I walked quickly to the door, but a group of students came in and blocked the corridor in front of the door, and when I pushed aside the crowd and went down to the hall on the first floor, there was no trace of the person.

I muttered a curse, what the hell, that person seemed to have seen it somewhere just now, but I couldn't think of it, I had a vague premonition, the other party was also coming for a few cultural relics brought from Hunan for exhibition.

Just as I was distracted, Ai Hongjun rushed over from behind and said loudly, "What's the matter, company commander?" Who do you see? It's like losing your soul. You can't just leave this time, we'll have a drink when I'm off work. ”

I was afraid that Ai Hongjun's voice would affect the others, so I dragged him outside the door of the Natural History Museum and chatted casually. I said, "How did you become a police officer?" With your cannon-like voice, you scared the thieves away two miles away. ”

Ai Hongjun said with a smile: "The leaders of our sub-bureau still see that my voice is loud, and I can hold it." Last time I heard from other comrades-in-arms that you were about to go abroad? It seems that we can't recruit in China (can't be opened, Tianjin dialect, can't be tolerated. Are you really going to go out and speculate? ”

I said, "How can there be speculation in foreign countries?" I'm not going out to be a second-class dealer, let's survive flexibly, and do something when it's suitable. What are you dangling around the museum in your uniform? Not on duty now? ”

After asking like this, I learned that Ai Hongjun's hometown was from Hunan, and after he came out of the army, he was assigned to Tianjin to participate in work, and because of his busy work, he had not had time to go home to visit relatives. This time, a group of cultural relics from Hunan Province came to Tianjin for exhibition, and among the staff who came with it, there was a girl who was Ai Hongjun's sister Ai Xiaohong, so Ai Hongjun took the time to come and see her.

I wondered in my heart: Lao Ai, doesn't this have a ready-made back door to go? hurriedly said to Ai Hongjun: "I have to let go of the drinking business first, now I have an urgent matter, you have to find a way to help me go through the back door." Ai Hongjun said: "If we ask for any help, if there is anything, you can say anything, except for borrowing a gun, it is no problem to borrow my head." ”

I said, "Who said I asked you to borrow a gun?" Is that the case, your sister-in-law is American, you know? Don't look like we Chinese look the same, but also our Chinese old friends, but in fact, I grew up gnawing foreign steamed buns, to put it bluntly, I am a foreigner. Their foreigners like to see our Chinese antiques the most. It is said that the Han Dynasty copper furnace on display was collected by her ancestors several generations ago, so she was particularly emotional, and she burst into tears when she saw it. ”

Ai Hongjun interjected: "Company commander, are you married?" I didn't even drink a glass of wine......"

I said, "Don't bother, I'm not married yet, and I'm sure I'll invite you to drink when I get married." Do you want to drink a wedding drink? If you really want to drink the wine, you have to help, because your sister-in-law said that she wants to take a closer look at this antiquity, and if I can't satisfy her little wish, she will break with me. You said that I am not too young, and it is not easy to find a daughter-in-law. ”

Ai Hongjun looked embarrassed: "These cultural relics from Hunan Province are locked in display cases, and I am not a member of the security department of this unit, and I don't have a key in my hand." What's more, these are all national treasures, how can we ordinary people see and touch them whenever they want, and foreign guests don't have this treatment. But don't worry, company commander, I'll ask my sister-in-law, maybe she can find a chance to show you. ”

After Ai Hongjun finished speaking, he called his sister Ai Xiaohong over and introduced us to each other, I saw that Ai Xiaohong had been a commentator before, spoke softly, and his Mandarin was very standard, no matter how I looked at it, I couldn't believe that he was a biological brother and sister with his brother. I first put a few words on it, and then asked her if she could go through the back door, open the window of the display case, let us take a closer look at the cultural relics, and then take a few photos to study.

Unexpectedly, Ai Xiaohong was not embarrassed, and agreed: "No problem, but what was shipped to Tianjin this time is not genuine, but a fake imitated by experts in a one-to-one ratio, specially for exhibition." According to the relevant regulations, the first-class cultural relics are kept in a special warehouse, and they will not be moved lightly, and it is not a big deal to see the fakes, but it is not convenient during the day, and I will say hello to the night shift at night and take you in from the back door to visit. ”

As soon as I heard that it was a fake, I couldn't help but be disappointed, those real things may be tightly sealed in the underground treasure house, if there is no special chance, I am afraid that I will not be able to see it in this life, so I broke this idea at that time. But Ai Xiaohong said: "Although it is a fake, it is all from the hands of experts, the details are not bad, and there is almost no difference from the real thing, even the cracks on it are exactly the same." ”

I thought about it, we came to see this Dan furnace, mainly to see a few alchemy pictures on the furnace wall, maybe there will be clues to the ancient tomb Jindan, if the imitation is enough to be fake, the painting and engraving on it are exactly the same, just like the real photo, it should be worth seeing. So I agreed with Ai Xiaohong to meet at the back door of the Museum of Natural History at eleven o'clock tonight.

