Just as Zhao Xuanqi was jumping, Cheng Shuman called and said that the search of Wang Simao's house was basically completed, and according to the check, it was basically the same as Wang Simao's confession.

In addition, the most important thing is that no abnormalities were found in Wang Simao's house.

This made Zhao Xuan breathe a sigh of relief, fortunately, there was no possibility of being deceived for the third time.

After waiting for a while, Cheng Shuman came back from the scene, Zhang Yuan also sorted out the interrogation transcript a little and handed it over to Sun Junhui for temporary safekeeping, and Wang Simao was also detained at the police station first.

Sun Junhui looked at the transcript, his face was depressed, and he patted his chest before to ensure that Wang Simao had no big case, but it didn't take long for him to be slapped in the face by a transcript.

A few people left the police station and drove back to the hotel.

Zhao Xuan returned to the room, hurriedly washed his face, and fell asleep on the bed.

"Get up, get up!" The next morning, it was Zhang Yuan who woke up Zhao Xuan.

"What time is it?" Zhao Xuan sat up, rubbed his eyes, took out his mobile phone, found that it was not yet nine o'clock, and asked Zhang Yuan: "What's the situation?" Can't you catch up on sleep? ”

"Song Shaozhen is here." While brushing his teeth, Zhang Yuan responded to Zhao Xuan inarticulately: "Chen Huanlin will hand over to Song Shaozhen there." Gotta go to the stolen excavation area. ”

After a little handover with Song Shaozhen in front of Chen Huanlin's courtyard, Song Shaozhen put on the gas mask he was carrying, went to Chen Huanlin's room to take a look, turned back to Zhao Xuan and said, "You didn't go in right, there is a very good chance that there are residues, you have to deal with them first." ”

Song Shaozhen said while sorting out his suitcase: "You don't have to wait here, I will call you to inform you of any new situation." ”

Then, Song Shaozhen and the other two researchers who came with him took out the equipment from the suitcase, put on a complete anti-biochemical suit, and then pulled the hand-held vacuum cleaner and pushed the door into Chen Huanlin's room.

Zhao Xuan and the others got back into the car and went to the location of the stolen excavation in the north to check.

Song Shaofeng had already contacted the local archaeological department in the morning. Not long after they arrived, they saw an archaeological team, with more than a dozen people, driving three pickup trucks and pulling a lot of tools.

The two sides introduced each other, the person who led the archaeological team was called Deng Wenbin, a professor of archaeology at a university in S Province, in his fifties, and happened to be with another teacher and students in the vicinity to investigate.

Zhao Xuan briefly introduced the situation of the theft and excavation, and heard that the mastermind was Chen Huanlin, Deng Wenbin's face was sad and indignant: "I know this person, about the same age as me, when I was still a graduate student, I often dealt with him, he took workers to dig pits, and we searched carefully." ”

"People are smart and willing to learn." Deng Wenbin clapped his hands and said, "If it weren't for the cultural class to keep up, I wouldn't be able to make sure he is a colleague with me now." ”

Zhao Xuan couldn't tell Deng Wenbin that Chen Huanlin was dead, so he had to echo two sentences on the side.

Deng Wenbin didn't say much, turned around and instructed the students to sort out the equipment on the car, and hurried to start the inspection. Zhao Xuan and several people also stepped forward to help.

In addition to Zhao Xuan's hands, which are not very capable of carrying heavy objects, they do not affect his activities too much, so it is no problem to help with his hands. It was a group of students who were noisy, which made Zhao Xuan seem to have returned to his college days.

After an hour of trouble, I set up two large simple tents, set up a stove, and put two canvases around the woods next to it, dug a pit, and put a wooden plank next to it to use it as a toilet.

Deng Wenbin did not help, but took the Luoyang shovel to make holes around the robbery hole and study the structure.

I saw more than 20 people coming up from the bottom of the mountain, carrying hoes and flat poles, and at first glance they were local farmers.

A group of people in their forties, who looked like a teacher, also came to the camp.

The teacher's name is Ding Yonghong, and he is another teacher who leads the team. At the foot of the mountain just now, Ding Yonghong got out of the car alone, went to a nearby town to hire about 20 short-term workers, and purchased some daily necessities, and then came up the mountain.

Zhao Xuan had to introduce the situation to Ding Yonghong again.

Twenty or so peasants, after a short break, began to work.

The two peasant women were cooking on the stove they had just built, and the others began to dig around under the command of Deng Wenbin.

It is said to be a robbery hole, but the diameter is four or five meters in size, and the depth is also three or four meters, and there are large and small pits dug along the side of the cave wall, which should be used to go up and down.

Zhao Xuan couldn't help with this. Sit on the side and lean against a tree to catch up on sleep.

On the contrary, Cheng Shuman was very energetic, playing with a group of students, and helping to sort out the items that were carried by the way.

Zhao Xuan fell asleep half-asleep until Lin Ling came over and called him to eat.

The big pot of rice for dozens of people can't talk about the taste, and can only fill the stomach.

After eating the meal and fruit, Zhao Xuan held a large piece of watermelon, squatted under the tree with Zhang Yuan, and asked Zhang Yuan while gnawing: "How long will this take?" ”

"Poof!" Zhang Yuan spit out a mouthful of melon seeds and said to Zhao Xuan: "I don't know the scale of the tomb, no one can say, at least we have to dig it up first, and this matter will take two or three days." ”

"We're just waiting?"

"No, stay for a few days, and when we're sure there's nothing abnormal, we'll leave."

