The boy stepped on the tiny stars all the way out of the town and headed towards the creek. Although it was night, Chen Pingan ran no slower than during the day. Chen Pingan deliberately avoided the covered bridge where the water level was the deepest, as the stream was farther away.
Far higher than other places, Chen Pingan chose a section of stream where the water was only up to his knees. He took off the large bamboo basket behind his back, bent down and picked up a small bamboo basket hidden inside, and tied it tightly around his waist.
I took off my straw sandals, rolled up my trousers, and then went into the water to touch the pebbles.
The wound on his left hand cut by the broken porcelain was still painful. Naturally, he could not soak it in water. The young man could only use his right hand to rummage in the stream and pick it up. In fact, the stones on the dry river bed were the easiest to pick up, but as Liu Xianyang said,
The color will fade badly. Now that Chen Pingan has roughly understood the mystery from the girl in black, it is not difficult to understand. He feels that these stones are actually like the ones he followed Old Man Yao over the mountains in the early years and chewed the stones on each mountain.
The soil looks like ordinary soil, but in some places, even if it is separated by a mountain, it has a completely different taste in your mouth.
Old man Yao said that this is called moving trees to move dead people to move living things, and mud to move nests to become Buddhas. The mud in your hands will soon change its flavor as long as it leaves the original land.
The creek has no name. The pebbles in the creek are as big as a fist and as small as a thumb. They are colorful. But the people in the town have been used to seeing them lying quietly in the clear stream for generations. Naturally, no one thinks they are anything rare.
, whoever moves these rocks home will definitely be regarded as a fool. If you are full and have the strength to hold on, if you don't do more farm work, you are nothing but a fool.
Chen Ping'an, who was bending down to wade in the water, kept moving away and turning over the big rocks at the bottom of the stream. He had already picked up seven or eight stones and put them into the bamboo basket. They were both large and medium-sized, with different colors. The skin color of the stones looked like hanging branches in autumn.
There are golden oranges, fair and tender like a baby's skin, pitch black and shiny, bright red like peach blossoms, shrimp-back green being the most common, and so on.
Most of these stones, commonly known as snake gallstones in the countryside, are not big, and are smooth and heavy in the hand. If they are held high in the sun during the day, or illuminated by candlelight late at night, the inner texture of the stones will be revealed, as subtle as silk.
, like a tiny snake and fish meandering, if viewed from a slightly distance, the skin color is like sparkling fish scales, snake scales.
After about an hour, the fish basket on Chen Pingan's waist was almost full. He returned to the stream bank where the basket of straw sandals was placed. He first went to the bank and pulled out a few large handfuls of reeds, wild celery and dogtail grass, and placed them at the bottom of the basket.
Then he put the stones into the basket one by one, carried the straw sandals, tied the fish basket, and carried the basket on his back, and walked ashore. When he reached the bank of the stream where he turned back before, he put down the straw sandals and basket again, and went down to the stream to continue digging.
Stone.
After picking up half of the basket, Chen Pingan straightened up and looked up at the starry sky, hoping to see shooting stars streaking across the night sky, but obviously there was no such good luck tonight. After Chen Pingan came to his senses, he continued to rely on the faint starlight and the past.
People have good eyesight and do what a money addict should do.
Every time he successfully picked up a pebble, Chen Pingan felt a sense of joy. To the young man, every pebble was like a hope.
Unknowingly, Chen Ping'an had accumulated more than half a basket of stones, about eighty in total, the largest of which was bigger than his fist. The color was extremely eye-catching, like condensed chicken blood.
It gives people an uncomfortable feeling. There are almost no flaws or cracks in such a big stone. At this time, Chen Ping'an was walking on the bank, heading towards the next section of the stream. He was playing with a medium-sized snake gallstone in his hand. It was light green and was smaller than the porcelain in the small town.
Plum green is much lighter, and the pebbles are round and smooth, very cute. Chen Pingan fell in love with it at first sight.
Chen Pingan walked towards the huge bluestone cliff on the shore. Children in small towns often bathe in this section of the stream in hot summers. The stream under the cliff is particularly deep. The deepest pit is as high as two Chen Pingan. It is the second deepest creek in the world.
