"Wu Hua, did you take the wrong road? We've been back and forth here several times!"
Li Jun frowned and looked around, feeling as if he had been to this place several times.
Wu Hua scratched his hair and carefully identified it: "It seems to be true!"
Li Jun tied the two branches together and said, "Let's go and see."
Half an hour later, the two returned to where they had just been.
"So weird? Let's not look for red fruits anymore, let's go down the mountain!"
Wu Hua turned and headed down the mountain. Li Jun identified the direction and followed him down the mountain.
It gets dark early in winter. Every household in Wangjia Village has already washed up and rested, and the loudspeaker in the brigade sounded.
"You guys go to sleep, it's cold outside, I'll go out and take a look!"
Li Xiucheng put on his cotton coat, opened the door, stood in the yard, and said to Old Lady Feng in the east room, "Grandma, I'll go check on you. You don't have to come out. It's cold outside!"
"Okay, be careful!"
Li Xiucheng took the flashlight and pushed the door open.
Young and middle-aged people from every household in the brigade came out to look for the educated youth who returned late.
"Just now, Dashan's father and Xiaoya's father both said that the two educated youth haven't returned. It's already dark, so we should look for them anyway. Let's follow the old rules and split up into patrol teams."
After several team leaders met, they assigned their own directions and led their men to look for it.
"You said these two educated youths, they went without telling me where they were going. They haven't been seen since the afternoon."
"It's so dark at night, I don't know if I can find it."
The young and middle-aged men of one brigade walked and shouted to several nearby brigades.
Dashanba's team went up the mountain with flashlights, and Li Xiucheng led Dabai to the front.
Wu Hua and Li Jun on the mountain vaguely heard someone calling them. The voice was getting closer and closer, but they could not see the members no matter how hard they tried.
Wu Hua shouted until his voice became hoarse, and the other party could not hear their voices.
Wu Hua and Li Jun felt uneasy, and now they were even more certain that there was something strange about this place.
"Is this... a ghost wall?" Wu Hua asked tremblingly.
Li Jun said nothing and continued to explore the way with a flashlight.
In the end, Dabai came out and pulled Wu Hua and Li Jun out of the ghost wall.
Dashan's father saw the two men only five or six meters away from them and was unhappy: "We are two educated youth. So many of us came out in the middle of the night to look for you, and you didn't even say a word when you were right next to us!"
"us……"
As soon as Wu Hua spoke, Li Jun stumbled from behind and bumped into his back.
Wu Hua was knocked down and almost rolled over, but Dashan's father was quick to catch him.
The person was found, the mission was completed, and the people of Wangjia Village returned home.
"What are you two educated youth doing in the mountains so late at night?" Li Xiucheng asked casually.
"We just went for a stroll up the mountain this afternoon. It's not as warm as up there!" Wu Hua said embarrassedly. "But we didn't expect to get lost. We're really sorry for the trouble!"
Dashan's father grumbled in dissatisfaction, "If you want to go up the mountain, you have to go during the day. You are not familiar with the mountains. Going up the mountain at night, are you crazy?"
Wu Hua concealed the impatience in his eyes and apologized.
After the person was found, everyone told each other and went back home to rest.
The next day, Wu Hua and Li Jun came out with dark circles under their eyes.
The two of them found a place where no one was around and discussed countermeasures in a low voice.
"This mountain is a bit strange. Should we find a Taoist priest to take a look?" Wu Hua asked. "I think that Ma the liar in the team should know something. Why don't we ask him to come?"
Li Jun objected: "He is from the brigade, will he..."
Wu Hua said nonchalantly, "I've already made inquiries. That Ma swindler only came here a few years ago. He does the same thing every day. Give him more money, or if that doesn't work, just kill him when you're done..."
He made a gesture of wiping his neck, "He has no relatives anyway, so even if he disappears it won't be a big problem!"
Li Jun thought for a moment and said, "It would be best if we could solve it with money and avoid unnecessary complications!"
The two men calculated Master Ma, while Master Ma stood with his feet up, waiting for them to come.
"Oh my goodness, business comes to you while you're at home!"
Master Ma hummed a little tune and put a few peanuts into his mouth.
Sure enough, not long after, Wu Hua came to the door.
Master Ma took full advantage and finally set the price.
"Don't think my price is high. The red fruits you are looking for in the mountains are the most precious things in the team. Most people can't find them. They will definitely be of great use to you if you find them. I led the way and found them. The little money you give me is not too much, right?" Master Ma said, twirling his beard.
Wu Hua smiled broadly, but in his heart he was condemning Master Ma to death. He was asking for such a high price just to show him the way. Besides, if anything went wrong, he'd be the first to give in.
"Not much. Once we find it, everything will be fine."
The two agreed to go into the mountains with Master Ma to look for red fruits the next morning.
As soon as Wu Hua left, Master Ma quietly went out.
"Little fairy, hehe, fortunately I have fulfilled my mission. I will take them into the mountains tomorrow morning."
"Okay, then be alert. These two are not easy to deal with."
Master Ma chuckled: "Then I'm not worried. With you here, little fairy, how could anything possibly happen to me?"
Bright...
The next morning, Master Ma took Wu Hua and Li Jun straight to their destination.
He walked at a leisurely pace, while the two people behind him quietly made marks along the way.
"We're here!" Master Ma pointed to the valley in front of him, "It's full of red fruits!"
The valley was covered with red fruits. There used to be other wild fruits here, but after discovering the special effects of the red fruits, Jiaojiao pulled out all the other wild fruits and planted the red fruits all over the valley.
In order to prevent others from stealing or the fruits from being eaten by wild beasts, Jiaojiao set up a formation outside the valley. Only people from Wangjia Village who specialized in picking red fruits could enter the valley.
Wu Hua and Li Jun looked at the red fruits all over the mountains and fields, and a hint of greed flashed in their eyes.
Such a red fruit will soon belong to them! Then money will flow in like water!
The two exchanged glances and smiled at Master Ma, saying, "As expected of Master Ma, you're truly amazing. Let's go back and we'll give you the money!"
Master Ma was not modest: "I told you, it's great value for money!"
He walked down the mountain in front of the two of them, just like when he went up the mountain.
Master Ma was always alert to the movements of the two people behind him, but he didn't expect that the two did not take any action until they went down the mountain.
"I'll give you half first, and we'll talk about the remaining half when we go up the mountain tomorrow." Wu Hua stuffed a roll of money into Master Ma's hand.
"Okay, I'll take you there again tomorrow!"
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