In the afternoon, the morning's work continued, but there was good news in Beijing and Datong.

In the direction of City C, the public security of City C arrested the "dogs" at noon.

During the arrest, there was also a shootout, and the "dogs" were a group of four people, one dead and one wounded, and the police were also injured.

Since it was basically determined that there would be no anomalies over there, Zhao Xuan and the others did not participate.

The subsequent interrogation and investigation also confirmed that not a single unearthed artifact was found.

On the side of the capital, Song Shaofeng personally led the team and captured Yu Shaohe, who was about to flee at the Beijing Airport, and the remaining six stone carvings, disguised as modern handicrafts, were preparing to leave the customs at Jinmen Port, and were also seized.

Fortunately, Yu Shaohe was reluctant to put down these cultural relics, and it took a day to prepare to send them out, otherwise he might not be able to catch them.

In addition, earlier, Song Shaozhen came with news that Song Shaozhen confirmed that Chen Huanlin's house had been cleaned up, and there was only one stone carving in the house, which was opened normally, and the porcelain vase was not damaged.

But when Chen Huanlin opened the porcelain vase inside, he was still influenced by "Sun Yinjiu".

Then Song Shaozhen took away the stone carvings and porcelain bottles, and the rest has been handed over to the local police.

At this point, all nine stone carvings have been returned to the Bureau of Anomalies for further study, and if no other anomalies have been discovered, the artifacts should be returned to Province S and placed in the City C Museum or the Province S Museum.

More than a year later, Wang Simao was sentenced to 18 years in prison on charges of "illegally reselling precious cultural relics and illegally possessing firearms and ammunition" because of his voluntary surrender and meritorious service.

Yu Shaohe was sentenced to life imprisonment for "smuggling precious cultural relics and illegally reselling precious cultural relics."

The "dogs" gang were sentenced to prison terms ranging from five to 12 years on charges of "stealing and excavating precious ancient tombs and ancient cultural sites, illegally possessing firearms, and intentional injury."

At this point, a big case finally came to an end.

Of course, that's an afterthought.

At this time, Zhao Xuan was still huddled at the excavation site, bored playing with his mobile phone, waiting for the results.

On the contrary, Zhang Yuan is very familiar with the two teachers, and can even help introduce some practical archaeological knowledge to the students.

It went on for another two days, and on the morning of the fourth day, news finally came.

The robbery cave has disappeared, replaced by a deep pit with a length and width of more than ten meters.

"There it is!" When a worker was digging a pit, he seemed to have dug something, and when he turned it out carefully, a blue brick of about 30 centimeters in size appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and according to the location, it should be seven or eight meters in front of the unearthed position of the Futu Tower.

Everyone was in high spirits, and the speed couldn't help but be a little faster.

In the past, he was always a student, carrying a personal camera to do the recording work, but since the discovery of cultural relics today, the provincial and municipal television stations have also come to several professional videographers to record.

But archaeology is a meticulous job, and there is no hurry.

It wasn't until the next day that the clues were gradually cleared.

The excavation revealed a brick and wood temple with a size of only six or seven meters, in which only a stone tablet more than two meters high remains, and some animal remains.

Deng Wenbin judged that it should be a sacrificial pit, and the animal corpses in it were all sacrificial supplies at that time.

Because it is a sacrificial tomb in the form of a landfill, the stele is not much damaged and weathered, and the handwriting is clear.

The whole inscription is to the effect that after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the "dragon vein" of the Northern Wei Dynasty was found in this place, and the temple buildings left on it have been almost completely destroyed, so Li Shimin, on behalf of the emperor Li Yuan, came here to repair and dug out the Futu Tower that was buried at that time, so Li Shimin decided to reopen the Futu Tower, put some "town things" in it, and buried it back.

Later, a sacrificial temple is placed in front of the tower, and a temple will be built on it after being buried, and then if the "dragon vein" of the Northern Qi, Northern Zhou, Southern Chen, Sui and other dynasties is found, it will also follow here.

Therefore, the stone tablet was carved to record it.

It's just that I don't know if it's old, the temple has disappeared, or if it hasn't been built after being landfilled, anyway, there is not a trace of the ground building, only a floating tower and a small temple left underground.

Although the value of cultural relics is extremely high, but the scope involved is not large, after several levels of cultural relics protection departments discussed and decided, all cultural relics are transferred and restored, not in situ protection, nor in the original site protection.

The rest is meticulous work, and it won't be over in three or five months.

It was confirmed that there were no other anomalies here, and Zhao Xuan and the others did not need to continue to guard here.

In a few days, these students will also go back, but Deng Wenbin will continue to be in charge here

"Thank you, otherwise such a precious cultural relic would be very likely to be lost overseas." Before leaving, Deng Wenbin took Zhao Xuan's hand and kept swinging excitedly: "This is a major discovery!" After follow-up research, it has an impact on the architecture, sacrifice and other aspects of the period from the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, and it is very likely to fill some gaps in history, and even rewrite some history. ”

Zhao Xuan didn't know much about the value of these cultural relics, but he was quite proud to hear an old expert thank him so much.

Next, the few people returned to the city to pack their things and prepared to drive back to Beijing. After a few days, Zhao Xuan's hands were much better, and driving was not a problem.

Along the way, Zhao Xuan discussed the incident with Zhang Yuan, and Zhao Xuan asked Zhang Yuan: "What is this 'dragon vein'?" Is it also an anomaly? ”

Zhang Yuan chuckled lightly and replied, "The dragon vein is not, the dragon is." ”