After the Lantern Festival, Zhao Mingding said goodbye to Wei Jiumei, who stayed at his house almost every day, and returned to Tanzhou to work normally. When Zhao Mingding heard this, he shook his head, and had to say yes, which can be regarded as agreeing with her first cut and then playing. It is also a good thing that the two elderly people are at home and have someone to take care of them.

After Zhang Bao returned to Dongguan, he handed over all the affairs to Huang Li to take care of, and also came to Tanzhou, running around every day, saying that he wanted to find a place to open another restaurant, and handed it over to He Caishan to take care of, but unfortunately He Caishan didn't seem to be very interested, and he was busy with his own shop all day long, and he enjoyed it.

Zhao Mingding finally met Wu Mei.

That morning, Zhao Mingding had just come out of the information center of the office building after copying the documents, and he met Li Huiying who entered the office building, and next to her was Wu Mei, who was Luo Shuming fooling Zhao Mingding to go on a blind date. The two talked and laughed, and at a glance they looked like best friends who had nothing to talk about since they were children. When Zhao Mingding saw it, he hurriedly lowered his head, and wanted to slip away from the two of them, but was stopped by Li Huiying: "Zhao Mingding, why are you hiding from me?" ”

"I didn't ...... Nope! Zhao Mingding heard Li Huiying call him, so he had to stop and said with an embarrassed smile, "The workshop is in a hurry to get information, I want to send ......it over in a hurry."

"Zhao Gongzi, don't come to harm, are you okay?" Zhao Mingding stammered and was about to explain, when he heard Wu Mei greet him on the side, "Thank you for inviting me to drink 82-year-old Lafite!" ”

"What did you say?" Li Huiying glanced at Wu Mei in disbelief, turned her head to Zhao Mingding and asked, "You know each other?" ”

Zhao Mingding was born to the side of the guts, fixed his mind, smiled slightly, and said to Li Huiying: "Oh, please let me introduce: This is my girlfriend, Miss Wu Mei!" Then he waved his hand to Wu Mei, took the information in his hand, walked out of the office building quickly, returned to the workshop, wrote a leave note for a month of leave and handed it to the clerk, returned to He Caishan's shop, packed his luggage, and went straight to Dongguan with Zhang Bao......

Early in the morning, Zhao Mingding followed Zhang Bao to inspect the deep pool he had first fallen into.

The mountain is not very high, but it is quite steep, thorny, strange rocks, there are no trees, in Guangdong, where every inch of land is valuable, it has not been flattened to build factories and houses, presumably because the use value is not large, so it can be preserved.

Overcoming obstacles all the way, it was easy to get up the mountain, and everyone's hands and faces inevitably left some scratches as a souvenir. Peel aside the thatched grass that is as high as Qi people, only to see a hole with a diameter of about 100 meters, which the local people call Longtan is at the foot, and there is no bottom, and there is a thick fog rising from the hole. Many years ago, on a dark and windy night, Zhang Bao was like a lost dog, so unprepared to step into this deep pool, life and death were uncertain.

"After many explorations, this cave is about 100 meters deep and smooth all around." Zhang Bao said, "It's just that I'm single, and I don't dare to go down without taking care of it, for fear of accidents." As he spoke, he took Zhao Mingding around the entrance of the cave and walked forward, about five hundred meters, and came to the edge of the cliff.

"Fortunately, I fell into a deep pool, and if I had fallen into the sea below the cliff, I don't know what would have happened." Looking back on the past, Zhang Bao still has palpitations.

At that time, the sun is rising, the sun is warm and affectionate, shining on the earth, the traffic under the mountain is busy, the pedestrians are in a hurry, only the mountain where Longtan is located is silent, and the birds chirp.

After carefully inspecting the surrounding situation, before returning to the cave, the two took out the white static trekking rope that had been prepared long ago from their backpacks and fixed it on a tree with firm roots and leafy branches on the edge of the cave.

Zhang Bao explained the climbing essentials to Zhao Mingding in detail, put the equipment on his back, and took the lead along the rope, Zhao Mingding followed, slowly sliding down according to the method taught, and saw the cave wall straight along the way, smooth and wet, and there was no grass.

Zhang Bao has long been prepared to take treasure, so he has learned rock climbing and often goes to the wild with rock climbing enthusiasts, so he is skillful, and he went down to the bottom of the cave early, and when Zhao Mingding went down to the bottom of the cave, he had already carefully inspected the surroundings of the waterhole.

Zhao Mingding went down to the bottom of the cave, looked up, and saw that the sky was like a cover, the surroundings were smooth, like a well wall, and there was a pool of deep water at the bottom of the cave, sparkling, and the tentacles were cold. The distance between the pool water and the cave wall is wide and narrow, the wide place is three or five meters and more than ten meters, but the narrow place is connected by the water wall, and it can be seen at a glance that Zhang Bao fell into the deep water where the water wall is connected, otherwise I am afraid that he would have fallen to pieces.

Zhang Bao first used the laser pointer in his hand to point out the location of the cave where he escaped to Zhao Mingding, because the light was not very sufficient, Zhao Mingding only saw a vague hole fifty meters above.

"If it hadn't been for that heavy rain, I really don't know how to get out." Zhang Bao smiled bitterly and looked at the hole for a moment.

Zhao Mingding turned on the flashlight in his hand and shone it into the water, only to see that the pool was deep and deep, and the shallow place was clear and visible, and there were many black slender snails of different sizes adsorbed on the gravel in the water. Because this kind of snail is only produced in the pond water on the mountain, so the Cantonese people call it the pond water snail, the meat is delicious, rich in nutrition, is a rare delicacy.