There is a deep pool under the covered bridge. Young people with good water skills like to compete here to see who can stay under the puddle for the longest time.
Chen Pingan chose this deep pit because when he and Liu Xianyang took a bath here before, they found that there were many snake gallstones at the bottom of the pit. Liu Xianyang once deliberately floated a snake gallstone under his arm in order to show off his superior water properties.
, Chen Pingan remembered that the stone was at least as big as Gu Can's head. The stone was slightly white and transparent, and there were tiny bright red dots inside, like frozen peach petals.
Liu Xianyang felt that this move was quite meaningful at the time, so he asked Chen Pingan to help him carry such a large stone home. However, when he arrived in the small town, the tall and uncertain boy felt bored again, so he asked Chen Pingan to handle the stones by himself.
As soon as Ping An walked into Mud Bottle Alley that time, he found that Zhi Gui next door was following him inexplicably. He didn't say anything and kept staring at the stone in his arms. His eyes were the same as those sold by Chen Ping An every time he saw them in Xinghua Alley.
The meat buns were almost the same. Chen Pingan couldn't resist her greed, so he gave her the stone. As a result, she couldn't move it at first and almost broke her foot. Chen Pingan had no choice but to move it to the yard of Song Jixin's house.
As for the final whereabouts of the stone after that, Chen Pingan has no idea.
The stone is as white as water, with peach blossoms floating in it.
Just like the peach blossoms in Peach Leaf Alley after the rain, they are bright and green.
Even before today, Chen Ping'an didn't know the mystery of this stone at all, but he always felt from the bottom of his heart that the big stone was really beautiful.
Chen Pingan sighed and suddenly stopped.
Thirty steps away, on the green stone cliff by the stream, sat a young girl in green clothes with bulging cheeks, but she was still stuffing things into her mouth.
The first impression that came to Chen Pingan's mind was that the girl must have been reincarnated as a ghost because she was so hungry in the middle of the night.
Chen Ping'an thought for a moment and stopped approaching, for fear of disturbing the girl's late-night snack mood. However, he didn't turn around and leave. After all, he had already made up his mind to try his luck at that puddle tonight.
Every time I touch one or two stones to the shore, I always succeed if I try more often. Moreover, the snake gallstones in this puddle are larger and the colors seem to be more vivid than those in other parts of the creek.
Chen Ping'an's water quality is not as good as Liu Xianyang's, but it's not bad either.
Chen Pingan did not expect that the strange girl would finish eating and pick up another food from beside her. There would never be a moment when her cheeks were not bulging. Chen Pingan was carrying most of the basket of heavy stones, thinking about waiting for the water.
Touching stones is also physical work, so I turned sideways and took off the basket and placed it on the ground.
Chen Ping'an underestimated the hearing of the young girl in green. As a result, with just this gentle release, the young girl's ears suddenly perked up and her eyes immediately glanced over.
Chen Ping'an couldn't tell me, girl, just eat slowly, so he could only smile awkwardly.
The girl's expression was a little dull, and she burped twice in succession. Then she seemed to be choking, and she quickly puffed up her chest, stretched out her hand and patted her chest hard.
Only then did Chen Pingan realize that she was not very old. From her neck down, the scenery over there was really spectacular. It was not inferior to many women who had given birth to children.
The clothes on my chest were very tight.
Chen Ping'an quickly looked away, but he didn't have any evil thoughts.
Only then did the girl in green remember that she had brought a kettle. She turned her back to Chen Pingan, raised her head and took a sip of water, and her breathing became smoother.
The young man carrying the straw sandals actually had only one simple thought at the time: the fabric of this girl's clothes must not be cheap, otherwise he would not be able to bear such enthusiasm.
The girl in green clothes continued to eat, this time much more reservedly, at least her cheeks were not so exaggerated, she lowered her head and took small bites, occasionally squinting at the strange young man from the small town, with a pair of peach blossom-like narrow eyes, with the ends of the eyes slightly raised.
The girl is born like a young fox.
She seemed to be asking the boy with her eyes, "What's the matter with you? Keep on going."
Chen Ping'an looked helpless and could only point to the stream outside the blue stone cliff and shouted: "I'm not passing by here, I want to go to the stream on your side."
