Chapter 0884 – Donation

The GDP income and the so-called per capita income that the country is talking about, in a sense, has very little to do with farmers at all, at home farming, the Da Niu family’s annual income is just a few thousand dollars.

Even if the brothers went out to work some time ago, in the construction site is a thousand per month, remove the money for food, but left a seven or eight hundred, two people have been working for half a year, and together have not saved to ten thousand dollars.

So don’t say is five million, big cattle grow so big, even 50,000 dollars have not seen, he really was Zhuang Rui said this number to scare, waved his hand, said: “I don’t want so much, give 50,000 on the line.”

It’s not that Da Niu didn’t want five million, but he wasn’t stupid, he knew that the other party would not be able to give them any money at all if they said this, so Da Niu became a little nervous, twisting his head around and looking around, he was close to grabbing the door and stepping out.

“Da Niu, don’t be afraid, to tell you the truth, really giving you money, that would be harming you.”

Zhuang Rui poured a cup of water for Da Niu, then said, “Do you know that these things you dug out are national treasures, national treasures, just based on these objects, sentencing you to a death sentence is enough.”

Zhuang Rui this is not to scare them, this jade man is completely counted as a national level cultural relics, and those bronzes and terracotta figurines, are also national two or three levels of cultural relics, coupled with the degree of destruction of the tomb by these two brothers, even if it is not the death penalty, life imprisonment certainly did not run.

Some time ago in Hunan Province, a major case of tomb raiding and trafficking of cultural relics was just sentenced to death, the three main culprits were all sentenced to death, six were sentenced to life imprisonment, and the other several were sentenced to three to ten years of imprisonment, so Zhuang Rui’s words also have a basis.

After Zhang Daniu heard Zhuang Rui s words, his face showed a nervous look and stammered, “Old …… boss, you …… are joking! There are more grave diggers in our village, on what basis should we be sentenced?”

“Da Niu, I am not a police officer, I will not arrest you, and there is no need to lie to you, and I don t dare to buy these things of yours, if I buy them, I will be the same crime as you.”

It’s a real struggle to reason with an illiterate like Da Niu, Zhuang Rui racked his brain and organized his language, then said, “Do you know what kind of tomb you’re stealing?”

“Don’t know.” Da Niu shook his head.

“That’s the tomb of an ancient emperor, it’s what the country wants to protect, if you dig up that tomb, won’t the government look for you after (counting) ah? Now is not caught you, as long as caught, it is estimated that at least is a life sentence.”

Zhuang Rui this is right, if these things flow into the antique market, must be a mega cultural relics case, alarmed the Ministry of Public Security are not allowed to say, then these two brothers must be bad luck.

“Then …… what can we do? We also do not know what kind of tomb this is!”

Da Niu was Zhuang Rui said almost cried, he did not suspect Zhuang Rui lied to him, because from into this store, Zhuang Rui performance has been very sincere, and did not discriminate against the brothers because they are rural people, so Da Niu on Zhuang Rui is still very trusting.

Zhuang Rui helplessly shook his head, these two brothers are not bad people, but they are legally illiterate, even if they did not meet themselves today, such a headless fly to look for buyers, will definitely be noticed by the police.

Zhuang Rui’s impression of these two brothers is not bad, after thinking about it for a while, he said, “Da Niu, if you trust me, I’ll teach you a way to make the police not to pursue your responsibility, and may also send a few thousand dollars of bonus to you.”

“Big brother, what way? You say, my brothers must do as you say.”

Da Niu was already at sixes and sevens at this time, he didn’t expect that grave robbing, which was almost publicized in their village, would actually have to shoot people in half a year, which made Da Niu a bit at a loss for words.

Hearing Zhuang Rui say that if he did it according to him, not only would he not arrest himself, but he would also have money to take, which immediately made Da Niu treat Zhuang Rui as a life-saving straw in general.

“Right, where exactly did you guys dig these things?” Zhuang Rui asked, he has to know the original story even if he wants to make up a story!

“This ……”

Da Niu glanced at Zhuang Rui, his heart was suspicious, the other party wouldn’t be trying to trick out the place of that tomb, and then go digging by himself, right?

Zhuang Rui also saw the big bull’s mind, this year the good man is really not good to do, and then cried and laughed and said, “big bull, I am saving you, you can not make a mistake ah!”

“That …… that tomb is in a cave on a cliff, when I was a child, I saw it when I went to pick herbs with Erniu, and then I realized that it should be an ancient tomb, and only last month I went to give it a dig out.”

After thinking for half a day, Zhang Daniu finally chose to trust Zhuang Rui, he also once worked in the city and knew that the other party did not have to lie to himself at all, it seems that this time is really a big trouble.

“On the cliff? Cave?”

Zhuang Rui froze for a moment, it seems that this is an imperial cliff tomb, but it’s not a good idea to make up this blind story to help the two Da Niu brothers get off the hook.

