The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 1249: Treasure hidden under the treasure?

In those days, most families did not have scales. Only a few businesses in the whole village, such as small stores, large pancake shops, and tofu shops, had scales.

The plate scale of the Zhao family was Wang Meilan’s dowry.

When Zhao Youcai and Wang Meilan got married, the Wang family no longer had anything decent, but Zhao Jun's grandmother and Wang Qiang gave all the remaining property in the house to Wang Meilan as a gift.

All thirty-four small goldfish were placed on the plate. Wang Meilan moved the weight, and the family of three looked over to see how they were counted.

These 30 small goldfish weigh a total of pounds. These are small goldfish from the Republic of China, each weighing about grams.

Then there were forty small gold ingots, with a total weight of two pounds and two ounces, and each one was lighter than a small goldfish.

As for the forty-eight gold brocades, excluding the one given to Zhao Youcai, the other forty-seven together weighed more than three catties, less than three catties and one ounce.

None of these gold engravings were light, and the smallest ones were larger than those bought by Wang Meilan.

And the total value of all this gold, based on the current gold price, is about 200,000.

"Mom." At this time, Zhao Jun suggested to Wang Meilan, "Why don't you wait until my uncle comes tomorrow, and you two sisters can discuss it, and then we can talk about how to divide these things."

Zhao Jun thought that family ties should not be hurt because of money, and Zhao Jun didn't care about the two amounts of money.

"Okay, son." Wang Meilan smiled and said, "Mom listens to you."

After saying that, Wang Meilan looked at Zhao Youcai again.

Zhao Youcai pulled the corner of his mouth and said unhappily, "You and your mother have already settled down, why are you still looking at me?"

Hearing what Zhao Youcai said, Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan smiled at each other. Wang Meilan gestured to Zhao Youcai and said, "Son, you should be like your father. Renyi!"

"Hmm?" Wang Meilan said nice things, but Zhao Youcai felt uncomfortable listening to them, as if she was scolding him.

Zhao Jun smiled faintly, and at this time Wang Meilan remembered something and said to Zhao Jun: "Son, Mom has something to tell you."

"Tell me, Mom." Zhao Jun asked, "What's the matter?"

"Someone came to our house today." Wang Meilan said, "They are a man and a woman from Lingnan. They say they are relatives of Huang Gui's family and they want you to go to their place and fight with them."

"Ah, what did you say, Mom?" Zhao Jun asked. Wang Meilan told the truth, "Mom lied. I said you didn't go home. Um... I didn't want you to go."

"Then don't go." Zhao Jun was slightly startled, then smiled and said, "Mom, what am I thinking about? I don't really want to go, so it's just right not to go."

"Yeah!" Hearing what Zhao Jun said, Wang Meilan smiled and nodded heavily.

At this time, Zhao Jun asked, "Mom, are they going back just like that?"

"I invited them to dinner." Wang Meilan said apologetically, "I felt bad for making them come here for nothing. After that, I spent ten yuan to buy them two pairs of jasmine and four kilograms of dry food."

After saying this, Wang Meilan asked Zhao Jun, "Is it okay for Mom to do this?"

"That's great, Mom!" Zhao Jun coaxed and praised Wang Meilan, saying, "My mom is always generous in her work."

As he spoke, Zhao Jun looked at Zhao Youcai and asked, "Is that right, Dad?"

"Yeah, yeah!" Zhao Youcai, who was dragged into the water, nodded repeatedly. Seeing Wang Meilan looking at him, Zhao Youcai reached out and took off the big gold bracelet that Wang Meilan had given him, and then put it on the kang table.

"Huh?" Wang Meilan looked at Zhao Youcai in surprise and asked, "What are you doing? Here you go."

"I don't want it." Zhao Youcai smiled and said, "I only have the one you bought for me."

When Zhao Youcai said this, Zhao Jun and Wang Meilan looked at him with strange eyes.

Zhao Youcai is a rather strange person. He can steal wild boars shot by others, but he can also lend money to others for medical treatment. He can haggle over two or three cents, but he can also be generous to his brothers. Otherwise, Li Dayong and Zhang Lifeu would not be so obedient to him.

But Zhao Youcai's current behavior was not in line with his character. According to Zhao Jun's understanding of him, if Zhao Youcai really didn't want it, it would be normal for him to throw the gold plate on the table and say "I don't want this J8 thing".

And when he looks harmless, it turns out that this old guy is going to cause trouble.

Zhao Jun knew everything, and Wang Meilan knew it even better. Seeing the mother and daughter looking at him, Zhao Youcai waved his hand and said, "You two clean up here. You've been tired all day. Go to sleep."

"Ah..." Upon hearing this, Wang Meilan hurriedly took the leather bag that contained the gold studs and put the gold studs in here again.

