Chapter 1: The Mysterious Little Ding
August is the hottest time of the year, and thunderstorms are frequent during this season, especially in the deep mountains and valleys.
Thundered! Thundered!
It was only about three o'clock in the afternoon, and the sky was dark, and the air was blowing with the smell of earth, grass and trees, which made people feel stuffy in their chests, and bursts of muffled thunder came from behind the mountains in the distance.
Li Kun carried a small backpack full of wild mountain mushrooms, and looked up at the back of the mountain in the distance, dark clouds were already rolling, and there were signs that heavy rain was coming.
"Damn, it's going to rain again!"
Seeing that it was about to rain heavily, Li Kun was very unhappy, in case the river flooded the bridge when it came, I was afraid that he would have to spend the night in the mountains today.
Li Kun is twenty years old, his skin is a little dark, his body is vigorous, and he looks like a typical mountain child, but he is not an ordinary mountain person, but a sophomore in an agricultural school.
In another month, school will start, and the cost of starting school will be a lot of money.
Of course, in addition to his own expenses, when he starts school this year, his sister will also go to college, and it is also an art college, and the cost is only higher than him!
The cost of the two of them adds up, and the minimum is 20,000 yuan!
If it is an honest part-time job, in just over a month, a college student like him wants to earn 20,000 yuan, which is a fool's dream.
Therefore, he can only come to the mountains, he is learning the cultivation and management of Chinese medicinal materials, and he is very familiar with the medicinal materials in the mountains.
And Li Kun thought very clearly, even if he couldn't find valuable Chinese medicinal materials, it was the season for wild mushrooms and chicken fir to grow.
The price of these two kinds of game is not cheap, if you are lucky, you can get at least 1,800 if you enter the mountain once. For example, he was lucky today, not only picked a Ganoderma lucidum, but also harvested a basket full of wild mushrooms and chicken firs.
He was already preparing to go back, but it was raining heavily.
Li Kun's speed was not slow, but he was too far away from home, and before he could go far, the dark clouds caught up, and after two muffled thunders, it rained heavily.
The heavy rain soon drenched Li Kun, but he did not stop, but continued to run wildly in the heavy rain.
"Damn it!"
Li Kun had already worked hard, but when he rushed to the Panlong River, he almost went crazy, the river had risen up, flooding the bridge, looking at the raging river, he didn't dare to take risks, he would rather find a cave to shelter from the rain.
"I remember there's a ruined temple around here!"
Li Kun suddenly remembered that there was a ruined temple not far from here, but he didn't have to worry about a place to take shelter from the rain, so he could only turn around and rush into the heavy rain.
Squeak!
Ten minutes later, Li Kun found the broken temple, and he didn't care so much, he just pushed the door open and went in.
It seems that no one has been here for a long time, and it is covered with cobwebs, plus it is in disrepair, and there are several leaks of rain.
Li Kun found a place that did not leak rain and was relatively wide, removed the statues that had been pushed away, cleared out a clearing, and found some broken tables and chairs, and set them up directly as firewood, tore some rotten cloths that had been broken, and took out lighters to make a fire.
When the fire rose, the broken temple was a little brighter, and at the same time, it also made Li Kun feel warm. I took off my wet clothes and pants and wrung them out, found two table legs, hung them aside, and waited quietly for the rain to stop.
Thundered! Thundered!
There was a lot of thunder outside, and there was no intention of stopping for a while, Li Kun was bored, and looked around the broken temple to see if there was anything valuable.
Soon, Li Kun's eyes were attracted by the incense burner under the statue, or to be precise, it was a small ding!
Li Kun walked over, ready to get the little ding down to take a look at it clearly, but when he went to get it, he was surprised to find that the little ding seemed to be glued to the stone table, and it didn't move at all.
"I don't believe it yet!"
Li Kun gritted his teeth and was about to forcibly break this Xiao Ding, but to his surprise, as soon as he was about to exert himself, he unexpectedly found that Xiao Ding suddenly lightened.
"Ouch!"
After the thing was brought out by Li Kun, one of them couldn't hold it steadily and smashed it heavily on his feet.
"What is this?"
Li Kun looked at it carefully, and found that he had never seen this thing, and seemed to have forgotten the pain, and muttered with a slight frown.
