"Daughter-in-law, I plan to go out tomorrow. It will probably take three days!"
In the evening, Lu Lu told Chen Xiuyu his plan.
Zhui Feng had too much time to spare, so he just happened to go out for a walk. This time he was alone, and he didn’t bring Yuanbao or the others. He traveled lightly. At Zhui Feng’s speed, he made a round trip to the Laojin Car Shop in three days, which was enough time.
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"Go out and do some work. Look, it's going to snow today."
Chen Xiuyu asked in confusion, Lu Lu had only been back for a few days, and he was thinking of running out again.
"I want to check out the Laojin Car Shop!"
When she mentioned the Laojin Car Shop, Chen Xiuyu frowned: "What are you going to do there?"
"Don't be so nervous. This time when we went out, we met Jin Zhiquan on the other side of Pingding Mountain. He has been arrested. This gang of crooks has been solved."
Telling Chen Xiuyu that Jin Zhiquan was arrested can make her feel at ease. After all, it is always uneasy to have someone who has worried about his family's money living outside.
Just don't tell her that she was shot to death by herself.
"Caught it!"
Sure enough, Chen Xiuyu suddenly became pleasantly surprised.
"Yes, he hid outside for a few months. He probably felt that the wind had passed, so he ran to the mountains over Pingdingshan and had a heated fight with a production team leader there. He agreed to let him follow an old ginseng farmer in the mountains.
Learn to use sticks.
Originally we didn't know about it in the mountains, but as luck would have it, we met two gangsters in the mountains who wanted to prey on us because their father was a police officer. As a result, we detained one and asked the other to call him.
Parents.
As a result, the police officer called was an acquaintance of Brother Feng, and the boy was beaten up. After they returned, they pulled down a small notebook. I looked at it and found Jin Zhiquan’s registration information, and then I knew he was leaving us.
The place is not far away.
At that time, I was still wondering if it was Jin Zhiquan from the Lao Jin Car Shop.
We are not afraid of thieves, but we are afraid that thieves will care about us. If this guy tries to take advantage of us again one day, I think this is a problem that must be solved, so the day before returning, Brother Feng and I went to see it.
It turned out that it was the shopkeeper of the big car shop who arrested him and handed him over to the police station."
Chen Xiuyu nodded repeatedly after hearing this: "Just catch it!"
"Think about it, they are a group of gangsters, they only do things like robbing houses, and they must have something hidden. The Lao Jin Car Shop is a den, and the things are probably hidden there. I'm going to take a look.
Try your luck."
Lu Lu smiled slightly and said, "I won't go into the mountains. I will be back soon."
"That place has been sealed. I'm afraid the police have searched it inside and out. Besides, if people around here know about it, I'm afraid many people will go there with this idea in mind. What else can they find?
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Chen Xiuyu shook her head and said, "I think you'd better not waste your efforts and spend three days traveling there. You might as well have a good rest at home."
"Being idle is also idle. What if I'm lucky enough to find it, right?"
Chen Xiuyu looked at Lu Lu seriously. After a while, she nodded slightly: "You have to be careful!"
It has to be said that she is inevitably tempted.
"I will. I will leave tomorrow morning. Go and come back quickly. When people ask, they will say that I went out to visit friends. Don't talk nonsense about this. If you really find something and spread it, you will be in trouble.
Ourselves.”
"good!"
Finally making up an excuse, Lu Lu let out a long sigh of relief.
The couple looked at each other and smiled, with a wicked light in their eyes.
Early the next morning, Lu Lu got up early and took a look outside. There were a few scattered snowflakes floating in the sky, so it was not a big problem to travel.
He fed Zhui Feng some black beans, turned on the stove, cooked some frozen dumplings and ate them, put on hunting clothes, tied a bullet pouch, carried a semi-automatic on his back, then tied the hunting bag to the saddle and tied it around his neck.
I bought a woolen scarf knitted by Chen Xiuyu, covering my mouth and nose, and a raccoon dog skin hat to cover my whole body tightly, leaving only a pair of eyes.
