"Secretary Bai is joking."

Wei Ran stopped the other party and said in a joking tone, "It's not that time yet. This place hasn't collapsed inside for so long. It won't collapse as soon as I enter."

"That won't work, I'll go in." Uncle Yao loosened the hem of his clothes holding Dazao and said, "I am an old farmer..."

"You old farmer has to lose weight before you can get in." Wei Ran stopped him.

Before the others who followed him could say anything, Yao Dajun had already walked up with a dozen people carrying shovels or pushing carts.

Seeing that there was no point in going in first, Wei Ran shook his head secretly with regret. The reason why he was so anxious to go in and take a look was naturally because he was worried that the things inside were broken or damaged, so he could use the food box by then.

Replace the one in.

In any case, based on his understanding of the food box, he would never give the glass medicine jar to himself unless necessary.

Seeing that Wei Ran no longer insisted on drilling in, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. After learning about it, Yao Dajun immediately organized the people he had found to excavate immediately, and stated with certainty that the excavator would start in half an hour at most.

come over.

As a shovel of soil was dug up by everyone, the door of the cave dwelling was finally exposed.

However, we encountered the same situation as Wei Ran again. If we continue to dig forward, we will inevitably get into a cave that has been in disrepair for a long time, so who gets in becomes a problem.

No matter what they think in their hearts, what is certain is that the three leaders would rather be buried in the cave dwelling than let these villagers and Wei Ran, their "guest", be buried in them.

Likewise, Uncle Yao and others cannot bear the responsibility of burying county leaders here.

"Let's go over there and sit down for a while."

Wei Ran pointed to the large abandoned millstone at the edge of the shadow of the jujube tree, "I don't think an excavator can come up to this place, and even if it comes up, the movement might collapse the place."

Hearing this, everyone nodded involuntarily and subconsciously walked towards the big millstone.

After successfully deceiving everyone, Wei Ran bent down and got into the abandoned cave dwelling!

"Hey you!"

"Shh-"

Wei Ran, who had already gotten in, pointed to the top of his head and said softly, "Don't come in, I'll be out soon."

After saying that, he no longer paid attention to Secretary Bai and others who were about to get in at the entrance of the cave but were held tightly by the surrounding villagers. They took the broken hoe that was pretending to be a hoe and stepped on the dirt and rubbish all over the ground to the end of the cave.

Thanks to the shielding at the edge of the earthen bed, he didn't have to worry about what people and cameras outside would see.

Leaning the mobile phone with the flashlight function against the wall, Wei Ran took out the engineer shovel from the metal book and tried it, then replaced it with a Mauser bayonet, as if he was detecting mines, and carefully tested it.

Things went much smoother than he thought. Soon, he realized that something was really buried under the soil.

However, as a large piece of dry soil was dug up, the first thing he saw was a mouse hole and a snake dormant in the mouse hole.

"puff!"

With an expressionless expression, Wei Ran casually nailed the snake's head into the soil with his bayonet, pressed the handle of the knife to cut off the snake's head, and then used the tip of the knife to push the snake's head and body back into the mouse hole bit by bit.

Wiping the blood on the spatula, Wei Ran continued to dig through pieces of hardened soil, and finally dug out a wooden box.

Although this wooden box has iron sheets nailed to the corners, there are still several holes made by rats. Even the cover with hinges is rotten and stained with rust. It can be easily picked up with the box lid.

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Open the lid gently, and inside this wooden box, which is about the size of a shoebox, is a canvas satchel that has also been gnawed by mice.

Gently opening the satchel, Wei Ran couldn't help but sigh. Inside was a black Zeiss leather-cavity folding camera and a glass medicine jar.

However, the lid of the medicine jar had been broken by a rat, and there was even a dead rat and various debris left in the bottle.

Raising his arm and giving a thumbs up to Secretary Ma outside, and then making a phone call gesture, Wei Ran took out the food box as quickly as possible, first took out the medicine jar provided by the metal book and rolled it in the soil.

He rolled it into the torn canvas bag, and then put the medicine jar that had been knocked over by the mouse into the food box that had been emptied in advance.

Finally, he put away the food box and bayonet, picked up the broken hoe, and dug around at the snake's position a few times. Then he picked up his mobile phone, hugged the wooden box, and crawled out in disgrace.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Comrade Wei Ran, what did you find?" Secretary Bai put away his cell phone and asked with everyone around him.

"Come here"

Wei Ran greeted everyone and walked to the millstone, placed the wooden box in his arms on it, and carefully displayed the camera and medicine jar inside.

Gently blocking the hand that a young man subconsciously extended, Wei Ran said, "The medicine jar can't be opened yet. There must be film in that camera. I need a light-blocking safe deposit box."

