The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 1188: A New Village

In Yongan Forest District, when it comes to hunting groups, the Zhao Family Gang is definitely the most prominent one.

Although the Zhao Family Gang was involved in a wide range of businesses, and did all the money-making work in the forest area, they generally preferred hunting.

Moreover, Zhao Jun and his ginseng dealers mostly made a fortune in silence. No one knew how many ginseng seedlings they raised or how many tons of goods they had in a year.

Over the years, the Pang Family Gang has been a household name in the forest area. Blind Pang is the leader of the Pang Family Gang and the head of the old Pang family.

Now, Zhao Jun heard Xing San say that Song Anlu, the old knife seller on credit, was the father of Blind Pang. He was shocked.

Everyone in Yong'an knew that Blind Pang's father, Pang Sanyan, was the former leader of the Pang Clan. Zhao Jun also knew that Pang Sanyan's skills were all passed down from Shao Yunjin, an old soldier of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces.

When Xing San had a quarrel with the Shao family, it was thanks to the Pang family's mediation that they were able to reconcile.

Later, when Xing San told Zhao Jun about this experience, he also mentioned Pang Sanyan and his son Pang Xiazi. It wasn't that long since then, so how come Pang Xiazi's father had changed?

However, Zhao Jun quickly realized that Blind Pang was so old that he must have been born before the liberation of Northeast China. In those days, adopting, fostering, picking up children, and ganging up were all common things.

As expected, Xing San explained to Zhao Jun, "Song Anlu used to be a beard, and he was in the old cow ditch."

"Laoniugou?" Zhao Jun interrupted Xing San and asked, "Isn't he from Widow Wang's group?"

"No." Xing San shook his head and said, "He is from Xu Da Niuzi's group. There are about ten of them who have built a row of shacks on the top of Lao Niugou."

"Ah..." At this time Zhao Jun also reacted. When Shao Yunjin told him about the past, he mentioned that Song Anlu was not the one who survived in their group.

"His wife couldn't stop bleeding after giving birth that year. At that time, unlike today, there were only ten households in our village, and there were no decent doctors. Just like that, his wife died." Xing San continued to say to Zhao Jun: "How can he support a child if he is left behind?
After that, Xu Da Niuzi was about to lead his men down the mountain to beat up the damn devils. Song Anlu was worried about what to do with this kid, and then he met Pang Sanyanzi.

The two of them knew each other, and when Pang Sanyan heard about this situation, he wanted the child. As for Pang Sanyan and his wife, who was wrong? Anyway, they had no children, and they could get a little boy, so how could Pang Sanyan not be willing?

Just like that, Song Anlu gave the child to him. I don’t know what Pang Sanyanzi did when he returned, but he raised the child.”

"Ah, so this child is Blind Pang?" Zhao Jun asked. Xing San nodded and said, "Yes, after Song Anlu came back, he moved to Xiaohong River, not far from the old Pang family's village."

After all, they were father and son, and no matter whether they were surnamed Pang or Song, their bloodline was inseparable. Perhaps it was by chance that Song Anlu learned that the money that Wang Daba Zhang had used to help the widow Wang buy arms was still in the mountains, and he told his own son Pang Xiazi about it. This enabled the Pang family to move into the city ten years later and buy buildings one by one.

After 96, although the housing prices are not as high as those of ten or twenty years later, a one-bedroom apartment will cost at least or yuan, right?

How much does it cost for the Pang family to buy a building?
Laoshanzi has treasures, but they are limited. On a hillside, there are only two seedlings of the sixth-grade Ye Dingtian. Zhao Jun has already brought out one seedling this year. The remaining ginseng in Laoshanzi is not enough to support the expenses of the Pang family.

Therefore, Zhao Jun was almost certain that the Pang family became rich because they found the gold that his grandfather had donated to the Anti-Japanese United Army.

But it is useless to confirm this. After all, the clues are broken and we still don’t know where to find the gold.

"Hmm?" Zhao Jun suddenly thought of something and asked Xing San hurriedly, "Third Uncle, Old Xu Pao said that when he went into the mountains that year, he saw that... Song Anlu was in your shack."

"This old bastard has a really good memory." Xing San muttered and cursed Xu Changlin, then said to Zhao Jun: "I was there the other day... You've been to that shack, I was in Liutiaogou at that time..."

"Liutiaogouzi?" Hearing what Xing San said, Zhao Jun's eyes widened instantly, and he hurriedly asked, "Uncle San, which forestry squad is Liutiaogouzi now?"

"How would I know?" Xing San said, "I only know about Liutiaogouzi, I don't know which big classes you are talking about."

Zhao Jun vaguely remembered hearing Hu Dahai talk about it in his previous life, it seemed that Liutiaogouzi was in the 63rd Forestry Squad, which was the place where Zhao Jun had used ground rifles and explosives to hunt tigers before.

And if the 63rd forest group goes west over two mountains, it will reach the door frame of Widow Wang.

