Origin Chapter 75: The missing county annals
"You don't need to call, the number she used before has been disabled for a long time." Wang Xinran said.
Seeing Wu Zhongyuan frowning, Wang Xinran added, "We have been closely following the phone number she used before, and she must know this."
Wu Zhongyuan believed Wang Xinran's statement, but he still tried to dial the number, and sure enough, it indicated that the phone was down.
Wang Xinran said, "There are various signs that she has mastered our whereabouts. Keep your mobile phone on in the future to see if she will contact you."
Wu Zhongyuan nodded.
"What are you going to do?" Wang Xinran asked.
"What should I do?" Wu Zhongyuan asked rhetorically.
"If she takes the initiative to contact you and ask you to cooperate with them, what would you do?" Wang Xinran was serious.
Wu Zhongyuan didn't answer immediately, and was silent for a long time before he said, "If you were me, what would you do?"
Wang Xinran thought about it and said, "The director has given me the second-level authority to be responsible for this matter for you. I have a lot of autonomy in this matter."
Although Wang Xinran seemed to answer the wrong question, Wu Zhongyuan knew that she was referring to something, "Go on."
"Your brother killed someone, and he has a criminal record of intentionally wounding someone to death before. Once arrested, he is a repeat offender. According to the relevant provisions of the Criminal Law, repeat offenders will be severely punished. If he is arrested, he will definitely be sentenced to death. Anyone can help him exonerate." Wang Xinran said sternly, and when he said this, the conversation changed, "But if he is willing to help you and stays with us all the time, I can guarantee his safety."
"How do you guarantee it?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.
Wang Xinran explained, "The military and the police have different responsibilities. The military is responsible for safeguarding national security, while the police is responsible for maintaining social order. Therefore, the military has greater power than the police, and both perform official duties. If there is a conflict , the military has priority.”
Wu Zhongyuan was very happy after hearing Wang Xinran's explanation, but also worried, "Can you agree to this?"
"I will agree, but I must not agree explicitly," Wang Xinran said. "Fortunately, your brother is only a criminal suspect now. If there is no public prosecution sentence one day, one day he will not be a criminal. We have excuses and reasons to prevaricate them."
"But my brother killed someone for protecting Zhao Dazhong before." Wu Zhongyuan said.
"It seems that you didn't have time to judge, so your brother ran away?" Wang Xinran smirked.
"If you do this, will you cause trouble for yourself and Director Li?" Wu Zhongyuan worried about implicated them.
"No," Wang Xinran shook his head, "We are not covering up criminals, we are only temporarily inviting citizens to assist us in our work, and criminal suspects are also citizens."
"Why didn't you say it earlier." Wu Zhongyuan sighed.
Wang Xinran said, "The bureau didn't pay enough attention to your matter before, and I don't have such power."
Wu Zhongyuan stood up and paced back and forth from the room.
"If one day you can really open the wormhole, I don't think I will pull him and let him go with you." Wang Xinran said.
"I know this." Wu Zhongyuan said.
"Then why are you still hesitating?" Wang Xinran said.
After walking back and forth a few times, Wu Zhongyuan sat down on the sofa and sighed, "You have overlooked a very important point. My brother now knows that the medicinal pill in Zhao Ying's hand is effective for Huang Ping. If he gets more pills, he will not cooperate with us, he will always help Zhao Ying and the others."
"Yes," Wang Xinran nodded slowly, "this is also their genius, first grab your senior brother firmly and use him to blackmail you."
"I won't try to persuade my senior brother, but I won't stop him either. Let's do our part first. They don't have any clues anyway. The initiative is in our hands. Sooner or later, they will take the initiative to contact us." Wu Zhongyuan said.
Wang Xinran is very pleased with Wu Zhongyuan's statement of 'them' and 'us', which shows that he is really unshakable.
This came to an end, and neither of them talked about the matter again. In the afternoon, Wang Xinran went out and went to the county library to bring the county annals back.
After dinner, the two started work. Wang Xinran leaned against the head of the bed to watch, and Wu Zhongyuan sat on the sofa to watch. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the changes in the characters were not very big, similar to traditional characters. As a dropout of archaeology, Both of them have no difficulty reading.
Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, all citizens believed in ghosts and gods. The county annals recorded events in ancient times, and there were a lot of fairy ghosts and ghosts in it. If they were placed in modern times, they would definitely not be allowed to be published.
Who built bridges and paved roads, accumulated virtue and done good deeds, and had children in old age. Someone slaughtered a wild dog, hurting the world, causing the child to die prematurely. Which hunter let go of a pregnant she-wolf and later got help from the wolves when she was in distress and so on.
There are a lot of similar things in the county annals, the authenticity of which can no longer be verified, but some of them are not logical at all.
On the whole, however, similar records are all about leading people to be kind, and they all preach that good people have good rewards. In today's terms, the three views of the ancients are still very positive. Although they are a bit superstitious, they at least have Faith, unlike some modern people, is mercenary, pursuing sensory stimulation, and has no moral bottom line.
Because of these records, reading the county annals is not boring, but quite interesting.
"Fortunately, we are not tomb robbers. Otherwise, we can find a lot of ancient tombs just by looking at the county annals." Wu Zhongyuan said that the county annals also recorded who was buried after his death, and some locations and locations were also recorded in great detail. .
"The state's conviction for tomb robbery is still too light," Wang Xinran flipped a page and said casually while reading, "The standard of personal reward for handing in cultural relics is also too low."
"Yes, cultural relics carry the history of a country. A country without a complete history lacks cultural heritage." Wu Zhongyuan said something from the textbook.
