After seeing off Zhao Weipeng, Zhao Jun went back to the house and took two pairs of leggings, and gave one of them to Xing San.
They will set off soon to go up the mountain to hunt giant lynxes.
While putting on his leggings, Zhao Jun suddenly remembered the topic he was halfway talking about yesterday and hurriedly asked Xing San: "Third uncle, we didn't finish talking yesterday. That... Mr. Zheng, how did he know that there was a sign on the other side of the treasure cellar?"
"How did he know..." Xing San turned around and faced Zhao Jun. Just when he was about to start talking, Wang Meilan appeared at the door.
One morning, Zhao Youcai came back from exchanging toufu nao and secretly gave a brief report to Wang Meilan.
When Wang Meilan heard that there were new clues about the treasure left behind by her father, Wang Meilan felt as if she had stepped on cotton under her feet. She felt light-headed and scratchy at the same time, wanting to figure out the cause and effect.
Now that Zhao Weipeng has left, the two little girls and Li Xiaoqiao went to Zhang Yuanmin's house to look for the little bell. There was no one else at home, so Wang Meilan went to the west room to find out what happened.
As soon as she arrived at the door, Wang Meilan happened to hear Zhao Jun say the three words "treasure cellar", and Wang Meilan's eyes suddenly lit up.
At this time, Zhao Youcai also slipped in.
Xing San noticed the two of them, but Wang Meilan and Zhao Youcai were not outsiders. Naturally, Xing San would not hide it from them and said directly: "Boss Lao Zheng, he also came to the mountains a few years ago."
"Really?" Zhao Jun was startled and asked in surprise: "Isn't he a mountain technician?"
"Then it won't come later." Xing San said: "He is about the same age as me. Before I went up the mountain, I stayed at home with your third wife, and we took care of the land. As for this old man, he ran away to the mountain at that time. He
What does he specialize in? He picks otters and then sells their skins."
Speaking of this, Xing San looked at Zhao Youcai and asked: "Is that right, brother? Am I right?"
Zhao Youcai blinked his eyes twice and then said: "Brother, when you said this, I seem to have remembered it. My dad used to talk about it, but I never looked at him in the mountains."
When Xing San heard this, he gestured to Wang Meilan and said, "Your family will take away the otter skin he made."
At that time, the Wang family had a monopoly on the mountain product trade in these eight villages, so Wang Meilan wanted to collect mountain products. It can be said that she inherited her father's business.
"Yesterday I went out to my nephew's house and wandered around until noon." Xing San recounted yesterday's experience and said: "I went to buy two pieces of dry food to eat, and happened to meet him buying cigarettes. The two of us came out to chat and talk about the past.
Regarding going up the mountain, he said that he would always meet a bearded man before. I thought about it and asked, maybe if I could ask, what do you think he said?"
This old man was quite good at making people appetizing. The three members of Zhao Jun's family stared at Xing San with six eyes, and asked in unison: "What did he say?"
"He said that one year, he put down a clamp on the edge of a river in the mountains, and watched Widow Wang peel off a piece of skin from a big red pine not far away." Xing San said: "He didn't dare to show his head.
After that, he would not dare to go over until Widow Wang left.
After he passed by, he looked at the sign and thought it was Widow Wang and the others carrying mallets. But since he was not a member of the gang, and he didn't know how to play, he didn't take it seriously. After many years, he and I
that……"
Speaking of this, Xing San raised his hand and pointed at Zhao Youcai, saying: "Old Bull Beard, do you know?"
"Ah, I know." Zhao Youcai nodded and said, "Isn't that old beard dead?"
The Niu Huzi they talked about was an old bandit, and he was the king and hegemon on Erguokui Mountain, which was also the so-called Hu Hutou.
Later, after the liberation of Northeast China, Niu Huzi's gang fled and were wounded. Niu Huzi, the polished commander, withdrew from the world and lived in seclusion in a mountain village. However, he was beaten to death in 1967.
"Yeah." Xing San nodded slightly and said, "Old Zheng can't remember what year it is, anyway, 62 and 63. They were just chatting when they met, and Old Zheng just said it casually, he's a bull-bearded guy.
Said it was a treasure cellar."
As he said that, Xing Sanyi patted his thigh and said: "They all have such neat beards and heads. Once the beard is done, the ox-bearded one will rub Mr. Zheng's hair and let Mr. Zheng lead him."
"Have they gone?" Wang Meilan asked, Zhao Jun, and Zhao Youcai were also a little anxious, eagerly waiting for Xing San's answer.
Zhao Jun always said something: where there are mountains, there is water.
There are streams and rivers in the mountains, and during the rainy season, water accumulates in ditches and ponds to form rivers.
When mountain runners set traps, they have to mark them all over the mountains and plains. But after so many years, I certainly can’t remember where I set traps on a certain day or month that year.
But when the Zhao family thought about it from their perspective, they knew that Zheng Xueyan would definitely be able to find the place where the clamp was placed. Since the opposite side was Widow Wang's door frame, they looked for the water source opposite Widow Wang's door frame.
Zhao Jun and Zhao Youcai had been to that place, and there was indeed water. Zhao Jun saw the tree with the old sign carved on it, which was not far from the riverside.
“I can’t find it!”
"What happened next?" Wang Meilan asked. She was a little anxious at this time. How upset would it be if someone else took away her treasure?
