In the boundless desert, a lonely wind blows, rolling up a gust of sand and dust as thin as a light veil.

Under the sun, on this golden and smooth land, our truck slowly moved forward. From a distance, it looks like a deep rift, like a zipper, slowly tearing open this desert land.

Lao Xu held the steering wheel with both hands, looking intently at the direction of the car, and we were heading in the direction of the Tianshan Mountains. There was some long and dull music playing in the car, which made me drowsy, Lao Xu simply did the music when he saw this, lowered the window, and the fresh wind poured into the car, and I suddenly woke up.

I held the Zhuang Zhou box in the palm of my hand, and looked at this exquisite little box in the cool breeze. After so many bumps and bumps, it is no longer as new and beautiful as when it first appeared, with a few small scratches and a layer of sand on its body.

I took out a few wet wipes from Lao Xu's car and gently wiped off the sand and dust on it, but the scratches were gone.

The same is true of people's hearts, we can only brush away the dust in our hearts at most, but the scars will always remain in our hearts and will never heal.

Gu Chengzi kept staring at the Zhuang Zhou box in my hand through the small window, and only after I wiped the Zhuang Zhou box clean and polished it did he dare to start speaking.

"I didn't expect it...... We really got the Zhuang Zhou box. I can't imagine it. Listening to his tone, it seemed that for him, it was an incredible thing to get Zhuang Zhou's box.

"Who said it wasn't!" Lao Xu replied with emotion, "I always thought it was all a legend, but I didn't expect that one day we would get it." ”

"Is Zhuang Zhou's box so powerful?" I asked, puzzled, "I don't think there's anything out of the ordinary, and I think the process of getting it is quite simple." ”

"Alas, little Joan, you don't understand. These legends have been passed down from generation to generation, even if it is an ordinary thing, passed down from generation to generation, how can it become magical, right?" said Lao Xu while driving.

"Joan, you're not right. Gu Chengzi suddenly said solemnly, "Think about it, we used so much machinery and equipment to safely go down to the bottom of the Scrap Valley, but where did the people in the past find such good equipment." For them, even if the Scrap Valley does not have the harmful mechanical waste, it is a dangerous rift valley from which there is no return. Therefore, it is simple for us, but it is difficult for those who have come before to reach the sky. ”

"Chengzi, you can, you're so right, in fact, I mean the same thing. Lao Xu said with a grin.

"Brother Xu, you have won the prize. Gu Chengzi replied embarrassedly.

I also think it makes sense, but I think it's too simple.

Perhaps what we are accustomed to now may have become something more than people imagined at the time if we go back a few hundred years. For example, who would have thought that there was a place in the world full of intelligent machines, or who would have thought that there was a city built on top of a peak.

Things in the world are always quietly developing, how can we understand them with a momentary gaze.

Once again, I carefully examined the beautiful box in my hand, and the sunlight shining on it was beautiful. At this time, I have a little more respect for it in my heart.

Quietly, it brought me back to the bottom, to the two stone statues, and it took me to appreciate the changes of day and night, the cycle repeatedly, and the years passed inexorably. I slowly realized that it had been hidden at the bottom for so long, and perhaps it was waiting not for someone who could open it, but for an era that could open it, an era that happened to be.

"Joan, open it and take a look. Gu Chengzi's voice came into my ears, pulling me back from the bottom of the silent and peaceful Scrap Weapon Valley. "Don't be stunned, open it quickly. ”

"It's okay to open it, I'm afraid I'll be lazy if I accidentally touch it?" I asked worriedly.

"Probably not......," Gu Chengzi said uncertainly.

"Should it?" I turned around and looked at Gu Chengzi's eyes in the small window with questioning eyes, and he avoided my gaze in fear and slowly disappeared into the darkness.

"Xiao Qiong, don't worry. I feel like I can't hear the bell even if I'm diligent, didn't I try it last time? Put my heart-warming bell in it, and you shake it vigorously, can't I hear it? Lao Xu reached out and patted me on the shoulder, giving me a firm look, as if encouraging me and giving me the courage to open it.

Still, I thought to myself, he said this because he wanted to know what would happen when he opened it.

"Since you're all saying that, I'll reluctantly open it and see, and if anything happens, you can't blame me all. ”

I swallowed, and I said softly, but my heart was still nervous.

