There are always villains who want to harm my master

The old woman smiled, stretched out her hand to take the wine bowl, tilted it to clear it, and some extremely fine sediment appeared at the bottom of the bowl.

"What is this?" Cang Zhu was curious, and also took the bowl to observe closely.

"Stone powder, the treasure of Stone City." The old woman was rather proud.

"This stone powder greatly invigorates vital energy, strengthens body fluid, and soothes the nerves. Children eat less, thirst in spring and summer, women suffer from metrorrhagia, and children suffer from slow shock. Long-term deficiencies can be cured. All insufficiencies of qi, blood and body fluid can be cured."

The old lady was so precious that she did not hesitate to tell all the mysteries of the stone powder.

"Is there such a baby?" Cang Zhu followed her words.

Apparently, the old woman took great pleasure in being praised by strangers for her wine.

"Of course, except for this stone city, you can't ask for it anywhere else!"

"But why don't you just eat stone powder, or make it into something else, instead of making wine?" Cang Zhu was puzzled.

"Young master, you are a layman!" The old woman laughed, "The nature of this stone powder is different from others. It is just a handful of ordinary stone powder when you drink it with water, and you have to worry about it being difficult for your stomach to digest. Take this wine together, and the stone powder will give off medicinal effects."

"So that's how it is..." Cang Zhu suddenly realized.

"Young master, guess how old the old man is now?" The old woman was flushed and full of energy.

Her grandson is eight years old, the son should be 24 to [-] years old, and the grandmother is probably only [-] to [-] years old.

"The old lady is sixty this year!"

The old lady laughed, "Can't you see it?"

Cang Zhu Manshu shook his head in surprise.

For these mortals, life is only five or sixty years, and she has come to the end of her short life.

"Don't rush to regret, this stone powder can prolong life. Outsiders say that people live to seventy since ancient times, but we can usually live to eighty or ninety. My wife, I want to live another 100 years!"

The old lady was very open.

"The year my little bastard got lost, I thought to myself that it was meaningless for me to live, and it would be fine to let him go, but unfortunately there was still this hairy head. I thought, no, I have to live, and the little stone is waiting for me to give him Cooking."

After rambling on about the past, the old woman happily cast her eyes not far away.

"Little Shitou, stop playing, go get the stone powder."

The old woman greeted the little boy who was angry at being left out.

"I won't go! I won't give stone powder to bad women!"

Little Shitou hugged his short arms and sat on the stone bench with his head tilted.

"Be obedient, go!" Grandma said impatiently, "I'll buy you some meat tomorrow!"

As soon as he heard that there was meat, Xiao Shitou's eyes lit up immediately, and he ran into the house like a gust of wind, and ran out again with a handful of something in his arms.

The four sat around, and the old woman unwrapped the package, revealing a stone mortar with unfinished stone powder in the mortar.

With the naked eye, the stone mortar is just some ordinary gray-white stone powder, but Cang Zhu is the first disciple of the mountain god Candle Dragon, how could he not see the silver-white spiritual energy evaporating from the white powder?
Reiki, how can ordinary stones produce aura?The woman in yellow said that the person under pressure in the stone city was the soul of the Nanshan mountain god Jiaochong, which may have something to do with this matter.

"Then where can I find this grinding stone?" Cang Zhu continued to interrogate.

"This is difficult!" The old woman pointed to the mountains hidden behind the rain and mist, "I have to go to the stone forest to find it-of course we old guys can't go there, we can only go to the market to buy, sometimes Money can’t buy it.”

"Stone Forest?" Cang Zhu stood up, staring at the blue rain and fog.

"The stone forest is not only difficult to climb, it is full of holes, and even experienced quarrymen can easily get lost."

"My father got lost in the stone forest." Xiao Shitou interjected.

As soon as the past was mentioned, the old woman suddenly looked sad, and the indelible scar was aroused again.

"Little Shitou's father is my son who lost his way in the stone forest five years ago and hasn't come back yet..."

As the old woman spoke, she burst into tears.

Wiping away another tear, he comforted himself with a smile:

"But it doesn't matter. Little Shitou is already eight years old. If my old lady can raise that little bastard, she can raise the children of big and small bastards."

"Where's your mother?" Manshu poked Xiaoshi's shoulder.

"do not know."

Little Shitou was stealing a drink while holding a bowl, without looking up.

"Oh, little ancestor, don't drink, you'll get drunk after a while!"

Grandma went up and grabbed the wine bowl and drove him into the house.

"Little Shitou's mother, not long after he was born, went out to quarry and was poisoned by a snake... She couldn't be saved... Xiao Shitou has never seen his mother."

