I've never eaten pork, but I've seen pigs run.

When the fragile old wood carving toppled and shattered, Zhang Xiaokai didn't touch the other things that fell out of it with his hands, but just picked up a small dark green stone and put it in the sun to observe, and there was a little gold inside.

The size of a fingernail, with traces of polishing on the surface, showing a regular oval shape, I don't know what kind of gem it is, and it is temporarily placed on the table.

The wood carvings were stuffed to the brim, so I found a piece of clean cloth to wrap my hands around and carefully took out the other things.

At first, I thought it was paper, but later I found out that it was a soft leather, and they were wrapped together with something, and the layers were carefully uncovered, and patterns could be seen on the animal skin.

One of the pictures depicts a group of aborigines, holding a stick in their hands, kneeling on the ground and holding a stick, probably the colonists of the past, because there are many aboriginal characters lying on the ground, and the red paint is clearly visible.

Zhang Xiaokai first felt that he had discovered the old man's little secret.

Only then did I realize that it was not, that these hides had apparently existed for a long time, and belonged to the Indians, just like the wood carvings.

After being uncovered by him, it slowly hardened, and the pattern faded.

Unable to think of a way to save it, I watched as the painted hides became dull, and there were still patterns, but not so bright.

Looking at it while uncovering, it is a bit like removing the zongzi leaves when eating zongzi, and soon only a thin layer remains.

Worried that it was something terrible such as corpses and bones, Zhang Xiaokai's eyes closed slightly, first touched it with his hand, and noticed that it was very hard, and then slowly uncovered.

When he saw what was wrapped inside, he breathed a sigh of relief, a strange bird-like object, with wings, heads, and claws, all painted with patterns.

The abdomen was strange, a stone the size of his three fists, embedded there, made of the same material as the small dark green stone on the table.

Now Zhang Xiaokai knows where the small stone should be, it is the eye of a bird.

One is still there, and one is falling.

Without thinking much about why it was wrapped so carefully, it was even missing an eye that was not wrapped in the skin, and carefully pressed the small stone into it, and then placed the strange bird on the table.

Picked out the paint coating on the wings that was about to peel off with his hand, the inside was golden yellow, Zhang Xiaokai was not stupid, he was so surprised that he brought a basin of water and put it into the water to soak.

Gently drying the paint, a gold-framed bird-like object stung Zhang Xiaokai's eyes in the sun, and the two stones were also glowing, with golden spots of light in the turquoise.

Knowing that he had accidentally found something good, he looked at it for a while and didn't care, put the gradually hardening animal skin paper on a shelf in the corner without direct sunlight, and then poured half a basin of water mixed with paint out of the balcony on the second floor and poured it in the flower bed.

Then he cleaned up the garbage in the study and wiped the table clean, not because Zhang Xiaokai was diligent, but because he was removing the messy footprints on the dust to avoid being seen by the old man.

In fact, he overestimated the old Ronald, and he never entered the study for several years after buying the house, and even deliberately skipped it when renovating the house, and only renovated the living room, study, exterior wall and stairs, kitchen and other places that he could see and use.

Holding the decayed and old figure sculpture, the square gap left on the base cannot be seen from the outside, and the inside is not covered.

Go downstairs and light the fireplace, and burn the broken wood mixed with the pine, and as for the strange golden stone bird, he has no affection for the old man, and has no intention of telling the old man about it.

Thinking that if the insurance company runs out of money, he will sell it for money and continue to save his father.

At this time, as long as he can make his father wake up and let Zhang Xiaokai rob the bank, he will dare to do it, not to mention just hiding some gold, and then return the money to the old man after the big deal and other work.

Knowing that this is not good, Zhang Xiaokai is comforting himself.

Of course, it is best not to sell, but in case the mother's pension and the compensation from his father's company are used up, and the strange old man who won the lottery is unwilling to pay, he must have a way out.

Usually very outward.

Now I finally thought in a panic that the old man was my grandfather.

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If you find something in someone else's house that no one else has discovered, can you become your own?

That's not what it says.

For the first time since I can remember, "stealing something", or having the idea of stealing something, Zhang Xiaokai himself first became nervous and restless.

After thinking about it, I thought that hiding that thing in the old man's house first would probably not be considered stealing.

The mood calmed down a little, but he was still very nervous, which shows that his parents do have a set of ways to educate their children.

Now, though, Ronald Sr. is his guardian......

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A punch knocks a fisherman to the ground.

Old Ronald stood on the fishing boat and said in a fiery tone: "I left for twelve days, and the fishing boat broke down for twelve days?

Damn it! You've seen too much of this kind of trick for me! You steal Dungeness crabs and sell them for money while I'm not there, right! You even want to cheat me out of the money for repairing the ship? 30,000 dollars!?"

There were five people on board, including the old man.

Cleveland Ranch, a mix of marine and terrestrial ranches, is now winter, calves live in cattle pens, and the thousands of adult bulls and cows raised last year have been sold, leaving only a few calves for breeding.

Half-sized calves can also be bought, but the price is relatively expensive, and the old Ronald is not good at management, and he is not really stupid, plus he has worked on a fishing boat, so he has some experience.

On the way back, I heard that the ship was broken down for a few days, so I guessed that there was something bad in it, and I found some evidence at this moment, and I was very sure.

From December 31 last year to July 15 this year, it is the Dungeness crab fishing season in Oregon, which is more difficult to catch, and it needs to use bait boxes to sink to the bottom of the sea to fish, and it has been fished several times, and this year, the ocean acidification on the east coast of the United States is more serious, and California has shortened the fishing season by three months, stimulating the price of Dungeness crabs.

has been losing money for several years in a row, and the fishery may finally make some money, the old man is really hot at the moment, don't look at his age, he is very energetic.

Old Ronald owes the bank a large amount of money that has not been repaid, and he lacks money to buy calves and sheep at the end of the month, and deliberately left a hand before going out, and there is still a little cleverness.

Seeing that he was lying on the ground, with blood flowing from the corners of his mouth, he still had a hard mouth, and shouted to himself: "Old guy, are you crazy! You're done! I'm going to call the police, and I will definitely sue you for intentional injury!

The helper next to him also said: "Mr. Cleveland, it's a bit too much to beat people, the invoice for repairing the ship is here, and you don't pay us and suspect us of stealing Dungeness crabs?"

Ronald Sr. lit a cigarette and looked furious.

With a finger holding a cigarette, he pointed at the employees:

"Can you help me pay $30,000? I don't believe it, damn John, I've seen you since you were breastfeeding, don't think I don't know you have a brother who works in a shipyard!

Didn't steal my crabs and fish, so why did anyone tell me that Sam Singleton Aquatic Company's car came to me twice, and someone saw my fishing boat go out to sea to catch bait boxes?!"

As he said this, he kicked at the man who had just gotten up, who made this guy the little captain appointed by the old man.

The old man continued: "Give me back the money, then pack up your things and get out!"

You'll go to jail for even a penny, and I'll look through the surrounding aquatic companies and ask who bought my goods!"

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