"Let me be frank with you. No matter how wicked a person is, they wouldn't dare to cheat us, unless they're tired of living. The person who asked us to do this is the owner of a cultural company with an annual output value of around 40 to 50 million. He gave us one million to find the coffin lid. If we can't find it, he'll keep 200,000 as a reward for our hard work. If we do find it, he'll give us another million."

"Did you find it?" I said.

"Of course I found it, otherwise why would I come back?"

"What about the bugs? Let them open our eyes." I said enviously.

"Would I keep a bug worth a million on me? I gave it to him right away."

"So, one million is already in hand?"

"Didn't I tell you? No one dares to cheat in our business. After the bugs were delivered, the boss immediately wrote a check. There was no delay for a minute."

"Isn't this money too easy to make?" I almost drooled.

"It's easy to make money? Where did you come to this conclusion?" Luo Tianbao said.

"Just catching a bug is worth a million. Isn't that easy to earn?"

"Why are you only interested in the price? Do you think that bug is lying there, waiting for me to catch it, so I can just walk over and cover it with my hand and it's mine? If it weren't for my good luck, I would have almost never been able to come back this time."

"What happened? Tell us quickly." Chu Sen immediately became excited.

"Ah, so everything has its pros and cons. I was able to find the coffin lid only because I paid a price. It's not as simple as you think." He picked up his beer and took a big sip before saying, "I did this job alone, and I had to go to a cemetery in the wild to get the coffin lid . Apart from anything else, the shock I experienced is something you guys can hardly imagine."

"Second brother, you didn't encounter a ghost in the cemetery, did you?"

"Actually, people say cemeteries are haunted , but few people have actually encountered ghosts there. However, I did encounter a dead cat in a cemetery in a village in Shandong one night."

I couldn't help but laugh when I heard this and said, "What's so strange about a dead cat?"

"Have you ever seen a dead cat that moves?"

"A dead cat that can move?"

"According to common sense, seeing a dead cat that's still moving is extremely unlucky. For a few days, I always felt that I was going to have bad luck, so I was very careful when I went out. I didn't go to the cemetery, but just looked for insects around the cemetery. To be honest, I thought it was impossible to find any. Later, I went to Sichuan. At the foot of the mountain next to a village in the west, I saw a temple. Inside, there was an unknown statue of a woman holding a vase. I wanted to worship the statue to dispel the bad luck, so I went to the temple to offer incense to the statue. Don't you think it was a coincidence? As soon as I offered the incense and kowtowed, I heard crickets chirping, and a coffin lid crawled out of the vase held by the female statue."

"What? This rare insect walked in front of you by itself?" My jaw almost hit the table.

"You don't believe it, right? But this is true. I got the top-level fighting insect that others may not even see in their lifetime, but I did it effortlessly." Luo Tianbao said this with an obviously smug look on his face.

I was also extremely envious. I've seen people with good luck, but never one as lucky as him. After we praised him for a while, Luo Tianbao put down his empty bottle of wine and said, "This is what they call unpredictable fortune and misfortune. I thought I was going to be unlucky, but in the end I got great luck. So when you do things outside in the future, don't give up when you encounter difficulties. You must face them head-on. Problems can always be solved."

"Second brother, we will definitely take you as an example, study hard, and do good things for the family ," I said.

"Well, my second brother doesn't have any great abilities, but I can still teach you something. In short, you must work hard and don't let your family down. Especially Chu Sen, you are the first outsider to enter the village, so you must work twice as hard to gain everyone's recognition."

"Brother, we will be working together in the future, so please give me your guidance." Chu Sen said with a smile.

"Don't worry, we are all brothers, you will not be left out." The second brother can't drink much, and he felt a little dizzy after drinking a bottle of beer.

As they were talking, everyone put down their chopsticks and stood up. Generally speaking, this situation means that an elder has arrived.

I have said before that no matter who the people in Longhua Village are or how capable they are, they have to eat in the canteen, and the canteen does not serve alcohol, so except for the first "welcome dinner" when people who have been out working come back, drinking is not allowed at other times. However, several elders in the family do not eat in the canteen. They usually eat and drink strictly according to the nutritional diet, so I have never seen any elders in the family in the canteen.

I saw my third uncle , wearing a neat woolen Zhongshan suit, walked in slowly. He walked to an empty table in the back and sat down, then waved to us. Everyone then sat back in their chairs and continued eating. The bustling chattering sound had disappeared, and no one was making a sound. Even the very young children were eating quietly.

Longhua Village is extremely particular about seniority. The younger generation must be obedient in front of the elders. But I also feel strange. Why did the old man think of running to the cafeteria to eat today?

I saw Third Grandpa take out two red porcelain wine glasses and place them opposite each other, then took out a bottle of Moutai and filled the two glasses. When doing this, Third Grandpa's expression was extremely focused, and there was even a strong sense of ritual. The kitchen should have known that he would come. The chef brought out four side dishes from the back hall and placed them on the table where Third Grandpa was sitting. They were mushrooms and vegetables, shepherd's purse, tofu and minced meat soup, sweet and sour lotus root, and pearl dumplings.

Third Grandpa sat there quietly without picking up his chopsticks, looking intently at the four dishes on the table. He had a very intellectual appearance, tall and thin, with a thin face, giving people the impression of being gentle and refined. To be honest, Luo Tianbao and his brother Luo Jinbao did not look like him at all.

His hands were white and his fingers were long, unlike a man's hands. When he was not working, Third Uncle always liked to put his hands in his pockets. Moreover, his finger movements were actually very slow and did not look flexible.

Observing his grandfather's every move, Luo Tianbao sighed and said, "It's been thirty years, and Grandpa still can't get over that hurdle in his heart."

"Who is the old man commemorating again?" Chu Sen asked.

"It was my grandmother. They were eating in the cafeteria at that time. Grandpa was out on something and didn't come back on the day of the accident. Grandma was a very traditional person. She insisted on waiting for grandpa to come back before eating. As a result, she died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. She died on an empty stomach. Grandpa has blamed himself for this for 30 years. He lives in self-blame every day." When Luo Tianbao said this, his eyes were filled with tears.

At this moment, a young man came in hurriedly. He was about 27 or 28 years old. There was no other way to describe his appearance except handsome. First of all, he had a long pointed face, a high nose bridge, long eyebrows and big eyes, and long flowing hair. This man was definitely better looking than a woman. With a white windbreaker fluttering in the wind, he was really handsome to the extreme.

I had never seen him in the village before, so I whispered to Luo Tianbao, "Who is this man?"

He snorted coldly and said, "It's my androgynous elder brother."

Luo Tianjin, I have heard of this man's name a long time ago, but the reason I have never seen him is that when I first came here, he was working on a project outside. It is said that he was building a huge mausoleum.

You read it right, what he built was a "mausoleum". Since it involves the word "mausoleum", you can imagine for whom he did this. So it's not that no one is buried these days. On the contrary, most of the rich and powerful people choose to be buried. As for the size of the tomb , it is also determined by personal financial resources. People who have too much money and nowhere to spend it will invest huge sums of money to repair the mausoleum, which is the kind of underground palace that covers a huge area.

The project that Luo Tianjin participated in was very large. It was said that it had been under construction for more than three years to date, and Longhua Village had made a fortune because of this project. Although the projects they usually took on could earn them one or two hundred thousand, they were nothing compared to this project. Therefore, how many good things were in the vault controlled by the Fifth Old Master was a secret that no one knew.

Luo Tianbao said, "Every year at this time, Luo Tianjin comes back to worship with Grandpa, as if he is his only biological grandson."