Chapter 654: Old Li's reputation still works (only one chapter tonight)

Li Long walked forward with his gun. A few dozen meters away, a pheasant was startled and flew up, calling out as it flew into the forest.

Being able to fly one or two hundred meters in the low air, this male pheasant was quite capable, and its tail feathers looked quite beautiful. Li Long raised his gun to aim, then put it down again.

Can't hit it.

Continuing forward, there were more rocks on both sides of the slope, and thorny shrubs grew in the gaps between the rocks. There was a large rock about ten meters ahead on the left.

Li Long stopped.

The bottom of the ravine ahead was clearly passable, but those footprints went up above the large rock, stubbornly making a turn.

There's something fishy here.

The footprints were very shallow, but Li Long's vision was sharp, and he just happened to discover them.

Li Long followed those footprints and walked up. Those footprints circled above the large rock, and when they went down again, they turned into a cave—behind the large rock, there was a cave facing northwest, with shrubs outside the cave.

Li Long looked, then returned to the bottom of the ravine along the same path, walked forward under the large rock from the bottom of the ravine, passed the large rock, and in front were shrubs, and further ahead were rocks again.

You couldn't even see the cave from the bottom of the ravine!

Heh, it's quite hidden!

Li Long circled back to the cave, held his gun, and turned off the safety.

Hearing Bolati said these three people were a gang, but now the three people weren't here, who knew if someone would occupy the magpie's nest and enter the cave first.

Li Long held the gun and slowly entered the cave entrance, and only continued inside after adapting to the light.

The situation inside shocked him!

Looking from the outside, it seemed like a simple cave, but inside there was a space of nearly twenty square meters.

Three sets of bedding were placed side by side in the innermost part, two quilts were not folded, and one was simply folded. Bags were placed next to the bedding—one of which was surprisingly very similar to the mountaineering backpacks of later generations.

Did they have this kind of large backpack at this time?

Compared to this large backpack, the homemade backpack Li Long was carrying looked very rustic.

The other two backpacks were made of canvas, which also looked good and quite new.

Standing in the corner of the wall on the right side of the entrance were four bags of different colors. Li Long went over and touched them, knowing they were all filled with Fritillaria.

Among the four bags, two were more than half full, one was half full, and one was a little less than half full.

Leaning against the wall near the door, next to the Fritillaria bags, were some tools.

What surprised Li Long was that these tools included those for digging Fritillaria, as well as iron shovels, sickles, and... hoes!

You could tell the wooden handles of those hoes had rotted away, leaving only the heads here.

They didn't look like things used by people nowadays.

In the corner of the wall on the left side of the entrance was a stove built of stones, on which was a small steel pot, covered with a lid, and he didn't know what was inside.

Folded firewood was placed next to the stove.

Li Long saw that there was no one inside, so he walked over to rummage through that high-end-looking large backpack.

Li Long planned to switch to this backpack; it would be so good to carry.

The backpack had side pockets on both sides where things could be put, and there were drawstrings on top. Although there were no buckles like in later generations, there were those straps with tin buckles that could be inserted and pulled tight.

The old yellow school bags all had this kind of closure method.

Li Long opened the drawstring and first saw a few pieces of clothing. He threw the clothes onto the bedding with disdain and continued to rummage inside, planning to empty the contents and then switch to his own things.

Underneath the clothes was a wallet. Opening the wallet, there were two ten-yuan bills, and the rest were a stack of one-yuan, two-yuan, and five-jiao bills.

Li Long packed the wallet, rummaged further down, pulled out some clothes and threw them on the bedding, and then dug out a plastic bag.

This plastic bag was hidden relatively deep. Li Long felt it and it felt good. After opening it, he found that inside was unorganized, fragmented money, ranging from one or two cents to five or ten yuan.

Was this robbed?

Further down was a box of batteries and other miscellaneous items.

Li Long didn't take a fancy to them and put all these things on the bedding.

Putting the things in his own backpack—mainly things like bullets—into this backpack, Li Long also put the backpack Sister Yang had sewn into it, and then went to check the two canvas bags.

The canvas bags were basically all clothing. What surprised Li Long was that inside the innermost part of these two canvas bags, there was also some scattered money wrapped in clothes.

Li Long guessed that these three people might not be of one mind, so the money they got was all hidden privately.

