Retracing the Police Path 1993

Chapter 373 Golden Pumpkin
What is Liu Pengcheng doing with Suxiao Jiuxin Pill in his hand?
He was afraid that the old man would draw him over.

So what did he show the old man?

It is a photo of the scene where Lao Du was killed, a color photo.

The old man's hands trembled when he saw the tragic situation of Lao Du's death.He muttered in his mouth: "He is a good man, even if he leaves, he shouldn't walk like this!"

Liu Pengcheng took the photo back in his hand and put it back in his handbag.Said: "Mr. Du was very happy after reuniting with you. He even told his driver that he had met a childhood friend. If you don't speak again, what will happen to Mr. Du, alas!"

The old man returned to the chair he sat on every day, took a sip of water, calmed down and said, "You are not the friend of Lao Du's son-in-law, are you?"

Liu Pengcheng first checked that there was nothing unusual about him, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then said, "I'm not lying to you. I do know his son-in-law, but we're not friends. I'm a policeman."

Liu Pengcheng handed his ID to the old man.

What Liu Pengcheng gave him was not the ID of the deputy director of the Qinghu branch, but the ID of the associate professor of the crime center.

The old man put on his presbyopic glasses, took a closer look and handed them back to Liu Pengcheng, before he said, "Associate professor, it's quite amazing, it's only been a few days, every time Young Master Du comes alone, you still found me .”

Liu Pengcheng said, "Then, shall we talk?"

The old man said: "Hey, I have nothing else to let go of, but my daughter, a technical secondary school student who studies finance and accounting well, has been laid off. The child still has to go to school, and the son-in-law is not up to date. You think this is so good!"

All three of them understood now.This is the old man negotiating terms.

Xiao Liu is the only Mingzhou native among the three of them.Xiao Liu said without hesitation: "No problem, I can introduce your daughter to a foreign-funded enterprise. And I guarantee that you will surrender yourself. If what you said is really related to our case, I will count it as your meritorious service. Even if you commit a crime, I guarantee that you will not be sentenced to physical punishment."

In fact, the first of these guarantees is true, and the remaining two are false.why?Because if you want to recommend someone to a foreign-funded enterprise, either you are very familiar with the person, or the person who speaks is very "tough", and Xiao Liu is a policeman. It is estimated that there are not many policemen like Liu Pengcheng who set up a Hong Kong by themselves. The wonderful work of the clothing company, so this is still difficult.

And the old man has not been taken compulsory measures, and there is no evidence of his crime. Now that he has voluntarily talked about gold, you must of course be regarded as someone who surrendered, and if what he said is really a major clue, such a big You must count others as meritorious service in the case.

There is also the third article, the technical old nerd in his seventies, who committed a crime that is not a violent crime, you should try to sentence him to a real sentence, the Bureau of Justice will be the first to look at it, the lawyer and the prison belong to the Bureau of Justice!
The old man looked at Xiao Liu: "What can you say?"

Xiao Liu took out his ID and handed it to the old man.

The old man looked at his ID and said softly, "Mingzhou City Public Security Bureau Criminal Police Detachment Comprehensive Brigade Instructor, seems to be okay."

It was also the first time Liu Pengcheng knew that Xiao Liu was actually the instructor of the comprehensive brigade.He took this position at such a young age, and just now he agreed to the old man's conditions calmly, and added two of his own, which shows that this young man's background and ability are not given in vain.

The old man sighed, "Oh, then let's talk about it. Let me say something first, Young Master Du and I were really not friends. When I met him, I had just apprenticed with Master for a short time. Sometimes Du The wife will bring Master Du to the store to see if there are any new styles of fashionable jewelry. Mrs. Du has to talk to my master, and I will be responsible for taking Master Du to play. He is everyone’s young master, and I am a jewelry What kind of friend can a small apprentice in the shop be."

The old man took out a Shilin cigarette and struck a match several times but it didn't ignite.Liu Pengcheng took out his Dupont lighter and lit it for him.

