Chapter 22: Something Happened
See this scene.
Dian Wei slowly let go of his breathing, and only then did he dare to gasp for air.
He turned and walked to the bamboo basket, took out a torch, lit it with flint, and walked into the bear cave with the torch.
The firelight dispelled the darkness and brightened the bear cave.
Dian Wei frowned, and couldn't help covering his mouth and nose, the smell in the cave was extremely unpleasant, urine and feces stink, and there was corruption.
Click!
There was a sound at Dian Wei's feet, he looked down, removed the surface of his feet, and a broken bone appeared on the ground.
It was impossible to tell if it was the bones of a beast or a human being.
Tooth marks are all over the bones.
Dian Wei looked up and saw that there were piles of bones in the cave, no wonder the smell was so bad.
"Where's the gold and silver jewelry?"
Dian Wei looked left and right, kicked away the pile of bones, and suddenly found a skull, the more he looked at it, the more it looked like a human.
"This black bear has eaten human ......"
Come to think of it, there will not be a bag of gold, silver and jewelry in the bear cave for no reason, someone must have been killed, and the black bear dragged it into the hole as a snack, along with his luggage.
Dian Wei divided all the bones near the skull with three strikes and five divisions, and immediately revealed a corner of clothing in the ground.
"Found it!" Dian Wei was overjoyed.
A bulging package comes into view!
Dian Wei opened it to take a look, under the reflection of the firelight, the moment the package was spread out, the bright light suddenly bloomed, colorful, illuminating the bear cave as bright as day, brilliant and colorful.
Brilliant gold bars, glittering silver ingots, strings of cat's eye pearls......
"So much!"
Dian Wei was taken aback, and his first reaction was not ecstatic because he had received a windfall, but mostly in shock.
Counted the ......
There are six gold bars, each weighing a pound.
There are 12 silver ingots, each weighing about 10 taels.
There are seven strings of pearl necklaces, and the number of pearls in each string exceeds twenty.
In addition, there is a pair of bracelets, the material is rare blood chalcedony, the luster is still bright and moving.
Dian Wei hurriedly covered it!
Then, he gasped.
I have limited eyesight and can't estimate the total price of this bag of gold and silver jewelry, but in short, there are many, many of them.
"I don't know who the rich man who died, and who he carried so much money with him......
There was too much money, which made Dian Wei feel a little empty.
If anyone finds this property in his hands, he may incur death.
Dian Wei carefully inspected the gold bars and silver ingots again, and suddenly found a detail, whether it was gold bars or silver ingots, there was a lifelike totem carved on them, the blue-eyed tiger.
Dian Wei had never seen gold bars and silver ingots before, and he didn't know if there were any totems on them.
But it is clear that the gold and silver are most likely the property of a certain force, and they are marked.
"Blue-eyed Tiger, where do I seem to have seen it?"
Dian Wei couldn't help but slap a spirit, the green-shirted guest that Old Man Zheng had entertained, his clothes were embroidered with a blue-eyed tiger, exactly the same as the totem on the gold and silver.
"These possessions may not be ownerless."
Even though the rich man in the bear cave is dead, it doesn't mean that no one is looking for this windfall.
Realizing this, Dian Wei felt that the money could not be taken out and spent casually, and he had to be cautious.
Preferably, it can melt all the gold and silver and recast it.
"These seven pearl necklaces do not have any logos, and when they are separated, they should be able to be realized without risk." Dian Wei thought.
Pick up the package and walk out of the bear hole.
Dian Wei looked at the black bear, stepped forward, picked up the wood chopping axe, cut off the four bear paws, and threw them into the bamboo basket along with the package.
Then he found a place, dug a pit, buried a bag of belongings deeply, and took only a silver ingot and a string of pearl necklaces with him.
A few days after that.
As soon as Dian Wei was free, he ran to the major shops on the street.
At noon on this day, the autumn wind was bleak.
A gambling house, with a lot of noise.
Dian Wei looked up and walked slowly into this gambling house, there were many people gambling in it.
Dian Wei swayed from table to table, look at this and that.
People thought he was here to gamble, but no one drove him away.
After all, his height is one meter six, not short, and if you don't look at his face carefully, he looks like an adult at first glance.
Suddenly, he saw a man throw a silver ingot on the gambling table, shouting "press big" in his mouth.
Dian Wei hurriedly approached and took a closer look at the silver ingot, and found that there was also a blue-eyed tiger totem on the silver ingot, which was the same as the silver ingot in his arms, and he couldn't see the difference.
"It seems that I thought too much, and the silver ingot looks like this." Dian Wei secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
And so it goes.
That windfall can be sold at will.
"As long as you are cautious and your wealth is not exposed, there should be no big problem." Dian Wei's hanging heart finally let go, and he couldn't help but feel very happy.
A calm and regular life begins again.
Dian Wei threw dice step by step every day, took wax pills, ate the meat of foreign beasts, and practiced writing and painting.
After a few days, Old Man Zheng suddenly told the apprentices that he had something to go out for, and he would come back in a month soon, and told everyone what to do or what to do, and not to slack off in practice.
All the affairs of the Zheng Mansion were handed over to his wife to take care of, and he wanted to receive wax pills and buy foreign beast meat, and find his wife.
