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When he was setting up his stall today, he noticed this person at first glance and immediately knew that this person was probably busy shipping goods.
Hu Xiuwu is here today too, so it's a good opportunity to ask him to help see if the old farmer has any good stuff.
Wang Kaixuan couldn't hold it in any longer.
After hearing what Hu Bayi said, he hurriedly handed over the stall to the stall owner next to him, as there were no good things on his stall anyway.
Hu Bayi led Hu Xiuwu and Wang Kaixuan towards the old farmer.
As soon as he got close, Hu Xiuwu could sense that this person had a smell of corpse. The things in his bag were probably ghost objects.
Hu Xiuwu grabbed Hu Bayi's arm and told him what he had discovered.
When Hu Bayi heard that the man was holding a funerary object, he immediately became excited.
While the man was having trouble asking for the price, he quickly went up to him and tried to get close to him.
Not to mention, when Hu Bayi deals with people or speaks to them, he always speaks in a righteous manner.
It really put the old farmer's guard down and he found out his name.
Li Chunlai.
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After dispelling Li Chunlai's wariness, Hu Bayi enthusiastically said that he would treat his farmer friends to a meal and hotpot.
Li Chunlai was just an ordinary farmer who seldom ate meat. When he heard that he was going to have some meat, his throat started to move and he was so happy.
In this way, the four of them went to the hot pot restaurant.
Not surprisingly, it was the store that Da Jin Ya often took them to.
As he came here so often, Hu Bayi got to know the owner of the store through Da Jin Ya's introduction.
Moreover, the owner of this store is also a retired soldier and can get along well with Hu Bayi.
Plus the food in the store is fresh and the prices are reasonable.
So whenever there is business, Hu Bayi likes to discuss it here, and the boss even reserved a private room for Hu Bayi.
Actually, it is next to the kitchen, with a small table. It is not as noisy as the hall.
If he is not a regular customer, the boss will not let him in.
The hot pot is served, the meat is eaten, and two taels of wine are drunk.
In addition, Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan deliberately tried to get close to them.
Li Chunlai then obviously talked more and took out the things in his bag and let them see.
The thing in his bag turned out to be an embroidered shoe.
However, the workmanship is extremely exquisite, and it is embellished with various jewels. There are faint traces of gold thread on the upper, and it is preserved very well.
Li Chunlai blushed and told the story of the shoe.
When the village was digging for bones, they found a female corpse. He was ordered to stay and burn the body. Ma Dabing led people to intercept the burial objects of the female corpse, and used the shoe to seal his mouth.
Ma Dadan’s coffin shop is weird. Every time you tap on a coffin, a person will die. Then the coffin shop will be struck by lightning from God.
When Hu Xiuwu heard this, he knew he was talking nonsense.
All the practices of dry bone piles are wrong.
And if they really found some kind of evil spirit, everyone present at the time would die.
If Ma Dabing was really that arrogant, and mastered the art of cursing, and was still so arrogant, he would have been dealt with by Nadutong long ago, and he would not have been kept until now. It is likely that someone spread rumors.
On the other side, Hu Bayi was reminded by Hu Xiuwu that the shoe was genuine, but Hu Xiuwu could only tell whether the item was a ghost item or not.
He had no idea how much the shoes were worth. After all, it was a one-person world and there was no such thing as precious things.
These embroidered shoes are among the miscellaneous antiques, and it is not easy to find a buyer who knows their value.
Hu Bayi thought to himself and decided that he had to go find Da Jin Ya for this matter.
So after dinner, Hu Bayi took Li Chunlai to Da Jin Ya's shop.
It happened that Da Jin Ya was at home, and after hearing what Hu Bayi said,
He took a look at the embroidered shoes and thought they were really nice, saying they could be worth several thousand.
After hearing Li Chunlai's words, his mouth never closed.
He immediately changed his words and said that he had a box of good stuff at home and hoped that big bosses like Hu Bayi could go with him to his hometown, Gulan County, to collect it.
When Wang Kaixuan heard this, his eyes lit up. Although Hu Bayi pretended to be calm, he was actually very excited.
After comforting Li Chunlai, several people started discussing the matter with Da Jin Ya.
Nagulan County is located in the northwest region, on the Loess Plateau, and belongs to the Three Qins. Since ancient times, many dignitaries have been buried here, and tomb robbing is also common.
Hu Bayi has been living a comfortable life in Beijing recently. His wounds have healed and he has forgotten the pain. He wants to go back to his old job.
Hu Bayi thought that if collecting the things this time was not successful, he would just go with Wang Kaixuan and use the technique of dividing gold to locate the burial site to find an ancient tomb and do the tomb-raiding work.
As for Da Jin Ya, he actually had the idea of going to the Sanqin area to collect things a long time ago, but he had no one to protect him, and they were worried that something might happen to him on the way with his thin arms and legs.
