi, and what is even more peculiar on the hairpin is that it has a string of up to 16 characters, which are micro-carved and can only be seen with a magnifying glass.

The hairpin itself is in the shape of a phoenix, which is a typical protagonist of the Central Plains mythological story, but the text engraved is indeed the Uighur script that has been lost for a long time, this kind of writing has only been used in the history of the Qiuzi Kingdom, and it is not connected with other famous peoples, which is also the place that Lao Gu is most interested in.

Soon, the fax from the United States came, coinciding with the honeymoon period of the global Cold War between China and the United States at that time, and Nixon's visit to China turned China and the United States from enemies into friends at once. Stanford University in the United States, together with a top private museum in the United States, said that it was going to conduct an academic research, but at that time, just because the photo of the fat man's hairpin was sent back, the other party offered a million dollars and said that it wanted to collect it.

It was unexpectedly hit by such a big golden egg, especially the fat man, although his head was wrapped in gauze, but the whole person's mouth was about to burst with laughter. A hairpin, for us, it was easy to get back, no one expected it to be so valuable, but soon trouble came to the door, just when we were about to go back to Hong Village, there was a wave of uninvited guests to the Yuan family mansion.

Who? The one in the lead seems to know Cha Wenbin......

"Master Long...... "Our little half-immortal Cha Wenbin also bowed his head when he saw him, and his attitude was very respectful, I know that there are not many people in this world who can enter his "magic eye". And judging from Yuan Xiaobai's father's attitude towards that Dragon Master, it seems that that person really has weight, because the Chinese are the most particular about occupying places, this is the Yuan family mansion, and Uncle Yuan is just standing in the last row of the people who come!

Long Ye took a sip of tea and said, "Should I call you 1982, or Cha Wenbin?" Then he smiled and said, "I think you should be qualified to let me call your name, it's your honor." ”

What the? A person's name was given by his parents, and this guy actually talks like that!

And what surprised me even more was that Cha Wenbin responded respectfully: "Master Xie Long." ”

That person seemed to have a clear purpose as soon as he came, and he didn't turn around, and directly stretched out his hand and said, "What about the things, bring them." ”

"What?" "That hairpin!" He shook a photo in his hand, I really admire our country's information security, this is the telegram sent by Lao Gu to the United States.

Cha Wenbin responded: "It's not mine. ”

Long Ye got up and looked around, looked me and the fat man up and down, and said, "These are your friends." ”

"Yes." "That's good, is there a difference between yours and your friend's?" When I heard him say this, I really felt that he was a **naked**, especially with that gaze, greedy and fierce.

He walked to Yuan Xiaobai's father's side with a teacup and said, "Mr. Yuan is very familiar with how many children?" ”

"I'm friends with my little girl." "That's good!"

"Don't embarrass them, I can give you something." Saying that, Cha Wenbin stretched out his hand to the fat man.

"Why?" Without waiting for the fat man to speak, the old Gu got up first, and he asked at Long Ye: "You trespassed on the house first, and threatened the safety of others later, I want to call the police, I want to complain to the embassy!" ”

Long Ye walked to Lao Gu's side and stretched out his hand and said: "This is Professor Gu, Professor Gu is an American, he doesn't know the laws of China, our country stipulates that all cultural relics unearthed underground belong to the state." If someone insists on taking this hairpin for himself or trying to buy and sell it, then according to the laws of our country, they can be sentenced to prison, and reselling cultural relics is a big crime in our country. ”

"You ......" Lao Gu was speechless for a while, turned around and went to get the telephone and said: "I want to call the embassy, my person has been threatened, I want to complain to you!" ”

Long Ye stepped forward and pressed Lao Gu's hand and said, "I advise Professor Gu not to affect the relationship between the two countries, this is not an ordinary artifact, you and I both know that its value is immeasurable." Just want to take it for a million dollars, are you joking internationally? ”

Long Ye's words shocked us, in those days, we still carried great unity in our pockets, that is, ten yuan denomination, and the monthly salary of ordinary workers was only about 100 yuan. If there is a 10,000 yuan household in any village, it will be a big news that has to be publicized by the newspaper, but this hairpin has become a million dollars in Long Ye's mouth, what is this concept? And the red and blue expression on that old Gu's face made Long Ye confirm his words, it seems that this hairpin is really not ordinary to provoke so many people.

"Give it to him!" Cha Wenbin was a little undoubted when he said this to the fat man, although the fat man was a hundred reluctant, but he was not stupid, this posture, if he didn't hand it over today, I was afraid that he wouldn't even have a chance to get out of this door, so he took it out of his underwear and handed it to Cha Wenbin.

Cha Wenbin took the hairpin and took a step back and said, "I have a few requests. ”

Master Long: "Say." ”

"First: The owner of this thing is my friend's life, not yours, so you can, but you can only borrow, not take! Second: Is there any of your people in that mine in Zhuangyuan Village, where is that one-eyed dragon, and how many lives he has on his hands. As Long Ye said just now, we are a country with the best laws, so it is only natural to kill people to pay for their lives, right? ”

The dragon master smiled: "Don't say that my conditions are ridiculous, what if I don't agree?" ”

After that, Cha Wenbin made his hands look like he was going to break the hairpin and said, "Then I will destroy it!" ”

"Okay, then I'll answer your second question first. That's right, the country has national laws, the family has family rules, and the Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people, do you have evidence that he did it? Even if you do, so what? I forgot to tell you that we are beyond the law, because anyone who has entered the lodge is dead, including you. ”

"What do you mean?"

"All of our accounts and files have been destroyed, which means that even if you go to the Public Security Bureau to check now, there will be no such thing as you, and your records are dead! The law will not hold a dead person responsible, so my first condition is that I can reply to you now: since we are not bound by the law, then I can determine that the owner of this hairpin is you, and if it is you, I can naturally make an IOU; But if it's any of the others, then I can't guarantee their safety. ”

"You still won't say?"

"In the same way, if someone asks me who the owner of this hairpin is, I will not say. After three days, it will be returned to Zhao, and it is your business to deal with it then, but I advise you to take it with you, and it may be a bomb in the hands of others. ”

Cha Wenbin didn't say anything more, and handed over the hairpin, but Long Ye didn't take it, but said, "I said, it's better to put the things there for you." ”

"Aren't you going to take three days?"

"Three days, including you." After that, Long Ye looked around at the people in the room: "Within three days, try not to leave Shanghai, otherwise this Cha Wenbin is very likely to find his way home, and I will still send him to this mansion." ”

Three days, whether it is long or not, whether it is short or not, Cha Wenbin just left, just like when he left, we stayed in the Yuan family's mansion for three whole days. It's not that people don't face reality, but whether you will compromise with reality, and in the face of absolute power, waiting is the only choice......

Yuan Xiaobai's father just said to us: "I can't afford to provoke it." "It's just three simple words, and I can tell what kind of people it is. This man who is over half a hundred years old and has experienced countless ups and downs in Shanghai has chosen to be silent, what else can we do?

Three days later, he came back, and as Long Ye said, the hairpin was also returned......

Cha Wenbin was silent about what he had done, whether he had done anything to him, and what had happened, just as he had disappeared a few years earlier, but he brought back even worse news: "The three of us may be cursed......"