In the morning light, the sun still rises as usual.

For graphite, this is not only a new day, but also a new life and a new beginning.

The morning air in the mountains is particularly good, and the golden light of the rising sun blooms ten thousand rays, which will sprinkle the golden spots of light everywhere in the whole old house, ginkgo trees, bamboo forests, and pull out oblique light and shadow, like a three-dimensional realistic oil painting, colorful, light and shadow jumping.

Today's mood is different from usual, so graphite carefully arranged a decent breakfast for himself, clear porridge, boiled eggs, and a plate of fried cabbage, although it looks simple, but it is nutritious and balanced.

After breakfast, Graphite patiently and meticulously cleaned the house inside and outside, a good habit that he slowly developed from childhood to adulthood, loves cleanliness, loves tidiness, and even goes a little to the point of obsessive-compulsive disorder, which is really rare in a man of his age.

After his leisure, he sat down by himself and made tea leisurely, thinking ......

I heard the sound of a motorcycle coming from afar on the bamboo forest side, and it didn't take much effort to turn off the motorcycle in the yard, and the cyclist quickly broke in, and the person arrived first before the sound arrived.

"Graphite Brother ......"

"Brother......

Graphite knew who was coming just by listening to the voice.

Isn't it Shanzi, the cousin of the second uncle's family, Shanzi's full name is Shi Qingshan, and the little graphite is one year old. When he was a child, the two often played together, and their relationship has always been relatively good, even if he went to the city later, the two rarely met, but every time they went home for the New Year's holiday, Shanzi and him were still as good as ever.

Graphite consciously flushed a new cup with boiling water, and Shanzi had already burst in with the wind from outside the hall with a meteor.

Seeing graphite, Shanzi smirked and grinned and asked, "Brother, why did you come back?" You don't want to go to work now, huh? Why don't you give me a call and say yes. ”

He said as he pulled out a stool and sat down next to graphite, his skin is darker, his hair is short, his facial features are also relatively thick, he looks honest and honest, he belongs to the kind of good person at first glance in revolutionary movies, and he never smokes, and when he speaks, he shows a mouthful of good white teeth, if he has the opportunity, he can go to shoot toothpaste commercials.

Graphite poured a cup of tea for Shanzi on the hot new cup, put it in front of Shanzi, Cancan looked at his cousin, I haven't seen him for three years, Shanzi seems to be a little more mature than before, when Shanzi got married three years ago, Graphite came back to attend his wedding, at that time this guy's face was still a little immature, but now it is a lot more mature.

Starting a family, starting a family, as the old saying goes, there is indeed some truth to it.

"Come, Shanzi, drink tea, if you have something to say slowly, why are you in a hurry?"

Shanzi was embarrassed and smiled, drinking tea with a teacup, just put down the teacup and forgot his brother's words, and asked casually: "Where is my sister-in-law?" Brother, didn't my sister-in-law come back? As he spoke, he looked up to the back room.

Graphite gloomed, sighed, and said with a wry smile: "We are divorced." ”

"Oh......, what? Are you divorced from your sister-in-law? No way? Shanzi looked shocked and thought he had misheard.

Graphite glanced at Shanzi and sighed again: "We don't have a good relationship, let's get together and disperse...... by the way, Shanzi, how are you and Zhao Mei now, when are you going to have a child?" ”

Shanzi smirked a little embarrassed, scratched the back of his head, and replied honestly, "We're fine......"

Graphite can see that the relationship between Shanzi and Zhao Mei should be not bad, living in this kind of rural place, there is relatively little interference and temptation from the outside world, as long as the two people are people who live a down-to-earth life, they can generally live their lives to the end; However, in the city, especially in the big city, the lights are bright and prosperous, and it is rare for people who can really keep their temperament, thinking of these, graphite can't help but sigh again.

Shanzi is honest, but not stupid, just two sentences, he saw that his brother didn't want to talk more about the divorce from his sister-in-law, so Shanzi didn't ask anymore, he found that his brother seemed to be a little emotional, his head turned a little, and he said:

"Brother, it's okay! Leave and leave! It's not a big deal, anyway, there are many divorced people now, I'll tell Zhao Mei when I go back, help you introduce one, her classmates don't seem to be married. ”

Shanzi's words made Graphite feel warm in his heart, although he was not in a hurry to talk about the object again, but the family affection and sincere concern revealed by Shanzi in his words still moved him.

Graphite nodded and said with a smile: "Shanzi, it's okay, do you think your brother seems to be someone who can't find a wife?" Your brother and I are finally free again, I want to enjoy this free air, don't be in a hurry to talk about the object, take your time, look at fate...... by the way, Shanzi, let me ask you, last time you talked about raising local chickens, how are you doing now? ”

"Hehe, brother, I have raised more than 500 chickens now, and I have built a chicken farm on the side of my bamboo forest, and I plan to raise 500 more after the New Year, when will you come to see ......, by the way, I forgot, I brought you two local chickens, and I have killed them for you, look at my memory, I forgot to bring them in when I came in, you wait, I will go out to get them."

Before Graphite could speak, Shanzi had already stood up and ran out.

