sinovels Chapter 1870 Three Participants Join Forces to Form One Body
Chapter 1870 Three Participants Join Forces to Form One Body
Chapter 1870 The Three Ginsengs Embrace Each Other as One
On the hillside, along the mountain path, two forest rangers, dressed in the forest farm's spring and autumn uniforms and wearing red armbands that read "Forest Protection and Fire Prevention," were suddenly startled by Xing Sanyi's shout.
The two looked up at the same time and saw an old man and a young man standing above them, each holding a gun.
"What are you doing?" Xing San shouted again, "Speak up!"
"Holy crap... Ouch?" The two forest rangers were about to get angry when they saw Xing San's old clothes from running in the mountains, but then they saw the gun in Xing San's hand.
Although guns are not banned these days, semi-automatic rifles are not something that ordinary people can use.
Moreover, not only did Xing San have a gun, but Ma Yang was also holding a tree.
Seeing this, the two forest rangers immediately softened their attitude, with one of them saying, "Old man, we're from the forest ranger team. Shouldn't we be the ones asking you what you do?"
His words made Xing San a little embarrassed. It was true, usually the forest rangers were the ones asking others what they did, but today it was Xing San asking them.
Just then, Ma Yang stepped forward and said to the two forest rangers, "My brother-in-law is Zhao Jun!"
"Oh!" Upon hearing Ma Yang's words, the two forest rangers' expressions changed. They both knew that a local official was more powerful than a distant one, and Zhao Jun was exactly the one in charge of them.
"Young man," the tall forest ranger said to Ma Yang with a smile, "you must be my Uncle Ma's second son, right? I'm Han San from the Han family in Yongsheng."
"Brother Han San?" Ma Yang was taken aback. Before he could react, he heard the short forest ranger next to him say to Xing San, "Old man, you must be that Uncle Xing San, right? My family used to be the most powerful in our village. My father was Zhai Paozi. He always lived in that shack in 71."
"You recognized them all?" Xing San muttered to himself, then said to the two of them, "Well... if you two have nothing else to do, you can go back. Your team leader Zhao is upstairs working."
"Huh?" Upon hearing this, the two forest rangers' eyes lit up. The taller ranger took out a cigarette from his pocket and stepped forward, saying, "Sir, then we'll go help Team Leader Zhao with his work."
"You...you're kidding me." Xing San refused the two, saying, "They're fighting a battle, a siege. You two don't know how to fight, and you'll just scare the roe deer away if you go up there."
After saying this, Xing San waved his hand, refusing the cigarette offered by the forest ranger, and then said, "You two should leave quickly, don't cause any trouble here."
Seeing Xing San's rough actions and impatient expression, the tall forest ranger, who was eager to improve his skills, couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. But after hearing his companion call the old man "Uncle Xing San," the tall forest ranger guessed Xing San's identity.
He couldn't afford to offend this ruthless man. Although disappointed, he could only politely say, "Then, sir, please tell our team leader Zhao that my name is Han Shusheng and his name is Zhai Guozhu. We are the forest rangers in this area."
"Alright, let's go." Xing San urged the two impatiently; he wasn't going to pass on that message.
Han Shusheng and Zhai Guozhu walked away, looking back every few steps. When they reached the foot of the mountain and passed a Liberation truck, Han Shusheng said to Zhai Guozhu, "Zhai, we can't go back like this."
"Then what are you going to do?" Zhai Guozhu asked. Han Shusheng replied, "We finally got to see Team Leader Zhao, can we just leave like this?"
"Then what are we supposed to do if we don't leave?" Zhai Guozhu said, "Didn't you hear what Old Deng said? Team Leader Zhao is fighting a battle up there. If we cause trouble for him, we'll just be sucking up to him. Not only will we not get anything out of it, but we'll also get punished."
"Who said we're going up now?" Han Shusheng said. "What I mean is, let's wait here until Team Leader Zhao comes down, then we can go up and say a few words to him."
Hearing Han Shusheng's words, Zhai Guozhu felt it was feasible and immediately said, "Shusheng, this will work."
"Is that right?" Han Shusheng smiled, then pointed up into the woods and said, "Let's go find a tree stump or some fallen log to lean against and rest for a while while we wait for Team Leader Zhao to come down."
So the two of them found a place to rest. It wasn't cold that day, so they smoked a cigarette, leaned against a big tree, and soon fell asleep.
If they wait like that, they won't see Zhao Jun and the others even by midnight.
Around 1 p.m., Han Shusheng, who was not sleeping soundly, vaguely heard the sound of a car.
At first he didn’t pay attention, but Han Shusheng suddenly wondered if it was their team leader Zhao’s car.
Thinking of this, Han Shusheng immediately perked up.
Han Shusheng propped himself up and then twisted his body to look at where the Jiefang truck was parked. Sure enough, there was a jeep parked next to the Jiefang truck.
At this moment, there was only one person around the two cars, and Han Shusheng felt that the person's back looked familiar.
At that moment, the man was squatting behind the Liberation truck, poking something into the tires.
