False evidence

Chapter 141 A Child's Story (Part 1)
Meng Chao pinched his head and shook it back and forth with his big hand, "Naughty!"

I then roughly figured out Shen San's identity, so I quickly stepped forward to pry his hand away and whispered to him, "We're not familiar with him, so don't mess around with him."

"I just think this kid is interesting to talk to. You have no idea what he just said to me." Meng Chao laughed like a fool.

I couldn't be bothered with this guy anymore, so I pulled Pidan over to Bai Jing and introduced the two of them.

The two women greeted each other, but perhaps because of the repulsion between opposite sexes, I felt that both of them were somewhat insincere.

At this moment, it was Xiao Shen San who spoke up again: "This girl doesn't seem quite right either."

Pidan was taken aback, then pointed at his own nose: "You mean me?"

Xiao Shen smiled slightly and turned to look at the basket of steaming buns on the coffee table.

I quickly said, "You three haven't had breakfast yet, have you?"

"I just ate before I came," Li Chuang said.

"No..."

Shen San wasn't embarrassed at being interrupted, and laughed, saying, "I've already eaten, but seeing these freshly steamed buns made me craving them again. What kind of filling are they?"

I quickly invited the three of them to sit down and have a taste, and Pidan also went to make some tea.

Of the three, only Xiao Shen San was eating his steamed bun without any restraint.

During this time, Bai Jing would occasionally glance at Meng Chao, while Meng Chao would watch Shen San eat steamed buns with a smile, looking like a middle-aged man doting on his grandson.

Li Chuang seemed a little distracted, holding his teacup and staring blankly at the light rain that had just begun to fall outside the door.

Just as I was about to formally open up the topic to Bai Jing, Xiao Shen San suddenly spoke up before I could, "Let's take care of business first."

He was still holding half a steamed bun in his hand, nudged Li Chuang with his elbow, and said in a bulging voice, "Stop thinking about your wife, hurry up and get things ready!"

Li Chuang said "Oh," put down his teacup, and began taking things out of his backpack.

When we saw the items he had placed on the table, Pidan, Mengchao, and I were all a little confused.

Xiao Shen chuckled, nodded at him, and said to us, "He's a clay sculptor, nicknamed Clay Sculptor Li."

"Making clay figures?" I looked at Bai Jing in astonishment.

By this time, Xiao Shen had already eaten at least four buns, and rubbing his round belly, he laughed and said, "A half-grown boy can eat his father out of house and home. That's no joke."

My doubts were becoming increasingly difficult to suppress; I simply couldn't understand why Bai Jing had brought these two strange people with her.

Shen San seemed to deliberately not give others a chance to speak, casually took a sip of tea, and said to Meng Chao with a smile:
"Hey kid, do you want to hear another story?"

Meng Chao grinned from ear to ear as he looked at him, "Kid, what other fun stories do you have?"

Shen San put down his teacup and said, "Kid, don't look down on me. I may not be very capable, but my two older brothers are incredibly powerful figures!"

Meng Chao simply moved a stool and sat down opposite him. "Kid, tell me how awesome your brother is, try to scare me."

Shen San suddenly stood up, turned to face the door, clasped his hands in a fist and bowed, and said loudly, "My eldest brother is a monk; my second brother is a cripple!"

This left not only Meng Chao, but also Pi Dan and I completely bewildered.

However, I noticed a hint of bitterness in Bai Jing's eyes.

After giving a grand and nonsensical "introduction" to his two impressive older brothers, Xiao Shen sat down again, pointed at Pi Dan, then at Meng Chao's side, and said, "Girl, you sit down too."

Pidan is never short of curiosity. Hearing this, he looked at me, and when I nodded, he dragged a chair over and sat down next to Meng Chao.

My curiosity about Shen San had reached its peak at this moment, so I simply ignored everything else and squeezed down next to Pi Dan, waiting quietly for Shen San to speak. Little Shen San didn't hold back at all; seeing Li Chuang kneading mud on the side, he immediately began to tell his story.

After hearing just a few words from him, I immediately understood why Meng Chao acted like a mentally challenged child in his presence…

The story Shen San tells takes place in the Yanbian area of ​​Northeast China.

Before he began his explanation, he introduced a profession that few modern people know about – treasure hunting!
"Biebao," also known as "Qianyang," was one of the eight trades in the old society.

Therefore, those who collect treasures are often called "shepherds".

The shepherds who hunt for treasures possess special abilities that are hard for ordinary people to imagine. They observe the sky, survey the land, tread on dragons, and use divination to find treasures that ordinary people do not know or recognize.

This story is related to treasure hunters, but it doesn't actually describe the act of treasure hunting.

Moreover, this event did not occur in the old society, but in modern times.

It roughly means:

There was a shepherd named Shen who took on two apprentices, a boy and a girl. The boy was insignificant; the girl, however, had been doing a different, unorthodox trade before becoming his apprentice.

That profession was called the Orchid Gate, which, to put it bluntly, was an old-fashioned alliance of "technical women." Therefore, this female apprentice named Yin Kela was best at seducing men.

It is said that Shen Yangguan learned of a treasure in Changbai Mountain, so he and his two apprentices plotted for three years to obtain it.

Just as he was about to reveal the treasure, a sudden change occurred. His two apprentices, due to their immoral and immoral conduct, were captured by a strange man surnamed Xu.

The man hated these two wicked scoundrels so much that he not only cut off their thumbs, rendering them crippled, but also handed them over to the residents of a nearby town to be imprisoned, intending to execute them after completing an urgent matter.

The apprentice is a scoundrel, and the master is even worse.

Take Shen the shepherd, for example. He was determined to get the treasure. Even though he knew that Xu had captured his apprentice, he still flattered him. Xu knew that Shen was of bad character, but due to the circumstances, he had no choice but to cooperate with him.

And so, the group set off together, each with their own purpose, into the depths of the snow-capped mountains. After several twists and turns, they arrived at a village that had existed for a hundred years.

It should be noted that the town was buried by an avalanche a hundred years ago.

However, Xu and his companions each possessed unique skills. They not only used feng shui techniques to reach the town before it was destroyed, but also kidnapped a resident from the town.

They arrested this resident because they wanted him to be their guide in finding another friend of Xu and his accomplices.

Unexpectedly, by a twist of fate, the person they captured turned out to be an ancestor of Shen the shepherd.

The head of this family, surnamed Shen, died a hundred years ago, so the person Xu captured was naturally not alive.

The head of the Shen family and his descendant, Shen the shepherd, were both cunning, but not wicked. After going through several hardships with Xu and others, they eventually became sworn brothers with Xu.

The three brothers had a heart-to-heart talk, and only then did the Shen family patriarch realize that the one who had been openly and secretly plotting against his two older brothers for so long was actually his own grandson.

The head of the family surnamed Shen was quite principled and ultimately sacrificed his own family for the greater good, burying his grandson, Shen the shepherd, in the snowy mountains.

Shen Yangguan only revealed on his deathbed that he had used any means necessary to achieve his goal, which was to find a treasure that would restore his mentally challenged grandson to his senses.

He died without achieving his goal.

With Xu's help, the head of the Shen family found his own remains and buried them, ending his century-long wandering life as a ghost and going to where he was meant to go.

When Xiao Shensan got to this point, we all felt that the story was so fantastical that it was unbelievable.

However, what we don't know is that the story Shen San truly wanted to tell has only just begun...

(End of this chapter)