Emptying the canvas bags, Li Long lifted the bed sheet on one of the bedding sets. He planned to wrap up the clothes that were still decent and take them out; he didn't know if Sun Jia Qiang would wear them.

Just at this moment, Li Long heard movement outside. He immediately stopped his movements, took down the gun he was carrying, and aimed it at the door.

A fox poked its head in, carrying a foul smell.

Seeing Li Long, the fox just froze for a moment, then screamed and turned to run.

Li Long hesitated for a moment and didn't shoot.

Mainly because you can't eat this thing, and it's troublesome to process.

Better not shoot it.

Li Long put the gun away again, then turned to tidy up the bed sheet, and he was surprised to find that there was something under the pillow in the middle.

Li Long squatted down to look. What was placed inside was a pile of copper coins, and some other things, like small porcelain bowls.

These people also touched antiques?

Li Long lifted all the bedding and rummaged out about more than a hundred copper coins and a dozen relatively complete small items, including ancient jade, copper knives, and small seals.

Li Long didn't know if these things were valuable, but he found a piece of clothing that looked quite decent, wrapped everything up, and put it into his backpack.

While tidying up, Li Long occasionally looked up and saw characters carved on the wall.

Traditional Chinese characters.

Reading and guessing, some places were a bit blurry, but the final meaning summarized was that this place was originally the residence of a group of gold panners in the mountains. They came here to pan for gold, eleven people in total, wanting to pan for gold and then return home.

As for whether they panned any, Li Long didn't know, and it wasn't written on the wall.

It was really not easy to find this place. And being able to find antiques nearby, it seemed these three people weren't simple.

Using the bed sheet to wrap up some clothes, Li Long didn't take them immediately. He first tidied up the Fritillaria, and could tidy up three bags.

Just transporting these Fritillaria to the jeep would take some effort.

But these things had to be done.

Li Long put both canvas bags into his large backpack, put the ancient coins and such in, and finally walked out carrying a Fritillaria bag in each hand.

It took nearly an hour of tossing back and forth before the things were moved—of course, Li Long didn't touch the remaining bedding and clothes, and he finally took the tools.

Li Long guessed that in two days, either new people would move in here, or it would become an animal's nest.

After tossing around a few times, the trunk was already full. Li Long drove the jeep and left this area.

After the jeep left this area, that person dared to come out of the forest and then went towards the area Li Long had searched.

He climbed over the nearby mountain ridge and entered the ravine with the cave.

He didn't have Li Long's good observation skills, walked along the ravine all the way inside, didn't look carefully when passing the large rock, continued to walk forward, looked back from time to time, but didn't find the cave.

Finally walking to the end of this ravine, he found nothing.

Climbing over another mountain ridge, he found that opposite was a dense forest. After entering, he found no more footprints.

However, there were quite a few Fritillaria in this forest. This person thought about it and simply decided to dig Fritillaria here.

Li Long drove to Little Bai Yang Ravine to eat lunch, and Old Huang even asked about Xiao Sun.

"He's at the wooden cabin, steamed buns were steamed there, he's eating over there, he won't come over at noon."

At noon, Old Huang steamed rice and stir-fried wild vegetables and mushrooms.

Now that it was early May, there were many things in the mountains, so this meal was much easier to make.

Old Huang even jokingly told Li Long that he would have to find him for cooking in the future, and Li Long also jokingly said that this matter was managed by Xie Yun Dong, and if you want to continue doing this job, you have to keep Xie Yun Dong Ge happy.

Old Huang laughed.

After lunch, Li Long drove the jeep to the wooden cabin. He planned to see if there was any situation. If not, he would put those clothes in the wooden cabin and then prepare to go back.

After all, the harvest this time was quite a lot, and he had to organize it when he went back.

When arriving at the wooden cabin, Li Long was surprised to find that Sun Jia Qiang was eating steamed buns in front of the wooden cabin. On the grass not far away, two people were sitting on the turf, with bags placed beside them. These two people... Li Long remembered, in the first two days, that middle-aged man and a young man had come to trade things.

It was that middle-aged man who scolded the person who pried the door open, saying that this person almost ruined their guarantee for picking herbs.

Seeing the jeep come over, Sun Jia Qiang and those two people all stood up.

"Comrade, hello." That middle-aged man quickly walked over carrying a bag, "I want to find you to trade for some things."

