sinovels Chapter 1703 Gold Mine
Chapter 1703 Gold Mine
Chapter 1703 Gold Mine
The object next to the tree root wasn't something Wang Haitao had dropped; it was shaped like a double-headed clapper, but it wasn't a leather tube.
Its length is about the same as a Double Clap, but it is twice as thick.
Black Dragon curiously nudged it with its claws, and the thing rolled away, which was then seen by Erhei who was not far away.
The Zhao family's dogs are very well-fed and watered every day. When they don't go hunting in the mountains, they like to chase and play with each other.
Seeing that Heilong was rummaging through something, and that thing was moving, Erhei leaped and ran over there.
If Erhei doesn't come, Heilong will pat that thing a couple of times, then, finding it boring, he'll just leave it alone.
Seeing that Erhei was running towards him, the black dragon assumed that Erhei was going to take his food, and immediately got playful, picked up the food and ran away.
The black dragon's escape made Erhei even more excited, and he sped up to chase after it.
The black dragon is two months younger than the green dragon, and its body hasn't fully grown yet. Usually, it forms a male and female duo with the green dragon and can also fight back and forth with these big dogs.
At this moment, Qinglong was focused on guarding the prisoners, and Heilong, knowing that he couldn't outmaneuver Erhei, ran off into the courtyard.
Erhei followed closely behind, and the two dogs entered the yard one after the other.
Once inside the compound, Heilong ran around wildly, stepping over the low wall that was only half a meter high to enter the western vegetable garden.
But before he could run two steps, Heilong was caught up by Erhei.
There's no way around it. Erhei is a master strategist. Not to mention the current Black Dragon, even Zhao Jun's peak Black Dragon from his previous life couldn't outrun Erhei.
Erhei caught up with and pounced on Heilong. This little female dog, Heilong, was different from Xiaoxiong and Huaniuniu. She had a bad temper and would get angry while playing.
The black dragon, which had rolled over and fallen to the ground, opened its mouth and threw away the thing, then immediately bit Erhei.
The big dog in the family will usually give way to the little dog. After dodging the black dragon's attack, Erhei turned and ran, and then it was the black dragon's turn to chase.
Just then, Zhao Youcai came out of the house with a matchbox in his hand.
Upon seeing Zhao Youcai, Erhei ran towards him.
When Zhao Youcai took his two dogs out, he saw Qinglong and Heihu guarding Wang Haitao, one in front and one behind.
Zhao Youcai walked up to Wang Haitao, pushed open the matchbox, and poured all the small black pills inside onto his hand.
Then, Zhao Youcai used his other hand to pinch Wang Haitao's cheek.
His plan was to pry open Wang Haitao's mouth so he could feed him the medicine.
When Zhao Youcai squeezed, Wang Haitao actually opened his mouth, but as soon as he opened his mouth, blood flowed out.
"Oh my god!" Zhao Youcai was startled by the situation. Seeing blood dripping from Wang Haitao's mouth, Zhao Youcai disregarded his disgust and directly shoved the pills in his palm into Wang Haitao's mouth.
Immediately afterwards, Zhao Youcai lifted Wang Haitao's chin, and seeing that Wang Haitao had closed his mouth, Zhao Youcai let go, and Wang Haitao's mouth opened again.
Fortunately, Zhao Youcai reacted quickly and pushed Wang Haitao's mouth up again, preventing the pill from falling out.
So Zhao Youcai didn't dare let go, and just kept holding Wang Haitao's chin with his hand.
At this moment, Zhao Youcai's feelings were complicated. Even if Wang Haitao deserved to die, he should not have died at the hands of the Zhao family.
"Oh dear!" Zhao Youcai sighed, thinking that since his reputation was already in such a state, he might as well try to protect his son's reputation.
Thinking of this, Zhao Youcai turned his head to look east, anxiously wondering, "Why aren't they back yet?"
It was late at night, and Lin Xue was sleeping soundly. She was woken up by someone and had to pack her things in a daze. It would take her a while to finish.
