noffsinger Chapter 221 isn't about trafficking in cultural relics, is it?
Chapter 221 isn't about trafficking in cultural relics, is it?
"I wonder what this hole is for." Su Niannian shone her flashlight on Gu Nan and naturally saw the pit that appeared in front of him.
This pit was clearly dug by man, and then something was buried inside.
Just now, for some unknown reason, someone came and took the things inside.
Moreover, they left in a hurry and didn't fill the pit with any soil at all, but just piled some stones on top of it.
"Give me the flashlight." Gu Nan reached out to Su Niannian for the flashlight.
Su Niannian handed the kerosene lamp in one hand and the flashlight in the other to Gu Nan.
After Gu Nan took it, he carefully examined the inside of the pit.
I want to see if there are any clues.
As it turned out, Gu Nan actually found a fragment of porcelain.
It's a very small piece, about the size of a little fingernail.
"What is this?" Su Niannian asked as Gu Nan took a fragment out of the pit.
Gu Nan looked at it repeatedly.
"It looks like a fragment of ceramic, but there's a thin pattern here." Gu Nan didn't recognize it and handed it to Su Niannian, who was standing next to him.
Use the flashlight to check again and see if there are any other clues.
Su Niannian took the ceramic shards from Gu Nan, held them in her hand, and examined them with a kerosene lamp.
The overall surface is white glazed, with a thin, curved pattern that appears to be bluish-green.
Suddenly, a somewhat absurd idea popped into Su Niannian's mind.
After thinking about it, I realized it was unlikely.
Therefore, Su Niannian didn't say much.
Gu Nan searched around but found nothing else.
However, inside the pit, in the soil, there were two circular marks, as if something round had been placed there before.
Gu Nan pointed it out to Su Niannian.
Su Niannian also saw the two circular marks.
The mark is still quite clear, probably because it has been sitting for a long time.
"Look, doesn't it look like a plate, bowl, or vase was placed there?" Su Niannian murmured as she looked at the mark.
Upon hearing this, Gu Nan frowned. Considering the ceramic shards from earlier, it was indeed a possibility.
After checking around and finding nothing else, the two roughly restored the stones and left.
On the way, Su Niannian thought of many things.
In her memory, the village chief's family was very wealthy in her previous life, and Su Niannian always thought that the money came from the village chief's embezzlement and bribery.
But now that I think about it carefully, even if he did embezzle and accept bribes, he was just a village chief in a remote rural area.
Is it really possible to embezzle that much money?
Su Niannian felt something was strange, especially with the ceramic shard in her hand.
The things Su Niannian had just thought of resurfaced in her mind.
"What are you thinking about? Why do you look so serious?" Gu Nan walked beside Su Niannian and couldn't help but ask when he saw her frowning.
"We'll talk about it when we get home!" Su Niannian said to Gu Nan, then extinguished the kerosene lamp in her hand and took the flashlight from Gu Nan's hand.
They were thrown back into the space.
Gu Nan had wanted to do this before, but he was afraid that Su Niannian would be scared to walk alone at night.
Now that Su Niannian has put away the kerosene lamp and flashlight, Gu Nan naturally has no objections.
When the two returned, it was already night, and every household had turned off their lights and gone to sleep.
Walking through the village, you can occasionally hear the chirping of insects and birds, as well as the rustling of branches in the wind.
That's all.
When the two returned home, there were no candles lit in their mother's and elder brother's rooms, indicating that they were already asleep.
After returning to their room, Gu Nan and Su Niannian quickly washed up and went to bed.
"What were you trying to say outside just now?"
Gu Nan held Su Niannian in his arms and asked her a question in her ear.
"Don't you think the village chief's family is particularly rich?" Su Niannian murmured to Gu Nan.
Gu Nan thought for a moment and nodded.
"Then do you think that even if he's the village chief of a small village, he could embezzle and accept bribes, he could actually get that much money?" Su Niannian asked Gu Nan again.
Obviously not!
Although Gu Nan didn't know exactly how rich the village chief's family was, they did own two bicycles.
Bicycles aren't cheap, and besides bicycles, his family's daily food, clothing, and other necessities are all quite good.
Where did he get his money from?
To put it bluntly, even if he withheld work points from many people in the village and allowed his family members to extort money from others, he wouldn't be this rich.
This is similar to putting a mouse in a 10-pound rice jar; it can only have a maximum of 10 pounds of rice, not a hundred pounds.
Furthermore, considering that the village chief is terrified of seeing the police...
He felt that the village chief seemed to be hiding something.
"You thought of that too, didn't you?"
"He was just a small village chief, with so little power, but he had the best of everything in terms of food, clothing, and daily necessities."
"Adding to the crater we saw today, and the ceramic shards, and judging from his fear of the police, the village chief has a serious problem!" Su Niannian said in a low voice.
Gu Nan nodded again.
Gu Nan then realized that the two men pushing the wheelbarrow seemed to be unfamiliar faces.
They shouldn't be from this village.
Although the distance was a bit far, judging from his figure, Gu Nan felt that it was someone he had never seen before.
There was absolutely no way to communicate with the people in the village.
"When Chief Lu finished his surgery last time and was chatting with Brother Zhou, did he mention anything about selling national cultural relics?"
Gu Nan recalled that when he accompanied the old commander before, he had overheard him chatting with Zhou Qishan and heard some things.
This was also one of the reasons why the old leader arranged for Zhou Qishan to investigate the matter here under a concealed identity.
It is said that in Long County, someone is reselling national cultural relics.
However, they operate in a rather secretive manner, and the origin of the cultural relics is unclear, so there has been no progress in the matter.
Based on Li Guofu's behavior and today's discovery, Gu Nan believes that Li Guofu is very likely involved in this matter.
Thinking of this, Gu Nan got up, lit a candle, picked up the ceramic shards he had found, and examined them carefully.
Upon hearing Gu Nan's words, Su Niannian's suspicions were reconciled with her own.
When Su Niannian saw the ceramic fragment, she thought the glaze was quite good, and the lines on it were even blue-green.
The words "blue and white porcelain" immediately came to Su Niannian's mind.
But Su Niannian felt at the time that it seemed unlikely, so she didn't think about it in detail.
Now that Gu Nan has spoken, Su Niannian has connected everything together and is increasingly convinced that it is possible.
Su Niannian whispered her thoughts to Gu Nan.
Seeing that Su Niannian had similar thoughts to his, Gu Nan decided to take the ceramic shard to Zhou Qishan the next day to ask him about it.