Xixia dead book

Chapter 108 The Lost 1964 (45)
【No.20 Queen's Skull】

1
In a large classroom that can accommodate more than 200 people, Professor Chen Zijian was giving lectures to his students on the podium. Tang Feng and Han Jiang walked in from the back of the classroom. They didn't want to disturb Professor Chen's lecture, so they tiptoed in In the last row of the classroom, I found two seats to sit down.

Professor Chen Zijian is a well-known anthropologist in China. He has unique insights into paleoanthropology. Professor Chen on the podium is wearing blue rimless glasses and a suit and leather shoes. Judging by his age, he should be under fifty. Eloquent and radiant.

Fifteen minutes later, Professor Chen Zijian ended his lecture early. After the students left the classroom, Professor Chen packed up and walked towards Tang Feng and Han Jiang.Before Han Jiang could speak, Professor Chen said first, "I have received the package you asked someone to mail from Petersburg."

"Then I will trouble you!" Han Jiang begged hurriedly.

Professor Chen leaned against a desk, looked at Han Jiang, then at Tang Feng beside him, Han Jiang hurriedly introduced Tang Feng to Professor Chen, and said: "About the origin and history of that thing. Questions, you can ask him."

"Well, I have a few questions now." Professor Chen asked Tang Feng bluntly: "According to your statement, this skeleton is from the Xixia period?"

"Yes! We think it's from the early Xixia period," Tang Feng said.

"That's right, after I received this skeleton, I have done a bone age test, and it has been confirmed that this remains is indeed from the eleventh century AD, more precisely, it is from the middle of the eleventh century, which is in line with what you said about the early Xixia period. In addition, we have also determined the ethnicity of the remains, as judged by Russian experts before, the owner of the remains belongs to the Tibetan-Arian-Mongoloid race and is about 40 years old."

"Is that all?" Tang Feng asked in disappointment.

Professor Chen looked at Tang Feng, and said angrily: "This is only the preliminary test result, and the detailed report will take some days. Of course, you can't expect me to tell you who the owner of this bone is. I'm not that old." ability."

After finishing speaking, Professor Chen got up and walked out of the classroom. Tang Feng and Han Jiang hurriedly followed. When Professor Chen walked to the door of the classroom, he turned back and said to the two of them: "Well, I will have a detailed test report in a few days Here it is for you, and... this remains will be kept with me for a while, don't you have any objections?"

"Of course I have no objection, but...but, you must be careful, don't..." Tang Feng looked at Professor Chen hesitantly, as if hesitating to speak.

"Be careful of what?" Professor Chen raised his voice and asked, not understanding what Tang Feng meant.

"Be careful not to lose it."

"Lost it?" Professor Chen frowned, "How could I lose it! If you don't trust me, you can go to someone else!"

Professor Chen obviously misunderstood Tang Feng's meaning. Tang Feng hurriedly explained: "I'm not worried about you. What I mean is that this remains is very important, and maybe other people will be interested in it."

"Oh! This is the first time I've heard of it. Who would want such a skeleton? Well, I understand what you mean. I will be careful, and I will lock it in a safe." After finishing speaking, Chen Zijian Ignoring Tang Feng any more, he walked straight out of the teaching building.

Tang Feng looked at Chen Zijian's back, walked up to Han Jiang, and said, "This person is really difficult to get along with."

"It's nothing. He is a good person, but he has a bit of a temper. People with ability are like this."

"Is this the case for capable people? Professor Luo is not like him."

"Professor Luo?" Han Jiang heard Tang Feng mentioning Professor Luo, and immediately turned to Tang Feng: "Tang Feng, you and Professor Luo should hurry up."

2
When Tang Feng and Han Jiang returned to the headquarters, Zhao Yong had just returned from Hong Kong. When Han Jiang saw Zhao Yong, he was dissatisfied and asked him, "Why did you take so long to come back?"

"Hi! Don't mention it, Liang Yuan and I arrived in Hong Kong, but Liang Yongquan was not there. After waiting for a week, Liang Yongquan came back from abroad."