And so, Zhao Youcai held Wang Haitao's chin for fifteen or sixteen minutes before a jeep finally came from the east.
When the jeep approached, Li Dazhi, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was the first to get out.
Although we don't really need him, such a big thing has happened, so he definitely has to come and check it out.
Seeing Li Dazhi walking towards them with a gloomy face, Zhao Youcai assumed that Li Dazhi was unhappy because Zhao Jun had woken him up in the middle of the night.
But just then, two more people got out of the jeep besides Zhao Jun.
One was Lin Xue carrying a medical kit, and the other was Li Tongyun wielding a pair of iron bars.
"Brother-in-law," Li Dazhi greeted Zhao Youcai, then asked in surprise, "What are you doing? Why are you poking his mouth?"
"Damn it, I didn't poke his mouth!" Zhao Youcai said irritably, "I hit him, it seems like I knocked off his hook."
The hook that Zhao Youcai mentioned is the temporomandibular joint.
"So what if it falls?" Li Dazhi asked, puzzled. "Why are you holding onto it?"
"I'll feed him the medicine..." Zhao Youcai was about to mention feeding him the medicine when he remembered that the pills should have dissolved long ago.
"Damn it!" Zhao Youcai cursed at the still unconscious Wang Haitao, thinking about how he had been supporting Wang Haitao's chin with both hands for more than ten minutes. "You think you've done something good?!"
As he spoke, Zhao Youcai pulled his hand back. Without his hand supporting him, Wang Haitao's chin slid down, and blood-tinged saliva flowed from his mouth.
"Oh dear!" Li Dazhi exclaimed in shock upon seeing this, "Why is he vomiting blood?"
At this moment, Lin Xue and Li Tongyun arrived, and Lin Xue hurriedly went over to check on Wang Haitao's condition.
Just as Zhao Jun was about to approach, he saw a flash of red beside him. Zhao Jun instinctively turned around and saw Li Tongyun holding a pair of iron rods in one hand, pointing at Wang Haitao and saying, "It's him!"
"Huh?" Zhao Jun was taken aback and quickly asked Li Tongyun, "Xiaoyun, have you seen him or something?"
“We didn’t see him.” Li Tongyun said seriously, “We haven’t been home long, he must have been wandering around near my house.”
"How do you know?" Zhao Jun pressed. Li Tongyun, with her beautiful face taut, said, "Perhaps he inadvertently revealed a trace of murderous intent, which the tiger noticed."
Zhao Jun ignored the first part of her sentence and only asked, "Did the tiger roar?"
"Yeah." Li Tongyun nodded, then heard Zhao Jun ask, "So he just ran away after that?"
"It's not that easy!" Li Tongyun brandished the iron rod in her hand and laughed, "It was me who charged out with my pair of red flower sticks, the mother and son pair, and scared him away."
"Go away!" Li Tongyun was shooed away by Li Dazhi as soon as she finished speaking.
But someone had to interrupt. Zhao Youcai suddenly asked Li Tongyun, "What stick?"
Upon hearing someone respond, Li Tongyun immediately perked up, separated the two rollers with both hands, struck a pose, and said, "Mother and Child Mandarin Duck Red Flower Sticks!"
"What is this?" Zhao Youcai reached out to grab the iron bar and said, "Isn't this the pipe I had left over from cleaning my house?"
When Zhao Jun installed the heating system, he also got some water inlet pipes. When he went to pick up the materials, somehow a 1/4-inch pipe got mixed in.
The heating pipes were much thicker than this. This 1/4-inch pipe was left unused and was thrown into the storage room. But at some point, the pipe fell into Li Tongyun's hands, and she cut it in two with a small saw blade.
Seeing Zhao Youcai trying to seize her weapon, Li Tongyun quickly withdrew the iron rod. Just then, Lin Xue said, "I put the hook on for him, how come he only has a few teeth left?"
Zhao Jun's blow knocked out several teeth from the left side of Wang Haitao's mouth.
"Sister-in-law," Zhao Youcai asked Lin Xue, "is that blood in his mouth from his teeth?"
