Chapter 337 Chapter 338: Heirloom

Zhou Huaian ran out while fastening his belt, shouting, "That's a huge nest of wild bees. I ran out without even having a bowel movement."

Yang Chunyan said jokingly: "There must be a lot of bees in the hive. Did they sting you?"

Zhou Huaian looked at her with a playful smile, "Luckily I pulled up my pants quickly, otherwise it would be troublesome if it stung my little brother."

Yang Chunyan rolled her eyes at him and said, "You're never serious. Can't you just talk to me nicely?"

"I didn't look carefully when I looked for it. I took off my pants and squatted down before I found the little bee."

Zhou Huaian took out the remaining urea bag, untied the cloth bag tied to the backpack and put it on his back. "I just took a look and saw a pile of stones piled up into a big grave. It looked very strange."

"There are all kinds of strange things in the mountains!" Yang Chunyan looked at him in reproach, took the bee hat, shook it open and put it on him, "You are so crazy, I thought you found a treasure!"

"One pound is worth several yuan! Don't you think it's a treasure?" Zhou Huaian kissed her happily, "Hahaha! Ding Dingmao is right. If I work harder, I can make two more trips to buy food and get the money back. The mountain god is so good to me. He helped me make up for the money I just spent."

Yang Chunyan helped him tie his bee hat with a smile, "Buy a pig's head for the New Year to thank the mountain god."

"It's a must." Zhou Huaian picked up the urea bag and carried a small bag. "Put on the bee hat and sit here and wait for me to come out."

Yang Chunyan nodded and handed him the hoe. "Be careful."

"Got it." Zhou Huaian strode behind the bushes and arrived in front of the pile of stones. He saw little bees crawling in and out of a crack in the stone.

He lit a cigarette, took two puffs and held it between his lips. He then lit the moxa stick and inserted it into the crevice of the stone. Soon the beehive began to buzz.

"It looks good!" Zhou Huaian took two puffs of his cigarette, pinched the cigarette butt between his fingertips, and watched the bees fleeing frantically. "Ding Ding Cat won't come down from the mountain, so I'll have to eat all by myself!"

When most of the bees had fled, he used a pickaxe to pry open the stones, and moved them down one by one and placed them at his feet.

Suddenly, he stared without blinking at the golden color that came through the two white, transparent stones on the pile of stones. He rubbed his eyes, took a closer look, spit some saliva and rubbed it on them. The metallic luster sparkled in the afterglow of the setting sun.

His heart began to beat violently. "Gold?"

With trembling hands, he picked up a piece and placed it on the ground, and found that a section of golden metal as thick as a little finger and twisted together like a braid was exposed from the broken part of the stone.

Zhou Huaian's heart beat faster. He reached out and picked up the broken white stone. He pinched the exposed golden twist and bent it. It felt like copper wire and it bent easily.

Thinking of the scene in the movie where the landlord checked the gold every time, he leaned forward and took a bite. The joy in his heart burst out like fireworks, "It's soft, it's gold, it's gold."

After putting it down, he quickly picked up the other piece, rubbed off the mud on it, and rubbed it again with two mouthfuls of saliva. He saw the leaf-shaped golden color inside shining in the afterglow, which was more beautiful than the gold in the movies.

He picked up a stone and ran, his voice trembling with excitement, "Yan'er, come quickly, come quickly..."

Yang Chunyan was startled and rushed over to him, "What happened? Were you bitten by Lao Suo?"

"Look!" Zhou Huaian held the stone and pointed at the twist, smiling so hard that his mouth was split to the back of his head, "Look, what is this?"

Yang Chunyan then saw the stone in his arms and the golden thing sticking out of the stone. Her heart skipped a beat. "Gold?"

"Yeah! I bit it and it was soft. If you don't believe me, try bending it. It's like copper wire and bends easily."

Yang Chunyan bent it obediently, and it bent easily. She looked up at him and smiled foolishly, "Oh my God, it's really soft!"

