Chapter 10

  Tiger Ridge is not small. If you walk along the ridge and go directly through the forest, you can reach the Russian country in the north. Daniu found the traces and started looking for those people. Maybe because this pce was retively remote, the traces of these people are easier to find. Soon they found them, but it was too te.　"It's Cheng Zhiyou."

  Zhang Xiang confirmed, and they saw the dead Cheng Zhiyou on a hillside.

  Daniu sighed, squatted down, and took a look. Seeing slight livor mortis on Cheng Zhiyou's arm, she reached out and pressed it twice, but the livor mortis did not move. "The time of death is more than six hours."

  Thanks to all the strange science popurization she heard at the police station and her invincible memory.

  At this time, Lin Li and Zhang Xiang no longer doubted Daniu's judgment. They had become accustomed to being surprised along the way.

  "Sergeant, look here," one of the soldiers who were scattering and shrinking below suddenly shouted.　Several people hurried over. There was a big pit there.

  Daniu squatted down and took a closer look, then picked up a piece of rotten cloth from the pit. She couldn't tell what color it was and handed it to Hu Tong. She now knew that Hu Tong was an expert from the county bureau.

  Hu Tong took it and said, "It looks like the isnd country's military uniform."

  Daniu girl looked around and then at the marks on the ground. "Look here, the footprints are very deep, and here the footprints are shallow."

  "They are carrying something here." Zhang Xiang said.

  "Well, you can see that there are some excavations in this area." Lin Li said, "Maybe they are looking for something."

  "You're right. They were looking for something and left when they found it. They are carrying very heavy things. Maybe there was a corpse here, and they took it away too. So only a little cloth was left." Zhang Xiang said.

  Daniu nodded and said, "Then why did they kill Cheng Zhiyou and take Fan Jie away?"

  The other two couldn't expin it clearly either.

  Daniel looked around and said, "Look at this tree and stone. They are very obvious signs here. If someone buried something here, then this tree and stone can serve as a sign for people to find it ter."

  "You're right. This tree and stone are indeed very obvious signs here."

  Lin Li suddenly became excited. "Do you think the Japanese buried something here and then left after being defeated in the war, and now their descendants have come back to take it?"

  "That Fan Jie wrote the county annals and said there are tombs from the early Jin Dynasty here. Maybe he has investigated here."

  "That's not right. It was confirmed ten years ago that this is just an ordinary Jin Dynasty tomb and has no archaeological value. Moreover, this pce was a primeval forest during the Jin Dynasty with only very small vilges. There were no valuable burial objects in those tombs." The Daniu said this and suddenly thought and said

  "Do you think it was something they buried?" After pointing to the empty pit.

  "Maybe. Let's stop guessing. Let's see if we can find the route they took."

  Daniu pointed to the north and said, "That way."

  The group moved forward again.

  "Look." Daniu suddenly stopped and squatted down.

  "There is movement ahead." They saw three big pits along the way, and these people seemed to be looking for something.

  Lin Li squatted down and looked forward. "They should be short. It's obvious that he is not one of theirs."

  "That person should be Fan Jie." Zhang Xiang had seen Fan Jie's photo.

  Daniu also confirmed that the tall man digging something with a shovel was Fan Jie, but Fan Jie looked a little embarrassed at this time, with bruises on his face and blood on his forehead.

  "Let's surround them carefully." Lin Li said and made a few gestures to the soldiers.　Everyone nodded, and Daniu didn't rush forward. She had no experience in fighting, so she decided to help with her rifle.

  Looking around, Daniu came to a pine tree, hugged the trunk with her hands and feet, and climbed up the tree in a few steps. She squatted on the branch and carefully loaded the rifle in her hand. Those people were more than 150 meters away from her. The effective range of this rifle is 400 meters. With her ability, there is no possibility of missing at this distance.

  Three of the four people were digging a pit, and one was smoking while looking around. He held the cigarette in his left hand and tucked his right hand under his arm. Daniu thought that hand was a little strange.

  Lin Li led his men to surround them. "Don't move."

  The soldiers rushed out together.

  “Bang—”

  "Thank you, Comrade Ma. If it weren't for you, we would have been hurt." He didn't see the gun under the man's arm before. When they surrounded them, he pulled his hand out. Just as he pulled the trigger, Ma Shun shot his gun away. Her reaction was too fast. Her shooting skill was quite accurate. If she was a man, he would definitely ask the leader for a quota. It will be a shame if she doesn't join the army with such skills.

  "It is nothing." Ma Danniu looked at those people who were tied up tightly and felt relieved.

  "Look, squad leader." A soldier came to Lin Li with a small notebook.

  Lin Li opened the notebook and took a look. It was all written in Japanese characters. "What the hell is written here?"

