The 77th day of being eavesdropped

"So why did you carry this box to my house?"

An Yi stared blankly at the box on the ground in front of him.

There was everything in this box, ceramic plates, antiques, and even a lot of old coins underneath. Although the dust had not been removed, it was obvious that the

doors were all open. Gu Jinshui smiled and said, "Brother An, you are too polite. This time we helped the Lin family, you have put in a lot of effort. Without the things you gave us, could we have deceived Tom?"

He pointed at the box and said, "The things in here are divided into two parts, 50-50, 50% for you and 50% for me, how about that?"

How about that?

An Yi looked at Gu Jinshui as if he was seeing him for the first time.

He squatted down, picked up a Kuilong patterned wine cup, and said, "You know this thing has a silver lining, right? I can earn at least three figures from this resale, and you just gave it to me? My things are worthless."

Who can say it is not true?

He Fei also felt bad, but He Fei knew that he did not help much in this matter. The idea was from Gu Jinshui, and the things were made by An Yi. He was at most an assistant. Gu Jinshui was willing to share 10% with him, which was considered kind.

"I know, but I think your friend is more valuable than these things, what do you think?"

Gu Jinshui also followed his example, squatted down, took out a golden monster, and said with a smile: "This thing is good, I'll give it to my daughter to play with later, you have to give it to me."

"Okay, since you are willing to give it, then I will accept it."

An Yi was silent for a moment and nodded, with a smile on his face. He and Gu Jinshui were not the kind of people who cared about things, so they simply divided them around and each took a pile of things.

An Yi said: "I guess the things my grandfather gave you are all rip-offs, but these are all the first-time goods, but they are a little worse, not as good as what he sold to Tom."

He was also generous, took a box to collect his pile, and took a kettle to boil water for them to make tea.

Gu Jinshui said, "A fresh pit is even better. This is authentic. I have never seen many things in it. I can play with them slowly when I go back."

An Yi was happy and was about to ask them if they wanted to have a midnight snack when the door outside was knocked loudly. An Yi quickly gave Gu Jinshui and others a look, indicating that they should close the box and put on clothes to go out.

After a while, An Yi led An Xin in.

An Xin was sweating all over. When he entered the house, he saw Gu Jinshui and the others were there. He slapped his thigh and said, "Damn it, you said you were here earlier."

He Fei asked with a smile, "Brother, you are sweating all over. What happened?"

"What happened? It's about the guys you asked me to keep an eye on."

An Xin wiped the sweat off his sleeves, sat down on the chair, picked up the water cup on the table, and moistened his mouth without caring who it was. He said, "I kept an eye on them for a long time. I thought they were quiet at night, but who knew they went out quietly in the middle of the night and ran to the old house with a shovel in their hands!"

"Shovel?" An Yi asked as he closed the door, "What are you doing with this guy in the middle of the night?"

"Who knows? Anyway, I don't think it's a good thing."

An Xin waved his hands. He opened his collar and fanned himself with his clothes. "I just ran to you to tell you the news. Who knew that the guesthouse said you were not there? I thought you were not in the guesthouse, so I rushed over to Anyi. I tell you, ten yuan a day is not enough. I am exhausted from running so many times."

"Brother!" Anyi was a little annoyed.

Gu Jinshui waved his hands: "It's okay, big brother is right. If it weren't for helping us, big brother could have slept well at home at night. Why run around outside? I'll give you extra money, five yuan, okay?"

He took out the money and handed it to An Xin.

An Xin looked at An Yi and said, "This was given to me by someone else. I didn't force myself to do it." An

Yi was so embarrassed that his lips twitched for a moment. He could only turn his head and pretend he didn't see it.

Gu Jinshui didn't care about this little money. He asked, "What about what happened before? What did you see before you ran over?" "What did you see?" An Xin was stunned and scratched his head. Suddenly, he seemed to remember something and patted his thigh and said, "Oh, you're right. When I came over, I saw two people also heading towards the old house. They went to the main gate. Those two people seemed to be Tom." "Tom and George?" He Fei leaned forward with a look of surprise in his eyes. An Xin clapped his hands, "Yes, that's the name. Damn it, why did this good Chinese give himself a foreign name? Don't think that I am greedy for money, I won't take the money from this fake foreigner for free." He Fei's lips twitched, you are dreaming. How can he give you money when he can't even cheat you. "This is really strange, why are these two guys going to the old house?" An Yi said in confusion, "Speaking of which, that liar is also quite strange. It's understandable that he cheated on antiques, but why would he cheat on the old house? He has offended the Lin family here, so how dare he come back to live here?" "Song Jianshe and the others went there with shovels, don't you think they want to dig something out of the old house?" Gu Jinshui tapped the table with his fingers and said thoughtfully. Most of the people here are dealing in antiques. Although no one has ever done grave digging or robbing, such things have been heard of many times. He Fei immediately responded, "Wasn't that house the house of a big capitalist in the past? Do you mean they know there are treasures in the house?!" "Otherwise, why would they go there with shovels?" Gu Jinshui asked back. "Oh, if there are treasures, wouldn't it be a bargain for these bastards!" He Fei immediately jumped up from his chair. Big capitalists, such rich people, this part of Xi'an used to be their territory. The old houses were built a hundred times more magnificent than many houses now, and the things hidden in them must be very valuable. "Are we going?" An Yi asked in surprise. Gu Jinshui looked at him: "Why don't you go? If you don't go, will you give them the things for free? And what about Tom? He used his money to exchange the house with us. The loss of the Lin family has been recovered, but the loss of He Fei and I is not yet recovered." "Yes, we haven't recovered our losses yet!" He Fei almost forgot about this. He was so overwhelmed by the things given by the Lin family that he forgot that he was still at a disadvantage.

