Super Vision

Chapter 20 Unknown Purpose Compass

The waiter of the restaurant packed up the table, even the tablecloths were replaced with new ones.

Looking at the delicious lobster and red wine, Xia Lei had no appetite.Long Bing's eyes made him uncomfortable. Long Bing's eyes were very special, just like he would penetrate his soul and discover all his secrets.

"Aren't you Kyoto? How did you return to Haizhu?" Xia Lei broke the silence between the two.

"I'm back to find you." Long Bing said.

"Something?" Xia Lei seemed to have been influenced by her, and her words were concise.

Long Bing opened the handbag and took out an old cast iron key from it.

Charley was stunned, because the cast iron key she held was the Ming key he had welded!

"Are you welded well?" Long Bing looked straight at Xia Lei.

Xia Lei nodded, "I soldered it, but ... how could it be with you?"

Long Bing said: "I actually have been paying attention to you, I know everything you do."

Xia Lei's brow suddenly frowned, "Are you monitoring me?"

Long Bing did not acknowledge or deny it, but changed the topic. "The police in Haizhu City arrested the two criminals who murdered Professor Zhang Boqing and retrieved the key. Some experts have seen your welded key and called it It ’s a miracle. He said that this welding process, even a welding engineer with ten years of experience, ca n’t do it. How did you do it? ”

"Are you asking me this when you came?" Xia Lei tentatively said.

"This question looks naive, but I really want to know the answer. I'm getting more and more curious about everything about you." Long Bing's eyes looked sharp and somewhat suspicious.

Xia Lei couldn't help laughing, "Well, I'm getting more and more curious about you. You tell me your true identity, and I tell you how I did it. It's not just you asking questions?"

Long Bing said: "It's not time for you to know. You won't need to raise this question again in the future. When it is time for you to know, I will let you know."

"I'm not sincere." Xia Lei knew she would have said that. "However, although you didn't answer my question, I am willing to answer your question. I used a welding tong and a cast iron electrode to weld this key. "

Long Bing was stunned for a moment, and then he smiled, "Are you thinking of me as a child?"

Xia Lei thought she looked good when she laughed, but he didn't dare to say that.

The two drank a glass of wine.

Long Bing put down his glass, "Actually, the real purpose of my coming here is for you to do me a favor."

"What do you want me to do for you?"

"It's still related to Professor Zhang Boqing's case." Long Bing said: "The archaeologist has found the shipwreck and found an iron cabin from the shipwreck. They used this key to open the iron cabin. There was no imagination in it. Beautiful porcelain, gold and silver treasures, and only one compass. "

"A compass?"

"Well, a compass, a very strange compass." Long Bing described: "It is actually a very precise instrument, like a clock. There are hands on the compass, but because some parts of the compass are broken, it Can't work. I would like to ask you to help weld those broken parts, rework the parts that cannot be repaired, and repair the compass. "

Xia Lei said with a smile: "I'm not a watchmaker. The welded parts will increase the weight, which will affect the accuracy of the compass. If you use a lathe to process new parts, can they merge with other parts hundreds of years ago? Yes, you believe me that way and are willing to give me such important cultural relics to repair? "

Long Bing said: "I have no excuses, I just need the answer. You can just give me an answer, help or not?"

She was always so overbearing, Xia Lei smiled bitterly, "Well, you believe me so much, it would be a bit inappropriate if I refuse you. Where is the compass? I want to see it first."

Long Bing stood up, "Then let's go."

Xia Lei glanced at the lobster on the table almost unmoved, and he was depressed in his heart and said: "That is the lobster, so I left without even eating ... I knew it would not be ordered, waste!"

Although thinking in this way, Xia Lei still snatched it to the front desk to pick up the bill.This meal cost more than a thousand dollars, making him feel pain in his heart.Inadvertently, he saw Jiang Ruyi, who was eating at another table, and Jiang Ruyi stared at him fiercely.

Xia Lei also gave Jiang Ruyi a glance.But this stare, his left eye jumped lightly, and Jiang Ruyi in the sight of his left eye suddenly lost his clothes.Her chest, her hips, her waist, and long legs were all exposed in his vision.The hip pressed against the dining chair was like a huge jelly, an indescribable delicate and delicate, which immediately stimulated him.

"Huh?" Long Bing looked at Xia Lei with strange eyes. "Are you going to say hello? I can wait for you."

Xia Lei recovered, and hurriedly looked away, "No, no, let's go."

