nightcrawler in los angeles

Chapter 39 What is Washing a Hole?
Tao Xi sat upright in the room and took advantage of the moonlight to watch the water in the cup placed on the floor shaking rhythmically.

The ripples in the water glass are rippling round and round, just like a truck passing by in the American-Australian community~
Tao Xi stood up on tiptoe, put on his clothes casually, and looked towards the small path at the door of the house. It was obvious that the small path was not big enough to pass a truck.

"If you're interested, you might as well take a look at the floor on the first floor. The floor there is almost warped. Ms. Eugenie must not have renovated it, and the house is too remote, and there is no sewer underneath."

What Marco said during the day floated in Tao Xi's mind again~
"Is it possible that someone is digging a tunnel below?" Tao Xi whispered, and Marco's teeth grinding voice seemed to confirm Tao Xi's words.

Great curiosity is everyone's instinct, Tao Xi is no exception!

Tao Xi took the shovel that was used to pry the floor during the day and walked out of the house carefully. The night in the suburbs of Brentwood community was very cold, and a gust of cold wind blew past Tao Xi shivered unconsciously.

Taoxi looked at the brightly lit scene of the Brentwood community not far away and the surrounding scenery where his house is located.

Tao Xi stroked the clothes around his neck and lay down on the ground~
Tao Xi, who was lying on the ground, suddenly found that the muffled sound of "dong dong dong" disappeared again!
If you want to live in the sewer, you must be able to endure loneliness. Tao Xi is like this. Tao Xi who is lying on the ground holds his breath and patiently waits for the [dull sound] to come again.

"Boom"

"Boom"

"Boom"

"It should be the sound of smashing the wall. The vibration of the ground drives the echo of the surrounding sound, and the sound of digging the wall must not be very far from me!" Tao Xi silently analyzed the muffled sound under his feet, trying to find this group of people There, take a step and lie on the ground and listen for a while, and take a step and lie on the ground and listen for a while.

The [Muffling Sound] under your feet doesn't seem to be very far from Tao Xi's house~
When Tao Xi walked around to a nursery behind the house, Tao Xi looked down at the stones on the ground under his feet and kept rolling with the muffled sound of "dong dong dong", a smile appeared on the corner of Tao Xi's mouth~
Tao Xi divided the shovel in his hand into two parts, the shovel and the handle were directly divided into two parts.

In order to find this position the next day, Tao Xi directly put the shovel in his hand directly above the nursery.

Tao Xi, who was holding the handle of the shovel, did not act rashly, but walked into the house and woke up Marco and Nierta who was snoring upstairs.

The two sleepy-eyed people looked at Tao Xi whose eyes were shining brightly and didn't know what to say~
"You said that in this era, there are still people digging tunnels at night. What are they planning?"

Marco yawned and muttered dissatisfiedly: "Dig the tunnel, just dig it, what can you do? I want to sleep~"

Nierta also complained boredly: "Do you think it is still the last century? The Brentwood community was a famous gold mining area in Los Angeles before. Brent Wood put us under our feet as early as 1874. The gold mine has been dug clean! Are you still digging tunnels? You are not afraid that the pit will collapse and you will be crushed to death~"

"Dig for gold mines?" Tao Xi asked with interest after hearing Nilta's words, "Is it so easy to dig gold mines?"

"Easy to dig? Oh, it's really easy to dig in Los Angeles. They are all surface gold mines. As long as there is a stream, you can wash them by hand and it will be gold sand. But now the gold mines in Los Angeles have been hollowed out, unless you find a Go to the abandoned mine to wash the hole! But that's illegal." Nilta answered Tao Xi's question with her eyes closed and pretended to lie down again, but Tao Xi muttered excitedly when she heard Nilta's answer: "I got it! I got it! That shitty modern oil painting artist is also fake! They must have bought that oil painting from a pawnshop for money laundering to launder the gold sand they illegally stole!"

Thinking of this, Tao Xi walked around happily in circles with excitement on his face, and the Portuguese couple who tried to bid for this house with him that day naturally appeared in his mind!
And the Portuguese couple's fingers are full of mud, all this can be explained clearly.

