In a city in northern Jiangsu, a neighboring province, there is a family named Gu. The Gu family has two antiques passed down from generation to generation, with special shapes and difficult to determine the age and purpose. In the past few years, many media have organized large-scale collection of folk treasure collection activities in various places and recorded variety shows on site, which made Lao Gu also moved.

He took out two family-born antiques and participated in a folk treasure collection activity, but did not pass the primary election, nor was it broadcast in the official program, because the appraisal experts invited by the program team were unable to give clear opinions. According to experts' analysis, these two things should be antiques. They may have originated from the Southern Song Dynasty, but the conclusions are not sure, let alone their shape and purpose.

The first thing is similar to a vajra, which is more than 20 centimeters long. Judging from the patterns and shapes, it is not Buddha or Taoism, it can only be suspected to be some kind of magic weapon. The second thing is a statue of a woman who looks like a flying sky, about twenty centimeters tall. The woman was slanted and her clothes fluttered as if she was about to fly away, but she spread her arms and held a bronze mirror above the side. The diameter of the bronze mirror was about five centimeters.

He was similar to the mentality of most folk treasure collectors. If he could not find a clear result, Lao Gu thought that the things he collected were more expensive and should be an amazing treasure. After he returned, he rented a bank safe to store them. Perhaps it was because he took out the things and exposed them, he was targeted. Soon after, Fan Yang sent someone to come to the door.

Fan Yang first sent his subordinates to pretend to be appraisal experts and auction house staff to find Lao Gu, saying that he could make a formal and authoritative appraisal of his collections, and then organized a special auction, which would definitely be sold at a sky-high price. As long as Lao Gu entrusts the auction items to them. However, Lao Gu refused, claiming that this was a ancestral item and must not be sold, and it will be passed on to the next generation in the future.

Fan Yang sent his subordinates to come to his house as collectors and proposed to buy them a lot of money. Even if the deal was not settled, he asked Lao Gu to take out the things for him to appreciate them. However, Lao Gu was very stubborn and not only did not agree, but also hid his own treasures even tighter and no one allowed him to see them. Later, Fan Yang thought of several ways, but failed.

Lao Gu's son Xiao Gu works in Xiaojin City, the capital of Jianghuai Province. Xiao Gu studied in Xiaojin City, a university where he graduated from a master's degree and passed the civil service exam. Although he only worked as a grassroots civil servant in a district of Xiaojin City, he graduated from a prestigious university with a young age and a bright future, and has always been Lao Gu's pride.

One day in 2014, Xiao Gu had a social event at night after get off work. After dinner, he was pulled into the bar by his new friend for a while. He flirted with a girl in the bar. An unmarried man under 30 years old was easily attracted by the opposite sex. Moreover, the other person was petite, sweet in appearance, and even his voice was so coquettish, not to mention that he had already drunk wine.

The plot is very old-fashioned and has a magical twist. Xiao Gu did not go back to the dormitory, so he asked the girl to go out for a midnight snack and then went to the hotel to check in. After a while, the girl collected the small safety helmet and other physical evidence, put on her clothes and stood in front of the door and said, "Mr. Gu, let me tell you something. I am still half a month away from being fourteen years old. If you don't believe me, please read your ID card! What do you want, please do it."

Xiao Gu was stunned at that time. The girl looked petite, but her physical development was very mature. It was believed that she was seventeen or eighteen years old, but she couldn't tell if she was fourteen years old. She thought she had a romantic encounter because of her charm, but she encountered such a thing. After calming down, Xiao Gu asked, "How much do you want?"

The girl shook her head and said, "My cousin is coming to find me soon. He just came to WeChat to ask me where I was, and I told him."

As soon as he heard this, Xiao Gu realized that he might have fallen into a trap that had been set up long ago. Before he could do anything, the door behind the girl opened. Two big men rushed in outside the door, and they came with the police - they had called the police. The police checked the girl's ID card, and Xiao Gu was taken away...