Leaving the restaurant, Xia Lei got on Long Bing's car and came to the Archaeological Bureau of Haizhu City.This is an old institutional courtyard with a four-story brick-concrete building and a sliding cottage.

When entering the office building, Xia Lei still couldn't help but asked out of curiosity: "Miss Long, Professor Zhang's case has been solved, the nature of this matter has become archaeology, how can you still manage this What about? "

Long Bing gave him the impression that he was a man working in the rain of bullets, and he also guessed that her identity was a very high-level agent.Such a character, how could she find him to weld what compass?Even if someone wants to ask him to do it, it should be the talent of the Archaeological Bureau, not her.

Long Bing said: "This case is more complicated than you think, but you are not the police, nor ours, so you can't tell you too much. Don't ask me anything about the case, please help me. Fix the compass. "

Xia Lei smiled bitterly and shrugged, "Well, show me."

Long Bing brought Xia Lei to a showroom.

There is an old man and a young woman in the showroom.The old man is about sixty years old, with white temples, wearing colorless glasses, quite a scholarly style.The woman is in her twenties, with a tall, thin face, and a face of melon seeds. She also wears a pair of colorless glasses.

The old man and the young woman were discussing what. A cast iron compass was on a display table next to them, and there were several broken parts beside them.

Xia Lei's eyes fell on the compass, and he was immediately attracted.The compass placed on the display table looks like an enlarged clock, very complicated.It was really a miracle that the manufacturing process of the Ming Dynasty could make this compass.A question arose in his heart, what is this compass used for?

Long Bing walked over, "Professor Huang, Dr. Ning, hello, I brought the technician who repaired the compass."

The old man and the young woman realized that someone had come in, and both of them looked at Long Bing and Xia Lei.They must have known Long Bing, but when they saw that the "technician" brought by Long Bing was so young, both faces showed a little surprise.

Long Bing said: "I would like to introduce to you that this is Professor Huang Weiguo Huang, the authoritative professor in the domestic archaeological community. This is Dr. Ning Ning, she is a proud disciple of the late Professor Zhang Boqing." Then she pointed to Xia Lei and said : "This is Xia Lei, who is repaired if he is the owner of Lei Ma Studio."

Such an introduction embarrassed Xia Lei.He is not a technician, in fact he is just a wage earner with a welder certificate.His Rema studio is also a small street shop just under the market, and has no reputation at all.Long Bing introduced him this way, it really meant to deliberately raise his value.

But Xia Lei was also suffocated. He said politely: "Professor Huang, how are you Dr. Ning."

Professor Huang Weiguo took the initiative to shake his hand with Xia Lei and said with a smile: "Master Lei, after seeing your welding key, I wanted to meet you. Before you came, I thought you were probably a 40-50 year old, I did n’t expect you to be so young.

Xia Lei smiled, "Professor Huang is polite and polite."

The serenity standing beside Huang Weiguo said with a smile: "I said you will be welcome, let's talk about the business."

The serene look is quiet and sweet, and the voice is soft and nice.She has a gentle and pleasant temperament unique to intellectual women.

Whether it is Huang Weiguo or tranquility, Xia Lei has a good impression, and he is not constrained. He comes to the display table and observes the compass placed on the table.

At this time, Tranquility got close to Long Bing, "Miss Long, he is so young, is he really welding that key?"

"Dr. Ning, you are about his age, haven't you also become an important person in the archaeological world?" Long Bing said.

Tranquility lowered his voice, "My situation is different from him. I have to have many years of work experience to do his job."

Long Bing stopped talking to her.

Xia Lei actually heard the conversation between Tranquility and Long Bing, but he didn't care that Tranquility questioned him, and his thoughts gathered on the compass.

The size of the compass is about the same as the Feng Shui compass used by current Taoist priests, but it is divided into three layers, upper, middle and lower, and it looks like a round sandwich cookie.On the surface of the compass there was a pointer that looked like gold, and it had stopped turning.There are peculiar patterns on the surface of the compass. They are completely symmetrical, but they have no special meaning.

Xia Lei's left eye jumped slightly, and the situation in the middle layer of the compass came into his sight unobstructed.The middle layer of the compass has hundreds of gears of different sizes, rotating shafts, and some gears still have some mud that is invisible to the naked eye.Finally, he looked at the bottom of the compass, and he saw four Chinese characters--Emperor Yongle.