"Trade for what?" Li Long looked at the Fritillaria in his bag, which was about four or five kilograms, and asked:

"Hanging noodles or food?"

While talking, he took down the clothes wrapped in the bed sheet from the back seat, untied them and spread them on the ground, and said to Sun Jia Qiang:

"You see which ones you can wear, you keep them and wear them, those you can't wear..."

Li Long hadn't thought about what to do with those he couldn't wear, just at this moment, the young man saw the clothes, and his eyes lit up:

"Then can we trade for a few pieces of clothing?"

"Yes." Li Long didn't expect the other party to actually want to trade for these clothes.

But to be honest, the clothes of these three people were indeed not bad, the styles were relatively fashionable, and some were even better than the black, gray, and blue clothes generally worn by people in Maxian Shicheng now.

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"Then I want this pair, and this pair." The young man quickly picked two pairs of pants, looked at them, and picked another piece of clothing.

After picking, he handed the bag beside him to Li Long:

"You see... is it enough."

These second-hand clothes certainly couldn't be sold at the price of new clothes. Although Li Long wasn't a clothes seller, he and Gu Xiaoxia had both bought clothes. If these three things were new, they would be at least fifty or more, but now they were second-hand. Li Long weighed the bag he gave, Fritillaria was about five kilograms, shook his head and said:

"Not enough."

Although it was waste utilization, it couldn't be sold too cheaply.

"Then add mine here." The middle-aged man saw that the young man really liked those three pieces of clothing, held up the bag and said, "Can there be some left over? If there's some left over, we'll trade for two pieces of meat to eat."

"Okay." Li Long let Sun Jia Qiang take two pieces of air-dried meat for the other party.

If you really want to argue, this Fritillaria wasn't enough, but anyway, they were clothes picked up, Li Long didn't care.

That middle-aged man even quietly said to Li Long while Sun Jia Qiang was taking the meat:

"I know you two are colleagues, I just don't want to find him to trade, I'll just remember you. In the future, when I bring Fritillaria, I'll find you to trade..."

Li Long was a bit dumbfounded, but he wouldn't explain anything, he wouldn't live up to other people's kindness.

These two people took the things, and they knew they had taken advantage, thanked Li Long well, left the Fritillaria, and left.

Li Long even heard that young man saying to the middle-aged man while walking:

"Uncle, this pair of pants was picked for you, this is jeans, very durable, don't look at it being tight, it's not easy to wear out, your pants have been worn out several times, can't be patched anymore..."

After the two people left, Sun Jia Qiang pointed at the clothes and said:

"What to do?"

"What else to do? You pick a set, if there's anyone else who wants to trade, then trade." Li Long said.

This bed sheet wrapped seven or eight sets of clothes, thick and thin, that young man picked three pieces, and there were still quite a few left.

Sun Jia Qiang didn't mind, found one that fit him, took a thick jacket and a pair of jeans, and put them away with a smile.

After putting the clothes away, he said to Li Long:

"These two people are stubborn, they insist on trading with you, I wanted to trade, I said I was with you, I was working for you, they didn't believe it."

Li Long smiled and didn't answer.

Actually, he didn't care much about this, but since those herb pickers cared, then he would just stay here more when he had nothing to do.

Anyway, the bulk of the money still went into his own pocket in the end.

Didn't he hear in his previous life that some shops had competing shops selling the same things across the street, and they even competed to lower prices to grab customers, only to find out later that they were the same boss? He could also do this.

In less than three hours in the afternoon, four batches of people came to trade things, three batches found Li Long directly, and the remaining batch saw Li Long washing Fritillaria and went to find Sun Jia Qiang.

"Long Ge," Sun Jia Qiang jokingly called Li Long like Tao Daqiang, "people recognize you and don't recognize me."

"Take it slow." Li Long finished washing all the Fritillaria. Today, he collected nearly one hundred kilograms of Fritillaria, and Sun Jia Qiang collected twenty-some kilograms, which added up to earning ten-some yuan a day.

Not as much as before.

The ones Li Long collected naturally counted as Li Long's own, and he wouldn't be so kind as to count them to Sun Jia Qiang's account when people specifically came to find him to trade things.

Sun Jia Qiang took a set of clothes that wasn't low in value, and didn't have anything else to say.