If a person's gums bleed, then their life is not in danger.
“It seems so…” Lin Xue said, looking at Wang Haitao’s face, which looked like a pig’s head, and said with some unease, “Let me let him hear it.”
After saying that, Lin Xue went to the side, opened the first-aid kit, took out the stethoscope and put it on. Then she returned to Wang Haitao's side and listened to his stethoscope for a while.
After listening, Lin Xue said that Wang Haitao's internal organs were fine. But what was puzzling was why Wang Haitao wouldn't wake up.
"Sister-in-law, why don't you give him an injection?" Zhao Youcai suggested. Lin Xue replied, "Brother-in-law, I have an anti-inflammatory injection here. Would it help?"
"Whether it's useful or not, just apply it," Zhao Youcai said. "What if this person dies later?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Xue carried her medicine kit to the large lantern to prepare the medicine. At this moment, Li Dazhi went over to help, Zhao Youcai followed along, and Zhao Jun went into the courtyard to fetch the pole for carrying the lantern.
If Lin Xue wanted to give Wang Haitao an IV drip, she couldn't untie him; the IV bottle would have to be hung up. Since he was tied to a tree, the IV bottle could be hung on a branch near the top.
After Zhao Jun and his three companions left, only Li Tongyun remained. She carried a stick in both hands and walked half a circle around Wang Haitao, shaking her head regretfully as she went.
Suddenly, Li Tongyun stopped in front of Wang Haitao. Then, she moved swiftly, wielding two sticks. She waved the iron stick in her left hand in front of Wang Haitao's head, and then struck him on the head with her right hand.
"Hey! Xiaoyun!" Zhao Jun, who was carrying a pole, saw this scene and was terrified.
"Snapped!"
With a muffled thud, the iron rod struck the tree trunk above Wang Haitao's head.
"You little brat!" Before Li Tongyun could even demonstrate her second move, Li Dazhi came over, scaring Li Tongyun so much that she put down her stick and ran away.
"Uh... hum..." At this moment, a groan came from Wang Haitao's mouth and nose. Upon hearing the sound, Li Tongyun pointed at Wang Haitao with her stick and shouted to Zhao Jun, "Brother Jun, he's awake!"
"Awake?" Zhao Jun hurriedly walked towards Wang Haitao, and in less than two seconds, Wang Haitao's groans turned into howls.
"Shut the hell up!" Zhao Youcai strode over, pointing at Wang Haitao as he went, and said, "If you yell again, I'll break your legs!"
"I just broke my leg!" Wang Haitao suddenly shouted, startling everyone.
Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun rushed over to check. He discovered that Wang Haitao had broken his left leg at the knee.
Zhao Jun was astonished by the extent of the injury. How much pain must he be in? No wonder the pills Zhao Youcai gave him didn't work.
Remembering that Erhei had been biting and pulling hard on Wang Haitao's left leg, Zhao Jun quickly checked Wang Haitao's arm.
Zhao Jun remembered that Black Tiger had bitten Wang Haitao's arm; Black Tiger was much stronger than Erhei.
It was a bit far from the big lantern, so it wasn't very clear. Zhao Jun took a flashlight out of the car and saw that Wang Haitao's arms were covered in purple and swollen patches.
A closer inspection revealed that Wang Haitao's right arm was broken, which Black Tiger had broken by. At that moment, Zhao Jun touched it with his finger, and Wang Haitao screamed in agony.
"Sixth Aunt, please take a look!" Zhao Jun hurriedly called to Lin Xue. Lin Xue shook her head and said, "Jun, even if you ask me, I can't do anything. It requires bone setting and splinting, which I can't do."
"What should we do then?" Zhao Jun looked at Zhao Youcai and asked, "Dad, should we ask Old Xu to take a look at him?"
"Looking for chicken feathers?" Zhao Youcai waved his hand at Zhao Jun and said, "Ignore him, let him go to hell."
"Fuck..." Wang Haitao knew there was no way forward in his life, so he immediately started cursing.