In the dark night,

it was pitch dark. Song Jianshe held a flashlight in his hand and looked around, not knowing what he was looking for.

"Did you find it?" Liang Renyi slapped his arm and looked at his hand, which was covered in blood. "Damn, the mosquitoes here are more poisonous than snakes. They bit me all night."

Song Jianshe said impatiently, "Why are you urging me? I'm also anxious. If you can do it, you can do it."

He handed the flashlight to Liang Renyi.

Liang Renyi stiffened his neck and said, "If I knew where it was, I would have found it long ago. I don't need you."

"Oh, who wouldn't say that? If I knew where the thing was, I would have taken it out long ago and it would be my turn to share it with you."

Song Jianshe searched for a long time and was in a bad mood. He bumped back without any hesitation.

"Okay, you really told the truth, you just don't want to share with us." Liang Renyi was speechless, so he jumped up and pointed at Song Jianshe.

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, Guo Pu suppressed his voice and shouted in a low voice: "What are you quarreling about? Don't forget, if we don't join forces, no one can get these things tonight. We are unfamiliar with this ghost place. If we still have internal conflicts, it's better to go back to Beijing as soon as possible."

"What this old gentleman said is so right."

Guo Pu had just finished speaking when a steady man's voice came from behind.

Guo Pu and the others' expressions changed instantly. They looked at each other, and Song Jianshe immediately shone the flashlight towards the source of the sound, "Who is it?!"

The light illuminated the appearance of Tom and George.

George was holding a wooden shovel in his hand, facing Song Jianshe and his group. Tom smiled and nodded at Liang Renyi, "My friend, please put down the shovel in your hand, otherwise the things in my friend's hand are blind."

Liang Renyi cursed secretly in his heart.

He looked at the wooden shovel, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he quickly put down the shovel, "I, I just held it in my hand, no other meaning."

"Haha."

Tom's smile answered him. He seemed to be amused by Liang Renyi. The smile on his face was very bright, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were even smoothed out. "Three friends, you showed up in my house in the middle of the night with a shovel. It doesn't seem very friendly. If it were us, I could just beat you to death with the wooden shovel and not even take responsibility."

Song Jianshe and the other two had just been fighting among themselves, and now facing the wooden shovel, they were shaking like quails. Not to mention quarreling, they even spoke stutteringly.

Guo Pu raised his hands, "Mr. Tang, we don't mean anything else. This is a misunderstanding. We're leaving now."

After he finished speaking, he glanced at Liang Renyi and the others, and turned to leave.

"Bang!"

The bullet penetrated the ground and brushed past Guo Pu's shoe.

Guo Pu froze in place, sweat on his forehead slid down his cheeks, his pupils shrank, and the muscles at the corners of his mouth twitched.

"Who said to let you go."

Tom shook his head, "You are my good friends. Now that you are here, don't leave. Don't you have a shovel? Dig."

"Dig, dig what?" Liang Renyi asked with trembling lips, not daring to move, for fear that the shovel would be aimed at his head the next second.

"Dig for gold, jewelry and antiques!"

Tom's eyes showed greed.

He showed a sly smile on his face, "You don't think I don't know what you want to do?"

Liang Renyi and others' faces changed instantly.

Song Jianshe was about to speak when he saw the wooden cannon pointed at him. He swallowed back the words of protest that were about to come out of his mouth.

It was the middle of the night.

Next to the pavilion in the backyard of the old house, Song Jianshe and the other two took shovels and dug the ground with the weak light of the flashlight.

The three of them kept winking at each other while digging.

Liang Renyi: What should we do now? Do we really help them? Can they give us what we dig out?

Song Jianshe's forehead was so tense that the veins were about to bulge: You are dreaming, they have money in their hands, can they share it with you?