Silver dollars, small goldfish, gold ingots and the like were put in separate cloth bags.

After everything was packed, Wang Meilan returned to the east room carrying two triangular bags. Zhao Jun poured water to scald his feet, and before getting into bed, he glanced at the pinewood box on the floor.

He suddenly froze.

Zhao Jun made a rough calculation in his mind. Although the things he found today were valuable, it might not be possible for the Pang family to use them to buy a whole building.

Zhao Jun turned off the light and lay down, still thinking: "Could it be that those two hat boxes are valuable?"

The gold price was there, and the gold was just like that. So the only thing Zhao Jun could think of was the two hat boxes.

Zhao Jun knew nothing about antiques, but in his previous life he had heard people say that some bottles and jars were worth hundreds of millions.

Just as Zhao Jun was daydreaming, the couple in the east room were lying on the kang and chatting in low voices.

"Hey?" Wang Meilan said to Zhao Youcai, "You guys did a great job hunting those three roe deer. Otherwise, everyone would ask you what you did all day."

"Really?" Zhao Youcai said with a smile, "I was the one who beat those three."

"You killed all of them?" Wang Meilan didn't think much about it. Zhao Youcai could knock down eleven wild boars in one breath, so what were three roe deer?
But Zhao Youcai immediately added: "I just fired one shot."

"Ah?" Although Wang Meilan did not hunt, she had shot a gun, or in other words, in that era when everyone was a soldier, women had participated in militia target shooting.

Wang Meilan felt that it was impossible to kill three roe deer with one shot, but the certainty in Zhao Youcai's tone made Wang Meilan believe it a little more.

Even if you don't believe it, Wang Meilan also said with admiration, "My old man is still the best. None of them can do it!"

"Ah!" Unexpectedly, Zhao Youcai, who was praised, sighed and said, "You old man are so frustrated!"

"Frustrated?" Wang Meilan was stunned, and quickly patted Zhao Youcai on the back and said, "How can you still feel aggrieved?"

As she was talking, Wang Meilan suddenly thought of something, and said to Zhao Youcai, "If you spend more this month, I'll leave you 20 yuan, okay? Don't feel bad about it!"

"That's fine." Zhao Youcai agreed to increase his pocket money, but then he said, "But... Oh no!"

Wang Meilan was a straightforward person and couldn't stand this kind of hesitation, so she asked, "Don't make such a noise, just tell me what's wrong."

"Lan, haven't you heard?" Zhao Youcai said with grievance: "Now everyone in the village looks down on me and calls me a bull-slaughtering cannon."

Hearing Zhao Youcai talking about this, Wang Meilan twitched her lips and said, "What can we do? It was you who really beat the old cow."

After Wang Meilan said this, Zhao Youcai was speechless. He was silent for about three or four seconds before he said, "I want to find an opportunity to save my face."

Wang Meilan frowned when she heard this and asked, "What do you mean?"

"I want to go to Lingnan." Zhao Youcai said, "I want to knock on that big claw."

After hearing what he said, Wang Meilan fell silent.

Zhao Youcai knew this was his only chance, so he said, "Lan, this day has been so frustrating. How could your old man have lost such a big person before?"

What Zhao Youcai said was true, but Wang Meilan said, "Then you say, I won't let our son go, so you..."

"Our son is not such a grown-up." Zhao Youcai muttered quietly, "That little kid is good at everything he does. I can't even keep up with him."

This was the second time Zhao Youcai showed his vulnerable side in front of Wang Meilan. The last time was when he asked Wang Meilan for money to compensate for the big blue snake.

In the past, even when his small treasury was confiscated and his cotton-padded jacket and trousers were taken apart, Zhao Youcai remained silent and looked stubborn.

Seeing him like this, Wang Meilan felt distressed. She smacked her lips and said, "Then I'll let my son go with you."

After saying this, Wang Meilan regretted it. She lied to the Song family father and son and sent them away today because she didn't want Zhao Jun to get involved in this mess. But the result was that the father and son went together this time.

But what Wang Meilan didn't expect was that Zhao Youcai actually refused.

"Lan, don't let your son go with me." Zhao Youcai said, "My marksmanship is much better than his, so I don't need him."

"That's not a matter of whether you're good at shooting or not." Wang Meilan said, "You two can go together, so can't you take care of each other?"

Wang Meilan had no idea that her old man called himself Zhao Erdong in front of the Song family father and son. If Zhao Jun went, how would Zhao Youcai deal with this panic? If Zhao Jun cooperated with him, Zhao Youcai would feel that he had lost face in front of his son.

At this time, Zhao Youcai asked Wang Meilan, "Can I take Qiangzi with me?"

