Gradually, the firewood was almost burned, and as the flames changed, the temperature soon prevailed again by the natural cold.

I got up and went to the river to wash my hands, it was too warm just now, and the cold in the water stimulated my nerves. This agitation made me so cold that I didn't want to sleep anymore.

The winter night was silent, and I looked at the calm river in front of me and suddenly wanted to test how deep it was. So I started looking for stones on the ground, and I just threw one down and listened to the sound.

I looked around at my feet, no, there are really a lot of stones, but none of them are more suitable, most of them are too much, and this shape is quite strange - some like artificial stone products.

But this thought flashed through my mind, and I wanted to laugh at myself if I was stunned to learn from gold and stone, and saw that such a stone was a stone product, a stone tool, so didn't I find something from the Paleolithic period? I already knew that paleolithic tools are the most difficult in gold and stone science, not only difficult to discover, difficult to excavate, and even more difficult to study, just take stone tools, simulate the paleolithic tools at that time, the ancestors made stone tools, it is an extremely difficult thing, you go to most of the gold and stone scientists will not. And the discovery of paleolithic sites, especially human skulls and so on, requires even more luck.

However, paleolithic research does have its charm, I don't remember whether it was a teacher or an expert, 99% of the time of human beings is in the Paleolithic period, but it uses 1% of history to create 99% of culture. This is not an exaggeration, the Neolithic age is more than four or five thousand years ago, and there are very few people who can reach 10,000 years ago, and most of the Paleolithic people are more than a million years ago.

As my thoughts flew away, I unconsciously squatted by the river and began to be in a daze. When I came back, I remembered that I hadn't come to listen to the depths of the water? I picked the biggest stone from the ground and threw it into the water, only to hear a thud, it was very stuffy... Well, it seems that the water is not shallow.

I stood up and had nothing to do, so I might as well go back to the car and go to sleep. But before I can do that, I'll have to put some water in it.

I glanced back, Hu Qiniang was still looking at Buddha Hui, and did not look at me. I crept into the woods until their silhouette was largely blocked by the trunks of the dead trees, and then I was relieved to begin.

When I was relaxed, I looked at the two of them, turned around and walked that way. But I didn't notice my feet, I tripped over something, and I almost felt like a dog gnawing mud forward, but fortunately I grabbed a tree trunk and stabilized it.

I thought it was a big rock and wanted to go back, but in my head I felt that it wasn't shaped like a stone, and that tripping over a stone wasn't like that.

So I stopped and looked at the ground, and it was a white, yellow and crooked thing, like a water pipe stuck in the ground at both ends, but it was definitely not a water pipe.

I was curious, I turned around and crouched down to take a closer look, the color looked like bones, but not as thick as bones and bent like this, right?

"Holy, what the hell is this?" I couldn't help but mumble out of my mouth.

"It's mammoth tusks."

"Oh! Yes, yes, I look like that. "Oh no!

I looked back, Hu Qiniang was still sitting there, and Xiao Shirong was still sticking one foot out of the car curtain, so what was this voice?

I hurriedly looked around, there was not even a figure, I, who is it?

I'm not so scared of those things anymore, but the sudden appearance of them still makes me a little panicked.

I glanced at the ground again, and the man's voice was correct, and of all the things I've ever seen, only mammoth tusks could have such a strange arc. But how did this come to be?

But that's not the biggest problem anymore, the biggest problem is around me, I can't see it, I can't touch it.

But I'm not far from my friends, just a few steps away. I might have run over to it before, but that would have been a shame.

I pretended to be calm and walked over to them, but in fact I was nervous, always paying attention to everything around me, and it was really dangerous... Can't I shout?

"Are you afraid of me?" The voice sounded behind me again.

I looked back as fast as a frightened bird, but there were still no cherry blossoms

I suppressed the fear in my heart and pretended to be calm: "Which friend is it, please show up."

"I'm not hiding, I'm here." The voice.

But no matter how I looked in that direction, there was still no one in sight

"Below, below!" Seeing that I couldn't get the hang of it, he was in a hurry and called out vigorously.

I looked down and saw that there was something crawling in a pile of dead branches and rotten leaves, round. My heart: Damn, this won't be, it's a head again, right?

