Growth Volume Chapter 49: The Iron Box of Burial
"Cold noodles!" Tomoko cried out in surprise under the tree, his nerves tensed, his hands trembled, and all the persimmons fell to the ground.
Tomoko reacted quickly, he ran towards a few pieces of Leng Noodle's drop, trying to catch him, but this distance was a little far, and he couldn't catch up at all, Leng Noodle fell from a place close to four zhang high, and his landing place was a sparse dry straw field, if so, he must have been injured. At that moment, there was a bang, and the straw in the haystack grew wildly, intertwined, forming a concave umbrella with a height of one zhang, and the cold noodles were caught steadily.
When Tomoko saw this scene, he let out a lot of exclamation, and after looking back, the idle Aojie was also attracted by the strange phenomenon.
After the straw held the cold noodles, the grass slowly returned to its original state, and the strong grass that had grown one zhang tall slowly turned back to its original withered yellow appearance.
Tomoko ran over, picked up Leng Mian and asked, "Are you okay?"
Leng Mian touched his head and replied, "It's okay." β
Tomoko looked at the straw floating in the wind on the ground and wondered, "What happened just now?"
"I don't know. Leng Mian touched his head, he was also confused, he didn't know anything.
"Hmph, I didn't expect that there would also be magic weapons on this small back mountain. Aojie came slowly from a distance, he was a little excited, as if he was a little interested in it, "But it's a pity, it's just an extremely low-level living artifactβthe straw of rejuvenation." β
"Rejuvenating straw? What's that?"
"It's nothing, it's just a useless thing, although it's not common on the four planets, but it's not worth anything, two hundred years ago, at the magic weapon rating conference, the grade of the rebirth straw was rated as a low-level one-star, which is the so-called lowest, and for some reason, it was also jokingly called a 'hypocritical emotional tool'. Aojie crouched down and scanned the entire straw field, trying to see something, "Of course, I am more concerned than these about why this straw will save cold noodles. β
"What, what's wrong with this?"
"The problem is big, this kind of grass doesn't get along well with human beings, so how can it save a person innocently. He held on to a straw with his right hand, and the straw retracted into its body as if disgusted, and burrowed it all back into the soil, "Generally speaking, this kind of grass is only close to one kind of person, and that is the owner with whom it spends day and night." β
Master?
Youzi thought about it, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, so she moved her mouth and said: "By the way, this is the mountain behind Leng Noodle's house, and it is also the place where Leng Noodle came to play in his childhood, this grass must be because of this, so he regards Leng Noodle as the master." β
As soon as Tomoko's explanation came out, he was rejected by Aojie, and he said, "It's not that simple." β
Aojie added: "Youzi, you often come to this back mountain, if you don't believe it, you can try to touch this grass and see how it goes." β
Tomoko really didn't believe it, but he saw squatting on the ground and touching the grass, but the grass also shrank into the ground, as if he had seen a living person.
Now, Tomoko believes it, so since the reason is not like this, how can it be explained?
Just as they couldn't figure out what it was about, Aojie remembered another saying, "It seems that there is another explanation, and that is that this grass is conveying the wishes of its owner." β
"Convey your wishes?, and who wants to protect Leng Noodle?" Tomoko asked with a sigh as she turned her head to look at Leng Miin beside her.
"This, no one knows. β
After Aojie finished speaking, his eyes scanned the entire rice field again, and suddenly, his eyes lit up, as if he saw something, and saw that where he was looking, there was a metal protrusion with rounded corners exposed on the ground, because it was covered by hay, so it was really difficult to see.
Aojie frowned, after a few moments of thought, he walked straight over, Youzi and Leng Mian saw this, and also followed, they each walked a dozen steps, and then arrived at the place where the thing was buried, the three of them squatted down, because they were close, and there was nothing to hide, the appearance of the thing was clearly revealed, it was an iron metal shell, I saw the appearance, like a box, there was no pattern on it, the appearance was just a layer of simple and smooth iron skin, this style, is a very common box on the four planets, almost everywhere in the farmhouse, the corners of the box, are born black rust, presumably this thing in the back mountain, stay for some years, I don't know how, it always seems that the thing was not discarded by passers-by, but deliberately buried there.
The three of them stared at the rusty iron box, and Leng Mian asked with a little curiosity, "What is this?"
"I don't know, just dig it out. β
After saying that, they started to move, and the three of them used their fingernails to dig open the dirt around the box little by little, and the whole picture of the box gradually appeared, it was a very small box, there was no pattern to speak of, and between the lid and the body of the box, there was a small black lock.
"It's locked, how do you get it open?" Leng Mian asked.
Aojie held the iron lock with his hand and said, "The U-shaped lock of this lock has a lot of rust, and it can be broken with no effort. β
After speaking, he gently tugged, and the iron lock was directly disconnected, so that the box could naturally be opened.
So, what is it that seems to have been deliberately buried in a box here? The three of them were all looking forward to what was inside.
Let's hope it's not just an empty box that disappoints!
Aojie held the lid of the box with his hand and slowly lifted it up, the dark crack gradually widened, the light cast in, and the inside became brighter.
Well, this is not an empty box, there are three things in it - a damp note, a tiny paper crane, and a short dagger with rusty iron.