Ai Hongjun still had work to do, so he told Ai Xiaohong a few words, then hurriedly said goodbye to me and rode away on a white bike. I waited at the gate of the museum until Shirley Young came back, and told her briefly about the fact that she had met her former comrades-in-arms and could come in through the back door at night, and she was very happy, but when she heard that it was a fake, she could not help but be a little disappointed.

That night, we arrived at the back entrance of the Museum of Natural History. It was a narrow and deserted street, and in the middle of the night the cold wind was blowing, and the dead branches creaked, and there was not a single pedestrian on the whole street.

I knocked on the door, and Ai Xiaohong, wrapped in a military coat and carrying a long flashlight, took Shirley Yang and me in. The whole museum of natural history was quiet, the lights in the main building were all dark, and in the gatehouse outside, there was an old man on night duty, who had already greeted him in advance, asked him to take a bunch of keys, and came directly to the door. The lock was unlocked and entered the hall, which was a black-lit specimen exhibition room. The hall is spacious, and with every step, an empty echo is heard. Ai Xiaohong turned on the flashlight and shone around, the various insects and beasts that were made into specimens always maintained a frozen posture, it didn't look like anything during the day, but it did look a little terrifying in the night.

Ai Xiaohong seemed a little scared, and turned to me and said, "The natural history museum at night and during the day are really two completely different places, maybe it is too quiet, and I am a little uncomfortable. ”

I am familiar with this kind of quiet and eerie atmosphere, and I know that Ai Xiaohong is not a staff member of the museum, and she is not familiar with the environment and architectural structure inside, so I took the flashlight in her hand and walked in front, and said to her and Shirley Yang as she walked: "In this building, the first floor is zongzi, and the second floor is Mingqi, so it's strange if it's not quiet." ”

Ai Xiaohong didn't know what I meant, but Shirley Yang naturally knew and said in a low voice: "Don't talk nonsense, the exhibits here are all animal and plant model specimens, and there are no human ancient corpses, where will there be any zongzi." ”

I am open to saying that I think taxidermy should also be a kind of "zombie", and in the process of making early specimens, I must have learned a lot of experience in making mummies. Moreover, the biological specimen also includes the item of "human specimen", but the zongzi specimen will not deceive the corpse and will not mildew. I heard my grandfather tell me that in the Qing Dynasty, there was a female rebel leader named "Wang Guanyin", after she was unfortunately arrested and killed, her body was stolen by foreigners, made into a specimen, transferred from the sea to the British exhibition, advertised as the remains of the Virgin Demon, using the curiosity of foreigners about the mysterious East to defraud money, this kind of human specimen is very inhumane, has nothing to do with popular science.

Ai Xiaohong's face turned a little frightened when she heard me talk about human specimens, and she hurriedly said, "Brother Hu, don't mention these things again, I heard someone say today that there are two specimens in this museum that are very ...... It's very evil, if you weren't my brother's comrade-in-arms, I wouldn't dare bring you in at night. ”

Shirley Yang and I both wondered, what specimen should be described by the word "evil door"? Ai Xiaohong stopped and pointed to a glass case at the end of the hall: "In that display case, there is a specimen of a white bat. ”

I wondered: "White bats are indeed relatively rare, but they are not absent in the world, so why is it worth making a fuss?" Let's listen to it, and let me analyze whether it's true or not. ”

Shirley Yang said to Ai Xiaohong: "There are many collections in the museum, and there are naturally many related stories and legends. Ai Xiaohong said: "Probably because I was too timid, I also heard an old lady next to the guest house today, she said that there is a specimen of a white bat in the Natural History Museum, which was hunted and killed by a mountain man before the liberation......

I've heard about what she said. Legend has it that children often disappeared at that time, and the common people thought that there were abducted and trafficked children who "took flowers", and they did not dare to let the children go out to play.