Han Jiang eased his tone, and asked Zhao Yong again: "Have you asked Liang Yongquan?"

"I followed your instructions and asked all the necessary questions, and according to your idea, I installed a pinhole camera in the collar of my jacket to record everything I asked Liang Yongquan."

"Okay, good job."

Liang Yongquan's figure soon appeared on the computer screen, and Tang Feng recognized that it was Liang Yongquan's study...

After Liang Yongquan was seated, without waiting for Zhao Yong to speak, he first thanked: "Thank you for protecting my daughter. This child is too headstrong. I can't do anything about her. She is crazy all day long. When she was in school in the United States, she liked all over the world. Running around, and now there is another Tang Feng, she is even more homeless."

"This is what we should do, and we also want to thank you for lending us the jade screen." Zhao Yong said.

Liang Yongquan laughed loudly, "I don't care if I give that thing to you."

"why?"

"Because it's a troublesome thing, and I can't sleep at night if I put it here."

"Oh! How do you know? You seem to know something?"

Liang Yongquan's face became serious, "It's obvious, my father died on this thing, and besides, don't think that I don't know anything. Although Liang Yuan didn't tell me much, I also heard about it. , isn’t it a narrow escape?”

"How much do you know?"

"Let's be frank and honest. I know that the reason why those people are relentless is not only to get the jade screen, but to understand the secret behind the jade screen. I'm right."

Zhao Yong was startled, he thought of Liang Yuan, it's not surprising that Liang Yongquan knew this, how much more did he know?Zhao Yong continued to ask: "How much do you know? Why don't you tell them all?"

"Basically, I only know so much now, maybe not as much as Liang Yuan."

"You only know so much, don't you dare to be interested in the secret behind the jade screen?"

"No! I don't want to know, and I advise Liang Yuan not to know about it. We are living a good life now, so why bother with those gossips!"

"But don't you want to avenge your father? Isn't that like your style in the mall?" Zhao Yong asked.

Liang Yongquan pondered for a moment, and said: "I now understand that my father was killed because he wanted to uncover the secret behind the jade screen. I also knew about his participation in the Sino-Soviet scientific expedition team. Of course I want revenge, but , that group of people can't even catch you, how can I do it? In short, you know how much wealth and energy I have, and I know better in my heart. I don't know how to hit a stone with a pebble. My character."

"You are indeed a shrewd businessman!" Zhao Yong softened his tone, "Okay, let's not talk about jade screen, I still have a few questions to ask you, mainly to ask you a few people."

"Speaking!"

"Do you know Qi Ning?"

Liang Yongquan thought for a while and said, "I don't know him, but I seem to have heard of this name somewhere."

"Do you know Wang Kai?"

"I don't know, I've never heard of this person."

"Then do you know a Russian named 'Tymoshin'?"

"Our company does have business in Russia, but it's all done by people below. I rarely deal with Russians, and I don't even know this guy named Ji...what...Mo."

"Where's Makarov? A Russian, too."

Liang Yongquan shook his head, and Zhao Yong hurriedly added, "Your father knew this man?"

"My father? Just because my father knows people doesn't mean I know them too."

"Where's Professor Luo Zhongping? Your father seems to know him very well."

"Well! Professor Luo is an old friend of my father. However, I don't know him very well. We only met him once."

Speaking of this, Zhao Yong had given up hope of getting any valuable clues from Liang Yongquan, so he sighed lightly, and finally asked another question.

3
"Then have you ever heard of a Chinese-American named 'Stephen'?" Zhao Yong finally asked another question.

"Is his surname Ma?" Liang Yongquan asked suddenly.

Zhao Yong's eyes lit up, and he said, "Yes, his surname is Ma."

Liang Yongquan leaned back heavily, without looking at Zhao Yong, he seemed to be staring at the roof, and sighed: "This guy, I now suspect that the murderer of my father may be him, but I'm not sure."

"Oh! It seems that you are not idle, and are also investigating the murderer who killed your father."

