Chapter 90: Thorn Grass
"I think we can just treat the educated youth living with us to a meal and that's it."
In those days, everyone was poor. Villagers would choose to get married at the end of the year when farmers were not busy, when they would slaughter pigs. They would use their work points to exchange for more pork, set up a few tables, and invite relatives and friends to a meal.
They urged Zhou Jingshen and Song Shuyan to treat the entire village to a meal, but it was actually just a joke and they didn't take it seriously.
Zhou Jingshen took it seriously.
He knew that Qin Jin was familiar with the mountains, so he asked him if there were any wild boar dens in the mountains, as well as a rough distribution map of hares and pheasants.
Seeing that he asked in detail, Qin Jin told him and then asked curiously, "Why, are you going to take people to the mountains to hunt?"
Zhou Jingshen had this idea.
During field training, you can also organize a competition.
As they walked and talked, Song Shuyan was not idle either. She saw a large patch of familiar grass growing on the shady side halfway up the mountain.
She ran over to take a look.
That’s right, it’s horsetail!
She was overjoyed.
I have only seen this kind of grass in short videos before. According to legend, the aralia is also called golden grass. Wherever it grows, there is a high probability that there is gold underneath.
She really wanted to dig up this piece to see if the rumor was true or not.
She looked around, left and right.
I couldn't find a suitable stick.
It's such a big area that you can't dig it up even with a stick.
You have to bring a hoe!
She can't do this job alone.
She had no choice but to settle for the next best thing and took great pains to pull out a plant of horsetail and observe it carefully.
I'm sorry.
She looked at it for a long time but didn't find any difference from other weeds.
Are the legends just rumors?
She fell into deep thought.
Zhou Jingshen walked over and asked, "Is there anything special about this grass?"
I was so fascinated by it.
Song Shuyan told him what she knew about the rumors about the thorn grass.
Qin Jin listened with great interest, biting a small branch and running over to watch. "Don't tell me, there has always been a rumor in our village. During the Qing Dynasty, there was a corrupt official whose hometown was here. It is said that he embezzled a lot of silver and buried it in the village."
"When I was little, after hearing my grandmother tell this story, I organized the children in the village to dig everywhere and search for treasures, but unfortunately, we didn't find anything."
Qin Jin threw away the twig in his mouth, made two "Puh" sounds, and eagerly suggested, "How about we go back and fetch a hoe and dig it up and see?"
Song Shuyan was very moved.
Zhou Jingshen thought they were just daydreaming and reminded them, "It's already dark after going back and forth. Do you want to spend the night in the mountains?"
Song Shuyan was discouraged.
Qin Jin whispered to her, "It's okay, I'll come quietly to dig tomorrow. If I really dig up some treasure, I'll give you half!"
Song Shuyan's eyes lit up, "Really?"
Zhou Jingshen reminded them again, "If we really dig up the treasure, we have to hand it over to the country."
"Things buried in the earth belong to the state, not to whoever digs them out."
Qin Jin stopped talking.
He thought to himself, okay, if that’s the case, he’ll just dig quietly and not tell anyone.
After digging, fill this area.
Wait until Song Zhiqing forgets about this before digging!
Lest she tell Zhou Jingshen.
He could only apologize to Song Zhiqing and say that he was going to break his promise.
Song Shuyan thought that if they really dug out something, they could just hand it over.
She has memories about future development. After the reform and opening up, making money will be easy.
She does not covet money that does not belong to her.
Of course, she had no guilt about holding on to the small yellow croaker that no one knew about before. It was the start-up capital she prepared for her future self.
Qin Jin thought that since he had gone up the mountain, there was no reason for him to return empty-handed.
He said to the two of them, "I'm going to go for a walk up ahead. You don't have to follow me. I'll come back to find you later."
He wanted to hunt a rabbit or a pheasant to have as a snack.
Zhou Jingshen had once encountered him entering the city to sell prey before, and had a certain understanding of his strength.
Let him move freely without worry.
Song Zhiqing pulled out a few more aralia, but still didn't find anything special about it.
Since she was free anyway, she rolled her eyes and smiled at Zhou Jingshen, "Can you help me pull out all the thornweed in this patch?"
Zhou Jingshen was helpless, "Do you really believe the rumors?"
Song Shuyan nodded firmly, "It's better to believe it exists than not to believe it exists."
Zhou Jingshen thought to himself, if there really is a treasure, it can't be buried so shallowly that it can be discovered by pulling out a few weeds.
Song Shuyan held out his palm for him to see. "Help me, I just want to take a look. Look, I pulled it out myself and my hand is all red!"
Zhou Jingshen glanced at her hand, a delicate little hand with a red palm stained with green juice.
Seeing that he didn't do anything, she snorted and continued to pull.
Zhou Jingshen had no choice but to roll up his sleeves and play this boring game with her.
Song Shuyan looked at him for a moment and pulled out a piece of arbutus. She smiled silently and followed behind him to pick it up and look at it.
After looking at the grass for a while, her eyes moved to his arms with smooth muscles and a strong feel.
When he exerts force, his muscles bulge, which is very sexy.
I really want to touch it.
She slurped her saliva.
He suddenly stopped, and she thought she was caught peeking at him and was startled.
I saw him handing over a piece of arbutus in astonishment, and said in a shocked tone, "There really is gold!"
I saw that the horsetail grass in his hand had a small golden lump hanging at the root.
Song Shuyan was also shocked.
"Really?"
"It looks like wild gold. Could there be a gold mine in this mountain?"
Song Shuyan made random guesses.
Zhou Jingshen handed her the good-looking horsetail grass and said, "Here, I'll pull out the rest and take a look."
When Qin Jin came back with a pheasant with colorful tail feathers, Song Shuyan was holding several strange-shaped gold nuggets in his hands.
She even excitedly showed it to Qin Jin, "Look! Gold!"
"Such ugly gold?" Qin Jin blurted out.
Zhou Jingshen carefully observed the terrain and patted the remaining mud on his hands. "Let's go down the mountain."
He has to report back to the team, get people to seal off the mountain, and dig up the land to see!
Whether there is a real gold mine or a treasure, it is a good thing.
He looked at Song Shuyan deeply. He didn't expect that she had such a wide range of knowledge. She only looked at the ordinary weeds and concluded that there was gold underneath.
He found a treasure.
On the way down the mountain, Zhou Jingshen asked the two to keep the discovery of gold on the mountain today a secret, and took the small gold lump from Song Shuyan's hand.
Song Shuyan could understand him and support him.
After going down the mountain and returning to Grandma Qin's house, Zhou Jingshen didn't even stay for dinner. He said a few words to Song Shuyan and drove away.
Grandma Qin didn't know what was going on, so she came out to try to stop the car, but found that it was gone.
She was very confused. "Didn't Xiao Zhou say he wanted to have dinner at our house? Why did he leave in such a hurry?"
Song Shuyan made up for him, "He has a temporary mission."
Grandma Qin was not easy to fool. "A mission? He's in the mountains. Who contacted him and gave him the mission?"
Qin Jin shouted from the kitchen, "Grandma, why are you so nosy? Come in and boil some water. I'm going to kill the chicken!"
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