The old lady who was still in good spirits just now seemed to have aged a lot when she mentioned the past.

Although they were extremely unwilling to expose people's scars again and again, they had to continue to ask about the source of the stone's aura.

"What is quarrying?"

"Quarrying, quarrying, is to go to the stone forest. Among the thousands of stones, pick out those that can be used for medicine and powder. Some gems are sold from here and become decorations on the hats of princes and nobles. , some jade and agate were carved into decorations in rich people’s homes, and some became jewelry on women’s bodies... Depending on luck, whatever you pick is what you get.”

"Then what if the light is on?" Cang Zhu was worried.

"Hey, it's not enough! We rely on mountains to eat mountains, and the treasures in this stone forest have fed our ancestors for generations, and they are still doing well."

The old woman waved her hand to show that his worries were unfounded.

"how can that be possible?"

No matter how rich the mineral deposits are, they will become less and less after hundreds of years of mining, and they will become deeper and deeper and more difficult to mine.

"What we pick is all on the surface. If you don't see any rocks after digging three feet, it means the mountain god doesn't want to give it to you. We have to stop."

The old woman talked about her experience of quarrying when she was young.

"At that time, I was pregnant with that little brat, and his father went up the mountain to quarry stone powder. As soon as we entered the stone forest, a big boulder suddenly rolled down. Fortunately, his father quickly picked me up and escaped the big boulder. "

"Oh, I'm still terrified to mention it now!" The old woman patted her chest lightly.

"But there is no other way. The quarrying has to continue. Otherwise, there will be no stone powder after I give birth, and the child will not grow up."

"and after?"

"Later, his father and I went into the mountain, we obviously touched the stone veins, but we dug a big hole but there were no stones. When his father slapped his thigh, hey, it broke!"

"What's wrong?" Manshu listened with gusto.

"It has already passed three feet. According to the rules left by our ancestors, you can't dig any more after three feet. When I agree with his father, let's go back, and we will always dig. Hey, guess what?"

The old woman deliberately kept it a secret, and the two of them couldn't guess, so they shook their heads.

"When we came together the next morning, two little snakes were coiled at the door. There was a mourning sound from the next door. The boy from that family dug into the snake den and was bitten to death by a poisonous snake!"

"what……"

This story sounds thrilling and even a little scary.

"Oh, I forgot to ask you, what are you brothers and sisters doing in Stone City?"

"us……"

The two hesitated and hesitated for a while, unable to answer.

"We are stone merchants from other places, and we came here specially to purchase gems." Cang Zhu made up a lie.

"Businessman, why don't you even know about quarrying?" The old woman looked up and down the two suspiciously, "It's not like that."

"Ah ha ha ha... We... Our father is a businessman, and the two of us came out to run errands to learn skills. We are not familiar with it."

Manshu hastily made a haha ​​and fooled around.

"Let me just say, no wonder you're so young. It's good to learn...to learn...it's good. Little Shitou's father should be older than you if he wants to live." The more the old woman looked at Cang Zhu, the more she liked it.

"Ha...hahaha..." The three laughed awkwardly.

She can really dare to say that she can be older than the eldest brother.

A ladybug climbed onto Cang Zhu's bun. Cang Zhu looked sideways, pretending nothing happened, but the old woman saw it.

"Where did the stinky shell come from?" The old woman stretched out her hand to help him catch it, but Cang Zhu hurriedly grabbed the ladybug off first.

"Maybe it was sitting in the courtyard and accidentally flew up..."

"You are the stinky scum, your whole family is stinky!" The woman in yellow only remembered the three of them arguing in the cave, when suddenly a pain in the back of her neck made her lose consciousness.

When I woke up again, I was put in a bag that wrapped the world, and there was an extra pair of wings and four feet. No need to think about it, I knew that it was the two from the Mountain God's Mansion.

Cang Zhu calmly put the woman in yellow into the bag and changed the subject.

"Old man, is there a guide here, we want to go into the mountains and have a look."

"Guide...these...are all quarrymen, where did the guide come from..." The old woman was a little embarrassed.

"Why don't you just follow their quarrymen into the mountain, keep up, it's fine."

Quarryman?
When Manshu heard that he was going to enter the mountain, he felt a little reluctant in his heart.

There are snakes in the mountains, she hates them the most.It's not that he can't beat him, but when he sees the long soft body, the blood-red letter, and the two vertical pupils that turn yellow and green, goose bumps start to appear all over his body.

"Or... another day..."

"The weather is good today, that's it." Cang Zhu decided without waiting for her to finish.

"Oh..." Manshu lowered his head reluctantly.

"We're not here to visit the mountains and rivers." The elder brother said suddenly when he walked past her.