Tao Xi, who has opened up his joints, grabs Marco's ear and prepares to go to the creek in the back mountain~
The reason why the Brentwood community is so expensive is because of the existence of the creek, but all the conditions in the Brentwood community are very consistent with the existence of "washing holes".

"What are you doing! I still have to sleep, and I have to work with you tomorrow."

"Work? Don't do it! Let's go earn money and eat black food!" Tao Xi walked forward with a sullen head after saying this. There were still some drowsy Marcos when he heard "Black When the three words "eat black" came to the spirit instantly.

"But black eats black, is it enough for the two of us?"

Tao Xi also stopped when he heard Marko's words, but soon Tao Xi waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, let's step on the spot today, it doesn't have to be today."

I have to say that the environment in the Brentwood community is really good, and the air is very fresh. Tao Xi took a few deep breaths here and suddenly felt that he was a little nervous and relaxed a lot.

"There are people here! And they don't take a bath." Marco turned his head around and "sniffed" his nose vigorously.

When Tao Xi heard Marco's warning, he directly dragged Marco to bend down. Fortunately, the surrounding bushes were relatively high, which could perfectly cover up the traces of the two brothers.

Two men carrying dirt baskets walked past the bushes of the Taoxi brothers.

"Are you sure no one will find that house?"

"I don't know, Yoram said he went to see it this morning, nothing happened, a bunch of brainless punks."

Two men with dirt baskets on their backs just passed by them, and Tao Xi heard what they said. Seeing this scene, Tao Xi didn't know that these people were "washing holes"!

Tao Xi waved to Marko, who was staring with big eyes and full of astonishment, to follow these two people. These two people are very familiar with the surrounding road conditions, and it is obvious that they have not been working here for a day or two.

You must know that Tao Xi stepped on several puddles in the bushes in order to follow these two people in the bushes.

After walking for a few minutes, a huge pool of water appeared in front of Tao Xi's eyes. There were several women squatting beside the pool. Several women stood in the pool with their trouser legs rolled up, holding baskets and shaking in the water. Everyone Wearing a miner's lamp on their heads~
Half a person's height of soil was piled up on the edge of the pool.

"It's really panning for gold! This group of people, I saw this method on the big screen in the movie theater when we hid in the sewer." Marco muttered to Tao Xi with a look of surprise.

But Tao Xi stared at his big eyes and looked around. After all, this group of people "washing holes" here at night is impossible without someone watching around~
Instead, Marco sniffed his nose and sniffed vigorously. Just when Tao Xi wanted to take a few steps forward, Marco suddenly grabbed Tao Xi and pressed him to the ground. Tao Xi wrinkled in the direction of Marko's fingers. Frowning and looking over, a child wearing a telescope stood on top of a sycamore tree, yawning and circling around the treetop like a searchlight.

"This is a family workshop!"

"It should be, that child must be the child of that group of people."

Tao Xi watched the scene where several people lowered their heads and used the miner's lamp to pick the gold in the basket. His heart kept beating fast. Instead, Marco looked at a red wooden tree on the river bank with interest. box.

It took a long time for the two men with soil baskets on their backs to walk from the edge of the pool towards Tao Xi's direction.

Tao Xi raised his head and took advantage of the moment when the child standing on the treetop turned around to watch, he jumped into the bushes on the opposite side with a long step, and one of the men even looked back.

"what happened?"

"There was a gust of wind blowing from behind just now."

"Oh, don't be so nervous. We have been digging here for almost 2 months and no one found it. If everything goes well, we will be able to return to China with our distant relative who is an athlete."

"I don't want to go back, why go back? Continue mining?"

"Hahaha, I knew you had your eye on that bitch who lives in Los Angeles County."

The two left here laughing and cursing all the way, Tao Xi poked his head out of the bushes covering his mouth and followed them away.

