Along the dark and slippery tunnel forward for less than half an hour, the front suddenly opened up, a man in front of him shirtless, with strong muscles constantly waving the shovel in his hand in the inner cave busy, many children of the size of Xiang Mu Qi'er searched around the stone cave for some smaller stalagmites to pick down can also exchange some snacks for the merchants to eat, it is said that the nobles of those big families like to use some stone to carve some toys or something. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

There is a texture in the stone, it is as if it is natural, Gu people are born between the stone walls, ordinary stones are inexhaustible, but for those who practice, ordinary mountain wild stones are far from enough to bear their strength and cultivation needs, among the discoveries that the Gu people have made, the easiest thing to obtain that can assist in cultivation is this stalagmite carved by natureThe larger ones can be made into swords, spears and spears, even if they are smaller, as long as the texture damage in them is not serious, they can be carved into ornaments and endowed with souls to play a subtle role in helping practitioners to understand the nature of heaven and earth.

Mu Qi'er followed his father Gu Sanxun to find a corner of the place, took out the stone shovel and rattan basket he brought, and began to prepare for the day's work. The stone in the bamboo shoot cave is spiritual, divided into upper, middle and lower three, the more complex the inner texture, the higher the quality of the stone, the value is naturally not the same, the stone in the bamboo shoot cave is rare, the inferior is enough, but if the effort of mining the stone is not at home, once the texture of the stone inside the stone is destroyed, then these stones will lose their value, even if they are taken out by the merchants. Children like Mu Qi'er are not enough in terms of strength or experience, they can only help adults to do some kung fu, and occasionally they will find some stones that have not yet been completed to practice their hands, anyway, there is no shortage of stones in this bamboo shoot hole, and only after a certain year of water leakage in the mountains can it be called stones, because these stones contain a trace of natural meaning, so they can be conducive to cultivation and creation.

"For my father to quarry, you need to be distracted, you go around the bamboo shoot cave, see if there are any good stone finds, and when I finish mining this stalagmite, I will go to look for you, I heard that last month, your Uncle Gu's Xiao Jiu found a middle and lower stone, and it was ruthless to make a fortune in the city." After Gu San finished speaking, he picked up the stone shovel and started working, almost instantly, the clanging sound was connected, and it was so crisp that people couldn't help but want to make a splash.

"Outcast, come on, let's go to the depths of the bamboo shoot cave to find out, the third uncle is our best quarrying, so don't get in the way there." A shadowy figure in the distance shouted, no need to look, Mu Qi'er knew that it must be Gu Fei's guy, Mu Qi'er has lived with his grandparents since he was a child, as a former cave master, even if he is already old, he has never lived with these clansmen in the marginal areas, Mu Qi'er came here with his adoptive father Gu San after his grandparents returned to Gu Hai one after another, as a child who once lived in the center of the Ya tribe, and the only person in the Gu tribe who does not bear the surname Gu, it can be imagined, The phoenix that landed on the ground is not as good as a chicken after all, Mu Qi'er has almost no friends, there are a lot of people who play tricks on him and look down on him, and only Gu Fei, a straight-hearted person, will make friends with him.

"Come, come, it'll be noisy all day long, as if you're loud all day long." Mu Qi'er walked towards the place where Gu Fei was, it was the depths of the inner cave, many places had not been mined yet, there were hideous stalagmites all over, and the road surface was still very slippery, if he slipped and fell, he would really be a fairy and couldn't save it.

"What are you kid doing here, nothing has been leveled out, you really expect to find something good, it's really fatal," Mu Qi'er said to Gu Fei, who was dangling among the stalagmites and beating the stalagmites.

"What do you know, I asked Xiao Jiu two days ago, on the Xiao Jiu who found the middle and lower stone, he told me that if you want to make a windfall, you must be bold, I think that the new place where the bamboo shoot cave has always been opened is everyone to level it together, every time there is something to find is also shared equally by everyone, if I can find something quietly I will not send it, come on, come on, I am not a person who forgets my brother, this is not just I was ready to blindly pick some stone and call you, you also come to pick some and bring it back, anyway, we will not identify the grade of this stone, You just see which texture is complicated, knock a few pieces down and take them out, don't care if he destroys it or not, if we don't say it, no one will know," Gu Fei didn't reply, and drilled into the corner, grabbed a stalagmite, and knocked it on the small stone that he found out of nowhere.