"This pool of water seems to be dry all year round, and it seems to be a bit famous." Zhang Bao used a flashlight to look around carefully again, "There may be an underwater tunnel that communicates with this pool." ”

"Naturally," replied Zhao Mingding, "the pond water is somewhat like well water, and it is connected with the groundwater." The pool on the mountain can be seen as a confluence of streams. ”

Zhao Mingding remembered the jade Jianchuan that Zhang Bao showed him, and said that he picked it up here, and he couldn't help but feel a little moved, and he also wanted to be able to pick up a treasure no matter what. Reluctantly, I searched the land on the edge of the waterhole in a felt manner, and I couldn't help but be a little disappointed that I didn't even see the shadow of a baby.

"Did you really pick up that jade sword here?" Zhao Mingding asked.

"yes!" Zhang Bao replied casually.

"Are you sure?" Zhao Mingding raised his voice.

"It's true!" Zhang Baodao.

"But I seem to remember that you first said that you brought it out in the ancient city, and then you said that you picked it up on the edge of a waterhole. Where exactly did you get it? Zhao Mingding said, "Don't fool me, right?" ”

"I said I picked it up here, I picked it up here, believe it or not!" Zhang Bao became angry, and his tone became impatient, "Isn't this place a part of the ancient city?" ”

When Zhao Mingding heard this, his words were reasonable, but he was unwilling to be robbed of white, so he said, "But why can't I see the shadow of a baby after looking for a long time?" ”

"Do you think those treasures are like stones on the ground, all over the place?" Zhang Bao said sarcastically.

"Hey, you say, will there be a treasure under this water?" Zhao Mingding stared at the deep pool and asked.

"Haven't you gone down to this waterhole yet, why don't we go down and take a look?" Zhang Bao asked.

"Another day, after all, I didn't prepare, in case of a mistake, it's too late to regret it." Zhao Mingding replied.

"That'll do fine." Zhang Bao replied.

Zhao Mingding shone a flashlight into the water indiscriminately, and when he saw those snails, he couldn't help but salivate: "These snails are delicious, why don't we pick some up and taste them?" Otherwise, we'll go home empty-handed. ”

"Okay!" Zhang Bao hesitated for a long time and replied.

Zhao Mingding then took out the bag he was carrying, picked up the snail with Zhang Bao, picked it up, Zhao Mingding found that Zhang Bao's expression became a little strange, so he raised his head and looked in the direction he was staring at, only to see a coffee cup-shaped thing shallowly buried at the bottom of the water, containing half a cup of sediment, and half of the handle exposed outside the sediment.

"Haven't you seen a coffee cup?" Zhao Mingding gave him a blank look.

"Strange, how can there be coffee cups here?" He also looked puzzled.

"Pick it up and see if it's clear?" Zhao Mingding said, walked over and picked up the cup, poured out the sediment contained in it, washed off the mud and sand attached to the wall of the cup with water, held it up and looked at it, and smiled unconsciously, "Haha, I'm rich!" ”

Where is this coffee cup? This is clearly a jade cup!

It is a milky white cup with some brown spots, the whole body is in the shape of a six-petal flower, the mouth is open, the belly is slightly bulging, the bottom of the cup is rounded, and the handle is a dragon.

"Haha, it's worth the trip!" Zhao Mingding smiled, put the cup into the backpack on his back, and put the snails he picked up into it, and began to concentrate on finding the treasure, searching the bottom of the water inch by inch, hoping to make new discoveries.

Suddenly, only to hear the sound of "bang" water, the water waves in the center of the waterhole surged, a wave of arrows rushed towards Zhao Mingding and Zhang Bao, Zhao Mingding was taken aback, pulled up Zhang Bao and ran towards the place where the hole landed, grabbed the mountaineering and climbed up quickly, while climbing and looking back, I saw a thing like a trunk standing up from the water, shaking towards Zhao Mingding and Zhang Bao constantly.

When they got to the cave, Zhao Mingding and Zhang Bao's hands and feet were weak, and they took a long breath to calm down. The two of them gasped as they quickly retracted the rope. If the monster at the bottom of the pool goes up the rope, it will be a big problem.

Back at the residence, Zhang Bao handed over the snail in Zhao Mingding's backpack to Huang Li to take care of, and then began to study the jade cup with Zhao Mingding in the living room, but after looking at it for a long time, he couldn't figure out what it was, and finally Zhao Mingding thought of a way: take a picture of this cup with a camera, go to the antique market to find a seller, saying that there are guests who want to buy this object, and first set out the selling price.

The two of them almost asked the entire antique market, none of them said that there was this object, and they didn't know what it was, just when the two of them were about to give up, the owner of an antique shop stared at the two of them for a long time, and then said slowly: "You're just afraid that you have this object and want to sell it, right?" ”

The two hurriedly denied it, saying that they were entrusted by a friend, and they really wanted to buy it, and if he had a way, they would help introduce it.

"To be honest, I want to buy this object too," said the owner of the antique shop, "but unfortunately the opportunity is not good, and I have never encountered it." ”

"Oh?" When Zhao Mingding heard this, he hurriedly asked, "How much is this object worth?" ”

He held out a palm.

"Five hundred?" Zhang Bao asked.

He smiled and shook his head.

"Fifty thousand?" Zhao Mingding asked.

He shook his head anyway.

"Will it be half a million?" Zhang Bao asked again.

Hearing Zhang Bao say 500,000, he nodded, with a smile on his face.

"To be so expensive?" Zhao Mingding lost his voice.

"Yes, this object is called the Jade Dragon Bowl (bowl), an object of the Song Dynasty." He replied, "If you two want to make a move, it's easy to talk about the price." ”

"Sure enough, there is no business and no treachery!" Zhang Bao thought to himself, "I'm afraid that if you add another 500,000 yuan, you won't be able to buy it, right?" ”