One night in the winter of 1971, it was snowing heavily in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, Wang Zhankui was braving the wind and snow to rush home, the cold wind hung on his face like a knife, making him feel a pang of pain, and suddenly Wang Zhankui found a black shadow on the road not far ahead, which seemed to be a person.
When Wang Zhankui saw this, he sped up his pace, and when he looked closer, it was an old man lying on the ground, his face was miserable, his hair and eyebrows were already covered with ice ballast, and he saw that it was not possible, Wang Zhankui saw that it was not possible, and without saying a word, he picked up the old man and ran toward the nearby villagers' homes.
After arriving at the villager's house, Wang Zhankui found several quilts to wrap the old man, and when the old man's face was no longer so miserable, he found a large wooden barrel and let the old man soak in hot water, and after a long time, the old man slowly woke up, learned that Wang Zhankui saved him, and before he left, he put a small box in Wang Zhankui's hand, but Wang Zhankui turned his head and handed it back.
He was a veteran, and he always thought that it was his duty to reach out and help when he saw people in difficulty, so he couldn't ask for the old man's things, but the old man insisted on repaying Wang Zhankui's life-saving grace, and said that if Wang Zhankui didn't accept it, he couldn't go over his conscience, and seeing the old man's firm look, Wang Zhankui didn't want to live up to the old man's heart, so he accepted the box.
Seeing that Wang Zhankui finally accepted it, the old man smiled, and then he burrowed into the snow and wind without looking back, looking at the old man's fading back, Wang Zhankui sighed helplessly, put the small box in his pocket and continued to rush home.
After returning home, Wang Zhankui casually threw the small box in the corner, and never cared about it again. Time flew by quickly, and twenty-four years passed, and Wang Zhankui also changed from the strong man of that year to the old man with white hair. One day, Wang Zhankui stumbled upon the small box when he was packing his things.
Looking at the small box in front of him, the winter night of twenty-four years ago reappeared in front of his eyes, but Wang Zhankui did not think much about it, he did not know how much he had done in his life, but he was still very curious about the contents of the box, so he gently blew off the dust on the box, and then opened the box.
Inside the box is a whole piece of wax, the wax seems to be sealed with something, so Wang Zhankui used a knife to scrape the wax little by little, and finally he got a small yellow ball, which at first glance looks like a small mud ball, but Wang Zhankui does not think that this ball is a mud ball, who will be idle and have nothing to seal a small mud ball with wax, still in the box?
Anyway, he was idle and idle, so he carefully wiped the ball clean, and then put it in the palm of his hand to play, but he also saw such a thing for the first time, so he could not see any doorway for a while and a half, but consciously told him that this ball was certainly not simple.
After a long time, Wang Zhankui also had no intention of continuing to study, so he threw the ball into the fish tank in the bedroom, but when he turned off the lights that night and prepared to sleep, he found that the fish tank suddenly emitted a light blue light, illuminating the entire fish tank like a crystal.
Wang Zhankui had seen such a magical thing, so he looked closely, and found that it was the small ball that glowed, so he quickly fished the ball up, this small ball was indeed a treasure, so Wang Zhankui began to study the small ball again, he found that this small ball was like an ordinary stone in the daytime or in a bright environment, but when it was dark, he would emit a soft blue light, so Wang Zhankui guessed that this small ball was likely to be the so-called night pearl.
So Wang Zhankui began to ask around for information about the night pearl, and later in order to verify his guess, he took the ball to a professional institution for identification, but after the results came out, the inspector told him that the ball was not a night pearl, but the original ore of a diamond.
But it can also shine at night, it is not too much to call it the night pearl, and just such a large piece of raw diamond ore is already valuable, not to mention that he also has the same characteristics as the night pearl, then it is even more precious. But at present, there are no diamonds on the earth that can glow at night, so experts have tested again and finally concluded that the ball comes from outer space, that is, the ball is still a meteorite, which undoubtedly makes its value to a higher level.
After returning home, Wang Zhankui quickly bought the best safe on the market, and then put the ball in, and since he knew the value of the ball, he had not slept a good night's sleep, which was actually normal, no matter who it was, the family with such a valuable treasure would always worry about losing it.
But soon after, the expert in charge of the appraisal called, he told Wang Zhankui that there was an expert who wanted to publish a report to invalidate the appraisal report of the small ball, and it turned out that their detection methods could not explain that the small ball was a meteorite, it was just their speculation, so they thought that the identification report was untrue.
So Wang Zhankui embarked on the road of "justifying the name" of the small ball, and finally in 2009, the China Gem Society and the China Cultural Relics and Jade Research Committee jointly issued the identification certificate of "Meteorite Diamond Night Pearl". Over the years, Wang Zhankui has also learned a lot of knowledge in this regard, and now he can be regarded as half an expert.
Finally, experts also gave an estimate, this small ball is worth more than 25 million US dollars, converted into rmb equivalent to nearly 200 million, which is simply a figure that Wang Zhankui can't think of, and later this matter also spread, a Hong Kong businessman once bid 200 million yuan to Wang Zhankui to buy this bead, but Wang Zhankui refused.
He understood the truth that Pifu was innocent of his guilt, and he had been a soldier, and he always believed that this bead should be a national treasure, not an individual, so after careful consideration, he donated the bead to the Chinese Harmonious Buddha Capital in Beijing as the treasure of the town capital.
According to the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Cultural Relics, all cultural relics left over the ground, inland waters and territorial waters within the territory of the People's Republic of China belong to the State. Ancient cultural sites, ancient tombs, and cave temples belong to the state. Immovable cultural relics such as memorial buildings, ancient buildings, stone carvings, murals, representative buildings of modern and modern times designated for protection by the State shall belong to the State unless otherwise provided by the State.
The ownership of state-owned immovable cultural relics does not change due to a change in the ownership or use right of the land to which they are attached. The following movable artifacts are owned by the State:
(1) Cultural relics unearthed within the territory of China, except as otherwise provided by the State;
(2) Cultural relics collected or kept by state-owned cultural relics collection units and other state organs, troops, state-owned enterprises, public institutions, and so forth;
(3) Cultural relics collected or purchased by the State;
(4) Cultural relics donated to the State by citizens, legal persons and other organizations;
(5) Other cultural relics owned by the State as provided for by law.
The ownership of movable cultural relics owned by the State shall not be changed by the termination or change of their custody or collection unit. The ownership of state-owned cultural relics is protected by law and cannot be infringed upon. Wang Zhankui's respect for cultural relics deserves our admiration, of course, it is naturally okay for him to choose to sell this bead, but from the perspective of protection, donating to the country is the best choice.