Being left in the wilderness should be the most comfortable night that Chen Xiuqing had in the past few days.
After grabbing the steamed buns and pancakes, he rode the Oroqen horse and galloped all the way.
At this time, he had finally seen the power of Huma, and understood that what Lao Huang said was not false, and he also understood that Lu Lu's advice and warnings were not cowardly nonsense.
But, that’s all!
The only effect was to make him more alert.
Therefore, he rode his horse around in many places to spread suspicion. After carefully making sure that no one was following him, he determined the direction and plunged into the deep mountains and forests to the north.
At this time, Lu Lu and others came out of Jingou and headed towards Huma.
However, Chen Xiuqing still underestimated the patience and carefulness that gold gave people, not to mention that they were being plotted.
He returned to Jingou in the middle of the night, groped for a roe deer skin mattress and slept on the pile of pine leaves until dawn. When he stood up and saw that everything was quiet around him, he felt that those people had been shaken off and would not follow him again.
There is still some small joy.
He went to the river to fill the river with corpses floating there a few days ago, took two large cakes and began to tear them apart ferociously. After filling his stomach, he once again started his gold mining business.
It has to be said that his running around caused most of the people who were interested in him to lose track of him, but in the end, some people who had been staring at him followed him.
When he was busy until the afternoon and had accumulated more than half a catty of gold sand on hand, someone had already touched it and was looking at him with a smile.
When he saw those people, Chen Xiuqing was shocked, and then suddenly remembered: "You robbed me of my gold and gun...I will kill you!"
Suddenly anger welled up in his heart. Chen Xiuqing grabbed a stone as big as a Shanghai bowl on the ground and prepared to pounce on it. However, several people's guns were already pointed at him, so they did not dare to move again.
"Don't yell and kill when we meet. Anyway, I helped you pay for the food and drinks last night and took them outside the town. Otherwise, you might not even be able to leave Jinshan Town."
The leader walked past him, took the stone in his hand, threw it aside, and patted him on the shoulder.
Then, he walked aside and looked at the birch bark that diverted water and the layer of yellow gold sand on the birch bark below that was used as a chute.
"Brothers, I have said before that our luck will not always be so bad. Look, haven't we found this gold vein? It is a rich mine. No one has ever discovered and mined the gold sand vein... only
It can be said that those who choose not to work this year are not so lucky. Look, gold, isn’t it already there?”
The leading young man laughed.
After discovering the mineral vein, the other three were equally excited and started laughing.
Qi Wenkai looked at Chen Xiuqing again: "Why are you still standing there? Hurry up, I not only paid for the food and drinks for you, but I also paid for those steamed buns and pancakes. If you eat mine, you have to work for me. Otherwise, I will let you
You spit it out.
Also, we have seen it, but what about hunters? A hunter without a gun is like a wolf without claws and can only be slaughtered by others.
The circles you are going around in have troubled many people. Don't worry, only a few of us came here and helped you make things more messy. No one will come here again. We have reserved the horse specifically for you.
?Just to follow the horseshoe prints to find you."
Yes, Chen Xiuqing has met this man before. Last year when he was hunting in the Daxingan Mountains and returning, he met him while camping on the roadside.
The man whose car slid to the side of the road and came down the hill asked a few people to help pull it with horses.
Although I don’t know the name, I have definitely seen it.
If Lu Lu were here, he would immediately recognize that this is one of the people who worked together to drain his family and make him heavily in debt in his previous life - Qi Wenkai.
"You bastard, I didn't provoke you, why? I was the one who played with you on the road, so it wasn't me?"
Chen Xiuqing naively believed that she was targeted by these people because Lu Lu had accepted money from people in the mountains without actually helping them.
It was a good thing that he didn't mention this matter, but when he mentioned it, Qi Wenkai became a little angry: "If you don't tell me, I forgot that you collected a lot of money at that time. I have to spit out the money.
Not much, just work here for three months to pay off the debt."
Then, he looked back at his three accomplices: "Find a rope and tie his feet to me so that he can walk, but he cannot take steps to run..."
