Chapter 477
There are more than one crazy person in this world, and there are many people who are brave enough to challenge the impossible.
Catching the wind and shadows, believing in myths, legends, personal adventures, having money or not, some take risks for money, but some take risks because they have too much money.
There is a separate report in the file bag that tells the origin of the cowhide scroll. The report states that the person who sponsored the search for Taoyuan Island took action to make a move in an underground auction house. A small branch of ordinary trees was sold at a sky-high price.
This is also the reason why the legend of cowhide scrolls was included in the archives by our unit. Someone successfully found Taoyuan Island and got something back from it.
The small branch was photographed by a foreign private collector. The colleagues in the unit were unable to participate in the island search operation and could not take the branch at the auction. However, they kept paying attention to the collector's movement and found that something strange happened in the man's family.
The collector was nearly ninety years old when he photographed the branches. He paid a sky-high price to buy branches, which would definitely not be to cultivate a gardening hobby.
Sure enough, the month when the tree branches were photographed, the collector suddenly changed his will and left all the inheritance to his cousin's grandson.
His cousin got a child in old age, and his son was also a model for late marriage and late childbirth, so his grandson was only five years old at that time.
The rich collector, the old man, usually doesn't interact with his cousin's family, but suddenly leaves all his inheritance to a five-year-old boy.
This unusual move, under the joint witness of lawyers and doctors, overwhelmed the opposition voices in the family.
What's more coincidental is that the collector died a few days later. The report did not mention the bloody storm, but only said that the collector's behavior was suspicious. The person who wrote the report suspected that he used the sky-high-priced branches to "transfer flowers and connect trees" and was reborn in the little boy.
I agree with this suspicion, but unfortunately the branches are gone and the little boy does nothing to harm society, so the senior stopped investigating.
Many times, cases handled by the unit have nothing to do with seeking justice. They just want to maintain a balance. Those who can be saved can be saved by the way, and those who cannot be saved will be given up.
In other words, if this senior knew in advance who the collector was going to attack, he would stop him, but those who had been killed can only be dealt with according to the situation.
After the will was exposed, the senior also tried to approach the little boy, but he could not find the whereabouts of the child. It was probably because the collector had prepared a lot and hid the child in advance.
This may not be to guard against seniors. I think it is more likely to guard against relatives, and I am afraid that his original heirs will get rid of the little boy who suddenly appears.
Moreover, for a long time, the child would not appear in public. The senior stared at him for some time, but found no clues. In the end, he had to give up the investigation and temporarily close the case.
It's almost thirty years old, the old case, the little boy should have been an adult in his thirty years old. The report has a name, so I took out my phone and searched it.
However, no one who meets the requirements was found. Now that the communications industry is developing, I immediately sent a message to Wu Keyboard and asked him to check the family.
Wu’s keyboard search channels are different from mine. I can only find things on the surface through the Internet. The scope of his search is very wide. Not long after, he replied to me.
The current ruler of this family is not the little boy mentioned in the report, but the great-grandson of the collector. The little boy in the report died of illness at the age of fifteen. The property he inherited has returned to the hands of the collector's immediate relatives through a series of operations.
The little boy's father and grandfather died in a car accident many years ago. His mother remarried and went to a foreign land. The fate of this family was miserable.
Something like children inheriting their property has never happened again. When the collector's grandson takes back the inheritance, they are middle-aged people.
I guess that the branches do have the miraculous effect of "transplanting flowers and connecting trees", but they don't last long, and it may have the effect of extending their lives for ten years.
And it can only be renewed once, and cannot be used repeatedly. I said thank you to Wu Keyboard, and then added a sentence at the bottom of the handwritten report. The little boy died at the age of fifteen and no successor was found, and the case was closed permanently.
Looking through these old files, I found that some of the reports were targeted as ‘temporary closing of the case’, but there was no follow-up. Some of them have passed ten, twenty, or even fifty or sixty years, and the case is still temporarily closed.
By the way, I put these reports on temporary settlement of the case together, mainly due to curiosity. I want to know how the people and the things in the case are now.