Liang Renyi couldn't help but snorted.

"Ahem, what are you doing? Why are you making eyes at me when you're not working? Don't you want to live?"

Tom sat in the pavilion and even lit a cigarette, puffing leisurely while watching Liang Renyi and the others work.

"Don't dare, don't dare."

Song Jianshe said hurriedly, and the three of them lowered their heads to work, not daring to do anything else.

I don't know how this old guy got such smart eyes.

Tom looked around the pavilion, and there was some excitement in his eyes.

After so many years, he finally returned to this place. Tom told He Fei and the others that this was his hometown. In fact, half of it was true, that is, Tom did live in this house before, but he was not the owner of this house.

He used to be a male servant, and he started working in this house when he was thirteen or fourteen years old. Before liberation, the capitalist of this house got wind of something wrong, and packed up his things and fled to the island overnight. However, there were too many things, so he specially packed up a few small gold and silver items and hid them in boxes and buried them in the old house, thinking that if his descendants came back one day, they could use those things to make a comeback.

Tom saw this incident by chance, and fearing that his master would kill him, he did not dare to say a word when he fled with his master. It was not until several decades later that he thought of the things in the capitalist's old house and returned to the country.

This time, Tom's main purpose was to get the things in the old house, but he unexpectedly found that this group of people in the country were too easy to deceive.

As long as he said he was an overseas Chinese and showed off a little of his family background, no matter where he went, everyone would be respectful to him. In this situation, Tom had a bad idea and planned to use the fake US dollars to buy things in the country.

And the Lin family just jumped into his eyes.

Ding Dingdangdang.

The shovel soon hit something hard, making a crisp knocking sound.

"Found it!" Liang Renyi just finished speaking in surprise, and then he realized that the things were not theirs now.

A look of disappointment and irritation immediately appeared on his face.

Tom immediately got down from the pavilion, walked to the side, saw the exposed copper edge, and hurriedly said: "Hurry up and take it out, these are the things!"

Boxes were taken out one after another.

Tom rushed forward impatiently and smashed the lock with his cane. The box opened with a bang, and the pearly brilliance inside immediately jumped into everyone's eyes.

Strings of pearls, exquisite gold hairpins and jade rings, gold like ingots, and scrolls of calligraphy and paintings next to them. It is conceivable that these calligraphy and paintings must be the work of famous artists, and even have a great origin, otherwise they would never be so treasured.

Everyone gasped.

"Hey, so lively?"

Gu Jinshui poked his head out from the wall and greeted everyone with a smile, "It seems that I came at the right time. Hey, good stuff!"

Gu Jinshui's voice startled everyone.

Tom immediately closed the box and raised his chin to George, who immediately pointed the wooden box at Gu Jinshui.

"Come down!" Tom said.

Gu Jinshui raised his hands and smiled, "Don't be nervous, I just came to say hello, I don't mean any harm, but is it really okay for you to be so arrogant with your guys?" "

What's good or bad about it? Comrade, you'd better come down, otherwise we will have a falling out."

Tom smiled and his eyes were deep.

Song Jianshe said to Gu Jinshui with a gloating look, "Yeah, don't mess around, this bullet doesn't have eyes."

"I..." Gu Jinshui just opened his mouth and made a gesture of raising his ears to listen.

Song Jianshe and others also heard footsteps coming from the front, as if some people were running in. Tom's expression changed slightly, and he snatched the wooden box from George's hand, "Did you bring anyone with you?"

"You're wrong, I didn't bring that, it was my friend who called the police."

Gu Jinshui smiled and jumped down from the wall with quick and decisive movements. He said, "The police came really quickly. If you don't put this thing away, you won't be able to explain."

"What, police?"

Liang Renyi put down the shovel, his face was black and red, and covered with a lot of mud, "Gu Jinshui, you are crazy, you actually asked someone to call the police!"

"Police, don't move!"

With a shout, several flashlights suddenly swept over here.

Tom quickly hid the wooden box in his pocket. He turned around and looked, his heart skipped a beat. Seven or eight armed policemen came in line, led by a middle-aged man with a purple-red face, black hair, and bright eyes. When he walked in, he saw the box on the ground at first sight.

"Director Zhou, this is the treasure in this old house."

Gu Jinshui ignored Song Jianshe's winks and walked straight forward to open the box.

The glittering jewelry appeared and reflected colorful light under the flashlight.

Director Zhou came forward, looked at the jewelry, and asked, "Is there only one box?"

"I'm not sure. So far, they have only dug out one box."

Gu Jinshui smiled and patted Song Jianshe on the shoulder. "You are too anxious. Didn't I say that it wouldn't be too late to wait for the public security comrades to come and dig? Are you so eager to make a contribution?"

