Li Long walked forward with his gun in hand. A few dozen meters away, a pheasant was frightened and flew into the forest.
It can fly one or two hundred meters in the low air. This male pheasant is also very powerful, and its tail hair looks very beautiful. Li Long raised his gun and took aim, then put it down.
Can't hit.
Continuing to walk forward, there are more rocks on both sides of the slope. Some thorny shrubs grow in the gaps between the rocks. There is a big rock about ten meters in front of the left hand.
Li Long stopped.
It was clearly possible to walk through the front of the ditch bottom, but those footprints walked towards the top of the big rock and had to turn a corner.
There's something fishy.
The footprints were very shallow, but Li Long's keen eyesight managed to spot them.
Li Long followed the footprints and walked up. The footprints circled around the big stone. When he went down, he turned into a cave - behind the big stone, there was a cave with an entrance facing the northwest. Outside the cave were shrubs. .
Li Long looked at it, then returned to the bottom of the ditch along the same path. He walked forward from the bottom of the ditch under three big rocks. After passing the big rocks, there were shrubs in front of him, and then there were rocks again.
The cave cannot be seen from the bottom of the ditch!
Hey, it’s quite hidden!
Li Long went back around to the cave. He held the gun and turned on the safety.
Bolati said that these three people were in a group, but now that the three of them are not here, who knows if someone will occupy the magpie's nest and enter the cave first.
Li Long slowly entered the cave entrance with a gun in hand, and continued walking inside after getting used to the light.
The situation here surprised him!
It looks like a simple cave from the outside, but there is nearly twenty square meters of space inside.
Three beddings are placed side by side in the innermost part, two quilts are not folded, and one is simply stacked. There were bags next to the bedding - one of them was very similar to a mountaineering backpack from later generations.
Is there such a large backpack now?
Compared with this big backpack, the homemade backpack Li Long was carrying looked very rustic.
The other two backpacks are made of canvas and look good and quite new.
There were four bags of different colors standing in the innermost corner on the right hand side of the entrance. Li Long went over and touched them and knew that they were all filled with caladiums.
Of the four bags, two are large half bags, one is half bag, and one is small half bag.
There are some tools placed against the wall next to the door.
What surprised Li Long was that these tools include those for digging caladiums, shovels, sickles, and... hoes!
It can be seen that the wooden handle of the hoe has rotted away, and only the head is left here.
It's not like what people use now.
There is a stone stove in the left corner of the entrance. There is a small steel pot on it. The pot is covered with a lid. I don't know what is inside.
Folded firewood was placed on the edge of the stove.
Li Long saw that there was no one here, so he walked over and looked through the large, high-end-looking backpack.
Li Long planned to put on this backpack. It would be great to carry it.
There are side pockets on both sides of the backpack, which can be used to store things. There are drawstrings on them. Although there are no buckles of later generations, the iron buckles of the straps can be inserted and pulled securely.
In the past, yellow schoolbags were all closed in this way.
Li Long opened the drawstring, and the first thing he saw was a few clothes. He threw the clothes on the bed in disgust, and continued to dig inside, intending to empty out the contents and put on his own things.
Underneath some clothes was a purse. Opening the wallet, there were two ten-dollar bills inside, and the rest was a pile of one-dollar bills, two-dollar bills, and fifty-cent bills.
Li Long packed up the wallet, dug down, pulled out some clothes and threw them on the bed, and then pulled out a plastic bag.
This plastic bag was hidden deep, and Li Long felt good when he touched it. When he opened it, he found that it was unorganized and contained bits and pieces of money, ranging from one and two cents to five and ten yuan.
Was this stolen?
Further down is a box of batteries and other bits and pieces.
Li Long didn't like it, so he put all these things on the bed.
After putting the contents of his backpack - mainly bullets and the like - into this backpack, Li Long also put the backpack sewn by Sister Yang into it, and then went to check the two canvas bags.
The canvas bags were basically filled with clothes. What surprised Li Long was that there were clothes wrapped in the innermost parts of these two canvas bags and some scattered money.
Li Long guessed that the three people might have different minds, so the money they obtained was kept privately.