Later, an old man with a white silk waist came to the village, and he said that the children were all eaten by the "medicine fork hungry ghost", and the hungry ghost ate many children; It's about to be reincarnated in human form. Pregnant women with big bellies within a radius of 100 miles may be pregnant with "ghost fetus", and now there is no choice but to take medicine to abort the fetus, and the stillborn baby will be thrown into the mountains.

Before the liberation, people were superstitious and strict in their thinking, and immediately believed it to be true, and there were countless foolish people and foolish followers, forcing pregnant women to drink medicine everywhere to have abortions, and throwing stillbirths into a ravine, killing countless innocent people.

There was a hunter in the mountains, one day chasing a white rabbit, got lost and got into a cave, saw the white bones in the cave, was panicked, saw the white shadow flashing in the depths of the cave, he immediately stabbed with a hunting fork in his hand, and actually stabbed an old gray-white bat, and since then has not lost a child nearby.

Some people say that this old bat was transformed by an evil aura between heaven and earth at the beginning of chaos, and he wanted to eat people, and then turned into an old man in the market to bewitch the public, deceive the common people into medicine and abort, and throw it into the mountains to support it. It must be the Guanyin Bodhisattva who appeared and let the white rabbit lead the hunter into the hole, in addition to this harm for the people, it can be seen that the Buddha is very close, and it is really a rescue for the suffering, otherwise if there is no Buddhism comprehensive, with a mere hunter, how can he have the ability to kill the old demon in the hole? And the hunter got the carcass of the white bat, and its deeds were widely disseminated, and even if a few foreigners came to buy it back, the specimen was put in the museum in Tianjin, and it has been preserved to this day.

Eighty percent of this kind of legend in Bu Cheng is false, maybe the hunter caught the white bat, resold to the hands of foreigners to make specimens is true, the rest can not be verified, most of them are more and more unreliable wild talk.

I walked closer and took a flashlight at a specimen of a white bat, and I couldn't tell that it had been a man-eating demon when it was alive. I was about to beckon Ai Xiaohong to come over and take a look, don't be so suspicious, but I suddenly heard footsteps overhead. Ai Xiaohong was taken aback when she heard this, and was so frightened that she almost fell to the ground: "The old bat spirit is really alive!" ”

A thought suddenly flashed in my mind, and I immediately remembered the back I saw during the day, and beckoned Shirley Yang and Ai Xiaohong and said: "There is a snitch ...... on the second floor" Before the words fell, I had rushed upstairs first, but the door lock on the second floor was locked, and the key was still in Ai Xiaohong's hand, so I had to hold a flashlight to shine inside from the glass window.

Sure enough, there was a figure in the darkness, squatting near the Dan furnace, and he was surprised to see me outside the door, turned his head and ran to the window, and climbed out of the windowsill. At this time, Ai Xiaohong and Shirley Yang also followed, and hurriedly took the key to open the door.

I couldn't wait to push the door inside, and saw that the window was open, and the cold wind was blowing into the room, and the man had fled so quickly that he had long since disappeared into the night. We saw that there was nowhere to chase, so we had to close the window and look around, but fortunately we didn't lose anything, and they were all imitations, and it didn't matter if they were really damaged or lost. However, when I first saw these exhibits, due to the distance, they were mistaken for real things, and the museum does not have strict security measures, so it is no wonder that some people have the idea of these antiquities.

I said to Ai Xiaohong: "Since there is no loss, I don't think there is any need to sue the police, being a thief is the most weak-hearted, and this time I was shocked, and I will definitely not dare to come again." ”

At this time, Shirley Young picked up a notebook with a red plastic cover on the ground. This kind of notebook is very common, most of them are issued by the unit, printed with the words of work records, and may have been thrown on the ground in a panic by the snitch.

I took the work record from her hand, opened it and looked at it, only to see the owner's name "Sun Xuewu" written on the first page. I read it twice in my mouth and asked Shirley Yang, "Who is Sun Xuewu?" Do you have any impressions of this name? ”

Shirley Yang said: "Old Hu, you forgot, this is Professor Sun's name, the expert who often travels from village to village to collect dragon bone books and study ancient symbols and characters. What did he do at the Museum of Natural History late at night? ”

I didn't have a good impression of Professor Sun, and sneered: "This old thief, I caught a show, see what face he has in the future to say that I am a ...... of the inverted fight" As he spoke, he flipped through the work record casually, and the more he looked at it, the more thrilling it became, and the graphics of the priceless treasure King Qin's bone mirror were impressively painted in it.