Xiao Gu has always been the pride of his family since he was a child. He received praise and praise, and he is also the kind of "children from other people's families" mentioned by his neighbors. He doesn't want his relatives and friends to know about such embarrassing things.

But Lao Gu, who was far away in another city in the neighboring province, received a call asking him whether he wanted antiques or his son? The person who called the phone told him about the little criminal Gu and persuaded Lao Gu not to ruin his son's bright future for two unknown objects that even experts could not identify. Lao Gu was shocked and called Xiao Gu immediately, but he could no longer contact him, so he rushed to Xiao Jin City immediately.

Lao Gu hired a lawyer and met his son in the detention center. Xiao Gu insisted not to plead guilty and told his father not to agree to the other party's request. He believed that he was framed and the other party was extortion. Of course, Lao Gu also reported the case, but the extortioner could not be found. The girl insisted that she didn't know that there was such a thing at all.

When things came to this point, they could only speak based on evidence. Xiao Gu was confident that he could win the lawsuit at first because the girl didn't look like a minor, and he was unaware of it in advance. Both parties had a voluntary relationship and had no behavior of coercion or deception.

According to a judicial interpretation of the Supreme People's Court at that time: "The perpetrator did not know that the other party was a woman under the age of fourteen. The two parties had sex voluntarily, and did not cause serious consequences. The circumstances were significantly minor and they were not considered a crime." Xiao Gu's lawyer's defense of innocence was mainly to seize this.

But the girl's testimony was completely different from Xiao Gu's self-defense. The girl claimed that she went to the bar because of curiosity and met Xiao Gu in the bar. Xiao Gu invited her to have midnight snacks, and said she wanted to buy something for her. After the midnight snacks, she invited her to the hotel for tea. The girl said that she was less than fourteen years old, but Xiao Gu said she liked the young man and took her to the hotel.

Xiao Gu couldn't even explain it clearly, but he took the girl out of the bar, had lunch and then went to a hotel to check in. The evidence was conclusive. In the end, the court ruled that Xiao Gu had committed the crime of prostitution of a woman and sentenced him to five years in prison. The case occurred in 2014, and the criminal law had not been revised at that time, and the crime of prostitution of a woman was still listed separately.

After the first instance judgment was made, Lao Gu was completely panicked. An unknown stranger found him and asked him if he wanted to take Xiao Gu out, or let Xiao Gu stay in prison for five years? If the second instance appeal is successful, there must be new evidence, that is, the girl must change her confession. The other party claimed that if Lao Gu handed over the things, he could find a way to change his confession.

Lao Gu finally handed over the two heirlooms and regretted it. He felt that he shouldn't have listened to his son from the beginning and should have handed over the things early, otherwise things would not have turned out like this.

Before the second trial, Xiao Gu's defense lawyer received a new confession. The girl finally changed her words. She admitted that she had never said anything she hadn't said before she was fourteen years old, and she wanted to find some excitement at the bar... After being criminally detained for three months, Xiao Gu was finally released.

Zhu Youquan did not participate in this matter, he just heard about it. Fan Yang ordered this matter. From beginning to end, Sharon Zheng was responsible for planning, and those two things were what a big man wanted, Sharon Zheng finally got it. After Sharon Zheng succeeded, he ran to Mr. Fan excitedly to perform his merits. Zhu Youquan had also seen the two things on Fan Yang's desk.

Seeing that Sharon Zheng was proud and thought he was superb, Zhu Youquan privately said to him: "Just because of those two things, the innocent family was destroyed. This is not a big deal!"

Sharon Zheng didn't care, and said to Zhu Youquan in turn: "Do you want to know why Fan refused to use you? Because you have this little chance and can't do big things!"

Hearing this, Ding Qi couldn't help but frown and said, "Zhu Youquan's words from Sharon Zheng sounded so familiar, it seemed to be Jia Lian's lines in "Red Dream Tower"."

Zhu Shanxian: "I have some impression of what you said, it is indeed Jia Lian's line."