When Lu Lu went out, it was not completely dark yet.
Chen Xiuyu got up early and followed her to the road outside Caodianzi.
During this time, Ma Jinlan and Aunt Duan will come over, and Father Zhao will come over at any time for a visit. Yuanbao and the others are also left at home, so Lu Lu has nothing to worry about.
After waving goodbye to Chen Xiuyu, Lu Lu turned over and mounted Zhui Feng, clamped his legs on the horse's belly, and after recharging his energy for such a long time, Zhui Feng immediately started running and kept accelerating.
The cold wind whistled in my ears, and the fine snowflakes turned into tiny snow arrows, flying towards my face.
Zhui Feng ran wildly, his hooves flying, causing snow to fly on the ground, and his long mane flying. At this time, Zhui Feng looked like a black dragon burning with blazing black flames, with a majestic momentum.
Along the way, except for a meal at Nancha at noon to let Zhui Feng take a break, the rest of the time was almost spent on the road.
It only took one day for Lu Lu to arrive at Xianglan Commune, which had already entered Tangyuan County. The distance traveled was much longer than Lu Lu expected, and he was also covered in sweat.
Frost.
The scarf covering the mouth and nose has already been covered with a thick layer of ice, even on the eyebrows and eyelashes.
I found a village nearby and spent two yuan at a farmer's house to spend the night.
The next day, Lu Lu continued to get up early and set out. At around eight o'clock in the morning, he had already arrived near the Lao Jin Car Shop.
When they arrived at this area, Lu Lu did not continue to ride Zhui Feng, but jumped off Zhui Feng's back, stretched his somewhat stiff body, and then led Zhui Feng along the road towards Lao Jin's cart.
Go to the store.
The flat dirt road is covered with thick snow. Probably because the old car shop was closed down, no one comes to stay here anymore. Apart from some human footprints and sledge marks, there is nothing else on the road. It is obviously deserted.
A lot.
There are large flat fertile fields around, and crops are being harvested. As far as the eye can see, there is a vast expanse of white. In the distance, you can see wild boars flipping over in the snow, and roe deer that are frightened and leap and run across the fields like flying.
Occasionally, you can see two or three hunters wandering around the fields carrying shotguns.
There is no obstruction, and you can see the surroundings clearly at a glance.
Lu Lu arrived at Lao Jin Car Shop half an hour later.
The big car shop was bustling with activity last time, but now there is no movement inside. There are seals on the doors of every room.
There are not many trees around the big car shop, and there is only one elm tree. It is directly opposite the entrance and behind the old house of the big car shop. I don’t know how many years it has grown, and it must be as thick as two people hugging each other.
Because it is relatively tall, it is also used by big car shops to hang signs. There is also a lantern hanging on a high branch with the word "big car shop" written on it.
The location is high, so people passing by can easily see it at night, and then come here to stay.
But now, the lantern has been destroyed by the wind and snow, and the paper on the outside has long been damaged. Only the lantern skeleton is left, swinging in the wind, bumping against the trees, and making clattering sounds from time to time.
These sealed houses had been carefully searched when they were sealed. Lu Lu didn't think he could find anything else inside, so after looking around to see if there was no one there, he led Zhui Feng and walked around.
Hiding behind the house, he went straight to the big elm tree.
There was thick snow piled at the base of the tree, and there was nothing around except yellow leather and mouse footprints.
This gave Lu Lu more hope. He looked around the big elm tree and felt that the sunken position at the foot of the big elm tree's roots was more suitable for hiding things.
After looking around again to make sure there was no one around, Lu Lu took off the semi-automatic he was carrying, removed the bayonet, stretched his feet a few times to peel away the snow layer and the dead branches and leaves on the surface, squatted down, and pointed the bayonet at the frozen
The hard soil was dug for a while.
He always carried the Oroqen hunting knife. It was a handicraft-level thing, but he couldn't bear to use it for digging soil, so he could only use it as a bayonet.
