Qian Shulan copied the letter and put it back where it belonged.
Back under the bed, she moved the wooden box into the space, took out the crystal ball and absorbed all the spiritual energy on it.
This Buddha statue must be very old, so it is full of spiritual energy and can hold two crystal balls.
After doing all this, Qian Shulan returned home immediately.
The next morning, after sending Xiao Min to school, she went to find Qian Weihan.
There was no other way. She could only tell Qian Weihan about this kind of thing of spying on others in the middle of the night. After all, her mother was a ghost fairy.
Seeing her mysterious look, Qian Weihan took the letter she handed over and glanced at it.
I read as I watched, "On the 20th, at 10pm, we will meet at Wanghe Ferry in Liuguan County. Bring gifts with you."
He shook the letter in his hand and asked, "What does this mean?" There was no beginning and no signature.
Qian Shulan looked around and found no one, so she came over and said, "Didn't Director Lei almost knock me down before? My mother must be watching him. When I woke up in the morning, the letter was next to me. My mother also said that Director Lei's gift was a one-foot-high golden Buddha. Brother, why do you think these people agreed to meet at the ferry? Are they going to go out to sea?"
Wanghe Ferry also leads to the sea.
Qian Weihan immediately became serious. He read the message again, and when he looked up again, he nodded and agreed, "What I said makes sense."
Qian Shulan thought for a long time and decided to go through the official route. "Then, big brother, should we report it?"
Upon hearing this, Qian Weihan immediately shook his head and refused without hesitation, "No! Don't report it yet!"
Qian Shulan was a little surprised, "Why?"
Qian Weihan took out a letter from his pocket. He had received the letter several days ago, but he was still unsure whether to give it to his youngest sister. He thought his sister was out relaxing and would not think about the false accusation by Director Lei.
But he didn't expect that his sister had been holding a grudge and even invited his mother out.
Qian Shulan opened the letter and read it quickly. She pursed her lips tightly and the wrinkles on her face deepened. "Oh, he has quite a backer. The Secretary of the Linnan Provincial Party Committee is actually his backer." She originally wanted to ask County Magistrate Jiang to help arrest the man, but now it seems that this is not possible.
Qian Weihan nodded, "It is quite big."
Qian Shulan was a little anxious. "Then we just let them ship the treasure out of the country? Director Lei must be a spy."
Qian Weihan thought again and again, "I need to think about it carefully. This matter needs to be considered in the long run."
After repeated consideration, Qian Weihan decided to confess to Fang Zhongjun.
"We can't talk about our mother's affairs. Just say that I overheard this letter by accident."
Qian Shulan was a little skeptical. "Will he believe it? Director Lei is very cunning, and there are always people watching him. How did you hear it?"
Qian Weihan laughed and waved his hand, "Why can't I arrange someone around Director Lei?"
Qian Shulan gave him a thumbs up. She was really shortsighted. Those militiamen were also recruited by the commune and were not invulnerable.
After the two of them discussed it, they thought that the 20th was only two or three days away.
So he immediately set out to the county town to find Fang Zhongjun.
There happen to be troops stationed there now, and Fang Zhongjun and Jiang Chengwu both have connections in the army, so they definitely know better than them who can be trusted and who cannot.
When Qian Shulan arrived at Fang's house, Fang Zhongjun and Jiang Chengwu were playing chess.
The situation on the chessboard remains the same as before.
When Fang Zhongjun saw people coming, he threw the chess piece and asked them to sit down, "Niece, nephew, come and sit down."
Jiang Chengwu also came over and said, "My dear relatives, please sit down!"
They are now complete relatives, and Liu Yue Xiaomaolu and Jiang Shengnan have already gotten married.
After the four exchanged pleasantries for a while, Qian Weihan explained the purpose of his visit and took out the letter.
Fang Zhongjun's face turned frighteningly pale, and Jiang Chengwu's fists were clenched so tightly that they made a creaking sound.
Qian Shulan explained to the two people on the side, "I was almost criticized by Director Lei, so my eldest brother arranged people around him, hoping to treat him in his own way. Who knew that the other party was actually a spy, and he had a powerful backer."
Fang Zhongjun stroked the chess piece, his face full of sarcasm, "A provincial party secretary is actually a spy. If anyone knows about this, people will laugh their heads off."
Jiang Chengwu pinched his brows and said, "I'll write a letter to my old friend first. After we catch Director Lei, we can confront him in court. We won't be afraid of not finding evidence."
After that, the four of them discussed the matter of arresting someone on the 20th.
The matter was handled by Jiang Chengwu, who had two sons in the army and held high positions.
His eldest son is in charge of this recruitment.
The only difficulty is how to catch Secretary Yao.
Jiang Chengwu's eyes were far away. "Was he bribed by Director Lei? Or is he a spy himself?"
Qian Shulan heard his mumbling and was a little surprised. "Is this important? Whether he accepted bribes or was a spy, his end is death. When dealing with a dying person, of course you want to do everything you can to get useful things out of him."