In the 48th chapter of "Dream of Red Mansions", a man named Shi Daizi collected a batch of ancient fans, but Jia She took a fancy to him. Jia She ordered Jia Lian to get it. Jia Lian came to buy it for a large amount of money, but Shi Daizi refused to sell it. Jia Yucun heard about this and used a vicious plan to frame Shi Daizi for owing official silver and confiscating his property.

Shi Daizi was unknown to life and death, and the fan was sent to Jia She. Jia She asked Jia Lian: "Why did he get it?" Jia Lian said: "For this small matter, it is not a big deal to ruin the family's business!" This sentence is very similar to that of Zhu Youquan's words about Sharon Zheng.

Ding Qi shook his head again and said, "Actually, Jia Lian is not a good thing either."

Zhu Shanxian smiled bitterly and said, "Do you want to say Zhu Youquan? You are in the world, and your conscience has been eaten by the dog, but your other half has to be kept." This is another line from another book, "The Earth Master".

Ding Qi asked, "Is that girl really a minor? What kind of eyes are Xiao Gu? I'm afraid there is something wrong with this!"

Zhu Shanxian sighed: "Of course, Xiao Gu's defense lawyer has also investigated this problem. It's strange that some records can't be found. The girl was born in a remote village, and the health center was no longer there, and her birth certificate could not be found. Because of a flood, the earliest records of paper settlement archives were missing.

She can only determine the date of birth based on computer records and ID cards. From a legal perspective, she is a minor. Although the bone age can be measured from a medical perspective, there is an error in the bone age determination. There is no valid age for registration of ID cards on legal evidence. Moreover, the girl finally changed her confession and Xiao Gu released it. There is no need to check this matter again, so it is even more difficult to explain."

Ding Qi: "How did that family go back then?"

Zhu Shanxian shook his head and said, "According to Zhu Youquan, Xiao Gu is dead. Although he was released, he was hit too much, lost his job, and his reputation was over. His good life was ruined, and he was a little mentally ill, and later he died. It is said that he fell into the water and drowned, but some people think that he committed suicide by diving. Lao Gu was seriously ill and was rescued at least, and he should still be alive now."

Ding Qi didn't know what to say, but after a long time, he gritted his teeth and said, "What happened five years ago? Fan Yang died well, he should have died long ago!"

Zhu Shanxian: "Zhu Youquan just said three things like this. Later, Fan Yang died, but there should be someone who knows the inside story and has evidence. Sharon Zheng may have been caught by someone."

Ding Qi: "Is this also a fairy jumping? There is such a vicious routine!"

Zhu Shanxian asked back, "What do you think? So I just said, if Teacher Ding encounters similar things in the future, he should be more careful and be unpredictable!"

The immortals I usually hear about often introduce their partner to the bachelor. After cheating on property, the girl is not in the spot. More excessively, she is using beauty to get off her clothes. As soon as she took off her clothes at the hotel, someone who claimed to be a woman's husband smashed the door and blackmailed a sum of money. But Ding Qi had never heard of it before, and it was indeed a bit of a breakthrough in his imagination.

Ding Qi: "Those two things should have been taken away by Zhang Wangxiong, so he understood the inside story and obtained the evidence. After Fan Yang's death, Zhang Wangxiong also incorporated Sharon Zheng's group of people to continue working for him. A few days ago, they followed me to Huangtian Village and brought down a few ancient bricks from the mountain."

Zhu Shanxian: "Fan Yang and Zhang Wangxiong have had a lot of cooperation, and they should have been using each other all the time... Teacher Ding, have you not noticed anything else? Do you have any impression of those two objects?"

Ding Qi was slightly stunned, then reacted and exclaimed: "Fangwai Tu Zhi!"

As he spoke, he took out his phone. Although there was no signal in Xiaojing Lake, he could open the album and files. The high-definition photos of "Fangwai Tuzhi" were saved in the phone. Open one of them and there were three objects on it.

On the left is a statue, a woman's belt is flying like she wants to soar into the air, her arms raised a mirror diagonally above her body, and there is a small letter next to the mirror: "The Shadow Tool of the Beast Country."

