The position at the entrance of the cave was slightly wider than inside. Ye Tian turned his body sideways and let Hu Hongde stand side by side with him.
"What...what is this place?" Hu Hongde was also stunned when he saw the situation outside the cave. The scenery in front of him was something he had never seen in his life.
The cave is about ten meters above the ground, and you can clearly see the scenery outside.
What appeared in front of the two of them was a valley that sunk downwards, about three to four thousand square meters in size, surrounded by cliffs, wrapping the entire valley.
There are many low fruit trees growing in the valley, and they are actually covered with fruits. The ground is covered with green grass. If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, Ye Tian and the two of them would have almost seemed to be in a dream.
In the very middle of the valley, there is a hot spring with a radius of 70 to 80 meters. Bubbles are constantly rising upwards, making a "gudong, gudong" sound.
Because the valley is closed, the heat emitted by this extremely high temperature hot spring evaporates upwards, blocking all the biting cold wind outside, forming a unique geographical space.
Next to the orchard, there is a wooden house with wooden piles about one meter higher than the ground. The bark on the tree that has not been peeled off is still green under the moisture of the hot springs.
Looking up, the pine trees on the cliffs are still covered with white snow, and the two distinct worlds make people marvel at the magic of nature's creations!
What excites Ye Tian the most is that the spiritual energy in this valley is unusually abundant and very pure, as if a formation has been artificially set up to imprison the spiritual energy here.
"Lao Hu, this should be where Blind Meng is hiding, right?"
Looking at the beautiful scenery in front of him, Ye Tian murmured to himself: "Grandma, this old boy is really good at choosing places. I don't know how he found this place?"
It can be seen from the traces of the cave entrance when entering that the cave entrance should have been very small at first. Only after Meng Xiazi's modification could people pass through it. I must have discovered that there is also an unknown story here.
In fact, Blind Man Meng came here after chasing a white fox. The white fox got into the hole and disappeared. Blind Man Meng set a trap at the entrance of the cave and waited for five days, but the white fox did not come out again.
This made Blind Meng feel strange. If he didn't eat for five days, the fox would starve to death. His curiosity drove him to expand the hole and crawl in, thus discovering this peach blossom garden-like place.
From then on, Blind Meng used this place as his most secret hiding place. He couldn't help but build wooden houses in the valley, and also stored a large amount of food and materials. Even the money he had gained over the years was placed here.
It's just that Blind Meng took nearly ten years to arrange a safe place, but with his death, it has no meaning, or it can be said that Ye Tian and his two people were advantaged in vain!
Feeling the rich spiritual energy in the valley, Ye Tian couldn't bear it any longer. He gave Hu Hongde a gentle push and said, "Let's go down and have a look."
In order to facilitate entry and exit, Meng Xiazi drove wooden stakes on the rock wall outside the cave and installed a wooden ladder. They followed the wooden ladder down to the valley.
Stepping on the green grass and feeling the softness under your feet, and then thinking about the snow-capped mountains outside the cave, this place is almost like a fairyland.
Surrounding the hot springs are trees such as hawthorn, jujube, kiwi, and northeastern apricot and plum. After the fruits falling from the trees decay, the land becomes fertile again, forming a good ecological environment.
"My dear, why is this water so hot?"
Ye Tian walked to the hot spring and stretched out his hand to test the temperature in the pool. As soon as he put it in, he hurriedly took his hand out. He didn't use his true energy to protect it just now, and the back of his hand was already red.
Hu Hongde also followed Ye Tian's example and put his hand in the water to feel the temperature. He raised his head and said with a smile, "Ye Tian, the boiled eggs in the hot springs in Changbai Mountain can be cooked in an instant. The water temperature is probably above 70 or 80 degrees."
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Ye Tian looked at the circular valley and said thoughtfully: "Then this should be a crater, but why is it wrapped in these rock walls?"
"Nevermind that there are so many things, Ye Tian, let's go and have a look at the house built by Blind Meng!"
Hu Hongde, however, did not have Ye Tian's idea of tracing back to the source. There were many wonderful sights in Changbai Mountain, and after the initial shock, he had become accustomed to them.
Before arriving at the wooden house, Hu Hongde had a look of shock on his face again. He stroked the wood with his hand and said, "It's incredible, Ye Tian, these are all walnut wood!"
Meng Xiazi obviously spent a lot of energy here, but the wood used for this wooden house is walnut wood from the valley.
The texture of walnut wood is very hard, and it is resistant to bending and corrosion. Even in the valley with perennial fog, it will not be easily deformed or corroded.
You know, walnut wood is usually used to make valuable furniture and carved handicrafts, but the wooden house in front of you is actually made of walnut wood. If it were placed outside, this wooden house would be worth a fortune.