Even though Wang Qiang always criticizes Zhao Youcai, he listens to Zhao Youcai more than Zhao Jun does.

"Oh!" Wang Meilan sighed and said, "Go ahead. I'll feel relieved if the three of you go."

"Let your son go to work." Zhao Youcai said, "How long has he been hanging around at home? The specimens have been tested, and if he doesn't go to work, won't his colleagues at work be dissatisfied?"

"That's true." Wang Meilan nodded slightly, and then said: "Let's do this. Let my son call Lingnan tomorrow. If you want to go there, you have to communicate in advance, right? After that, you have to make arrangements there, and then you and Qiangzi can go there."

When you go to Lingnan, you need someone to receive you, and you need to arrange food and accommodation. That’s why Wang Meilan said that she would go there after everything was arranged.

But what if it’s not arranged?
Wang Meilan had made up her mind, no one would let anyone go! Her family had plenty of money, why would she bother with that?

"Oh, Lan!" Zhao Youcai seemed very surprised to hear Wang Meilan say that. He stretched out his arms from the quilt, hugged Wang Meilan, and said, "You agree, right?"

"Ah!" Seeing Zhao Youcai so happy, Wang Meilan smiled and said, "I agree, okay? Go to bed quickly, you still have to go to work tomorrow."

"Yeah!" Zhao Youcai responded, and the couple fell asleep within two minutes.

At this time, Zhao Jun was in a state of half-sleep. He was thinking about what happened that day, and when he was about to fall asleep, a scene suddenly flashed through his mind.

Xing San pointed at the pinewood box in the treasure cellar and said, "With such a big rock pressing on it, why doesn't it sink?"

The old man's words sounded like they were whispering in his ears, and Zhao Jun suddenly woke up.

"Then... there can't be something else underneath, right?" Zhao Jun thought so, and the more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jun couldn't sleep.

……

The next day, December 1988, 1.

Zhao Jun, who suffered from insomnia last night, didn't get up until almost six o'clock.

When he came out of the inner room, Wang Meilan was putting buns into the pot.

Wang Meilan chopped the stuffing yesterday and made the buns this morning.

"Mom." Zhao Jun came out of the house and asked Wang Meilan, "Where's my dad?"

"Your dad is outside feeding the dog." Wang Meilan had noodles in her hand and only glanced out the window. Then she smiled and said, "It's been a very positive day."

Then, Wang Meilan called Zhao Jun to her side, told him that Zhao Youcai was going to Lingnan to hunt tigers, and asked Zhao Jun to stop this.

Zhao Jun agreed without thinking. He felt that Zhao Youcai had been in bad luck recently, so it would be better not to bother him.

"Mom." At this time, Zhao Jun asked Wang Meilan, "Did we pick all those three roe deer yesterday?"

"No." Wang Meilan said, "Take two and keep one. If Baoyu doesn't want it, give it to his family. We can't even eat these two."

At this point, Wang Meilan seemed to have noticed something, so she asked Zhao Jun: "Why, son, do you want the whole roe deer?"

"Yes." Zhao Jun said, "I want to ask our team leader for a few more days off. I'm thinking of giving him a roe deer later."

"Then you can give it to Baoyu's family." Wang Meilan said with a smile, "I'll give it to them when I'm done."

"Okay." Zhao Jun responded and walked out of the house. As soon as he went out, he saw Qing Lao Hu standing upright in front of its doghouse.

The other dogs were all eating, but this old dog was just looking to the west.

Zhao Jun followed his gaze to the west and saw Zhao Youcai and Li Dayong, who were whispering across the wall.

"I'll go to work and ask for leave later, and then I'll leave." Zhao Youcai said, "Anyway, your sister-in-law has agreed."

Zhao Youcai knew that Zhao Jun was on Wang Meilan's side, so it was probably impossible for him to ask Zhao Jun to help him go to Lingnan.

But Wang Meilan and Zhao Jun didn't know that Zhao Youcai had already established contact with Song Xiangchen, and that someone would receive them when they went there.

"Brother, I'll take a leave and go with you." Li Dayong said, "Big Claw is not like other animals. I'm worried if you go alone."

Hearing Li Dayong's words, Zhao Youcai looked at him deeply. To be honest, Zhao Youcai also wanted to take Li Dayong with him.

Of course, with Zhao Baotou's confidence in his marksmanship, he didn't think the big claws could hurt him, but he needed a companion.

But Zhao Youcai also knew that Li Dayong was too busy at work, and if he asked for leave, it would affect his work.

So Zhao Youcai shook his head and said, "Brother, no need, you should go to work when you need to, I am fine too."

As he spoke, Zhao Youcai pointed to Li's house and said, "When you're done, go back to your room and secretly take out the barreled gun for me."

(End of this chapter)