Han Shusheng didn't think much of it. From the moment he saw the jeep, he subconsciously assumed that the man was Zhao Jun or someone from the Zhao family gang.
Just as Han Shusheng reached out to tug at Zhai Guozhu, he saw the man get up and crawl into the passenger seat of the jeep.
The moment the man turned to the side, Han Shusheng's eyes widened. He recognized the man as Pang Gaoming, who was from the same village as him.
"Oh!" Han Shusheng was taken aback, thinking to himself, "How come this is Pang Gaoming?"
But in an instant, Han Shusheng remembered that one day at the end of last month, after getting off work, he heard his wife say that the Pang family had gotten into a fight with Zhao Jun the day before. The Pang father and son made a scene at the village office, trying to extort money from Zhao Jun, but they failed.
"Ouch!" At that moment, Han Shusheng had a thought: "Pang Gaoming is going to ruin Team Leader Zhao!"
Thinking of this, Han Shusheng stared at the departing jeep, grabbed Zhai Guozhu's shoulders and shook him hard twice: "Zhai Zi, get up! This time it's our turn to do the deed!"
"Huh?" Zhai Guozhu was still half asleep when he opened his eyes and saw Han Shusheng rush out.
Han Shusheng rushed to the back of the Jiefang truck and immediately noticed that both rear tires were flat.
"That Pang Gaoming is a real bastard!" Han Shusheng cursed, then got up and walked back.
When he reached Zhai Guozhu, he called out to the still dazed Zhai Guozhu, "Zhai Zi, hurry up and come with me!"
"Where are you going, Shusheng?" Zhai Guozhu asked. "Aren't we waiting for Team Leader Zhao?"
"What are we waiting for?" Han Shusheng raised his hand and gestured upwards, saying, "Let's hurry up and find Team Leader Zhao!"
Upon hearing this, Zhai Guozhu grabbed Han Shusheng and said, "What are you looking for? They won't let us go, what are we going to do there?"
"Shut the hell up." Han Shusheng shook off Zhai Guozhu's hand, then turned around and pointed to the Jiefang truck parked below, saying, "Pang Gaoming punctured the wheel of Team Leader Zhao's truck, shouldn't we tell Team Leader Zhao about this?"
"Huh?" Zhai Guozhu was taken aback, glanced back at the Liberation truck, and then said to Han Shusheng, "Why is Pang Gaoming so mean?"
"That family isn't anything special either!" Han Shusheng said with a sneer. "Just last year, when Lao Yang and I were in the same class, we were patrolling the forest and saw some Red Hammer, so we started picking at it."
After we finished picking at this one, we took a few steps and saw another one, so we picked at that one too. That day, we picked out three sticks.
After we finished picking at those three, it got dark, so we went back to our shack. Before going to bed that night, we discussed going home first thing after get off work the next day. On our third day off, we came up early and did a little more picking at that area.
As Han Shusheng said this, he led Zhai Guozhu upstairs. Upon hearing Han Shusheng's words, Zhai Guozhu asked, "Is it over, Shusheng?"
"The next morning, we went home." Han Shusheng continued, "If you ask me, that old Yang is just a dog with a belly that can't hold two ounces of sesame oil. I said, once we've cleaned that area up, we'll dig out as many berries as we can and sell them all in one go."
But he's all bragging about it as soon as he gets home. I don't know why that bastard Li Ruhai skipped school that day and went running around the village causing trouble. He heard about it, and he's so smug. Before noon, the whole village knew about it.
"So what if I know?" Zhai Guozhu asked, puzzled. "What else can I do about it?"
"What?" Han Shusheng sneered, "This afternoon, Blind Pang found a place for Old Yang to drink, and Old Yang drank so much that he vomited when he got home."
The next morning, before we took the commuter bus to work, Lao Yang was still confused.
After I got to the work section and tidied up, I went over, and there was that blind man Pang leading a bunch of people shouting in some corner, talking about "various grades of leaves, various grades of leaves."
"Holy crap!" Zhai Guozhu immediately realized what Han Shusheng meant and said, "They're trying to trick Lao Yang into talking?"
"Of course," Han Shusheng said, scoffing. "Otherwise, why would they let Old Yang drink like that? That blind Pang is so cunning, isn't he? A useless person, would he even ask you to drink?"
"And then what?" Zhai Guozhu asked curiously, "Wouldn't Blind Pang feel awkward watching you?"
"How could he be embarrassed?" Han Shusheng said coldly, "If you ask me, his eyes are just blind from being made to look bad!"
"What happened?" Zhai Guozhu asked. Han Shusheng replied, "He looked at the two of us and said, 'Little Yang, Little Zhai, we're out hunting, don't come any closer.' Damn it, Old Yang almost died of anger!"
“This guy is so shameless,” Zhai Guozhu frowned. “I thought he was a nice guy because he always seemed to be smiling.”
"What a load of crap," Han Shusheng said. "When was last year? It was already winter by then, and you had just moved here. How would you know him? That guy is the worst kind of jerk!"
"Shusheng, what do we do now that it's over?" Zhai Guozhu asked. "He told you to leave, so you just left?"