He kept digging for more than a foot deep, and when he stabbed down with his bayonet, he suddenly heard an unusual sound. This made Lu Lu feel happy and he immediately speeded up.
If you have something, it doesn’t come in vain!
Not long after, a large earthen jar with its mouth sealed with oil paper was revealed.
Lu Lu was stunned for a moment, then pulled off the oil paper sealing the jar, looked inside, and found that there were several things wrapped in oil paper inside.
Glancing around, Lu Lu immediately took off the hunting bag, took out the items wrapped in oil paper, and stuffed them directly into the hunting bag.
There were more than ten kinds of things, all well wrapped, and the weights were different. Lu Lu didn't know what was inside.
Now was not the time to take it apart, but Lu Lu knew that if something could be hidden like this, given Jin Zhiquan's urine, the contents inside should be valuable.
The things were quickly collected. Lu Lu backfilled the soil several times and got some snow to cover up the fresh soil.
After seeing that there was no big problem, he folded some branches and swept the snow all the way to cover his footprints. He retreated to Zhui Feng and then led Zhui Feng out from behind the house.
As he passed the door of the old car shop, he suddenly heard the creak of the door opening, and his nerves suddenly tightened. He instinctively raised his gun and looked back.
I saw that the door of the big car shop was ajar, and it was slightly swaying in the wind.
Lu Lu was stunned for a moment, walked to the door and took a look inside through the gap. It was okay not to look, but he was startled when he saw it.
Inside, there was a ragged woman lying on the ground in front of the counter.
Taking a closer look, Lu Lu recognized it as Guiping, the kang seller.
Looking at her unkempt hair, dirty clothes, and frost-covered body, it goes without saying that she had already died of cold inside.
Let her live a good life, but if she had to do something, she would probably never have thought that she would end up with such a miserable ending like a corpse in a village shop in the mountains.
Lu Lu shook his head slightly, this was not something he wanted to deal with.
After checking that there was no one around, he put the semi-automatic gun in the holster, tied the hunting bag to the saddle, and rode Zhui Feng on the return journey.
Near evening, Lu Lu rushed to Chenming, stayed there for the night, and continued to drive back the next day. At noon, he had returned to Meixi District.
Thinking that there was still a ten-pronged red deer head at home that needed to be processed and some things needed to be used, Lu Lu planned to go to the drugstores and state-owned stores in the district to see if he could buy the needed things so that he could have the deer head treated when he returned.
deal with.
Unexpectedly, when I first arrived in the district, I walked around the state-owned store. When I came out, I saw Zhang Shaofeng holding his horse and waiting next to Zhui Feng who was tied to a telephone pole.
"I went to your Caodianzi to look for you this morning. Xiuyu said that you went out to visit friends and probably won't be back until later today. I didn't expect to meet you in the district!"
Zhang Shaofeng said with a smile: "Why did you come back so early?"
"Don't mention it. I was going to visit an educated youth friend I knew before. Who knew I didn't know until I got there that he had already recovered from his illness and never came back. It was a waste of time and he came back early."
Lu Lu made some nonsense, and then asked: "Brother Feng, what are you doing in the district?"
"It's not about Jin Xiaosong... The police have confirmed that it's a wanted reward, and they asked us to come to the district to claim the reward!" Zhang Shaofeng said with a smile: "The reward is four hundred yuan, and we will split it equally..."
As he spoke, he took out a large stack of money from his pocket and ordered two hundred yuan for Lu Lu.
Lu Lu was not polite to him and took it and put it in his pocket.
"What are you buying?" Zhang Shaofeng asked.
"Just buy some alcohol and glue. When I have nothing to do, I'm going to make some deer heads that I brought back!" Lu Lu said with a smile, "That deer head has been sitting in the cellar for drying. It's time to dispose of it."
It's time."
"Have you bought it yet?"
"Alcohol is still missing, I'll go to the drugstore to check it out!"