  Daniu gnced, and a bunch of Japanese characters came into her view, and she compared them with the messy characters in her brain. Hey, this is messy. Oh, when she was in school, she watched a lot of original voice animations like other elementary school students, and now this part of her memory has been mobilized.

  Ouch, Daniu couldn't help but cover her head; this was a lot of information. After a while, she shook her head.

  She looked at the note, thought about it, and said, "Let me see."

  Lin Li handed it to her casually and said to a few soldiers, "Take a good look around."

  Over there, Fan Jie covered his head with one hand while telling Zhang Xiang what happened to him. "It took us several days to get here. Lao Cheng and I tried to dey time, but these people were very fast. They dug up three skeletons under the big tree in the south. from their clothes, they should be Japanese soldiers. Then they wanted to dig up the tombs of the Jin Dynasty. I said there was nothing there, but they didn't listen. They just asked us to tell them where the tombs were found that year."

  Fan Jie rubbed his nose and choked up a little. "Old Cheng was afraid that there might be some ancient sites we didn't know about, so he didn't want to take them there. Then they—"Fan Jie shed tears. "He was beaten to death by them."

  At this point, he gave those people a fierce look and said, "Humph, how could I let these bastards get our country's things? I had already thought about it. No matter what, I didn't want to let them find it."

  "Then where is this pce?" Zhang Xiang asked.

  "It's fake. I just found a random grave. I said that I came here ten years ago and I have forgotten a lot. I deliberately led them to find a fake grave. If they couldn't dig it up, they would beat me. I thought if I was lucky, someone would come to save me. If I was unlucky, I would die here, and they wouldn't get anything." Fan Jie ughed.

  "It seems that I am still lucky."

  "Jiligua (it doesn't mean anything)." The short man whose hand was injured by Daniu spoke a bunch of Japanese.

  Daniu had already read the diary. She didn't recognize some of the words in it, but she understood the general idea. After thinking about it, she didn't say anything and returned it to Lin Li.

  She had completed their mission by catching the enemy, so she led them back.

  Because they had to bring people with them, they were a little slow, and it took them two days to get back to Beidianzi. Fortunately, they met a team who got the information and came to find them halfway; otherwise, they would have returned even ter.

  Since the people were caught, there was nothing left for Daniu to do, so she went home directly.

  When she got home, she took a hot bath and had a good sleep.

  The roosters crowed outside, and Daniu opened her eyes. It was still a little dark, but she couldn't sleep anymore. She went to bed at seven o'clock st night and has been sleeping ever since.

  Lying in bed and thinking about what had happened in the past few days, she had already understood the diary. There was nothing wrong with the tomb group itself. It was just the family tomb of ordinary people of the Jin Dynasty. The problem was the three corpses.

  The three corpses were the officers of the Japanese army at that time. These officers were the logistics and requisitions officers of the Japanese army. After losing the war, there were five of them, carrying a batch of gold into the mountains. They originally wanted to go north from Tiger Ridge and find a way to return to Japan when they reached the north.

  However, they overestimated their abilities, and the gold was too heavy. It took the five of them a long time to carry it to Tiger Ridge, where they encountered two tigers. Two of them were killed and one was seriously injured. The remaining two killed the tigers but were unable to leave with the injured.

  The two men discussed and freed the wounded, of his suffering, and finally buried the three bodies under a tree. They walked a distance with the gold but found that they could not get out with the gold. The forest was too big, and they got lost.

  The two men discussed and decided to bury the gold in a Jin Dynasty tomb. At that time, the Jin Dynasty Tombs had been discovered not long ago. The Japanese army sent people to explore them when they were discovered but found they had no value and ignored them. One of the two men went there and buried the gold in one of the tombs that had been excavated clean, and then the two left.

  One of them encountered a brown bear in the forest and did not survive. Only one returned to the isnd country, but he died three years ago. Because he had no children, before his death, he asked his wyer to find the children of several friends and gave them the diary. At the end of the diary, they were asked to bring back the bodies of his friends.

  Daniu didn't tell anyone about the diary. The people from the county bureau would definitely find a transtor, and the gold would definitely be found, so she wouldn't get involved.

  Sure enough, a month ter, Zhang Xiang, on behalf of the county bureau, brought a reward to Da Niu to commend her for her contribution to this incident. This reward was really great. Not only did she get a hundred yuan in cash, but she also got a bicycle ticket. Bicycle tickets were issued this year, and there were not many in their vilge or even in the county. And this one was a Phoenix brand.

  After delivering the gift to the girl, Zhang Xiang told her about the progress of the case. This matter should have been kept secret, but because Daniu was a participant, he revealed a little bit. The situation was simir to what she thought. Those people were the descendants of several officers. After the war, their families were in a very difficult situation. After seeing the diary, several young people became greedy for the gold. After three years of pnning, they almost succeeded. The gold was found, about 100 kilograms, and it was a good thing because they also caught several spies. These young people would not have arrived here so smoothly without help.

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