“The tomb robbing destroys not only cultural relics, but also our history. Those who destroy history are sinners through the ages,” Wang Xinran said, “Actually, the loss of cultural relics in our country is more serious than you think. According to statistics from relevant departments In the 100 years of modern times, my country has lost at least 75% of the surface cultural relics, more than 30% of the cave cultural relics, and more than 10% of the underground cultural relics."
"Is it really that serious?" Wu Zhongyuan was a little surprised.
Wang Xinran nodded, "This is still a relatively conservative estimate. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, there were countless cultural relics stolen by the Eight-Power Allied Forces. During the Anti-Japanese Period, Japan also moved away a lot. In recent years, tomb robbery has been rampant, and most of the buried metal and jade cultural relics are buried in the ground. These two types of cultural relics are the most serious.”
"Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Lao Jiang also transported a lot." Wu Zhongyuan said.
"That doesn't count. Although he is a reactionary, he is Chinese. The cultural relics on Taiwan Island are also ours, so they are not lost." Wang Xinran said.
"Chen Shuibie probably won't be happy to hear what you said." Wu Zhongyuan laughed.
Wang Xinran also laughed, but after only two laughs, she suddenly stopped. Holding a county annals, she turned one page over and back again.
"What's wrong?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.
"There seems to be one missing piece here, which is incoherent." Wang Xinran said.
"Is it torn by the borrower?" Wu Zhongyuan didn't care.
“Not everyone can borrow county records, and even if they read them, they can only be read in a monitored area in the library.” Wang Xinran said.
“There was no surveillance before.” Wu Zhongyuan said.
Wang Xinran didn't answer and moved to the bedside lamp to examine it carefully.
Seeing Wang Xinran's serious expression, Wu Zhongyuan leaned over and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Look carefully." Wang Xinran pointed to the gap between the two pages.
Wu Zhongyuan looked closely and saw that there was a very narrow page left in the gap between the two pages, which indicated that there was indeed one page missing.
"The stubble is very flat, it's not torn, it should have been cut off." Wang Xinran said.
"Yes, the stubble is next to the bound cotton thread. The person who cut this page doesn't want to be discovered." Wu Zhongyuan said.
After looking at it again, Wang Xinran found out again, "The person who cut off this page is very careful, if you look carefully, there are no scratches on the second page. The tools are also sharp."
"Who is it?" Wu Zhongyuan frowned.
Wang Xinran didn't answer because she couldn't answer this question.
"Broken!" Wu Zhongyuan suddenly changed his face.
"Huh?" Wang Xinran turned to look at him.
Wu Zhongyuan pointed to the page after the missing page. In the upper right corner of the beginning of this page, there is a half-column of words left, 'Big axe, wear and see off. ’
"What's wrong?" Wang Xinran didn't understand why.
Wu Zhongyuan explained, "Wu Lu's weapon in ancient times was a double tomahawk, which is very similar to an axe."
"What is missing is the page that recorded Wu Lu's deeds?" Wang Xinran was surprised.
Wu Zhongyuan nodded, "It is very likely that there are not many people who use axes as weapons, and even fewer who use big axes. The missing page is likely to record his deeds."
"There is a way to confirm." Wang Xinran took out his mobile phone, "County records are historical materials, and every library will scan them and leave an electronic version."
Wu Zhongyuan, how Wang Xinran got into the library's electronic library within three minutes is not clear, but when he came out of the bathroom after urinating and washing his hands, Wang Xinran's face turned very ugly, "You all What did you say to her?"
"What's wrong?" Wu Zhongyuan was stunned.
"For the missing page, the electronic pages kept in the library are all garbled. Except for them, there is no reason or ability for others to do so." Wang Xinran said.
"I don't understand what you mean." Wu Zhongyuan shook his head.
Wang Xinran explained patiently, "The missing page is likely to be an important clue. They took that page before us and hacked the library's network, so that we didn't want us to find clues. The question now is, how do they know that this person is the one we're looking for?"
Wu Zhongyuan was stunned.
"What did you tell her?" Wang Xinran asked.
"She definitely doesn't know more than you," Wu Zhongyuan said eagerly, "she doesn't even know the use of the spirit stone, let alone seek it out purposefully."
"Facts speak louder than words," Wang Xinran pointed to the missing page of the county annals, and asked loudly, "What kind of ecstasy soup did she give you, why did you tell her everything? Do you know how to do this? What are the consequences?"
"I didn't **** say it. I was even on guard against you. How could I tell her this." Wu Zhongyuan was anxious.
"Then how did she know?" Wang Xinran asked.
"How do I know." Wu Zhongyuan said loudly,
"You didn't say anything?" Wang Xinran confirmed.
"I didn't say it. These things are the key to my return. I can't tell anyone." Wu Zhongyuan said sternly.
Seeing that Wu Zhongyuan didn't look like he was lying, Wang Xinran's tone softened a little, "Did he accidentally say something?"
"Impossible, I'm worried all day long, I can't say anything wrong." Wu Zhongyuan shook his head again and again.
"Did she flip through your stuff when you weren't paying attention?" Wang Xinran asked again.
"No." Wu Zhongyuan shook his head again, "I always carry my things with me, and when I found the clue, she was already gone."
"How did the clue leak?" This time it was Wang Xinran's turn to pace eagerly.
"Is there something wrong with you?" Wu Zhongyuan guessed.
"I only send it to those in the BC headquarters, they don't have any clues about this person." Wang Xinran shook his head, "Don't doubt me, the problem must lie with you."
"I didn't say it. I said it just now. When I got the clue, she had already left. Even if I wanted to, I didn't have the chance to say it."
“What happened to the things in your flashlight?” Wang Xinran asked.
"I cut the sheepskin and kraft paper and flushed it down the toilet." Wu Zhongyuan said this, and suddenly remembered a detail, "Oh, no, after I flushed those things away, there were A dung tanker went to the hotel to pick up big dung..."