"I said I couldn't find it later." Xing San looked at Zhao Jun and said, "I don't feel like he lied to me."
"Yeah!" Zhao Jun nodded in agreement. According to his guess, the person who took away the treasure should be Pang Xiazi. That means Zheng Xueyan and Niu Huzi have not found it, which means the treasure is still there.
"You haven't found it after all these years?" Zhao Youcai didn't believe it, but Xing San tilted his head slightly and said, "I feel like I haven't found it."
At this point, Xing San paused for a moment before continuing: "If he finds it, he can't tell me."
Hearing what Xing San said, the three members of the Zhao family agreed with him in their hearts, but Zhao Youcai said suspiciously: "There are so many treasures, how can he not look for them after all these years? If it were me, I couldn't find them in one day, I would go there every day
! Dig three feet into the ground and I will find it for it.”
Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan believe that Zhao Youcai can do this.
But Xing San glanced at Zhao Youcai and said, "Brother, I feel like this is like a stick. Even if an unlucky person passes by, he won't even notice."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! There is such a saying in hiking and hiking. When it comes to wild ginseng, even those who are not lucky can't even see it.
Even in July and August, this ginseng has a red hammer on top, a little red among the green bushes. It is so conspicuous that if someone walks in front of the ginseng, he just can't see it.
This is not because of red-green color blindness. After Zhao Jun returned to his hometown in despair in his previous life, it is not that he never thought about turning around.
But when he went up the mountain with others, he was walking in front and his companion was behind. As soon as Zhao Jun walked over, his companion behind him let out a roar, which suddenly startled him.
Zhao Jun is not color blind, but he cannot see the treasure when he goes up the mountain.
"You can't be prepared!" Wang Meilan finally smiled when she heard what Xing San said. Then Wang Meilan glanced at Zhao Jun and said, "My son is lucky!"
"No, what else is there to say!" Xing San raised his hand and pointed at Zhao Jun and said to Wang Meilan, "He has already found the sign."
"Ah?" Wang Meilan was overjoyed when she heard this. When Zhao Youcai reported, he said that Zhao Jun and Xing San knew the whereabouts of the treasure. After hearing what Xing San said just now, Wang Meilan thought she just knew the clues, but she didn't expect that her son had already been found.
That fortune is a sign.
"Son!" Wang Meilan asked Zhao Jun: "Where did you find it? When did you find it?"
Zhao Jun has not been going up the mountain alone recently, and he also went hunting when he went up the mountain. So when did he go to find the treasure omen?
Zhao Youcai was also curious, but at this moment, Zhao Jun looked at him, smiled, and said, "That's when my dad squinted in front of his stick, and I saw a tree like that next to him."
When Zhao Jun said this sentence, he emphasized the pronunciation of the word "mi". But Wang Meilan and Xing San didn't hear it. They thought Zhao Jun was talking about Mi Bangchui.
When planting in the mountains, you would find a place to bury the young seedlings in the soil. After ten or twenty years, when the medicinal value of the small seedlings is sufficient, you can lift them out again. This is called secreting in the field of mountain planting.
, and what Zhao Jun said about "mi" means embezzlement.
Wang Meilan and Xing San didn't hear this, and Zhao Youcai also heard it, but he raised his head and glared at Zhao Jun without blushing or whitening.
Zhao Jun curled his lips slightly and heard Wang Meilan ask him: "Son, when are we going to find those things? Those are all left by your eldest grandma!"
"Hey? Brother and sister!" Suddenly, Xing San stopped Wang Meilan, and the old man said: "I guess, if no one touches the treasure cellar, there will be more than just the things left by Wang Dazhang."
"Ah?" The three members of the Zhao family were startled when they heard this, and then heard Xing San continue: "Widow Wang has been living around for all these years, is it possible that he doesn't have anything good in his hands?"
As soon as Xing San said this, the eyes of Zhao Jun, Wang Meilan, and Zhao Youcai all lit up. Wang Meilan even asked Xing San: "Brother, what do you think you can find there?"
"Then how do I know?" Xing San smiled and said, "But if he wants to hide it, it must be something valuable."
Speaking of this, Xing San shook his head and said: "But we have to go now, it's not easy to go out."
As he said this, Xing San pointed to the ground and said, "Everything on the ground is frozen. You are not allowed to dig with a pickaxe!"
"Take it!" Wang Meilan waved her hand and said: "I don't know, that's all. You know, I can't wait even on the first day. So what...I'll go to the blacksmith furnace later and make a few more
The pickaxe comes back, and the new pickaxe can dig faster."
"Mom, no need." Zhao Jun said, "We have them all at home, just use a stone to polish them."
"That's okay." Wang Meilan didn't care about the money, and just asked Zhao Jun: "Son, when are you going?"
"We can't do it today, Mom." Zhao Jun said, "I have agreed with the minister and my brother Xie today that we have to hunt the big lynx today."
"What about you tomorrow?" Zhao Youcai interrupted and asked Zhao Jun: "If you want to go tomorrow, I will take another day off tomorrow."
"No, dad." Zhao Jun rejected Zhao Youcai and said, "I'll go on the 31st."
"On the 31st?" Zhao Youcai stared at his little eyes and said, "There won't be a meeting at the venue that day?"
There was a meeting at the venue and a meal. As a chef, he certainly couldn't take leave.
"I won't follow you." Zhao Jun said with a smile: "I went up to the stage to receive the certificate, and then left in such a sneaky way!"