Chapter 17: Windfalls

After more than two years of mining and gold panning, in addition to the wages of workers, a sum of money was originally saved, but Huazi's hometown suffered from drought and flood, and the whole village fell into a difficult situation.

Qi Yun and Ji Yankun discussed behind Hua Ziyi's back, bought all the money into food and seeds, and sent them in person to help the villagers tide over the difficulties and rekindle their confidence.

From now on, the villagers will be impressed with Huazi, grateful to Dade, and have great respect for Huazi's parents, taking care of them very thoughtfully and considerately, and thanking them for giving birth to a good son and saving everyone from the sea of suffering at a critical moment.

Life was better over there, but here it was in embarrassment, and soon, even daily expenses became a problem, food plummeted, and everyone complained. Even Huazi complained frequently because of his poor diet, and even made disrespectful remarks, suspecting that Qi Yun and Ji Yankun had swallowed the money privately.

Ji Yankun couldn't bear it anymore, and wanted to teach Huazi a good lesson and tell the truth and the truth, but he was stopped by Qi Yun. Qi Yun privately persuaded Ji Yankun: "What's the big deal about carrying a black pot? Could it be that you want Huazi to carry the burden for the rest of your life?"

Ji Yankun deeply felt that Qi Yun was reasonable, and since that 'debt repayment', he has obeyed Qi Yun's words. Ji Yankun also easily figured out that he did these things with Qi Yun alone, not to let Hua Zi remember their lifelong kindness. If you are a brother because you owe favors, the day the debt is repaid, the brotherhood will be exhausted.

Qi Yun and Ji Yankun didn't want to suffer their brothers, so they went out of the valley and tried to raise money. Unexpectedly, the jade that was originally taken when he walked disappeared, and the two of them pounced.

When passing by the old site of the base camp, Ji Yankun proposed again: "Sir, we can't starve the brothers, let's embezzle the eldest brother's belongings first, right?"

"Let me think about it again, let's go back first!" Qi Yun's face was cold, and he couldn't refute it, so Ji Yankun had no choice but to obediently follow back to the back mountain.

Standing in front of Ji Yanxin's tombstone, Ji Yankun looked sad: "Big brother, day after day, year after year, where are you? Don't worry, my husband and I have the same heart, no matter how difficult it is, we can get through it!"

Qi Yun was busy tying ropes to the trees, and he had to wait for Ji Yankun to go down first, so he collected the ropes and went to the bottom of the valley with his bare hands.

"Big brother, no matter how difficult it is, we won't ask Jian Bing, he has changed, and he is no longer the trustworthy good brother he was at the beginning-" Ji Yankun was still chattering, and Qi Yun shouted: "If you don't get down, I can take the rope and go down?"

"Mr. is really domineering, even if you say a few heart-wrenching words to your eldest brother, you have to say half of it and keep half of it!" Ji Yankun complained in his mouth, but his feet moved obediently.

"Work hard, you can't make a name for yourself, we won't be ashamed to see your eldest brother!" Qi Yun personally tied the rope around Ji Yankun's waist. For more than two years, they have often gone up and down from here, and they are very familiar with each other.

Ji Yankun went down to the bottom of the valley, and Qi Yun stood on the edge of the cliff in a trance, and couldn't help but think deeply: I will eventually be too old to move, and at that time, how can Ah Kun go up and down? Artificially preventing the brothers from going out of the valley is not a long-term solution, the times are developing, and we must not always adopt stupid methods to mine gold, but we must keep pace with the times! The current financial crisis is an example, if the output is high, how can we be penniless. It is urgent to wait for the economy to improve and solve the problem of difficult travel as soon as possible. Brothers who should stay, will stay!

Ji Yankun stood at the bottom of the cliff, looking up at the cliff, waiting left and right, and when he didn't see Qi Yun's figure, he suddenly panicked in his heart, afraid that as soon as Qi Yun left, from then on, they were really isolated from the world-

When he saw Qi Yun's figure appear on the cliff, Ji Yankun couldn't help but scold himself for spending the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.

……

Seeing Qi Yun and Ji Yankun coming back empty-handed, everyone who had been looking forward to it for a few days was disappointed, depressed, and suddenly languished.

Qi Yun walked into the cave with a calm face, rummaging around the remaining wooden boxes, which contained cotton clothes and bedding, all of which were necessities for the winter.

Qi Yun wanted to try his luck and see if there were any fish that slipped through the net, and perhaps, which box still contained food was ignored by them.

Ji Yankun followed with an iron chisel, pried open one box after another, and closed it again. Suddenly, Qi Yun and Ji Yankun were stunned, and there were actually a few hundred-yuan bills lying on the side of the ginger futon, which was very eye-catching.

After a long time, Ji Yankun shook off the futon, and the hundred-yuan bills fell like rain, and his heart ached, dropped the futon, pried open the wooden box in turn, and ripped off the bedding and cotton jacket inside, without exception, the same banknotes.

Ji Yankun staggered over, leaning on the wooden box, his whole person seemed to have collapsed, and he suddenly understood that Jian Bing had already laid a way out for himself.

Qi Yun took a deep breath, glad that he had made the right choice to prevent Ji Yankun from defecting to Jian Bing.

Ji Yankun raised his head and looked at Qi Yun sadly, hoping to get a little comfort from him, but Qi Yun said coldly: "Call them over, count and store, and go to the city tomorrow to purchase materials!"