It just so happened that Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan also had an idea this time, so they could team up with Da Jin Ya and protect him.
Hu Bayi also tried to drag Hu Xiuwu along.
He knew that Hu Xiuwu's skills were extraordinary.
Once in his and Wang Kaixuan’s rental house, Xiuwu and Wang Kaixuan made a bet on arm wrestling and a hotpot meal.
As a result, Wang Kaixuan, a fat man weighing nearly 200 pounds, was unable to defeat Xiuwu, a teenager.
Moreover, Hu Xiuwu was once a Taoist priest of Mount Mao.
If you happen to encounter a zongzi, it would just hit the muzzle of the gun.
Hu Xiuwu was also bored at home.
For some reason, Wang Ye suddenly went to Wudang Mountain a few days ago and said he would not be back for the entire summer vacation.
Without him as a lubricant, the fun would be meaningless for Hu Xiuwu and Wang Ye's friends.
It would be nice to go with Hu Bayi and the others and see the Yellow River.
After this chapter, I will start to make some magical changes, including the plots in the play and the book.
Chapter 23 Yellow River
Just do it when you say it. Since we have already discussed it, none of us are the kind of people who would procrastinate.
Hu Bayi went home to pack up his equipment.
The last time we went to the Jingjue Ancient City, the wealthy woman Shirley Yang left all her remaining equipment with Hu Bayi.
Except for the lack of weapons, all other tools and equipment are there, such as flashlight, engineer shovel, rope, black donkey hoof...
Big Gold Tooth went to the bank to withdraw money and put it in his wallet.
Wang Kaixuan took the equipment, and Hu Bayi took Hu Xiuwu with him.
Hu Bayi made an agreement with his family that he would take his younger brother to see the Yellow River.
After everything was ready, they boarded the train to the Northwest Region.
When they arrived in the northwest, Li Chunlai was already waiting for them at the train station.
Gulan County is located in a remote area and has no mineral resources, so there are no train stations nearby and the road conditions are not good.
They could only take the bus twice a day to Gulan County.
Li Chunlai took them on the bus, and Wang Kaixuan kept talking on the way.
Although he was still a little carsick, in order to make money, he still insisted on chatting with Li Chunlai, hoping to get some information out of Li Chunlai.
But Li Chunlai, although he looks honest, is actually very shrewd. He can chat with Wang Kaixuan, but once it comes to those things, he won't say a word.
Unable to bear the harassment of Wang Kaixuan any longer, he sat in the seat next to him to avoid Wang Kaixuan.
Seeing that he couldn't get anything out of Li Chunlai, Wang Kaixuan got bored and started teasing Hu Bayi again:
"I'm telling you, Xiuwu, remember to tell Uncle Hu and Aunt Hu when you get home, so that they can be mentally prepared. Maybe they will have a foreign daughter-in-law."
Bang! Bang!
The bus was running smoothly on the dirt road, but suddenly its engine made a loud bang, emitted a cloud of black smoke, and then stopped moving.
Hu Bayi said to Wang Kaixuan, "Let's talk! Let's talk! I'm going to make my car explode because of all the talking!"
"Hey~, what does this have to do with me!"
The bus can't move.
There was no choice but for the five people to get off the car and, under the guidance of Li Chunlai, walk towards the Yellow River, hoping to catch a ride on a boat and travel by water to Gulan County.
Hundreds of rivers flow into the Yellow River, fish turn into dragons, the Yellow Dragon swims eastward, roaring for thousands of miles.
Looking at the surging river in front of him, Hu Xiuwu felt his heart open up a lot and he had a different kind of emotion.
It is said that traveling thousands of miles is equivalent to reading thousands of books. This saying still makes a lot of sense.
Just as Hu Xiuwu was immersed in the magnificent scenery around him, a harsh sound came from his ears, interrupting his thoughts.
"Tie the tent! Tie the tent!"
Wow, it turns out that while Hu Xiuwu was enjoying the scenery, Hu Bayi and the others were not idle either. While chatting, Hu Bayi actually started singing!
This shout almost prevented Hu Xiuwu from going to see Zhang Huaiyi.
However, it was a coincidence that when Hu Bayi was singing Qinqiang, he actually called over a small boat carrying steel pipes for construction materials.
With five red bills, Wang Kaixuan successfully stopped the boat at the shore and got the boat owner to agree to take them to Gulan County.
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There were only two people on the boat, the owner and his son. The father was both the captain and the sailor. Under the guidance of his father, the child learned how to drive the boat and tie the ropes.
When they reach a wide river, the boat owner will give the boat to his son to steer and train him.
He came to the deck, gave cigarettes to Hu Bayi and the others, and they started chatting.