"Old Hu, it's a pity that blind man doesn't want to be a carpenter." Ye Tian didn't know much about walnut wood at all. He just felt that the wooden house was well built.
"Let's go in and take a look!" Ye Tian walked up the three wooden steps and pushed open the wooden door.
Black Dragon Pond was originally a deserted place in the Changbai Mountains. Not to mention people, even animals rarely dared to come here. Therefore, Meng Xiazi did not set any traps at all, and he did not even install a door lock.
The wooden house is divided into three rooms, each of which is connected and separated by a door panel in the middle. There is a bed in the outermost room. There is a wooden table beside the bed with a kerosene lamp on it. A hunting rifle is hung on the wall.
and machete.
After lighting the kerosene lamp, the two saw three dark red wooden boxes placed side by side under the bed. There was nothing else in the rest of the room. Ye Tian squatted down and touched the ground with his hands. There was not a lot of dust.
Presumably Blind Meng had been here not long ago.
Pushing open the doors of the other two rooms, the smell of food came into their noses. The food was tightly wrapped in greenhouse plastic bags to prevent it from being eroded by the moisture outside.
In addition to grains, rice and noodles, another room is filled with air-dried bacon, which has been cured with salt. It will not be a big problem to store it for a year or two.
"If this guy really hides in, he won't starve to death even if he doesn't go out for a few years!"
Looking at the supplies in the two rooms, Hu Hongde shook his head. If this person was not a man who wanted to annihilate great evil, why would he spend so much effort to stock up on these things during peacetime?
"Look what's in that box!"
Ye Tian walked to the bed and stretched out his hand to pull out a box. The box was also made of walnut wood. I am afraid that all the original walnut trees in the valley had been cut down by Meng Xiazi.
"Damn, so much money?"
When he opened the box and took a look, Ye Tian couldn't help but curse. The box, which was about fifty centimeters wide and about one meter square, was filled with stacks of brand-new hundred-yuan bills wrapped in plastic paper.
On top of these banknotes, there were six small golden yellow croakers placed neatly. These were hard currency before liberation. I wonder where Blind Meng got them?
Ye Tian appraised the money in the box, and then thought of the villa that Hu Hongde next to him gave to his granddaughter, he couldn't help but said angrily: "There are at least four million here, I said, Old Hu, are all you people in the mountains so rich?
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In 1998, with a net worth of four million, he could be called a rich man no matter which city he went to. It would be fine if Blind Meng was a businessman, but he is just a mountain man.
This is true wealth that is not exposed.
Hu Hongde shook his head and said: "It's been easier to make money in recent years. A dozen years ago, even if you dug out old ginseng, you wouldn't be able to sell it for much money."
In the era of planned economy, private individuals were not allowed to buy and sell medicinal materials, otherwise you would be convicted of speculation. Therefore, ginseng and other precious medicinal materials dug out by ginseng pickers could only be sold to the state, and the prices were outrageously low.
However, people like Hu Hongde would rather keep the medicinal materials in their hands than sell them, so as soon as the market was liberalized, their wealth immediately increased.
This blind man Meng is also well-known as an old ginseng customer in Changbai Mountain. The treasures he dug out are definitely not less than those of Hu Hongde, so it is reasonable to have so much money.
With a thought in mind, Ye Tian pushed the box containing the money in front of Hu Hongde and said, "Old Hu, I don't want the money anymore, but I like the contents of those two boxes, so you can't rob them from me!"
"You don't want to suffer a loss. I'm afraid the things in the box are worth more than these, right?" Hu Hongde laughed when he heard this, but he didn't care in his heart. Blind Meng was originally intercepted by Ye Tian, and these things should belong to Ye Tian.
God has everything.
"Lao Hu, come and see, is this thing real or fake?" Although he was prepared in his heart, when Ye Tian opened another box, his breathing could not help but become rapid.
There are only four objects in this box. In addition to three ceramic jars, in the middle of the box is a dried Ganoderma lucidum as big as a cattail fan. The skin is reddish brown and the color is very bright. The length of the stipe is almost
Half a meter.
According to Taoist legends, Ganoderma lucidum can cure all diseases. Its functions are fulfilled and it has magical effects, so it is named Ganoderma lucidum. It is also known as "Elixir of Life" and is also called "Ganoderma lucidum grass". It is basically used in Li Shanyuan's prescriptions.
This thing.
"Of course it's true. This Ganoderma lucidum is about three hundred years old, so it's very precious. Ye Tian, the things in this jar are much more valuable than Ganoderma lucidum!"
For people living in the Changbai Mountains, although Ganoderma lucidum is relatively rare, it is not uncommon in the mountains. At this moment, Hu Hongde's eyes were fixed on the three ceramic jars.