Emptying the canvas bag, Li Long lifted up the sheets on one of them. He planned to wrap up the decent clothes and take them out. He didn't know whether Sun Jiaqiang would wear them.
At this moment, Li Long heard something moving outside. He immediately stopped what he was doing, took down the gun he was carrying and pointed it at the door.
A fox poked its head in, carrying a stinky smell.
Seeing Li Long, the fox was stunned for a moment, then turned around and ran away with a scream.
Li Long hesitated and did not shoot.
The main reason is that the meat of this thing is inedible, and it is troublesome to handle.
Still stopped fighting.
Li Long put away the gun again, then turned to pack the sheets. He was surprised to find something under the pillow in the middle.
Li Long knelt down and took a look. There were a pile of copper coins and some other things, such as small porcelain bowls.
These people even touched antiques?
Li Long opened the shop and found out about a hundred copper coins and a dozen or so small items that were relatively complete, including ancient jade, copper knives, small seals and the like.
Li Long didn't know if these things were valuable, but he found some clothes that looked pretty good, wrapped them all up and put them in his backpack.
While packing his things, Li Long occasionally looked up and saw writings engraved on the wall.
Traditional Chinese characters.
After reading and guessing, some places were a bit vague, but the final conclusion was that this place turned out to be the residence of a group of gold diggers in the mountains. They came here to pan for gold, a total of eleven people, hoping to find gold and then return to their hometown.
As for whether he found it or not, Li Long didn't know, and there was nothing written on the wall.
It's not easy to find this place. You can also find antiques nearby. It seems that these three people are not simple.
Wrapping some clothes with sheets, Li Long did not take them immediately. He first packed the mother-of-pearls into one piece and made three bags.
Just transporting these fritillaries to the jeep takes some effort.
But these things must be done.
Li Long put the two canvas bags into his big backpack, as well as the ancient coins and the like, and finally walked out with a mother-of-pearl bag in each hand.
After going back and forth for almost an hour, he finally finished moving the things - of course, Li Long didn't move the remaining bedding and clothes. He finally picked up the tools.
Li Long guessed that in two days this place would either be occupied by new people or it would become a nest for animals.
After a few flips, the trunk was full, and Li Long drove the jeep and left the area.
After the jeep left this area, the man dared to come out of the mountain forest and go to the area Li Long was looking for.
He climbed over the nearby mountains and entered the ditch with the cave.
He didn't have the observation skills as good as Li Long, so he walked along the ditch all the way. He didn't look carefully when he passed the big stone. He continued to walk forward, looking back from time to time, but he didn't find the cave.
Finally, when I reached the end of the ditch, I found nothing.
After climbing over a mountain ridge, we found a dense forest on the other side. After entering, we found no more footprints.
But there are a lot of caladiums in this forest. The man thought about it and decided to just dig caladiums here.
Li Long drove to Xiaobai Yanggou for lunch, and Lao Huang asked Xiao Sun.
"He steamed steamed buns at the wooden house. He ate them there and didn't come over at noon."
At noon, Laohuang steamed rice and fried wild vegetables and mushrooms.
Now that it's early May, there are a lot of things in the mountains, so this meal is much easier to prepare.
Lao Huang half-jokingly told Li Long that he would have to ask him to cook in the future. Li Long also half-jokingly said that Xie Yundong was in charge of this matter. If you want to continue doing this job, you must keep Brother Yundong well.
Lao Huang laughed.
After lunch, Li Long drove the jeep to the cabin. He planned to see if there was anything going on. If nothing happened, he would put the clothes in the cabin and prepare to go back.
After all, I gained a lot this time and I have to sort it out when I get back.
When he arrived at the wooden house, Li Long was surprised to find that Sun Jiaqiang was eating steamed buns in front of the wooden house. On the grass not far away, two people were sitting on the turf with bags beside them. These two people... Li Long remembered that in the first two days, a middle-aged man and a young man came to exchange things.
It was the middle-aged man who scolded the person who pried off the door, saying that this person almost ruined their guarantee for collecting medicine.
Seeing the jeep coming, Sun Jiaqiang and the two men stood up.
