Chapter 55: Buddha's Hand
The old county magistrate called last night, so Cai Hongming did not go out with Xi Weifeng and the others the next day, but came to the county government office.
When the old county magistrate saw him coming, he told him the results of the meeting and discussion.
"After the county meeting, it was unanimously agreed to sell the sand in front of Qilian Village to you at a price of 2,500 yuan per mu. However, there are several conditions: First, the purchased land shall not be rented, transferred, or sold separately, and can only be owned by you personally; Second, within five years, the sand prevention and control effect must be seen, if there is no effect, the county government has the right to recover it; Third, one-fifth of the purchased land is allowed to be used for construction, but the building shall not be sold or rented as real estate. Fourth, the purchased land can only be used for forestry, agriculture, tourism, etc., and cannot be engaged in industrial production or real estate transactions. Otherwise, the county government has the right to recover it. Five, the purchased land shall not be less than one thousand acres.
There are almost only a few items. If you feel you can, you can sign a contract in the county, and the land will be yours in the future.
In fact, after saying so much, I am mainly afraid that you will sell the land to you at such a cheap price. We cannot explain it without adding some rules and regulations to the upper and lower levels." The old county magistrate explained to Cai Hongming.
Cai Hongming nodded to express his understanding.
After thinking about it, I felt that although the terms were a bit harsh, I bought the farmland and didn't consider anything else at all, so these were ineffective for me.
So the next day he found a lawyer to sign a contract with the county, and from then on, the desert area in front of Qilian Village will be his.
Speaking of which, the land is more than a thousand acres, but the land there is not worth anything at all. Even if there are more, no one will say anything. Anyway, the contract says it, only one thousand acres. If there are land acquisitions in the future, it will still be calculated based on one thousand acres.
After buying the land, Cai Hongming did not immediately plant trees and vegetables on it. Instead, he first had someone use a two-meter-long cement column to circle the land he bought, and then wait until the spring of next year before starting development.
On the day of signing the contract, he contacted the excavators and workers in the town and went to Qilian Village to set up cement columns to enclose the land. Qilian Village, which was originally deserted, suddenly became lively due to the arrival of these people.
Standing in front of the house, Cai Hongming looked out from afar at the busy crowd on the mountain top in the distance.
On the top of the mountain, the forklift first shoveled out a road, and the car carrying cement columns followed. Then, the workers behind kept unloading the cement columns and standing them. In just a while, two meters of cement columns stood up in a row. Looking at the busy people above, he realized the true meaning of the saying that spending money is like flowing water.
Nowadays, there are hundreds of manual labor, and the forklift is hundreds of an hour. It costs thousands of dollars a day. Fortunately, he still has hundreds of thousands of dollars left after buying the land, otherwise he would not have thought of surrounding the cement column.
After looking at it, Cai Hongming turned around and returned to the house. Anyway, those jobs have been given to others, and he just needs to wait for acceptance.
When they arrived in the house, Eighth Duke, Third Master, Fifth Master, and Uncle Fu were sitting together playing cards. Although Fu Shu was usually stupid, he was very smart in playing cards.
Cai Hongming was not interested in these things, and just watched TV.
After a while of the fight, the third master got up and ran to the house to get something out, and said to Cai Hongming: "Hongming, come and see if this thing is a treasure?"
Cai Hongming looked at the thing he took out and suddenly realized that it was a jade-carved Buddha's hand, with gold foil on it, smooth and bright. The Buddha's hand pinched the handprints, and a seal was engraved in the palm of his hand. The Chinese characters in the seal were strange and he couldn't understand them at all.
"Third Master, this is a good thing, where did you come from?" Cai Hongming asked.
"I picked it up when she was herding sheep." The third master immediately laughed when he heard it was a good thing.
"Are we far away?"
"Far away."
“Can I drive a motorcycle?”
"You can't drive, but you can drive to the foot of the mountain over there and walk over." After asking, Cai Hongming was moved.
This broken hand was clearly broken off from one of the Thousand-Handed Guanyin's hand-printed hands. In other words, there should be another Thousand-Handed Guanyin. Where there are Buddha statues, there are usually temples, or it is a cave. Perhaps there is a cave stone chamber nearby that has never been discovered. If you can find one or two antiques from it, wouldn't it be issued? The funds for the development of the desert will be settled in the future. Thinking of it, Cai Hongming became excited and planned to ask the Third Master to take him to find the place where the Thousand Master broke his hand, and maybe he could find some clues.
Chinese people are always very enthusiastic about finding babies, and the elderly are no exception.
When the third master heard that he was going to find something, he immediately nodded in agreement. After hearing this, Hachimoto wanted to follow him.
So, the village kept the fifth master and uncle in charge of the house. Cai Hongming cleaned up, carried a backpack full of food, and some flashlights, shovels, ropes and other tools. He drove the Eighth Master and the Third Master to the place where he found his broken hands.
Sometimes the Third Master will walk far away when she grazing sheep, driving the sheep over mountains after mountains, and then walking back. Usually, after walking this trip, the sheep will be full.
Cai Hongming drove at the foot of the mountain. The land at the foot of the mountain gradually became desertified, and trees were no longer growing, and only some grass grew sparsely.
After driving for about two hours, when he arrived at a foot of a mountain, the third master asked him to stop the car, then the three of them got out and walked towards the sand in front. From the sandy land at the foot of the mountain, he walked up to the sand dunes, and for another hour, the three of them arrived at the wavy dunes.
Third Master pointed to the sunken place between the two sand dunes and said, "That thing was discovered there."
It was purely accidental for him to get this thing. When he came here with a sheep, he found a light flashing on the mountain. He thought it was a treasure. When he ran over, he found that it was a broken hand. He felt bad and wanted to throw it away, but he couldn't bear it, so he took it back.
Cai Hongming looked at the place, then picked up the shovel he brought and a pointed iron rod and walked down, then inserted the iron rod into the sand, and knocked it down with the wooden handle of the shovel.
After knocking for a while, the iron rod seemed to stab something and could not be inserted. He picked up the shovel and dug it into the place where the iron rod was inserted. After a while, he actually dug a skeleton. The surface of the skeleton was corroded. It seemed that it had been a while.
Cai Hongming didn't care much about himself. After all, he disturbed the peace of the family, so he dug him out and found a new place to bury him.
Unexpectedly, he could dig something by just digging. Although it was not an antique treasure, it made him interested. So he continued to dig down, and after a while, he actually dug tiles.
Not only one, but a bunch.
Cai Hongming cleaned up the tiles where he dug to the tiles and found that the tiles were arranged very neatly, as if they were the roof of a house. He couldn't help but wonder. So he picked up the tiles, and a black hole suddenly appeared below. He shone them in the flashlight. Looking at the wall decorations inside the house, it was clearly a Tibetan Buddhist temple.
"Hongming, have you found anything?" asked the third master.
“There seems to be a temple below.”
Cai Hongming didn't continue to look, climbed up the hill and said to the two old men: "Bagong, you and the third master will wait in the car first, and I'll go down and take a look. There should be a Lama Temple below, and it's empty inside. I'm afraid that if the temple collapses, it will be bad if you fall in it."
"It's okay, I'll take a look here." Hachigong waved his hand and said without mind.
"I'd better not want it anymore. You guys go there and wait. I'll go in and see if there is anything coming out immediately."
Chapter completed!