Although Hanjiang Normal University is not very well-known in the country, it is still well-known in the local area, and in the seventies and eighties of the last century, the school was appointed to lead several large-scale archaeological projects, and for a time the limelight overshadowed several traditional famous universities in the central and southern regions.

However, after entering the 90s, the state has become more and more strict on archaeological projects, and no longer supports any form of archaeological activities, except for some historical sites and tombs that must be rescued and excavated in time.

So the glory of Hanjiang Normal University has come to an end, and it is still just an ordinary college.

I suddenly remembered that there was a young man who happened to be a teaching assistant at this school, so I hurriedly called him.

His name is Liang Tian, nicknamed Liang Zi, and we grew up wearing a pair of pants since we were children.

After being admitted to university, the two of us reported to Wuhan together, I went to the police academy to study criminal investigation, and he entered Hanjiang Normal University in history, and stayed in school to teach directly after graduating from graduate school.

After the phone was connected, I didn't be polite, so I asked him directly if he knew about the nautical chart, who knew that this guy suddenly became very alert, and said coldly: "Why are you asking this inexplicably?" ”

I thought about it and had nothing to hide from him, so I told him the truth: "Someone paid a lot of money for me to find out this chart, but he didn't say anything other than telling me that the chart was still in your school, so I came to you to explore the wind." ”

Liang Zi sighed and said, "Professor Wu hired you, right?" ”

I wondered, "How did you know it was him?" ”

Liang Zi said: "It's been more than 30 years, this old man is still so persistent, most of the people in the school know that he wants to find that pair of nautical charts are about to go crazy, except for him, I can't think of a second person to do this." ”

I asked, "Then he said that this chart is still in your school, what is the matter?" ”

Liang Zi pondered for a moment, and then continued: "This matter is a bit complicated, although I am not familiar with Professor Wu, their archaeology department and our history department are both the same college, I know a little bit about the situation, why don't you come to me?" ”

I immediately told him that I was almost at Hanjiang Normal University, and he asked me to meet at a small teahouse in their school.

After meeting, before the waiter served tea, I hurriedly asked him to tell him what was going on, Liang Zi looked like he hadn't woken up, and said angrily: "You let me drink two sips of tea!" ”

After three rounds of tea, Liang Zi spoke intermittently.

It turned out that in the early eighties of the last century, the Department of Archaeology of Hanjiang Normal University was ordered by the Central Cultural Relics Protection Department to excavate an ancient tomb of the Ming Dynasty in Suizhou.

After these cultural relics were transported to the research institute of the Department of Archaeology, several old professors in charge of the project were surprised to find that there were clues to Xu Fu's eastward crossing on the navigation chart.

According to their research, the route of the nautical chart should be the route of the tomb owner who was sent by the Ming court to the South Seas to pursue pirates after becoming a naval commander.

On the back of the map, there are some words written in ancient secret languages, which seem to mention Xu Fu, and combined with these secret words, they found that the route drawn on the map can actually be divided into a branch line.

However, these old professors are all in the archaeological field, and they are not good at ancient secret languages, so there is no way to confirm whether this branch line really has anything to do with Xu Fudongdu.

When the central cultural relics department heard about this incident, it attached great importance to it and immediately sent several ancient cipher experts to assist.

After many arguments by experts, it was finally confirmed that the meaning of the secret language meant that this branch line was likely to be the route of Xu Fu's second eastward crossing, and according to this route, it would be possible to find the place where Xu Fu finally arrived.

As for how it was drawn on the nautical chart, it is not known who wrote the secret words.

For a while, this news immediately detonated the entire archaeological community, and Xu Fu in the history books was the mysterious alchemist who was sent by Qin Shi Huang to Penglai Wonderland in the East China Sea to seek the elixir of immortality, but in the end, he was never heard from and completely disappeared into the vast sea.

For thousands of years, historians have debated the whereabouts of Xu Fuku, some people believe that Xu Fu is the ancestor of the Japanese, the first generation of Japanese emperors, he changed the names of his seven sons to Fukuoka, Fukushima, Fukuyama, Fukuda, Fukuhata, Fukukai, Fukuzumi and Fukuzumi, which is why these place names in Japan are today.

