Myths Begin From Boys' Gong

In Xiaohan Village, at the doorstep of Li Quezi's house, San Gouzi was wearing a fur coat and a felt hat, with his hands in his sleeves, shivering and wandering around.

If Meng Zhao didn't ask him to go, he naturally wouldn't act on his own, but because he was worried, he would come here and wait every once in a while.

I went on like this all night long, with hardly any sleep. Fortunately, I was young and strong, so it didn't matter whether I slept or not as I was so excited all night.

What he was most concerned about and worried about was that Li Zheng would never come back, and by then, he would see his bright future being thrown away.

This is what San Gouzi doesn't want to see.

Fortunately, this short wait was not in vain. Soon, he saw Meng Zhao, who was wearing a black coat, carrying a large bag, and rushing here at a very fast pace.

San Gouzi was overjoyed, it worked!
Without caring about anything else, he hurried over to meet him, taking advantage of the night and the silence of the snowy night, and whispered,
"How are you? Are you not hurt?"

Meng Zhao shook his head and threw the huge package at him. The two of them pushed open the door and entered the house.

I burned firewood for daily life, boiled water and cooked. After half an hour of busy work, the coldness in the house was finally dispelled and warmth was rising.

There were three side dishes and a few large steamed buns on a small square table. The most economical thing was the pork bones that San Gouzi brought from home. Although they had become cold after stewing, they were still fragrant after being steamed in hot water.

With the prepared garlic sauce as the seasoning, just apply a little and take a bite, it is very delicious.

Meng Zhao ate with great relish. He had eaten three pieces of the half basin of pork bones in a short while, and there was not even a trace of meat on them.

San Gouzi's mind was not on eating, but waiting for Meng Zhao to eat happily and feel satisfied, then he asked anxiously,
"But have you dealt with Wen San and his ilk?"

"Fortunately, it was a safe bet. Including Wen San, there were five people in total, and I have already dealt with them all. I have nothing to worry about anymore!"

After hearing this, San Gouzi heaved a long sigh of relief, his expression relaxed, and even a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth unconsciously.

To put it bluntly, he and Li Zheng have a close relationship, which is known to everyone. In the future, when Wen San achieves success in the county and comes back for revenge, he will also follow Li Zheng to suffer the consequences.

Fortunately, now that this hidden danger has been blocked, we can finally breathe a sigh of relief and no longer have to worry about a tragic end in a few years.

However, San Gouzi soon thought of another problem.
"Will it be, will it be, that Village Chief Han and the others find out about it in the future? What should we do then?" San Gouzi didn't think that no one would ever know about the murder of Wen San and the others.

At the very least, Xiaohan Village has connections in the county town, so it would be easy to find out whether Wen San and others have been to the county town.

As for not going to the county town but going to other places to work hard, that is even more unrealistic.

"It doesn't matter if you know. They have no evidence to prove that I did it. Don't worry, as long as you don't cause any trouble and don't go out and talk nonsense, this matter will just pass!"

Meng Zhao didn't think that these three dogs were too timid. On the contrary, this was a manifestation of their cautiousness.

It is much better than being a big-mouthed, reckless person who leaks all kinds of secrets.

San Gouzi finally calmed down after receiving Meng Zhao's instructions. He had witnessed this man's ability to argue. At that time, more than one person in the village asked him questions, but in the end, they were unable to do anything to him, right?

As for the extremely heavy package that Meng Zhao brought back, San Gouzi didn't even look at it or ask about it.

Not to mention that San Gouzi is a very shrewd person, even a person of ordinary intelligence can know that since Wen San and his group are going to the county town, they must be carrying a large amount of gold, silver and family assets.

After killing someone, Meng Zhao would definitely not return empty-handed. There must be huge wealth inside.

Of course, he also knows that he should not covet things that are not his and have nothing to do with him. If he does, he would be immature.

The last time, he was able to share Li Quezi's wealth with Li Zheng equally, that was because he assisted Li Zheng in killing Li Quezi. No matter how much effort he contributed, he was always involved.

Today is different. Killing Wen San and others is definitely a very risky and dangerous thing.

He had never participated in it, and certainly would not expect to get a piece of the pie.

What's more, he knew that Li Zheng would not treat him unfairly.

Sure enough, after Meng Zhao put down the big bone in his hand, he took out a gold bar and a silver ingot from the package.

