Chapter 64: The Stone Obtains Treasure

  After seeing off Huang Xiaojun and a few others, it was already quite late in the day.

  Song Wen looked at the mountain and saw that it was impossible to climb up to cut bamboo and build a plastic greenhouse, so he took out an iron shovel and hoe from inside and came to the lake shore, preparing to dig out the glowing stones seen in the copper mirror.

  Arriving at the location, he was afraid of digging in the wrong place. He carefully took out a copper mirror and checked again to confirm that the location was correct before starting to dig.

  The ground by the lake wasn't very hard, after digging a few times with a hoe, it felt quite soft, so Song Wen simply scooped it up with an iron shovel.

  Before long, they dug a hole two meters deep.

  He saw that he was about to dig it up, so he dug even more vigorously. Unexpectedly, after digging five meters, there was still no sign of the glowing stone, which made him wonder. The copper mirror had clearly reflected this place, how could he not find it? So he took out the copper mirror again and shone it, no mistake, it was indeed this place. But in his heart, he was puzzled as to why he hadn't dug up the stone even after five meters deep. He remembered that last time he used the copper mirror, five meters was the deepest distance he could see, how come now it wasn't just five meters? Wasn't he able to see deeper places now?

  Song Wenhua guessed in her mind, and then thought that digging stones was urgent now, so she didn't think about other things anymore. She continued to dig and dug another two meters down before seeing a stone.

  The place where the stone was dug out is still some distance from the lake, but the seven-meter-deep ground has already seeped out some water stains.

  Song Wen cleared the soil layer on top of the stone, and saw that the stone was not green, but rather a white flagstone used for building foundations, feeling strange, he took out a copper mirror to reflect the stone.

  A stone with a greenish glow appeared in the copper mirror, and I thought to myself, what's going on? The one that was dug up was clearly a white strip of stone, so why did it appear as a stone with a greenish glow in the copper mirror? Strange, really strange.

  He had a good habit of not thinking about things that he couldn't figure out. So he put the copper mirror away and continued to dig at the stone.

  Before long, the area around the stone was cleared up.

  At this time, he saw clearly that the stone was about three meters long and two meters wide, like a goose egg, but the front and back sides were smooth and flat, and it still felt warm to the touch.

  After digging out the stone, Song Wen was worried. Such a big stone, how can it be taken up in this seven-meter-deep pit?

  "Moooo..."

  A big water buffalo leisurely walked over with a small water buffalo, saw that there was inexplicably an extra hole on the ground, curiously looked into the hole and saw Song Wen, then called out and greeted him.

  Seeing the big water buffalo, Song Wen immediately had an idea.

  Quickly climbed out of the pit, went back to find a bundle of rope, tied the stone up and down left and right on the stone, then put the other end on the cow's back, afraid that the rope would hurt the water buffalo, and specially padded a layer of clothes on the cow's back.

  After preparation, Song Wen walked to the side of the big water buffalo and said gently: "Sister, help me out, help me pull the stone up, and I'll get you a good meal tonight."

  The water buffalo seemed to understand and mooed in response.

  Song Wen was overjoyed, and hastily jumped down into the pit, picked up a large wooden stick to pry up the stone, leaning it against the side of the pit. After finishing, he loudly called out to the big water buffalo: "Pull."

  The water buffalo heard the command and immediately pulled upwards with force. Song Wen below pushed upwards with force, one cow and one man working together, and in a short while they had pulled the stone up.

  Seeing the stone being pulled up, Song Wen also climbed out of the pit and sat beside it to rest.

  After the big water buffalo gave birth to a calf, its skeleton seemed to have developed again and grew much bigger, looking very robust. Plus, Song Wen used the spring water from the Ruyi fan to nourish it day and night, increasing its energy greatly. So pulling this stone for it was like a small task, after finishing, it even lowered its head and started eating grass leisurely.

  If it weren't for the discovery of the stone, Song Wen wouldn't have wanted others to know about it, he would have called a crane and excavator over long ago, no need to use so much effort.

  After a short rest, Song Wen thought of letting the big water buffalo help pull it into the yard.

  Suddenly thought of something, angrily patted his own forehead. Thought to himself that he was really a muddled egg, how could he not have thought of putting the stone into the Ruyi fan? It was really too stupid, stupid to the point of being beyond help.

  All of this was his subconscious thinking, and he hadn't really gotten into the habit of carrying Ruyi fan with him yet. Moreover, the matter of Ruyi fan couldn't be let known to others, so he didn't dare to take it out usually, that's why it ended up like this.

  Song Wen angrily blamed himself, but then thought, can such a big stone be moved in?

