The Era of Hard Work

"Wangcai, don't leave yet." Lu Lanlan pulled the dirt dog back, walked up to Lu Dong, and whispered, "Brother Dong, I'll tell you a secret, don't tell anyone else."

Seeing Lu Lanlan's gossip, Lu Dong smiled and asked, "What's the secret? You broke your dad's radio?"

Lu Lanlan shook her head: "No, no." Her voice was very low, even lower than when she said Uncle Qi wanted to eat Wangcai just now: "Didn't you say that you should pay attention to antique dealers when you are free? I saw something. When Uncle set up a stall to sell cats, an antique dealer who bought cats went to Uncle Jianping’s house yesterday, and just finished eating at the restaurant at noon, after I sent Uncle Jianping back.”

She murmured: "When I first saw it, I thought it was someone who came to me to settle the debt, so I hid it in a hurry, but I found out later that he didn't see me at all, and he just went to see Master Jianping. I ran into Mrs. Jianping today, and asked her casually, she said that the person who came yesterday was a good friend of Mrs. Jianping in the capital. By the way, that antique dealer is not a good thing, buying cats for fake money!"

After entering the underground secret room, there were always antique dealers running to Lujia Village, and Lu Dong was also paying attention to these people. After all, these guys are proficient in everything.

But I have never heard of it. There are antique dealers in the village who are familiar with it, and they are still friends.

"It may be someone that Uncle Jianping knew in the capital." Lu Dong reminded Lu Lanlan: "I know, don't spread it around."

"I see, I'm leaving." Lu Lanlan led the dog named Wangcai to the north.

Lu Dong was a bit strange. In my impression, Uncle Jianping was a simple and honest person. When he was teaching in elementary school, he was well-known in the village. It is said that he would not have close contacts with people like antique dealers?

This kind of thing is hard to say. Some people make friends, and they have everything.

"Lu Dong!" Suddenly someone greeted.

The voice was familiar, Lu Dong turned to look, but it was Liu Linlin who asked, "Why are you here?"

Liu Linlin pointed to the group of chess players in front: "Tell my dad to go back to eat."

It happened that Lu Dong was also going there, so they went together, and before they got there, they heard Liu Mingquan arguing with Lu Zhenjia.

"Don't look at your Lujia Village and take a step first, I tell you, you can't escape!" It was Liu Mingquan who spoke: "One project in the county is brought in one by one. The core of this area is your Lujia Village. Sooner or later, you have to go to Lujia Village. In the village, what you have, we will have sooner or later."

Lu Zhenjia straightened his neck and said, "You don't care what you say about this matter. Our Lu Family Village will not accept you."

Liu Mingquan said again: "What I say doesn't count, what you say doesn't count, and what you say in Lujia Village doesn't count. The county suppresses this kind of thing, and it has to be done."

Hearing her father arguing with people from Lu's Village, Liu Linlin slowed down, not wanting to get into trouble.

Looking at Lu Dong next to her, she asked, "Do you really want to merge the villages?"

The development models of Huaxi Village and Nanshan Village all take the road of merging the surrounding villages.

Lu Dong said, "People in Lu's Village don't want to merge."

The merging of villages will inevitably lead to huge conflicts. It is impossible for Lujia Village to give them the same treatment, and the people who came later will definitely not be reconciled to being second-class citizens.

This is an inextricable knot.

Liu Linlin had already graduated and became a full-time employee, so she reminded Lu Dong, "I've heard some rumors."

Lu Dong nodded: "I know."

"En." Liu Linlin responded and stopped talking.

There was no more arguing over there, she went to call Liu Mingquan, turned around and beckoned to Lu Dong, and followed Liu Mingquan away.

Lu Dong went home to eat, but before he finished his meal, he received a call from Lu Tao.

"Brother Dong, it's not good." Lu Tao said in a hurry: "A few cultural relics from the underground secret room can't be found!"

Through the mobile phone, I vaguely heard that there was a bit of chaos over there.

Lu Dong said: "I'll go there now." He put down his job and went out: "Mom, something happened at the old school, I'll go and have a look."

Hu Chunlan said: "Your third grandfather and Jianshe are both on a business trip, so hurry up and have a look."

When Lu Dong went out, Seventh Uncle came out of the house, and he had just been notified, so he simply went to Seventh Uncle's Cherokee, and the uncle and nephew rushed to the old school together.

After entering the school, Li Wenyue and Accountant Li have already arrived. Professor Fan has returned to the Provincial University in the past few days. The team leader here is one of his graduate students, who is also Ma Ming's senior, the one who helped Lu Jianren and Lu Zhending contact the business. It has a close relationship with Lujia Village.

In the office of the primary school, there are two large safes transported from the village branch office. Usually things are stored in them, and those that need to be researched and processed are taken out of the safe.

The keys are in the hands of Accountant Li and Li Hongxing respectively.

Accountant Li has always been with the village committee, and only Li Hongxing has the key here.

Lu Dong asked, "What have you lost?"

Li Wenyue looked at Ma Ming's senior brother, saw that he had no intention of speaking, and said, "A gold hairpin and a pair of gold bracelets, both of which are inlaid with precious stones."

Lu Dong looked at Li Hongxing, and Li Hongxing said, "I always carry the key with me, and I never gave it to anyone."