This is a fist-sized, three-inch square, four-legged and two-eared, with strange patterns carved on all sides, these graphics seem to be the appearance of some kind of fierce beasts, but Li Kun has not heard of it, nor has he seen it, he only thinks that those fierce beasts look a little terrifying, and on top of the small ding, there is a similar lid.
"Is there something in here that doesn't work?"
This small tripod was put in his hand, it was cold and a little heavy, but it was not so heavy, and Li Kun always felt that there was something here, so he shook it in his ear.
Bang bang bang!
Sure enough, as soon as Li Kun shook it like this, there was a gurgling sound from inside, just like the sound made when the wine in the gourd was not satisfied.
Take a closer look, the more I feel that this small tripod is not ordinary, not to mention the simple appearance, the material of this small tripod alone must be amazing, because it seems to have some years, but there is no rust on it, but it is only stained with some soil. Li Kun quickly wiped all the dirt off the surface of Xiaoding with his pants.
"I guess it's really a treasure!"
Li Kun looked at the appearance of this Xiaoding, and already believed a little in his heart that this Xiaoding was a treasure.
"If we can sell this thing, maybe my sister and I will have tuition for the whole of college!"
Li Kun guessed in his heart that this Xiaoding was an antique and would definitely be able to sell for a lot of money.
After thinking that this might really be a treasure, Li Kun was a little troubled, for fear that one would accidentally damage this treasure, so he hesitated for a while, whether to open the lid on Xiaoding and see what was inside.
Li Kun picked up Xiaoding and was about to open the lid, but he didn't know if he didn't open it, and only then did he find that the lid looked like it could be opened, but it couldn't be opened no matter how hard he tried.
"No, it must be my wrong method!"
Li Kun couldn't open it no matter how hard he tried, so he became anxious, and the sweat on his forehead was dripping down.
Li Kun was sweating profusely and wiped his sweat, he wiped his sweat, his heart moved, and he said happily: "By the way, there must be some mechanism on this!" ”
Thinking that this small tripod might have a mechanism or something, Li Kun immediately flipped this small tripod back and looked at the bottom of this small tripod, sure enough, at the bottom of this small tripod, in addition to the four feet, in the very center, there is also a rice grain size, slightly convex part, if he is not looking for it now, it is generally difficult to find.
Li Kun didn't think much about it, just let Xiao Ding's mouth face down, and directly reached out to press the bulge.
"It's moving!"
Li Kun just had the attitude of giving it a try, but he didn't expect this press to be really effective, and the button went down, but the moment Li Kun just pressed it, he regretted it.
Crash!
Xiao Ding's cover fell off in an instant, and at the same time, the liquid contained inside Xiao Ding also flowed out, spilling everywhere, and his pants were wet.
After seeing this scene, the corners of Li Kun's mouth twitched, he didn't expect that he would fall short after tossing for a long time.
Those liquids seemed to be just ordinary clear water, because he didn't feel any discomfort, just felt cold, and Li Kun turned over Xiaoding, sniffed carefully, and didn't smell anything special, and there was still some liquid left on the inner wall of Xiaoding.
Li Kun took Xiao Ding to the top of his head, looked at it carefully, and was slightly disappointed when he found that there was really nothing inside.
The wasted liquid began to slowly soak into the earth, spreading everywhere, and Li Kun didn't notice that while he was staring inside Xiao Ding, a small part of the liquid was contaminated with the already dead wood and dead tables and chairs.
At the moment when those seemingly ordinary, water-like liquids touched the dead wood, a strange scene happened.
Snort!
The originally seemingly ordinary dead wood gave birth to a strong breath of life at this moment, and even Li Kun sensed that something was wrong for a moment, and suddenly shifted his attention to the dead wood.
What originally seemed to be an ordinary dead wood, at this moment, a series of seemingly mysterious inscriptions were constantly gathering on the dead wood.
Li Kun is not a cultivator, and he doesn't believe in the Dao of the Immortal Family, but at this moment, the dead wood is undergoing a terrible transformation, and he looks like he is about to come back to life again in the spring of the dead wood.
Bang!
However, this terrible change only lasted for more than ten seconds, and the dead wood finally slammed like a bomb for some reason, and turned into powder in an instant.
Boom!
After watching it for more than ten minutes, Li Kun came back to his senses, looked at the small tripod in his hand, and then looked at the little bit of dead wood debris left on the ground, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.