"Oh, it's really not a policeman, so what are you doing here with us?" The old man saw Wang Baxian carrying a mountaineering bag on his back, and smiled slightly, "You still play mountaineering at such an old age?"

Wang Baxian stroked his beard and smiled: "Lao Ji is in the woods, and his ambitions are thousands of miles!"

"I don't understand what you're saying. The old man's gaze returned to Luo Xu again, and said, "Young man, what do you want to ask?"

Luo Xu squatted down and asked, "Old man, I heard that there is a kind of transparent stone in this horseshoe mountain, and if there is light shining into it, the stone will turn purple, is there such a thing?"

The old man glanced up at Luo Xu and said meaningfully, "You also came to find that stone?"

Luo Xu nodded with a smile.

The old man shook his hand and said in an unhappy tone, "Go back and forth where you came from! ”

The old man's attitude changed suddenly, which made Luo Xu a little confused, but he also realized a problem, what he was looking for must be in this place, but why did the people here change their attitudes as soon as they heard that they were looking for amethyst?

"Old man, let's ask you about something in a good voice, and if you don't know, just say, why do you have such a face?

Wang Baxian was indignant and reprimanded the two old men under the big locust tree.

The two old men didn't take his words to heart at all, and treated Luo Xu and Wang Baxian as air, and the two continued to chat.

"Let's go. ”

Seeing this situation, even if he asked a few more words, he couldn't get any useful information, so Luo Xu took Wang Baxian and left this small village with only more than ten households.

The two of them returned the same way and returned to the foot of Horseshoe Mountain.

Wang Baxian said: "Master, I have a stone chisel in my backpack, should we go up the mountain and chisel around? Maybe we can find the amethy crystal by mistake." ”

There was no other way at the moment, Luo Xu decided to try Wang Baxian's method first. When they went up the mountain, Wang Baxian took Shi Zhu out of his mountaineering bag and handed it to Luo Xu. The two climbed all the way up, and Luo Xu chiseled the stones on the mountain with a stone drill from time to time, but they found nothing, not even the shadow of the amethy crystal.

The Horseshoe Mountain was not very tall, and in the evening they reached the top of the mountain. climbed up all the way, Wang Baxian didn't even rest, but this didn't mean that he wasn't tired. On the contrary, he was as tired as his grandson. When he reached the top of the mountain, he sat down on the ground and gasped violently against a large rock.

Seeing Wang Baxian tired like this, Luo Xu's heart was full of guilt. On the way up the mountain, he was only looking for amethyst, completely ignoring that he was followed by an old man in his seventies. If you rest a few times in the middle of the road, you will definitely not tire Wang Baxian like this.

"Lao Wang, drink some water. ”

Unscrewed a bottle of mineral water and handed it over, Luo Xu leaned Shi Zhu aside, and sat down as well, ready to smoke a cigarette to sort out his thoughts.

Wang Baxian grunted a few mouthfuls of water, wiped the sweat on his head, and said, "Master, the people in that village under the mountain are weird, I think they must know the way to find amethy crystal, but they just don't tell us." ”

Luo Xu nodded, "If they don't sue us, we can't do anything." We can't force them, they won't be bandits. ”

Wang Baxian sighed, "But let's look for it so cluelessly, when will it be a head." In my opinion, it is better to sneak into the village quietly, grab someone and ask him, and force him to tell him how to find amethyrite, and give him some money afterwards as compensation. ”

"No!" Luo Xu waved his hand and vetoed Wang Baxian's suggestion, "They are all simple peasants, we can't do that." ”

Wang Baxian said: "Master, then let's hurry down the mountain and camp at the foot of the mountain tonight." ”

"Are you okay?" Luo Xu asked with a little worry.

Wang Baxian patted his chest and said, "No problem! Don't look at my age, but my body is very good, and it will be the same in one night...... Shijiro!"

Luo Xu smiled, "Lao Wang, you can take it easy, but don't die on a woman's belly one day." ”

Wang Baxian laughed loudly: "That is my lifelong dream, I look forward to dying like that!"

As the old saying goes, it's easier to go up than to down, especially when the light is already dark when going down, so they don't go down fast. Wang Baxian carried trekking poles in his hiking bag, and he relied on that to maintain his balance.

Luo Xu didn't dare to go fast, so he kept following Wang Baxian and supporting him.

It was dark, and the two of them reached the foot of the mountain. Put down the hiking bag and take out the compression tent inside. Luo Xu asked Wang Baxian to rest on the side, and he quickly set up the tent.

The wind was blowing outside, the wind was very strong, the sand was flying and the rocks were flying, the wind outside was too strong, and the dead branches and fallen leaves were rolled up, rushing to the face, hitting the face and causing great pain.

The two of them entered the tent, and a small lamp hung on the top of the tent, which illuminated the small tent very brightly.

Luo Xu said: "Thanks to your thoughtfulness, I brought a lot of good things in my mountaineering bag, otherwise we would have to sleep in the wilderness tonight." ”

Wang Baxian said proudly: "When it comes to life experience in the wild, master, you are really not as good as me." I think when I was young, I followed a group of captains who touched gold, and sometimes it was half a year in the wild. ”

"It's okay to be idle left and right, you tell me the interesting story of your youth when you traveled north and south. Luo Xu said.

Wang Baxian opened the chatterbox, and when he was older, he liked to talk about those things when he was young. His eloquence was excellent, and his words were very attractive, and Luo Xu couldn't help but be fascinated by it, completely unaware that it was raining heavily outside, until the rain seeped into the tent.

"Lao Wang, did you pee?"

Luo Xu felt the wetness under his buttocks, and when he looked down, he found that a lot of water had come in.

"Oh no! It's raining heavily!"

The tent bought by Wang Baxian was not waterproof, so the two hurriedly carried their things and ran out. The rain outside was heavier, and the wind was raging, and the two of them were quickly drenched.

"Find a place to hide from the rain. ”

This Horseshoe Mountain is a bald mountain, with nothing but stones, and nowhere to hide. The two searched for a while, but they couldn't find a good place to hide from the rain. After all, Wang Baxian was old, and he soon became a little unbearable, and his lips were frozen and purple.

It will definitely not work if it goes on like this, Luo Xu himself can be outside in the rain all night, but Wang Baxian can't bear it, so he has to find a place to hide from the rain.

He thought of the small village not far away, so he said to Wang Baxian: "Old Wang, I think we have to go to that village." ”