Ma Ming's senior brother said at this time: "I didn't lose it in the safe. Today we took out some exquisitely crafted accessories to take pictures and register the items in detail. We put them in this office. There was no interruption during the period. When we were just about to leave work , I packed my things and found that three things were missing."

He has been with Professor Fan longer than Ma Ming, and he understands some disposal rules: "Once I find something is wrong, I will ask everyone in the office to stay, and no one is allowed to go out."

Li Hongxing said: "I came here as soon as possible, and there are only people who come in but not out."

Lu Jianren interjected, "Did you find them all in the office?"

"I've searched them all." Li Hongxing said, "I've even searched a few cracks in the walls, nothing."

Li Wenyue said: "Senior brother and the others took the initiative to dig out their pockets in order to prove themselves."

In the summer, everyone wears very thin clothes, and there is something that cannot be hidden at all.

Lu Dong said: "Everyone is looking for it again, maybe it's lost somewhere."

Ma Ming's senior brother was very sensible. At this time, he came to Lu Dong's side and whispered: "Personally, I think it must have been stolen."

His voice is very low. Although he has been in the school for a long time, he has some social experience. There are a lot of people coming and going in and out of this office. There are always 20 or 30 people coming and going. , all of them are from Lujia Village.

People who are not from Lujia Village cannot even enter the gate of the old school.

Holding a flashlight, Lu Jianren joined the ranks of finding things, specifically looking for unobtrusive places, and even pried up a few loose floor tiles on the ground.

Lu Dong was very familiar with this office. The floor was paved with old-fashioned blue bricks, and the windows were all equipped with anti-theft nets. There was only one door for entering and exiting.

If things are not dropped, they are not hidden by people, or they are taken out quietly.

After Lu Jianren finished looking at the floor tiles, he even took apart the cover of the air conditioner and the wall holes of the air outlet pipe and looked side by side.

"Dongzi..." Li Wenyue came over, "Should I call the police?"

Lu Dong said: "Wait a little longer, wait until the search is over."

Li Wenyue understood what Lu Dong meant, so he just took out his phone and held it in his hand.

Lu Dong believed that senior fellow Ma Ming and his colleagues were postgraduates who had participated in more than one excavation of cultural relics, such as the Han Tomb in Luozhuang. It's not going to wait until today to do something.

Excluding Senior Brother Ma Ming and others, the rest who can enter the office are the real family members of Lu Village!

Lu Dong, who had the same problem as Uncle Qi, was biased toward Lu's village and the people in the village.

It's best to get things back.

Li Hongxing walked by, but Lu Dong stopped him.

"You've been here, who came in this afternoon?" Lu Dong asked.

Li Hongxing thought for a while, and said: "The ten or so people who helped have all come in, and the people who patrolled have also come to drink water, at least twenty or so."

Lu Dong said, "Go and make a list."

Li Hongxing opened his mouth, and changed his words when he reached the edge of his throat: "I'll go right away."

After waiting for a while, Lu Jianren asked next to each other, came over and said, "No, someone must have taken it away."

His face was ugly, and he naturally thought that if someone really took it, it could only be taken by Lu's family.

"Red Star!" Lu Jianren asked, "Are you sure no outsiders came in this afternoon?"

Li Hongxing was writing the list, stopped writing and said: "There is absolutely no outsider here!"

Lu Jianren grabbed someone's teacup next to him, drank all the water in it in one gulp, and was about to throw the cup with his hand.

Lu Dong hurriedly grabbed his arm: "Uncle Qi, An Wenhui."

Lu Jianren glanced at Lu Dong, and instead of talking nonsense like usual, he pulled a chair over and sat down.

Li Wenyue opened the flip of the phone: "Dongzi..."

Lu Dong took out his phone: "I'll call."

He directly called Lu Suo on Ningxiu's side, told Lu again, and after asking his opinion, he also called Bureau Zhang who was in charge of criminal investigation in the county, which was the former Team Zhang.

This is a registered cultural relic. Although the detailed information has not been entered yet, the cultural relic is now missing. In terms of the possible value of the three lost items, it is considered a major case.

Lu Dong from his own village didn't say much, and said to senior brother Ma Ming and the others: "Brothers, I have called the police, please wait for a while."

Brother Ma Ming and others said, "It's okay, it should be."

That being said, Lu Dong behaved like a normal person, picked up his cell phone again, called Sun Wenbin, and asked him to prepare the food and deliver it later.

After the phone call, Lu Dong called Uncle Seven, Li Wenyue and Accountant Li to discuss it.

Lu Dong said directly: "Seventh Uncle, you know a lot, you know a lot, can you tell me?"

Lu Jianren shrugged his drooping shoulders: "Ninety-ninety percent of them are self-stealing, but this thing is not easy to sell, there is no certain way, and even if you sell it, you can't sell it at a price."

Accountant Li asked: "What way?"

Lu Dong said, "Hero Mountain?"

Li Wenyue answered: "Could it be related to the antique dealers who have been running to the village recently? Those people are sneaky, even stealing antique bricks and tiles from the old street..."

"It's not impossible. Those who collect antiques will charge a high price. Maybe someone will be fooled by the money." Lu Jianren said: "These antique dealers are shameless one by one. They buy a cat and give fake money."

Hearing this, Lu Dong suddenly remembered what Lu Lanlan said.

But Lu Jianping was a teacher...

There are so many people here, he has no words for the time being.

The police arrived soon.