He paused for a moment, then looked back at Chen Xiuqing: "If you don't want to suffer physical pain, you'd better be honest and agile. If you dare to run away, bullets don't have eyes. Well, let me tell you something, my shooting skills are actually good.
very nice!"
After saying that, he raised his semi-automatic rifle, took aim at the branch dozens of meters away, pulled the trigger, and accurately broke the branch.
The other three people quickly found a piece of rope, tied his feet and tied them in a tight knot. When one of them saw him staring at him, he raised his leg and kicked him, causing him to stagger a few steps away: "
How dare you stare at me and do your job!"
Facing the black barrel of the gun, Chen Xiuqing had no chance to resist. Seeing that he was about to be beaten, he could only obediently pick up the tools, dig up the sand on the river beach, and began to pour it under the running water of the sink, and began to wash.
"Leave one to watch him and be on guard, and the other two will also go to help and take turns to rest... But you must take care of your own gun, otherwise, if he gets it, he will suffer a big loss. He
But he is a hunter. Of course, if he dares to attack or run away, he will be killed!"
Qi Wenkai warned the three of them, as if he was talking about a very simple thing. Then he took out a bowl from his backpack and walked towards the river: "I'm going to check out the placer gold veins in this ditch.
Find places where placer gold is abundant.”
…
On the morning when Lu Lu and others arrived at Jingou, Chen Xiuqing arrived at Huma. By the time Lu Lu and others arrived at Huma, Chen Xiuqing was already on her way back to Jingou. By accident, she caught up with him.
Behind Chen Xiuqing's butt.
Now, when Chen Xiuqing was treated as a slave laborer by Qi Wenkai and was panning for gold, Lu Lu and others were eating at several stalls and listening to the gossips of the passing diners.
Knowing that Chen Xiuqing is being followed, no matter how big a fanfare it is, people like myself will be targeted immediately, which will cause more trouble. Moreover, if you ask directly about this kind of thing, I'm afraid it won't be as effective as hearing it.
When they met, Liang Kangbo came back and told about the robbery of steamed buns and pancakes at a stall. Based on the information that several people heard, they can basically judge that it was Chen Xiuqing who did it. Moreover, there are many people who are still inquiring about him.
.
What annoyed Lu Lu the most was that this guy didn't choose to leave directly, but returned to the mountains. At first glance, he was heading north again.
Needless to say, I went back to Jingou.
Moreover, it can be seen from the fact that someone paid for him to keep his mouth shut and asked the stall owner not to talk about it outside. It can be seen that he is being followed.
For a moment, Lu Lu felt mixed feelings in his heart.
He couldn't imagine what would happen if he was followed into the mountains and saw veins of gold sand.
I just hope he can be smarter.
After hurriedly buying some pancakes and steamed buns, they returned to the place where they camped for the night. While Zhao Yongke was eating, Lu Lu and others began to pack up their tents and rode towards the west.
The reason why I chose to go west instead of going north directly to Jingou to find Chen Xiuqing was because I didn't want to attract more people and make the situation more complicated.
He had reason to believe that since people like him had been snooping around Jinshan Town for so long, it was impossible for no one to notice them.
Last time I only stayed in Xinglonggou for one day, so it was easy to imagine that I would encounter disaster when I went out.
And if you want to hide your traces, it's not the wet places in the mountains and forests where horses' hoofprints can be left as soon as they fall, but the roads.
The dry dirt road, with people coming and going, and the intricate footprints of livestock every day, was the best place for people like me to hide.
After packing up their things, a few people mounted their horses and hurried along the road to Tahe, paying attention to the surrounding movements at all times. After going ten miles and making sure that no one was around, they rode into the forest. By this time, everyone was already there.
It's approaching evening.
I kept trying to figure out the direction, walking in the mountains until it got dark, and then I stopped and camped when I couldn't see anymore.
…
Chen Xiuqing was kept under guard until dusk. When it got dark, she was tied up and sat at the foot of a birch tree as thick as a bowl by the river.