In the heart of the thought for a while, Zhuang Rui said to Daniu: “Daniu, wait for the police to come you say so, you say is picking herbs, found this ancient tomb, and then took the things out, come to Beijing to the government, remember, bite the dead so say, who asked don’t change their mouths.”

Although this reason is a bit far-fetched, but the two big cattle brothers now things are not sold, has not yet constituted the fact that the excavation of cultural relics to steal and sell, as long as the bite the dead this statement, and is the initiative to take out of the cultural relics, I think they should not be held criminally responsible.

“Big …… brother, that …… that bonus can still have? My brothers on the three hundred dollars, even go back to the road is not enough ah!”

Da Niu’s words immediately Zhuang Rui was angry and happy, what time is this, but also think about the bonus, in fact, Zhuang Rui just said the bonus, is ready to take some money for themselves to give the brothers, after all, the two of them also find out an emperor’s tomb.

“There is a bonus, five thousand dollars, you wait for a while, I will call the police to come, you will be able to receive the bonus if you explain this.”

Zhuang Rui thought about it, let Da Niu wait in the house, took out his cell phone and walked out of the room, found a phone number and dialed it.

“Hello, Officer Miao?”

“Zhuang Rui, why did you think of calling me?” Miao Fei Fei on the other end of the phone was a bit surprised.

“Ahem, it’s like this, there are two peasants from Henan, who inadvertently discovered an emperor’s tomb, they came to Beijing and want to donate the stuff to the country, this matter should be under your police’s control, right?”

Zhuang Rui knew that Miao Fei Fei seemed to have been following some tomb raiding cases some time ago, so this is why he approached her hard, after all, the story he made up for the two Da Niu brothers was a bit too far-fetched.

“Farmers would donate cultural relics to the state? Zhuang Rui, you’re not kidding me, right?”

Officer Miao really didn’t believe it, these days there are quite a lot of farmers robbing tombs, but the ones who take the initiative to donate them to the state, none of them, Zhuang Rui’s words are rare to hear.

“How dare I …… joke with you? I am now in the Panjiayuan store, those two people and things are here, you come not to know.”

Zhuang Rui laughed bitterly, this thing really no one believes, but he really can’t bear to look at the Da Niu brothers because of this to eat jail, want to help them.

“Okay, I’ll contact the cultural relic department and go over right away.”

Although Miao Fei Fei didn’t believe it in her heart, she also knew that Zhuang Rui wouldn’t joke with her about this, and after hanging up the phone, she made a call to the relevant department, and got into the police car to rush towards Panjiayuan.

“Hey, teacher, I’m Zhuang Rui, it’s like this, I’m …… here today.”

Hanging up on Miao Fei Fei’s phone, Zhuang Rui dialed Professor Meng’s phone again, and told him the whole story, this if it is an emperor’s tomb, it is estimated that the mentor should be involved in the protective excavation in the future.

“Xiao Zhuang, are you telling the truth? There’s a jade man in the burial goods? It’s forty-eight centimeters tall?”

Prof. Meng was astonished when he heard Zhuang Rui’s words, he had participated in quite a few archaeological excavations of Han tombs, and had unearthed quite a few jade figures, only that those were all very small, the biggest one was only the size of a palm, and in the case as Zhuang Rui said, even he had never heard of it.

“Teacher, it’s true, the stuff is still in the store, I also notified the police, I was thinking, will the subsequent protective excavation of this ancient tomb be submitted to our school?”

The Archaeological Research Institute of Beijing University is the premier archaeological research department in the country, and Prof. Meng is the titan of this industry, if it’s really an imperial tomb, I’m afraid he’ll have to do it himself.

“In this case, I’ll go over right now, the things must be protected, as for the archaeological excavation behind, I’ll negotiate with the relevant departments and try to take over this task.”

Professor Meng had spent his entire life studying Chinese burial archaeology, and of course he refused to miss out on unknown tombs, after thinking for a moment he continued, “It just so happens that you’ll be doing your internship soon, so come with me then! If those burial objects are really as you said, I’m afraid there is another major archaeological discovery to come.”

There were twelve emperors in the Eastern and Western Han Dynasty, and there were countless kings and lords, but after more than 2,000 years, many of the tombs have been robbed by grave robbers, and now that there is another Han emperor’s tomb coming out, Prof. Meng can’t help but be a little excited.

Professor Meng and Officer Miao arrived at “Xuan Rui Zhai” almost at the same time. Professor Meng was followed by Dr. Ren, while behind Faye Miao were several police officers and relevant staff from the Department of Cultural Relics.

The few cultural relics bureau people see Professor Meng, are rushed to greet, Professor Meng is no time and they polite, a Xuan Rui Zhai, let Zhuang Rui take him to see things, Miao police officers to find their own Da Niu brothers to make a statement.

“National treasure, national treasure ah!”

Prof. Meng’s hands gently stroked over the jade man’s body, the movement was as gentle as if he was caressing his lover’s body in general, and his face showed an uncontrollable look of excitement.