Chapter 125 The Night of the Incident
If you are not allowed to steal from the vault, then steal priceless treasures that are more valuable than gold.
Luo Jiu had said long ago that everything in the Daying Museum was ours and we would take it back sooner or later.
But the purpose of stealing was too obvious, and the other party could almost immediately associate it with the Chinese.
In the British Empire, this group of Chinese people have always been high-profile, which is no different from revealing their identities.
If they did it, they had to run, so they decided to do it on the day of the run.
The day before the uprising, the four men invited Lu Fengchun, Charlotte and Elizabeth to have a last meal.
The four of them made an exception and drank some wine. Charlotte had a premonition without them saying anything.
Charlotte asked, "Are you leaving?"
Luo Jiu said: "Yes."
"Will you come back?"
Luo Jiu took a deep breath and shook his head.
If they come back again, they will definitely bring troops and warships with them, which may not be the reunion scene Charlotte expects.
Charlotte was silent with red eyes. Cheng Yaoyao held her hand and said, "When we return, we will write to you and call you. You are also welcome to come to see us if you have the chance."
Charlotte nodded. She was just sad. She had seen the four of them almost every day for the past six or seven years. They were not sisters, but better than sisters.
Luo Jiudao: "Our country has many idioms and poems that describe the friendship between people.
We are brothers from the beginning, why bother about blood relations? Friendships of life and death are the same.
Over the past few years, we have supported each other and overcome many difficulties.
We have our mission, we must return to our motherland.
Such a confidential matter should not have been told to anyone in advance. But you are like our sisters, and we left suddenly, I am afraid you will think we are too heartless.
So, I came to tell you. "
Lu Fengchun drank a glass of wine and said, "Since we are sisters, there is no need to say these unorthodox words. I have been wandering outside for so many years and I am tired. I will go back with you."
Luo Jiu hurriedly said: "Don't go back with us yet, stay here and help us take care of the international students here."
After several years of continuous recruitment and supply, there are now about 700 international students from countries such as Yingmi and Fa.
Lu Fengchun: "Aren't you going to take them back with you this time?"
Luo Jiu shook his head. "I have thought about this question over and over again. No one knows what will happen when we go back this time. If we rashly take the students back, I am afraid that their lives will be wasted.
We have worked hard in recent years. It is not easy to train these talents for the country. We don't want to let them take risks unless we are absolutely sure.
What I mean is that you should stay here and take care of the assets we have left behind, take care of the students, and wait patiently for our news.
If the situation in the country is pacified, you can take them back home immediately."
Lu Fengchun asked hurriedly: "What if the situation in the country cannot be pacified?"
Luo Jiu sighed, his eyes far-reaching, "Then you let them continue to wait until 1949.
Thirty years later, no matter how many difficulties there are, we ask them to overcome them all and return to our own country to build our motherland."
After the farewell banquet, all the chickens, ducks, geese and pigs on the farm were slaughtered and put together with the rice, flour, grain and oil stored on the ship.
More than eighty horses were received into the space and used as war horses.
After they leave, Lu Fengchun will move here and continue to operate it as a contact point.
On the night of the uprising, Zhong Jialing and Cheng Yaoyao led a team to clear out the Daying Museum, while Luo Jiu and Feng Qi led the rest of the people to Liverpool and three nearby labor camps to rescue the more than 60,000 laborers who had been employed over the years.
Fan Shun, the Lai brothers and others had been waiting nervously, holding their watches since dusk.
Feng Qi told them the time was 9:30 in the evening. These people were locked in different dormitories. They were so nervous that they kept looking at their watches over and over again, their hearts almost jumping out of their chests.
Because the operation had to be kept secret and they were afraid of gossip, the leaders only told their subordinates beforehand that the boss would come to take them back home and asked them to be ready at any time.
As for the day and time, these people have no idea.
Fan Shun was forced to lie on the bed, but his ears were perked up nervously, for fear of missing any movement outside.
It was half past nine and no gunshots were heard.
At 9:45, the iron lock of the dormitory was cut open with a clatter, and Feng Qi knocked on the door, "Come out, everyone."
Fan Shun jumped off the bed and asked, "Boss, why didn't you hear any gunshots?"
"We used daggers and silenced guns." Feng Qi pointed at the trucks that the girls drove into the yard, "Hurry up and get everyone in the cars. We're going home!"
At the same time, Zhong Jialing, Cheng Yaoyao and others were frantically raiding the museum.
The British Empire regards vaults and banks as its main defense points, and there are less than twenty guards in unpopular places like museums.
Everyone quickly dealt with the guards and started taking all the loot.
Famous paintings and calligraphy, white jade cups, stone lions, ancient zithers, chime bells, as well as gorgeous jewelry, porcelain, and decorations from various dynasties, as well as the emperor's dragon robe, the concubine's dress, and the sword that Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty held...
The Buddha's head was cut off and taken away, as well as the heads of the twelve zodiac animals.
This cultural treasure is priceless, but it is drifting overseas, far away from its homeland.
Zhong Jialing became furious when she thought about the fact that future generations would have to spend money to come to this place and see their country's cultural relics.
Someone asked: "Little Master, isn't this a cultural relic of our country? Do you want to take it?"
Zhong Jialing and Cheng Yaoyao looked over and saw artifacts from the British Empire, Indu, Roma, and Aggie. There were also dozens of large boxes of cultural relics in the warehouse, but they didn't know which country they belonged to.
Zhong Jialing said: "It is estimated that they either robbed it during the colonial period or borrowed it for exhibition. Who cares? Take it all away and let them buy tickets to see it in the future."
Cheng Yaoyao smiled and said, "Yes, give him a taste of his own medicine."
The team cleared out the entire museum and quickly rushed to the dock.
Three giant ships arrived at the dock early, and the National Salvation Army was already boarding the ships.
Cheng Yaoyao gave each of the bosses a walkie-talkie and a loudspeaker, and assigned them to different boats for easier management.
The four also boarded the ship with communication equipment and ordered the captain to go out to sea immediately.
At daybreak, three huge ships were speeding towards the east.
It was a quiet night, but something earth-shattering happened.
By the time the British Empire reacted, the sea had become so calm and there was nothing there.
The ruler was furious and ordered a thorough investigation.
The detective in charge of the investigation found Creek Farm, which had changed owners.
Lu Fengchun was able to produce a legal sublease contract and claimed that he knew nothing about anything.
Detectives visited the estates of Earl Charlotte and Duke Elizabeth one after another, but they found nothing.
Charlotte: “I don’t know anything.”
Detective: "They killed all the guards and officers of the labor camp and stole our precious artifacts from the museum."
Charlotte picked at her fingers out of boredom and said sarcastically, "Our cultural relics? Where were they originally? Were they passed down by our ancestors? Or were they dug out of the ground?
Or maybe someone snatched it back?"
The detective sneered, "Count Charlotte, do you think it's just returning the items to their original owners? They also took away the cultural relics we looted from other countries."
Charlotte: "Maybe they're helping us return the items to their rightful owners."
The detective roared angrily, "What about our cultural relics? They took our cultural relics too."
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