In the moonlight, a thin man came out of the woods.

It was Sun Ju, Xiao Nan was still looking in that direction vigilantly, and if a second person appeared, he would immediately turn around and run away.

There was no one else, Sun Ju was carrying a big package on his back, bulging his pockets, walked into the cliff cave, and when he saw the wooden stick in Xiao Nan's hand, he also smiled slightly.

He walked to the fire and put down the package, Xiao Nan put down the wooden stick in his hand and followed.

"Brother Xiao, it's done, it's time for us to get rich. Sun Ju couldn't hide his excitement, sat down and began to add firewood to the fire.

"What should I do?" Xiao Nan also sat down by the fire.

"Don't worry, I'm from the mine, I haven't eaten yet, I'm so tired, let's get something to eat first, and when I'm full, I'll be able to do things." ”

Sun Ju opened the package, and a big fishy smell came out.

He took out a few things wrapped in oiled paper, and after peeling them off, Xiao Nan saw a few peeled and washed fish, as well as two chickens.

Sun Ju folded a few branches from outside the cave and threaded them, then built a shelf above the fire with wood and began to grill them.

"I left around noon tonight, I baked so many things, I had to take them with me on the road to eat, and I had to walk the mountain road for a day or two. ”

Xiao Nan was a little anxious in his heart, and he was counting on this kid to tell him what he was going to do.

"I told you last time, I've been preparing for this for a long time. In the past two years, I have spent most of my time mining in the mines, and the spirit stones I dig are very valuable, but the wages of the miners are pitiful. Sun Ju said slowly while flipping the food.

"There is no way to smuggle out the spirit stones that are dug up, it is definitely a dead end. So half a year ago, I was thinking and paying attention to whether I could sneak into the mine at night to dig some spirit stones. ”

When Xiao Nan heard this, he began to understand what he was going to do.

"With this idea, when I went to mine, I had an extra mind, and the mining area, as long as it was a place with a lot of mines, I deliberately kept it and didn't dig, and made some illusions, just waiting for an opportunity, I sneaked in and got out. ”

"After you get it, is it easy to sell it?" Xiao Nan had some of the little excitement before he was going to do something big.

"Of course, I won't give you details, anyway, I've been preparing for a long time. ”

The smell of grilled fish and roast chicken on the fire was so fragrant that they swallowed almost at the same time.

"The mine is protected by cultivators, there is one or two hundred meters apart, there are three or five people living in the wooden houses in each place, there are five people in the place where I mine, their cultivators' eyes are better than us ordinary people, and it is said that they can see things clearly at night, so I endured until now, and I have not taken this risk. ”

Xiao Nan was about to open his mouth to ask.

"Wait for me to finish, yesterday afternoon, there was a major incident in the mining area where I am located, and there was a collapse in one place, which is a common thing, and the area of the collapse is not large. ”

Sun Ju paused, handed Xiao Nan a cooked fish, kept one for himself, and put the remaining ones on the oiled paper.

"But this time the collapse is strange, there are some huge bones exposed at the collapse, and we miners didn't take it seriously at the time, but the foreman notified the Tongyang faction, and soon the head of the Tongyang faction and several elders came. ”

Sun Ju began to eat grilled fish with relish, but Xiao Nan listened to Sun Ju's narration with relish.

"They asked our miners to carefully take out the bones, guess what? It was two keels, they were like treasures, they transported them back to the Tongyang faction in their entirety, and they gave a lot of rewards to the people present, hehe, I also have a share." ”

Xiao Nan was like listening to mythological stories, and he was simply fascinated, and he only had one sentence: What happened later?

"The point is, those few cultivators who protect the mountain get more rewards. As soon as the miners finished work today, I met five of them in a town not far away, one is not a lot, haha, exactly five. ”

Xiao Nan was a little puzzled.

"Then I saw them go into the restaurant, and they must have drunk a lot, and when they came out, they either fell down, or they were red-faced. And guess what, they were in a little brothel in town, and one of them brought a wit out, and then they went back to the mine in pairs. ”

Xiao Nan suddenly understood.

"Do you say that God is taking care of us and asking us to make a fortune. ”

Xiao Nan also smiled with a smile on his face, and nodded like a dumb person.

The soft moonlight and the chaotic chirping of insects echoed in the mountains, and Xiao Nanshen followed behind Sun Ju with one shallow foot.

In a pile of bluestones, Sun Ju turned out two steel drills more than one meter long, handed one to Xiao Nan, and carried one himself.

Then he took out two torches wrapped in layers of oiled paper, the same one for each person, and Xiao Nanxue inserted the torches into the trouser belt on his back.

"It's almost there, be careful not to make a loud noise, their ears are bigger than a dog's Turin. ”

Xiao Nan let out a cautious "um".

The two of them were speechless, and soon heard the sound of the river flowing, and went around in a long circle before they walked away from the wooden house with the lights on at the entrance, and cautiously walked into the mine.

