The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 1224 Treasure Hunt Plan
After seeing Zhao Weipeng off, Zhao Jun went back to the house and got two pairs of leggings, and gave one to Xing San.

They will also set out soon to go up the mountain to hunt the lynx.

While putting on his leggings, Zhao Jun suddenly remembered the topic they had talked about halfway yesterday, and asked Xing San hurriedly, "Uncle San, we didn't finish talking about that yesterday. That... Mr. Zheng, how did he know that there was a sign opposite the treasure cellar?"

"How did he know that..." Xing San turned around and was about to start talking to Zhao Jun when Wang Meilan appeared at the door.

One morning, when Zhao Youcai came back from changing the tofu pudding, he secretly gave a brief report to Wang Meilan.

When Wang Meilan heard that there were new clues about the treasure left by her father, she felt as light as if she was stepping on cotton. She felt very anxious and wanted to find out the whole thing.

Now that Zhao Weipeng is gone, the two little girls and Li Xiaoqiao went to Zhang Yuanmin's house to look for Xiao Lingdang. Since there was no outsider at home, Wang Meilan went to the west room to find out what was going on.

As soon as she arrived at the door, Wang Meilan happened to hear Zhao Jun say the three words "treasure cellar", and Wang Meilan's eyes lit up instantly.

At this time, Zhao Youcai also slipped in.

Xing San noticed them, but Wang Meilan and Zhao Youcai were not strangers, so Xing San would not hide it from them. He said directly, "Old Zheng also went to the mountains a few years ago."

"Really?" Zhao Jun was startled and asked in surprise, "Isn't he a technician at the mountain field?"

"That happened later." Xing San said, "He is about the same age as me. Before I went up the mountain, I stayed at home with your third aunt, and we took care of her. As for this old man, he left the mountain at that time. What did he do? He dug up otters and sold their skins."

At this point, Xing San looked at Zhao Youcai and asked, "Is that right, brother? Am I right?"

Zhao Youcai blinked twice before saying, "Brother, now that you mention it, I seem to remember that my father used to grumble about it but I never saw him in the mountains."

Hearing this, Xing San gestured to Wang Meilan and said, "He gave all the otter skins to your family."

At that time, the Wang family monopolized the mountain product trade in the surrounding villages, so Wang Meilan wanted to collect mountain products, which could be said to be the daughter following in her father's footsteps.

"Yesterday I stayed at my nephew's house and wandered around until noon." Xing San recounted his experience yesterday, saying, "I went to buy two pieces of dry food and happened to run into him buying cigarettes. We chatted and talked about the past experiences in the mountains. He said that he always ran into Hu Zi in the past. I thought I'd ask him if I could find out something. Guess what he said after that?"

This old man is quite good at keeping people in suspense. The six eyes of Zhao Jun's family of three were all fixed on Xing San, and they asked in unison, "What did he say?"

"He said that one year, he was setting traps by a river in the mountains, and he saw Widow Wang peeling a piece of bark off a big red pine tree not far away." Xing San said, "He didn't dare to show his head, he just hid there. After that, he waited until Widow Wang left before he dared to go over.

After that, he saw the sign and thought it was Widow Wang and the others carrying the club. But he was not a member of the gang and would not let anyone in, so he did not take it seriously. Many years later, he and that person..."

At this point, Xing San raised his hand and pointed at Zhao Youcai, saying, "Don't you know about Old Niu Huzi?"

"Oh, I know." Zhao Youcai nodded and said, "Isn't that old Hu Zi dead?"

The Niu Huzi they were talking about was an old bandit who was the king of Erguokui Mountain, also known as Huzitou.

After the liberation of Northeast China, many of Niu Huzi's men died, fled, or were injured. Niu Huzi, who was left alone, retired from the underworld and lived in seclusion in a mountain village, but he was beaten to death in 67.

"Yeah." Xing San nodded slightly and said, "Old Zheng can't remember which year it was, but it was 62 or 63. When they met, they were just chatting, and Old Zheng mentioned it casually, and Niu Huzi said it was a treasure cellar."

As he spoke, Xing San slapped his thigh and said, "They all have their beards done like this. After that, the one with the cow beard will go to Old Zheng and let Old Zheng take him away."

"Have they gone?" Wang Meilan asked. Zhao Jun and Zhao Youcai were also a little anxious, eagerly waiting for Xing San's answer.

Zhao Jun's grandfather always said: Where there are mountains, there is water.

There are streams and rivers in the mountains, and during the rainy season, ditches and ponds accumulate water to form rivers.

When mountain hikers set traps, they have to mark them all over the mountain. But after many years, they certainly can't remember where they set the traps on a certain day or month.

But if the Zhao family father and son put themselves in their shoes, they knew that Zheng Xueyan would definitely be able to find the place where the trap was set. Because the door frame of Widow Wang was across the street, he could just follow the water source across from the door frame of Widow Wang.

Zhao Jun and Zhao Youcai had been to that place and found that there was indeed water. Zhao Jun saw that the tree with the old omen carved on it was also not far from the river bank.

"They didn't find it!" Xing San said mysteriously to Zhao Jun's family, "They went there more than ten times, looking along both sides of the river, but they couldn't find it."

"What happened next?" Wang Meilan asked. She was a little anxious at this moment. How upset would she be if her treasure was taken away by someone else?