I put Zhuang Zhou's box in the palm of my hand, put it in front of my eyes, and stared at it intently, Lao Xu and Gu Chengzi's eyes couldn't leave it. Then my other hand slowly and carefully moved on top of it, and when my hand touched it, my heart suddenly "clicked".

I took a deep breath and slowly shoved my thumb into the slit of the box, the nail cover opening with a slight force. However, the crack was only opened a little, and it could not be opened.

"Why can't I open it?" I suddenly became overwhelmed, so I, Zai, carefully checked it in all directions, and finally I found the reason why it couldn't be opened, "I'm sorry, I opened it the other way around." ”

I smiled awkwardly, reversed the direction of Zhuang Zhoubox, and repeated the same previous action.

But this time, my fingernail cover was tucked into the seam, and with a slight lift, the Zhuang Zhou box opened right in front of us. The diligent heart-warming bell, the pen, lay quietly in the box, shining golden in the sun.

There is still some sand left on the bell, but that doesn't stop it from exuding charm and obsessing with its carving. Lao Xu even stopped the car, leaned over, and looked at it blankly. Gu Chengzi is the same, I feel that his whole body is about to squeeze out of that small window.

I can understand them, because even myself, the moment I opened Zhuang Zhou's box again, I fell into its beautiful trap, and I couldn't get out.

The phoenix carved on the pen is being reborn under the nurturing of the sun. The golden feathers burned the moment the wings opened, and the dazzling flames emitted multicolored light from time to time. It slowly raised its noble crest, facing the sky, and soared into the air. Looking at its gorgeous figure, the more I look at it, the more fascinated I become, and I even have to forget where I am and whose name I am.

"Wow, that's beautiful!" I couldn't help but sigh.

"Yes, it's really beautiful, it's beautiful every time you look at it. Lao Xu also looked at it dementedly.

"Say ......" Gu Chengzi interjected a sentence in a daze, but after speaking, he looked at it blankly and didn't say a word, and after a while, he came to his senses and continued, "Did you see a phoenix flying around on the pen?"

"Huh, you saw that, too?" I turned my head in surprise and looked into his eyes, and I saw flickering flames in his eyes.

"What did you all see?" Lao Xu cried out incredulously, "I thought I was the only one who saw it." ”

"I'm not alone, it's really beautiful......" I smiled and continued to stare at it intently.

Maybe the artistic conception of true beauty gives people the same feeling, and the diligent heart-warming bell seems to really soothe people's hearts, even if I don't knock on it, just look at it, I can get inner peace.

I don't know how long it took, the three of us only maintained one movement, that is, we quietly looked at the flying phoenix, did not dare to disturb it, did not dare to destroy this peaceful and beautiful artistic conception.

Until the flames on the phoenix's body burned out, it seemed to be tired, adjusted its body, and flew towards the diligent heart-warming bell. Eventually, it docked on the heart bell, slowly closed its eyes, and dissipated into the air.

At this time, the sky was already a little gloomy, Lao Xu looked at the time in the car, but he didn't expect that the time was almost evening. The three of us looked at the phoenix and forgot about using it for hard work.

Lao Xu saw that it was getting late now, so he said that it would be better to talk about it tomorrow if he was looking for a diligent thing. So, I gently closed the box of Zhuang Zhou's box, put it back in my pocket, and made sure that it would not fall out.

I looked out the window at the desolate desert that remained unchanged, and my stomach gurgled as I realized that I hadn't eaten in a long time.

Lao Xu also heard my stomach scream, he touched his belly, he also felt hungry, he scratched his head, and looked at me embarrassedly. Gu Chengzi also pushed open the baffle of the small window and said weakly.

"Brother Xu...... Hungry ......."

"I know, you're all hungry, and I'm hungry too. Lao Xu frowned tightly and said helplessly.

"Lao Xu, you are here...... Is there anything to eat?" I looked at him with suspicion.

"Yes, of course, I have everything here!" he straightened up and retorted to me, but I still wondered if he had anything to eat in the little truck, for its hold was empty and there was nothing.

Lao Xu angrily pushed open the door and got out of the car, and I followed him, he hurried to the front of the warehouse and quickly opened the door. The door of the warehouse was opened, but it was still empty, only Gu Chengzi, who looked at me and Lao Xu with stupid eyes, obviously startled.

