28. The Trip to Peking (I)

A floor-to-ceiling square red gauze standing lamp is suspended from a lifelike brass beak, and a translucent red silk is embroidered with a gorgeous picture of two dragons playing with pearls in the center. Under the lamp, rows of Tang Sancai, Yuan Dynasty blue and white porcelain, Qing Dynasty purple clay pots and Western antique chiming bells are neatly placed, like armies waiting to be reviewed.

And behind the lamp, is a hollow carved Ming Dynasty rosewood bookcase, scattered with dozens of large and small snuff bottles with extravagant materials, diverse shapes, beautiful patterns, exquisite carving, glowing luxury luster, what enamel gold, mutton fat white jade, bloodstone, Tianhuang stone, amethyst, turquoise, lapis lazuli, malachite, agate, jadeite...... It's all there to behold, and it's dazzling to look at.

On the wall behind the bookcase, there is also a painting of Tang Bohu's original landscape painting covered with the imperial seal of Qianlong, the painting is full of mountains and mountains, steep and majestic, and the distant view is far away and blue, which leads people to reverie...... If it is placed in modern Shijie, it is definitely the treasure of the county and municipal local museums......

In October 1934, in a temporarily leased compound in Beijing, Wang Qiu sat on a rosewood rocking chair by the window, swaying slowly, looking at the antiques and treasures in this room, and the mood was very comfortable, "...... Hey, when it comes to collecting antiques from previous dynasties, I really still have to come to Beijing, the city of 49! ”

-- Time flies, time flies, and in the blink of an eye, the calendar of more than a month has been turned page by page.

In the past month or so, a lot has happened on the land of China in this time and space. And Wang Qiu and other traversers have also experienced a lot of things.

First of all, although they have thought of quite a few ways. However, in the case of not daring to use force to rob it, the fossil skull of the "Peking Man" was not available after all.

-- The so-called "Peking Man" refers to the Australopithecus that lived in the Beijing area between 700,000 and 200,000 years ago. Homo erectus, a hunter-dominated cave life, able to use and manufacture crude stone tools, and has learned to use fire for warmth and to eat cooked food......

In short, in the twentieth century, the "Peking Man" was once propagandized as the ancestor of the Chinese nation, and the possibility that human origin in the East was raised. Even if scientists later analyze the human genome. It is inferred that all humans are descendants of Homo sapiens in Africa, including the Chinese, and that "Peking Man" is just an extinct subspecies of early humans. However, the discovery of Peking Man fossils is still a major event in the history of Shijie paleoanthropological research. As a representative of the intermediate link from ape to man, it is called "the most meaningful and moving discovery in the entire history of ancient mankind".

But it is precisely because of this that "Beijingers" have become the object of coveting by some people. Five Peking Man skulls and a batch of fossils excavated during the Republic of China. During the Anti-Japanese War, he strangely "disappeared".

This incident became a famous theft case that shocked Shijie. The whereabouts of the "Peking Man" fossils have been debated ever since. Although after the Liberation War, the Chinese tried their best to find their whereabouts, but unfortunately they have been tossing and turning until the 21st century, and there is still no result.

However, with the crossing of the eldest sister of the female Wenqing Jin Qina and the emergence of the wormhole of the Republic of China, the cause of "looking for Beijingers" seems to have a glimmer of hope.

As a result, under the repeated pressure of the superior leadership. Wang Qiu and others, who were not interested in archaeology, had to reluctantly leave Shanghai. With General Political Commissar Hu, who volunteered to act as a guide, and his rookie underground party, he took a slow steam train to Beijing.

This time, the lineup to Beijing was unprecedentedly large - because the wormhole could not leave the trigger thousands of kilometers away, Sister Jinjina had to follow them; And Jin Qina was worried that her daughter Jin Xingzhen, who was in the first grade of primary school, was staying alone in Shanghai, so she asked her daughter to take a leave of absence and follow the "big army" to the north to "go to Beijing to play"; As the temporary supreme leader of China's supernatural world, Ms. Xiao Se was worried that Wang Qiu and them would be passive and slacking off, so she personally crossed over to act as an on-site supervisor; plus the armed bodyguards for Sister Jin and those who want to go to the old Beijing stalls to shop for treasures...... Zuihou's entire tour group actually swelled to more than 50 people, and ordinary inns couldn't live at all, so they had to rent a large yard to make do.

But the problem is that a large number of people does not necessarily mean that it will be used, and the difficulty of this task is a bit too high, after all, Wang Qiu and their time travel through the era is not very good - in 1934, only the first "Peking Man" skull was dug up, and the remaining fossils were found in 1936. Therefore, the skull of this only "Pekingese" is extremely tightly guarded, and it is really difficult to start.

Of course, according to Ms. Xiao Se's plan, she didn't plan to attack this national treasure, but planned to go to the excavation site to fight the few fossils that had not yet been unearthed...... It's a pity that the interlacing is like a mountain, and when these laymen really go to the Zhoukoudian Ape Man Cave to take a look, they find that they can't find the location of a few fossilized skulls in the future even if they are holding books--by the time they are discovered the year after tomorrow, this terrain has already been dug up completely different--even with a Luoyang shovel, they don't know where to dig, and even if they dig something, they can't recognize whether it is a fossil or not...... They tossed around the excavation site for a day, but found nothing, but were found by the local villagers, and were almost beaten by the group......

In this way, the problem is back to square one, and the only way for the traverser to obtain the fossilized skull of the "Peking Man" is to break into the American-funded Peking Union Medical College Hospital and steal the piece that was discovered by the paleontologist Pei Wen in the winter of 1929...... But it's not easy!

-- Peking Union Medical College Hospital was founded in 1921 by the Rockefeller Foundation of the United States, has a close relationship with the US Embassy, and the investors behind it are also first-class large conglomerates. So not only is the hospital defenses strong, but no one knows exactly which room the real "Peking Man" skull fossil is in the safe - only a replica is displayed outside......

Wang Qiu and the others initially wanted to spend money to buy the traitor, but they found that they couldn't find a way out, and General Political Commissar Hu was ashamed to say that he couldn't let his friends in Beijing do such an ugly thing as stealing national treasures. Then, after vetoing a series of crazy or ridiculous ideas such as using intertemporal mercenaries to attack head-on, and setting poison gas in hospitals to scare people away, everyone decided to let those modern cute vampires turn into bats and fly in at night to find out...... At least find the location of the fossil first!

- As a result, the poor vampire Mazuru Margaret was caught in a holy water trap in the hospital and almost never returned...... Several other vampires found the existence of old enemies such as vampire hunters, exorcist priests, and silver sword paladins of this plane there......

At this point, Wang Qiu and others, who were originally lacking enthusiasm, took advantage of the situation to make a decision, and in view of the high risk factor, the task of "looking for Beijingers" was canceled! (To be continued......)