Wen Qingshan nodded, frowned and groaned for a while, then lowered his head and asked the middle-aged man, "This old brother, can you show Wen the human skin map in your hand?" ”

The middle-aged man stopped whimpering, raised his hand to wipe the tears on his face, raised his head to look at Wen Qingshan again, hesitated for a moment, and then took out the wooden box from the shoulder bag on his waist.

He opened the wooden box, carefully took out the human skin map, and handed it to Wen Qingshan.

Wen Qingshan held the human skin map in both hands and looked at it for a long time, as if he had seen something, the expression on his face became more and more solemn, and I hurriedly asked, "Boss Wen, do you see what the door is?" ”

Wen Qingshan replied without raising his head: "This is indeed a human skin map, and the text on the back of the map should be a long-lost ancient Tibetan script. ”

"What's that talking about?" I pressed on.

Wen Qingshan raised his head and glanced at me, but he didn't answer me, but glanced at me, I immediately understood, now this human skin map does not belong to us after all, if Wen Qingshan tells the secret above in front of the middle-aged man, maybe the other party will not sell it, of course, maybe Wen Qingshan didn't understand it at all.

I immediately shut up and said no more, and Wen Qingshan asked the middle-aged man again, "This old brother, what price are you going to sell this thing for?" ”

The middle-aged man stretched out five fingers and said, "I have already said before, a fixed price, 500,000!" Not a penny less is sold. ”

As soon as his voice fell, before I could say anything to the cheap, Wen Qingshan immediately agreed: "Okay!" Just 500,000! ”

I and I were taken aback, I originally thought that even if Wen Qingshan fell in love with this human skin map, the other party offered such a high price, he would pay back the price to some extent, but I didn't expect him to agree without hesitation.

The cheap hurriedly said: "Boss Wen, you have to think about it carefully, this guy is talking about 500,000!" It's not 80 yuan! ”

Wen Qingshan smiled: "Don't worry, I won't look away, and this thing is worth the price in Wen's opinion." Speaking of this, Wen Qingshan turned his head to the middle-aged man and said, "This old brother, then this human skin map belongs to me, you give me an account number, and I will transfer the money to you now." ”

Who knew that the middle-aged man suddenly got up, snatched the human skin map from Wen Qingshan's hand, and said, "I don't want to transfer money, I want cash!" Pay with one hand and deliver with one hand! ”

When we heard this, we were all stunned, even Wen Qingshan didn't expect that this guy actually asked for 500,000 in cash!

"Brother, 500,000 cash is not a small amount, it's not convenient for you to take so much money on you, right?"

"You don't have to worry about this! Anyway, give me the cash, or I won't sell it! ”

Wen Qingshan saw that the middle-aged man was resolute, so he had to say, "Okay! Since my brother is determined to ask for cash, please wait here for a while, and I will go to the bank to withdraw the money. After Wen Qingshan finished speaking, he turned his head and told the two of us a few polite words such as taking care of the middle-aged man, and hurriedly walked out of the store.

After Wen Qingshan left, the middle-aged man continued to bury his head in eating his big meat buns, but now he didn't dare to gobble it anymore, and ate much more slowly.

I poured him another cup of cold boil, sat down beside him, and asked curiously, "Brother, why do you want so much cash?" ”

The middle-aged man swallowed a mouthful of steamed buns, glanced at the door of the store vigilantly, and said to the two of us in a low voice: "I need money, I need a lot of money!" Then get out of here and hide in a place where the devils can't find me. As he said this, I could see a look of fear on his face.

The cheap guy on the side asked puzzledly, "Why are you so afraid of those guys!" Can't you call the police? ”

"Call the police!?" The middle-aged man immediately waved his hand and said, "The police can't help them, calling the police will only hurt more people!" ”

"What do you mean by that?" I asked hurriedly.

The middle-aged man sighed and talked to the two of us.

The middle-aged man is a native of Xinhuang County, Xiangxi, named Zheng Wei, a civil servant of the local Cultural Bureau, his wife is a middle school teacher, his son is already in high school, and his family is quite wealthy in the local area. But just two months ago, his father died of illness, and before he died, he handed him a very old black wooden box, saying that the contents were handed down from his ancestors, and that he should keep them and pass them on from generation to generation.

Zheng Wei thought that the wooden box contained some rare treasure, and he was very excited, but who knew that when he opened it, it was a map, and his father told him that this was a human skin map, which recorded the location of a shocking treasure. Because the matter is important, this matter must not be known to outsiders, so as not to cause death. After telling him, his father quickly lost his breath.