Seeing that the sun was still a pole high, Li Long drove the jeep back. When he reached the exit of the ravine, he ran into Hearing Bolati.

Li Long got out of the car, saw Hearing Bolati swaying, with a smell of alcohol. When he saw Li Long, he dismounted and greeted Li Long.

"Li Long, about those three people, don't tell anyone else, let this matter pass." Hearing Bolati was still quite sober. Li Long turned back to the jeep and stuffed the money from the three small bags found in the cave to Hearing Bolati:

"This is the money found inside, you take it."

"Is there money inside?" Hearing Bolati was a bit surprised, "They didn't say so."

"Yes, I found it. However, after today, I won't admit it." Li Long was also half-joking, "There is some Fritillaria inside, I took it."

"Good, good, good." Hearing Bolati opened the plastic bag, looked at the colorful banknotes inside, looked at Li Long, and said seriously:

"Li Long, you're really a good friend!"

"Haha," Li Long smiled, patted him and said, "I'm leaving first, going back to dry the Fritillaria."

"Okay." Hearing Bolati didn't say anything else and waved at Li Long.

When Li Long drove the jeep back to the county, he was just in time to pick up Gu Xiaoxia.

The timing was just right.

Bringing Gu Xiaoxia back to the large courtyard, supporting her to sit in the courtyard, Li Long began to take those things out of the trunk, especially the Fritillaria.

The Fritillaria in the side room was almost unable to be spread out, Li Long had to tidy up two more side rooms to store the Fritillaria.

The Fritillaria brought back at the beginning had already dried. He planned to sell a portion of the dried Fritillaria at the acquisition station tomorrow before going into the mountains.

May is a harvest season.

Gu Xiaoxia sat on the cotton chair Li Long specially made for her and watched her husband busy. It was said to be specially made, mainly because cotton pads were added to the back and seat of the wooden chair.

Then curved wood like a rocking chair was inlaid at the feet of the chair, but it wasn't as long as the curved wood of a rocking chair, just a little bit, with slots at both ends, which could rock slightly, and there was no worry about it tipping over.

Gu Xiaoxia felt very comfortable sitting in this chair, and she had to sit on it and rock for a while every day when she came back.

After Li Long moved all the Fritillaria down and spread them out in the side room, he went to empty the three backpacks together and soaked them in a large laundry basin.

Preparing to wash them well, they would be dry in one night, and he would carry them tomorrow.

"Where did this backpack come from? It looks quite high-end?" Gu Bo Yuan, who entered the courtyard, saw Li Long fiddling with the backpack, walked closer and took a look, and asked.

"Traded in the mountains." Li Long responded, "Carried by herb pickers in the mountains."

"Can you carry this backpack and still run into the mountains to dig herbs?" Gu Bo Yuan was a bit suspicious and didn't quite believe it.

Li Long didn't want to dwell on this topic, so he went to the jeep, took down the pile of antiques and spread them on the ground for Gu Bo Yuan to see.

Sure enough, Gu Bo Yuan put aside the matter of the backpack and studied those antiques.

"This... copper coins are easy to see, these things are not easy to see, this small copper seal is interesting." Gu Bo Yuan identified them one by one.

At this time, Sister Yang shouted for dinner. When Gu Xiaoxia was about to stand up, she said to Gu Bo Yuan:

"Dad, you touched those things, wash your hands quickly, there is a lot of rust on those things, it's not clean."

Gu Bo Yuan was quite obedient, put down the things, went to wash his hands, and then sat at the dining table. When Li Long sat down, he even asked where these things came from.

Li Long casually said they were traded for by those people.

Thinking that Gu Bo Yuan should know a lot, he asked about the treasure of Sheng Sheng Shi Cai.

"It is said that such a thing happened, and I have heard the old people in the village say it. But I came late, and I haven't studied this matter." Gu Bo Yuan said while eating, "I also heard that when they fled, a truck overturned in Wucheng, the wooden boxes on the truck fell open, and silver dollars flowed out from inside."

"Using a truck to carry silver dollars? How much would that be?" Sister Yang asked in surprise, "How rich must those people be!"

"The wealth of those people is not something we can imagine." Gu Bo Yuan shook his head and said.

This reminded Li Long of a line from a crosstalk in his previous life.

Quite humorous. (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 655 =====