sinovels Chapter 1427: Ill-gotten Wealth and Righteousness
Chapter 1427: Ill-gotten Wealth and Righteousness
Chapter 1427: Ill-gotten Wealth and Righteousness
The copper box was very thin, and inside it was a smaller square gold ingot.
Wang Qiang and Xing San thought it was a gold nugget, but when Wang Qiang took it out, he found out it was a gold box.
When Wang Qiang took out the golden box, he felt as if something was shaking inside.
"Brother." Wang Qiang handed the golden box to Xing San. Xing San took it in his hand and shook it gently, feeling something like sand inside.
Xing San waved his hand at Wang Qiang, and the two of them returned to the two white girl trees. Xing San sat on the box containing explosives, and Wang Qiang sat on the other one, which was the box containing detonators.
Xing San pulled out a knife from his waist, tapped the handle on the lid twice, then knocked it twice on each of the four sides, and finally tried to open the lid.
The lid was snapped on and fastened very tightly, but the old man had strong hands and was very steady.
When the lid was opened, Wang Qiang saw what was inside and couldn't help but frown and said, "What is this? Gold sand?"
There was golden powder in there, and the strange thing was that some of the powder was particles that sparkled with golden stars.
Xing San didn't say anything. He used the tip of the knife to gently move the gold powder, revealing a yellowish-white substance underneath that looked like hard plastic.
Xing San and Wang Qiang are both familiar with this thing, it is dried bear bile skin.
"Fuck!" Xing San cursed in surprise and said, "This is golden bear gall!"
"Ouch!" Wang Qiang slapped his thigh and said, "I remember now. My Aunt Jiang mentioned it before."
The Aunt Jiang Wang Qiang mentioned was the old lady. Xing San hurriedly asked, "What did she say?"
"She said that year Blind Yang killed a golden courage." Wang Qiang said: "After that, she sold it to my father for eighty silver dollars."
"That's it," Xing San said, closing the lid of the box. It was windy in the mountains, and if the bear bile powder was blown away, it would be a waste of effort.
"Yeah!" Wang Qiang nodded and said, "Look at the skin of the gallbladder is broken, it must have been scratched with powder."
"Give it to whoever you want to use it for." Xing San handed the golden box to Wang Qiang and said, "Put it in your pocket and don't lose it."
Wang Qiang responded, put away the gold box, and then said to Xing San: "Brother, how much is that eighty silver dollars from the other day worth now?"
"Oh..." Xing San frowned and muttered, "The boss who drove your horse the other day was paid one dollar a month, which is equivalent to... about thirty dollars now."
"Thirty... thirty eight is twenty four..." Wang Qiang calculated and said, "Then it's two thousand four."
"Yeah, it's about the same." Xing San said, and then he heard Wang Qiang say, "This gallbladder should be worth more than that now. Last time, the Zhengs came to buy it, what price did they offer for the copper gallbladder?"
"I heard from your sister that there is another golden gallbladder at home." After Xing Sankou finished speaking, Wang Qiang said, "Well, my eldest nephew took the golden gallbladder that my brother-in-law killed and said it could be sold for tens of thousands."
"I'm also selling the big one for my family this time." Xing San pointed at Wang Qiang's pocket and said, "This one is torn, you can keep it if you want."
After saying this, Xing San said: "The kid didn't tell me when he left. If he had told me, I would have let him sell the big one."
After hearing what Xing San said, Wang Qiang said, "My eldest nephew said that bear bile is very effective in detoxifying. It's a good thing, we can keep it for ourselves."
"No, Qiangzi." Xing San took out the stone from Wang Meilan's pocket, took out one and put it in his mouth, then took out the second one and gave it to Wang Qiang, and then said, "After killing the big black blind, the boy came to my place the next day.
I remember that the big golden gallbladder belonged to three families, and the small one was ours. If we kept the big one and sold it to the small one, the other two families wouldn't get any money. Would they be happy if they had to watch us make money?"
Wang Qiang was startled when he heard this. He took a long puff of cigarette, exhaled the smoke, and said, "No way, brother. The bear gall was killed by Xiaojun, Yuanmin, and Xiaochen. Can they talk to my nephew?"
"Hunting is not for ill-gotten gains, and troubles come from that." Xing San exhaled a cigarette and said, "How many good brothers, like one person, would go hunting together and end up falling out?"
Xing San pointed to the South Mountain and said, "They have a guy called Hu Dahai. He used to be in partnership with that Yongli Lao Songpao. They each had an old foreign cannon. You had one cannon, I had one cannon. How many black bears could they kill? Whatever they killed, they would share it equally. In the end, didn't they break up?"
The older generation often said that the money earned from hunting is ill-gotten gains and will not make you rich.
Even if you make money now, it will be lost over time due to various reasons.
Another characteristic of hunting is that it is easy for buddies to quarrel with each other.
It is said that relatives and friends cannot do business together, and the same applies to hunting.
Apart from the factor of money, there are also factors such as competitiveness and jealousy.
The Hu Dahai that Xing San mentioned was Zhao Jun’s master in his previous life, and Yongli’s old Song Cannon, Song Jingui, was also the number one figure in Shibadaogangzi back then.
