Chapter 336 The Disappearing Snake Eggs
When Heizi heard this, he raised his foot to kick him, but Zhang Erquan reacted quickly, got up and dodged for several steps.
Heizi pointed at the cave and swore, "My ancestors were from Changshou Village, but my grandfather's generation moved away. You have to get out of here no matter what you say today, or I will definitely not take you with me next time I have the chance to sneak out."
Zhang Erquan immediately became timid when he heard this.
Ye Xiaomei looked at the cave suspiciously. What kind of mineral was this? Not to mention it was really beautiful. If she could dig out a piece and bring it home to Xiaoya, she would probably be so happy that she would fly.
Zhang Erquan spit a handful of saliva into his hands and rubbed them, then said indignantly:
"Get out of the way, sister-in-law, I'm going to go down and take a look."
Ye Xiaomei stepped back and saw Zhang Erquan holding the entrance of the cave with his hands and jumping in.
It was obvious that he was quite skilled. When Ye Xiaomei looked again, she could only see a human figure slowly falling down like an octopus.
Heizi stretched his head to observe carefully, and shouted into the hole: "Is it the end?"
Zhang Erquan's voice echoed from below, "Not yet. It's too deep."
As soon as she heard the echo, Ye Xiaomei estimated that it was really deep: "Heizi, it's not going to get bad at this depth, is it?"
"Probably not. This kid is better than a monkey at climbing trees and going down wells." Heizi looked relaxed.
Ye Xiaomei had nothing to do so she chatted about the cave.
Heizi said that it was washed out by a rain half a month ago. At that time, he was afraid of falling behind, so he just found some planks and branches to cover it, and then pressed a thick layer of soil on top.
As they were chatting, a loud shout came from the cave.
"What's wrong? Zhang Erquan." Ye Xiaomei and Heizi said in unison.
"It's okay, my feet are slippery..." Then Zhang Erquan's cursing voice came out:
"What the hell is this? It's like lumps of stone. Heizi, take the shovel down."
When Heizi heard this, he picked it up and was about to throw it into the hole. Ye Xiaomei stared at him and said, "You have a hole in your head. You are going to smash Zhang Erquan to death, right?"
Heizi laughed and said he was just teasing his sister-in-law. He sat down, untied his shoelaces, tied them to the shovel head and slowly put them into the hole.
Soon there was the clanking sound of metal hitting stone.
Unexpectedly, the knocking lasted for more than an hour. When Zhang Erquan climbed out, he was already exhausted and paralyzed. He took off the shovel tied to his waist and threw it on the ground. He sat down and gasped for breath.
"Did you dig it out?" Heizi didn't care whether he was tired or not.
Zhang Erquan took a deep breath and took out a stone as big as his fist from his arms.
Stone? Ye Xiaomei and Heizi stared at it in amazement.
"Why isn't it glowing?" Ye Xiaomei took it and looked at it again and again. It was just an ordinary rock, nothing special about it.
Heizi also noticed the problem after scratching his head: "Zhang Erquan, you didn't dig the wrong hole, did you?" He stuck his head into the hole and looked inside, and it was still glowing.
Ye Xiaomei thought suspiciously for a moment, and quickly covered her eyes with her hands to block the sun. The faint colorful light appeared again, so strange:
"This stone seems to glow in the dark, Heizi, take a look."
Heizi sat on the ground with his back to the sun, took it and looked inside his clothes:
"Huh? Really? Sister-in-law, do you think this thing can be used as a light bulb at night?"
Zhang Erquan had rested well by now, and he waved his hands repeatedly, saying, "It's too hard, very difficult to dig. I didn't dig this piece out, I picked it up. Forget about taking it home as a light bulb. Even if it's something very valuable, I can't dig it out.
Oh, and I also picked up two snake eggs."
As he spoke, he took out two white eggs from his pocket, which were about the size of chicken eggs.
This is too big. Snake eggs are usually very small, at most the size of a quail egg.
Ye Xiaomei was not interested in the snake egg: "Did you pick up this stone?"
"Yes, sister-in-law, the stone is extremely hard. If you don't believe me, just look..." Zhang Erquan showed the shovel to his sister-in-law. The top of the shovel was completely bent, and there were gaps in some places that looked like they were bitten by a dog:
"I don't think it's possible to pry it off with a drill."
Ye Xiaomei stared at the ordinary stone in a daze. There should be a geological research institute in Chaocheng. She could go and ask there and find out what kind of stone it is.
Heizi handed the stone to his sister-in-law and said, "How did this stone come down?"
Heizi's question hit the point, and Ye Xiaomei also became suspicious.
Zhang Erquan waved his hands hastily: "I don't know about that."
Ye Xiaomei looked at the stone again. Although it was not a regular circle and had some bumps around it, there was no sign of damage from external force. It was obvious that the stone was not pried off by humans.
Seeing that it was getting late and there was a social gathering in the evening, Ye Xiaomei suggested hiding the hole again and then planned to go back.
At this time, Zhang Erquan muttered that he wanted to cook and eat the snake eggs. If he took them back, he could only send them to the cafeteria. However, with so many mouths to feed, he would definitely not be able to enjoy them.
"Where are my eggs?" Zhang Erquan looked around for them.
Ye Xiaomei was stunned. She had just wiped it and it was placed there by Zhang Erquan. Looking closely, she found that there was still a slight groove on the original ground, which was obviously the mark left by the egg on the soft soil, but the egg was gone.
Ye Xiaomei took a look at it and carefully picked up the white thing that was as big as her fingernail:
"Heizi, do you think it's an eggshell?"
The two of them hurried over. Zhang Erquan quickly took it and took a closer look. He immediately sighed:
"It's a pity that I didn't get to eat it. It was just a coincidence that it hatched right after I took it out. I don't know where it has gone now."
Heizi got angry when he heard this: "Don't tell me that this snake dragged its house away after it came out of its shell. I think you want to hide it for yourself. Come on, take it out and pay."
Zhang Erquan scratched his head, and his pupils suddenly shrank after hearing this, as if he remembered something terrible:
"Brother Heizi, there's a chance that the little snake will eat it when we're not paying attention."
Ye Xiaomei shook her head. When she was in her hometown, she had encountered snakes running into farmers' homes to steal eggs, but they would basically spit out the eggshells. In other words, snakes simply don't have the instinct to eat eggshells.
But seeing Zhang Erquan's frightened expression, Ye Xiaomei didn't dare to interrupt.
Heizi went up and slapped him on the head: "I have never heard of a snake eating its own egg shell after it came out of its shell. Don't bully me for being uneducated."
Zhang Erquan was hit and subconsciously raised his arms to block, and said seriously:
"Brother Heizi, haven't you heard that there is a kind of white snake that actually eats its own eggshells in order to protect itself?"
"..." Ye Xiaomei was suddenly shocked: "White snake? Is that egg a white snake egg?"
Ye Xiaomei's words attracted the attention of the two men, and Zhang Erquan nodded quickly:
"Look, my sister-in-law has heard it too. I really didn't lie to you, Heizi brother."
Ye Xiaomei was thoughtful. Aren't white snakes extinct? How come they appeared here?
Looking around, there are only continuous bare-top mountains here, no particularly tall peaks that reach the clouds, and the soil is moist.
If the legend says that the Black Toad Stone can be found if the White Snake is found, Ye Xiaomei's heart beat wildly. Could it be that stone?
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