Zhang Zhenhua's family, who have been living in Chang'an County, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, since Zhang Zhenhua understood things, their parents are honest farmers who have worked hard to raise Zhang Zhenhua to adulthood by getting up early to farm.
But as Zhang Zhenhua grew older, his parents also told him a lot of family stories that he had never heard.
On this day, Zhang Zhenhua went out to work until late at night and returned home, but his father, who should have fallen asleep long ago, sat on a stool in the living room waiting for him to return, still holding a thick stack of silk objects in his hand.
"Dad, why are you still sitting here so late?" Zhang Zhenhua asked.
When Zhang Laohan heard his son return, he waved at Zhang Zhenhua, pointed to the chair next to him, and signaled Zhang Zhenhua to sit down.
Zhang Zhenhua sat down, glanced at the things in Old Man Zhang's hand, and said, "What is this in your hand?" ”
Zhang Laohan replied: "This is our family heirloom, I never told you before because you are still young, I turned it over from the safe when I cleaned up the house today, and now that you are grown up, I think it is time to tell you." ”
Zhang Zhenhua has lived in poverty since childhood, and he never thought that there were any "heirlooms" in his family, so he hurriedly took a thick stack from Zhang Laohan's hand and carefully examined it.
This is nine books made of silk, on which is written Zhang Zhenhua mostly can not understand the traditional characters, but have not eaten pork has always seen the pig run, this is like the TV set in the costume TV series in the holy will, so Zhang Zhenhua asked in surprise: "This... Is this the Divine Will? ”
Zhang Laohan smiled, nodded, and did not comment.
Zhang Zhenhua, who had received a positive answer, was dumbfounded, and he hurriedly asked about the origin of Zhang Laohan's holy will.
It turned out that Zhang Jiazushang was a high-ranking household in the Qing Dynasty before, and since the Qing Dynasty, he has been an official in the dynasty for generations, and his ancestors have produced a total of one imperial official and more than ten military generals, and the largest official in the ancestors is even the chief soldier.
These holy wills were all preserved after the officials of the Zhang family ancestors made great contributions, and the emperor personally issued a decree to seal the rewards, originally there were more than ten dao, but the years have been long, and when it was passed down to Zhang Laohan's generation, there were only nine left.
In order to keep these valuable cultural relics left in his home, Zhang Laohan did not spare any effort. In that special period of turmoil, many valuable cultural relics and rare treasures in China were destroyed, and in order to keep these "heirlooms" safe, Zhang Laohan often used the ancient books and paintings he had purchased with his own heavy money to indiscriminately replenish them and use them to hand over to the state to protect these holy wills. It is precisely because of this that the Zhang family gradually fell into the middle of the family, until Zhang Zhenhua was born later, the Zhang family has been living very poor and hard.
This kind of day lasted until the 1990s, when the situation in the country was just stable, and the Zhang family no longer had to be very careful to protect these cultural relics, and no longer had to fear that some evil people would snatch away these holy decrees. But then for some reason, the news that the Zhang family has the Holy Will has not gone away, causing an uproar in the antique circles, cultural relics circles, collection circles and other circles, and many so-called experts have come from afar to visit the Zhang Family in order to see the style of the Holy Will.
Because the holy purpose was ancient, it was a symbol of imperial status, and the holy will that could be handed down was even rarer, and the Zhang family had nine dao at one time, which was really shocking.
Zhang Zhenhua's family welcomed the visit of a group of experts one after another, and after various expert appraisals, it was determined that the holy will in their hands was indeed of true value, and it was not damaged, and it was of great value.
Among the visitors, there are antique experts who specialize in the identification of antiques in the antique industry, there are also collectors who are very famous in the collection industry, and even the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau has sent people to visit many times. Among them, some people offered high prices to buy the Holy Will from them, but the "heirloom" could not be passed on, and the Zhang family rejected one collector after another who wanted to buy the Holy Will.
The Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau sent people to the Zhang family to persuade them to hand over the Holy Will to the state, because this is also a very precious cultural relic for the country and plays a very important role in the study of history. But after all, it is an "heirloom", Zhang Zhenhua said, can lend to the country's research, make their own contribution, but it is absolutely impossible for them to hand it in.
So the museum contacted Zhang Zhenhua's family, hoping that they could put the holy will in the museum for experts to study, and the fees charged for the exhibition also belonged to the Zhang family. And during the exhibition, if there is any accident in the Holy Will, the loss will be borne by Qing Yanyuan and Zhang Zhenhua's family. Zhang Zhenhua was immediately moved, because there are too many things that need to spend money in the family, and Zhang Zhenhua has a meager income, and it is indeed better to put the holy will to the exhibition to make money than to carefully treasure it at home.
Therefore, in 2002, Zhang Zhenhua personally sent these nine sacred wills to qingyan garden to participate in the exhibition, and entrusted the staff of qingyan garden to keep it for exhibition and research, the period was a total of two months, during the exhibition, the key of the display cabinet was kept by Zhang Zhenhua, and Qingyan garden did not make a backup to ensure the safety of the holy will.
Time flew by, and a month and a half later, near the end of the show, an accident occurred.
Zhang Zhenhua was told by Qingyan Garden that the holy will was lost twice, and Zhang Zhenhua, who learned the news, immediately rushed to Qingyan Garden, but was taken away by the police, because the police learned from Qingyan Garden that the key to the display case was only owned by Zhang Zhenhua alone, so he was the biggest suspect, and Zhang Zhenhua, who was taken away, felt angry and attacked, and he did not fight, but when things came to this point, he had no way but to honestly cooperate with the investigation.
Fortunately, after the investigation, the police ruled out Zhang Zhenhua's suspicions for the first time, and Zhang Zhenhua sued QingyanYuan in court at the first time after coming out, hoping that they would compensate the Zhang family with 500,000 yuan to make up for the loss of the Zhang family.
The court invited experts to determine the value of these two holy wills, and the final price was set at about 180,000 yuan, so Zhang Zhenhua's claim was rejected by the court.
Because Zhang Zhenhua and Qingyanyuan had already decided in advance that if there was an accident, both parties would jointly bear the responsibility, so in the end the court ruled that The Qingyanyuan side compensated Zhang Zhenhua's family for 90,000 yuan in economic losses, and the matter came to an end.
The Zhang family who experienced this incident can be described as dumb and eating Huang Lian, and there is bitterness that cannot be said, even if they are unwilling in every way, they have no choice but to hope that they can retrieve the lost two sacred wills as soon as possible.
But to this day, the whereabouts of the Holy Will remain unknown and has become a suspicious case.