"He said he never found it later." Xing San looked at Zhao Jun and said, "I don't think he was lying to me."

"Yeah!" Zhao Jun nodded in agreement. According to his guess, the person who took the treasure should be Blind Pang, which means that Zheng Xueyan and Niu Huzi were not found, which means that the treasure is still there.

"You haven't found it in all these years?" Zhao Youcai was a little unconvinced, but Xing San tilted his head slightly and said, "I don't think you have found it."

At this point, Xing San paused for a moment before continuing, "If he finds it, he can't tell me."

Hearing Xing San say this, the three members of the Zhao family agreed with him in their hearts, but Zhao Youcai said suspiciously: "There are so many treasures, and after all these years, how could he not look for them? If it were me, if I couldn't find it in one day, I would go every day! I would dig three feet underground to find it."

Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan believed this and believed that Zhao Youcai could do it.

But Xing San looked at Zhao Youcai and said, "Brother, I feel that this person is like a club. If an unlucky person passes by him, he won't even notice him."

There is a saying among mountain hikers and mountain herding experts that wild ginseng is something that people without good fortune cannot even see.

Even in July and August, this ginseng has a red hammer on top, a little red in the green bush. It is so conspicuous that some people walk in front of the ginseng and they just can't see it.

This is not because of red and green color blindness. After Zhao Jun returned to his hometown in poverty in his previous life, he had thought about turning his life around.

But when they went up the mountain together, he walked in front and his companions followed behind. As soon as Zhao Jun walked over, his companions behind him shouted, which frightened him.

Zhao Jun was not color blind, but he couldn't see the treasure when he went up the mountain.

"You can't be prepared!" Wang Meilan finally smiled when she heard what Xing San said. Then she glanced at Zhao Jun and said, "My son is so lucky!"

"Of course not. What else is there to say?" Xing San raised his hand and pointed at Zhao Jun, and said to Wang Meilan, "He has found the sign."

"Ah?" Wang Meilan was overjoyed when she heard this. When Zhao Youcai reported, he said that Zhao Jun and Xing San knew the whereabouts of the treasure. After hearing Xing San's words just now, Wang Meilan thought that she only knew the clues, but she didn't expect that her son had already found the treasure.

"Son!" Wang Meilan asked Zhao Jun, "Where did you find it? When did you find it?"

Zhao Jun has not gone up the mountain alone recently, and he always went hunting. So when did he go to look for treasure?
Zhao Youcai was also curious, but at this moment, Zhao Jun looked at him and smiled, saying, "It was that time, before my dad squinted his eyes, I saw a tree like that nearby."

When Zhao Jun said this, he emphasized the pronunciation of the word "眯". But Wang Meilan and Xing San didn't hear it, they thought Zhao Jun was talking about "密棒锤".

When releasing the seedlings, they would find a place to bury them in the soil. After ten or twenty years, when the seedlings have enough medicinal value, they would be taken out. This is called "Mi" in the release of the seeds, and the "Mi" mentioned by Zhao Jun means "secretly swallowing".

Wang Meilan and Xing San didn't understand what was said, but Zhao Youcai did. However, he looked up and glared at Zhao Jun without blushing.

Zhao Jun curled his lips slightly, and then heard Wang Meilan ask him: "Son, when are we going to find those things? They are all left by your grandmother!"

"Hey? Sister-in-law!" Suddenly, Xing San stopped Wang Meilan, and the old man said, "I guess if no one touches the treasure cellar, there will be more than just the things left by Wang Daba Zhang."

"Ah?" The three members of the Zhao family were startled when they heard this, and then they heard Xing San continue to say: "During the years that Widow Wang was in trouble, how could he not have some good stuff in his hands?"

When Xing San said this, Zhao Jun, Wang Meilan, and Zhao Youcai's eyes all lit up. Wang Meilan even asked Xing San, "Brother, what do you think is in there?"

"How would I know?" Xing San said with a smile, "But if he wants to hide it, it must be something valuable."

At this point, Xing San shook his head and said, "But if we go now, it will be difficult to prepare things."

As he spoke, Xing San pointed his hand at the ground and said, "The ground is frozen, we have to dig it with a pickaxe!"

"Take it!" Wang Meilan waved her hand and said, "If you don't know, then it's just like that. Now that I know, I can't wait for the first day. Well... I'll go to the blacksmith's furnace later and get a few more pickaxes. New pickaxes can dig faster."

"Mom, no need." Zhao Jun said, "We have them all here. We can just grind them with stones."

"That's all right." Wang Meilan didn't care about the money and just asked Zhao Jun, "Son, when are you going?"

"Not today, Mom." Zhao Jun said, "I've already made an agreement with Xiaochen and my elder brother Jie that we have to go hunt the lynx today."

"What about you tomorrow?" Zhao Youcai interrupted and asked Zhao Jun, "If you want to go tomorrow, I will take another day off tomorrow."

"No, Dad." Zhao Jun rejected Zhao Youcai and said, "I'll go on the 31st."

"31st?" Zhao Youcai stared, "Isn't there going to be a meeting on that day?"

There was a big meeting and a dinner at the venue, and as the chef he definitely couldn't take a leave.

"I won't follow." Zhao Jun said with a smile: "I'll go on stage to receive the certificate, then I'll sneak away!"

　The book is about to enter the year 88, and will soon be carrying treasures and catching tigers.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)