They both hunted dogs in their early years. At that time, a family could not raise too many dogs. Hu Dahai had two dogs and Song Jingui had two dogs, so the two of them formed a dog gang.
When Hu Dahai first went up the mountain, it was Song Jingui who led him. Later, Song Jingui's head dog was killed by Pao Luanzi, and when he was trying to drag the dogs again, Hu Dahai's dog was the leader of the two dogs.
This situation lasted for more than two years. As Hu Dahai's lead dog grew old, Song Jingui's dog took over the lead in the dog gang.
And at that time, Song Jingui already had four hunting dogs under his command.
From then on, Song Jingui was the leader of the hunting gang of these two people. In the past, the two of them would discuss things, but later Song Jingui would make the final decision.
But this did not affect their cooperation until one day, wild boars broke into the corn field of Hu Dahai's eldest sister's family, and Hu Dahai went to Song Jingui's house to lead the dog to protect the farmers.
When Hu Dahai arrived at Song's house, he found that Song Jingui's dog was not at home. When Hu Dahai asked, Song Jingui said that he had lent the dog to his brother-in-law.
Hu Dahai asked when the dog would come back, and Song Jingui said three days. Three days and three days passed, and the dog still didn't come back after more than ten days. Finally, Song Jingui went to his brother-in-law's house to hunt.
From then on, Hu Dahai felt a knot in his heart. Within two months, the hunting gangs of Hu and Song broke up.
At that time, hunting relied on old foreign cannons, which were very troublesome to load with ammunition and could only hit the prey once.
But when Hu and Song cooperated, it was amazing, especially when they were hunting bears, with Hu Dahai in front and Song Jingui behind.
Hu Dahai fired a shot. If he failed to kill the bear, the bear would rush towards Hu Dahai with the gun in its head, and Hu Dahai would run towards Song Jingui.
When they reached the tree where Song Jingui was hiding, Hu Dahai went around to the back, and the bear following behind would definitely be hit by Song Jingui's bullet.
The two of them cooperated very well, so they killed many bears and made a lot of money. That's why Hu Dahai was able to raise four sons in wealth, and Song Jingui's family could afford to feed four hunting dogs.
But after that breakup, neither of them was doing well. Hu Dahai found it difficult to make money, and Song Jingui even lost half of his arm during a bear hunt.
In Zhao Jun's previous life, Hu Dahai had talked about this matter with Zhao Jun.
Hu Dahai said that he was unhappy at first, not because of the dogs, but because he felt that Song Jingui thought he was good enough and no longer took him seriously, forgetting how Hu Dahai helped him to drag the four dogs for two years.
But when he told Zhao Jun about this, Hu Dahai regretted it, so he told Zhao Jun that when going up the mountain to hunt, people must be united and horses must work together, and there must be no rifts between companions.
Zhao Jun, who had just entered the industry at that time, asked Hu Dahai, when Song Jingui helped him, Hu Dahai, to drag the dogs, and when Hu Dahai helped Song Jingui to drag the dogs, if the prey was distributed according to the mountain rules, and the person who owned the lead dog got a larger share of the spoils, would the two people not have broken up?
But Hu Dahai told Zhao Jun that the two of them could break up faster that way.
If Song Jingui had taken an extra piece of the spoils when he helped Hu Dahai haul the dogs at the beginning, then as soon as Song Jingui's leader dog died, Hu Dahai would have directly disbanded his gang and would not have helped Song Jingui haul the dogs.
In the end, Hu Dahai asked Zhao Jun to remember one more sentence: ill-gotten gains that result from killing must be protected with righteousness.
In 89, Zhao Jun became Hu Dahai's disciple. Hu Dahai has not yet understood this truth, but Zhao Jun has already applied it in this life.
When Wang Meilan first started setting up a banquet at home and inviting several families to come over for a roe deer feast, Jin Xiaomei, Zhao Ling, Xu Chunyan and others had discussed it. They all said that hunting would not make you rich, but in their opinion that was not entirely true.
Because Zhao Jun made Li Baoyu, Zhang Yuanmin and Jie Chen rich, but they didn't know why others didn't get rich while they could. But those women didn't know why.
The reason is what Hu Dahai said: ill-gotten gains must be protected with righteousness.
Xing San's considerations are not without reason. People's hearts cannot withstand the test. The more knots there are, the more they can't be untied. Family affection, friendship, and love are all mutual and need to be maintained. Only when two brothers are good can they be good.
In fact, Zhao Jun, who was far away in Anguo, thought that the golden gall would be valuable at first, but he didn't expect it to be so valuable.
When he heard the offer from Manager Huang, Zhao Jun had the same concerns as Xing San.
That's why the Zhao army decided to keep the small golden gallbladder for their own use. They would sell the big golden gallbladder the next time they came and share the money with Zhang Yuanmin and Jie Chen.
At this time in Huichun Hall, Mr. Huang, Shopkeeper Huang and Huang Haizhen, three generations of the family, were drinking tea around the table, while Zhao Jun, Li Baoyu, Jie Chen and Zhao Weipeng were busy checking out the pictures of the Great Unity.
