Strange Chef

Chapter 3: Treasures in the distant mountains

When he came out of the desert, Zhang Laosan in the prison asked him to help take a look at his daughter. The reward was the burial location of the treasures he had stolen over the decades.

Bai Lu didn't care about those things. The old fellow had said that although those things were very expensive, more than half of them were difficult to sell. What he cared about was the feelings of those old fellows in the prison. The shortest time he had spent with them was more than ten years. There was more or less some affection. Having a request, he should do it.

But there was a big problem. He had no money on him. He had a total of a little over a thousand yuan on him. He couldn't even afford a slightly better mobile phone. If Zhang Laosan's daughter was poor, he couldn't help. Even if he went there, what good would it do?

The urgent problem was to get money. So, he decided to dig for treasure first.

Early the next morning, he lowered the rolling shutter door and put up a new notice. This store will be closed for several days.

He went out of the city alone.

According to what Zhang Laosan said, go west out of Beicheng. It's estimated that after walking about one or two hundred miles, there is a mountain range. Behind the most dangerous peak that looks like an old man, in a dense forest, there is a large stone. There are two characters “Laosan” engraved on the stone. Walk a hundred meters to the right. There are two connected big trees. Dig two meters in front of the big trees. That's the treasure location.

So Bai Lu went west. Because he had to dig soil, he first went to buy a foldable military shovel. Fortunately, this thing is everywhere on the street. Buy it casually. Put it into his small schoolbag and enter the mountain.

After taking a bus and walking for more than two hours, Bai Lu sighed at the mountain. What kind of place is this? They actually charge an entrance fee?

The continuous mountains are blocked by a few small fences. The asphalt road leads directly into the mountains. There are restaurants and small shops by the roadside. There are all kinds of things like fishing and rural tourism. Straight ahead is a huge billboard. Welcome to the forest park.

The desert is still better. You can walk anywhere freely. As long as you don't die, there is definitely no entrance fee.

Reluctantly buying the entrance ticket, Bai Lu went to look at the scenic area map. After looking for a long time, he still couldn't find which mountain looked like an old man. Returning to the gate and asking the security guard, the security guard thought for a while and said, "You mean the Great Sage Peak, right?"

"Great Sage Peak?"

"Look over there. Behind that mountain. Yes, that one. Does it look like a monkey?"

"Monkey? Old man?" Alright, Bai Lu was deeply impressed by Zhang Laosan's eyesight and the creativity of the park managers. He continued to ask, "Which mountain is the most dangerous?"

"It's okay. Nowadays, there's nothing really dangerous or not. As long as you follow the path, it's fine. By the way, have you bought insurance?"

Do you want me to have an accident or not? Bai Lu thanked the security guard grudgingly and headed towards the Great Sage Peak.

The security guard chased after him and said, "That place is quite far. If you go there now, you might not be able to come down the mountain at night. Take a vehicle. One hundred yuan per person and it will take you to the foot of the mountain..."

To save time, Bai Lu followed the security guard's suggestion and took a sightseeing vehicle to set off. The security guard continued to ask, "Have you bought insurance?"

"Isn't insurance included in the ticket price?"

"That one has less compensation. Buying another one will pay more."

Bai Lu was speechless. Led by the sightseeing vehicle, he arrived at the Great Sage Peak twenty minutes later.

After getting off the vehicle, he was stunned again. At the end of the asphalt road, the mountain was tall and the forest was dense. There were paths up the mountain and paths down the mountain, but there was no way to go forward. For such a tall and steep mountain, how could he climb to the back?

Asking the sightseeing vehicle driver, the driver said, "Why go to the back? I haven't been there in the five years I've been working here. Young man, it's a good thing to want to explore, but you can't joke with your life."

Just let me joke with my life once. Bai Lu started climbing the mountain.

Not to mention the steepness along the way. After struggling and climbing, he finally reached his destination. When he saw the legendary big stone, it was already eight o'clock in the evening. The forest was pitch-black, and from time to time, the shrill howls of wild animals could be heard.

Bai Lu cursed secretly. Isn't this a forest park? Why is it so terrifying?

Observing the surrounding environment. Although it was very dark, it was quiet at night and suitable for starting work. He took out a shovel and started digging.

Digging and digging. After finally digging more than thirty centimeters deep, there was a cracking sound. The shovel broke.

Bai Lu was furious. "There are fakes for everything? How can we recover America with such a crappy shovel?"

Helplessly, he continued to dig with the broken shovel.

A two-meter-deep pit. With the tool not being suitable and small animals coming to visit from time to time, it wasn't until midnight that he finally dug something.