"The old man who taught us geography said there was natural gold ore. These two pieces are probably it!"

"Uh-huh!"

Zhou Huaian held the treasure in his arms and pulled her towards the pile of stones, overjoyed. "There's another stone over there, with golden leaves inside. It's a hundred times prettier than the piece of grass agate you picked up."

"Uh-huh!"

The two men squatted in front of the two pieces of gold ore, looked up at each other and smiled foolishly, feeling that it was as unreal as a dream.

Yang Chunyan touched the stone with the golden leaves inside and said, "If it is really gold, I don't know how much it is worth!"

Zhou Huaian's smile never stopped. "My grandma said that before liberation, someone herding sheep in the mountains found a nugget of gold and exchanged it for 20 to 30 acres of good farmland. How much do you think it's worth?"

Yang Chunyan was immersed in the joy of picking up a treasure. "Of course, natural gold is much more valuable than gold."

Zhou Huaian stood up suddenly and said, "Yan'er, let's look for more."

"Hmm!" The couple was extremely excited and searched around the stones but found nothing. However, with these two pieces, they were very satisfied.

"Yan'er, the little black bee is back. You take the small one, and we'll go out and put the stones away." Zhou Huaian picked up a stone in one hand and walked out with some unsteady steps.

Yang Chunyan turned her head and saw the urea bag on the ground, "Huaian, put the urea bag down and then get it out."

"That's right, my wife is smart. It would be troublesome if we met someone outside."

Zhou Huaian put the gold ore into a urea bag, took it out and walked to the backpack, hiding the bag under the urea bag containing sea gold sand.

"These two pieces of stone weigh at least 30 kilograms. I wonder how much gold is inside them? I think this kind of natural gold must be much more valuable than the alluvial gold mined by gold diggers."

Seeing how overjoyed he was, Yang Chunyan felt a little worried, so she pulled him aside and warned him, "Huai'an, don't tell anyone. If anyone finds out, the higher-ups will definitely come and look for us to report."

"Even if we hand over all two pieces, people won't believe it. They will just think that if you have two pieces, you will have five, six or even more."

Zhou Huaian looked at her seriously and said, "It's a good idea not to show off your wealth. I understand this now since we found the bezoar in our house."

Yang Chunyan looked at the man who had matured a lot and nodded with satisfaction, "I'm glad you understand."

Zhou Huaian thought about it and said, "Do you think these two pieces can be sold?"

"We can sell it even if it's ten times more!" Yang Chunyan looked at him, "Now we need a letter of introduction to go to the city. If someone finds out we have this treasure, who knows what will happen! We don't need money now, so let's put it aside for when we need it urgently in the future."

Human hearts are unpredictable. Sometimes treasures do not bring happiness but may bring disaster to people.

"I know, I'm just asking. Good things must be hidden." Zhou Huaian said excitedly as he took her hand. "Our family is rich now. We have two gold treasures and one black treasure. I will leave them to my son as heirlooms in the future."

Yang Chunyan nodded heavily, "It's good to be a family heirloom."

She thought to herself: There are more heirlooms than just these two. There are also the agarwood and several agarwood tree stumps. Those things will be worth a lot of money in the future.

Once the truffle business is settled, I'll give 10% to Yiding. Thanks to him, I've had so much extra income these days.

Zhou Huaian took off the cloth bag and touched the bee hat on his head. Then he remembered that he had gone to steal honey just now. He quickly took off the bee hat and said, "Yan'er, the medicine hoe is still on the pile of stones!"

Yang Chunyan also quickly took off her bee cap and said, "Huaian, it was those bees that guided us to find the treasure. Don't steal their honey."

Zhou Huaian nodded continuously, "Yes, I will go back and help them restore the hive. You wait here for me!"

"Go ahead!"

"Yeah! Wait for me!" Zhou Huaian ran two steps, turned back, held her head, sucked hard on her lips, grinned and ran away.

Yang Chunyan touched the place where he had kissed her, looked at his cheerful back, smiled and shook her head.

(End of this chapter)