  Thinking that I should try it out, I untied the ropes from the water buffalo and the stone, then tried to put the stone into the Ruyi fan. Unexpectedly, it went in with a swoop.

  He put the stone into his fan and didn't even look at it, then hurriedly filled the dug hole with soil to prevent others from seeing it. The soil was not enough, so he went to the nearby hillside to fetch some more.

  After being busy, Song Wen thought about how he had been busy with a lot of things that weren't worth his time and felt a belly full of anger.

  Look at the sky getting dark, let's pack up and head back to prepare dinner.

  At night, I'm alone, it's simple, just use 20 or so medicinal materials such as dangshen, wolfberry, angelica, cassia bark, tangerine peel, grass fruit, cardamom and ophiopogon to stew the wolf meat, then add some green vegetables. There was still some leftover from lunch, didn't need to cook rice, just made do with eating it as is.

  After eating some food to fill his stomach, Song Wen started drinking with hot pot.

  Eating wolf meat is dry in nature; if one only eats wolf meat, it will not only fail to nourish but also harm the body.

  If used with Chinese medicinal herbs stewed, the medicinal properties of the herbs neutralize the dry heat of the wolf meat, and also benefit the brain, solidify the essence, and tonify the kidneys, it's simply a treasure.

  He ate wolf meat, scalded green vegetables, drank snake wine from Song Mingde, watched TV, and felt extremely carefree. It was as if he had a feeling that life was like this, and it wasn't in vain to come once.

  The little dog next to him was also unscrupulous, eating wolf meat in big mouthfuls while licking the snake wine from the plate, without any awareness of "being from the same root, why bother with each other."

  The kitten was also eating wolf meat in small bites, and next to it was a small dish of snake wine for it to drink.

  Song originally didn't want to give it to them, but unfortunately couldn't argue with the two little guys.

  The little cat eats wolf meat with a very cute posture, feeling uncomfortable lying down to eat, so it stands up and holds the small piece of wolf meat in its mouth, nibbling slowly on both sides, left and right, enjoying itself immensely.

  After finishing dinner and cleaning up, Song Wen locked the courtyard. Returning to the house, he didn't go to bed, but instead took the two little ones directly into the Ruyi fan.

  The little dog came to the Ruyi fan and knew what to do, so it ran to the water pool with a wagging tail and comfortably soaked in the warm spring water. The kitten meowed around Song Wen's side.

  These two days, Song Wenyue felt that the more he heard the kitten meowing, the more it didn't feel right. A cat's meow should be crisp and clear, but this kitten's meow was very domineering, with a beastly howl mixed in its meows, so he always felt that the kitten wasn't a cat, but it looked like a cat, leaving him confused and bewildered.

  Arriving at the space, Song Wen didn't immediately go soak in the pool, but instead came to where the stones were placed.

  He saw the stone was dirty, so he went outside to fetch a bucket of water and a brush, and started cleaning the stone.

  After washing, Song Wenzai discovered that the stone was not purely white, but white with a hint of pale blue, the kind of bluish color of large bluestones, but it wasn't very obvious and couldn't be seen if one didn't look carefully.

  The stone was very smooth after being washed clean, with a subtle warmth and comfort to the touch, although not as tender as a woman's skin.

  At this time, Song Wen suddenly felt strange. Why didn't he feel the whole body heat after drinking snake wine as before? There was only a hot air swirling in his lower abdomen, like a ball of fire burning below, so that his brother stood upright with vigor and spirit.

  It may feel good when you're happy all the time, but when nothing's wrong, being like this all the time is suffocating and really unbearable.

  Song Wen looked at it and wanted to take a bath, but then he suddenly thought of sitting on the stone for a while to see what kind of feeling it was.

  As soon as I sat on the stone, a gentle warmth like water suddenly flowed out from the stone and surrounded my body. The scorching fire that had been swirling around my lower abdomen was instantly extinguished a little, and it didn't feel so hot anymore.

  Song Wen felt strange, so he simply lay down. The warm current instantly wrapped him up, Song Wen felt like a baby in his mother's arms, warm and comfortable, and unknowingly fell asleep.

  In the midst of anonymity, perhaps subconsciously, he began to breathe naturally again, following the description of Taoist internal strength in the Record of Raising Cranes. The warm air transmitted from the stone also started to flow with his breath.

  The kitten looked at Song Wen and didn't go to soak in the bath, but jumped beside him and lay down. After a while, it also fell asleep, its belly strangely rising and falling with Song Wen's breathing.

  The little dog who was originally soaking in the water saw that Song Wen hadn't gone to take a bath, so he got up from the pool, shook his body, and came to lie down at Song Wen's feet, soon falling asleep comfortably.