Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

I didn’t sleep well the night before, and I felt groggy when I got up. I also had no appetite for breakfast.

"Didn't you sleep well last night?"

"Yeah." Lin Shu answered weakly.

Liu Xiao'e glanced at the rest of the family. Everyone was not in a good mood. "The body has been kept for three days. Last night was the last night. It must have been quite noisy. Once it is carried out for burial this morning, you can have a good sleep tonight."

Lin Wei nodded: "Uncle Chao said before he got off work yesterday that everyone doesn't have to go to work this morning and should go and see grandma off for the last time."

The Uncle Chao he mentioned was the team's accountant, named Lin Yuanchao.

"Okay, after dinner, you can go and see her off."

Eighty years old is a happy funeral. During the funeral procession, no one cried. The villagers came to see him off mostly for fun, except for those who came to help. After so many days of busy spring farming, most of them were in a good mood because they could rest for half a day.

Following the funeral procession, Lin Shu discovered that the cemetery chosen by the captain's family was actually far away from the village, on the back of several green hills, that is, the cemetery faced the Qingjiang River.

The water of the Qingjiang River is very clear. Nowadays, if rural people do not bring water when going to the fields, they will dare to drink the water directly from the Qingjiang River.

Even in later times, the water in this river is still very clear, and the wild seafood in the river is sold at unprecedented high prices.

There are river fish weighing dozens, hundreds, or even several hundred yuan per kilogram, and the wild soft-shelled turtles in this river can be sold for thousands of yuan. Moreover, ordinary people may not be able to buy them.

Whenever there is fresh river food in the river, it is immediately bought by rich people at high prices.

Later, even this unpolluted river was banned from fishing by the fishery department due to overfishing.

At present, the villagers are still unaware of the preciousness of the river fish. As long as there is food in the fields, no one is willing to go down to the river to fish. After all, the fish in the water cannot be touched or seen, and the villagers dare not easily step into an industry without guarantees.

"Auntie, look, there's a boat in the river!"

Lin Xiaojun's shout brought Lin Shu back to his senses. Following the direction he pointed, he actually found a dark shadow coming towards him on the river in the distance.

But this speed is not enough for a wooden boat with manual oars.

......

"How is it?" Xu Ming looked at Gu Jiu proudly, "You probably haven't ridden this kind of motor boat in the provincial capital, right?"

Gu Jiu leaned against the edge of the boat with his eyes closed, feeling the warm river breeze on his face. He felt so comfortable. Even though the sound of the diesel engine of the motor boat was very loud, it did not affect his good mood at all.

He listened to Xu Ming's words and opened his eyes slightly. "I'm not a fisherman. Isn't it normal that I've never been on this kind of fishing boat?"

The smug smile on Xu Ming's face froze for a moment. "According to what you said, since we are on this boat today, we are fishermen? Also, you may be mistaken. The main purpose of this motorboat is not fishing, but ferrying."

This is also the reason why they had to take a boat to go to the hydropower station downstream this time.

It is nearly 40 kilometers by land from the county seat to the hydropower station downstream, separated by three townships. The road is bumpy and one has to change buses to get there, so a whole day is wasted on the road.

But it is different when taking this motorboat. You can sail on the water with smooth wind and no bumps. You don't need to change vehicles and can just go downstream. It takes about six hours to arrive.

Their power supply station had to go to the hydropower station on business, and everyone tacitly agreed to rent a boat to go there.

This time, because he was going to the hydroelectric power station below, and thinking that it would be boring on the road, he called Gu Jiu, who was also bored at home.

"Is there a difference between a fishing boat and a ferry boat? Don't they both fish in their spare time?" Gu Jiu rubbed his eyes. He felt much more awake now. He was dragged out of bed early in the morning and felt sleepy even sitting on this boat.

If it weren't for the fact that the boat was quite comfortable and the scenery along the way was nice, I might have turned against him long ago.

"......" Xu Ming rolled his eyes: "Okay, if you say it's a fishing boat, then it's a fishing boat. When we come back, I'll ask the owner to catch some fish for you to taste."

Gu Jiu looked at the wide river in the distance and asked, "These areas along the way should all be considered irrigation areas, right?"

"Yes, they all belong to the reservoir irrigation area." Xu Ming nodded.

“Since the hydroelectric power station down there has already started generating electricity, why don’t they say anything?”

Gu Jiu knew that if a reservoir was built, the villages in the backflow area would suffer the greatest losses, because many fields and even some villages would be submerged. If this was the case, the entire village would have to be relocated, that is, immigrants.

There are no subsidies in this era, and Gu Jiu feels that since this is the case, some preferential treatment should be given to the villages along the way, such as free electricity or free electric poles into the village.

Xu Ming nodded. He knew this because he was in the power supply system. "There must be preferential policies. The power station will help the production teams along the way to pull power lines into the villages. The villages along the way that are flooded will be built with residential houses for free.

In addition, for villages that need to pump water for irrigation due to relocation, the electricity used for pumping water is free every year. In addition, every spring and summer, when the water level rises, the Qingjiang River is flooded because the reservoirs are not releasing water in time, and the losses of the fields are submerged, the hydropower station will provide subsidies of a certain amount of money per mu, etc. ”

Although Gu Jiu was an unemployed young man who usually didn't care about anything, after hearing these arrangements, he nodded with satisfaction: "Not bad."

The higher-ups are willing to shoulder some of the burden for the villagers, and the villagers are highly conscious. Whenever there are requirements from higher-ups, they will actively cooperate. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to build the power station downstream so smoothly.

The speed of the motorboat was not fast but not slow either. When they found a group of people gathered on the opposite mountain, Gu Jiu asked, "What's the matter with going up the mountain?"

Xu Ming shook his head: "I don't know, so many people gathered together, could it be that some great treasure was found on the mountain?"

"Big treasure?" Gu Jiu looked at Xu Ming in confusion, "What big treasure? Is there any emperor's tomb buried here?"

Otherwise, it would be hard to explain why so many people gathered on that mountain.

"No way, Gu Jiu, your imagination is more vivid than mine. I just thought we found a treasure cave, but you thought of the emperor's mausoleum!"

Xu Ming laughed loudly, "Our county has never had any great figures since ancient times. If we insist on linking it to historical figures, it seems that only Zhao Zilong from the Three Kingdoms period came here."

Could it be that the villagers on the mountain discovered Zhao Zilong’s tomb?

However, it is said that Liu Chan buried Zhao Zilong in Sichuan, and some say he was buried in Changshan, not in their county seat.

Gu Jiu looked at the group of people in the distance and said nonchalantly, "Our county town belonged to Chu in ancient times. At that time, it was the fief of many kings. Are you sure there are no kings, princes, generals or ministers buried here?"

"......Well, I'm not a historian, so how can I possibly understand the history of the county?" Xu Ming smiled awkwardly.

"Ha ha......"

The uncle who was driving the boat couldn't help it any longer. Listening to the conversation between the two young men, he almost got internal injuries.

Gu Jiu and Xu Ming both turned around and looked at him.

Xu Ming frowned: "Uncle, what are you laughing at?"

"No, nothing to laugh at." The old man waved his hands, but his uncontrollable laughter floated into the ears of the two from time to time.

The two turned to look at him again.

The old man waved his hand again: "I'm not laughing!"

But laughter floats in the air from time to time, as if they were fools!

The motor boat continued to sail in this strange atmosphere.

A quarter of an hour later, as the penetrating sound of the suona came, Xu Ming held back the twitching of his mouth, and Gu Jiu even stroked his forehead...