"Use this!" the photographer said, taking off his backpack and handing it over.

"Thanks"

Wei Ran took the backpack, carefully put the wooden box in it and zipped it up, "Don't touch it yet, I want to make a phone call."

Before he finished speaking, County Magistrate Ma and Minister Wang ordered everyone to keep their distance, while Secretary Bai took out the phone again and dialed.

"Is there any good news?" Xia Shushi on the other end asked as soon as the call was connected.

"Fortunately, I found it." Wei Ran said simply and directly, "Where should I send it next?"

"Don't give it away anywhere. Just ask the guarantor that II helped you find to find a suitable place for you to open the contents inside."

Xia Shushi gave an unexpected answer, "I heard that reporters and photographers have been arranged for you. Try to take pictures of everything you can."

"Shall I open it?" Wei Ran asked in shock.

"I have obtained Mr. Jiang Ji's consent."

Xia Shushi replied, "I believe in your skills. At least when it comes to developing old photos, I guess I can't find anyone with better skills than yours."

"also"

Wei Ran agreed happily. He also wanted to see what else was in the medicine jar besides the film.

"The second generation has already rushed over with the camera crew."

Xia Shushi continued, "But you don't have to wait for him. Come and see what's inside as soon as possible. Mr. Jiang is waiting."

"Okay" Wei Ran said and hung up the phone. Almost at the same time, Secretary Bai also hung up.

"Secretary Bai, I need a darkroom." Wei Ran said straightforwardly.

"I'll make arrangements right away!" Secretary Bai agreed happily.

"Secretary, we have it in our station. Although it has been idle for a few years, it can definitely be used." The photographer said, "It's just that the potion is probably hard to find."

"I'm bringing the potion, and you guys can help me find a good enough bottom sweeper." Wei Ran said, of course he brought it with him. Zach, a good reporter on the front lines of the Vietnam War, gave him a complete set.

"There are also those in the scanner machine!" the photographer said immediately, "Teacher Wei, can I give you some tips? I have also learned to develop film."

"Okay" Wei Ran agreed happily.

"I'll make some arrangements first"

After Secretary Bai finished speaking, he first communicated in a low voice with County Magistrate Ma, who then communicated with Mayor Lin who came with him, and finally decided to let Minister Wang from the Armed Forces Department stay in charge of protecting the scene, and the rest of the people

This brings the county seat of Weiyanhui.

"Uncle Yao, if your family is not busy, you can follow me."

Wei Ran took the initiative to send out the invitation again, "Sister Juan, this can be regarded as fulfilling your wish ten years ago."

"Okay! Let's follow!"

Sister Juan said excitedly that she was no longer the girl who killed Matt before. How could she not see that whether Wei Ran invited the county magistrate and others to come in her van or invited their family to follow, they were all acting invisibly?

China is helping them.

After a while, several police cars also drove to the bank of the Hulu River. Although the battle seemed a bit big, Wei Ran didn't say anything. He followed the leaders obediently and hurried back in the car driven by Sister Juan.

He arrived in the village, and then asked Sister Juan, who had not drunk, to help drive the pickup truck he borrowed, followed the car of the secretary and the county magistrate, and drove to the county TV station under the escort of a police car.

As for the backpack containing the wooden box, at his insistence, the excited Secretary Bai and County Magistrate Ma were responsible for holding it throughout the process.

Arriving all the way to the courtyard of the county TV station, Wei Ran and the Yao family followed Secretary Bai and County Magistrate Ma, and under the leadership of the station director himself, they got into the darkroom that had been cleaned in a hurry.

Deliberately leaving the photographer behind to help, Wei Ran started to prepare while carrying a U.S. military bag containing film and simple developing equipment.

Under the attention of the camera, Wei Ran, who had already put on gloves, carefully unscrewed the bakelite lid of the medicine jar and took out the contents - two 120-size films, several pieces of folded letter paper, and a box of matches.

Something like a handful of hay.

"Teacher Wei, will this letter be oxidized if I take it out like this?" the photographer who was helping me asked carefully.

"Don't worry, it won't happen."

Wei Ran said firmly, he still believed that the metal book would not deliberately dig such a bullshit pit to disgust people.

As he spoke, he had already gently unfolded the pieces of paper.

After just one glance, he sighed slightly. This was written by the young lama. It was his application for joining the party written in Zang script.

"What does this say?" one of them whispered.

"It's Zangwen"

As Wei Ran spoke, he had already taken out his cell phone, found the WeChat message he had added to the girl named Ram just two days ago, and directly made a video call.

After waiting for a moment, the video call was answered by Lamu, and then everyone heard the Zang girl ask, "Brother Wei Ran, have you opened the things left by my grandfather?"

"A letter was found"
To be continued...