At midnight, Zhao Yu and Cui Lizhu were still busy at their desks. The two were both excited and nervous. They didn't know what they could find in the box Tao Xiang left behind.
Cui Lizhu had carefully cut open the outer skin of the suitcase with a knife and was looking at the boards inside, trying to find any hidden clues inside.
Zhao Yu checked the items in the box one by one, and looked through the ancient books and Tao Xiang's notes.
"Boss..." Cui Lizhu asked curiously while using the magnifying glass function of her mobile phone to check the surface of the suitcase, "Do you think my father's plan has something to do with gold? I have heard him mention it many times. That’s the word!”
"Really?" Zhao Yu looked through the books seriously without raising his head, "In my opinion, it seems normal for a thief king to often mention gold, right?"
"Hey?" Cui Lizhu began to use her imagination again, "Boss, boss, do you think my father discovered some shocking secret? For example... For example, the name Golden City was not randomly chosen. Is there really gold buried there?”
"No, it seems..." Zhao Yu put down an ancient book and picked up another notebook, "I heard Miao Ying say that the real origin of the Golden City is because of the golden chrysanthemums outside the city!"
"No," Cui Lizhu said hurriedly, "When I was in school, I heard people say that the city was built there after the Yellow Turban Army withdrew to the north! Tell me, when the Yellow Turban Army made such a big fuss, did they leave anything behind? Important treasure!? My dad got clues to this treasure?"
"Xiao Cui..." Zhao Yu pursed his lips, "Although I am the discoverer of the Golden Buddha treasure, I can tell you responsibly, where are there so many treasures in the world? Besides, the Yellow Turban Army was in the Eastern Han Dynasty It's a matter of the Three Kingdoms, it has to be... um..." Zhao Yu couldn't figure it out clearly, so he simply said, "It's been many years, right? Where can I find it?"
"It's only 1800!" Cui Lizhu said, "I know that the founding history of Golden City cannot surpass the Ming Dynasty, but... things in history are not absolute! Just in case, there was indeed an ancient city before 1800, but Did he disappear later? Maybe my dad got some inspiration... "
"Wait..." Before Cui Lizhu finished speaking, Zhao Yu suddenly interrupted him, then pointed at a black notebook in his hand and said, "What... what is this!?"
"Um?"
Cui Lizhu hurriedly put down her work and came to watch. But when she saw that Zhao Yu was holding an ordinary-looking notebook, Cui Lizhu was involuntarily startled after just one glance.
"Boss, I seem to have some impression of this book..." Cui Lizhu recalled, "When I was in Golden City, I once saw it on my dad's desk. It seemed... It seemed like this book. He still had a ruler in the book at that time. I went to the bar and drew a picture..."
"Really? These..." Zhao Yu opened the book, but saw that the first dozen pages in the book were not written by hand, but photocopies. Zhao Yu came closer and observed carefully, and then he saw the clue, "Oh... these copies are glued to the notebook! What is this...?"
"It seems..." Cui Lizhu looked carefully and guessed, "It seems to be a memoir written by someone, or a letter or something? The writing is old, and the paper... seems to be a long time ago... It is used for drawing. Rice paper?”
"It's not like..." Zhao Yu touched it and found that the paper was very soft and thin. Originally, he wanted to use an invisible identification device to identify it, but he was quickly attracted by the words on the paper.
Those words are all traditional Chinese characters, and there are annotations in red pen under some words, as well as some symbols. It is obvious that those annotations should have been drawn by Tao Xiang.
"Oh!" Cui Lizhu pointed at a certain text with sharp eyes and said, "Did you see it? Gold... look here again..." She pointed to another place, "It's still gold!"
Zhao Yu also noticed the word "gold". He turned back a few pages and found that the word "gold" appeared very frequently, almost on every page.
"Oh my God! Is it really gold?" Cui Lizhu said in surprise and excitement, "My dad... what on earth are he looking for..."
"Look here..." Zhao Yu recognized a few more characters, "These two characters say treasure"!
"Golden treasure!" Cui Lizhu grabbed Zhao Yu's shoulders and said excitedly, "Boss, are we playing too big this time? My dad... has been looking for the golden treasure!?"
Although Zhao Yu hadn't written a word about it yet, Zhao Yu also felt that it was a big deal. He immediately turned back and saw that there was no old paper pasted on the back, but Tao Xiang's notes instead.
Although Tao Xiang's handwriting has no style, it is extremely graceful and clean, making it easy to read at a glance. On the last few pages, there were indeed some drawings, maps, etc., which just confirmed Tao Xiang's statement about using a ruler...
"Here..." Zhao Yu turned the book back to the end of the stickers, and finally found a name at the end, "Liu Dianchen!?"
"Liu Dianchen..." Cui Lizhu pointed to a line of small characters behind her name and said, "These words are the torture code... I know the torture code. What is the code?"
"Are you asking me?" Zhao Yu snapped his fingers, "Why are you standing there stunned? Why don't you check online?"
"Yes, yes..." Cui Lizhu hurriedly turned on her mobile phone to go online and checked the answer within ten seconds. She said in surprise, "Oh my, this Liu Dianchen turns out to be a big traitor!"
"Ah? Traitor?" Zhao Yu wondered, "Why did a traitor appear again?"
"Here... it's written here!" Cui Lizhu pointed to her mobile phone and read, "During the Anti-Japanese War, this person served as the director of the Construction Department of the Puppet Manchukuo government, as well as the chairman of the Democratic League, and several chambers of commerce... After Japan surrendered, this person He was arrested by the military commander and later executed secretly...
"Huh? It's strange..." Cui Lizhu also frowned, "I don't know if the name on the note is this big traitor. There are many people with the same name!"
"No..." Zhao Yu carefully observed Tao Xiang's annotation and said, "Look, there is the word torture on it... How do I look at it? It should be the same person! The interrogation record of the traitor? Hmm... Xiao Cui, what does it mean? Notes?"
"The handwritten letter means a handwritten letter," Cui Lizhu replied, "but I don't know what the torture handwritten letter means! Could it be... a letter written by the criminal when he explained the facts of the crime?"
"Big traitor... golden treasure? The Puppet Manchukuo government?" Zhao Yu wondered, "The Puppet Manchukuo government refers to the northeastern area of our country, and the Golden City is among them. Could it be..."
"Tsk, tsk..." Cui Lizhu continued excitedly, "Could it be... that the last thing my dad wanted to tell me was this? He found... um... "
"This batch of treasures..." Zhao Yu also speculated extremely excitedly, "Could it be related to the Japanese devils!?"
"Come on, come on..." Cui Lizhu pointed at the notebook and said, "Although it is in simplified Chinese, we should be able to understand it! What's more, there are also my dad's annotations..."
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