RPAGF Chapter 535 I'll kill you!
Chapter 535 I'll kill you!
Just as the three were in shock, Lao Wang strode over. Having made a phone call and received backup, he seemed somewhat relieved.
"Ha, guess where all the people from this commune went?"
Before Jiang Xia could answer, he himself burst out laughing.
"The comprehensive machinery factory sent over a batch of New Year's goods as a joint reward between the two sides, and all those people went off to handle the hospitality! Well, that's great, they've delivered themselves to our doorstep, we don't even have to bother catching them!"
"I've already spoken to the Red Army and the others. They should bring out the cat-shaped car and see what that person meant by 'surrounded by sand and water, sheltering from the wind and gathering energy'!"
Where are you all staring?
At this moment, Jiang Xia's arm was still raised, and Lao Wang followed his arm to look into the repair workshop, his mouth agape in surprise.
"Is this still a repair shop? It looks more like a smelting workshop to me?"
"What...what are they doing here?"
Jiang Xia was also puzzled as to what was going on.
Looking at the bottles and jars still covered in mud piled up in the corner of this repair shop, their nonchalant attitude doesn't seem like the style of a tomb raider.
Walking into the repair shop, past the pile of bronze artifacts, there were two impressive machines against the wall: a wheeled excavator and a tracked bulldozer. It seemed that the people at the Comprehensive Machinery Factory were taking good care of the Red Star Commune; even some communes around Beijing hadn't been provided with these newly manufactured machines.
Looking at the dirt left in their buckets, it's clear that these two big guys haven't been idle lately. Judging from that pile of old objects, it's not hard to deduce what kind of work they've been doing recently.
"No wonder the road into the village is full of potholes; they dug it all out!"
"Hey, I've been busy with the old man at the construction site lately, so I haven't paid attention to this. Hey! Young master, this counts as them using collective property without discussion!"
"No, you don't think so. Look at where this place is. Others might not know, but surely the officials here do?"
The group discussed and decided to delve deeper into the topic.
Next to the excavator was the first-generation mobile well-drilling machine. Jiang Xia approached, scraping away the newly added dirt on its body. Yes, that's right, he had assembled it himself; the markings he had secretly left back then were still there…
Look at the mud left on the drill bit, wow, it's so sticky...
"Well, all the good machines we have are being used for digging graves instead of water conservancy projects, huh!"
Jiang Xia gritted his teeth. "If I don't wipe you all out in one fell swoop, I'm not going to be called Little Master anymore!"
Opposite the excavator are two machine tools: a punch press and a CZ602. With these two good machines, not only can you set up a repair shop, but you can also set up a small machining plant.
It seems that the people at the comprehensive machinery factory are really working hard to make Xiao Dai Mao's idea a reality.
But what are these people who took over doing with these precious things?
Jiang Xia took out a wine cup-like object from the punch press, weighed it in his hand, and thought, "You know what, if you brought in an expert to examine it, he would definitely say: 'The shape is simple and ancient, the body is formed in one piece without any signs of splicing, and it has coiled dragon and cloud patterns, which are typical characteristics of the period. It also has a very high degree of similarity to similar artifacts unearthed from the same period.'"
Unfortunately, this wine glass seems to have just been made and doesn't yet deserve to be described as having a natural rust color and distinct layers...
Seeing this, Jiang Xia was a little confused.
Hey, what are these people doing?
If you're talking about smuggling and selling cultural relics, why don't you just sell the things you've dug up? Why are you doing it yourself?
That's really strange!
Further inside, there was a makeshift blast furnace. The furnace wasn't large, and perhaps because it had just been shut down, it was still emitting heat, causing the snowflakes outside to turn into water droplets, which dripped down the mottled outer shell of the furnace.
In front of the makeshift blast furnace was a lump of metal still gleaming with a faint golden light. Several shattered metal fragments lay scattered on the ground. Jiang Xia picked one up; uh, it seemed there were words on it.
Wipe away the surface dust, and a few incomprehensible characters emerge. Due to the violent treatment, these inscriptions are somewhat distorted and deformed.
It was as if it were loudly rebuking the unfilial behavior of future generations.
"Wuzhu, the commune's blast furnace, I remember it was demolished, how come there's still one here?"
"Five pillars?"
"Young...Young Master...look at this, they...they really found the bones!"
"what……"
Jiang Xia took a closer look and, lo and behold, there really was a small pile of bones in the corner. Next to the bones were a pair of antique-looking objects.
This is……
A cauldron? Wow, it's huge...
Alright, old man Wei, if you don't weigh at least 30 pounds, you probably won't be able to get buried.
Wu Zhu squatted down, ignoring the several cauldrons, and instead began to rummage through a small pile of bones that had clearly become fossils.
"Young master, young master, look, it has teeth too! Isn't it that of that ape-man?"
After picking and choosing for a while, Wu Zhu held up a small cylindrical object to Jiang Xia's face.
Jiang Xia didn't take it, but just looked at it through the five pillars' claws.
"(⊙o⊙)...I don't understand!"
Wu Zhu happily weighed the item in his hand. "Hehe, young master, it seems someone's buying this. Five yuan a piece!"
"What, you're thinking of selling it?"
"No, young master, one tooth is worth 5 yuan, and there are a whole bunch of them! Selling them for 500 yuan shouldn't be a problem, right?"