"Not to mention the investigation, my father and I have always been law-abiding citizens. We didn't know this Stephen before, but you also know that my father likes to collect antiques. My father once heard people talking about this Stephen, saying how amazing this Stephen is. One of his men A group of people, specializing in smuggling and stealing precious cultural relics and works of art. Many things in the art black market come from him, but my father only heard about it and never dealt with him. After my father had an accident with the jade screen, I never doubted Stephen, otherwise I would have reminded you, but later Tang Feng and Liang Yuan were attacked, and my bodyguard Huang Dahu was beaten to death. I had to investigate secretly, and the conclusion I reached pointed to this Called Stephen, I reported my findings to the Hong Kong police, but there was no further action. The police said that the group of people had not been active in Hong Kong since then. They suspected that the group had suffered heavy injuries, and it was probably over. That is These, that's all I know about this Stephen."

Zhao Yong didn't expect that Liang Yongquan knew a lot about Stephen. He nodded and said, "What you said is basically consistent with what we know. But this Stephen didn't disappear because of the heavy injury he suffered in Hong Kong. He has always been our worst enemy."

"Oh! This... This is strange. How can this Stephen have so much energy? According to common sense, with his strength, let alone provoke you, even me, he should weigh it. After I began to doubt this Stephen, I I have been puzzled, our Liang family has no enmity with him recently, we have no grudges in the past, and we have never dealt with each other, why should he be an enemy to us? Could it be because of that jade screen? It seems impossible!"

"Stephen can't offend your Liang family, but the black hand behind him is not afraid of your Liang family."

"Ah!—You mean that Stephen is not the mastermind." Liang Yongquan looked shocked.

Zhao Yong nodded slightly, and said again: "As for Mr. Liang Yunjie's death, it was not only because of Yu Jiaping, but because he knew too much. After all, he was one of the few survivors of the scientific expedition team back then. Or, moreover, he has been researching the matter of Yu Chaping.”

Liang Yongquan nodded thoughtfully, "I understand, there are more important people behind Stephen, so their energy is so great. But who will be behind Stephen?"

"This is exactly what we want to know. If you think of something again, you can contact us directly. Remember, don't go to the Hong Kong police or others, and don't conduct private investigations."

"OK, I see."

Zhao Yong had basically finished asking Han Jiang's questions. He looked at his watch, got up and said, "Today took up a lot of your time, please forgive me, thank you for your cooperation."

"This is what you should do, and I hope you will catch the murderer who killed my father as soon as possible." Liang Yongquan also stood up and shook hands with Zhao Yong. At this time, Zhao Yong seemed to remember something, and said to Liang Yongquan: "Yes I almost forgot something, before coming here, Tang Feng specifically asked me to ask you to borrow something."

"Oh! What does this kid ask me to borrow?"

"He said that he saw a book with you last time, an old book, the "Four Painted Screens" written by Gao Luopei."

"Why, is he interested in this book? My father read it before. If he likes it, you can take it to him." As he spoke, Liang Yongquan walked to the bookshelf and took out the "Four Painted Screens" from the bookshelf , handed it to Zhao Yong, Zhao Yong took it, turned two pages, closed it again, and said, "Yes, this is the book."

After speaking, Zhao Yong left.

……

4
"I didn't ask you to ask Liang Yongquan what book he wanted!" Tang Feng yelled at Zhao Yong after watching the video.

"I told him to ask Liang Yongquan what he wanted." Han Jiang replied for Zhao Yong.

"why?"

"Aren't you very curious about this book last time? I borrowed it for you." After Han Jiang finished speaking, he looked at Zhao Yong, who hurriedly took out the yellowed "Four Paint Screens" .

Tang Feng took the book, flipped through it, and said, "What's wrong with this book?"

"I want to ask you, when you came back from Hong Kong, you told me that there were no other novels in the Liang family's study, only this book "Four Lacquer Screens" written by Gao Luopei. You thought it strange at that time." Han Jiang said.

