Chapter 322 Know Yourself
Gao Mingcheng spent several days traveling to Yangcheng. After returning, he decided to take a good rest for a few days, because he had to go back to Gaojia Village to prepare for planting trees.
But before returning to the village, Gao Mingcheng went to see Director Wang.
After several dealings, Gao Mingcheng and Director Wang had become quite familiar with each other. This time, he didn't need to bring anything with him. He could just go directly to his office to find him.
"Hello, Director Wang." Gao Mingcheng pushed the door open and saw Director Wang reading a newspaper with a cup of steaming tea next to him.
Places like the Cultural Relics Management Office are extremely busy when they are idle and extremely busy when they are busy.
For example, the ancient tomb case that was implicated in Wang Zhi’s murder case last time kept them busy for a while.
We have to conduct on-site inspections, bring back all valuable things, determine the age of the ancient tomb, analyze the identity of the tomb owner, protect the precious cultural relics, and report them in a timely manner after they are sorted out, etc.
But now more than half a month has passed, and I have almost finished all the work that needed to be done.
Director Wang put down the newspaper and saw Gao Mingcheng coming in, so he smiled and said, "It's Mingcheng, how come you have time to come to see me today? Xiao Liu, pour me a cup of tea!"
As the saying goes, one does not visit a temple for no reason. Gao Mingcheng came to see Director Wang for something. He came for the ancient tomb in Taohualing.
He had two and a half pieces of jade in his hand, but the reason he did not take them to Yangcheng to have Fan Chengyao review and appraise them was because he wanted to find out the age of the tomb and relevant information about the owner of the tomb in advance.
Another thing is that he accidentally discovered a clue and guessed that Fan Chengyao was smuggling antiques. However, this was just his guess. Fan Chengyao did not say it, nor did he reveal that he already knew it.
But if you just bring the antique jade to their door, wouldn't that be admitting your guilt?
Taking these two points into consideration, Gao Mingcheng had no intention of letting Fan Chengyao touch his jade.
Soon, the hot tea was served. Gao Mingcheng thanked him politely before taking the tea.
He did not rush to get to the point, but chatted with Director Wang for a while. After drinking two sips of tea, he asked about the incident in the ancient tomb.
Director Wang was stunned at first, but then he reacted. He stood up from his seat, walked to Gao Mingcheng with a laugh, and said half jokingly and half seriously: "Mingcheng, you are the lucky star of our Cultural Relics Management Office! In the past two years, you have discovered two ancient tombs! You have made a great contribution to recovering the country's losses!"
The ancient tomb in Gaojia Village was discovered and reported by Gao Mingcheng. The ancient tomb in Taohualing was also discovered and seized by Gao Mingcheng, otherwise the murderer Wang Zhi might have run away with the antiques. In a few days, these national cultural relics would have flowed into gambling houses, and their whereabouts would no longer be traced.
The couple tombs of the Song Dynasty are more valuable for research than ordinary single tombs, so when Gao Mingcheng captured Wang Zhi, he was actually giving away two credits.
One was given to Gao Guobing, and the other was given to Director Wang.
Although there was no direct contact between the two of them, it was Director Wang who gained the benefits from the ancient tomb case.
Therefore, Director Wang was very kind to Gao Mingcheng.
Upon learning that Gao Mingcheng came to ask for information related to the ancient tomb, Director Wang did not hide it and told him all the information he had researched.
From Director Wang, Gao Mingcheng learned that it was a tomb from the Southern Song Dynasty, which contained funerary objects from nine different areas of life, including tableware, wine sets, tea sets, incense sets, stationery, boudoir sets, Buddhist sets, ritual vessels, and daily miscellaneous items.
Director Wang said with emotion: "We are just a small place. Most of the ancient tombs excavated so far are small and medium-sized tombs with few burial objects. Only the ancient tombs in Chang'an and Luoyang are of great value for excavation!"
"Most of the burial objects in the Song Dynasty tombs were porcelain, lamps and other daily necessities of the time. There were very few valuable items such as gold and silver jewelry, so it was not surprising that these were not found in the tomb. But later I heard from Director Gao that the tomb had been robbed once before. Wang Zhi had accidentally discovered the ancient tomb that was about to collapse before, and took out several valuable items from it, including four jade articles, a pair of silver bracelets and a pair of porcelain cups, but he used those things as collateral to mortgage them to the gambling house."
"Hey, Director Gao later sent people to look for it based on Wang Zhi's confession, but they haven't found it until now. I'm afraid it will be difficult to recover those things!"
When talking about this unfortunate incident, Director Wang kept talking about it, his face full of regret.
Gao Mingcheng listened quietly. He thought Wang Zhi only took the three pieces of jade, but he didn't expect that he also took other things and participated in different gambling games.
Sure enough, gamblers have no future!
If Wang Zhi had taken these antiques privately and sold them for money, he would have made a fortune. He would not have fallen to the point of killing his parents and the banker and fleeing.
Gao Mingcheng stayed here for a while and found out everything about the ancient tomb. He also had a rough estimate of the value of the jade in his hand.
