Chapter 5: Treasure on a Lonely Island

Lying in bed at night, although he drank some wine, Tian Fei couldn't sleep. Thinking about how to persuade his parents to let him stay and run the farm. Another is the problem of start-up capital, which is the problem that Tian Fei is least worried about, and it is also the reason why he dares to come back to run a farm.

I remember that it was about 2010, Tian Fei called home. I heard his mother tell me about one thing: there was a fight in the town, and both sides were excavator drivers in the township. They were working in the township near the Motang Reservoir near Shuanghe Village, and then dug a pit at the same time, and found a lot of treasure in it, but the spoils were not clear, and the two sides did a fight. I heard that it was left by a mountain bandit in the vicinity before liberation. At that time, Tian Fei just listened to it and didn't take it seriously.

When Tian Fei returned home for the New Year, there was a detailed version. It turned out that due to the national overhaul of water conservancy at that time, the Motang Reservoir in the township was also on the list to be repaired. The reservoir is not very large, only a few hundred acres, and there is an isolated island in the middle of about two or three hundred square meters, and even when it is full of water, it will be flooded, and few people usually go up. In order to expand the capacity, the township plans to dig up this isolated island.

Then the township transferred two excavators to work at the same time, and on the third day of operation, two excavators dug a pit at the same time. I heard that there was a large vat and a jar inside. The jar was dug up, revealing gold bars inside. As for what is in the vat, it is unknown. Although they were later taken away from above, both of them also hid some gold bars. By the time they returned home for the Chinese New Year, both families had bought houses in the city. It can be seen that the wealth of the cellar should be quite large.

Tian Fei's decision to start a pig farm was found from this. As the saying goes, if God doesn't take it, it will be blamed. This is also a chance God gave himself. It just so happened that Tian Fei was going to the countryside tomorrow to get back the items he had consigned from college.

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The next day, after breakfast, Tian Fei went out with a fishing rod, a bucket and a hoe. He said that he hadn't eaten the fish at home for a long time, and he planned to go fishing in the reservoir. Fortunately, there are no holidays at school now, and no one is following on the road. When the people in the village saw it, they also said that they were going fishing, and everyone didn't take it seriously.

The reservoir is located less than 200 meters on the side of the road from the village to the township, and it is only a 10-minute walk away.

As soon as he climbed the embankment, Tian Fei took a look. At this time, the water in the reservoir is still relatively full, and there are not many islands exposed to the water, so it is estimated that it looks like more than 100 square meters. The island is located on the side away from the road, about 20 meters from the shore. This is just right, no one will see what Tian Fei is doing on the island, and it doesn't matter if he sees it, just say that he is digging earthworms and fishing, and no one will suspect anything.

At this time, it was summer, Tian Fei directly took off his clothes, took a fishing rod and a hoe and swam towards the island. However, after arriving on the island, Tian Fei didn't know what to do. The island is more than 100 square meters, so it is impossible to dig it all, right?

Tian Fei carefully recalled the scene at that time, and remembered that he started digging from the shore side, and according to the construction progress, he dug it on the third day, which should be on the side closer to the shore. Tian Fei took a general look at the island, there were no trees or big shrubs on the island, but it was overgrown with some local aquatic plants. The terrain is also gentle, with five or six slightly raised bags. Tian Fei guessed that the treasure should be in these bags. No matter, let's start digging one by one from the side of the shore, anyway, the island is not big.

Having made up his mind, Tian Fei picked up the hoe and dug it.

In about five or six minutes, Tian Fei dug a pit forty or fifty centimeters in diameter and thirty centimeters deep. Another hoe went down, and with a "bell", the hoe sparked out. Tian Fei was immediately excited, could it be that he had dug it so quickly! He cautiously leaned down and looked at it, it turned out to be just a blue stone, and there would be no treasure underneath it.

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After a little rest, Tian Fei dug a ground bag, but it turned out that there was no one. It seems that a good thing has been grinding, and Tian Fei is ready to fight a protracted war.

Often things are always going to you without knowing what the next moment will be. When digging the third bag, Tian Fei only dug for less than three minutes, and the hoe knocked out the sparks again. If you look closely, it's actually a stone slab.

