Traveling Through the Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Starting from Meeting You

Zhang Hanyan and Zhang Qiling had just finished their breakfast and were walking back home when they saw Fatty and Wu Xie standing at the door waiting for them.

"Why are you here?" Zhang Hanyan asked with a smile.

Wu Xie and Fatty looked at each other, and Fatty nudged Wu Xie's arm with his elbow, motioning for him to speak himself.

His hesitation made Zhang Hanyan burst out laughing.

Zhang Hanyan opened the door and looked at them and said, "If you have anything to say, please come inside and talk. There are so many people coming and going at the door, it's inconvenient to say anything."

The sun is particularly hot today, and the strong sunlight shines on every corner of the garden.

"Let's go sit in the living room. It's too sunny outside. We'll get heatstroke."

She invited Wu Xie and Fatty to sit on the sofa in the living room. Before she could prepare tea, Zhang Qiling had already brought it out.

"Thank you, brother." Wu Xie and Fatty took the teacups and said in unison.

Zhang Hanyan turned on the fan to blow away the heat from everyone.

"Now we can talk. What do you two want to talk about?"

Following Fatty's eye signal, Wu Xie hesitated for a while before finally telling them the reason why he came to find them.

"I have a good friend who has been in prison for many years. He came to Hangzhou to find me and asked me to go to Qinling Mountains. He said there was a bronze tree there and asked me to go with him to make a fortune.

The reason he was imprisoned before was because he was caught by patrolmen in the Qinling Mountains while trying to capture a lama. On his body, there was a very small bronze bell, exactly the same as the one we saw before, except that it was a little smaller and couldn't make any sound.

Hanyan, brother, Fatty has agreed to go with me, why don't you guys come with us? I feel uneasy without you guys."

After he finished speaking, the fat man nodded hurriedly and helped to persuade him.

"Yes, yes, let's go together. We can make money together."

Zhang Hanyan knew that the trip to Qinling Mountains was a particularly significant watershed for Wu Xie. Without this experience, Wu Xie would never have been able to grow up so quickly.

If she and Zhang Qiling agreed to accompany Wu Xie, then this experience would be meaningless for Wu Xie.

She pondered for a moment and decisively rejected Wu Xie and Fatty's suggestion to travel together.

"I'm sorry, Wu Xie, Fatty, this time, my brother and I may not be able to go with you. We have our own things to deal with and don't have time."

Her words made both of their expectant hearts sink instantly.

Her refusal was so firm that Wu Xie and Fatty knew that no matter how much they tried to persuade them, she and Zhang Qiling would not go.

"Okay then, let's go back first. We'll get together again when we come back from Qinling."

Wu Xie smiled helplessly, pulled the fat man up and prepared to walk out.

"Tian Zhen is right. If I come across anything rare in Qinling, I will remember to bring some back for you. Now I am leaving."

Zhang Hanyan walked them both to the door, watched them leave, then closed the door and went back.

Zhang Qiling was clearing the teacups on the table. Seeing her coming back, he asked, "Hanyan, why didn't you agree to go with them?"

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"No reason. Fatty is with Wu Xie. Nothing will happen. The previous two operations were too tiring. I need to rest at home and take it easy."

Zhang Hanyan avoided his gaze, walked to the sofa and sat down, picked up the tea that had already gone cold on the table and was about to bring it to her mouth.

Zhang Qiling quickly stopped her action, snatched the tea from her hand, poured out the cold tea, and poured her a new cup of tea at the right temperature and placed it in front of her.

"Don't drink it cold."

After he said that, he took the other dirty teacups to the kitchen to wash.

The water in the kitchen was flowing. Zhang Qiling's hands kept moving, but he was thinking about Zhang Hanyan's suspicious reaction just now.

Hanyan is hiding something from me, what is it?

"Tian Zhen, I have to go back and prepare some things. We will meet up in Qinling Mountains. If I don't come, it means I was stuck. You don't have to wait for me, just go by yourself."

When Wu Xie heard what he said, he immediately became unhappy. They had just agreed to go together, but now he said he was not sure whether to go or not. Who would be happy about this?

He put his hands on his hips and looked at the fat man with a slightly angry look, "I'm not saying anything bad about you, Fatty, but what do you mean by this? Are you trying to fool me?"

Seeing that he was angry, the fat man quickly tried to coax him with kind words.

"Oh no, I can fool anyone, but I can't fool you, right? I just got a good thing, right? I'm going to go back and cash it in.

Besides, your friend has been there once, so he is familiar with the place. What are you worried about? Let’s go.”

He strode away carrying the box, waving at Wu Xie as he walked.

Wu Xie watched him leave helplessly. Wang Meng quietly moved to his side and said, "Boss, can we just order two tickets now?"

"Well, go ahead and book it. I'll give you the ticket money along with your salary later."

"Ah? I have to pay for it myself?" Wang Meng looked unhappy. "Then when will you pay me, boss?"

Wu Xie rolled his eyes at him and yelled, "I'll send it to you when I get back from Qinling, okay?"

"Hey, okay, okay, boss, don't be angry, I'll go book tickets for you and your friends now."

Wang Meng ran out in a hurry and quickly disappeared from Wu Xie's sight.

Wu Xie and Lao Yang boarded the train at the agreed time. Disguised as tourists, they arrived at a small town at the foot of the Qinling Mountains.

They waited for Fatty in the hotel in the small town for three days, but Fatty never showed up. Wu Xie knew that he probably wouldn't come.

"Lao Yang, let's go into the mountains tomorrow. It looks like Fatty broke the promise."

Lao Yang took a big bite of noodles and said vaguely, "Okay, but it's hard to find a guide in this season. I've asked many people, but they don't want to go into the mountains in this season."

Wu Xie looked up at the other group of people eating at the noodle stall. Whether it was their clothes or the things they carried with them, they all told him that that group of people were not simple.

They...are also here to capture the lama.

He lowered his head to eat his noodles while listening attentively to the conversation between the two people opposite him, wanting to know more information from their conversation.

"Boss, are we really going into the mountains tomorrow? Is that old man trying to trick us just to earn the high guide fee we gave him?"

The leading man waved his hand nonchalantly, "Who cares what he thinks? As long as he can lead us into the mountains, it's fine. If he has other ideas along the way, we can just deal with them directly."

He looked towards the mountains and said, "In those deep forests, if a person dies, even if he rots into bones, no one will find him."