That day, we hid the old lady's body and Yang Jun's sitting vat in the thatched house. We got a lock and locked the door directly. Xu Zhaodi had lived in seclusion for many years, childless and alone. In addition, there were almost no people in the mountains.
People come here, so it should be safe.
But we have to speed up. It is the end of June and the weather is sweltering. The body will definitely rot after a long time!
Now, we need to find a top expert in playing compass to help. After much thought, we contacted Jingmen and asked Suan Fantian to send someone over! Because of the last tiger head copper ban incident, the other party owed us a favor, so
We agreed at that time, and the other party said that the expert would be able to arrive at our place within four days.
While we were waiting, we were not idle. We went to visit the unknown old tomb from the Qing Dynasty at night.
The result was as expected, damn it, so poor! The only thing buried in the rotten coffin of the tomb owner was a broken bottle! Four or five rotten copper coins! The total value was no more than fifty yuan! No one in the industry wanted to see the tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
This reason is because of "poverty".
For the next two days, Dou Sprout got up early at around five o'clock every day. I asked him in a daze what he was going to do. Dou Sprout carried a shovel and said loudly: "I'm going to dig a tree!"
Ever since, Dou Sprout was digging up ginkgo trees all over the mountains and fields. I advised him not to be too hasty, but Dou Sprout said excitedly: "Fengzi! When I think about the millions buried under the tree! I can't sleep thinking about it day and night."
Sleep! I'm afraid that if we don't move faster, someone else will get the money first!"
At around one o'clock that day, a fire was cooking outside the camp. Suddenly Xiaoxuan whispered: "Be careful! There is someone coming over there."
The person who came was a local farmer. He was in his fifties, had dark skin and wore a straw hat. He didn't know his name.
He came over and said angrily: "Hey! What are you people doing here!"
I lied and said that we were all college students and that we were camping here during the school holidays. After that, I handed people cigarettes.
He didn't pick up the cigarette, and said loudly with a straight face: "College student? How come the quality of college students is so low! Do you know that you dug up my ginkgo tree!"
"Don't try to deny it! I saw it all! He did it!" The man pointed at the bean sprout boy who was cooking and said angrily.
Dou Sprout put down his bowl and chopsticks, stood up and frowned: "The ginkgo trees in this mountain are all wild. If you say it's yours, it's yours! I even said it's mine! That's nonsense! What evidence do you have to prove that the tree is yours?"
of!"
"You kid!"
"What more evidence do I need for the tree I planted myself? Haven't you seen that the tree has been trimmed?"
"I don't care what you dig up trees for! I just say one thing: Pay for it!"
""Five hundred yuan for a tree! Not even a penny less! Otherwise, you won't even think about leaving!"
Dou Sprout was irritated, and he directly yelled at the person: "Pay? I'll pay you a hair! Pay back five hundred yuan! I think you look like five hundred yuan!"
No matter who it is, asking for money from Dou Sprout Zai is equivalent to asking for his life! It’s good that he didn’t do anything! Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, I quickly pulled the person aside to negotiate.
"Um, I'm sorry, brother, don't be angry, my friend is just one-minded, there's something wrong with him!" I pointed to my head.
"To tell you the truth, we are really college students. If we tell a lie, there will be thunder and lightning! We are digging trees to take soil samples so that we can report to the teacher when we go back! So, this is seven hundred yuan! You click, five hundred yuan
The money is to compensate for the tree, if there is more than two hundred, we will compensate you."
"Oh, okay! You're the one who can cause trouble."
He counted the money twice and said with a smile: "How many days have you been here in the mountains?"
I said it's been three or four days.
"Oh, have you seen Grandma Cat in the past two days?" he asked.
My heart skipped a beat, and I said calmly: "Brother, who is Grandma Cat? I don't know her, I've never seen her before."
"Hi, she's a weird old lady with a black cat! People here call her Cat Granny, but I haven't seen her for two days. I just passed by the tea garden and I saw that the door to her house was locked.
, and I don’t know where the person has gone.”
I pretended to be confused and said, "Did he go away to visit relatives?"
"She is not from our local area. I have never heard of her having any relatives. It is almost July, and it is time to pick summer tea. She shouldn't have traveled far. It's strange."
Then, he whispered: "Young man, I think you are quite honest, so I am telling you that I am a little worried. Is Granny Cat dead?"
My expression changed and I said, "Brother, what do you mean by this?"
"I mean, she lives alone, is old, and is not in good health! I heard that she has severe diabetes! I'm worried that she died of illness in the house!"
"No! You have to take a look at everything to feel at ease!"
He turned around and left with the hoe on his shoulder.
My soul was immediately frightened!
This would make him discover the body in the house!
So I made an excuse to go see it with him.
On the way, I had murderous intentions twice. I wanted to pick up the stones on the roadside and hit him on the back of the head! But after thinking about it, I held back.