She looked at the thin boy and said nothing.
Chen Ping'an quickly picked up a stone from the basket and continued to explain: "I'm going to pick up these stones from the stream."
The girl suddenly remembered something important. She put her finger up to her mouth to signal Chen Pingan not to speak. Then she moved her position, obviously to let Chen Pingan pass, and she would not hinder him from going into the water to pick up stones.
Chen Ping'an had no choice but to pick up the basket and walk over. Fortunately, the blue stone cliff was very big and could accommodate more than ten people. Moreover, the girl had already taken the initiative to sit on the edge, unlike before when she straightened her legs and sat cross-legged.
, there was an open package on her knees, piled with all kinds of pastries and snacks, like a hill. So far, only one hill has been eaten by the girl.
Chen Ping'an put down his straw sandals, basket and bamboo basket. He originally thought about getting into the water with his shirt off in the middle of the night, but he didn't think about it now. There was a strange yellow-flowered girl sitting next to him, not to mention whether she would scream or not.
If her parents and elders saw or heard this, Chen Pingan would probably have both of her legs broken, and she would still be unjust.
Chen Ping'an came to the edge of the stone cliff and rushed into the bottom of the puddle.
He soon touched a stone, the size of his palm, but unfortunately it was not a snake gallstone. He wiped his face and continued diving. After three times, he finally touched a blue-black snake gallstone. Chen Ping'an climbed up the cliff all wet.
Put it in the basket and continue to plunge into the water.
From the beginning to the end, the girl kept her back to this side and was busy eating.
In less than half an hour, Chen Ping'an had already found seven or eight stones. Except for the first one, which was darker in color, the other stones were all large and bright.
The last time I went down to Zha Mengzi, I didn’t take a stone to the shore. Instead, I caught a live fish as long as the palm of my hand. It is commonly known as stone fish in the town. When it meets people, it likes to hide under the stones. The meat tastes very delicious. Generally, it is just
Slightly longer than a finger, it is rare to find such a big slab fish like this in Chen Pingan's hand. Chen Pingan had actually sneaked into the gaps between the rocks at the bottom of the pit before and caught a few fish, but he let them go for the rocks at that time. This time it was
A flash of inspiration suddenly occurred to me that if I could catch a dozen fish tonight and make a pot of fish soup for Miss Ning tomorrow, it would be pretty good.
After Chen Pingan landed, he threw the fish into the bamboo basket.
When he caught fish for the second time and landed it, Chen Pingan suddenly found the girl squatting next to the fish basket. Looking at the fish basket with only one fish lying there, he could see that her face was full of energy, just like when Zhigui was there.
The stone I saw in the alley is almost the same.
Chen Pingan threw the second slab fish into the bamboo basket.
The girl slowly raised her head.
The barefoot boy had turned around and walked quickly, and then entered the creek again.
After hearing the boy's plop, the girl quickly grabbed a fish from the bamboo basket with one hand, looked down at them still jumping, looked serious, nodded and said: "It's awesome!"
The girl in Tsing Yi knew that there were many strange sights in this town. The well named Xinghua Lane had an unknown length of iron lock. The covered bridge not far away was actually a stone bridge that spanned the creek for three thousand years.
There is a rusty iron sword at the bottom of the arch bridge, and the tip of the sword points to a bottomless green pool. The crab archway with twelve legs, and the ruined clay statues scattered in the grass outside the ancestral hall.
, there is a porcelain mountain in the north, where porcelain from past dynasties was piled up and judged as defective by the inspectors, and all of them were smashed and smashed, etc.
She even knows most of the reasons.
She has traveled extensively with her father since she was very young, so she deserves to have seen the world.
But when Chen Ping'an caught the rockfish ashore for the third time, the girl with empty hands was still squatting beside the fish basket, but she was still secretly wiping the corners of her clothes with both hands. She looked up and watched the barefoot boy approaching, like
The way common people look at gods.
Chen Ping'an felt something was wrong with her strange eyes and asked tentatively: "Do you want these fish?"
The girl nodded vigorously subconsciously.
Chen Ping'an smiled and said: "Then I'll give you these three items. I'll catch them later."
The girl blinked her eyes and then smiled happily. She was charming and charming.