In the green smoke, the old man continued: "Young Master Du is kind-hearted. After getting acquainted with me, he would bring me some small gifts every time he came. Sometimes it was a pencil, and sometimes it was a piece of food I had never eaten Western dim sum. It was a time of war and turmoil, and Mingzhou was not peaceful. My master accidentally offended a nobleman, so he took his family and me to Shanghai overnight. After that, I haven't seen Young Master Du."

The old man remained silent for a long time, and Liu Pengcheng and the other three did not interrupt the old man's memories until the cigarette butt was hot, and the old man took out another cigarette and lit it with the cigarette end before continuing: "Until a few years ago, I remember that it should be 93 Or in 94, one day, when I was basking in the sun outside the shop, Young Master Du came to pick out birthday presents for his children, and then we met again.

He was the one who recognized me first, and he came to visit me often. We two old brothers had a drink and talked about the past and the present.To say friends, this time we really become friends. "

The old man stopped again, sighed and said: "Well, after about a year, he told me that he retired and didn't want to do it anymore. Then he asked me if I could get gold. I just At first I thought he wanted to make jewelry, but it wasn’t, what he wanted was a golden pumpkin.”

Liu Pengcheng sighed in his heart, after all, Lao Du came from a business family, and he wanted to save gold pumpkins.

So what is a golden pumpkin?At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, the merchants of the Qin-Jin merchant gang used to make gold and silver into the shape of pumpkins, that is, gold pumpkins and silver pumpkins.Compared with gold and silver ingots and later international standard gold bars and bricks, pumpkins are of course huge in size!It is also very heavy, so why make the deposit silver in this shape?

First, it is not easy to lose.If you buy gold bars, the servant steals one today, and the concubine takes one tomorrow. Isn’t that nonsense, what else is there to hide?

Second, it is not easy to be stolen. Two burglars came in, avoided the servants all the way, rushed into the bank, and found sadly that they couldn't move it!

Third, it is conducive to large transactions.Needless to say this.

Fourth, gift giving is convenient!Governor No. 20 Eight-bedroom concubine celebrates her 23rd birthday, is it convenient for you to give a box of ingots, or a pumpkin?Besides, the nature is different. The governor is a scholar who was born on the second list, and has read sage books for many years. If you send some gold and silver vulgar things, who are you burying?Of course, if you give a gadget, won't people just accept it?
Later, with the help of Qin and Jin merchants to Jiangnan, this habit of storing gold and silver was also learned by merchants in Jiangnan.

Liu Pengcheng asked, "Do you remember the quantity?"

The old man nodded: "I remember, I beat them twice, one time for [-] catties, and one time for [-] catties. The pumpkins were hollowed out with a diameter of half a meter."

The three of Liu Pengcheng were very excited, they should really have found the motivation!

Then why did the old man keep it a secret, and why didn't Lao Du even tell his daughter that he had this gold?
Because in 1997, it was illegal to buy and sell gold privately!

In fact, when Liu Pengcheng saw that there was a gold shop in this pedestrian street, and the owner of the gold shop was an old man who probably knew Lao Du, he was basically sure that Lao Du bought gold with his money!
This also explains why at the beginning, Lao Du was willing to chat with the taciturn Xiao Xiaxian about finding a childhood friend, but later he didn't mention a word.

Because at that time he had made up his mind to buy gold.

At the same time, Liu Pengcheng was now absolutely sure where Lao Du's money was before he met this old friend.Cash storage, not cash savings.

The high probability is that half is deposited in the bank according to the ratio of one to one, and half is hidden in cash.

However, long-term storage of banknotes would be risky and costly, so Lao Du came up with a better idea after meeting with this master by chance, that is, to store gold!
In fact, the mood of Lao Du doing this is absolutely understandable. The old man has experienced the Anti-Japanese War, the War of Liberation and the ups and downs after the founding of the People's Republic of China all his life. Just think about how strong the insecurity is.

Liu Pengcheng withdrew his thoughts and continued to ask, "Master, who knows about this?"

The old man looked at Liu Pengcheng: "Who knows, can you still go out and shout about this matter? Old Du told me that he didn't even tell his daughter, and he planned to talk about it when he was not healthy. No, there is another person who knows!"

ps: Continue to have the audacity to ask for tickets, monthly tickets, recommended tickets, the data is too miserable! ! !
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