Chapter 872

Out of the room, Wei Zhuang personally leads Yang Xiaobao's way, waving his hand to signal that the guard and the attendant's life Secretary don't have to keep up. Secretary Wu, who is waiting outside, greets him and is also signaled to withdraw.

This house of the Wei family is not so much a villa as a manor, and its area is not small. Wei Zhuang and Yang Xiaobao went downstairs first, went through a winding and deep stone path in the back garden, and entered a remote and quiet red wall building in the corner.

The style of the red wall building is very beautiful. The outer wall is covered with green vines, and the stone slab at the door is covered with wet moss. It is obvious that few people walk on it on weekdays.

"This building used to be inhabited by people, but later it came out that it was haunted, so it was changed to store sundries. In a haunted place, of course, no one wants to come in. " With a sly smile, Wei Zhuang leads Yang Xiaobao into the red wall building.

Yang Xiaobao is a little aware that the so-called "haunted" theory is mostly deliberately created by Mr. Wei, who is really trying his best to collect this mysterious ancient pearl.

"This garden is just one of my many residences. In the past 20 years, the officialdom has gone up and down, and I can't help myself. I can't live here all the time. In order to put away such things, I have to come up with some crooked ideas... Ah. " Wei Zhuang sighed, took out the key, opened the lock, pushed open the iron door, and went down the stairs directly into the basement.

Yang Xiaobao originally thought that the basement would have heavy iron doors, high-tech security equipment, deep and solid caves, just like the bank vault. However, it was not the case at all. It was a dilapidated solid wood door. After the door was opened, it was also a room full of dilapidated things, such as lawn mowers, worn-out bicycles and so on. The whole room was a debris room, It doesn't look like a place for valuables at all.

Wei Zhuang opened a drawer of a dilapidated cabinet against the wall. There were dozens of keys in the drawer. He didn't see any dazzling night pearls all over the room. Wei Zhuang asks Yang Xiaobao to help light up with a flashlight. He finds the keys in the big drawer.

Yang Xiaobao was stunned for a moment, and thought it was a bit interesting. It turned out that there was a rabbit hole in the rabbit hole, and there was a key hidden in the key pile. The old man's stomach was really crooked, and it really took a lot of thought.

It took Wei Zhuang a long time to find the real key in the pile of keys. Then he asked Yang Xiaobao to go out of the basement, leave the red wall building, and return to the study in the villa, where they met for tea just now.

Yang Xiaobao couldn't help but ask: "things are originally put here, as long as the key is put in the basement of that small building?"

"That's right." Wei Zhuang nodded, opened the dark lattice behind the bookcase and revealed a very delicate safe embedded in the wall. It turned out that this was the place where the bead was really stored.

Yang Xiaobao was a little disapproval: "no matter how important this thing is, there's no need to make it like this, right? Put the key so far away, but the things are still in the safe in the study. There is not much security in terms of safety. We can only add more trouble to ourselves and do more tricks when taking things. "

"All along, Gao Sihai and I are the only people who know this thing. Now there is one more you - in fact, you can only be half an insider, because you only know that there is such a thing, and you realize that it is very special and precious, but you don't know the specific reason, and you don't need to be particularly defensive against outsiders."

Wei Zhuang took out the key, went to the safe, shook his head, said with a bitter smile: "so you are right. I store this thing like this, not to prevent others, but to prevent myself - every time I take out something, I will have more trouble, so I can try to touch it as few times as possible."

"Defend yourself?" Yang Xiaobao was greatly surprised, and his heart was full of doubts. There are thousands of treasures in the world, and the only thing that needs to be guarded against is thieves, robbers and swindlers. The owner of the treasure spared no effort to guard himself. What's the ghost?

Wei Zhuang stopped talking. He opened the safe with his key and took out a wooden box which was a little smaller than the shoe box. The box was not painted in log color. It was just a very common style. It was a little old. At first glance, it didn't make people think that there would be some earth shaking and valuable treasure in it.

Wei Zhuang gently put the box on the tea table and looked up to Yang Xiaobao seriously and said, "please close the door."

"If there are outsiders in your study, there will be no safe landlords in China?" Yang Xiaobao is joking, or walked two steps to close the door.

Just at the moment when the door closed, a big fat cat, who was fat and had become a ball, came in from the door, jumped on the coffee table quickly, and scratched the wooden box with its front paw.

Wei Zhuang's face changed with surprise. He quickly protected the things with his hands and yelled at them. However, he was not very witty and continued to wander around the coffee table. It seemed that he focused on the things in the box.