"Uncle." Zhao Jun felt a layer of fog dissipating in front of his eyes, and hurriedly asked Xing San, "Is the willow ditch close to Widow Wang's door frame?"

"Ah!" Xing San nodded subconsciously, and then the old man glared and asked Zhao Jun, "Are you looking for something?"

Hearing the old man's words, Zhao Jun was shocked all over, unable to conceal his surprise, and stared at Xing San blankly.

"Ah?" Seeing Zhao Jun's expression, Xing San asked casually, "Really?"

Zhao Jun pursed his lips and told Xing San about the Wang family's treasure.

Since the old man asked, Zhao Jun did not hide it from him. First, the old man was tight-lipped, and second, Zhao Jun knew that if he told Xing San, Xing San would help him.

After all, he dared to hand over the Ginseng King to Zhao Jun. The current value of the Ginseng King is probably no less than the value of the Wang family's treasure.

Sure enough, Xing San grabbed Zhao Jun after hearing this, and then the old man looked cautiously at the door. Although the door of the shack was closed, Xing San still leaned close to Zhao Jun's ear and said, "Boy! Those things are in the widow Wang's cellar."

"In the cellar?" Zhao Jun was stunned, and his heart sank instantly.

Zhao Jun's family's cellar is in the yard, but these days most families have their cellars in the outer room, next to the stove.

This was the case in the old lady's house. When the old lady gave Zhao Jun the gendarmes, she asked Zhao Jun to go down to the cellar in the outer room.

There was a cellar in the door frame of Widow Wang, which was the former site of Widow Wang's shack. But now, there is only a pit left there.

Are they digging another hole in the hole?

If that was the case, then the treasure must have been taken away by Song Anlu. After all, how big is a cellar? You can definitely find it if you dig three feet deep.

Seeing Zhao Jun didn't say anything, Xing San didn't know what he was thinking, so he explained, "That year, was it 72? Or was it 73? I forgot, but Song Anlu suddenly came to my shack. I asked him what he was doing there, and the old man said he came to buy knives on credit."

As he spoke, Xing San reached out from under the table and took out his knife.

Normally, the knives that people sell on credit are kitchen knives and sickles used by ordinary people at home.

But the knives that Song Anlu bought on credit were all sharp knives that would bleed. The knives he gave to Xu Changlin and Xing San were all sharp knives for cutting open and carving meat.

Especially Xing San's knife, which has stabbed many people.

"You say, isn't he just talking nonsense?" Xing San said to Zhao Jun, "How many people are there in the mountains? He even came to the mountains to buy knives on credit! Besides, he gave me this knife in 56. I was afraid that he had some evil intentions, so I forced him to drink. I made him drink more than a pound of wine, which was too much for an old man.

When I asked him about it, he said he came up to look for something. He said that the widow Wang had died and left a lot of money, which he hid in Hu Zitou’s treasure cellar…”

"What?" Zhao Jun heard this and hurriedly stopped Xing San from speaking, asking, "Uncle, what is a treasure cellar?"

"You don't even know what a treasure cellar is?" Xing San glanced at Zhao Jun and said with a smile, "Before, the bandits couldn't get anything, but there were still some good things. There were also tobacco gourds and other things. Those bandits planted them all over the valleys, and they made a lot of money from selling them that year.

It’s definitely not a good idea to keep all these things in the shack, so Hu Zitou built a separate cellar and put all the valuables in there.”

"Ah..." Zhao Jun's eyes lit up. Reality is different from movies and TV series. In movies and TV series, bandit dens and strongholds all have gathering halls, where people eat meat and drink wine with big mouthfuls...

According to incomplete statistics, there were more than 50 groups of besieged people of various sizes on the hundreds of hills in Yong'an Forest District. They all lived in shacks, each with a kang.

When they got together and discussed matters, everyone would just sit around the kang table, cook some pickled vegetables and drink a few cups of wine. The scene was not even as grand as the banquet Wang Meilan had.

Just as Xing San said, if Hu Zi made money or got something good, Hu Zitou would definitely hide it all.

Where can you hide?
There is no such thing as a cave or a treasure house. We can only dig a hole in the mountains and bury it.

This is the treasure cellar that Xing San mentioned.

"Uncle." Zhao Jun felt a ray of hope at this moment, and quickly asked Xing San, "Did you find Song Anlu later?"

"No..." Xing San shook his head and said, "In the next two or three years, he went up there every year. What year was that? He even brought Blind Pang to my shack."

"Ah..." Zhao Jun blinked his eyes and thought to himself. From the existing information, it can be known that Song Anlu has been looking for the Wang family treasure since 72.

Fifteen years passed in a flash, but Zhao Jun guessed that Song Anlu and Pang Xiazi, father and son, had not found the Wang family treasure.

Zhao Jun had a basis for this speculation, and his basis was that "a poor man suddenly became rich."

This is not to belittle anyone. When a person suddenly gets rich, he can't help but become arrogant. Just like the Internet celebrities 20 or 30 years later, they buy luxury cars and villas with their money, but few of them know how to save money.