Xiao Nan estimated that it had been an hour after leaving the cave, and after walking nervously in the mine for about twenty minutes, he came to a mine, and eighty or ninety meters away from the mine, there were several wooden houses with faint lights.

"Follow me and get in. Sun Ju said softly, and soon disappeared into the darkness of the mine.

"Grab my package and follow me. ”

Walking was not fast, after walking for about twenty meters, Xiao Nan felt that he had turned a corner in the hole.

"It's safe now. Sun Ju's voice was still very low.

After turning several more corners and walking a distance of one or two hundred meters, Sun Ju stopped.

"Okay"

After a burst of Suosuo's voice, Xiao Nan smelled a strange smell. Then I heard the sound of Sun Ju blowing, and then I saw a small bamboo tube with sparks.

The torch was lit, illuminating a calm cheek.

Moving on, the mine is unusually wide, and after nine bends and eighteen bends, there is a pile of mud and stones scattered at the fork in the road.

"You see, this is here, this is where the keel was dug up after the collapse. ”

The two of them stood still, and under the light of the torches, there were a large number of fresh traces of digging in front of them.

Sun Ju was in front, and Xiao Nan took a few steps closer to him, and stepped on a large piece of mud.

"Whoosh"

Suddenly, something burst out of the gap in the mud, followed Xiao Nan's legs and feet, and quickly crawled towards his upper body.

Xiao Nan was startled, and hurriedly stomped his feet and shook his body, his hands were constantly beating, but he still let a thing with the length of an index finger climb up to his shoulder.

"Slap", Xiao Nan slapped it, but he didn't get it.

"A bug like a gecko, it must have run away, you don't have anything on your back. Sun Ju also saw what was on Xiao Nan's shoulder just now.

Sun Ju walked over, holding a torch in one hand and a steel drill in the other, poked the mud in front of Xiao Nan's feet a few times, and after the mud broke open, there was only a fist-sized gray-white smooth groove.

"It could be its nest, okay, let's go, get down to business. Sun Ju poked at the smooth groove a few times, and the mud completely shattered, leaving only some gray-white broken eggshell-like things.

Xiao Nan also stepped on it casually.

The two of them walked towards the entrance of the cave on the right, and after some distance, Sun Ju found a gap in the cave wall and inserted torches.

"You see this is the place I deliberately kept not digging, there are definitely spirit stones in it, only how much. Sun Ju was unusually excited.

"You'll see what I'll do first, and then you'll do it. ”

The mine wall was intertwined with mud and stones, he found a gap in the soil between the stones, held the steel drill flat with both hands, inserted it with an inch, pry it up and down, and soon the mud and stone began to fall, and so on several times.

"Look, this is the spirit stone, two pieces, it is a low-grade one, if you are lucky, you can dig out the medium-grade one, and the high-grade one is extremely difficult to encounter. ”

Xiao Nan watched for a long time, lit his torch, and started his own excavation work in the place designated by Sun Ju, and the two were about ten meters apart.

Soon he also dug out a few pieces, the size of his little finger, crystal clear, and there was a very faint purple qi flowing in it, and he put this thing called a spirit stone into a prepared cloth bag.

I changed several places, and I could take out three or four pieces in each place, and some places had more.

More than two hours later, Sun Ju suddenly extinguished his torch.

"That's enough, it's time to leave. ”

The two of them walked out of the mine smoothly, and also left the mine cautiously, the moon was already slanting westward, and the two of them did not have the way they came.

At dawn, the two stopped, and they were already far away from the mine.

"Where are we?" asked Xiao Nan.

"On the way to Wuxiang City, I have a house there. I guess I won't be there until tonight, so let's rest for a while and have something to eat. ”

"Here, count how many I dug up. Xiao Nan took off the cloth bag tied around his waist and handed it over.

Sun Ju poured out the spirit stone in the cloth bag on a fast boulder, and Xiao Nan saw his nose twitch twice, and his eyes glowed.

"Brother Xiao, you are lucky, you have dug up a few medium-grade spirit stones, and a red body spirit stone, which is very valuable. ”

After counting Xiao Nan's, he put it back into the cloth bag, and he took off his cloth bag and poured it out.

Xiao Nan had a total of fifty-seven spirit stones, and he had eighty-five.

"I've been rich twice, I've been rich twice, enough for me to eat and drink for years. Sun Ju was extremely excited, his whole body was trembling slightly, and there were tears in his eyes.

Throughout the day, with the exception of a few short breaks, he made his way through the mountains at a brisk pace.

When I turned into the Wuxiang City from a dilapidated and low city tower, it was close to eleven o'clock in the evening, and after turning several alleys in the city, I finally arrived at Sun Ju's two-story simple wooden building.

Both of them were tired, Sun Ju didn't have the heart to speak anymore, pointed to an empty room upstairs, and brought two quilts for him to stay for one night.

Xiao Nan didn't have the heart to look at his room, put down the package on his shoulder, and followed Sun Ju, in a square stone water tank in the courtyard, holding water and freshening up a little, then went back to the room and slumped to the bed.