All the bear gall bladders that Zhao Jun brought, except the golden one, were sold for a total of 52,830 yuan.
There were more than fifty stacks of Great Unity notes, which were checked twice and repeatedly for half an hour by the four persons. Only after they were sure that the amount of money was correct did they put all the money into the sack.
After packing the money, Zhao Jun was ready to leave. Huang, the shopkeeper, tried to keep him, but Zhao Jun declined. Then Huang, the shopkeeper, and Huang Haizhen, the father and son, escorted Zhao Jun and his party out of Huichun Hall.
Outside Huichun Hall, the two sides said goodbye to each other and agreed to meet again after the New Year.
Then the four soldiers of the Zhao army got on the car, driven by Jie Chen, and returned to Jinxi.
It was already past one in the afternoon. Zhao Jun took out large pancakes from his bag and shared them with the three of them.
At this time, there was not only more than 50,000 yuan from the sale of bear bile in the car, but also more than 100,000 yuan from the sale of skins in the large sack behind the back seat.
Fortunately, there are no people who break into cars and steal bags these days. If you put the money in the car, no one outside will know and no one will steal it.
But with a huge sum of nearly 200,000 yuan, Zhao Jun and his four friends were eager to return home. They didn't even look for a restaurant to eat, but drove back directly.
On the way, the four of them took turns driving, and it was not until after nine o'clock in the evening that they returned to Changshan City.
They also stayed in the guesthouse where they had stayed before, carried the sacks of money into the house and stuffed them under the bed.
Zhao Jun and Ban Zhitong lay on the kang together, and asked Zhao Weipeng, Li Baoyu and Jie Chen to go out and find a place to eat.
The three of them went to a restaurant and ordered four dishes. When ordering, they borrowed a lunch box from the restaurant owner. When the dishes were served, they put a portion of each dish in the lunch box.
After the three of them finished eating, they took the lunch boxes back to Zhao Jun.
……
The Zhao army had just had dinner while the Zhao family was in Yong'an Tun over there.
Zhao Youcai and Xing San were sitting on the kang in the west room, smoking opposite each other, but their eyes were on Wang Meilan, watching her take things out of the sack one by one.
In the sack today, except for the small gold box and the golden bear bile powder, the rest are bronze objects.
Among them, there are only two copper toilets, the one with a narrow mouth is for men, and the one with a square mouth is for women.
In addition, there are copper wine jugs, water jugs, wine glasses, water glasses...
Even Wang Meilan had no memory of some of these things.
"This is nothing good." Zhao Youcai, who was sitting on the kang, was a little disappointed and said, "It's just broken copper and rotten iron."
Wang Meilan rolled her eyes at Zhao Youcai and said, "You don't have any at home yet."
Zhao Youcai looked up and said, "My family is of good family background, how can we have these things?"
Wang Meilan rolled her eyes at Zhao Youcai again, while Xing San watched the couple quarreling, smiled faintly but said nothing.
Only after Wang Meilan put away all the things did Xing San say to the two of them, "Second brother, sister-in-law, I have found this thing, so I will go back tomorrow."
"Brother, why are you in such a hurry to go back?" Wang Meilan said, "You've been busy for several days. Why don't you take a good rest at home tomorrow?"
"That's right, brother." Zhao Youcai's reaction was even greater than Wang Meilan's. He said anxiously, "Why are you leaving? I haven't spent enough time with you. You can't leave!"
It was not easy for Zhao Youcai to say this. But he wanted to keep Xing San, because only if Xing San stayed, he could go up the mountain.
"No!" Xing San waved his hand, pointed out the window, and said, "I have to go back to the arena. I have seven or eight big leather cases over there. I have to sneak away!"
"Brother, there's no rush." Zhao Youcai said, "Just wait until the next day before sneaking away. The condom won't be lost if it's there."
"That's right." Wang Meilan glanced at Zhao Youcai, and then advised Xing San: "How many people are so wicked as to sneak into other people's traps and steal the wild animals they have hunted?"
Zhao Youcai: "..."
"No, no." Xing San shook his head and said, "If it's a trap, I really won't care. But Da Pi is not like the others. The mother and the child are worth more than a thousand yuan. We must not let others tease them away."
After saying this, Xing San put out his cigarette and said, "Wait until I'm done with these scams before coming down. If I can get three or five big skins, I'll have enough money for the banquet after the New Year."
Wang Meilan was deeply moved when she heard this. Regardless of whether the family was short of three thousand or five thousand yuan, the old man's kindness was much more precious than three thousand or five thousand yuan.
But after hearing what Xing San said, Zhao Youcai glanced at Wang Meilan.
This spendthrift woman in his family said that when her son gets married next year, she will hold a grand wedding. She will hold a grand wedding that will last a hundred years or twenty years, and no one will hold a grand wedding that will exceed her son's except when her eldest grandson gets married!
There is one more chapter, but I still have half a chapter to finish. I am sleepy now, I need to take a nap. I will get up around four o'clock to write it and send it around six o'clock.
Brother, go to bed first and watch it tomorrow morning.
(End of this chapter)