The young man stepped on the fine starlight all the way, and went out of the town to the creek, although it was at night, but Chen Ping'an ran no slower than during the day. Chen Ping'an deliberately bypassed the position of the deepest covered bridge, where the stream was far higher than other places, Chen Ping'an chose a stream where the water was only below his knees, he took off the big bamboo basket behind him, bent down and picked up a small bamboo basket hidden in it, tied it tightly around his waist, took off his straw sandals, rolled up his trousers, and then went into the water to touch the stones.

The wound on his left hand cut by broken porcelain is still painful, naturally he can't soak in water, the young man can only use his right hand to rummage in the creek and pick it up, in fact, the stones in the dry riverbed are the easiest to pick up, but as Liu Xianyang said, the color will fade greatly, now Chen Ping'an roughly knows the mystery from the girl in black, it is not difficult to understand, I feel that these stones, in fact, are like following the old man Yao over the mountains and mountains in the early years, chewing the soil of each mountain everywhere, seemingly ordinary soil, even if there is a mountain in some places, when it comes to the mouth, it is a completely different taste。

Old man Yao said that this is called the tree to move the dead and the living, and the soil to become a Buddha, and the mud in the hand, as long as it leaves the original land, it will soon become tasteless.

The creek has no name, and the pebbles in the creek that are as big as a fist and as small as a thumb are colorful, but the people of the town, for generations, have been accustomed to seeing them lying quietly in the clear stream, naturally no one thinks it is a rare thing, and whoever moves these stones to his home must be regarded as a fool.

Chen Ping'an, who bent over and waded in the water, kept moving away and turning the big stones at the bottom of the stream, and had picked up seven or eight stones and put them into the bamboo basket, the big one was not small, and the colors were different, the skin color of the stones was like golden oranges hanging high on the branches in autumn, and there were also white and delicate skins like baby's skin, and there was a mass of pitch black, and the black was shiny, and it was bright like a big red peach blossom, and the color of shrimp back green was the most, and so on.

If it is held high in the sun during the day, or reflected by candlelight in the middle of the night, the inner texture of the stone is delicate, faintly like silk, such as a subtle snake and fish meandering, slightly open a distance to watch, and the skin color is like glittering fish scales and snake scales.

About an hour, Chen Ping'an's waist was almost full of fish baskets, the same way back to the stream where the basket of straw shoes was placed, first went to the bank to pull a few large handfuls of reeds, wild celery and dog tail grass, padd at the bottom of the basket, and then put the stones into the basket one by one, carried the straw sandals, tied the fish basket, carried the basket, went ashore, arrived at the bank of the creek where the previous turnaround was, put down the straw shoes basket again, went down the stream and continued to move the stones.

After picking up half a basket, Chen Ping'an straightened his waist and looked up at the starry sky, hoping to see meteors streaked across the night sky, but he obviously didn't have such good luck tonight. After Chen Ping'an came back to his senses, he continued to rely on his vague starlight and extraordinary eyesight to do what a money fan should do.

Every time he successfully picked up a stone, Chen Ping'an spontaneously felt a wave of joy. For the boy, every stone is like a hope.

Unconsciously, Chen Ping'an had accumulated more than half a basket of stones, a total of about 80 stones, the largest of which was bigger than his fist, and the color was extremely eye-catching, like condensed chicken blood, and the color was bright and positive, not giving people an uncomfortable feeling at all, such a big stone had almost no flaws and cracks. At this time, Chen Ping'an walked on the shore and walked to the next section of the stream, playing with a medium-sized snake gallstone in his hand, light green, much lighter than the plum green in the town's porcelain, the stone was round and smooth, very cute, Chen Ping'an liked it at a glance.

Chen Ping'an walked to the huge bluestone cliff on the shore, the children of the town bathed in this stream in the hot summer, the stream under the cliff is particularly deep, the deepest pit has to be as high as two Chen Ping'an, it is the place where the water depth of this creek is second only to the deep pool under the covered bridge, the boy with good water nature, likes to compete here to see who stays under the puddle for a long time.