On the right is a short club-shaped object with cloud-shaped patterns engraved on it. The lines are very fine, as if many freehand beast patterns are outlined. There are also small words next to it: "The body weapon of the beast country."

In the middle is a sculpture of a strange beast, which looks like a kirin and is not a kirin. There are wings engraved on the shoulders and backs. I don’t know what animal it is, or it is made up. The small words next to it are marked "The treasure of the beast controls the country in the outside world, and the famous beast talisman."

It is difficult to have an intuitive corresponding impression only by listening to the language introduction. This is different from the feeling of looking at the image directly. Ding Qi only focused on the story told by Zhu Shanxian. At this moment, he heard the reminder and remembered that the two objects in the story seemed to have been seen in "Fangwai Tuzhi". When he opened the picture, he saw that it was indeed the case.

The so-called beast country is one of the worlds recorded by Zhu Jingyi. The "Fangwai Tu Zhi" describes it as follows: The water outside Long'an Village returns, and the high walls stand up to look at the dragon pond. The iron cliffs deeply lock on animals, and the world has gone to their clothes and hats. The lonely country has clouds and mountains, and the rain cleanses the scenery and scenery are all full of flowers. Yanjing is full of robes, so why should we find the distant mountains?

This is a poem that makes people feel confused when they see it. I wonder what Zhu Jingyi wants to express? This seven-character and eight-line poem is titled on another painting. There is a high cliff in the painting, and a water pool is under the cliff. A circling dragon is also painted in the pool. A small circle is marked at a certain position on the cliff, with the three words "Beast Country".

I guess the location of which circle is the gateway to the outside world, and the beast country is the name of the outside world. As for why it is called this name, what kind of world is there? Apart from that poem, there is no other introduction. Even if there was an introduction before, it has not been preserved now.

Ding Qi and others have not found the place of the Beast Kingdom, so it is difficult to find it because the records are unclear. The poem mentions Yanjing, which is today's Beijing, but it does not say that the Beast Kingdom is near Beijing.

As for the two place names, Long'an Village and Longtan, there are almost everywhere in the country. Just search for a brief look, hundreds of "Longtans" of all sizes can be found. There are also many places in Long'an Village. The detailed information is almost impossible to count, because many place names have changed many times in history.

For example, Jinghu City found a Longan Village and two Longtans. After verification, these two Longtans are only named attractions in recent years, and the origin of Longan Village is difficult to verify. A Longtan was found in Wanling City next to Jinghu City, which is a place name that has existed since ancient times. There is no Longan Village now, but I don’t know if it existed in ancient times.

Ding Qi and others have been very busy recently and haven't had time to look for the beast country. Unexpectedly, they found clues today. What is the treasure of the control world? It is clear now, but what the "shadow weapon" and "body weapon" are? So far, everyone has not figured it out. Unexpectedly, these two ancient objects have been obtained by Fan Yang long ago. He is probably collected by Zhang Wangxiong.

Ding Qi pondered: "In 2014, the "Fangwai Tuzhi" was not found at all. This may be just a coincidence. Zhang Wangxiong was collecting special objects, and the Gu family's things were exposed, which made him look at them."

Zhu Shanxian: "It may be a coincidence, or it may be that Zhang Wangxiong is also looking for similar things or places. He has some clues. Fan Yang may have heard something from him, otherwise he would not be so interested in the legend of "Fangwai Tuzhi" later. He set up a plan to ask you to find it and also used us."

Ding Qi: "But three objects are drawn in "Fangwai Tuzhi". If they are passed down in the hands of the Gu family, then one is missing! Where is the other most important treasure in the world of control?"

At this time, Xian Hao's voice came, "It's very simple. The treasure of the world control should still be in the hands of the Gu family. Old Gu took out the treasures he passed down for identification, and he would not take out all of them at once. He might only take out two of them. Fan Yang and Zhang Wangxiong could not have read "Fangwai Tu Zhi" at that time. They should not know the specific origin of these things, and they did not know that there were three in total..."
Chapter completed!