As soon as he cursed, Black Tiger and the other dogs surrounded him, barking loudly, which frightened Wang Haitao so much that he quickly shut his mouth.
It wasn't that Wang Haitao was a coward, but rather that he was terrified of being bitten by those four dogs. He knew he was going to die, but there's a difference between suffering more and suffering less before death.
Seeing that Wang Haitao had shut up, Zhao Jun still helped Lin Xue put an IV drip on Wang Haitao.
The person was tied to a tree, and to prevent the medicine from being too tight on their arms, the injection was given in the scalp.
Around 2 a.m., the local police station, county public security bureau criminal police, and experts from the provincial capital all arrived.
When they arrived, they were met with this bizarre scene.
A person was tied to a tree. Upon closer inspection, it was clear that the person was covered in wounds, but what was worse, the person was also on an IV drip. Even though Sun Xueshan and Liu Guodong were experienced people, they had never seen anything like this before.
By this time, Li Dazhi's family had already gone home. Two police officers went over to remove the needles from Wang Haitao and untie the ropes. Wang Haitao did not resist, nor could he resist, and allowed them to handcuff him and take him away.
Before leaving, Chen Weiyi called Zhao Jun over. Although Zhao Jun's arrest of Wang Haitao was a good thing, and even if Wang Haitao died, Zhao Jun wouldn't have to bear any responsibility, Zhao Jun still needed to explain what had happened.
Zhao Youcai insisted on going, but Zhao Jun stopped him.
And so, Zhao Jun drove his jeep, carrying Sun Xueshan, Liu Guodong, and Chen Weiyi, toward the local police station.
On the way, Zhao Jun recounted how he was ambushed by Wang Haitao and how he fought back.
At the local police station, Zhao Jun finished giving his statement in less than two minutes. But he wasn't in a hurry to leave; since he was already there, he wanted to wait for the results of Wang Haitao's interrogation.
Chen Weiyi warmly welcomed Zhao Jun. If it weren't for Zhao Jun, this case might never have been solved. Now that the case was solved, he could at least get some credit for it.
The police station only had two rooms. At that moment, Wang Haitao's heart-wrenching screams came from the next room.
It seems Xing San's little pills were effective; this is what it looks like when the effects of the medicine wear off.
Zhao Jun and Chen Weiyi didn't pay much attention at first, but then there was a commotion in the next room. Immediately afterwards, Wang Haitao was carried out by Sun Xueshan and Liu Guodong.
"Hurry, Chief Chen!" Sun Xueshan called to Chen Weiyi, saying, "Send this man down the mountain!"
At this moment, Wang Haitao's face was so swollen that he was unrecognizable; all that could be seen was that his face was completely red. He was probably unconscious, and he was still talking incoherently.
Chen Weiyi touched Wang Haitao's forehead with his hand and felt a burning sensation on the back of his hand.
The crowd lifted Wang Haitao up and carried him outside.
As Zhao Jun pulled on Wang Haitao's clothes on his left shoulder and walked out, he vaguely heard Wang Haitao muttering "Dad".
Watching the three jeeps drive away, Zhao Jun sighed heavily.
At this moment, Yang Jinbao, a junior police officer from the local police station, appeared beside Zhao Jun and said, "Brother Jun, come on, let's go inside. I'll cook some noodles, why don't you have a bite?"
"I'm not eating, brother," Zhao Jun said. "I'm going back. I've been up all night, I need to rest."
……
By the time Zhao Jun arrived home, it was almost dawn.
The front door was unlocked, so Zhao Jun pushed it open and entered the yard.
Black Tiger and his four dogs surrounded Zhao Jun, escorting him inside.
Suddenly, Zhao Jun saw a dark shape vaguely visible at the base of the West Garden wall.
At this moment, Zhao Youcai, Wang Meilan, and Ma Ling came out of the house to greet them.
The three of them didn't sleep for the rest of the night because Zhao Jun didn't come back.
"Son, how are you?" Wang Meilan asked. Zhao Jun replied, "I'm fine now, Mom."