"Hello, comrade." The middle-aged man quickly came over with a bag, "I want to exchange some things with you."
"What to exchange for?" Li Long saw that there were almost four or five kilograms of Fritillaria in his bag and asked:
“Noodles or food?”
As he spoke, he took off the clothes wrapped in sheets on the back seat, untied them and spread them on the ground, and said to Sun Jiaqiang:
"You see what you can wear, and you keep the ones you can't wear..."
Li Long didn't think about what to do with the clothes he couldn't wear. At this moment, the young man's eyes lit up when he saw the clothes:
"How many clothes can I change into?"
"Yes." Li Long didn't expect that the other party wanted to change these clothes.
But to be honest, the clothes of these three people are indeed not bad, the style is relatively fashionable, and some are even better than the black, gray and blue clothes commonly worn by people in Shicheng, Ma County.
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"Then I want this one, and this one too." The young man quickly picked out two pairs of pants, looked at them, and then picked out another piece of clothing.
After selecting, he handed the bag next to him to Li Long:
"Look... is it enough?"
These second-hand clothes are definitely not worth the price of new clothes. Although Li Long is not a clothes seller, he and Gu Xiaoxia have both bought clothes. If these three things were new, they would cost more than fifty, but they were second-hand at the moment. Li Long weighed the bag he gave him again and saw that the Fritillaria weighed about five kilograms. He shook his head and said:
"Not enough."
Although the waste is reused, it cannot be sold too cheaply.
"Then bring me here." The middle-aged man saw that the young man really liked those three pieces of clothing, and he held up the bag and said, "Can you spare some? If you can spare some, let's exchange for two pieces of meat."
"Okay." Li Long asked Sun Jiaqiang to get two pieces of dried meat for him.
If you really want to talk about it, this fritillary is not enough, but it is just picked up clothes anyway, so Li Long doesn't care.
The middle-aged man took advantage of Sun Jiaqiang to take the meat and quietly said to Li Long:
"I know you two colleagues, so I don't want to trade with him, so I'll keep you in mind. From now on, when I bring Fritillaria, I'll trade with you..."
Li Long was a little dumbfounded, but he couldn't explain anything. He lived up to others' good intentions.
The two people took the things, and they knew they had taken advantage of them. They thanked Li Long properly, left Fritillaria and left.
Li Long also listened to the young man saying to the middle-aged man as he walked:
"Uncle, I picked these pants for you. They are jeans, but they are strong. Even though they are tight, they are not easy to wear out. Your pants have been torn several times and cannot be repaired..."
After the two people left, Sun Jiaqiang pointed to his clothes and said:
"What to do?"
"What else can I do? You pick one set, and if someone wants to change the rest, just change them." Li Long said.
This pack of bedsheets contained seven or eight sets of clothes, both thick and thin. The young man picked out three pieces, and there were quite a few left.
Sun Jiaqiang didn't mind either. He found something that almost fit him, took a thick coat and a pair of jeans and put them away with a smile.
After putting away the clothes, he said to Li Long:
"These two people are very stubborn. They insist on changing with you. I want to change. I said that you and I are together and that I work for you, but he doesn't believe it."
Li Long smiled and didn't reply.
In fact, he doesn't care much about this, but since those medicine diggers do, he should stay here for a while when he has nothing to do.
Anyway, the bulk ended up in his pocket.
In your last life, didn’t you hear that some stores were competing against each other and selling the same thing, and they were competing with each other to cut prices to grab customers, only to find out in the end that they had the same owner? You can also do it yourself.
In less than three hours in the afternoon, four groups of people came to change things. Three groups found Li Long directly, and the remaining group went to see Sun Jiaqiang after seeing Li Long washing the mother-of-pearl.
"Brother Long," Sun Jiaqiang jokingly called Li Long the same as Tao Daqiang, "People recognize you but not me."
"Take your time." Li Long washed all the caladiums and collected about a hundred kilograms of caladiums today. Sun Jiaqiang collected about twenty kilograms, which means he earned about ten yuan a day.
Not as much as before.
What Li Long collected naturally belongs to Li Long, and he would not be so kind. If others come to him specifically to exchange things, he will blame Sun Jiaqiang.
