bullyxtreme Chapter 125 Digging a Treasure Hole, But the House is Raided
Chapter 125 Digging a Treasure Hole, But the House is Raided
Wangcai stared blankly at the conch shell in Li Tingyun's hand.
Li Tingyun asked, "What, you've never seen this before?"
Wangcai shook his head and said, "No, I've seen it. Everyone has a Taiji Hall, but I don't."
"Why? Were you ostracized?"
"No, no... I lost mine."
"How did you lose it?"
"..."
This is a long story.
Wangcai doesn't like to carry anything with him.
Being naked and carefree is the most enjoyable.
He had a habit of digging holes and burying all the most important and valuable things on his body.
He buried the conch shell as well.
This was a "good habit" he developed when he was a child wandering with Li Tingyun.
He has a fixed location for his "treasure," which is on a small hill not far from Lingxi Village.
The hill and the village are only three miles apart.
Under the shade of a large willow tree on the mountain, so thick that it would take two people to hug it, Wangcai had dug holes all over the ground.
Near Lingxi Village, there is a desolate town.
People within a hundred miles casually called it...the desolate city.
Standing under the big willow tree on the mountain, looking down into the distance, one can take in the desolate scene of the city, with its broken walls, crumbling ruins, and overgrown weeds.
Lingxi Village, a village that Li Tingyun destroyed, was actually a place where he lived in the mortal world a long, long time ago.
And that so-called "desolate city" was once a very prosperous city. Because the city was rich in yellow millet, it was named "Yellow Millet City".
……
More than two hundred years ago.
Wangcai was still a stray dog tied up at the entrance of Lingxi Village.
They lack intelligence and understanding of human nature.
People tied it up, intending to starve it to death.
Because it pooped and peed everywhere, bit and barked indiscriminately, it was just a stray dog that nobody wanted.
But there was a child in the village who would always share a piece of leftover food with it.
That child is Li Tingyun.
He was used to being ostracized and was often called a bastard.
It's pitiful to share the same fate as a dog.
Stray dogs bully the weak and fear the strong, and are extremely possessive of their food.
Li Tingyun gave it a good beating.
He was given the name "Wangcai".
Wangcai finally understood after being beaten by him and learned to recognize its master.
Lingxi Village is a clan-based village, with more than half of the families surnamed Yuan, and they are very xenophobic.
Li Tingyun's family was naturally the "outsider" who suffered from discrimination.
Actually, the Li family did not originally live in the village. They were originally a wealthy family in Huangliang City, but they moved out of the city because their fortunes declined.
Typically, clan villages have two important activities each year: revising the family genealogy and burning incense to worship ancestors.
Lingxi Village is no exception, especially valuing the inheritance of bloodlines.
The most important figure in the Yuan family genealogy was the county magistrate who served in Huangliang City.
The county magistrate's lineage originated from Lingxi Village.
Hui people naturally nod and light incense when worshipping their ancestors.
The county magistrate's family had quite a connection with the Li family.
When the Yuan family first entered the city to do business, the Li family took great care of them. Gradually, the two families became neighbors, standing shoulder to shoulder, and their harmonious neighborly relations became a well-known story.
However, the two families later broke up due to discord among the younger generation.
Later, one family prospered while the other declined.
In the end, the Li family had no choice but to move out of the city and into Lingxi Village. They only had a roof over their heads to shelter them from the wind and rain, thanks to the Yuan family's almsgiving and pity, which disregarded past grievances.
These were things that young Li Tingyun told Wangcai in bits and pieces.
He had no friends, but considered his dog his confidant.
Wangcai has an advantage that no one else can match: he's clueless and doesn't understand things.
It can't speak, it only barks, so there's absolutely no need to worry about leaks.
Li Tingyun even told Gouzi the secret of how he set fire to the Yuan Clan Ancestral Hall.
On that chaotic night of raging fire, Wangcai barked excitedly all night, cheering on the villagers who were frantically carrying water to put out the fire.
The next day, the village butcher tied its limbs and put it on the chopping board.
Knife up and down.
On the third day, people found the butcher's own body, which had been brutally dismembered and was soaking in a pool of scarlet, sticky blood, in his home.
Who would have thought that the murderer was a skinny little child?
Li Tingyun stood on a stool and dismembered the burly pig butcher into eight pieces.
It's as easy as cutting mud.
His face, hands, and body were covered in blood.
But he remained expressionless, even with a slight smile.
The person is not a good person, and the dog is not a good dog.
Wangcai immediately grabbed the butcher's head and threw it into the cesspool.
A man and his dog went to the river to bathe overnight.
They even had a water fight and went wild!
They were laughing very loudly.
……
Wangcai never doubted how ruthless or evil his master was.
Although the dog has always had a bad memory and doesn't remember most things from the past very well.
But Gouzi still has a strong impression of Li Tingyun, who dared to kill and commit arson at such a young age.
Years later, Li Tingyun grew up and never went back.
I went there recently.
Massacre of the village.
The dog had a better conscience than him; it had returned to Lingxi Village many times over the past two hundred years.
After all, he buried a treasure under the big willow tree on the mountain.
He has to go back and check on things every now and then, otherwise he can't feel at ease.
The reason why Wangcai dared to hide treasure on the hillside without fear of it being stolen was because that was the burial place of Li Tingyun's birth mother.
A poor woman, whose remains were burned in a fire, her ashes buried under the roots of a willow tree, becoming nourishment for the tree to grow.
The small hill where her ashes are buried is considered an ominous place by the villagers of Lingxi Village. They have adhered to their ancestral teachings for generations, and no one dares to wander around the hill.
Only Wangcai would sneak up the mountain.
For over two hundred years, he has been digging a pit under the shade of the big willow tree to hide his treasure, and nothing has ever gone wrong.
He only recently discovered that his house had been burgled!
Everything was stolen.
You can't find a bird even if you dig three feet into the ground.
It was so clean it was as if his memory was playing tricks on him, and he had never actually buried anything there!
Judging by the timeline, this should have happened a few months before Li Tingyun massacred the village.
That damned thief!
Wangcai was suspicious and even suspected that his owner had taken his treasure.
But he dared not utter a sound.
Until today, he saw his owner take out the conch shell.
This thing was secretly made by the people below, without anyone knowing. Logically, the master shouldn't have this, otherwise the Taiji Palace would be in an uproar...
Under the influence of his own suggestion, Wangcai became more and more convinced that the conch shell was his own, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Li Tingyun was the thief who had run off with his private stash of money!
He mustered his courage and asked, "Master, where did you get this conch shell?"
Li Tingyun said, "What's the problem with it being given by Xia Changfeng?"
Wangcai said sheepishly, "No problem...no problem..."
Hmph, you lie without even blinking!
However, Wangcai certainly wouldn't willingly reveal the whole story of how he dug a pit to hide treasure in front of Li Tingyun's mother's grave and then had it all looted.
He was afraid that if he stepped forward to confess, Li Tingyun would dig a hole and bury him alive!
Seeing that his eyes were darting around, Li Tingyun knew something was amiss and pressed him again, "How exactly did you lose your conch shell?"
Wangcai made up an excuse and said, "I don't know... Maybe I was too hungry one day and chewed up the snail shell and swallowed it."
Li Tingyun didn't believe him, but she didn't have time to play games with him over such trivial matters.
So I stopped talking to him.
With a wave of his hand, he roughly threw out a teleportation array, which hit Wangcai precisely.
A sudden gust of wind and torrent knocked Wangcai over.
Before they could even stand up straight, they had already been taken away.
They were sent back to the Taiji Hall.
Not negotiable.