After spending half a month in the old archive, news came from time to time that she had found the old nest of "Bai".
But she did not take action immediately. She asked me to continue monitoring. I asked her to continue monitoring. Don't act rashly. Find out how many of them are first. At least we have to master a rough number.
It is best to know where they are active, how to attract rebellious young people, and how to spread albinism to them.
Baiyun was cautious in doing things and did not disturb Bai. Their activities were as usual, but they just gave up following me.
Maybe they think I have no value, or they are afraid that I will find out that they will not be worth the money.
Chen Qinghan is still digging, and it seems difficult to dig. It has been half a month since they haven't even touched the tomb door.
The bun sent me a message saying that she was about to sprout, and she didn't need to be excavated in the early stages, and there was no text unearthed for her to translate. The phone signal was not good, so her entertainment was only counting ants and stars, counting ants during the day, and counting stars at night.
If you can send me a message successfully, you will have to have fun for a long time and complain to me that Chen Qinghan takes the lead in "isolating" her.
The people who participated in the mission and the workers hired from the local area treated her as children. She could not integrate into the world of "adults" and felt that she was isolated.
She was dressed cleanly and dressed up beautifully. She went to the excavation site and said she wanted to help the workers dig soil together. Why didn't she ask someone to drive it away?
She asked Chen Qinghan about the Tiannu tribe. Chen Qinghan replied to her if he asked less questions. After asking too much, he simply pretended to be deaf, asked him several times before he slowly replied to her, "Ah? What did you say?"
Her adoptive father called her and told her to be obedient, not to cause trouble for her colleagues, and to make the little girl very wronged.
This time, she did not have her peers in the team. She was a quiet person. She stayed in the barren mountains and rivers for half a month and could not go shopping, watch movies and eat delicious food. It is normal for people who are used to being free and bored.
Baozi is full of fantasy about this industry, thinking that it is like a movie, with a bag for three minutes and a special effect for five minutes.
The last short-distance mission was indeed thrilling, but that was not the whole picture of this job. I had a lot of bored time, such as Gan Quan and Xiao Changfeng, who often squatted in the wild for several months without any gains.
After waiting for the little girl to come into contact with this industry for a long time, she naturally knows how big the gap between her fantasy and reality is.
There are thick stacks of old files that I compiled out of "temporary case closing". I directly applied to the leader, hoping to summarize these case files. This cannot be solved by making a few phone calls, so I need to apply for it formally.
The above commented and allowed me to re-invest, including the report of the cowhide roll. Although the matter of the small branch was over, the people who participated in the search for Taoyuan Island might still be alive. I want to talk to these people.
Among all the old files, the residents on Taoyuan Island are the most similar to the clan we are looking for.
There is also the cowhide roll family. Maybe they know something, it is not written on cowhide.
The descendants of their family came back when China's economy was recovering. I asked my colleagues from the unit to help me check the information about that person.
The author of the cowhide roll is Yu Wei. The person who brought the cowhide roll back to China was Yu Wu. He returned to China and invested in a factory, which was located in the coastal area, and specialized in processing grilled fish fillets.
In 1999, Yu Wu returned abroad and never came back. It seemed that he believed the rumors that the end of the world was coming, and he rushed back to be with his family. As a result, he was not sure if he was suffering from the wind on the way back. When he returned there, he was skewed and was admitted to the hospital after a stroke.
The information about his hospitalization abroad was found by colleagues in the unit. Their family had moved home, and the colleagues also posted it to my mobile phone with the new address.
After Yu Wu suffered a stroke, he began to be taken care of by his parents. Ten years ago, he sold his house in the city and lived alone in the countryside.
He was not short of money and hired a nursing staff to take care of his daily life. He has recovered well over the years and has not been paralyzed in bed.
I took his information and address and bought a plane ticket to a certain country in Southeast Asia. His local transportation was really not very good, so I took some twists and turns to find his residence in the countryside.
There are many islands here. The Yu family originally lived in Malay. After Yu Wu got sick, his father took their family to do business. This place is an island, a country very close to Indonesia.