Song Jianshe smiled but didn't smile. He stared at Gu Jinshui fiercely.

Director Zhou smiled and nodded. "These comrades are all thoughtful, but now we are here, just leave these things to us. A small team will go out."

"Yes!"

Immediately, five or six policemen came forward. They took out the engineer shovels they had prepared in advance and worked faster than Song Jianshe and his team.

At dawn.

Lin Wenxiang had just stood up. He had been practicing Tai Chi for half an hour in the yard, and was sweating all over. He was about to ask his wife to go out to buy breakfast when he saw his son Lin Bohu stumbling in from outside, "Dad, Dad..."

"Why are you yelling? I taught you to be calm and composed. You can't hide your thoughts with this look. You will be treated like a pig in business."

Lin Wenxiang picked up a towel and wiped his sweat while scolding his son.

"Yes, yes, but Dad, this time it's really a big deal. A treasure has been dug up in the old house!"

Lin Bohu said quickly after catching his breath.

Lin Wenxiang was stunned, "Which old house?"

"The old house that the swindler wanted." Lin Bohu said, "I heard from people in the market that the police took people to dig last night. In the morning, they carried out seven or eight boxes. People from the Cultural Relics Bureau also went there. I heard that they found some antiques from the Tang Dynasty."

"What?"

Lin Wenxiang stood up suddenly.

Treasures and antiques were dug out of the old house. This news spread almost all over Xi'an.

Xi'an has been a Feng Shui treasure land since ancient times. The ancient tombs and antiques dug out are countless. Take the countryside for example. Who hasn't picked up some things with a history, such as ancient coins and so on.

But the treasures and antiques still attracted the attention of most people.

Since the things were all in the Public Security Bureau, everyone didn't dare to go and watch, but the Public Security Bureau was still quite lively today.

When Lin Wenxiang and his team came, Director Zhou was meeting Jinshui and his team with Director Lin, who had a beard.

"Thank you for your hard work, comrades. We have checked and found that the jewelry on the top is from the Republic of China period, and the ones at the back have some history, estimated to date back to the Tang Xuanzong period. You have really made a great contribution to this archaeological work."

Director Lin shook hands with everyone with emotion.

Gu Jinshui smiled, "Director Lin, you are too polite. This is what we should do. Besides, we didn't help much."

"Who said you didn't help? If you hadn't taken the initiative to report it, how would we know about it?" Director Zhou looked at Gu Jinshui approvingly and patted his shoulder. "If others knew there were so many treasures in the house, they would not be willing to take the initiative to hand them over. You are really generous. I have discussed with Director Lin to apply for a commendation for you and give each of you a reward of 200 yuan!"

"Oh, how can I say this? Thank you so much."

Gu Jinshui said with a smile.

He looked at Song Jianshe and others and said, "Jianshe, the director and others are so nice. Why don't you say anything?"

What can Song Jianshe and others say?

They wanted to kill Gu Jinshui.

His master's reward was only 200 yuan, but the things in the first box they dug out were worth tens of thousands of yuan!

Each person could get more than 10,000 yuan.

As a result, two hundred per person, is this enough for the round trip?

Song Jianshe pulled the corners of his lips and couldn't laugh anymore.

But Tom couldn't help it, "I don't want a reward, the house is mine, and the things dug out should also be mine!" Tom

looked excited. He couldn't sit still after digging out the capitalists' things, and he also dug out antiques from the Tang Dynasty. This was clearly a double happiness!

But this happiness was taken away by someone.

"This..." Director Zhou looked at Tom in some surprise.

Director Lin was not surprised. He must have seen this kind of thing many times. He coughed and cleared his throat. "Sir, you may not understand the situation in China. The national law stipulates that everything dug out of the ground belongs to the country, and these things do not belong to you."

"But the house is mine, and these things are mine abroad!"

Tom was so excited that his face turned red. He did not sleep all night. At this moment, his eyes were dark and bloodshot. There was no trace of his former elegance.

"You are right, but I remind you again that this is China."

Director Lin smiled, but his attitude was tough. "Even if you are an overseas Chinese, you must abide by the rules of the country in China."

"You, you..."

Tom was so angry that he almost fainted.

Obviously, as an overseas Chinese, he had received various special treatments since returning to China, but this was the first time he was slapped in the face so rudely.

Gu Jinshui smiled and said, "Mr. Tang, I know what you mean. You probably feel that you have been cheated. How about this, didn't we sell the house to you before? Now we buy it back."

He looked at Shanhu.

Shanhu took out the luggage bag that he had brought in advance, and Gu Jinshui handed the bag to Tom, "Here is the money you gave us, not a penny more or less, do you want to check it?"

Tom's eyes twitched.

He looked at Gu Jinshui with a look of doubt and uncertainty.