Tian Fei let out three long breaths, this time it can't be wrong, there should be a treasure below. I looked around and saw that there was no one. Tian Fei carefully began to dig up the slate, and after about ten minutes, he finally lifted the square slab with a side length of eighty or ninety centimeters. At a glance, sure enough, there was a sealed vat and a jar. The vat may be 50 centimeters in diameter and 60 centimeters high. Next to it is a round jar of more than 20 centimeters, a bit like the pickle jar of the rural family now.

Tian Fei didn't have a big vat, but just hugged the jar. After all, it's not easy to get home now. He planned to take the contents of the jar home with fish buckets first. Then the big tank of things went to the countryside in the afternoon to get the luggage and then took it home in a box, so that it would not look abrupt and arouse the suspicion of others.

Tian Fei buried the soil back and stepped on it again, and he couldn't see it if he didn't pay attention. Then he sat at the fishing platform with the jar in his arms, which made people think he was fishing when they saw it. Only then open the jar.

Tian Fei felt that his heart was beating faster, and when he opened it, he didn't disappoint him.

There are 12 of them today, each of which is printed with four gourd prints, written with pure gold, which should be the eleven taels of yellow croaker in the Republic of China. Then there were eight things wrapped in oiled paper, which were quite heavy in his hand, Tian Fei tore open one of them, it turned out to be Yuan Shikai Dayang, and each one was fifty. And then it's just an ordinary jar.

Tian Fei put the gold bars and silver dollars at the bottom of the fish bucket, filled it with water, and covered it with his clothes, then waited for a while to catch two fish and put them on top, and went home with the bucket.

When I got home, Tian's mother went out to sell tofu, and Tian's father also went to work in the fields. It happened that there was no one at home, so Tian Fei hid all the gold bars and silver dollars in the wooden box where he was in junior high school. The wooden boxes are all old textbooks, and my parents can't turn them over.

After finishing all this, it was eleven o'clock to see the time, and before his parents came back, Tian Fei killed the fish and prepared to make lunch. When he was working in Xingshi, Tian Fei would cook by himself when he was fine, and he practiced his skills.

This is good in the countryside, basically the greens and the like are grown at home, and there is no need to buy them at all, just go to the soil to pick them. There are still tofu that I haven't taken out to sell and eggs from my own hens. Tian Fei pondered and made four dishes: scrambled eggs with green peppers, eggplant drizzled in oil, fried loofah with hot and sour sour, and crucian carp and tofu soup.

When the dishes were served, Tian Fei's parents also came back.

"Xiaofei, you have learned to cook, it tastes good", Tian's mother said in surprise.

"When I was an intern at school, I did it with my colleagues a few times, and I made it for you to eat after it was delicious," Tian Fei replied with a smile.

"Xiao Fei has really grown up, what are you going to do in the afternoon?" asked Father Tian.

"I'm going to the township in the afternoon to get back the items that my school has consigned."

"Well, then you can go by then."

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After lunch, Tian Fei did not rest. I borrowed a motorcycle from the third uncle and went directly to the township, because it was a hot weather and there were fewer people. When I arrived in the township, I didn't go anywhere, so I went straight to something and returned. But Tian Fei did not go home, but rode a motorcycle in the direction of the reservoir. He parked his motorcycle on the shore near the island. Then he stripped naked and jumped into the reservoir.

Tian Fei did not rush to the island, but swam in the reservoir for more than ten minutes. So that others saw it and thought he was swimming.

Ten minutes later, Tian Fei climbed onto the island, because he knew the location of the big tank, so within a few minutes Tian Fei dug up the tank.

There were no gold bars in the jar this time, only two sets of men's clothes and a pair of shoes from the Republic of China, which were a little rotten. A rusty shell gun with some bullets, probably used to run away at the time. Then there are two plum bottles, which should be a pair, Tian Fei doesn't know much about it, and he doesn't know which time. Tian Fei didn't move the other things, only took out the two plum bottles, and then buried the vat untouched, planning to deal with it later.

After doing this, Tian Fei looked around and found that there was no one, so he quickly swam ashore with the plum bottle, then put the bottle into the box on the motorcycle, and then tied the hoe to the car and went home.

After returning home, Tian Fei put the bottle in the box in the room as in the morning, and then locked it.

Looking back on this wonderful day, Tian Fei felt that the start-up capital of the farm should be enough. All that's left is to convince the parents.