Chapter 2 A pair of people who are neither human nor wood
So far, under the auspices of Kasha, all inspections of the Yin-Yang dolls have been carried out, and the final result is no surprise: "They are wood carvings, and the raw material for carving is Bodhi wood. The carbon 14 test method cannot determine the age of their formation."
If calculated based on the growth rings of the bodhi tree, the time when they were carved out and placed in the tree hole should be between one thousand and three thousand years, that is, from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the end of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. If calculated based on the clothing style, it can be roughly concluded that they were in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
It was put into the tree trunk during the period, but no one can give a firm conclusion as to what this process was."
After the observation, I only raised one question: "When the dolls were discovered, they were yin and yang hugged together, but after you rescued them, you placed them separately. Doesn't it violate their original intention of yin and yang cultivation?"
Kasha was stunned: "What?"
I repeated it, and she looked around and frowned: "This... the doll was found in the ancient Bodhi tree at that time, and it was placed like this according to Mr. Qin's instructions."
Fang Xing was very interested in this question: "Ye Kai, do you mean that the Yin-Yang dolls are hidden in the tree holes to cultivate both Yin and Yang? The person who carved them and put them in the tree holes at that time also had this purpose?"
I responded to her with "Everything is possible". Since we know nothing about the two dolls now, we have to put forward opinions from various angles, try to be as realistic as possible, and get to the root of this matter.
The residence Kasha prepared for Fang Xing and I is a private hotel on the right side of the Giant Wood Museum. It is a three-story Western-style building nestled among a sea of flowers and green trees.
Our room was on the third floor, and there was a huge terrace outside the door with a bar and rocking chairs for guests to drink and chat.
Fang Xing's mood has always been a little low, and he has no interest in any topic except Yin-Yang dolls.
"Is there any result on Qin Chengpei's disappearance case?" After looking through all the information, I realized that the two incidents were cause and effect for each other and were actually the same thing.
"Well... this matter is more straightforward and there is no starting point for investigation. He worked all night in the office. At one o'clock in the morning, Kasha heard the greeting, went in and brought a cup of coffee, and immediately exited. At eight o'clock in the morning,
The life secretary came in to clean up the room and found that Qin Chengpei was missing. At 11 o'clock in the morning, Kasha led people to search inside and outside the Giant Wood Museum, but still couldn't find Qin Chengpei, so he called the police. After the police came, they conducted a larger search, but found no results.
.In this way, Qin Chengpei disappeared on his own territory."
I realized that before the ancient Bodhi tree was cracked and the Yin-Yang doll was discovered, Qin Chengpei's career was normal. He would hold regular online meetings every Monday morning to listen to work reports and arrange the next steps.
This is a fifty-two-year-old, healthy Asian man who has been playing Tai Chi, tennis, and golf for twenty years to keep his body young. At the same time, he is also keen on Go, and his playing ability is about the amateur level five of the International Go Association.
Duan. He uses this method of mental training to ensure sharp business thinking ability. Also, he has a young girlfriend who is a film, television, singing and singing star that Uttar Pradesh has been promoting for the past three years. She hopes to enter Hollywood in the future.
To sum up, there is no possibility that he will fall into depression because of money or ideological difficulties, and he will not take any means to commit suicide.
"He was kidnapped." This is the only possibility left after all impossibilities have been screened out.
"The kidnappers must have asked for ransom, but so far, the Giant Wood Museum has not received any ransom calls. Ye Kai, I have no clue about this matter, so I asked the headquarters for reinforcements. I hope you can show your magic and find that I ignored it.
Clues, please."
Fang Xing was very humble and looked at me with eager eyes.
As usual, to find a missing person, one must conduct a careful search in his office and home to look for all clues. On the first day when Fang Xing came to Uttar Pradesh, accompanied by police officers, he searched every corner of the museum.
In the end nothing was gained.
"Ye Kai, I talked to the police officers, and they had a suggestion. Call Qin Chengpei's little girlfriend. If Qin Chengpei can be kidnapped without anyone noticing, the people around him will not be able to escape the blame. There must be a mole.
An old man and a young wife, with the pear blossoms weighing down the begonias, are very likely to commit adultery."
Male and female investigators have different thinking patterns. Obviously, this is the habitual thinking conclusion of the police officers.
Since the new century, major criminal police organizations have compiled various criminal cases into a super database. If a case meets several of the important characteristics, the results will most likely be almost the same.
Excellent police officers will memorize all the contents of the database. Therefore, when they see that Qin Chengpei has a girlfriend in the information, their thinking and handling methods have been formed - arrest this person immediately and strike first.
"It seems to make sense——"
Fang Xing frowned repeatedly and turned on the coffee machine to make coffee.
"Fang Xing, do you completely disagree with the police officer's point of view?" I looked at her back.
"What are the reasons and motives? If the Giant Wood Museum is disturbed at this time, I am afraid that even the investigation of the Yin-Yang Dolls will not be able to continue. What I mean is... Let's do it one by one. First, find out what the Yin-Yang Dolls are. Do you agree?
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I did not argue with Fang Xing. Since we have differences with the Uttar Pradesh police on the direction of the investigation, if we continue to discuss it, we will waste each other. In the end, the gain will not be worth the loss, and the opportunity will be wasted.
