[130] Greed
It was said that Zhong Kui had not sent a telegram to Zhiqing for several weeks, and he had a strange nightmare, so he handed over the newly opened shop to Vanilla and Wengen to guard, and went to visit Zhiqing alone.
Saying; There were no compasses, no binoculars, no cell phones. Finding a few survey team members in the Reckless Jungle is harder than climbing to the sky.
Zhong Kui said that he was also wise, and after finding the county seat where Zhiqing sent the telegram a month later, he hired two local daring and careful mountain people, as well as the hunting dogs raised by the mountain people, to search for them all the way.
As a result, when Zhong Kui and the others crossed the mountains and finally found the location of Zhiqing and them, they were stunned by the scene in front of them.
Several people at the site where Zhiqing worked lay in pools of blood, and there was still a faint smell of blood in the air. The tent was messy, and the contents of the tent were as if they had been robbed.
The three of them counted carefully, and the number of people who died, and there were ten. Only I didn't see Zhiqing.
At this moment, one of the hunting dogs brought by the mountain people raised his nose and sniffed vigorously, and then suddenly barked at the sky.
The mountain people knew that the hound must have smelled something unusual to bark, so they simply let it go and let it search for the smell freely, and they just followed behind them.
Sure enough, he found Zhiqing who was dying in a cave, and Zhong Kui shouted that he couldn't shout yes, so he had to pick him up and immediately transfer to the bottom of the mountain.
When Zhong Kui ignored his fatigue and carried Zhiqing to climb through the mountains, he didn't care about resting for a while, and sent him down the mountain in one go. He was so tired that he fell to the ground, but fortunately, the mountain people who accompanied him were kind-hearted, and they hurriedly called the nearby mountain people to help cut down the bamboo temporarily, made two sturdy stretchers, and carried Zhong Kui and Zhiqing together to the nearby county hospital.
Zhong Kui was tired and woke up in a few hours.
But Zhiqing was not so relaxed, he lost too much blood and had a mild infection, and he had a persistent high fever and was unconscious.
Just when the first round of strange murders occurred in Tongchuan County, Zhiqing, who was far away, barely opened his eyes, and when he opened his eyes and saw Zhong Kui for the first time.
Large tears rolled in the corners of his eyes, snorted and moved his lips, raised his injured arm, tried to struggle, and finally let out a decadent sigh.
Zhiqing suffered a neck injury, an arm injury, a cut in the chest, and a head smash. The doctors and nurses in the county hospital all sighed that his life was really big, and if Zhong Kui was half a day late, his life would be suspended.
Next, Zhiqing told Zhong Kui about the bloody case......
Why didn't Zhiqing send a telegram to Zhong Kui?
That's because after a month and a half of entering the mountain, there is a dry river on the way down, because the rainy season swells up in one night, and it is impossible to wade through it just by stepping barefoot into the river.
If you can't cross this natural rainy season, you have to wait until the torrential rain stops and the river becomes smaller.
Surveys can't be carried out on rainy days, so the big guys have to stand by on the spot.
Zhiqing was busy drawing and numbering the various ores collected in the tent, and the other staff members were not idle, they were busy.
The most free are the three porters from the countryside.
The porter is from the countryside, and he is curious about everything, such as wanting to see new things all the time.
Spy on other people's secrets or something, anyway, among the three pickers, the one-eyed demeanor should be more prominent.
When the young porter was idle, he picked up pieces of arrow bamboo leaves and folded the sailboat to play.
The middle-aged porter picked up a wooden stick and drew a square grid on the ground, calling the young porter to play him chess.
The one-eyed porter looked at the two boring partners with a horizontal face, and the unscrupulous and disdainful look made the young porter uncomfortable.
"Boss, don't you stare people like this, okay?" The young porter flicked the blades of the arrow and protested against One-Eye.
"What do you see? Are you looking good? ! One-eyed opened his gaze to the young porter, and then scolded: "Ge Laozi, what else can you two do with this?" ”
The middle-aged porter didn't understand why the one-eyed boss was angry, he hurriedly stopped moving his hands, looked at each other with a pair of old eyes, and said, "What's wrong with the boss's bad mood?" As he spoke, he glared at the young porter and said, "You kid go to the side, see that the boss is not going well and is still messing around." ”
The young porter was reprimanded by these two self-righteous guys for no reason, and the boss was unhappy in his heart, and said in his heart: Go out, go out, I don't want to stay with you yet! Thinking like this, he sneered, "Hey, hey! It's convenient for me to go outside, and you two will move the land by myself, and let you. ”
It is convenient for the young porter to go out, which is exactly what the one-eyed wants.
After the young porter went out, the one-eyed and mysterious beckoned to let the middle-aged porter come over a little next to him.
"How much do we earn in a day?" It's the sneaky voice of the one-eyed porter.
"What?" The middle-aged porter with a good nature doesn't understand what the one-eyed boss means.
The one-eyed picker glared at the other party fiercely, and continued to whisper: "I think a few of them have a problem, especially the one surnamed Chen, he may have a lot of this!" As he spoke, he made a gesture of counting the bills with his fingers, and his one-eyed glittered with greed, and his face distorted a little from nervousness and excitement.
"So what?" The middle-aged porter asked inexplicably.
"You coward, it's almost the same for the little third son." One-Eye said in an insightful tone.
"What do you mean......" the middle-aged porter asked, his eyes wide open, puffing out. He was a little timid and didn't say the second half of the sentence.
"Hmph, I've finally got the hang of it." One-eyed snorted coldly and pursed his lips, and looked at the other party with a triumphant thumbs up.
"Oh, it's against the law. Besides, the money is on them, how can we do it? ”
"Come, I'll tell you......," One-Eye said, grabbing the middle-aged porter, and whispering so. After speaking, the excitement on his face became even stronger, and then he added, "How is it?" ”
"But the third son."
"Let's get it done, ...... him like this," One-Eye said, gesturing his facial expression and mixing it with a murderous gaze.
As the two of them were talking, there was a click from outside, as if something had been crushed artificially.
"Who?" The middle-aged porter scolded loudly.
"Me." The young porter lifted the tent curtain and said yes and came in.
"Are you eavesdropping on us?" One-Eyed tentatively.
"What did you say?" The young porter said with a puzzled expression.
Seeing the other party ask like this, One-eyed was relieved, and said with a smile: "It's nothing." Then he exchanged glances with the middle-aged porter, and deliberately diverted the topic: "Is it still raining outside?" ”
"No, Captain Chen, a few of them seem to have gone out to observe the terrain!"
"Oooh! Then let's start work too. One-Eyed stood up, patted the dirt on his body, lifted the curtain and looked out.