"Come in. Ji Yankun shouted sharply at the top of his throat, and everyone rushed into the cave, but they were stunned by the scene in front of them, and the ground was covered with hundred-yuan bills.

"Pick it up, Huazi and Cai Junyang are in charge of the inventory, who dares to hide it privately, beware of Lao Tzu chopping his hand!" Ji Yankun had a gloomy face and walked towards the outside of the cave, no one dared to squeak, squatted down, and began to pick up banknotes.

"Pry open all the boxes, and after the money is collected, put the bedding and padded jacket in and seal them. After Qi Yun finished speaking, he also walked out of the cave.

Everyone in the cave opened the pot, and Cai Junyang looked at Huazi in dismay: "Brother Huazi, where did you get so much money? My mother, I have grown so big, it is the first time for me to count so much money, I am afraid I will have to count it softly!"

"Work, where did you get so much nonsense!" Huazi glared at Cai Junyang, and everyone else suppressed their curiosity in their hearts. Hua Zi was playing drums in his own heart, and where could he say it clearly, but he knew that these things belonged to the 'Black Eagle Gang', and as for why they were here, he didn't know.

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Ji Yankun sat by the river, motionless, from his lonely back, Qi Yun could know that at this moment, his heart was turbulent.

Qi Yun walked over, patted Ji Yankun on the shoulder, and sat side by side with him. Ji Yankun turned his face sideways and looked at Qi Yun, his eyes full of resentment: "Sir, what should I do? Could it be- from Jian Binghu? Every penny is earned by the brothers with their lives-"

"Ah Kun, why are you angry? It's because Jian Bing is selfish? If it were you, you wouldn't make a mistake?" Qi Yun was calm and asked again and again.

Ji Yankun looked at Qi Yun's eyes angrily, and his tone was hurried: "Sir, I won't do such a treacherous thing! Back then, before the eldest brother was imprisoned, he handed over all his net worth to me-sir, do you know, the eldest brother picked me out of hundreds of brothers and personally sent me on the speedboat-but I didn't leave, returned to Jindu, and spent a lot of money to dredge up the relationship, so that the eldest brother could save his life! You actually compared me with a person who forgot his righteousness——"

"Ah Kun, don't get excited, I don't mean to look down on you! It's just that, based on what I have so far, I can't conclude that Jian Bing has crooked thoughts-" Qi Yun picked up a stone casually and threw it into the river, causing a splash, and in an instant, the river surface returned to calm: "See, small pebbles can't stir up a thousand waves!"

"It's a pebble today, it's a boulder tomorrow!Sir, do you have to wait for him to become a climate—at that time, do I have the ability to break him?" Ji Yankun was extremely annoyed, and threw stones at the river one after another.

"If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, at the beginning, you had enough patience to wait for the procedure on the execution ground to be completed before you rescued your eldest brother, instead of robbing the prison; today, you don't have a little patience? Let's put it this way, Ah Kun, we are weak now, aside from the money that Jian Bing secretly hid here, we have nothing, what can we do to compete with him?" Qi Yun's face was awe-inspiring, and Ji Yankun was speechless.

Qi Yun stood up and looked at the upstream of the river: "Think about it yourself, if you don't understand it, continue to think about it;

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Huazi and Cai Junyang counted the money until the middle of the night, their limbs were weak and their minds were clouded, looking at the banknotes stacked together and uncounted, and they were disgusted. Cai Junyang looked at Huazi cryingly: "Brother Huazi, I really didn't expect that counting money is a more tiring errand than mining - if I count it again, I won't be able to sink into the pile of money——"

"Who said fucking not, I want to have money when I don't have money - counting this pile of money, Lao Tzu's heart is dead!" Huazi finally couldn't bear it anymore, rushed out of the cave, and the others were so excited that they couldn't sleep, sitting around the fire and gossiping, seeing Huazi, he looked at him in surprise: "Brother Huazi, have you finished counting?"

"What about Mr. Qi and Brother Kun?" Hua Zi stared at his bloodshot eyes, his face was pale, his body staggered, and he almost fell.

"I don't know. "Everyone was puzzled, what a beautiful errand it was to count money, how could it be this 'dead man' expression.

The two young men got up and hugged Huazi and asked with concern, "Brother Huazi, what's wrong with you?"

"Count it any further—Lao Tzu won't see the sun tomorrow—" Huazi sweated profusely.

"No, how beautiful it is to count the money, I will pick up the money, and my heart will be happy-"

"I have money in my hand, but it's not my own - that itch in my heart, it's uncomfortable and crazy!"

"I see, counting money is not a good errand, if it were me, I would have to vomit blood!" Everyone was gossiping, and Hua Zi sat on the ground with one head on top of two.

Ahhh

There was a scream in the cave, everyone looked at each other, pulled out their legs and rushed in, Cai Junyang curled up on the ground, begging for mercy: "Brother Kun - Mr. Qi, I was wrong - spare me this time, I don't dare anymore, I don't dare!"

Everyone looked up, Ji Yankun was standing beside Cai Junyang with a leather whip in his hand, his face was pale, motionless, and Qi Yun was standing not far away, his face was cold.

The middle-aged man rushed over and held Cai Junyang: "Xiao Cai, what's wrong?"

"I-I-" Cai Junyang couldn't cry, Huazi stepped forward and kicked him, roaring angrily: "How the fuck can you do such a shameful thing?

Cai Junyang was ashamed, buried his head on the ground, and couldn't cry.

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(Nine-headed Bird Academy)