The matter is not that serious yet, and there is still room for improvement. Besides, I have never killed or harmed anyone! I don’t want to break the precept.
When he arrived at the thatched house, he put down his hoe and ran to the window to look inside.
"Grandma Cat! Grandma Cat!"
"No one is there. It seems that he has really traveled far away."
He suddenly turned around and asked me: "Little brother, do you smell it? Why does there seem to be a strange smell in the house? It's smelly and fragrant."
"No big brother? This doesn't smell like anything."
"Forget it, I'm leaving then! You guys, please pay attention to safety in the mountains. There are wild animals in the mountains at night."
After watching them leave, I breathed a sigh of relief.
Like he said, there is indeed a smell. I originally wanted to wait for two days, but now I realize that I can't wait! I have to bury the person temporarily first! Otherwise, something will happen sooner or later.
At 9:30 that night, I called Dou Sprout, dug a hole casually, and buried the big pottery jar with the old woman. After burying the person, Dou Sprout and I sat on the ground to smoke and rest.
Suddenly, I noticed a ginkgo tree not far behind the thatched house. The leaves looked like they were often taken care of.
Douyazai also saw it, and she said excitedly: "Fengzi! Is it possible??"
"Not necessarily, let's go! Go and dig around!"
When we came to the ginkgo tree, we decided on two places and started digging at the same time.
After digging for a while, nothing was found, so we dug in two more places.
This time I dug to a depth of more than half a meter. Suddenly, the shovel in my hand hit a hard object.
I quickly dug up the dirt and saw that a large old-fashioned cowhide box was exposed in the dirt!
"Damn it! It's really here!"
Douyazai said excitedly: "I almost ran all over Xisai Mountain! I didn't expect this damn old woman to actually bury something at the door of her house!"
I slapped him and said, "You are trying to be virtuous, take people's money, and then call them an old woman?"
Douyazai chuckled: "I'm sorry, Fengzi, she is not a dead old woman, she is my biological mother!"
This suitcase is very heavy, at least dozens of kilograms. It took a lot of effort to drag it up from the pit before opening it.
There was also a huge iron box in the suitcase. The iron box was covered with a tarpaulin. I used a shovel to smash open the big iron box. Bean Sprouts and I were dumbfounded!
It’s all banknotes!
Tie them up with rubber bands! Stacks are neatly placed! Visual inspection shows that there are at least several hundred bundles!
"Holy shit... what kind of money is this? Have you ever spent this kind of money?" Dou Sprout asked me as he took out a few cards.
"This is not the money we spend now! This is the money my grandma used to spend! There are second and third sets!"
Dou Sprout said in confusion: "None of these tickets seem to be for one hundred yuan! They are all for two yuan, five yuan and ten yuan! This doesn't add up to much money!"
"You know what I'm talking about. This kind of old banknote is not cheap now. Look at this. A blue car worker's two yuan can be exchanged for at least three hundred yuan now! Five yuan for a steel-making worker's.
With such great unity, a piece of ten yuan can now be sold for dozens of yuan less!"
I said excitedly: "There is another one! This is the earliest two-yuan coin with the pattern of Yan'an Pagoda Mountain! This is so fucking new! At least one can sell for a thousand yuan! There are at least hundreds of them here.
open!"
"What's wrong, why are you crying?"
Dou Sprout suddenly burst into tears.
Dou Yazai wiped his eyes, cried and said loudly: "Mom! My dear mother! You left me so much money, how can I be embarrassed to take it! Mother, don't worry! Every Qingming Festival from now on! I, Lu Ziming, will give it to you.
Burn the paper! I will burn 100 million for you at a time! Let you spend it as you like below!"
After crying for a few seconds, Dou Sprout turned into a smiling face again, and he excitedly put money into the big sack.
After returning home, other people were very happy when they saw it. This is called windfall.
Dou Sprout and I slept together. When we were asleep in the middle of the night, Dou Sprout suddenly sat up. He was sweating profusely, his face was pale, and he couldn't stop breathing.
"What, are you having a nightmare?"
Dou Yazi gasped and nodded and said: "I'm scared to death, Fengzi, I dreamed about the old woman! She said she recognized me as her son! She said she would take me away with her! You don't know, that dream is so real!"
I said: "You are calling trouble out of your mouth. Who told you to recognize your mother without any trouble?"
Dou Yazai wiped the sweat from his face and said quickly: "Fengzi! I'm not kidding you! She really said she wanted to take me away! She also said she wanted me to go down and serve her! This is not a good sign! Please think of a way for me!"
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I thought for a while and said: "Well... Brother Yu has incense in his bag, how about you go put up the incense stick tomorrow?"
Dou Sprouts quickly said yes.
As soon as it was dark and bright, Dou Sprout took me to burn incense. His face looked like he hadn't slept well all night.
As a result, when I arrived at the place, I saw that the incense stick in Dou Sprout Zai's hand was not steady and fell to the ground.
I saw a big pit appearing where we just buried people yesterday.