"Yes, keep up. If you can work so hard every day, two pancakes a day will be no problem. Of course, it's impossible to eat enough, but we can't let you have too much energy. If you run away, we won't
It’s easy to chase.”
Qi Wenkai and the four of them built a shack and pitched it on the edge of the river beach. A few of them made a fire. After they had had enough wine and food, he squatted down in front of Chen Xiuqing with a piece of dry pancake and fed it to him one bite at a time.
"Don't you still have a few people? Where are they?" Qi Wenkai asked tentatively.
Today, along the river, he used the bowl gold method to detect many places. He found that this river ditch had a placer gold vein that was five or six miles long. He also found several places where placer gold was enriched. He felt like Chen Xiuqing.
Now the panning area is almost the same. The racks for gold panning using the flow method are all ready, and he doesn't want to waste time changing positions.
He had met Chen Xiuqing and his gang of hunters, and they were brothers and they had a close relationship. Now he only saw Chen Xiuqing alone in the ravine, which made him a little worried, fearing that the others were also there.
And this was also the reason why he kept Chen Xiuqing. He was so strong and strong. It would be a waste to kill him directly. If he controlled it well, he could help with the work. More importantly, he could be used as a bargaining chip when necessary.
Gold panning has always been a life-threatening and life-threatening business.
He didn't dare to be careless in the slightest.
When asked this question, Chen Xiuqing couldn't help but feel deeply regretful.
He regretted that he should not have hidden Lu Lu and others and ran into the mountains secretly. He regretted even more that he had made up such an excuse to prevent Ma Jinlan from asking more questions. There was also the evil Wang Yan who made up the excuse that he went out to do business with others.
matter.
If Lu Lu and others really believed it, they probably wouldn't come to find him.
Now that it fell into the hands of others, he felt that Lu Lu's approach of not allowing the gold mining to continue and stopping at the right time seemed to make sense.
So, he began to regret again, why he didn't listen to the advice, even though he had the example of Lao Huang, and the example of the brothers who fell into the swamp, he still came.
Now, I'm afraid it will be difficult to get out of this mountain.
Probably like those corpses floating away along the river, he will eventually become one of them.
Thinking of this, he felt inexplicably frightened. He felt as if he was being swallowed by an invisible abyss, so powerless.
What he regretted most was that he actually chose not to listen to the brother-in-law who once saved his life. He even became more and more tired of his lectures from time to time, and felt like he was in a cage and being controlled to death.
Only now did he realize that the preaching and control that bored him were seeking the peace he now extravagantly hoped for.
"It's okay if you don't tell me. As long as you are here, even if they come, I will have a way to prevent them from messing around. What you have to do now is to be obedient and work hard. Of course, you'd better pray too.
Don't let them come, or don't dare to move if they come, because if that happens, you will be the first to die."
Seeing Chen Xiuqing gritting his teeth and not saying anything, Qi Wenkai said quietly.
After Chen Xiuqing ate the big cake and fed him some water, he took the opportunity to check Chen Xiuqing again, and finally found the slingshot that Chen Xiuqing had thrown away when they were searching for it.
Nothing else.
He thought for a while, threw the slingshot aside with his backhand, and went back to the shack to sleep, leaving only one person standing guard by the fire holding a semi-automatic rifle.
Until the man began to doze off, Chen Xiuqing's fingers that were tied behind the tree began to move. He kept digging at the soil with his fingers, trying to find a stone or something like that on the ground to see if he could find a broken bondage.
Stones from one's own hands.
This time, luck finally took care of him. After digging through the soil, he actually found a piece and started rubbing it.
After working hard for more than an hour, the rope binding his wrists suddenly loosened, filling his heart with long-lost joy.
He carefully untied the rope and untied his feet, grabbed the stone that tied him up, and carefully walked towards the shack where several people were resting. However, after taking only two steps, he hurriedly stopped.
However, he felt that it was not safe to seize the gun. After all, there were four people on the other side, and if they were alerted, he would definitely suffer.
The safest thing is to get on your horse and leave quickly. Nothing is more important than leaving alive.