In 1982, Yanxi Group of Yanhe Village built Fengming Temple in the south of the village.

Later, the villagers negotiated and decided to put the stone Buddha statue in Fengming Temple for people from neighboring villages to worship.

The stone Buddha statue was first placed in the Daxiong Hall, with a lotus base and protected by a mirror frame.

In 2007, someone wanted to restore Fengmai Temple on the original site and remove the stone Buddha statue.

However, due to various reasons, things did not come to fruition.

In 2009, the stone Buddha statue was moved back to the warehouse of Fengming Temple.

This time, Hu fixed his eyes on the stone Buddha in Fengming Temple.

Of course, they would not say "steal", nor would they say "stolen", because it was the Buddha statue that was stolen, so they said "please".

One day in winter, Hu Mou and their other "buddy" Chen Mou went to visit Lao Liu's store, which also belonged to this business.

While fiddling with his antiques, Lao Liu passed a cigarette and said, "A while ago I saw a Buddha in Fengming Temple in Yanhe Village, Fengming Town. I don't know if you 'please' or not'?"

When Hu heard this, his eyes lit up, and he asked, "What's it like?"

Lao Liu put down the jade in his hand and said mysteriously: "White stone, light yellow in appearance, pineapple head, sitting cross-legged, with one hand on the lap and the other with the palm facing up, it is said that the temple will remove the Buddha from the meditation room. Move it to the altar of the 'Daxiong Palace'."

Lao Liu suggested going to the site to step on the site and take a look.

When several people stepped on the site, they found that the cement on the base of the Buddha statue had not yet solidified.

The opportunity came. On another month of dark and windy night, Chen and Zhang took a few people to turn off the tricycle far away, and then pushed it to a pre-selected place.

Zhang surreptitiously jumped into the courtyard wall without anyone noticing, without making any sound.

Then he opened the side door, and several people entered the courtyard in a file.

When they came to the stone Buddha that had just been moved into the hall, they started to do it.

Since the stone Buddha and the altar were not tightly bonded, the four people shoveled off the cement, moved the stone Buddha to the trolley they brought, and then pushed the trolley out of the small temple with all their might.

I don't want trouble to come again, there is a steep slope ahead, and the few of them can't push it up.

There was no other way, so Zhang secretly dialed the mobile phone to ask Zhang Buyian and Lao Liu for help.

An hour later, two people arrived.

In the end, seven or eight people worked together to lift the stone Buddha onto a tricycle, drag it back to Lao Liu's relatives' house, and buried it deep in the backyard.

Two months later, Zhang Jialiang found a buyer, and the deal was concluded. The transaction amount was 15 yuan, which can be said to be very cheap.

This kind of black market transaction is not even worth [-]% of the real price.

And just for such a small amount of money, some people took risks.

I'm afraid many people would never have imagined that the thief would be so bold as to steal the stone Buddha statue!
Of course, if someone steals it, someone will find it back. The Chinese nation has never lacked guardians!
In the early morning of December 2010, 12, Shi Lianxiang, who had just been the abbot of Fengming Temple in Qishan for 16 days, came to the main hall.

He suddenly found that the stone Buddha that had just been carried to the altar the afternoon before had disappeared.

In panic, he hurriedly called the "head" of the monastery.

Because 5 months ago, the head of the temple signed an agreement with the Yanxi Group of Yanhe Village, Fengming Town, and became the director of the management committee of Fengming Temple, and invited Shi Lianxiang to be the abbot.

The head of the sect was shocked when he heard the news, and immediately rushed to the temple on a motorcycle, only to see a mess in the hall,
He walked around inside and outside the hall a few times, looking left and right, and the stone Buddha was really stolen.

He broke out in a cold sweat and immediately called the police.

The person in charge is from Fengming Town. He has been engaged in painting and calligraphy mounting and collecting for more than 10 years, and he is considered a cultural celebrity in Qishan.

Of course he knew how much impact the loss of the stone Buddha would have.

This was a shocking case of cultural relics. Qishan quickly came to Fengming Temple and conducted a serious investigation of the scene.

However, they did not capture valuable leads.

Day by day passed, and the case made little progress.

During the theft of the Ming Dynasty stone Buddha from Fengming Temple, another voice appeared in Qishan.

Some people suspect that the stone Buddha was stolen by the head of the temple. The reason is that he has been doing business for a long time, so why did he suddenly become interested in the temple?

Some people said that he contracted Fengming Temple at the beginning to get the idea of ​​stone Buddha, maybe he was the one who guarded himself and sold the stone Buddha.

With such rumors, those days were naturally very difficult, and I felt extremely aggrieved.

It's just that this one doesn't know how to explain all this to people.

Whenever he met acquaintances in the county, he would be questioned about the whereabouts of Shifo.

Later, even his family became suspicious of him contracting the monastery.

Blame him for not doing a good job in business, insisting on contracting some monastery, instead of eating fish, he was covered in fishy fish!

In the waiting and anticipation, the detection of the Shifo case still has no results.

In order to prove his innocence, he acted on his own, and visited alone, looking for the stone Buddha.

Since March 2011, he has traveled to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other more than 3 provinces and cities to look for them at his own expense.

Every time he goes to an antique market in a city, he has to carefully observe and identify stone Buddhas.

But every time I leave with hope and return with disappointment.

In order to retrieve Stone Buddha, when he became a "lone ranger" and searched everywhere, the Qishan police also launched a large-scale search to find a breakthrough in the case.

Judging from the scene, the perpetrator is familiar with Fengming Temple and its surroundings.

After many visits and premeditated planning in advance, it is speculated that local people should participate, or there should be a foothold nearby.

Judging from the means of committing the crime, the perpetrator is a veteran of theft, with prying experience, climbing skills, and anti-investigation awareness.

Judging from the two cart marks at the scene, it is only possible for the Buddha statue to be moved if more than four criminals entered the scene directly.

After many visits to local people, several important clues were obtained from surrounding counties.

In August 2010, a Qing Dynasty iron bell weighing about a ton was stolen from Chenghuang Temple in Linghua Village, Changqing Town, Fengxiang County;

In October of the same year, a stone statue of Sakyamuni disappeared from Huayan Temple in Nanyang Town, Fufeng County;
Not long ago, in Nanzhai Town, Qianyang, a Ming Dynasty iron bell included in the cultural relics census list was also mysteriously lost.

The modus operandi of these burglaries is very similar.

After careful analysis and comparison, everyone agreed that these cases were committed by a gang.

After that, the relevant departments combined these cultural relics theft cases for investigation.

After several times of collecting information, Xiao Moumou of Qishan County, who had been hit many times for stealing and selling cultural relics, was listed as the first suspect.

Afterwards, investigations were launched around Xiao Moumou's social contacts and activities.

Sure enough, in April 2011, a theft gang composed of more than 4 people including Hu and Zhang surfaced.

On the evening of June 2011, 6, after confirming the specific location of the gang members, they immediately attacked the fortifications and launched the network closing operation.

This time, 11 suspects were arrested successively.

After investigation, the criminal gang was composed of people from Qishan, Chencang and Nanhe.

The characteristics of their crimes are divided and combined, they step on the spot during the day and start at night, and they are good at stealing cultural relics from temples and fields.

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