These were likely things left behind during the pillaging and burning of the past, items too cumbersome to carry away.
Zhang Lianqing immediately called the local Rui City police to investigate the site.
Wang Debao asked nervously, "This doesn't make me a criminal, does it?"
Zhang Lianqing spoke first. "If these items were truly left behind and not taken out of the country, then you haven't broken any laws."
"Your transaction with Miss Gu is also perfectly legal."
Hearing this, Wang Debao was crestfallen. "And here I thought I could get them back!"
He had sold them to Gu Shengsheng because he didn't know if they were genuine. Now that he did, he realized just how much money he had lost.
"Can I take back the sale, Miss Gu?"
Gu Shengsheng shook her head. "The deal is done. You don't get to just take it back."
"Oh, come on. I thought they might be valuable, which is why I took them to be appraised. But every single big shot in Rui City looked at them and said they were junk!"
