Chapter 153 The story of Brother Zhang in the snack bar
"Sister-in-law, please sit down first and speak slowly. Don't be so angry. Being angry and angry at night is not good for your skin."
I brought a chair for people to sit down, and looked at me to signal the shop owner, Brother Zhang, to come over quickly to show my appreciation.
Women need to be coaxed, because sometimes you are even more stubborn when you are aggressive with her. That guy is so powerful that he dares to throw whatever he catches.
Brother Zhang hurried over to help his wife squeeze her shoulders, and I took the opportunity to get a glass of water and bring it over.
After a person drank two mouthfuls of water, his anger slowly subsided.
She pushed away Brother Zhang's hand that was helping to squeeze her shoulders and said to me: "I'm sorry, Xiaoxiang, I made you laugh. I just said something serious. Don't take it to heart. The main reason is that my husband is not living up to expectations.
I'm really afraid that he will make the same mistake again."
"What's going on, sister-in-law, I heard you just talking about a treasure hunting team or something." I asked.
"Hey, don't mention it now. Let Lao Zhang tell you."
Brother Zhang showed a bitter smile and said: "It's all embarrassing things that happened more than ten years ago. At that time, I was young, loved to play, and thought I could make a fortune by taking shortcuts. I set up the treasure hunting team with a few buddies, but it has been disbanded long ago.
, looking back now, as my wife said, I feel like I was just fooling around."
Her wife rolled her eyes and said, "I'll follow you then. I won't care if a man has some hobbies. The key thing is how much money you spent on your hobbies. Don't you know how much you spent on it? We saved money during that time.
You spent all the money. When I got married, I didn’t care about your family’s demands for even a cent of the betrothal gift. After I got married, I followed you to drink the northwest wind every day. Now I have no house or car, and I can barely support my three children in school.
My mother-in-law's family secretly said that I brought it upon myself. Do you know how wronged I feel?"
As she spoke, she suddenly pulled two napkins and wiped her tears.
Brother Zhang quickly said kind words to comfort him.
I made an excuse to call him out. When I got outside the store, I handed him a cigarette, but he waved his hand to indicate that he would not smoke.
"Brother Zhang, you have hunted for treasures before. What kind of treasures are you looking for? Can you tell me, I am a little interested in this."
Seeing that I kept asking questions, he smiled and said, "Can your mobile phone access the Internet?"
"able."
"You search a forum, a private treasure hunt forum, and there is a post about the treasures of Qiandao Lake, which was organized by me."
When I looked for it, I found it was there, but the date of posting was shown half a year ago.
He glanced back, lowered his head and whispered: "Brother, please don't leak the news to my wife. I haven't given up yet. I think you are worth making friends with. If you are interested, you can join. There are six of us. Just in case.
If we find the treasure one day in the future, we won’t just give it away, and then we’ll have to work from dawn to dusk to work.”
"What treasure?"
"Fang La Treasure."
I was so surprised.
He hurriedly explained: "Brother, I know you don't believe it, but I tell you, after my in-depth research over the years, this treasure must really exist. It must be within our Qiandao Lake, and it has not been found yet."
"Fang La, do you know who he is? He is the person who played the role in Water Margin. He is from our Chun'an Tea Garden Town. He was finally defeated here."
Then he spitted all over the place and told me all kinds of stories and legends about the treasures of Qiandao Lake in an endless stream, trying to convince me of his point of view.
I thought to myself: "Brother, I'm a professional. I actually know these things better than you. Just tell me something I don't know."
He suddenly said: "But now I am the only one left in this treasure hunting team."
"Did you just say there were six people??"
He looked embarrassed: "A few years ago, there were six of us, but later they were forced to go out to work due to life constraints. In addition, we also had internal disagreements at the time."
"Disagreement?"
"Well, I think the place where Fang La buried the treasure is in a hidden cave. Others think that the place where the treasure was buried is somewhere at the bottom of the lake today."
He said sternly: "I have done a lot of research, seen a lot of black and white photos from that year, and asked many immigrants from the older generation. Fang La raided 52 counties in six states in the south. Only a wealthy man named Zhu in Hangzhou at that time
More than six million taels of silver were found at home. It was impossible for him to deposit this huge sum of money in a bank. There were no banks at that time. I guess he could only keep it with him so that he could use the money to recruit troops and make a comeback in the future."