"Are you tired?" Ma Ling asked Zhao Jun with concern. "Go inside and rest."
As Ma Ling finished speaking, Zhao Youcai wanted to say a few words of concern to his son, but then he heard Zhao Jun say, "Dad, some dog pooped in that corner of the garden. You should clean up the dog poop so no one else can step on it."
Zhao Youcai: "..."
Zhao Jun went to the west room, changed his clothes, sat on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), drank a couple of sips of warm water, and was about to lie down when he suddenly heard Wang Meilan speaking outside the door, "Son, have you lay down yet?"
"No, Mom," Zhao Jun replied. "What's wrong?"
Zhao Jun knew that his mother would never bother him at this time unless it was something important.
At this moment, Ma Ling went over and opened the door, inviting Wang Meilan in.
"Son, look what this is?" Wang Meilan came in carrying a dark, gritty object in her hands. It looked like a piece of leather, about a hand's width and four hand's length long.
Zhao Jun took it and saw that it looked like a map.
"What is this?" Zhao Jun frowned, and then Wang Meilan pointed to a spot and said to Zhao Jun, "Son, look at what's written here."
Zhao Jun looked closely and casually recited, "Little White Mountain Gold..."
There were five characters in total. Zhao Jun recognized the first four, which were characters for inheritance. However, he did not recognize the last character, "mine".
Fortunately, there was someone in the family who could read traditional Chinese characters. Wang Meilan said to Zhao Jun, "Son, that's pronounced 'kuang' (mine)."
"Minerals?" Zhao Jun's eyes widened as he looked at Wang Meilan and asked, "Gold mines?"
Wang Meilan nodded emphatically, while Ma Ling, who was inexperienced in the ways of the world, felt her legs go weak for a moment.
Zhao Jun flipped the drawing over, only to find that there was nothing on the back.
He flipped the picture over again, only to find that it was incomplete; it should be the middle piece, but one piece was missing from each of the left and right sides.
"Mom, where...where did this come from?" Zhao Jun asked Wang Meilan. Wang Meilan replied, "Your dad picked it up."
"Cough." At this moment, Zhao Youcai's cough came from the corridor outside.
In difficult times, some families had three generations sleeping in one room on one kang (a heated brick bed).
But that's difficult; otherwise, you have to be careful.
Since Zhao Jun got married, practically no one has come into his and Ma Ling's house.
Despite Zhao Youcai's unreliable nature, he never enters his daughter-in-law's room and resolutely refuses to sit on her kang (heated brick bed).
"Dad!" Zhao Jun's exhaustion vanished in an instant. He got up and walked to the door, personally inviting Zhao Youcai, "Dad, come in."
As he spoke, Zhao Jun pulled Zhao Youcai into the house.
Zhao Youcai, who had just entered the house, didn't go inside. Instead, he raised his hand and gestured towards the window, saying, "You won't let me clean up the dog's poop? I walked around the garden looking for it, and that's how I found it."
"Mom!" Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun quickly turned to look at Wang Meilan and asked, "Was this left by my great-grandmother?"
Upon hearing Zhao Jun's words, Wang Meilan looked at Zhao Youcai.
Immediately afterwards, Zhao Jun also looked at Zhao Youcai.
"Huh?" Zhao Youcai was taken aback by the stares of the mother and son, and then said to Wang Meilan, "Your son is asking you a question, why are you looking at me like that?"
Wang Meilan glared at Zhao Youcai, then turned to Zhao Jun and said, "Son, is this a map?"
"Ah!" Zhao Jun nodded, and then Wang Meilan said, "I've seen this picture before, it's a painting of Lingnan."
"Lingnan?" Zhao Jun's eyes lit up. If it was Lingnan, then it made sense. In his previous life, he was in the ginseng business and had spent some time in Lingnan. He knew that "China's No. 1 Gold Mine" was located in Lingnan!
The update is a little late because I wanted to end it around 4400 words, but I was afraid you'd scold me for ending it abruptly and attack me again...
I wrote a little longer and finished this part.
(End of this chapter)