The family was originally going to return to the Qin family in Beijing on the second day of the New Year, but on the evening of the first day of the New Year, Xie Wan received a call from Chu Jiangnan.
"Xiao Xie, Happy New Year! Is Makino with you?"
"Captain Chu, are you looking for him? Wait a minute, I'll go get him for you."
"No, wait a minute, Xiao Xie, I'm not looking for him, I'm looking for you!"
Xie Wan's heart skipped a beat. Chu Jiangnan was looking for her and it must be something bad.
She was a little worried that Wang Hanlin had discovered something and reported it to Chu Jiangnan.
"Xiao Xie, I remember when you were transferred to civilian service, you promised that if there was a war, you would return and win, right?"
Xie Wan immediately stood in military posture and said solemnly: "This is the oath of every veteran of ours. If there is a war, we will return when called and we will win the war.
Don’t worry, I’ll always remember it.”
After she said this, all the Xie family members who were watching TV in the living room fell silent.
Xie Yuanchao asked Xie Dahong: "Dad, is there going to be another war?"
Xie Dahong said: "The situation at Laoshan is getting more and more tense, and the monkeys are still not behaving themselves."
Xie Yuanchao slammed his fist on the coffee table and cursed, "If I had known earlier, I would have fought directly in Hanoi."
Xie Wan had hung up the phone in the living room and went to Xie Dahong's study to answer the call.
Qin Muye had just finished coaxing his two children to sleep and came downstairs. After hearing Xie Wan's veteran's oath when she answered the phone, he shook his head and said:
“It shouldn’t be a border issue.
If it was something over there, my dad and I would have received the call first, and we wouldn’t have called Xiao Wan, a retired soldier.”
In the study, Xie Wan leaned against Xie Dahong's desk and continued to listen to the phone.
Chu Jiangnan said: "Before the Spring Festival, Mr. Paul Chen, CEO of Zhenhua, submitted a donation application through the diplomatic department.
They found a large number of lost Chinese cultural relics in a container salvaged from the sea.
Zhenhua decided to return it to the state free of charge.”
Xie Wan's originally nervous mood relaxed instantly.
Oh my god, I thought it was nothing. Those cultural relics were donated by her. She wouldn’t be asked to transport them back, right?
"Captain Chu, this is good news! Why are you so serious? It's so scary. I thought we were going to have a war."
Chu Jiangnan said: “It is indeed a good thing.
After looking at the list of cultural relics, I was shocked.
The military attaché of the diplomatic department in Hong Kong was immediately sent with people to help Zhenhua protect these cultural relics.
Experts were sent over to identify them, and they are all genuine, and all of them are national treasures looted by the Japanese."
Xie Wan said, "Just transport it. Send some special agents over there. I remember Zhenhua has seagoing ships. What's the difficulty?"
Chu Jiangnan, who was on the other end of the phone, heard Xie Wan's relaxed tone and criticized, "Xiao Xie, you don't know the value of these cultural relics.
Now, it’s a little difficult to transport it back.”
Xie Wan: I don’t know the value of those cultural relics?
Xie Wan asked in a pretentious manner, "What difficulties can there be? The things were donated by Zhenhua and originally belonged to our country. How difficult can it be to transport our own things back?"
Chu Jiangnan sighed and said, "If this matter could have been kept secret, there wouldn't have been any obstacles.
However, unexpectedly, the expert who went to appraise the product was so excited that he leaked the news.
It immediately caused a global sensation.”
Xie Wan was surprised: "I watch the news every day, how come I didn't hear any news?"
Chu Jiangnan said: "When I say global sensation, I mean the antique world and the United Nations.
The Benzi people came out with a list of items stolen from several major museums in the past few years and demanded that Zhenhua return their lost items. "
Xie Wan started to curse after hearing this: "Let them go, the things they robbed like bandits are now theirs?"
Chu Jiangnan said: "We definitely can't indulge them. This is not the most important thing. The diplomatic department will handle it.
It was mainly the British Hong Kong government that refused to allow the Chaoyang, which was transporting the cultural relics, to leave Hong Kong on the grounds that there was a dispute over the ownership of the cultural relics.
We estimate this is a delay.
Their purpose is most likely to collect a huge amount of departure tax.
It is also possible that they are under pressure from Western countries and are deliberately making trouble.
Western countries all want to find out how these cultural relics were stolen from Japan.
The best thing would be to prevent these cultural relics from returning home.
Mr. Paul Chen said that part of these cultural relics were salvaged from the sea, and part were purchased by his family and Mr. Xie from the underground black market over the years.
But the disappearance of these cultural relics was too bizarre.
The British Museum and the former Eight-Nation Alliance both have our cultural relics, and they are all worried that we will use the same method to retrieve other cultural relics.
They prevented us from legally retrieving this batch of cultural relics, which will prevent us from retrieving other cultural relics."
Xie Wan was already cursing the expert who leaked the information for eighteen generations in his heart.
Damn it, if she had known this, she wouldn’t have taken it out.
I originally thought that Chen Baoluo from Zhenhua would definitely be able to handle this matter. As long as they quietly collected the items in China and shipped them back, there would be no problem no matter if they held a press conference or exhibition.
Who could have thought that things would go so wrong because of an appraisal expert?
Xie Wan said unhappily: "Then what's the point of you looking for me? You can't ask me to help you quarrel, right?"
Chu Jiangnan said embarrassedly: "Our National Security Bureau is also at fault for not blocking the good news from the beginning.
We have just received a secret report that official and civilian experts from several countries are rushing to the port city.
It can be said that almost all the top spies and thieves in the world will gather in Hong Kong.
The things are piled up in Kwai Chung Harbor, which is very unsafe.
Zhenhua hired one of the best security companies in Hong Kong to watch over it, and it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars a day."
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