"Judging from the publication time and degree of wear and tear of this book, Liang Yunjie should have read it a lot in the past. Liang Yongquan also said just now that his father read it. This is a bit strange, but it is easy to understand now, Siqiping? Four screens? This book shows that Liang Yunjie knew that there are four jade screens a long time ago, other than that, I really don’t see any other meaning.”

Han Jiang stared at the yellowed paper in front of him, shook his head, and said, "I really don't see anything, maybe I'm too suspicious."

"You still suspect that there is something wrong with the Liang family?" Tang Feng asked.

Han Jiang combined "Four Lacquer Screens", sighed heavily, and said, "Of course the Liang family is my suspect. After all, they are very interested in jade screens. Liang Yunjie is dead. I allowed Liang Yuan to join us to test Liang Yongquan." If Liang Yongquan and Liang Yuan have any abnormal behavior, it is impossible to escape us. But so far, except that Liang Yuan told his father some of our situation at the beginning, Liang Yuan and Liang Yongquan have not found any abnormal behavior .”

When Han Jiang said this, Zhao Yong added: "In addition, I have been investigating Liang Yongquan. This time I went to Hong Kong, I didn't wait for a week in vain. I investigated the situation of Liang Yongquan and Xinsheng Group in detail. Xinsheng Group was established in In 1979, it first started through international trade, and later got involved in real estate, commercial real estate and other projects. Today, international trade and real estate are still the main businesses of Xinsheng Group. From the financial statements of Xinsheng Group and its subsidiaries From the looks of it, the cash flow is abundant, the various projects are progressing normally, and the operation is basically good. Also, I have also investigated the relationship between the Xinsheng Group and the Hong Kong underworld, but I can't see that they have any connection with the underworld..."

Han Jiang suddenly interrupted Zhao Yong's words, saying: "That is to say, the Liang family cannot be the mastermind behind the scenes. First, it is inconsistent with emotion and reason. Liang Yunjie was killed, and Liang Yuan and us went through hardships. All of this is unreasonable." Maybe it was Liang Yongquan who did it? Of course, I never believed in any reason. The crimes committed by many heinous criminals I met before were often unreasonable; so I asked Zhao Yong to investigate Liang Yongquan in detail, which confirmed the first Two points, the Liang family doesn't have that strength, and it has nothing to do with criminal organizations such as the underworld, I believe in this even more, Liang Yongquan cannot do those things because of his strength, he cannot be the mastermind behind the scenes."

"Now you should believe that the Liang family is innocent! The Liang family is a victim, not a mastermind behind the scenes." Tang Feng said.

"Then who do you think is the mastermind behind the scenes?"

"It's time to ask Stephen. As long as we catch him, we will know who is behind the scenes."

"Nonsense! I know this too."

"There is also Yelena's side. The KGB must have problems, and there are things we don't know about." Tang Feng deduced.

"Yelena..." Han Jiang murmured Yelena's name, "I hope Yelena can make progress."

5
The next afternoon, when it was getting dark, Tang Feng and Han Jiang were sitting in the office analyzing the ins and outs of the whole incident. Just when both of them were in trouble, Han Jiang's cell phone rang suddenly, The ringtone of the phone interrupted the thoughts of the two of them. Han Jiang connected the phone, and Professor Chen Zijian's voice came from the other end: "Can you come over now?"

"Come here?" Han Jiang looked out the window at the sky that had just darkened, and there were still snowflakes.He thought that when Chen Zijian came to him at this time, he must have found something important, so Han Jiang immediately said to Chen Zijian: "Okay, we will come over right away, where are you now?"

"You just come to my lab, you know, you've been here before."

"Okay, I see, see you in an hour."

Han Jiang hung up the phone, looked at Tang Feng, "How about it, come with me, Professor Chen must have made some progress."

"What progress can he make there? A pile of bones!" Tang Feng didn't expect anything from Chen Zijian at all.

"You'll know when you go!" After Han Jiang finished speaking, he picked up his coat and walked out of the office. Tang Feng shook his head and had no choice but to follow in a hurry.

(End of this chapter)