"The gold is for you. The sword in my hand is pretty good. As for the silver, you can divide it among those who are helping us to spy on them. Be careful not to make them too conspicuous. If anything happens, it's their own fault. I won't help!"

In Meng Zhao's opinion, San Gouzi couldn't say that he did nothing.

Firstly, he wanted to go with me to intercept and kill the enemy, but he was too inexperienced and I didn't allow him to do so. He also had no way to achieve success.

Secondly, the information of Wen San and others was under control. Not to mention knowing it like the back of his hand, he was able to be one step ahead of others. This was also due to the intelligence provided by San Gouzi and others, which was also an achievement.

Thirdly, no matter what San Gouzi’s original intention was, he was so nervous and worried about himself, he didn’t sleep all night, and wandered around the door of his house many times, waiting. This is the greatest achievement, and there is no greater achievement than loyalty.

In this case, it’s just a gold bar, and it’s not bad to use it to win people’s hearts.

As for those who helped under San Gouzi's call, they must be given certain benefits. Once they see the sweetness, they will work harder next time.

Otherwise, if you just say nice things and make big promises, it may be okay once or twice, but if you do it too many times, no one is a fool and no one will help you anymore!

As for the reward being too great, it’s not really that serious.

Firstly, Meng Zhao didn't think that these things in his hands were that important. If he had martial arts skills and all the wealth in the world, he could take whatever he wanted. These were just a drop in the ocean.

Secondly, he knew San Gouzi's background very well, and he also understood this person. A generous reward would only stimulate his enterprising spirit instead of making him more greedy.

If it were a radical, high-profile guy, Meng Zhao would not be so easy to talk to.

San Gouzi was dazzled by the gold and silver in front of him, and was a little confused for a moment.

This amount is simply not on the same level as the property looted from Li Guizi's house before.

The gold was just a tiny bit, like a bean, and there was silver as well, but not in large quantities.

Although Li Guizi was stingy, his income was limited, so his wealth was naturally not abundant.

However, the gold and silver in front of him were really a windfall.

Apart from anything else, this ingot of gold alone would be worth enough for his old man to enjoy his old age and live a pretty good life.

In other words, the gold bar that Meng Zhao gave him could be considered as his settling-in fee, enough to completely relieve all his worries and allow him to follow him wholeheartedly from then on.

Meng Zhao didn't care about the gold and silver, but began to ask San Gouzi about the legend of the dragon ball in Xiaohan Mountain! The Zhang family is also a local family in Xiaohan Village. In terms of the time of existence, it is impossible for it to be shorter than Wen San's family.

Especially since San Gouzi’s grandfather is still alive, he might know more than Wen San.

Sure enough, more specific information was obtained from San Gouzi.

The saying that Xiaohan Mountain is a dragon vein has been around for a long time. Of course, this dragon vein is not a big dragon vein that can dominate the rise and fall of a dynasty. At best, it is a manifestation of the advantage of the earth vein. Otherwise, the dragon vein would have been cut off long ago to avoid becoming a serious threat to the dynasty.

According to the ancestors of Xiaohan Village, this dragon vein is connected to an underground river, and the dragon vein is cold in nature, hence the name Xiaohan Mountain and the special ecological environment around Xiaohan Mountain.

San Gouzi's grandfather knew this best, because just thirty or forty years ago, a Taoist priest came with a compass in his hand to survey the dragon veins and determine the feng shui.

At that time, San Gouzi's grandfather accompanied the Taoist priest and heard some secret words, thus knowing some so-called Feng Shui matters.

As to whether there really is such a land vein, Meng Zhao was unable to use the emperor's qi-gazing technique to peek into the qi of heaven, earth and man, nor could he figure it out.

This is actually not the point. Meng Zhao doesn’t care about the dragon vein. He is more concerned about the dragon ball.

In this regard, San Gouzi gave another explanation.

There are treasures hidden in the mountains, this is a fact known to almost everyone. No matter what kind of mountain or water it is, there must be extraordinary things hidden in it, unless it is a non-significant mountain or a dead mountain or water.

For a place like Xiaohan Mountain, which is located in a place with dragon veins, it is extremely natural to nurture treasures.

Is there any villager in the mountains who doesn’t know about this?

Not to mention the dragon ball, the Han family, to which the village chief Han Dali belongs, once obtained a toad coat of a hundred-year-old toad from Xiaohan Mountain. They presented it to an important figure in the county, who appreciated it and later became the village chief, and the family tradition has been passed down from generation to generation.