The reason why Chen Ping'an chose this deep pit is because when he used to take a bath here with Liu Xianyang, he found that there were many snake gallstones at the bottom of the pit, Liu Xianyang once in order to show off his outstanding water nature, and even deliberately floated with a snake gallstone under his armpit, Chen Ping'an remembered that the stone was at least as big as Gu Cang's head, the stone was slightly white and transparent, and there were bright red fine dots inside, like peach petals that were frozen.

Liu Xianyang felt that this move was quite meaningful, so he asked Chen Ping'an to help him carry such a large stone home, but when he arrived in the town, he felt bored with a tall boy who was not qualitative, so he asked Chen Ping'an to solve the stone by himself, Chen Ping'an just walked into Mud Bottle Lane that time, and found that Zhigui next door was inexplicably following him, and he didn't speak, and kept staring at the stone in his arms, his eyes were similar to Chen Ping'an every time he saw the meat buns sold in Xinghua Lane, Chen Ping'an couldn't bear her greed, so he gave her the stone, but she couldn't move at first, and almost smashed her foot, Chen Ping'an had to simply move to the courtyard of Song Jixin's houseAs for the final whereabouts of the stone after that, Chen Ping'an does not know.

The stones are as white as water, and the peach blossoms float in them.

It's like the peach blossoms after the rain on the other side of Peach Leaf Lane, and the clouds are verdant.

Even before today, Chen Ping'an didn't know the subtlety of this kind of stone, he always felt that the big stone was really good-looking.

Chen Ping'an sighed and stopped suddenly.

Thirty steps away, on the blue stone cliff by the stream, sat a girl in green clothes, her cheeks bulging, but she was still stuffing things into her mouth.

The first impression in Chen Ping'an's mind was that the girl should starve to death and be reincarnated, so that she would be so pitifully hungry in the middle of the night.

Chen Ping'an thought about it, so he didn't come closer, for fear of disturbing the girl's mood for supper. It's just that he didn't turn around and leave, after all, he had already made up his mind, he must try his luck in that puddle tonight, and every time he touched one or two stones ashore, he would always succeed if he touched one or two stones ashore, and besides, the snake gallstones in this puddle were bigger and more colorful than the rest of the creek.

Chen Ping'an's water nature is not as good as Liu Xianyang's, but it is not bad.

Chen Ping'an didn't expect that the strange girl would finish eating, and pick up another food from her side, so she didn't have time to rest, and her cheeks didn't swell. Chen Ping'an carried most of the heavy stones on his back, thinking that it would be physical work to go into the water to touch the stones, so he turned sideways and took off the basket and put it on the ground.

Chen Ping'an underestimated the hearing of the girl in Tsing Yi, but as soon as she let it go, the girl suddenly pricked up her ears, and her eyes swept directly over in an instant.

Chen Ping'an couldn't say that girl, you just eat slowly, so she had to smile awkwardly.

The girl's expression was a little sluggish, and she burped twice in succession, and then she seemed to choke, so she quickly straightened her chest and reached out to pat her chest vigorously.

Chen Ping'an realized that she was not very old, her neck was down, and the scenery over there was really spectacular, and she was not inferior to many women who had given birth to children.

The shirt on his chest was very tight.

Chen Ping'an hurriedly retracted his gaze, but there was no evil reverie.

The girl in Tsing Yi remembered that she had brought a kettle, and she didn't forget to turn her back to Chen Ping'an, and poured a big mouthful of water on her head, so that her breathing was smooth.

The young man carrying straw sandals actually had only one simple thought at that time, the fabric of this girl's clothes must not be a bargain, otherwise he would not be able to eat so much.

The girl in Tsing Yi continued to eat, this time it was much more subtle, at least the cheeks were not so exaggerated, bowed her head and took small bites, and from time to time she glanced at the strange small town boy, with a pair of peach-like narrow eyes, and the tails of the eyes were slightly upturned, so that the girl was born like a young fox.

She seemed to be asking the boy with her eyes, what's the matter with you, continue to hurry.

Chen Ping'an's face was full of helplessness, so he had to stretch out his hand and point to the stream outside the cyan stone cliff, and shouted: "I'm not passing through here, I'm going to the stream on your side." ”

She looked at the thin young man, but she didn't speak.