Sun Jiaqiang took a set of clothes of considerable value and had nothing else to say.
Seeing that the sun was still a pole high, Li Long drove the jeep back. When he was about to leave the mountain pass, he met Bolati.
Li Long got off the car and saw that Bolati was staggering and smelling of alcohol. When he saw Li Long, he dismounted and greeted Li Long.
"Li Long, please don't tell others about those three people. Let's just forget about it." Polati was still quite sober, so Li Long turned back to the jeep and took the three people he had collected from the cave. A small bag of money was given to Polati:
"Here's the money you found there, take it."
"Is there any money there?" Polati was a little surprised, "They didn't say anything."
"Yes, I found it. But, after today I won't admit it." Li Long was also half-joking, "There are some caladiums in there, so I took them away."
"Okay, okay." Polati opened the plastic bag, looked at the colorful banknotes inside, looked at Li Long, and said seriously:
"Li Long, you are such a friend!"
"Haha," Li Long smiled, patted him and said, "I'm leaving first, going back to dry the fritillaries."
"Okay." Polati said nothing more and waved to Li Long.
When Li Long drove his jeep back to the county, he just happened to pick up Gu Xiaoxia.
The time card is just right.
After taking Gu Xiaoxia back to the big yard and helping her sit down in the yard, Li Long began to lift the things in the trunk, especially the fritillaries.
The Fritillaria in the wing could no longer be spread out, so Li Long had to clear out two more rooms to hold the Fritillaria.
The caladium he brought back at the beginning has been dried. He plans to go to the purchasing station tomorrow to sell some of the dried caladium before going to the mountains.
May is a harvest season.
Gu Xiaoxia sat on the cotton chair specially made for her by Li Long and watched her husband busy. It is said to be specially made, mainly because the backrest and seat of the wooden chair are covered with cotton cushions.
Then the legs of the chair are inlaid with the same bent wood as the rocking chair, but it is not as long as the bent wood of the rocking chair. There are clips at both ends, so it can rock slightly without worrying about it falling over.
This chair was very comfortable for Gu Xiaoxia to sit on. She would sit on it and rock around every day when she came back.
After Li Long took down all the fritillaries and spread them out in the wing, he went to empty the three backpacks together and took a large washing basin to soak them in.
Be prepared to give it a good scrubbing and dry it overnight before carrying it again tomorrow.
"Where did this backpack come from? It looks so high-end?" Gu Boyuan, who entered the yard, looked at Li Long playing with the backpack, took a closer look, and asked.
"You got it from the mountains." Li Long responded, "It's from the people who dig medicine in the mountains."
"Can you carry this backpack and run into the mountains to dig for medicine?" Gu Boyuan was a little confused and didn't quite believe it.
Li Long didn't want to get into this topic, so he went to the jeep, took out the pile of antiques and spread them on the ground for Gu Boyuan to look at.
Sure enough, Gu Boyuan put aside the backpack and studied the antiques.
"This...copper coins are easy to see, but these things are not easy to see. This small copper seal is a bit interesting." Gu Boyuan identified them one by one.
At this time, Sister Yang called for dinner. When Gu Xiaoxia was about to stand up, she said to Gu Boyuan:
"Dad, if you take those things, wash your hands quickly. There is a lot of rust on those things and they are not clean."
Gu Boyuan was quite obedient, put down his things, washed his hands, and then sat at the dining table. When Li Long sat down, he asked where these things came from.
Li Longshun said that those people exchanged things for it.
He thought that Gu Boyuan should know more, so he asked about Sheng Shicai's treasure.
"It is said that there has been such a thing. I have also heard from the elders in the village. But I came late and have not studied this matter." Gu Boyuan said while eating, "I also heard that when they were escaping, a truck overturned. In Wucheng, the wooden box on the car broke open, and what came out was all silver dollars.”
"How much does it cost to load silver coins in a truck?" Sister Yang asked in surprise, "How rich are those people!"
"The wealth of those people is beyond our imagination." Gu Boyuan shook his head and said.
This reminded Li Long of a reply in a cross talk in his previous life.
Quite a sense of joy. (End of chapter)