Sword of Coming

The boy stepped on the tiny starlight all the way, and went out of the town to the creek. Although it was night, Chen Ping'an ran no slower than during the day. Chen Pingan deliberately avoided the covered bridge with the deepest water level, where the stream was much higher than other places. Chen Pingan chose a section of stream where the water was barely above his knees. He picked up a small bamboo basket hidden inside, tied it tightly around his waist, took off his straw sandals, rolled up his trousers, and then went into the water to touch the stones.

The wound on his left hand that was cut by the broken porcelain still hurts. Naturally, it cannot be soaked in water. The boy can only use his right hand to rummage in the creek. In fact, the stones on the dry river bed are the easiest to pick up, but as Liu Xianyang said, The color will fade very badly, now that Chen Pingan has a rough idea of ​​the mystery from the girl in black, it is not difficult to understand, he feels that these stones are actually like the stones that he followed old man Yao over the mountains and ridges in his early years, chewing on various hilltops The soil, which seems to be ordinary soil, has a completely different taste in the mouth even if it is separated by a mountain.

Old man Yao said that this is called moving the tree to move the dead and the living, and the mud to become a Buddha. As long as the mud in his hand leaves the original land, it will soon turn bad.

The creek has no name. The stones in the creek are as big as a fist and as small as a thumb. 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 rare things. , Whoever moves these stones to the house will definitely be regarded as a fool. If you are full and support yourself, if you have this strength, if you don't do more farm work, you are not a fool.

Chen Pingan, bent over and wading in the water, kept moving and turning the big rocks at the bottom of the stream. He had already picked up seven or eight stones and put them into bamboo baskets. There are golden oranges, some are white and delicate like a baby's skin, some are jet black, and the black is shiny, some are as bright as big red peach blossoms, and the color of the shrimp's back is the most green, and so on.

Most of these stones, which are commonly called snake gallstones in the village, are not big, and they are greasy and heavy in the hand. If they are held high in the sun during the day, or illuminated by candlelight in the middle of the night, the inner texture of the stone will be clearly visible, faintly like silk. , like a tiny snake fish meandering, a little distance away to watch, the skin color is like glistening fish scales, snake scales.

About an hour later, the fish basket in Chen Ping's waist was almost full, and he returned to the stream where the baskets of straw sandals were placed. Then I put the stones into the basket one by one, carried the straw sandals, tied the fish basket, and carried the basket on my back, and walked ashore. When I reached the bank of the creek where I turned back before, I put down the straw sandal basket again, and went down the creek to continue to turn. Stone.

After picking up half of the basket, Chen Ping straightened up and looked up at the starry sky, hoping to see shooting stars streaking across the night sky, but obviously he didn't have such good luck tonight. After Chen Ping regained his senses, he continued to do what a money fan should do by relying on his vague starlight and extraordinary eyesight.

Every time he successfully picked up the stones, Chen Pingan felt joy spontaneously. For teenagers, every pebble is like a hope.

Before he knew it, Chen Pingan had already accumulated more than half of the basket of stones, about 80 stones in total, the largest of which was bigger than his fist, and the color was extremely eye-catching, like a congealed ball of chicken blood. It gives people an uncomfortable feeling, such a large stone has almost no flaws and cracks. At this time, Chen Pingan was walking on the bank, heading for the next section of the stream. He was playing with a medium-sized snake gallstone in his hand. Ping An fell in love with it immediately.

Chen Pingan walked to the huge bluestone cliff on the shore. Children in the town often bathe in this stream in hot summer. The stream below the cliff is especially deep. The deepest pit is as high as two Chen Pingan. This is the second deepest creek. In the deep pool under the covered bridge, teenagers with good water skills like to compete here who can stay under the puddle for the longest time.

The reason why Chen Pingan chose this deep pit was because when he and Liu Xianyang took a bath here before, he found that there were a lot of snake gallstones at the bottom of the pit. Once, Liu Xianyang even deliberately floated up with a snake gallstone under his arm to show off his outstanding water quality. 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 bright red dots inside, like frozen peach petals.

At that time, Liu Xianyang felt that this move was very meaningful, so he asked Chen Pingan to help him carry such a large stone home, but when he arrived in the small town, the tall and tall boy who had no personality felt bored, so he asked Chen Pingan to remove the stone by himself. As soon as Ping An walked into Niping Lane that time, he found that Zhigui next door was following behind him for no reason, not speaking, and kept staring at the stone in his arms, with the same eyes that Chen Pingan saw every time he saw the stone sold in Xinghua Lane. The meat buns were almost the same, Chen Pingan couldn't bear her greed, so he gave her the stone, but she couldn't move it at first, and almost smashed her foot, so Chen Pingan had to move to the yard of Song Jixin's house As for the final whereabouts of the stone afterwards, Chen Pingan did not know.

The stone is as clear as water, and the peach blossoms float in it.

Just like the peach blossoms after the rain on the side of Taoye Lane, the color is verdant.

Even before today, Chen Pingan didn't know the mystery of this kind of stone at all, but he always felt that the big stone was really beautiful from the bottom of his heart.

Chen Pingan sighed and stopped suddenly.

Thirty steps away, on the blue rocky cliff beside the stream, sat a young girl in green clothes with bulging cheeks, but she was still stuffing something into her mouth.

The first impression in Chen Ping's mind was that the girl should be reincarnated from starvation, so she was so pitifully hungry in the middle of the night.

Chen Pingan thought about it, and stopped approaching, for fear of disturbing the girl's supper mood. It’s just that he didn’t turn around and left. After all, he had already made up his mind that he must go to that waterhole to try his luck tonight. The snake gallstones in the pit are larger and seem to be more colorful than those in other places in the creek.