Graphite looked at his back angrily and funny, he picked up the teacup and took a sip slightly, and decided to find a time to visit his uncle and aunt at Shanzi's house, and by the way, he gave the old man some money, which was also a little heart. Shanzi's father had a stroke five years ago, and his legs and feet are not very dexterous, so Shanzi has never gone out to work, Shanzi also has two older brothers, both of whom are working in other places, if there is no young person at home, the old people don't know how to live.

In a blink of an eye, Shanzi came in with a bulging plastic bag, went directly into the kitchen, and shouted from afar: "Brother, I'll put it in the quick-freezer box for you, you remember to eat it early, the fresher the chicken, the better, you remember." ”

"By the way, Shanzi, I heard that someone from our village came to open a mine a few years ago, right? What happened? ”

When Shanzi returned to his seat and continued to drink tea, Graphite asked.

"Yes, it didn't work out later, I heard them say that they were digging some kind of gold mine, and several foreign bosses invested together, but I heard that they lost more than 10 million yuan later, so they didn't dare to continue to invest money, and now it's all deserted."

"Where is it?"

"You know, our old village committee, isn't there a fork in the road over there, that is, the fork road keeps going down the mountain, and there is a col two or three kilometers into it, and there is it, and when you get there, you can see the entrance of the mine."

Graphite nodded thoughtfully and sighed: "Fortunately, they didn't dig any mines, otherwise our village is afraid that it will suffer, and the entire environment will be destroyed, do you know who agreed to them to dig it?" ”

Shanzi's black face also sank a little, "Who knows, it must be those officials of the village committee, I heard that those bosses have some connections in the town." ”

Graphite waved his hand and said, "Forget it, we can't take care of it, by the way, how are your parents?" ”

"My dad is still the same, my mom is fine."

"Well, that's good, I'll see them another day."

……

After lunch, I took a break to see that the time was almost up.

Graphite drove alone to find the col that Shanzi said, and soon saw the mine that Shanzi said.

Graphite had known about the fork in the road before, but he had never been here before. Because there are occasional tractors pulling bamboo, there are obvious wheel prints along the way, although the road is a little uneven and overgrown with weeds, but it is not difficult to walk, and his car is an off-road vehicle, which just comes in handy.

The entrance to the mine was a flat land, but now it was overgrown with weeds, and there was a large rusty iron shelf that remained in the weeds, presumably from the time when it was used to load and unload ore, and there were two rusty oil drums on the side, some of which had been rusted through.

After graphite parked the car, got out of the car and closed the door, opened the wild grass and came to the bottom of the iron shelf, looked around a few times on the left and right, the entrance of the cave is located under a steep slope, the whole hillside is full of moso bamboo forests, the soil and climate here are very suitable for the growth of moso bamboo, so as long as the slope is not too steep, or the mountain is rocky, most of them are either planted with moso bamboo, or fir forest. The bamboo here not only grows fast, but also grows big, and the annual winter bamboo shoots and spring bamboo shoots are a major local specialty, which can be regarded as relying on the mountains to eat the mountains.

……

The mountains are all over the field, green bamboos and green trees, and there is no figure in half of the surrounding area.

Graphite began to call out to the Star Spirit in his consciousness, "Star Spirit! ……”

The star spirit stays in his body most of the time, and usually doesn't move much, and Graphite feels that what it likes to stay in the most is his brain, I don't know if it's because it's closer to his consciousness or soul, anyway, no matter where it is in his body, it actually doesn't make any difference.

He brought the Star Spirit here this time just to try his luck.

Xingling feeds on metal, but it used to be on its home planet, and there was definitely no ready-made refined metal, so Graphite himself estimated that a metal life like Xingling should be able to find metal ore by himself, so he would bring it to try, if he could, then Xingling's future food would be guaranteed, if not, then he could only sneak around to find some scrap copper and rotten iron.

"Star Spirit ......"

Soon, Graphite felt the sleeping star spirit in his brain move slightly.

"Xingling, I found you some metal, come out quickly, don't sleep lazy, and there is a mine cave here, let's go and have a look, hurry up, come out quickly......"

Regardless of whether Xing Ling understands it or not, Graphite still talks a lot in a long way, he feels that language must have a language environment, and he can't not talk to it very much because it can't communicate, and in the long run, it will definitely not learn to speak, so he not only has to talk to Xing Ling often, but also has to be verbose.

Graphite wasn't sure how Xing Ling stayed in his brain but could observe the outside world freely, in short, Graphite finished speaking, Xing Ling seemed to vaguely understand what he meant, and more importantly, it seemed to have discovered the existence of the big iron frame, because at this time, Graphite clearly felt its excitement.

The star spirit was still the same, and he whined a few times in his consciousness: "Ink, ink, ink ,......."

Graphite stretched out his hand to the big iron shelf, and the star spirit had already slid to his palm very quickly, and before the graphite handle put on the iron shelf, the silver glutinous rice dumplings had already gushed out of the palm, and fell down with a "click", directly on the iron shelf, and it was instantly sticky, and then it was "squirming" to dissolve and absorb these rusty iron shelves, and as the star spirit gnawed, some gray and black fine powders fell down one after another like flour.

……