He didn't come to visit the mountains and rivers, he came to help Master find Qi Yuanshen as soon as possible, and by the way...by the way, let's see how Chuanwu is doing.

She came after him, and his goal was her goal.

"Girls, don't go into the mountains, it's too dangerous..." The old woman brought a pair of thick-soled boots and handed them to Cang Zhu.

"These are my son's boots, do you try them on and they fit?"

Of course Cang Zhu is not afraid of snakes, even poisonous snakes can't get close to him.

But the old lady smiled kindly, and couldn't bear to brush off her kindness, so she took it and tried it.

The shoes are a bit small, he smiled and said it was just right.

"Brother, it's not easy for the old lady alone, and she has to prepare more food for the two of us. I'll stay and help..."

Manshu, who has always been selfish and domineering, certainly didn't want to help the old woman out of kindness, but it was just an excuse for not wanting to go into the mountains.

What kind of stone is she looking at? Cangzhu is the only thing she wants to look at.

"Okay, you just wait for me here."

Cang Zhu saw the smallness in her heart, and didn't bother to expose it, so she agreed.

Lingyou had told him earlier that Manshu had wishful thinking for him, but she and him were not a good match.Thinking about it now, the more I feel that Ling's lobbying is justified.

It's just that she sneaked out, the talisman was broken, and she was homeless. When she met him, no matter how reluctant he was, he had to take on the responsibility of his senior brother.

The quarrymen shuttled through the stone forest all year round, and as long as they walked through the places, they could clearly feel the big and small caves.

The quarryman leaked some bright yellow powder from behind as he walked.

Cang Zhu reminded, but the quarryman smiled and said:
"This is Bishe powder. Poisonous snakes will follow the smell. If you sprinkle this powder, snakes will not be able to tell the smell of humans."

"I see!"

Since Cang Zhu took over the affairs of the entire Shanshen Mansion, she has been so busy that she can't take time off for a moment. Although she has been to Nanshan before, this is the first time she has experienced the life of the people in Nanshan.

"You don't know, there are [-] holes in this cave, and there are [-] snakes living there. Some are poisonous and some are not. Who knows."

"Why are there one hundred and one?"

"Because two of them are still mating! Hahahaha..." The quarryman laughed and made a not-so-gentle joke.

Cang Zhu smiled, but didn't answer.

It's not that he dislikes such foul language, it's just that he has been away from the world for too long, and he really doesn't know how to answer it.

He also lived in the mortal world for a while before, but it was too long ago, as short and vague as a dream he had in an afternoon.

Working people are under tremendous pain and pressure physically, and there will be a lot of turbidity in their hearts that needs to be vented.

The dragon will be suppressed for a long time and will turn upside down, and the fairy will become evil if it is suppressed for a long time, but these mortals live their lives with peace of mind, they don't kill or set fire, they just make up some jokes about love between men and women to relieve boredom , is already very kind.

What more could he ask of them?I can only laugh it off.

When quarrying stones, one must first find the veins of the stones, which cannot be seen, and can only be probed with stone needles.

The quarryman took out a small black stone from his pocket and put it on the ground. The stone did not move at all.

"Not here."

The quarryman muttered to himself, and changed the place of the stone again, but the stone still did not move.

"Not here either."

Cang Zhu looked at the "stone needle" carefully, but couldn't tell what kind of material it was.

The "Stone Needle" is black all over, with thin golden cracks on it. The Stone Needle is not a needle, it looks more like retaining its original appearance.

Putting it on an open and flat ground, the "stone needle" suddenly shone brightly, and a ray of silver light floated visible to the naked eye, and disappeared into the air in just a moment.

"It's here!"

The quarryman was overjoyed to see the bunch of silver light spots, and hastily put down his basket and started digging deeply.

"The silver light shows that there are stone powder rocks below. It's good luck. I met you as soon as I entered the mountain. Today I really met a nobleman!" While excavating happily, the quarryman did not forget to thank Cang Zhu.

"Is there any other light besides the silver light?" Cang Zhu looked around while the quarrymen were digging the ground.

"There is still a red light, most likely because of digging agate."

"The blue ones are crystals and precious stones, emeralds, or jade, it all depends on luck."

"Yellow, gold. The most useless things."

Cang Zhu took the "stone needle" to study carefully, and was looking at it, suddenly a ray of blue light came out of the stone needle, and drifted into the crack of the stone.

I've lost weight recently!When I finish writing this stupid book, I will definitely make progress, and then open another book to make a lot of money and become beautiful. I have money and leisure every day, and I am twisted when I walk. I believe that if I persist in writing, I will definitely gain something. I must write I will definitely be able to finish writing! !