"So that's it! That old man Wei is trying to undermine us! Didn't we say everything belongs to the collective? He's hiding collective property here..."
The five pillars and four pillars exchanged a glance and both let out strange, chuckling laughs.
Jiang Xia, puzzled, pointed to the two ancient bronze tripods.
"With that thing as evidence, this should at least be considered a crime of illegally mining cultural relics. Why bother digging up a bunch of broken bones?"
“Uh, young master. We know this cauldron is a treasure left by our ancestors, but you forgot, when we started the blast furnace, we melted down quite a few of these things…” Sizhu pointed to the bronze fragments that Jiang Xia was holding in his hand and explained with a regretful expression.
"That's right! The year before last, someone was digging a vegetable cellar and found two cauldrons even bigger than this. They melted them down and ended up making hoes..."
"This thing isn't something that belongs to whoever digs it up from their field! It's only because the Great Leap Forward required it to be handed over that no one cares!" Wu Zhu shrugged and explained seriously.
"Bones are a different story. If they're really some kind of ape-man, they're worth some money. We need to shift the blame for Old Man Wei's crime in this direction..."
Eh……
Jiang Xia lowered his head and nudged Old Wang, who was still studying the pile of bones, with some reluctance: "Hey, don't we have any cultural relic protection law right now?"
"I don't know, I only know there are special talent protection regulations..." Old Wang didn't even look up, fiddling with the pile of bone fossils, and actually started piecing them together with great interest.
"So, there's no way to punish Old Man Wei for what he dug up according to the law?"
Jiang Xia clenched the shard in his hand, his knuckles turning white.
"You mean about him digging up old artifacts? There's really no way to punish him. Look, see that big metal block? Although we don't know what he was planning to do, you really can't find fault with him because he brought it to the commune to be melted down, and the melted metal is right here. As for whether it was shortchanged, that's a muddled matter, not something to be discussed openly!"
Jiang Xia was stunned.
"What if they take the gold and silver artifacts from the tomb home?"
"Well, it's ambiguous. They can say it was passed down from their ancestors. Although the organization has been encouraging people to submit gold and silver for exchange, it's impossible to force people to hand it over..."
No wonder the two pillars kept blaming Old Man Wei's behavior on the "collective" – apparently, at that time, China did not yet have laws protecting cultural relics.
"As for selling bones and the like I mentioned earlier, no one else is selling them!" Old Wang took the teeth from Wu Zhu's hand and placed them in a suitable position.
Only then did he nod in satisfaction, "Hey! It's a good horse!"
"Oh... so these are horse bones?" Wu Zhu stepped forward and gestured. "There must be more than one here!"
"Hmm, it's probably a burial pit. Maybe that old man Ye Qiu will be interested!"
Seeing Jiang Xia's indignant expression, Old Wang patted him on the shoulder.
"That's just how it is. Digging up some things from the ground isn't a big deal. Although everyone knows these are old items, as Wuzhu said, we've already ingested quite a bit of them ourselves, so it's really not something we can say."
I just told the security department that those cadres were guilty of dereliction of duty and suspected misappropriation of factory resources…
"Couldn't they just charge him with damaging cultural relics?" Jiang Xia shook his head.
Although dereliction of duty and misappropriation of resources are considered the most serious crimes after a certain meeting, these crimes have a characteristic: the punishment will come to an abrupt end at a certain stage.
Or, to put it another way, once someone takes the blame, the remaining participants will receive relatively lenient punishments...
Who takes the lion's share of the punishment?
Anyway, it's not like Uncle Wei, a nobody, even though he has a lot of influence...
Yeah, you know what I mean.
The broken fragments of bronze artifacts in the corner inexplicably reminded Jiang Xia of that famous garden that was now nothing but ruins.
Damn it, how is Old Man Wei any different from those people? I'm going to get you taken down!
Jiang Xia turned to look at Old Wang: "I don't want Old Man Wei to escape punishment!"
Old Wang bared his teeth, revealing a set of exceptionally sharp white teeth.
"Fine, whatever. What kind of system do we need to operate from the old base?"
"Snapped……"
Jiang Xia looked at the cool-looking Lao Wang and, without thinking, gave him a potsticker: "What are you thinking! Acting like a member of the Imperial Guard. If you do that, you'll have a bad reputation! This old man Wei isn't worth you doing that!"
"Besides, isn't this kind of behavior the same as that of the group of people I hate the most!"
Old Wang looked at Jiang Xia in surprise, then his eyes softened.
"what is it now?"
Jiang Xia reached into his pocket again, pulled out the blueprints for the thermobaric bomb, and said with a somewhat menacing air, "Just tell him he came to steal the blueprints!"
Old Wang was stunned: "You want their whole family to be wiped out?!"
"Hmph! You can't do this, but I can, because I'm young!"
Jiang Xia tightened his grip on the fragment in his hand.
Heh heh, today I'll use the laws of the future to execute you, you unfilial descendant! Who told me I came from the future! Even if I have to use my past merits to atone for it, today I'll bury you, you toad, in the ground!
If you don't really like old things, then go keep company with your ancestors!
Just as Jiang Xia was about to unleash his fury, Si Zhu, who had disappeared somewhere, shouted loudly again:
"Young master! Young master! Come and see this, it has foreign words!"