After Da Miao left, Fang Ze began to search for his tomb according to the map left by Cao Zhan.
Originally, he was worried that due to the expansion of the imperial capital in recent years, the location of Cao Zhan's tomb would be covered by high-rise buildings, but he was lucky. Because the Cao family was very poor in his later years, the family could not afford to prepare a burial place for Cao Zhan.
So with the help of friends, Cao Zhan was buried in the Xishan area, which was not even considered a suburb of the imperial capital at that time.
Most of the places here have long been turned into tourist attractions, and the remaining relatively flat areas have also been built into resorts and the like.
Fang Ze drove here and compared the location shown on the map. He found that Cao Zhan's goal was originally to be under an orchard, but this orchard has now been bought and will be developed into a resort.
I asked someone about the boss here and found that he was an acquaintance.
This resort belongs to Zhou Dongzhuo's family, and the main reason why the Zhou family bought this resort is to give their company's employees a vacation.
So Fang Ze stood at the entrance of the resort and called Zhou Dongzhuo. Two hours later, Zhou Dongzhuo's car arrived.
"Master Fang." Zhou Dongzhuo got out of the car and eagerly grabbed Fang Ze's hand and said hello, "I haven't seen you for a long time. I thought you had gone to live in seclusion."
"I spent my great youth living in seclusion." Fang Ze had no intention of pretending to be a master in front of others. That's what a liar needs to do. He has real skills and there's no need to pretend to be fake.
"Why did Master Fang ask me to come here this time?" Zhou Dongzhuo asked while beckoning Fang Ze to go inside.
"I have fallen in love with this land." Fang Ze pointed to the resort in front of him and said to Zhou Dongzhuo, "Now your father has gone abroad. You can take care of this matter."
"It can be calculated." Zhou Dongzhuo hesitated for a moment, and then said, "But the construction of this resort was decided by many shareholders together, and it is for future use by middle- and high-level employees, so if you really like it, master, After acquiring this land, I have to go back and discuss with those shareholders first. I am in charge of the company, so I cannot act arbitrarily."
"I understand that." Fang Ze walked to a developed area, looked at several large machinery under construction in front of him, pointed at these large machinery and said, "Tell them to stop."
"Okay." Zhou Dongzhuo heard Fang Ze's words and turned around without saying a word and ordered the assistants around him to stop the construction.
"Master suddenly wants to buy this resort. Is there something wrong with this resort?" Zhou Dongzhuo originally wanted to discuss the purchase and sale of the resort with Fang Ze, but suddenly seeing Fang Ze issuing such a strange order, he thought of some gods and ghosts. I couldn't help but become nervous about the ghost thing.
"There is something wrong with this resort." Fang Ze patted Zhou Dongzhuo's chest and said, "Originally I planned to buy it with my own money and donate it to the country, but if you don't want to sell it, then donate it yourself. It would be nice to gain some fame. .”
"Master, what do you mean by this?" Zhou Dongzhuo looked at Fang Ze blankly and asked.
"Under this ground, there is the tomb of a famous person." Fang Ze pointed to the land in front of him and said.
"Which celebrity?" Zhou Dongzhuo immediately understood what Fang Ze meant.
If the owner of the underground tomb was really famous in history, then the resort he was building now would really have to be donated.
Although the state will provide some compensation, their losses cannot be compensated by money.
When Zhou Dongzhuo thought of this, he felt that he could not pay attention to this matter by himself, so he immediately called his brother.
After Fang Ze asked the workers on site to stop, he found a shovel and used the Force to detect that there was a suspected grave on the land, and then began to dig it himself.
After all, Cao Zhan spent five days with him last week, and the two were considered friends. Fang Ze didn't want his tomb to be damaged too seriously, although Cao Zhan didn't just end it last week. Cao Zhan on vacation at Fang Ze's house.
When Fang Ze felt that he was about to dig a grave, Zhou Dongyi also rushed over.
"Master Fang." Zhou Dongyi trotted over and asked Fang Ze, "Is there really a tomb here?"
"It's true." Fang Ze said lightly, "The owner of the tomb told me personally."
The owner of the tomb told it himself!
After Fang Ze finished speaking, Zhou Dongzhuo and Zhou Dongyi next to him immediately stood on end and almost wanted to turn around and run away.
There are so many ghosts in this world! Master, please don't scare me, okay? This is related to whether you dare to do bad things in the future.
"We dug it." As Fang Ze spoke, he shoveled the shovel down and hit a hard object. It must be Cao Xueqin's tomb.
"Ask a few laborers to dig down slowly with small shovels along the area I dug." Fang Ze said to Zhou Dongzhuo and Zhou Dongyi.
"What about that, Master." Although the two brothers were not particularly timid, after hearing Fang Ze's words, they still asked with a guilty conscience, "Do we need to buy some paper money to burn here, otherwise I'm afraid to stay here The one who will be unhappy with us digging his grave without permission.
"That's okay." Fang Ze patted Zhou Dongzhuo's shoulder and said, "The person buried here is a great writer, but he wants his grave to be dug up."
"Yeah, okay." Zhou Dongzhuo quickly agreed.
But when Fang Ze went aside to rest, the two brothers discussed it and bought a few sticks of incense and placed them around the cemetery from a distance for peace of mind.
Fang Ze found out the general location of the target, and the remaining people did things much faster. They used small shovels to quickly separate Cao Zhan's entire tomb from the ground, but they were afraid of destroying the tomb, so they No one dared to dig too close to the coffin, which was still covered in a thick layer of soil.
But although the coffin was not opened, those present still saw the tombstone in front of the tomb.
"Duke Cao was forbidden to touch the tomb?" Zhou Dongzhuo looked at the words on the tombstone and reluctantly recognized it.
"Master, whose tomb is this?" Zhou Dongyi asked, standing next to Fang Ze.
"Isn't it written on it, it belongs to Cao Zhan."
"Cao Zhan?" Zhou Dongyi is not from a liberal arts background, so for a while he really couldn't remember who this Cao Zhan was.
But fortunately, I have Du Niang.
Zhou Dongyi read Cao Zhan a hundred times, and the words "Dream of Red Mansions" and Cao Xueqin immediately popped up.
"The one about Red Mansions?!" Zhou Dongyi looked at Fang Ze in shock and asked.
"Yes." Fang Ze nodded, and then said to the two brothers, "Call the Cultural Relics Bureau of the Imperial Capital and ask them to send someone quickly."
Zhou Dongyi and Zhou Dongzhuo also knew that if this was really the cemetery of Cao Xueqin, the master who wrote Dream of Red Mansions, then things would be serious.
(End of chapter)