I put the CD with the information into my laptop and projected the image onto the big screen.
These video materials record in detail the process of discovering the Yin-Yang dolls. The scene at that time was so bizarre that if the investigators had not been vigilant enough to cut the chainsaw in, the two dolls would have been cut in half.
The crimson clothes on the female doll were very eye-catching, and a corner of them was revealed at the critical moment, which saved the lives of two people.
"It's people, it's two people, it's two people..."
"It's a wooden doll. Go and report it. Go and report it to Mr. Qin..."
"It's really weird. Could it be that someone put a doll curse on this big tree? It's so scary. Who would have thought that there is a doll hidden in the hollow trunk of the big tree..."
The noise continued, and more than a dozen heads came over, scrambling to peek into the tree hole.
The operator changed the saw blade to a slower rotating speed, first cut out the space where the puppets were located, then cut them open manually, lifted the two puppets out, and placed them on two clean bamboo beds.
To be fair, even the most experienced archaeologists and tomb robbers will be extremely shocked when they see the two dolls and cannot figure out the secrets between them.
Therefore, in the following video, the Giant Wood Museum invited all industry experts from Uttar Pradesh to hold a four-hour closed-door meeting to discuss the value and risks of the emergence of Yin-Yang dolls.
At first, many people thought that this was an ancient witchcraft at work. The two puppets must correspond to two people existing in the real world. When the caster carved the puppets, the original template was a real person, so it was achieved.
They are so fake that they look real. If you want to eliminate the witchcraft disaster, you have to burn them to ashes.
Archaeologists believe that these are two antiques with extremely high appreciation value, which are even better than the wood carvings found in many ancient tombs in Uttar Pradesh. The best way to deal with them is to send them to international auctions.
Go up there and let them be displayed before the world, and the highest bidder will get it.
This super bodhi tree belongs to the Giant Tree Museum, which is equivalent to Qin Chengpei's personal property. He has the final say on how to deal with it.
All expert opinions can only be given to Qin Chengpei as a reference.
Qin Chengpei participated in the entire discussion process, but never spoke. Therefore, the discussion was inconclusive until Qin Chengpei disappeared.
Fang Xing brought the coffee and put it in my hand.
"Someone offered a high price, but because Qin Chengpei is missing, we can't negotiate. I asked Kasha, if Qin Chengpei dies unfortunately, that little girlfriend will be the only heir." There is something in Fang Xing's words, which is probably why the police suspected that the little girlfriend was involved in the kidnapping case.
important reasons.
"There are no historical cases for reference. The headquarters sent us here to investigate in order to gain enough experience. If the same case occurs, we can take advantage of it. Fang Xing, there is no need to be under too much pressure. Every time the headquarters trains,
The instructors taught us that not every strange case has an answer. There are too many antique cases in the world that are simply unsolved cases. Even if Sherlock Holmes comes, he will be helpless!"
Fang Xing laughed and let out a sigh of relief.
There is no Sherlock Holmes in the world, only secret investigators like us, fighting for world peace and justice.
After all the discs were played, my understanding of the two dolls deepened over and over again.
On the question of "specimen or puppet", experts have conducted many close-range microscope-level observations and admitted that it is a "puppet" because its essence is two large sections of Bodhi wood, which is completely plant and has no animal components.
Some people have proposed the concepts of "wood turning into jade" and "tree turning into petroleum", believing that as time goes by, wood stored in isolation from air will undergo a complex degradation process.
"If the ancient Bodhi tree is not cracked this time, maybe one day in the future, the Yin-Yang puppet will become a real person - a real living person, just like Pinocchio in the fairy tale "Pinocchio", who was originally a puppet.
Later, after evolution, human thoughts emerged, and then they became real humans overnight. Fairy tales are created by working people in their long-term life practice. They are not groundless, but have real theoretical basis..."
This expert's argument triggered a roar of laughter at the discussion. Perhaps everyone believed that the process of "turning wood into a human" is too long and too far away. Even if human beings develop to the end, they will not be able to wait for that day.
After watching this paragraph, I had an idea in my mind. Since the origin of human beings comes from Nuwa's creation and God's creation of humans, the view that "man is created" must be correct.
In the legend of "Nu Wa Creates Man", man is made of clay. Since "earth" can create man, then "wood" can also create man. After all, "metal, wood, water, fire and earth" are the five major elements that make up the world.
Basic elements, the Creator cannot favor one over the other.
If the doll is a relic of "Nuwa created human beings" and is silently sealed for ten thousand years, it may not be able to "adult" after one hundred thousand years.
Then, a pair of incredible "yin and yang dolls" that are neither human nor wood will surely become a pair of magnificent people.
"Ding, ding, ding," the intercom phone in the room rang.
Fang Xing pressed the speakerphone, and Kasha's voice rang out: "Miss Fang, that Mr. Eucommia ulmoides is here again. He has been pestering him and is willing to pay a lot of money to buy a female doll. Now he is living in my office. You said
, I want to talk to him, is it convenient now?"
On the phone, a middle-aged man's pedantic and persistent voice rang out: "I'll give you 40 million plus all 12 properties around the world and 700 antiques, with a total value of 100 million, just for one doll, please."