"Back then, he was defeated and lost hundreds of thousands of people, and he had no choice but to retreat into the vast mountains. We still have many mysterious grotto groups left here today, some are natural, and some he dug himself for his camp. Many of the grottoes are located here.
Hidden, hidden from the sun, it can be said that the interior is connected by caves. I have searched many such caves in recent years, and I found that some caves actually have stone benches and tables! There are meeting halls! Lounges! Bedrooms! Water wells! Even
There are also ponds for raising fish! Those are the evidence!”
"This kind of environment is an excellent place to hide treasures! I guess I would have done the same thing if it were me at that time."
"We have a folk song called "The Book of Digging for Treasures" that has been passed down orally for hundreds of years, but not many people know about it. Brother, have you ever heard of it?"
"No." I shook my head.
"Listen up, I'm telling you, this treasure hunting sutra only has eleven words in total."
"Front linoleum! Back linoleum! Middle linoleum cloth! This is the linoleum sutra!"
He looked excited and said: "The stone dragon versus the stone tiger, there are tens of thousands of gold and silver, whoever can tell the difference, buy the Chengdu Mansion. This is the treasure-hiding poem left by Zhang Xianzhong back then. I think it has always been circulated here in Chun'an."
The Painted Cloth Sutra is of the same nature as Zhang Xianzhong’s Hidden Treasure Sutra.”
I know this better than he does. In order to unearth Chen Yin, the archaeological team even dammed the Minjiang River and dug out its mouth. Later, countless gold and silver treasures were unearthed. Any gold item is worth millions. If it could
If I had been born ten years earlier, I would have gone there to make money.
Listening to him talk about the Minjiang River, I remembered a real thing that happened in the past. From 1991 to 1993, a foreign boss named Zhao contracted the business of sand extraction in the waters of the Minjiang River. He started doing it during the day, and later
Suddenly it was changed to beating river sand at night. What’s even more strange is that the sand he punched out was not sold to the outside world at all. He circled a large piece of land, blocked it with colored steel tiles, and raised about ten
There was a dog, and a few security guards were hired to watch the gate every day, and they were kept secretive all day long. After two years of this, the battlefield suddenly closed down and was demolished, and there was no news about Boss Zhao afterwards.
"Brother? Brother! What are you thinking about? Did you hear what I just said about the oil cloth?"
I frowned and said, "I heard it. So what is the implicit meaning behind this varnished cloth sutra? Have you researched it?"
"Of course not! If I had figured out the research, I would have been rich a long time ago! Why do I still have to get up early every day and work hard to earn these few bucks?"
"Brother Zhang, I believe you. I think this is reliable. How about we cooperate?"
He looked excited and grabbed my hand.
"That's great, brother! It's so late to meet you today! Finally, after so many years, someone is willing to believe what I say!"
"You must not let your sister-in-law know about this! Otherwise she will probably beat me to death. We can just keep our activities secret in private. When I have time, I will take you to the grottoes I discovered."
"This is very difficult, Brother Zhang. You have to guard the store every day, and we don't have time to do activities at all. You have to think of a way to send my sister-in-law away," I said.
"I know brother, it's not difficult to get rid of her. What's difficult is that finding the treasure is not something that can be done in a day or two. After all, I have been looking for it for more than ten years. Besides, it's very expensive to not get in and out every day."
Yes, you are like gas money, food, and accommodation expenses.”
I interrupted him and said: "Not necessarily Brother Zhang, no one can say for sure about this thing. If it is discovered, it will happen in an instant. Besides, you don't have to worry about the funds for the activity. I will pay for it."
"No! How can that be done! How can I just ask you to pay for it, brother? This is not appropriate!"
"Brother Zhang, please don't worry about the funds for the event. I think it's better to choose a date. Why don't you send your sister-in-law away tomorrow, close the shop, and then take me to see the mysterious grottoes you discovered?
look."
He thought for a while and nodded: "Okay, call me and remember, come find me at four o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and we will meet here on time."
Just then his wife opened the door and came out, frowning and asked: "It's been a long time, what have you two been whispering about outside?"
"Nothing, we were just talking about some business matters."
"Yes, sister-in-law, haha."
Immediately, his wife looked at the two of us with a puzzled expression, turned around and went back to the store.