Zhao Jun speculated that the same was true when the Pang family moved to the city and bought a house ten years ago.

After Zhao Jun was reborn, he did not do anything, but just took care of the families he was close to. But even so, he indirectly changed the fate of some people. For example, Jiang Hua, Tao Dasheng, and Li Daguai, who did not die suddenly in their previous lives, have now left this world early.

So even if in his previous life, the Pang family became rich ten years later, things might have changed now.

They couldn't just sit there and wait, and the Zhao army couldn't hold back when they thought of so much gold.

"Boy." At this time, Xing San warned Zhao Jun, "Don't tell anyone about this. You are too honest. How can you tell anyone about such a big thing?"

"Uncle, I'm telling you this." Zhao Jun waved his finger and whispered to Xing San, "Now only you, me, my mom, and my uncle know about this. My dad didn't even let him know this much."

"Really? That's fine." Hearing what Zhao Jun said, Xing San smiled and said, "Boy, it's not convenient for you to be surrounded by people all day, why don't you go over there and I'll help you find it."

At this point, Xing San patted Zhao Jun's wrist twice and said, "Don't worry, if the Third Master finds it, it will all be yours."

"Don't worry." Zhao Jun said, "Uncle, I know you can give me whatever you find. But you are old. It's freezing cold, don't run around."

"It's okay, I..." Xing San wanted to say something, but was stopped by Zhao Jun, who said, "Third uncle, Song Anlu and Blind Pang have been looking for it for so many years but haven't found it. I think there is something behind this thing."

"That's right." Xing San nodded and said, "If one person hides something, ten people can't find it."

"Isn't that right?" Zhao Jun agreed. "Head Hu dug a treasure cellar, so he certainly didn't do it randomly. It's impossible to find it by force."

"What should we do?" Xing San said, "Boy, you can't let others take your wealth."

"So, Third Uncle." Zhao Jun thought for a moment and said to Xing San, "Wait a couple of days, after my guests leave, I'll go up the mountain to look for you. Then we'll go over there and look around. See if we can find anything."

"Okay!" Xing San nodded heavily. He was about to continue talking when he heard someone outside the door shouting, "Brother! Brother!"

Jie Zhong is here!

Xing San frowned when he was interrupted, his face full of displeasure.

Zhao Jun patted the back of Xing San's hand holding the knife twice, then stood up and walked to the door, opened the door and greeted: "Brother, how have you been these days?"

"Everything is fine." Xie Zhong said with a smile: "Last month's payment has been settled, and everyone is very happy."

Zhao Jun smiled when he heard this, and stepped aside to let Xie Zhong and Xie Chen enter the shack.

"Hey, my humble servant." When Xie Chen passed by him, Zhao Jun asked him, "Uncle Zhao, are you still standing in the back watching the fun?"

"Yeah." Xie Chen said with a smile, "He has never seen Gui Leng, but he has taken a fancy to him."

"Ouch." At this time, Xie Zhong saw Xing San sitting on the edge of the kang with a knife, and asked hurriedly: "Uncle, what are you doing with the knife?"

"Ah..." Xing San casually stuffed the knife into the pile of quilts at the back, pointed it at Zhao Jun, and said, "Show me my knife, it's made of shell skin."

Xie Zhong smiled when he heard this, sat down on the edge of the kang, and said to Zhao Jun: "I just heard from you that you want to catch pigs?"

"Yes, that's right." Zhao Jun nodded and said, "If you promise to catch wild boars for them, then you are bringing dogs out, right?"

"Well..." Xie Zhong pointed to the right and said, "My 44th Forestry Squad, from the 8th Unit, came here to help the pigs a few days ago. They were scared away by the tree-cutting. I heard them say that the pigs ran to something on the opposite side."

"The top of the tree." Xing San replied, then pointed to the west and said to Zhao Jun, "There are oak trees over there. They must be eating acorns."

"It should be." Zhao Jun smiled. This time they even found the wild boar. They will start fighting right away when they get there.

"Brother." At this time, Xie Zhong asked Zhao Jun, "How is Zhang Yuanmin?"

When Xie Zhong said this, Xing San tilted his head and glanced at him, thinking, "Why are you bringing up something else?"

"The last time I went there, he seemed to be recovering well." Zhao Jun said, "But his ribs were broken, so he needs to be properly nursed back to health for a while. Now the doctor won't let him leave the hospital."

"Oh!" Hearing what Zhao Jun said, Xie Zhong sighed and said, "Okay, I'll go down to see him when he comes back."

As Xie Zhong was talking, he saw Xing San kick the edge of the kang and move himself inside. Then the old man pulled over a long flat pinewood box, opened it, took out two cloth bags and handed them to Zhao Jun.

"What is this?" Zhao Jun asked. Xing San stuffed it into Zhao Jun's hand and said, "Black Blind Man's Gallbladder, we have two of them."

(End of this chapter)