Zheng Wei didn't take his father's advice to heart, because he didn't believe that there were any earth-shattering treasures, and after all, after all, so many years had passed, even if there were really treasures, I am afraid that they would have been discovered by now. He preferred to believe that the human-skin map might be a valuable artifact.

However, he didn't know anything about artifacts, so he decided to ask someone who knew how to ask, not that he wanted to sell the human skin map, but that he wanted to find out how much it was worth.

It happened that there was a handicraft shop in the county that also engaged in the trading of cultural relics, and Zheng Wei was familiar with the shopkeeper, so on this day, he went to this handicraft store with a human skin map.

However, after looking at this human skin map, the shopkeeper couldn't tell that he was ugly, in fact, it didn't mean that the shopkeeper didn't know how to do it, mainly because the rare thing like a human skin map is rare, even if it is a cultural relics expert, he may not know.

It was also a coincidence that when the shopkeeper was holding the human skin map and looking at it, there happened to be an old man with gray hair in the shop, and the old man in the sixtieth armor caught a glimpse of the human skin map in the shopkeeper's hand, and immediately came over, and asked the shopkeeper how to sell the human skin map, and asked the shopkeeper to bid.

The shopkeeper returned the human skin map to Zheng Wei, and told the old man that the thing belonged to Zheng Wei, and if he wanted to buy it, he had to talk to Zheng Wei. And Zheng Wei saw that someone was willing to pay for this human skin map, and immediately came to the spirit, and immediately asked the other party what price he was willing to pay, the old man stretched out three fingers, at first Zheng Wei thought that the other party was willing to pay 30,000, and thought it was not bad, but who knew that the other party said that it was 300,000. Zheng Weiwei was taken aback, he never thought that such a human skin map handed down by his ancestors would be so valuable.

300,000 is not a small amount, in their county, it is enough to buy two big houses, although Zheng Wei is a little moved, but after all, this is a relic left by his father, and his father told him a thousand times before he died, it must be passed on from generation to generation. After thinking about it, Zheng Weisi finally rejected the old man.

Who knew that two days later, Zheng Wei's family was robbed in broad daylight, and the things in the house were turned into a mess, but the valuable things were not lost, and even the more than 10,000 yuan in cash that his wife put in the closet had been turned out and not taken away. This also shows that the thieves did not come for their possessions, but for other purposes.

Zheng Wei first thought of the human skin map in his hand, but fortunately he did not keep the human skin map at home, but hid it elsewhere.

The thief returned empty-handed, but Zheng Wei felt that the other party would not give up, so he reported the case to the police station.

The deputy director of the local police station and Zheng Wei are buddies who grew up together, and they attach great importance to this seemingly ordinary theft, and organize a lot of police forces to track down the old man Zheng Wei met in the handicraft store, because this guy is the most suspicious.

Who knew that the old man in Huajia had not been found yet, Zheng Wei's wife and son were actually kidnapped together, and he also received a text message asking him to exchange the human skin map.

He felt that even if he handed over the human skin map, it would be difficult to guarantee that the other party would not tear up the ticket, so he felt that it was safer to call the police, so he decisively called his buddy at the police station.

His buddy personally led the team and took five or six policemen to the place agreed between the kidnappers and Zheng Wei to ambush them, but the kidnappers didn't catch them, his buddy and two of the policemen disappeared, and when they found the three of them, they were all dead, and there was a black palm print on their chests.

The development of things was completely unexpected by Zheng Wei, he returned home in despair, but found that his wife had actually returned, he was very excited, and hurriedly asked his wife about his son's whereabouts, but his wife was dull-eyed and ignored him completely. Just as he was wondering, a strange flute sounded outside the house, and when his wife heard it, she suddenly fell to the ground and convulsed in pain.

Zheng Wei was startled, and hurriedly stepped forward to help his wife, who knew that his wife didn't know where the strength came from, and pushed him to the ground, and before he could get up, his wife's body bounced up, and she pounced on him, and quickly stretched out her hands and grabbed his neck.

He was so pinched that he almost lost his breath, and in a hurry, he grabbed the fruit knife on the table and stabbed his wife a few times, his wife screamed, her body went limp, she fell to the ground, and there was no movement on the spot.

Zheng Wei was startled and hurriedly reached out to touch it, only to find that his wife had lost her breath and heartbeat.

He never expected that he would kill his wife by mistake, but now he jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't wash it, he thought of running away, who knew that he was packing money and clothes in the back room, and his wife, who was obviously lying on the floor of the living room and had lost her breath and heartbeat, walked in covered with blood, and she only saw the whites of her eyes in her eye sockets, and she could barely see the eyeballs. For a moment, his mind went almost blank, and he didn't even know how he had escaped from his home. I only know that since I escaped, I have never returned.