Chen Pingan's water skills are not as good as Liu Xianyang's, but it's not bad either.

Chen Pingan didn't expect that the strange girl would never have a rest when she finished eating, and then picked up another food from her side, and her cheeks would never stop puffing up. Chen Pingan carried most of the heavy baskets of stones on his back, thinking that it would be physical work to get into the water and touch the stones, so he turned sideways, took off the baskets and put them on the ground.

Chen Pingan underestimated the hearing ability of the girl in Tsing Yi, and it turned out that just by letting it go lightly, the girl suddenly pricked up her ears, and her eyes swept over in an instant.

Chen Ping'an couldn't say girl, you just have to eat slowly, so he smiled awkwardly.

The girl's expression was a little dull, and she hiccupped twice in succession. Then she seemed to be choking, so she quickly puffed up her chest, stretched out her hand and patted her chest vigorously.

It was only then that Chen Pingan realized that she was young and her neck was down. The scenery over there was really spectacular, and it was not inferior to many women who had given birth to children.

The shirt on the chest was very tight.

Chen Ping quickly looked away, but he didn't have any evil thoughts.

Only then did the girl in Tsing Yi remember that she had brought a water bottle, she did not forget to turn her back to Chen Ping'an, raised her head and took a big sip of water, and her breathing became smoother.

The boy with the straw sandals had only one simple thought at the time, the fabric of the girl's clothes must not be cheap, otherwise he would not be able to bear such a strong effort.

The girl in Tsing Yi continued to eat, this time she was more reserved, at least her cheeks were not so exaggerated, she lowered her head and gnawed small mouthfuls, from time to time she glanced sideways at the strange boy in the small town, with a pair of long and narrow eyes like peach blossoms, with the tails of the eyes slightly raised Upset, so that 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 going.

Chen Pingan was full of helplessness, so he pointed 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, but didn't speak.

Chen Pingan hurriedly picked up a stone from the basket, and continued to explain: "I'm going to pick up these stones in the stream."

The girl suddenly remembered what was important, she put her finger on her lips, signaling Chen Pingan not to speak, then she moved her position, obviously to let Chen Pingan pass, she would not prevent him from going into the water to pick up stones.

Chen Pingan had no choice but to carry the basket on his back, and walked over bravely. Fortunately, the blue stone cliff was so big that more than ten people could stand on it, and the girl had already sat on the edge of her own initiative. Unlike before, her legs were stretched out, and she was sitting cross-legged in a regular manner. , There was an opened package on her lap, piled up with all kinds of pastries and snacks, like a hill, so far, only one hill was eaten by the girl.

Chen Pingan put down the straw sandals, baskets and bamboo baskets, originally thinking about going into the water naked in the middle of the night, but don't think about it now, there is a strange big girl with yellow flowers sitting next to her, not to mention whether she can scream or not, If her parents saw or heard this, Chen Ping estimated that his legs would be broken, and he would not be wronged.

Chen Pingan came to the edge of the rocky cliff, rushed into the bottom of the puddle.

Soon a stone was found, the size of a palm, but unfortunately it was not a snake gallstone, so he had to wipe his face and continue to dive. After three times, he finally touched a blue-black snake gallstone. Chen Ping'an climbed up the rocky cliff wet all over, put it in a basket, and then continued to plunge into the water.

From beginning to end, the girl turned her back to this side, busy eating.

In less than half an hour, Chen Pingan had found seven or eight stones, except for the first one which was dark in color, the rest were large and bright.

The last time I plunged down, I didn’t bring a stone to the shore, but caught a live fish that was about the length of my palm. The town is commonly known as slate fish. Whenever I meet people, I like to hide under the stones. The meat tastes delicious. Slightly longer than a finger, it is rare to have such a big slate fish in Chen Pingan's hands. Chen Pingan was actually stealing the cracks in the rocks at the bottom of the pit before, and touched a few of them, but at the time they were released for the sake of the rocks. The fish soup is also good for Miss Ning.

After Chen Ping went ashore, he threw the fish into the bamboo basket.

When catching fish for the second time, Chen Pingan suddenly found that the girl was squatting next to the fish reel, looking at the fish reel with only a lone fish lying there, she could also see her face glowing, just like Zhigui back then. The alley saw that the stone was almost the same.

Chen Ping threw the second slate fish into the bamboo basket.

The girl slowly raised her head.

The barefooted boy had already turned around and walked quickly, and went down 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 that were still jumping, with a serious expression, nodded and said: "It's amazing, it's amazing!"

The girl in Tsing Yi knew that there were many strange sights in this small town. The well named Xinghua Lane was hung with an iron lock of unknown length. The covered bridge not far away was actually a stone arch bridge spanning a stream for three thousand years. At the bottom of the bridge was a rusty iron sword. The point of the sword pointed to a bottomless turquoise pool. The crab archway with twelve legs, the dilapidated statues in the grass outside the ancestral hall, and the porcelain mountain in the north, piled up with the porcelain that was judged as defective by the superintendent of the past dynasties, all of which were smashed. smash, wait.

She even knew most of the reasons.

Since she was very young, she followed her father all over the world, so she deserves to have seen the big world.

But when Chen Ping caught the slate fish 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 at the barefoot boy approaching, like The common people looked at the eyes of the gods.

Chen Pingan was taken aback by her strange eyes, and asked tentatively, "Do you want these fish?"

The girl subconsciously nodded vigorously.

Chen Ping smiled and said, "Then these three items will be given to you. I will catch them later."

The girl blinked, then smiled happily. Foxy and foxy.