"What can we do if we don't leave?" Han Shusheng said, "There are more than ten of them. I just said one sentence and a bunch of them came over and started banging their dicks."
"Holy crap!" Zhai Guozhu exclaimed indignantly, "Then deal with him! You're a forest ranger, why are you afraid of some mountain thug? Putting everything else aside, just the fact that he's peeling bark off trees is enough to kill him."
"Who are you going to mess with?" Han Shusheng said, "He's fallen out with that old Li from the north of our village. That old Li is a retired forest ranger, and he's our captain's mentor!"
"Ah..." Hearing Han Shusheng's words, Zhai Guozhu blinked and said, "I was right, so that's how it is after all this time."
"What happened? He's finished this time too." Han Shusheng sneered, "If others can't deal with him, let's see if Team Leader Zhao can?"
After saying that, Han Shusheng strode upstairs, and Zhai Guozhu hurriedly followed.
……
At this time, the Zhao family gang was unaware that someone was plotting against them.
After lunch and a midday rest, Zhao Jun and Zhang Yuanmin were carrying ginseng, while Wang Qiang and the others watched.
Underneath the last two elephant trunk buds, there were actually three rhizomes.
What surprised the Zhao family even more was that this time Zhao Jun didn't assign any tasks, but instead called on Zhang Yuanmin and had all three of them participate in the procession.
With the discovery of the reeds and sedges, the Zhao family members finally understood Zhao Jun's intentions.
The tendrils on the three heads were in a mess. Zhao Jun and Zhang Yuanmin spent the whole morning cleaning out the tendrils and then used a deer antler spoon to pull them down. The three ginseng roots were seen to be embracing each other as one, shoulder to shoulder, intertwined like a coiled dragon, with an extraordinary momentum.
This naturally grown, miraculous herb astonished everyone present.
With each turn of the antler key, Zhao Jun and Zhang Yuanmin were on high alert. Just as Zhao Jun had said before, it was better to be slow and stand still than to act rashly.
Carrying ginseng is delicate work, and Zhao Jun's demands made it even more mentally and physically demanding. He and Zhang Yuanmin had to stop and rest every now and then.
Faced with such a miraculous herb, apart from Zhao Jun and Zhang Yuanmin, no one else in the Zhao family gang dared to touch it, so no one could replace Zhao Jun and Zhang Yuanmin.
But Zhao Jun wasn't in a hurry. The treasure he was looking for was right in front of him. As long as he could carry it out safely, he didn't mind staying in the mountains for another three to five days.
Just like he said before he came, once this ginseng seedling is brought out, it will be enough for their group of people to live comfortably for the rest of their lives.
When Han Shusheng and Zhai Guozhu passed Zhao Jun's jeep and got to within 200 meters of the shack, Hei Hu spoke first.
At this moment, Zhao Jun and Zhang Yuanmin were sitting on a tree stump eating grilled fish, while Li Baoyu and Xie Chen were massaging Zhao Jun's shoulders and legs, and Ma Yang and Li Ruhai were serving Zhang Yuanmin.
Not far away, Wang Qiang and Zhao Jinhui were roasting river pomegranates. The live river pomegranates were skewered on branches, dipped in oil and smeared with soybean paste on both sides, and then roasted over a fire. Once roasted, they were served to Zhao Jun and Zhang Yuanmin as an extra meal.
Whether it was Wang Qiang and his companion grilling the fish, or Li Baoyu and his group massaging their shoulders and legs, they were all willing to do so without uttering a single complaint.
Zhao Jun circled around, gnawing on the tender fish meat. Once he finished, only the fish's innards remained. He discarded them, along with the twigs and skewers.
"Uncle, it's going to be bitter roasted like this," Zhao Jun complained. "You should squeeze the intestines out before roasting!"
"Hey! Hey!" Wang Qiang was responding when he heard two "woof woof" sounds from the other side.
Zhao Jun was startled, and then he saw Xing San rush out of the shack.
Wang Qiang threw the grilled fish skewers in his hand into the fire, stood up and shouted, "Nephew, you guys stay here, I'll go!"
"I'll go too!" Zhao Jinhui's eyes also turned red. They were carrying the giant ginseng, and if anyone dared to cause trouble at this time, they would do it anyway.
At this moment, Xing San came to the three dogs and saw them barking in the direction they had come from up the mountain. Xing San shouted at Wang Qiang and the others, "Come with me!"
In the blink of an eye, only Zhao Jun and Zhang Yuanmin remained in front of the shack; those who had been massaging shoulders and legs had all grabbed their weapons and run away.
Zhao Jun stood up, took the basket and covered the unfinished load of clubs with it.
Zhang Yuanmin, standing nearby, picked up a large stick and cautiously surveyed his surroundings.
Xing San hadn't walked far when he saw Han Shusheng and Zhai Guozhu coming up the mountain.
"I'm so pretty!" Xing San pulled his weapon out from behind his waist and ran straight towards the two of them.
"Old..." Han Shusheng was about to greet Xing San when he saw Xing San rushing towards them with a knife. Han Shusheng was shocked and quickly pushed Zhai Guozhu aside, shouting, "Guozhu, run!"