Jiang Chengwu was stunned, then rubbed his face, "You're right, I was too persistent."
Qian Weihan thought more, "Why don't you let me follow Secretary Yao?"
Jiang Chengwu shook his head. "You are neither a member of the military nor a member of the government. The information you get from tracking is useless. Why don't you let my son take charge of this matter?"
Qian Weihan glanced at Qian Shulan.
Qian Shulan understood immediately and actively helped Jiang Chengwu persuade him, "Why don't you ask my eldest brother to help find evidence? He also wants to do his part, and we discovered this. So he can be considered a participant."
Jiang Chengwu thought for a moment and said, "I can let you participate, but you can't follow them, otherwise you will alert the enemy."
Qian Shulan and Qian Weihan looked at each other and could only nod in agreement.
Qian Weihan stayed in the county town, and Qian Shulan returned to the production team.
But as soon as she arrived at the entrance of the production team's village, she saw a group of militiamen walking towards her with guns.
Many members caught up with the militiamen and confronted them, and the scene was very chaotic.
Sun Daqin also followed behind and when she saw her mother-in-law coming back, she hurried over to answer her question, "They are going to dig up our Wang family's ancestral graves."
Qian Shulan was shocked for a long time and didn't come to her senses.
So Director Lei’s things were all obtained during house searches
The members of Wangjia Village did not dare to confront these militiamen who were armed with real guns and swords.
Finally, Director Lei led the militiamen to the ancestral tomb in a swagger.
But when these people pried open the coffin, they were extremely disappointed.
There is no other reason! Because the burial objects in the coffin are very rare, the most valuable ones are a few gold ingots. But because there is no maintenance measure, they have all turned blue-black.
The rest were some pottery jars and pots. Director Lei did not have them broken, but had them moved to a cart.
Sun Daqin was a little curious, "Where should these things be moved to?"
The militiaman next to her was not very old, but he was not so aggressive. He patted his chest with a proud expression and said, "Most of them are shipped to big cities and sold to foreigners to earn foreign exchange for our country."
Qian Shulan's heart sank. This was probably the reason why so many antiques were passed on to foreign countries in later generations.
On the evening of the 20th, it was pitch black at the Wanghe Ferry. The bright, flawless moon in the sky was hanging high in the sky, shining on the water from afar.
The calm surface of the water was also pitch black.
Qian Shulan hung the ring on a small tree by the river and sat on the bed in the space watching the movements here.
At half past eight, two teams came to ambush, but there was no movement at all.
Qian Shulan couldn't help but give them a thumbs up. Their perseverance was simply amazing.
Ten minutes before ten o'clock, there seemed to be ripples on the water surface.
Soon a boat came from the shadows not far away.
They moved very quietly, and when they reached the shore, they took out a small whistle and blew three long and two short notes.
Soon someone responded with two long and three short insect chirping sounds.
Someone came over from a distance, "Brother Lin, come up quickly!"
The man followed the other into the boat, but the boat did not leave.
Over the next ten minutes, people boarded the boat one after another.
Director Lei was also among them. He waited until they were about to set sail before he heard someone shouting not far away, "Catch the man!"
Then the soldiers lying in ambush on both sides rushed up in a swarm.
The people on the boat immediately jumped into the river.
Soldiers also went into the water to arrest people.
Two of them were good swimmers and almost swam to the other side.
Qian Shulan used her spiritual power to freeze the person. This was a new technique she had learned.
But because I just learned it, the time was not long, only about three seconds.
On land, it may not have much effect, but in water, these three seconds are quite useful.
If they didn't paddle with their hands and step on the water with their feet, they would sink. So the ten soldiers who followed closely caught the two of them.
When they had captured all the people aboard, they began to take inventory of the items on the boat.
A golden Buddha, three boxes of yellow croakers, a box of jewelry, and another box of famous paintings and calligraphy.
Basically, gold is the main material.
After the interrogation, Qian Shulan realized that this gold was the most valuable.
Because those jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, as well as ceramic antiques can all be bought in overseas Chinese stores.
There is no need for them to take risks, and gold is too expensive and not cost-effective to buy.
At present, the Chinese currency is 2.46 yuan to 1 US dollar; the price of gold is 35 US dollars per ounce, and one ounce is approximately equal to 31.10 grams.
The Central Bank of China now charges 1.8 yuan per gram for gold, and 2.46 yuan is exchanged for 1 US dollar; that is, each gram of gold is 0.73 US dollars.
One ounce is $22.703, and domestic banks can earn nearly $13 per ounce.
After three years of famine, in order to earn more foreign exchange, the country began to collect silver dollars and gold from the domestic people.
The silver dollar was one yuan each, and the gold dollar was one yuan and eighty cents per gram.
Things like gold and silver are hard currencies and can be exchanged for money anywhere.
So these people took advantage of the campaign to destroy the four olds and began to dig up people's ancestral graves and search their homes. They transported some of the things they found to big cities to sell to foreigners.
Part of it was burned, and the other part was smuggled abroad to serve their real masters.