Yu Wu was 40 years old in 1999. Now he is twenty years old. He is already a gray-haired old man.
When I found his residence, he was watering flowers in the yard. The tropical climate was particularly suitable for raising plants. Before I came, I lived in a particularly 'country' place, just like in the tourist album, a village full of thatched wooden houses or ordinary brick houses.
When I got to the place, I realized that this place is not actually a ‘village’, but just a villa area outside the city.
The community is quiet. Although the houses are all bungalows, the garden in front of the room, the swimming pool behind the room, and the windows facing the sea level are a serious sea view room.
There is not much difference between Yu Wu and the one in the photo, but he has too many white hair and deep wrinkles.
I asked him in Chinese if he was Yu Wu. He has been away from China for many years, but he has not been unfamiliar with Chinese. He said he is, and asked me what happened.
I said I wanted to know about the cowhide rolls, about his ancestors who accidentally climbed Taoyuan Island.
Yu Wu immediately glared at his eyes and looked very alert. I told him not to get me wrong. I didn’t want to find Taoyuan Island, I just wanted to understand the whole story and write it into a novel!
I know the ability to tell lies without a teacher when I open my eyes. I told him that I am a tourist and that I am realizing my dream of traveling around the world. I met a man on the road and bragging when I drink too much. I talked about him participating in an expedition when he was young.
The adventure was caused by a cowhide scroll, which recorded the adventure of a fisherman. Later, someone believed the story above and organized people to search.
He said it with a nose and eyes, and the person at the table almost believed it. When he saw that others didn't believe it, he said he had evidence.
Hearing this, Yu Wu's expression finally changed in microseconds and became a little interested, but this "interest" was more nervous.
What 'clues' are he looking forward to hearing?
"His evidence was enough to convince the people present of the expedition. I stuffed him a lot of money before he was willing to reveal your information to me."
Yu Wu's mouth is still a little crooked, and it is particularly obvious when there is an expression. I seem to have heard that people in some areas call stroke "laughing disease" because of the patient's sequelae, it is like always smiling with their mouths raised.
Yu Wu's mouth twitched, holding the water pipe for watering in one hand and hanging on his side with the other hand. He threw away the water pipe and asked me to sit in the room.
When he walked, he could still see that one leg was not very straight and he was a little mopping when he was walking, but overall, he recovered quite well, at least he didn't need to use crutches or support him.
The steps in front of the house are very short, so he can raise his legs and step up without feeling any difficulty.
Needless to mention the decoration of the villa, it is particularly European-style. The house is covered with floor tiles or sand. Maybe it is because he is afraid that he will slip and choose this kind of floor tiles when decorating.
The advantage of villa area is that every family has a yard, and there is a large open space in the middle. When you close the door, you can't hear anything your neighbor says. As long as you don't beat the sky, no one can hear what happened in this family.
I followed Yu Wu into the house. The security in the community might be very good, and the doors in his front and back yards were not closed.
I went out this time and bought a travel outfit, a long flower skirt with a linen bag, a big straw hat with a sunshade on my head, and six bracelets on my hands. When I moved my arms, it made a sensation.
Perhaps Yu Wu was deceived by my appearance, so he gradually let go of his guard and said that I shouldn't have inquired about this matter.
I said I am a writer and have sufficient curiosity about everything. When I hear such an experience, I must not be moved and must come to meet the legendary people.
I said that the address was told by the buyer of his original house. He had no doubt that before he moved here, he sold the house in the city and sold it to a relative, so he asked the relative and got his new address.
Yu Wu sighed, as if he was helpless. Normally, relatives would not give his address to strangers casually, but he did not doubt it, which means that I was right. In some cases, his relative would betray his address.
We didn't expand on the topic of relatives. He sighed and said that he had nothing to say, and the content on the cowhide roll was all.
I said that it is the novel material, so he doesn't have to have a psychological burden. He just uses this medium to tell the stories in his heart to the world. I will use pseudonyms and change place names to protect his personal privacy.
As Yu Wu listened, he suddenly asked, "What evidence did that person come up with?"
Chapter completed!