"You can prevent outsiders from coming in here. You can't prevent cats from coming in!" While joking, Yang Xiaobao stares at the cat who is making trouble. Big cat immediately like to see ghosts, swish on the jump under the sofa.

Wei Zhuang was relieved and carefully opened the lid of the wooden box. There is a gray round object in the middle of the box, which is slightly larger than table tennis.

The mysterious ancient pearl hidden so deeply finally revealed its real body, but it didn't show the brilliance of the night pearl, nor the brilliance of the precious pearl.

Looking at it carefully, Yang Xiaobao even felt that it was not even a bead, and it didn't have any luster. The surface was pitted, like a mangy head, with spots on it, just like a moldy meatball.

"That's it?" Yang Xiaobao frowned and felt whether he was seeing too much. If he hadn't seen Wei Zhuang's serious attitude, he would have suspected that he was a Xibei product.

"That's it." Wei Zhuang seemed to have guessed Yang Xiaobao's mind and said with a smile, "do you think this thing is very common, right?"

"It's not normal. It's bad." Yang Xiaobao laughs and tells the truth: "it's so rotten that it's not necessarily picked up on the street. Is the appearance of the beads a little worse? It doesn't even look like a bead. "

Wei Zhuang looked at Yang Xiaobao in surprise, nodded and said with a smile, "you've got to the point. There is a Western saying: "if something looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and barks like a duck, it is a duck."

"So it's not a bead at all," he said slowly, with a smile, pointing to the pale, ugly bead on the table

Yang Xiaobao was stunned for a moment and then reacted, feeling unbelievable: "it's not beads. What's that? Don't all the archaeologists who excavated ancient tombs say it's beads? I've read all these materials, and they are all professionals. I don't know whether they are beads or not. "

"They found it in the mouth of the tomb owner. The ancients did have the custom of burying the jewel in the mouth of the body, so they had a preconceived idea. It is precisely because those archaeologists are professionals that they are in the Bureau, so they are in the game. " Wei Zhuang laughed and said meaningfully: "in some things, the expert is often not as clear as the layman. You must understand that. "

Yang Xiaobao also laughed, which is a good thing: half a year ago, the biochemical pharmaceutical project of Shenglong group was also in a bottleneck, and a group of top scientists were all out of action. It's just a breakthrough that a pure layman himself pointed out the key direction.

"This is the sariki." Wei Zhuang revealed the mystery, "the so-called relic, to put it bluntly, is a mass of sintered bones, which is just round and put in the mouth of the tomb owner, so it is regarded as a bead."

Yang Xiaobao only read a little about the relic in the stall magazine. He knew that it generally refers to the bones left after the eminent monk and great virtue were burned. Casually, the bones left by a wild monk after his death are not qualified to be called sarizi. It is said that the relic has all kinds of miraculous spiritual power. The higher the cultivation of the dead, the greater the spiritual power of the relic left.

The mysterious veil of this "Pearl" has been revealed to this step, which has far exceeded Yang Xiaobao's expectation. What he didn't expect, however, was that the next truth he heard was much more complicated and bizarre.

"In fact, when Gu Da came to me and asked me to take advantage of my privilege as mayor to help return this bead, I really intended to help. I was going to do it the next day."

Wei Zhuang shook his head and slowly told the story of twenty years ago.

"Never, never. I was curious that night and took out the bead and played with it. At the beginning, I didn't find anything special. When I got bored, I was ready to put things away. My secretary came in all of a sudden and asked me to sign a tender document for the renovation of municipal roads. This document has been worked out for a long time. If I want to keep it going, I'll just glance at it and sign it... "

Hearing this, Yang Xiaobao is a little confused. Old man Wei doesn't look like an old fool with a broken mouth. How can he say that the foreword doesn't match the Afterword? The first sentence is still about the sariki, and the last one is about signing documents.

Wei Zhuang took a slow breath, and his face was a little pale. He continued: "but at that time, I just took over the document and was about to take a pen. Suddenly, I blurted out to the Secretary and asked," you gave your cousin Xu chaomou this project, and all the 230000 I collected bought a house, right? Then the Secretary's face suddenly changed. But then my face changed, and I was much more frightened than he was

Wei Zhuang's eyes were bright, staring at Yang Xiaobao, "because I suddenly remembered that I had never met his cousin, and I didn't know how much money he had collected and what he had done with it! It's as if all of a sudden the information is coming out in front of your eyes. "