"Lao Xu, I'll just say a joke, you don't have to mind and be angry. Lao Xu still ignored me angrily, I walked to Lao Xu's side and whispered, "If I say something wrong, I apologize to you, I'm sorry." ”

"Ouch, I'm not angry, I'm asking you all to open your eyes! hehe!" Lao Xu's tense face just now instantly laughed, and the speed of this face change really made me admire it so much.

"What are you going to do?" I asked, tilting my head, puzzled.

"Just watch!"

Lao Xu immediately jumped to the warehouse without saying a word, pressed a red button on the warehouse wall, and then leaned out an interface next to the button, Lao Xu put his left palm on it, and the interface suddenly emitted a green light to scan his palm.

In a few moments, the scan was complete.

Lao Xu turned around and asked Gu Chengzi to get out of the car together. Gu Chengzi obediently jumped down from the warehouse, walked to my side, and looked at Lao Xu with his head tilted in confusion, wanting to figure out what he was doing.

Lao Xu then jumped down from the warehouse, crossed his hands over his chest, raised an eyebrow at me, and then grinned, smiling and looking at the warehouse with confidence.

Suddenly, there was a complex sound of machinery running in the warehouse, and then five rows of shelves began to grow on the walls of the warehouse on both sides, and a puff of white gas sprayed down from the top of the warehouse. In an instant, the entire warehouse was white.

When the machinery stopped running and the white gas dispersed, Lao Xu took us to jump into the warehouse. I thought to myself, it's useless to grow out of the shelves, you have to have the goods.

But when I approached the shelves and took a closer look, I realized that I was still thinking too simply.

It turned out that each row of shelves was neatly lined with many small boxes the size of index fingers, and in the middle of each small box was a small box.

When I looked closely, the small boxes looked like a common cardboard box, but they were just miniature versions, with words smaller than meters printed on them.

"These are all my goods! Hahahaha!" Lao Xu stuck his waist and looked up to the sky and laughed.

"Awesome, awesome. Gu Chengzi and I sighed in unison.

Gu Chengzi and I stared wide-eyed, admiring the mini shelves incredulously. Lao Xu, on the other hand, looked at a row of shelves for a long time, and finally took out tweezers from the toolbox and took out a few small boxes and put them in his hands.

Lao Xu dragged these small boxes with one hand and walked to the end of the warehouse, where there was a large "microwave oven". He opened the door of the "microwave" oven, placed the small boxes neatly in the center of the inside, then closed the door and turned the button next to it.

The "microwave oven" began to make a "clucking" sound, which must be the sound of spinning inside. After about half a minute, after a "ding", Lao Xu excitedly opened its door.

Gu Chengzi and I stood on the side, always thinking that Lao Xu was heating his mini goods, but I never expected that there were several large cardboard boxes neatly placed inside—those mini boxes had grown up!

Lao Xu struggled to lift a cardboard box out, we hurried over to help, but I didn't expect that the box was so heavy that it almost couldn't be lifted. The three of us worked together and it took a lot of effort to move the cartons out of the car.

Who would have thought that the small box that could be held in the palm of the hand just now would become a large cardboard box that three people can't lift?

I gasped and asked Lao Xu incredulously.

"What's going on? How can your goods shrink and get bigger! Your machines are too exaggerated. ”

"You have to ask Mo Qingyan about this, I'm tired to death...... This kung fu of becoming bigger and smaller, but he invented it. After carrying these boxes, Lao Xu was already sweating.

When I wanted to ask again, what does this matter have to do with Mo Qingyan, Lao Xu had already squatted down, took out a small blade, and cut the seals of all cardboard boxes.

"What's in here?" asked Gu Chengzi.

"These are some meat and vegetables, and any of you who knows how to cook can pick them. Lao Xu raised his head and looked at the two of us expectantly, and Gu Chengzi and I looked at him awkwardly, "Don't tell me, you don't know how to cook." ”

"I won't. "I said, I don't know if I know how to cook.

"Neither will I. Gu Chengzi also said.

"It's over, so how are we going to eat...... Do you eat cabbage raw?" said Lao Xu in despair.

"I'm not sure, why don't I try?" I said reluctantly.

"It's up to you, Xiao Qiong, whatever you make, we dare to eat. Lao Xu turned his desperate expression and looked at me with resolute eyes.

I squatted down, I carefully selected vegetables in these cardboard boxes, and finally selected two or three bundles of vegetables and four or five catties of meat.

"Lao Xu...... Where's the pot?"

"Yes, yes, and a pot! What pot do you want?"