83: Chapter 83 Ancient City Treasure

【 Today's Intelligence (Red): Guzhou Village once served as the capital of an unnamed small state during the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the ruins of an ancient city from the Western Zhou to the Eastern Zhou period are buried underground.

There is a vast quantity of pottery in the ruins.

During the Jin Dynasty, tomb raiders visited it and were poisoned to death by accumulated harmful air during the tomb raiding process.

The tomb raider was carrying a replica faqiu seal. Its value is 200,000, and the coordinates are xxx 】

The official title of Faqiu General of the Central Palace was recorded in history starting from the Southern Dynasties.

If it were a real faqiu seal, it would never be worth so little.

But the replica made by the Jin Dynasty tomb raider can only be considered a folk antique.

It doesn't even have the tomb raider's name on it.

His things are naturally worthless.

Objects that are priceless when passed down to modern times were also rare treasures in ancient times.

Of course, 200,000 is enough to make him take action.

Guzhou Village is very large.

Blindly digging will only destroy the underground ruins.

Digging at the specific coordinates is relatively safe.

However, looking at the coordinates found on the map, the location is very close to the residents.

Separated by a road, it is less than 30 meters away.

Starting an excavator will immediately be discovered by the villagers.

He needs to think of a proper excuse.

After contacting an excavator, Zhao Jian arranged to meet outside Guzhou Village.

He didn't even have time to eat breakfast and left immediately.

He also had a driving lesson scheduled for the afternoon, so he tried to get the item by the morning.

When he arrived outside the village, the excavator had not yet arrived.

He went into the village alone first to check the coordinate location.

This is near a highway. On this side is a large piece of wasteland, uneven and seemingly dug up, with one pit after another.

On the other side of the road are relatively sparse self-built houses.

Looking at the style, they are quite new, likely built in the last few years.

This means people are living inside.

Once he starts working, someone will inevitably come to ask.

Fortunately, he was prepared.

The work clothes he used last time to disguise himself as an oil worker for exploration are still there.

He will continue to impersonate one.

He only wants the faqiu seal, so the excavation area will not be too large.

Even if villagers come to check and find that he is only digging a small hole, they will not easily call the police.

After a while, the excavator he contacted arrived.

Unlike small excavators, this time he hired a standard-sized one.

The main focus is to be fast and steady!

The driver confirmed the location and started quickly.

Although Zhao Jian knew the coordinates, the system did not provide the depth.

So he urged the other party to be careful after five meters.

The driver was experienced. He scanned the surroundings, found no special markers, and quickly dug out the soil.

A depth of five meters was completed in just twenty minutes.

At this time, nearby residents discovered the commotion.

They came over to ask.

"What are you doing? Why are you digging this?"

The villager was a Middle-aged Man wearing a cotton-padded jacket.

He wore a pair of glasses.

Zhao Jian smiled and said: "I'm from the oil company, exploring the soil quality underneath to see if there's an oil field."

Generally speaking, as long as you state a legitimate reason,

no one will ask too many questions.

Unless it's their own land.

But the Middle-aged Man frowned and did not leave.

"Do you have any identification?"

Identification?

Zhao Jian, as an imposter, naturally didn't have any.

He mocked himself, saying: "I'm just an ordinary worker, how would I have that?"

In fact, he couldn't even tell what kind of identification the other party was talking about.

"You can't do this. To explore for oil, you need permits. You have to negotiate with the village. How can you dig up our land without permission?"

At a time like this, if he were a real worker, he wouldn't argue.

Nor would he refute.

A worker has no need to take responsibility for his superiors.

He should just say he doesn't know.

"I don't know either. The leader told me to come, so I came."

Zhao Jian's words sounded like shirking responsibility to the Middle-aged Man.

He frowned and said:

"Get your leader to come over. We can't do this. This is collective village land, and the ownership belongs to our village.

We support your exploration or extraction of oil, but you must have the proper procedures. You cannot do it privately."

Zhao Jian thought to himself: I made this all up, where would I have a leader?

But he couldn't say it out loud.

He could only call 10086 and pretend to report to his leader.

"Hello, Captain? The people here in Guzhou want to see the permits for our exploration. Yes, I don't know who he is, but the villagers want to see them. What? Tell him to ask the village committee? Okay, I understand."

He pretended to have made a phone call.

Zhao Jian said: "Our captain said they have already reported it to your village committee."

"Reported? Why don't I know about it?"

The Middle-aged Man's words made Zhao Jian's heart skip a beat.

Oh no, he walked right into a trap.

He broke out in a cold sweat.

He didn't know how to answer.

Fortunately, the Middle-aged Man didn't think in other directions, only assuming that someone had deliberately kept him in the dark, with scenarios of being sidelined playing out in his mind.

He quickly said to Zhao Jian: "Stop for now. Wait until I go and find out the situation. Without my consent, no one's approval is valid!"

The Middle-aged Man walked away angrily.

And the excavator stopped at this moment.

The driver said they had dug up a stone slab underneath.

Zhao Jian jumped down and saw a brass seal near the stone slab, with a beast head on it.

There were eight large characters on the bottom.

He couldn't understand them.

But unsurprisingly, this was the item he was looking for.

He put the seal and the soil into a bag, calling it: sampling.

Then he asked the driver to backfill the soil.

After the work was finished, he settled the bill.

After the excavator left, Zhao Jian didn't stay long either.

He left in a hurry.

Shortly after he left.

The Middle-aged Man returned with a few people.

He pointed to the filled-in area and said: "Still saying you didn't do this behind my back? How did the pit get filled so quickly? One of you must have tipped him off!"

The few people accompanying him looked at each other.

None of them spoke.

Seeing their silence, the Middle-aged Man became even angrier.

In his view, these people were clearly conspiring to sideline him!

Not speaking was not admitting a mistake, but silent resistance.

"You really don't take me, the Party Secretary, seriously. I was appointed by the commune; I am a person of the state!"

"Don't think that just because you are forming cliques in the village, I can't deal with you!"

At this time, the people accompanying him could no longer remain silent.

One of the young women retorted:

"Secretary, you can't say that. What exactly did we do to make you so angry?"

"You know in your own hearts what you did!" The Middle-aged Man walked away angrily.

Leaving the others looking confused and stunned.

Until the Middle-aged Man's figure disappeared.

The young woman from before pursed her lips and said: "What a piece of work. An outsider acting all bossy all day long, and he wants to deal with us? Pfft! I didn't make any mistakes, why would he deal with me!"

The thin, withered old man beside her waved his hand:

"Don't talk like that. There must be some misunderstanding. You should check the surveillance footage to see what exactly happened. Besides, recently, you have been making decisions on many things without reporting or consulting, which is indeed wrong."

"If we don't make decisions about our own village affairs, who should? Let him decide?"

"Shut up! Do you have any discipline left!"

"Dad~"

After the thin, withered old man reprimanded the young woman, he stared deeply at the newly filled soil. Then he led the way and left.