Dian Wei heard for the first time that Old Man Zheng had a wife, and he had never seen this master before.
After inquiring, I found out that the master had been living in the inner courtyard and rarely showed up.
Old man Zheng left Cangtong Town the next day, and with him, there were apprentices such as Zhao Renjie, Li Kuo, and Rong Ran, more than 30 people, all of whom were good hands in the yard.
They escorted a truckload of grain out of Cangtong Town.
There are a lot of fertile fields around Cangtong Town, on average, each person can share more than ten acres, it is definitely a large-scale grain producing area, and selling grain is the main source of income for the people.
In Cangtong Town, the vast majority of people make a living from farming, and a few do business.
Among the tens of thousands of people, there are not many people who really learn martial arts.
In the courtyard of Zhengfu, sometimes there are newcomers entering the door, sometimes there are old apprentices leaving, no longer learning, the number of people has never increased, and there are only hundreds of apprentices who come and go.
"These people are all masters!"
Dian Wei watched the grain convoy leave, so he confirmed which people's realm was higher.
For example, Sun Shan, he is not qualified to follow Old Man Zheng, and his strength is obviously not good.
Although Old Man Zheng and the others left, Dian Wei was not greatly affected, and his life went by as usual.
It's just that when he received the wax pills and the meat of the alien beast, he didn't see Shi Niang, and a maid came forward instead of Shi Niang and did the work.
In the blink of an eye, half a month passed in a flash.
Dian Wei still didn't feel that there was "blood energy" in his body, and he was not in a hurry, insisting on studying and practicing hard.
Whining......
It's winter, and the wind is cold.
In the evening of that day, a strong wind suddenly blew, and dark clouds covered the sky, and the sky was dark and chaotic.
"How does it look like a summer thunderstorm?"
Dian Wei was practicing painting in the study of the Qin Mansion at the moment, when a strong wind blew in the door, and the pages of the book flew and made a loud noise.
Mr. Qin, who was also reading in the study, looked up at the door, got up and walked out.
Dian Wei also went out and looked up at the sky.
I saw dark clouds like ink, rolling like a tide.
The strong wind blew Mr. Qin's two arms flying around, and for some reason, his brows furrowed tightly, and his face was solemn.
"Xiao Wei, you hide in the study, don't come out." Mr. Qin turned around, looked at Dian Wei and said with a serious expression.
Seeing this, Dian Wei's heart sank, and he didn't ask anything, turned around and walked into the study, closed the door, and looked out through the crack in the door.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, Mr. Qin was no longer in place, and he didn't know where he went.
It quickly darkened outside.
In the wind, there was a mist, not white, but a dull gray, which was used like a tide from all directions, filling every street and alley, and occupying every courtyard.
Soon, Dian Wei became blind, and there was a gray mist outside, and he couldn't see anything.
Rumble!
Somewhere, there was a loud bang!
"Earthquake?"
Dian Wei clearly felt a slight tremor on the ground, followed by another loud roar.
The tremor was felt even more intensely.
Then, the roar came and went......
"What's the situation?" Dian Wei's heart gradually swelled with uneasiness, something big must have happened outside.
In this unsettling atmosphere, time passed little by little.
"It's useless to be anxious, to be a man, to have calm ...... every time there is a big event"
Dian Wei sighed softly, and simply stood in front of the desk, drawing with a pen, ignoring all movement outside.
Before he knew it, a picture of a beautiful woman was completed under his pen.
The character in the painting is his maid Yinlan, with a realistic image and expressive eyes.
After the painting was finished, the person was also tired.
Dian Wei listened outside, and it was already quiet.
But Mr. Qin hadn't come back yet, he simply sat on the chair and squinted for a while, and then fell asleep directly.
When I woke up, it was already the next day.
Dian Wei opened the door, the sun shone on his body, there was no wind, and the yard was full of dust.
Not long after, he met Mr. Qin.
Mr. Qin's face was tired, his face was faintly pale, and he coughed a few times occasionally, and his health suddenly did not look good.
Dian Wei wanted to ask something, but Mr. Qin went directly into the bedroom to rest, as if he hadn't slept all night, he had to dispel his thoughts and go to Zheng's mansion step by step.
The streets, empty.
Dian Wei walked three or four streets, but he didn't see a person, and he felt like he was in a ghost town.
Arrived at Zheng's Mansion.
Dian Wei was also the first to come, he warmed up first, received wax pills and alien beast meat, and cultivated alone.
Later, people came one after another.
Sun Shan also showed up, and Dian Wei hurried over to inquire about the situation.
"Last night, a vicious wind came and overturned a large number of houses in Qingle Fang, and I heard that many people were blown away by the strong wind, and no one died or died." Sun Shan said in a deep voice.
Dian Wei was stunned when he heard it, a little unconvinced, and ran to Qingle Fang to see it with his own eyes, and the scene was a ruin, a mess.
"Monster, monster has eaten my husband......" a woman howled as if she were mad.
"What monster, I didn't see a monster?"
"yes, the fog was too big last night to see anything."
There was a lot of talk around the people.
The woman cried, "I see, a monster, very tall, the courtyard wall is only waist-high, grab my husband, lift it up and stuff it into his mouth......"
Dian Wei listened, and cold sweat flowed down.
Once again, he thought of the bodhisattva who eats people.