The shovel hit a wooden board and made a dull thud. Bai Lu was very happy. Finally, it was about to be completed.

Facts are always unexpected. There was indeed a wooden board. But when he started digging around along the wooden board, he found that there was always more to dig.

The more he dug, the more wooden boards there were. It wasn't until the next morning that he finally cleared this place. Under his feet were a dozen or so wooden boards closely arranged, just like the bedboards of a bed. Lifting the wooden boards, a coffin was revealed. Bai Lu was very depressed. Did Zhang Laosan hide his treasures in a coffin?

After cleaning off the dirt, he lay on the coffin and gasped for breath. By this time, the sun had already come out. Bai Lu cursed wildly in his heart. That unlucky Zhang Laosan. When hiding treasures, he actually hid them in a coffin... Wait, what if this wasn't the treasure location and it was really someone's coffin?

Bai Lu quickly climbed out of the deep pit and looked everywhere for a tombstone.

There was no tombstone. Besides, who would bury someone so deep, two meters below... No, two meters doesn't seem deep. In TV shows, they always dig this deep...

The more he thought, the more confused he became. Calming down, wouldn't he know if he opened the coffin?

Going back down into the pit again, he pried open the coffin nails. After opening it and looking inside, it truly made heroes shed tears. More than half of the coffin was filled with ancient books and paintings. Packaged in vacuum plastic bags and densely piled together. How could he take them back?

The other half was filled with some very vulgar jewels. Bai Lu didn't recognize them. In short, they were just things like pearls, agates, and jade.

Seeing these things, Bai Lu finally understood why Zhang Laosan, a thief, was sent to serve a life sentence in the big desert. And he finally understood why, with so many good things, he didn't give them to his daughter but instead gave them to himself. First, it wasn't safe. He was afraid that people would be after them and cause trouble for his daughter. Second, it still wasn't safe. In case the police found out, he would definitely be caught.

This wasn't wealth. It was a shortcut to prison. Giving them to himself was the best choice. First, he didn't let these things go to waste. Second, he got a lot of money for nothing and would feel embarrassed. Naturally, he would take good care of his daughter.

Standing by the side of the coffin and rummaging through. As Zhang Laosan had said, these things were very difficult to exchange for cash.

With so many treasures, just looking at them made one dizzy. Maybe they were stolen from the homes of some royal relatives. They were registered with the public security bureau. Bai Lu didn't dare to blatantly challenge national laws and take them out and show them around.

When he flipped to the bottom of the coffin, oh my god. The entire bottom of the coffin was covered with a layer of gold bricks. There were at least fifty or sixty of them. I don't know how Zhang Laosan brought them in before.

The gold bricks were too heavy and inconvenient to take out. If only there were two gold bars. After choosing for a long time, among all the treasures in the coffin, there wasn't a single thing suitable for taking out and selling.

This bastard. Didn't he know to leave a few bank cards? Looking at the thick stack of various stocks and bonds in his hand, also packaged in vacuum plastic bags, Bai Lu didn't even want to open them to see how many kinds and how much money there was. He directly threw them back into the coffin.

If it was easy to sell, Zhang Laosan wouldn't have buried these things with the ancient books and paintings.

It was really not good to be too trusting of others. He was deceived by Zhang Laosan. That guy said that most things were difficult to sell. In fact, there wasn't a single thing that was easy to sell. No wonder they had to be buried deep in the mountains.

After putting all the treasures in order, he thought for a while and took out a gold brick and put it into his schoolbag. It wasn't that he didn't want to take more. This thing was too heavy. A gold brick the size of a martial arts novel weighed forty or fifty catties.

He threw the schoolbag outside the pit. After packing up the things in the coffin, he closed the coffin lid, nailed it shut, laid the wooden boards back, stepped on it twice to test. No problem. He climbed out of the pit and started filling it.

Twenty minutes later, the ground became flat. Wasting another hour, he found branches and fallen leaves from other places in the forest and scattered them on this patch of soil. Then he made a slight cleanup in other places in the forest. In short, he didn't want people to see the new soil here. Then he carried the gold brick and went down the mountain.

The way out of the mountain was also steep. It took him more than four hours to return to the asphalt road.

Just think about it. Carrying a fifty-pound thing and circling in the mountains for more than four hours. How tiring it was. When Bai Lu saw the sightseeing vehicle, he had a feeling of finding his organization. He excitedly rushed up and said, "I want to go down the mountain."

The driver gave him a curious look. This guy was quite heavy. He collected the money and drove, going down the mountain.