Boss Wang gently closed the document handed to him by Zhou Boren, and said heavily: "Since you came in, I felt that you guys were by no means ordinary people, it seems that my guess is correct...... I didn't expect you to be white-handed. ”

Since ancient times, folk tomb robbing, drug refining, bandits, etc., are all called "black hands", and if the government comes to do similar things, such as archaeology, torture tools, poisons, mountain closure fees, etc., it is "white hands". To put it simply, "white hands" refers to people like Zhou Boren who do things openly and honestly.

Uncle Lao Yang smiled slightly, took out 10,000 yuan from his bag, gently put it in front of Boss Wang, and said politely: "The Qinling Mountains are complex, and it is easy to get lost without a local guide as a guide. Of course, we won't let you leave the hotel business in vain, here is a 10,000 yuan honorarium, we will pay you another 10,000 yuan after leaving the mountain, what do you think? ”

Boss Wang said solemnly: "Since everyone is an understanding person, then let's not talk darkly, I know that you should have other purposes for asking me to be a guide, but since you are white-handed, I naturally won't ask more." I can accompany you into the mountain, but I have only one purpose, which is to find the missing family of three, so I can't take this money, please take it back. ”

In fact, when Uncle Lao Yang took out this 10,000 yuan just now, I wanted to stop it. No one's money is blown by the wind, your Uncle Zhou and Uncle Lao Yang want to ask someone to be a guide, give one or two thousand yuan, don't you get it, good guy, as soon as you make a move, it is 10,000 yuan, it is really panicked, and you completely forget the fine tradition of our army and frugality. Recalling the hard years when the ancestors gnawed on the bark and beat Lao Jiang, my eyes couldn't help but moisten. Look at the current people, you don't know what it means to remember bittersweet.

But I didn't expect Boss Wang to refuse the honorarium on the table, so I immediately struck while the iron was hot, stuffed 10,000 yuan back into our equipment bag, and then grabbed Boss Wang's hand, and said with emotion: "Brother, you really deserve to be a man with a heroic personality!" Let's take a look, this is called a man! The gold and silver mountains are like nothing in front of you, it's rare, it's rare, you're a friend, and I'm Mo Laosan! ”

Boss Wang's hand was held tightly by me, and he was also very moved, and said to me again and again: "They are all brothers, they are all brothers, don't say it, they are all in the wine." At that moment, everyone present felt a singing and crying brotherhood spreading throughout the Qinling Mountains.

I sighed: "Uncle Yang, look, Boss Wang agreed to accompany us into the mountain, firstly because he took us as friends, and secondly, because he wanted to find the missing family of three, and they didn't care for money at all." You say that you give money to others at every turn, aren't you scolding? Alas, it's really tiring to team up with you, all of them are laymen, laymen! ”

Uncle Lao Yang's face was a little embarrassed by what I said, he coughed lightly twice, and said helplessly: "Since Boss Wang is benevolent and righteous, he regards money like dung, and if he mentalizes him again, it does seem a little cheesy, hehe, blame me, blame me, I will punish myself." ”

In this way, in this small hotel under the cover of night, everyone drank a little wine and talked about the mountains, planning the details of entering the Qinling Mountains tomorrow morning. Boss Wang has lived under Taibai Mountain for 20 years, is very familiar with the local grass and trees, and people are also very reliable, by him as our guide, this mission will definitely double the odds.

Early the next morning, everyone hastily ate some breakfast, checked the equipment needed to enter the mountain again, and after confirming that it was correct, with a wave of Zhou Boren's one hand, this seven-person team composed of me, Pudding, Gu Nianxia, Lao Yang Shu, Er Biao, Zhou Boren, and Boss Wang officially headed for the mysterious Qinling Mountains!

The route of our trip started from Taibai Mountain in southern Shaanxi, passed through Parrot Town, Sheepskin Valley, Baxiantai, Paomaliang and other places, and finally ended at Cuomei Peak in Gannan, all the way to find the "five-clawed golden dragon" shown in ancient paintings. This route is the result of the discussion between Boss Wang and Zhou Boren, which neither delays our "archaeology" nor Boss Wang's search for people.

The seven of us dressed up as travelers, wading through mountains and rivers all the way, shuttling through mountains and forests. The Qinling Mountains are really like a giant dragon lying on the ground, and there are towering mountains everywhere. For the first three hours, we often met scattered tourists on the mountain road, but after three hours, there were almost no people in the mountains, and instead there were all kinds of wild animals hidden in the forest, such as monkeys, rabbits, poisonous snakes, etc., and we even saw a wolf. These signals are telling us that at this moment, we have entered no man's land......

Everyone did not stop for a moment, and trekked in the Qinling Mountains for more than five hours. I remember the old saying "it's a mule and a horse, pull it out and slip it." When I think about it now, it hurts a lot, because I was clearly a "mule" and not a "horse". Zhou Boren, Er Biao, Gu Nianxia, and even the elderly Uncle Yang, the members of the Unsolved Mysteries Research Institute still did not change their faces and hearts did not beat after more than five hours of running, and they did not even sweat much. And I, Pudding and Boss Wang, we were already tired and pale, sweating like rain. I begged for mercy again and again, and asked Zhou Boren if he could take a break, after all, we had just joined the team and had not received professional training, so we really couldn't keep up with their rhythm.

Zhou Boren nodded and motioned for everyone to rest in place. I breathed a sigh of relief and lay on the ground like a dead pig, Pudding and Boss Wang were no better than me, they both sat on the ground and gasped for breath. Uncle Lao Yang took out dry food and water from his backpack and distributed it to everyone, and after walking so much, my stomach was already so hungry that my chest was close to my back, and I didn't care about eating, so I took the food and gobbled it up.

We sat together and discussed the morning. According to the plan, our first step was to climb the highest peak in southern Shaanxi, which is the very famous "Taibai Mountain". I thought that climbing to the top of Taibai Mountain must be hard work, but I didn't think that this mountain didn't have to climb by myself at all, just take the cable car, and take a round trip in 20 minutes to look at the mountains.

Therefore, when we climbed to the top of Taibai Mountain in the morning, it didn't take much time at all, and the cable car was only halfway up, so we directly denied the possibility of the "five-clawed golden dragon" in Taibai Mountain. Because this is a place with "mountains but no power", its feng shui situation is more inclined to cultivate immortals and cultivate the Tao and absorb the essence of heaven and earth, rather than the pattern of "gathering water and hiding wind" in the feng shui of the yin house. To put it simply, this place has good feng shui, but it is not suitable for building a mausoleum.

Therefore, we deduce that the second piece of the living dead jade is likely to be near the highest peak in the true sense of the Qinling Mountains, that is, the "Cuomei Peak" located in the Gannan region at an altitude of nearly 5,000 meters......