Some people also believe that Xu Fu went to the Nanyang area, led his subordinates to excavate countless gold and silver treasures, and finally stayed in the local area to become the emperor of the soil.

It is also pointed out that Xu Fu took thousands of boys and girls sent by Qin Shihuang to the Americas, and multiplied there to form his own family, because the Indians in the Americas have always been very similar to the Chinese in terms of appearance, body shape, skin color and eating habits of rice, and this alone is enough to confirm this possibility.

In short, there are various folk theories, and there has been no conclusion for thousands of years.

At that time, Professor Wu was only in his early thirties, and he had just mixed up a junior title in the Department of Archaeology, giving a hand to one of the old professors.

As Professor Wu at that time, he was not qualified to participate directly in this kind of research, but he was very obsessed with the legend of Xu Fu since he was a child, and as soon as he heard the news, he couldn't help but want to see the nautical chart.

So he took advantage of the convenience of keeping the key to the institute and secretly went into the storage room one night to look for the charts, but the search went wrong.

That night, there happened to be an event in the school, and there were people everywhere inside and out, so Professor Wu didn't turn on the lights for fear of being discovered, so he lit an oil lamp and went in.

He never thought that when he was looking around for the charts, a section of the wick of the oil lamp broke, and it fell straight on top of a stack of materials.

It was autumn, and the storage room was very dry, and a fire broke out in an instant.

Fortunately, the school's activities were not over yet, and the teachers and students outside immediately rushed to put out the fire when they heard the news, and it was extinguished in a few strokes, which saved a catastrophe.

Although the nautical charts were fine, the preserved artifacts in the room were still burned several times, and the angry old professors stomped their feet.

Because of this incident, Professor Wu was detained by the Public Security Bureau on charges of arson and theft of cultural relics, but the school leaders did not pursue him too much because he was also obsessed with research.

In the end, Professor Wu was fined some money by the Public Security Bureau, and the school gave him a major demerit, and the matter was over.

Later, in order to prevent this from happening again, the school decided to add firefighting equipment and safes to the storeroom, and all the artifacts were temporarily transferred to an unused building, where they were guarded 24 hours a day.

A few days later, in the middle of the night, the accident happened again with the help of many security guards.

At that time, there was no advanced equipment such as surveillance cameras, and the security guards had to stay in the room all the time.

Unexpectedly, the circuit in the building suddenly tripped, and then a black shadow broke in and stole several cultural relics that were being protected, including the nautical chart.

The security guards, who reacted afterwards, immediately cordoned off the entire school, and to their surprise, they found other stolen items in another room in the building, except for the nautical charts.

At this time, the attitude of the school changed, and Professor Wu was listed as the first suspect and directly transferred to the criminal police team by the security department.

However, it was later proved that he had been drinking with Professor Wu in the faculty dormitory that night and had never gone out, and the dormitory manager also confirmed that he was in the dormitory when he was making rounds that night when the nautical charts were stolen.

In this way, Professor Wu was released again, and a few days later, the criminal police team caught a thief stealing on the street, and as soon as he entered the bureau, he forgot everything he had committed.

According to the thief's confession, he was hired to steal a cultural relic from the Hanjiang Normal University, and later hid it in a certain building of the school for fear of being discovered by the searching security guards.

After further work by the police, it was finally confirmed that the thief was the one who stole the charts, but when the police asked him to explain the mastermind behind the scenes, he claimed that he would rather eat a gun than say, otherwise the whole family would lose their heads.

In desperation, the police had to ask him to identify the scene first, but when he arrived at the local school, the people were instantly dumbfounded.

Speaking of this, Liang Zi swallowed a few sips of tea, lit a cigarette, and said with an extremely exaggerated expression: "Do you know what place it is?" Japanese army ghost building! The most wicked part of our school, God knows how that guy got in and how he got out. ”

I couldn't help but be curious: "The ghost building of the Japanese army? What's going on? ”

Liang Zi replied: "In Hanshi, everyone knows about this building, and there are a lot of things that have happened before and after, listen to me tell you slowly." ”