And there is Sun Datou. The reason why he was able to quickly rise to prominence when he returned to Xiaohan Village was not only because he was good at martial arts and fertile, but also because he obtained a thirty-section snow silkworm from Xiaohan Mountain, which he also sold to a powerful force in the county. Only then was he able to accumulate such a huge fortune, which is still talked about today.

Whether it's the toad's coat or the thirty sections of snow silkworm, their value is inestimable.

Meng Zhao knew better that these two were most likely important ingredients used to refine martial arts secret medicines, and they were priceless to martial artists.

However, no matter how good the treasure is, you need to be alive to enjoy it.

The ancestor of the Han family back then, or Sun Datou in the village today, must have been quite lucky, to have been able to obtain this extraordinary treasure from Xiaohan Mountain, and thus prosper and leave behind a rich family fortune.

More treasure hunters from Xiaohan Village died in the mountains, becoming nothing more than a pile of bones, leaving their families filled with sorrow.

Therefore, whether the so-called dragon balls in Xiaohan Mountain are real or fake, it doesn’t make much difference, because no matter whether they were left behind by a real dragon or not, their value must be extremely rare.

However, the theory of Python Pill sounds quite interesting to San Gouzi.

The environment of Xiaohan Mountain is special. In fact, it is extremely cold most of the year, so snakes and pythons should find it difficult to survive.

If a cold-blooded animal stays in such cold weather for years, it probably won't last long.

But there are indeed many snakes and pythons on the mountain, especially pythons, which grow older and have longer lifespans than those in other places.

In the early years, there was actually a so-called Python Elimination Day in the village. This was because there were many giant pythons in the mountains, and hunters or other people in the village were eaten by pythons, causing serious harm, so the tradition of eliminating pythons came into being.

As to why the pythons in the mountains are not affected by the cold climate, there are many different opinions.

The most reasonable explanation is that it has special blood and different physique, just like the cold toad and snow silkworm. It has extraordinary resistance to cold and is even willing to survive in cold environments.

From this perspective, it is not surprising to say that there was a python ancestor that gave birth to the python pill, which is said to be the dragon ball.

Perhaps, this is what was spread by the villagers in the mountains.

It may be that a villager who had actually seen a giant python or even a giant dragon with his own eyes came up with such an idea, and then spread it out casually.

It is also possible that his family members died in the mouth of the giant python, and he holds a grudge against her. He wants to use the rumor of the so-called dragon ball treasure to borrow external forces to kill the giant python in the mountain.

This was not what Meng Zhao thought, but San Gouzi's own speculation.

Especially the latter.

Because in the early years, Xiaohan Village was not as prosperous as it is today, and many people relied on the abundant resources in the mountains to survive.

As a result, countless people, countless villagers, and even countless fathers and sons, grandparents and grandchildren, were buried in the belly of the giant python in the mountains.

It’s no surprise that resentment is hard to let go.

It was also because of years of fighting that people from outside came to Xiaohan Mountain and hunted pythons, which made the pythons in the mountains almost disappear.

In the past ten or even twenty years, there have been no reports of pythons eating people, and it is estimated that they have become extinct.

That is why the so-called Dragon Ball rumor is no longer popular.

I have hardly even heard of the new generation like Li Zheng.

The fact that San Gouzi knows so many secrets is closely related to his grandfather.

Grandparents and grandchildren accompany each other and depend on each other. The old man is old and often likes to reminisce about the past, so he expresses this information in his daily life.

After listening to it, Meng Zhao thought that what San Gouzi said should be more true and accurate.

With the supporting evidence of Wen San's precious armor, the story of the giant python in the mountain must be true, and the story of hunting the python later must also be true.

However, it is still unknown whether there is a python ancestor.

But, Meng Zhao tends to believe that there is!
Moreover, this creature is estimated to have become a very powerful creature, with magical powers in its blood, so it can give birth to such powerful, long-lived pythons that are not afraid of the severe cold.

This creature might even be extremely cunning, hiding all the time without leaving any trace. Otherwise, it would attract the siege of powerful human beings and might not be able to escape unharmed.

Judging from the cold toad and the snow silkworm, this python ancestor is probably also a precious material for refining medicine.

It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t have a dragon ball, because he himself is probably a dragon ball, a living dragon ball.

With Meng Zhao's experience and knowledge, the possibility of him producing a python pill is still very high. (End of this chapter)