[130] Greed
It was said before that Zhong Kui had not sent a telegram for several weeks and had a strange nightmare, so he handed over the store he had just opened to guard by Vanilla and Wengen, and went to visit Zhiqing alone.
By the way, there was no compass, no telescopes, and no mobile phones at that time. It was harder to find a few survey team members in the vast jungle than climbing to the sky.
Zhong Kui said he was also very wise. After finding the county where Zhiqing sent a telegram a month later, he hired two local brave and careful mountain villagers and hunting dogs raised by mountain villagers all the way.
As a result, when Zhong Kui and his team crossed mountains and finally found Zhiqing and their base, they were stunned by the scene in front of them.
Several people at Zhiqing's station were lying in a pool of blood, and there was still a faint smell of blood in the air. The tent was messy, and the items in the tent seemed to be robbed.
Three of them counted carefully and found that there were ten people who died. Only Zhiqing was not seen.
At this moment, one of the hunting dogs brought by the mountain people raised their noses and sniffed hard, and suddenly barked at the sky.
The mountain people knew that the hunting dog must have barked when it smelled something abnormal, so they simply let it go and let it search for the smell freely. They just followed behind them.
Sure enough, he found Zhiqing who was already dying in a cave. Zhong Kui shouted that he could not agree, so he had to carry him up and immediately move down the mountain.
When Zhong Kui ignored his fatigue and raised Zhiqing to go 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. Fortunately, the mountain people who were accompanying him were good-minded, they hurriedly called the nearby mountain people to help cut down the bamboo temporarily, and made two sturdy stretchers, lifted Zhong Kui and Zhiqing to the nearby county hospital.
Zhong Kui was exhausted and woke up in a few hours.
But Zhiqing was not that relaxed. He lost too much blood and had a mild infection, had a persistent high fever and was unconscious.
Just when the first strange murder occurred in Tongchuan County, Zhiqing, who was far away from home, barely opened his eyes. When he opened his eyes and saw Zhong Kui for the first time.
Big teardrops rolled around the corners of his eyes, squirming his breath and lips, lifting his injured arm, trying to struggle, but finally sighed decadently.
Zhiqing suffered a neck injury, an arm injury, a chest injury, and a head injury. The doctors and nurses in the county hospital all lamented that his life was so great that if Zhong Kui had gone half a day late, his life would have ended.
Next is Zhiqing telling Zhong Kui about the incident...
Why didn’t Zhiqing send a telegram to Zhong Kui and the others?
That's because after a month and a half of entering the mountain, there was a dry river on the route down the mountain. Because the rainy season came, the river water surged in one night, and it was impossible to get through the river by stepping into the river barefoot alone.
If you cannot cross this river formed by the natural rainy season, you have to wait until the rainstorm stops and the river water becomes smaller before you can go down the mountain.
If you can't conduct surveys on rainy days, everyone has to stand by on time.
Zhiqing was busy drawing and numbersing the various ore collected in the tent, and the other staff did not leave idle and were busy.
The most idle thing is the three porters from the countryside.
The porter comes from the countryside and has little knowledge and is curious about everything, such as always wanting to see new things.
If you are peeking into other people's secrets, the one-eyed person in the third porter should be more prominent.
The young porter took off his idleness and picked the bamboo leaves of arrows and bamboos 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 chess for him.
The one-eyed porter looked at the two boring partners with one face and one eye. His unrestrained and contemptuous look made the young porter feel uncomfortable.
"Boss, don't stare at people like this, okay?" The young porter blew the arrows and protested to the one-eyed.
"What do you think? Are you good at it? Fuck!" One-eyed look opened on the young porter, and then cursed: "Ge, you two have such a little success, what else can you do?"
The middle-aged porter didn't understand why the one-eyed boss got angry. He hurriedly stopped his hands and blinked his old eyes and looked at the other party, "What if the boss is in a bad mood?" As he said that, he glared at the young porter and said, "You guys go, see that the boss is not happy and makes trouble."
The young porter was scolded by these two self-righteous guys for no reason. The boss was also unhappy and said to himself: Go out, go out, I don’t want to stay with you yet! Thinking of this, he smiled and said, “Hi! It’s convenient for me to go outside. You two are the only ones, I will move the ground, let you.”
It is just right for young porters to go out for convenience.
After the young porter went out, he waved his hand mysteriously with one eye, allowing the middle-aged porter to come over a little by little.
"Prosperity, how much do we earn in a day?" This is the sneaky voice of a one-eyed porter.
"What?" The middle-aged porter, who is kind by nature, doesn't understand the meaning of the one-eyed boss.
The one-eyed porter glared at the other party fiercely and continued to whisper: "I think they are a little trick, especially the one named Chen. He may have a lot of this on him!" As he said that, he also used his fingers to count the money. The one-eyed one-eyed shines with a greedy brilliance, and his face became a little distorted because of his nervousness and excitement.
"So what?" the middle-aged porter asked inexplicably.
"You coward, it's almost the same for the mistress." One eye said in a very insightful tone.
"You mean..." the middle-aged porter asked with his eyes wide open and his eyes widened. He was a little timid and did not say the second half.
"Hmph, I finally got it done." One-eyed snorted coldly and curled his lips, pridefully showing his thumbs up at the other party and praised.
"Oh, this is illegal. Besides, the money is on them, so what can we do?"
"Come on, I'll tell you..." He said with one eye holding the middle-aged porter in his ear. After saying that, the excited expression on his face became stronger, and then he added, "How is it?"
"But the mistress."
"Let's do it, let's do it like this..." said one-eyed gesture, mixed with facial expressions and the one-eyed look that showed a fierce look.
Just as the two of them were talking with relish, a click came from outside, as if something was making a sound for human beings to break.
"Who?" the middle-aged porter shouted loudly.
"I." The young porter lifted the curtain of the tent and agreed and came in.
"Are you eavesdropping on us?" One-eyed tentatively.
"What did you say?" said the young porter with a confused expression.
Seeing the other party ask this, he felt relieved and smiled and said without a smile: "It's nothing." Then he exchanged glances with the middle-aged porter, deliberately changing the topic: "Is it still raining outside?"
"It's not down. Captain Chen and his team seemed to go out to observe the terrain!"
Chapter completed!