"I'm really convinced of you, if those adults know that we are so violent, I guess I'll have to beat you and me up, and go crazy with you. I estimate that even the best stone we quarried down will have to be destroyed into crooked melons and cracked dates," Mu Qi'er also picked up a piece of stone left over from the stone quarrying by someone who didn't know who quarried, and walked towards the deepest part of the bamboo shoot cave, and after a while, the slippery ground made Mu Qi'er only move slowly, and it was already clearly visible in front of Gu Fei's thin figure was squatting on a still flat plot between the stalagmites, grabbing a stalagmite and constantly knocking, Mu Qi'er was moving forward a few cloths, He sat on a stalagmite that was broken for some reason next to Gu Fei, looking at Gu Fei's sweaty appearance, Mu Qi'er became happier the more he looked at it, and finally couldn't help but laugh eating.

"What's ridiculous, with this kung fu, you might as well quickly find a stalagmite and pick two pieces, maybe there will be a harvest." Gu Fei turned around and said to Mu Qi'er with a look of hatred that iron is not made of steel, "Okay, I can't say you, I can't pick it, I'm looking to see which piece to pick, it's best to find the most useless, save the broken stone and let people poke their backbones in the back, I don't want you to be so heartless." Mu Qi'er looked around, and suddenly remembered the broken bamboo shoot he was sitting on, presumably this kind of broken bamboo shoot is the most useless, it failed to withstand the test of heaven and earth and became a material and broke off the pestle here, just pick him, Mu Qi'er picked up the stone in his hand and smashed it towards this broken bamboo shoot, the roughness of the process was really unspeakable, he knocked down a fist-sized bamboo shoot and put it into his pocket, and after finishing it, he said to Gu Fei: "Hurry up, I'm done, just come and finish the piece, don't waste the stone, let's go outside to help." ”

"You're really neat, wait, I'll be fine right away," Gu Fei waved the stone in his hand a few more times, and broke off a half-foot-square stone strip from the stalagmite and took it in his hand and walked towards Mu Qi'er, "Let's go, hurry up and go out to help, it's time for us to go home, I'm almost exhausted, I really want to go home and sleep after noon." Gu Fei muttered in his mouth, copied Mu Qi'er's arm, and the two of them walked towards the center of the inner cave step by step.

The adults in the cave have gradually become scarce, many of these Gu people who live in the edge of the cliff tribe have to go to the big families in those tribes to do some servant and maid work during the day, quarrying is a part of life, but few people can survive only by quarrying, and those ruthless people who guard the entrance of the bamboo shoot cave are not allowed to mine night and day, the bamboo shoot cave is so big, they will have no livelihood after mining.

Mu Qi'er and Gu Fei said goodbye and went towards the place where their father was. "I'm back, what's the gain, I'm done here, I'm lucky today, the stone is quite complete, it is estimated that it can be sold at a good price, you clean up those scraps, we are going home." Gu San saw Mu Qi'er come back and don't pick up the stone in his hand and said to him, "Okay, father," Mu Qi'er hurriedly bent down and found some texture from the scraps that his father had knocked down during the quarrying process and put them into the rattan basket, this work Mu Qi'er has been doing it for some years, not only is it fast, but it will never leave any valuable broken stalagmites, he has long known the preferences of those tribal nobles, the more rare they are, the more they love, practical or not practical is secondary.

Mu Qi'er quickly cleaned up, Gu San, who had been waiting on the side for a while, saw that he was done, picked up the stalagmites he had picked, patted Mu Qi'er's shoulder, and walked towards the outer cave first, Mu Qi'er hurriedly picked up the rattan basket and followed his father, and the sky outside was gradually clear.