Chen Ping'an hurriedly picked up a stone from the basket and continued to explain: "I'm going to the stream to pick up these stones. ”

The girl suddenly remembered the appearance of something important, stretched out her finger to her mouth, signaled Chen Ping'an not to speak, and then she moved her position, obviously to let Chen Ping'an pass, she would not hinder him from going into the water to pick up stones.

Chen Ping'an had to carry the basket on his back and walk over hard, fortunately, the cyan stone cliff was very large, and more than ten people could stand, and the girl had taken the initiative to sit on the edge, unlike before when her legs were straight, and she sat cross-legged in a regular manner, with an open package on her knees, full of all kinds of pastries and snacks, like a hill, so far, it was only eaten by the girl on a small hill.

Chen Ping'an put down the straw sandals, baskets and bamboo baskets, originally thinking about the third watch in the middle of the night, so he went into the water shirtless, but now don't think about it, there is a strange yellow flower girl sitting next to her, not to mention whether she will scream, if her parents see or hear, Chen Ping'an estimates that he will be broken by someone, and he is not wronged.

Chen Ping'an came to the edge of the stone cliff, and a fierce man rushed into the bottom of the puddle.

Soon I touched a stone, the size of a palm, but unfortunately it was not a snake gallstone, so I had to wipe my face and continue to dive, and after three times, I finally touched a blue-black snake gallstone. Chen Ping'an climbed up the stone cliff wet, put it in a basket, and then continued to plunge into the water.

From beginning to end, the girl had her back to this side, busy eating.

In less than half an hour, Chen Ping'an had already found seven or eight stones, except for the first one that was dark in color, the rest of the stones were large and bright.

The last time I went down, I didn't take the stone to the shore, but caught a live fish with the length of my palm, the town is commonly known as the slate fish, as soon as I meet people, I like to hide under the stones, the meat is very beautiful, generally just a little longer than the finger, there are few such a big slate fish in the hands of Chen Ping'an. Chen Ping'an had actually touched a few in the cracks of the stones at the bottom of the pit before, but at that time, he put them for the sake of the stones, and this time it was a flash of inspiration, and he suddenly felt that if he could catch a dozen or so fish tonight, he would give the fish soup to Miss Ning tomorrow, which would be very good.

After Chen Ping'an went ashore, he threw the fish into the bamboo basket.

When he caught the fish for the second time, Chen Ping'an suddenly found that the girl was squatting next to the fish basket, looking at the fish basket with only a lone fish lying down, and he could see that her face was full of radiance, just like when Zhigui saw the stone in the alley.

Chen Ping'an threw the second slate fish into the bamboo basket.

The girl slowly raised her head.

The barefoot boy had turned and walked briskly, and went down the stream again.

After listening to the young man's plop, the girl quickly grabbed a fish from the bamboo basket with one hand, looked down at them who were still jumping, looked serious, and nodded: "Awesome, amazing!"

The girl in Tsing Yi knew that there were many strange scenes in this town, and the well called Xinghua Lane had an iron lock for an unknown length. The covered bridge not far away, the former is actually a stone arch bridge across the creek for 3,000 years, and there is a rusty iron sword at the bottom of the bridge, and the tip of the sword points to a bottomless turquoise pool. The crab archway with twelve legs, in the grass outside the ancestral hall, the dilapidated mud statues that are horizontal and vertical, there is a porcelain mountain in the north, and there are piles of porcelain that have been judged to be defective by the superintendent in the past dynasties, all of which have been broken and broken, and so on.

She even knew most of the reason.

She followed her father to the north and south when she was very young, so she deserves to have seen the world.

But when Chen Ping'an grabbed the slate fish for the third time and went ashore, the girl, whose hands were already empty, was still squatting next to the fish basket, but her two hands were still secretly wiping the corners of her clothes, and she looked up at the barefoot boy approaching, just like the eyes of ordinary people looking at the fairies.

Chen Ping'an was surprised by her strange eyes, and asked tentatively, "You want these fish?"

The girl nodded vigorously subconsciously.

Chen Ping'an smiled: "Then these three will be given to you." I'll catch it later. ”

The girl blinked, then smiled happily. Fox and foxy.