A half-meter-tall mine located on a small hillside appeared in front of Tao Xi's eyes in a short while, but the two men carrying soil baskets did not rush in, but took out an oxygen cylinder right above the mine. Can!

After seeing the appearance of professional equipment such as oxygen tanks, Tao Xi was still a little stunned, but soon the two men bent their waists and crawled into the mine one after the other.

Tao Xi lay on the ground with his waist down and followed the two people in. In order not to let the two people in front find out, Tao Xi counted 500 times at the entrance of the mine before entering.

Entering the mine, it was as if Tao Xi had returned to the sewer. Although there was a black hole inside, Tao Xi was not afraid at all.

After a while, Tao Xi got used to the environment inside. Taking advantage of the moonlight at the entrance of the cave, Tao Xi could still find the new marks left on the wall. The mine is loose on the outside and tight on the inside~
Tao Xi didn't know how long he had been crawling in the cave, but Tao Xi slowly straightened up from crawling and walking. For some reason, Tao Xi felt that it was getting more and more difficult for him to breathe inside.

Finally, when Tao Xi was about to exit, the sound of "dong dong dong" sounded inside the cave.

The muffled conversations of several people also came over. Tao Xi followed the dim miner's lamp and looked over. There were a total of four people who were constantly chiseling at the edge of a raised stone~
One of them was holding a wooden plank in his hand and trying to strengthen the position above his head, but the dust on his head fell down with a "crash".

The other person who just came in filled the dirt basket with a dustpan without saying a word~
Suddenly, the person who had been using wooden planks to reinforce the space above his head loosened his hand, and a wooden plank fell directly onto a piece of wood leaning in the mine, and the piece of wood snapped.

"Huh la la" the tops of the two people's heads collapsed directly, but fortunately the collapsed position was not very big, but Tao Xi felt the circulating air pouring into his nose in an instant, and he was a little stuffy breathing. The difficult Tao Xi felt much better.

Tao Xi didn't understand Ji Li Wala's language, but seeing how busy those people were, Tao Xi also deduced the same.

It was obviously because the collapse of the land above made the man who had been wielding the pick a little angry. To Tao Xi's surprise, the head of the shovel that he had originally planted on the nursery in the yard also fell down.

Seeing this, Tao Xi didn't want to stay here anymore, because he also knew where the Portuguese were digging.

Tao Xi, who knew the cause and effect of the incident, was about to turn around and leave when he found some hands under his knees. He grabbed a handful of Tao Xi and caught a stone the size of a fingernail. Tao Xi, who was about to throw the stone away, found his hands This stone is glowing!

Tao Xi, who didn't care about these things, stuffed them into his pockets and started to walk away quickly, because the two men inside were about to leave the cave with dirt baskets on their backs.

The sky slowly turned pale, and Tao Xi and Marco returned to the house in disgrace.

When he turned back to the house, Tao Xi resisted his desire to take a look at the backyard and went directly to the second floor. The second floor, which was originally "snoring everywhere", was completely quiet.

"Did I guess right last night!" Tao Xi was startled by Nilta's sudden appearance. Not far away, Nilta's younger brother was staring in the direction of the backyard with half of his head exposed.

Marco also crawled over as if joining in the fun.

"Do you see how much this thing is worth?" Tao Xi threw the stone he just picked up in the mine towards Nilta. There was an exclamation in an instant.

A few of Nilta's younger brothers around him also stared at them. Nilta stuffed the gold into his mouth and bit it regardless of what happened.

"Fxxk! It's gold! I said why the backyard collapsed with a bang." Nierta's eyes immediately became bloodshot because he didn't sleep well.

But Tao Xi waved his hand indifferently and told Nilta: "Don't show any strangeness. I will open a hot dog shop for everyone who participated in this time. Everyone should sleep well during the day. What to do, let's start tomorrow night!"

"How?"

"Black eats black?"

"Just do it like this!" Nilta fell asleep immediately after hearing Tao Xi's order, except for the younger brother who was lying in front of the window and still on guard watching the man filling the soil in the backyard, which he enjoyed very much.

(End of this chapter)