After leaving the Cultural Relics Management Office, Gao Mingcheng went to the police station.
As soon as he entered, someone he knew told him that Gao Guobing was not in the police station, but had gone to a meeting in the city.
When talking about going to the city for a meeting, everyone was very happy, and it was obviously a good thing.
Gao Mingcheng didn't come to Gao Guobing to do anything, so it didn't matter if Gao Guobing was not there, so he turned around and looked for Huang Dazhi.
Huang Dazhi looked a little haggard. Not only him, but other people in the police station also looked somewhat haggard.
Normally, just after the Chinese New Year, even the poorest people could have a few meals of meat and fish, which was the time of the year when they could eat the most meat. However, Huang Dazhi and his friends were all busy and exhausted, because because of Wang Zhi's murder case, they did not have a good New Year at all.
With the help of Gao Mingcheng, they quickly arrested Wang Zhi, but after interrogation, they learned that Wang Zhi had lost some cultural relics before, so the police had to go look for them according to the information Wang Zhi provided.
After searching for more than ten days, we got the news that someone had melted the pair of silver bracelets. This made everyone very angry!
As for the porcelain cup, it was hidden at home and is still intact, but the four jade pieces have not been found yet.
Later they went to the place where Huang Dazhi had picked up the jade artifact. They dug three feet into the ground but still couldn't find it.
Later, he visited nearby villages to seek information, but to no avail.
But during this process, Huang Dazhi was very anxious inside, but he didn't dare to show it.
Now seeing Gao Mingcheng, the only person who knew the situation, coming, he immediately put down what he was doing, and a hint of excitement appeared in his eyes.
Not everyone can keep secrets. When people hide secrets, those with poor psychological quality will suffer tremendous pressure.
Or they might accidentally leak information.
"Mingcheng, come here." Huang Dazhi winked at Gao Mingcheng, and the two of them walked into the yard one after the other. The view here is wide, and if someone approaches, they can see it clearly.
Huang Dazhi had been suppressing his emotions for a long time, and a strong desire to talk developed in his heart. Now he could finally not wait to tell everything.
His voice was soft but he spoke quickly. Fortunately, Gao Mingcheng knew the whole story and was able to understand it.
Seeing Huang Dazhi's anxiety, Gao Mingcheng said, "If you want to hand it over, I have no problem with that, but you have to find a good way to cover it up so that no one knows that you secretly took it away before."
After such a long time, Huang Dazhi has been integrated into the police station and has gained everyone's trust and love, but human trust is difficult to build and easy to break.
Once there is a precedent, people will suspect you when similar things happen again.
This is obviously not good for your career.
Huang Dazhi was surprised and said, "You agree to let me hand it over? I heard it's from the Song Dynasty and made of jade. It should be very valuable."
Huang Dazhi had previously agreed that the money from the sale would be divided equally between them, so he did not decide to hand it over. Firstly, he was concerned about his reputation, and secondly, he felt embarrassed to have made Gao Mingcheng work in vain.
Gao Mingcheng had just made a fortune, so he wanted to say one thing at this moment - I am not interested in money!
Ahem, but we have to keep a low profile!
Gao Mingcheng picked out the information he got from Director Wang and told him his own estimate, which clearly told Huang Dazhi the price of the two jade pieces.
Oh, as for that half piece of jade pendant, since it is incomplete, it is generally worthless.
But some people will use it to make counterfeits, making half of a fake jade pendant based on the complete one, then glue it together with special glue, and then sell it to make it look real.
From ancient times to the present, counterfeiting has always existed in antiques. For example, people in the Song Dynasty counterfeited famous paintings from the Tang Dynasty, but if the counterfeit has been passed down to this day, then it itself is also a real antique.
"Dazhi, you picked up the thing, you can decide for yourself. The jade is still in my house, I will bring it to you later." Gao Mingcheng said.
Huang Dazhi was shocked and hurriedly shook his head to refuse: "Put it at your place first, it's not convenient where I live."
Gao Mingcheng said, "I will be going back to the village in a few days. I need to plan and dig holes on the mountain I contracted so that I can plant trees."
At this point, Huang Dazhi didn’t know what to say.
He lowered his head and his feet turned unconsciously.
Finally, he breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had finally come to terms with it.
"Ming Cheng, I didn't steal the things, nor did I pick them up. I found them! I've seen the movie Shaolin Temple talk about people with predestined relationships before, and I think this is my destiny."
"I didn't know who to talk to about these things before, and I kept them in my heart, thinking one thing at a time and another at a time. But now I understand. I may be hypocritical and greedy, but I really need money."
Gao Mingcheng was not surprised by this result. He just said sincerely: "It's your stuff, you can decide for yourself. Don't sell it for now, you can keep it for yourself, what do you think?"
At this moment, Huang Dazhi was completely relieved. He had seen his own heart clearly. Now that he had made the decision, he would no longer be hesitant.
In many aspects of life, people are trying to understand themselves and the world.
(End of this chapter)
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