Chapter 58 1. Suspicious case of Dongcheng

Weekend, a rare day off. Li Tuzhi was lying on the bed in the dormitory, eating potato chips, and the potato chips fell on the bed. He had an unwashed T-shirt under his buttocks, and the back of his head was leaning against his playing backpack. The TV was broadcasting a cultural program, and the host was talking nonsense about "Lanting Preface", and he was blowing up the post about Wang Xizhi asking his buddies to drink like nothing else in the world.From the point of view of a man who has the temperament of a dick, a dead house, and a good-for-nothing on the bed, he shouldn't watch this kind of program anyway, but he stares as if he is serious about watching it.

A few days ago, a large team just took over a strange case. There is a group of tombs on the top of Dongcheng Mountain, which are small tombs from the Ming Dynasty, and no big figures were buried in them.The Bureau of Culture has inspected it, took away valuable things, and left several big pits. But those big pits were robbed again last week. The tomb robbers searched all the tombs and dug them to a mess. The police arrived at the scene half an hour after the villagers reported the case. They had just experienced a formal excavation. The villagers around the Dongchengshan tomb were very protective of the tomb group and protected the crime scene very well.In the empty grave they recovered an outdoor sensor light, a missing vest, some rope and two pairs of trekking poles.

In terms of these things, whether they were dropped accidentally or abandoned on purpose, they are very valuable. The weight-bearing ropes alone are worth thousands of dollars. The trekking poles are made of light material and are also famous brands.The tomb robbery experienced by the Dongchengshan tomb is different from the previous ones. The tomb robbers spent a lot of money and the tools are very advanced. Judging from the traces left behind, there are still a lot of people, but the technology is very rough. They dug the tomb in a mess. A large pit was dug under the southeast corner of the tomb, and something inside was removed.

The bottom of the tomb has been bottomed out, and the inner and outer coffins have been unearthed. The experts from the Cultural Bureau did not dig any further.And this group of people actually stole an unknown item under the main tomb, so what?The police in Dongcheng County and experts in cultural relics teamed up to investigate for more than a week, and wiped out the tomb robbers. The gang was arrested before they left Province F.But here comes the problem—this group of people are completely newbies, and their tools, vehicles, and locations of crimes were all provided by others. They didn't even know what they had dug out from under the main chamber.

And after that thing was dug out, they didn't take it away, but put it under a small cliff in Dongcheng Mountain according to the requirements of the "employer".It is conceivable that when the police went to search the small cliff, the things had long since disappeared. This case is difficult to deal with. These people are digging under the main tomb of an empty tomb. I don’t know if this kind of behavior is considered "tomb robbery"?They didn't know what the lost item was, or even whether it was a cultural relic. The Dongcheng County police reported the details of the case to the Provincial Department, and the case fell into Li Tuzhi's hands.

The police in Dongcheng County failed to track down the people who hired them behind the scenes from the tomb robbers. The tools were traded face to face, and the "employer" did not hide his face, but the captured person could only describe that it was a very ordinary-looking middle-aged men, the employment fee is paid in cash, and the mobile phone number they contact each other is a new number. Li Tuzhi saw from the case materials that the case was very suspicious. The first point - the lost items in the tomb are very strange - this is an empty tomb, the tomb passage has been opened long ago, exposed, and there is no hole to drill, what are these people doing with ropes?The second point - you said that the tomb was stolen at night, and it was fine to lose a vest in the dark, how could even the lamp be lost?The third point - what do grave robbers bring trekking poles for?Dongcheng Mountain is not a towering mountain. There is an asphalt road on the top of the mountain. What are these two pairs of trekking poles for?

These things don't look like equipment for tomb robbers, but equipment for donkey friends. And it can be seen from the transcripts that none of the four people who were captured clearly admitted that they had lost something, and only answered something like "Did you lose something in the tomb? I don't know, maybe you did". What they dug out from the bottom of the main tomb was a black clay pot, which was sealed and had a certain weight.In addition, the grave robbers could not provide any more clues. Who on earth is willing to spend a lot of money to hire these four young men with no experience to dig things in an empty tomb?And the employer also provided the specific location, but there are no protective measures around the Dongchengshan tomb—if it was just to take away a pot, the employer could come here secretly and leave quietly by himself. Personal privacy.

Li Tuzhi stared at the calligraphy program on TV, and listed several possibilities about this matter in his mind. First, the employer couldn't come for some reason, and he had to get the pot under the loess, so he had to take the risk and hired four or more rookies. Second, the purpose of this employer is not the pot, the pot is just a gimmick, so he doesn't care whether the rookies are safe or not. Third, this employer does not exist, and all the details were fabricated by tomb robbers with ulterior motives. Fourth, other unknown circumstances. After much deliberation, Li Tuzhi couldn't rule out any possibility, so he could only write a huge question mark with a pencil in the case file.

This case may have a later story.