I was mentally prepared enough to lift the few leaves that covered it, and I told myself not to be afraid of anything, not to be afraid... Ay? What is this? Hedgehog?

I looked down at it, and it looked up at me, and we seemed to be saying to each other: "Is that you?" "That's right, it's me."

But it's much better to see this than to see other things, and the hedgehog still looks harmless to humans and animals after all.

As soon as I thought so, suddenly he suddenly turned into a handsome boy in white before my eyes.

I was so confused that I took two steps back: "Yo, hedgehog spirit!"

He wasn't angry or anything, looked at me carefully, and then muttered, "No wonder, no wonder."

"What's the wonder?" Seeing him turn into a human form, I knew that he and Hu Qiniang had become mountain spirits all the way, and they were not afraid of him.

"Oh, it's nothing, I just slept until I woke up naturally, and you woke me up with a soak of water."

"Huh? Oh, what, I'm so embarrassed..."

"Oh, it's nothing, I'm on me anyway. How did you get here? ”

"We're all passing through." I looked back over there, the sound of our words must have reached them, Hu Qiniang turned her head to look this way.

When the white-clothed young man saw Hu Qiniang, he was so frightened that he squatted directly on the ground.

I was just about to ask him what's going on? But if you think about it carefully, isn't the hedgehog's enemy a fox?

I smiled and pulled him up: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, she is very gentle."

"Really?"

"Yes, you believe me."

Then I dragged him back to the shackled fire.

Hu Qiniang looked at the person hiding behind me and was very curious. I said to her: "Qi Niang, don't eat him, he was woken up by my heart when he hibernated."

Hu Qiniang opened her eyes wide and nodded, trying to see what was behind me. As soon as I let go of my body, Hu Qiniang smiled: "Oh, everyone has a way, how can I eat you?"

The young man in white became a little bolder, and said timidly: "Thank you, fox... Sister. ”

I almost didn't laugh when I saw him, but it was a shame to think that I was almost scared by him just now.

I picked up some more firewood to add up, and we sat around the fire and talked.

Only then did I know that this hedgehog also practiced for many years to get a human form, and the hedgehog here has a family, and there is an old grandmother in the family, who is the oldest hedgehog in this area. His Taoism is still shallow, and he has not changed his habit of hibernation.

I asked him: "Then why do you look white, are you like Hu Qiniang, you have such a person?"

"That's not it, our family wears it like this, and my body is also cultivated by myself."

"You know a lot, mammoth tusks know it."

"That's what my grandmother told me, she's seen her before. There were people at that time, and she knew where they were buried when they died. ”

What's what?

She's seen, mammoth? How young is that? This is a hedgehog old lady who has only been practicing for tens or even millions of years?

And to know where "those people" are buried when they die, well, it would be so convenient for the old lady to come out of the mountain to help us get the gold and stones.

I thought to myself, no, how old is this guy according to this generation? I asked the hedgehog again, "Is your grandmother your own grandmother?"

"No, we all call her grandma, and my mom and dad call her grandma."

Oh, that's not surprising... No, it's even stranger, isn't this immortality?

I had a strong desire to meet this so-called "grandmother", and I felt that perhaps she was inextricably linked to my ultimate purpose.

I used to hear people talk about the five immortals, and the hedgehog in the five immortals was not the white fairy? White Immortal Alchemy, then this old lady hedgehog who has lived for so long? It must be related to the five words of elixir.

"Hedgehog, can you take me to meet your grandmother?"

"Yes."

"I'm going too, I'm going too." Hu Qiniang looked excited.

The young man in white was a little hesitant.

"What are you afraid that I will eat your grandmother?" Hu Qiniang asked.

"Uh, I'm not welcome"

Xiao Shirong climbed out of the car and asked loudly, "What are you arguing about?" Don't you sleep? "That's when we realized we had one more person here.

"I'm a hedgehog, don't be afraid, Hu Qiniang is not that kind of person, let's go."

He nodded, "Okay, I trust you." The hedgehog got up and took us away. What I didn't expect was that Fo Hui actually stood up and followed us away.

I said to Xiao Shirong: "You can sleep well, let's play for a while and come back."

He looked at the white-clothed young man carefully, looked at Buddha Hui again, and said, "You look at it yourself, and come back before dawn, otherwise Lao Tzu will not serve." Then he got into the car again and closed the curtain.