Among those arrested, some were core members of the Revolutionary Committee and some were insiders of the bank.
Qian Shulan finally understood why Director Lei wanted to search her house. It turned out that it was because she was the richest person in the entire production team.
The backbone members of the Revolutionary Committee could do the business without any capital, but the internal staff of the bank could not. They secretly hid the yellow croakers brought by the people, but they had to give money to the people, so Director Lei helped them raise money, and she was the big fish that Director Lei had his eyes on.
Qian Shulan once secretly went to the cell to see Director Lei and found that he had been tortured to a pulp.
Therefore, they got a lot of useful information, such as their online and offline lists.
Although these lists may be false, in order not to let go of any spies, the troops still launched a secret investigation.
After investigation, it was found that part of the list made up by these people was true and part was false.
Among them, Secretary Yao was imprisoned.
Wei Jianshe, whom Director Lei had once taken care of, also met with misfortune. Although there was no evidence to prove that he was also a spy, his reputation was ruined by his framing of others.
The army would never want such a person. So before the military training was over, he was forced to return to the Wangjia Village production team and continue to be an educated youth sent to work in the countryside.
The night Qian Shulan returned home, she used her spiritual power to go to the place where the evidence was collected and took away all the spiritual energy from these things.
Because of the large number, she had used up all of her remaining crystal balls.
She sold some of them to No. 153 and saved several thousand gold coins. After all, she had almost spent all her gold coins from hatching more than 100,000 chicks.
This time she renewed the contract and bought some empty crystal balls.
I thought of what Director Lei said, that those antiques were sent to big cities to be exchanged for foreign currency.
Qian Shulan decided to absorb all the spiritual energy from the antique before selling it.
As for why the antiques were not put into the space.
Because a country can carry out scientific research and development only if it has foreign exchange.
Speculation is not allowed in the country now, and farmers are not very active in farming. These antique calligraphy and paintings are the only two sources of income for the country.
If she put the antiques into the space, who knows if it would cause more trouble.
Instead, she could ask someone to buy all these antiques for her.
When the autumn harvest season came in October, Qian Shulan finally came.
All the rattan baskets of their production team were sold out again this time.
At the end, Qian Shulan made a special appointment to meet Li Shirong.
After not seeing each other for a few years, Li Shirong has become more and more calm.
"I have a bottle of medicine that I would like Mr. Li to help me sell."
Li Shirong was a little surprised. He took the porcelain bottle she handed over. The outside was crystal clear and glowed with a bright white light. It was obviously a good thing. "What is this?"
"This is a bottle of beauty and skin care medicine. Although it cannot reverse aging, it can keep you young for about half a year, and has the effect of freezing your age."
This medicinal effect is what Qian Shulan requested. It cannot be too amazing, but it must also be better than ordinary beauty cosmetics.
Li Shirong thought Qian Shulan wanted to see him because she wanted to sell him pork, but she thought it was medicine. "Can this be measured in quantities?"
Qian Shulan shook her head. "There are many ingredients needed, and one of the herbs is already extinct. There is only one bottle left."
Hearing her say this, Li Shirong felt very sorry, but his hand holding the porcelain bottle tightened a little, "How much do you want?"
Qian Shulan shook her head. "I don't want money. I want Mr. Li to help me auction this medicine. Then I want Mr. Li to help me buy antiques from our country with the money and keep them for me."
Li Shirong was stunned, a little surprised, "Aren't you worried that I will keep your things and not return them to you in the future?"
Qian Shulan shook her head. "Trust the people you employ, and don't employ them if you don't trust them. As long as Mr. Li does me this favor, he can get 30% of the proceeds from the auction."
It was naturally impossible for Qian Shulan to give the gold in the space to Li Shirong. The China Foreign Trade Center was full of people. If she brought the gold here, wouldn't she be sending herself to jail
Li Shirong thought about it for a while, and finally agreed. It was worthwhile to get a 30% profit without any investment.
Qian Shulan was not afraid that he would break his promise. If he withheld the things and did not return them, she would use her special powers to steal them all back. After all, these things were hers. How could it be considered stealing if she took back her own things
Qian Shulan said hesitantly, "I would like to ask Mr. Li for a favor."
Since they were working together again, Li Shirong was not stingy, "You say."
Qian Shulan thought for a long time before saying, "I know a brother and sister. The brother is called Dashuanzi and the sister is called Xiaolihua. One is 22 years old and the other is 19 years old. If they encounter difficulties, can you please help them if you can?"
Before, she and Li Shirong had stopped cooperating, so it was difficult for her to ask him for help, but now that they were cooperating, she could finally open her mouth.
Li Shirong nodded, "Okay. I'll just put a notice in the newspaper."
Qian Shulan said hurriedly, "All expenses will be paid from the auction proceeds of the medicine."
Li Shirong smiled and nodded in agreement.
The author has something to say: Many antiques in our country were lost in the past ten years. The country has specially opened Huaqiao stores where they sell at very cheap prices.