Chapter 338 Consult Tang Buci
Most of the people in Changshou Village have leg diseases because they often climb mountains to dig black toad stones, which can cure leg diseases. This cycle repeats itself, and finally for the sake of money they destroy this rare magic medicine, destroying the natural operating system of the white snake, black toad, and red maple tree, thus digging their own graves.
Whose fault is this?
Ye Xiaomei suddenly thought of a saying: A greedy heart will surely lead to evil and eventually its own destruction.
She even felt a little sad. There was no more Black Toad Stone. Even if she still had half of it, it would be used up sooner or later. However, bone disease was endless. There was no essential difference between using it and not using it. Did humans have to do such a thing that would dig their own graves? It was really sad and pitiful.
Thinking of this, Ye Xiaomei came back to her senses: "When you were a child, did you ever hear about a businessman named Tang in Changshou Village?"
It was obvious that Heizi knew very little about Changshou Village. After Zhang Erquan thought about it, his brows relaxed:
"I think I heard the older generation mention him... He was an outsider merchant who bought animal skins and also traded salt. His salt grains were small, and the older generation in the village had all bought his salt. And it was very cheap. If you didn't have money, you could trade it for animal skins from hunting."
Ye Xiaomei never asked Tang Buci what his adoptive father was doing, but she knew he was a businessman:
"Oh." She didn't know how to ask next, because Tang Bushi was picked up by the businessman who was passing through Changshou Village to do business, and he didn't live in Changshou Village permanently.
Heizi suddenly said in surprise: "Sister-in-law, how old are you? How come I find that you know more about Changshou Village than I do? When I was a child, I did hear that there was such a salt merchant passing by. He was very easy to talk to. Even if he didn't have animal skins, he could exchange a bowl of rice for some salt. But that was a rumor that predated my grandfather."
Ye Xiaomei was embarrassed now, and didn't know how to mend the hole. This was all what she heard from that guy Tang Buci:
"I heard it from someone."
Zhang Erquan looked his sister-in-law up and down and felt that she was not a simple person.
Ye Xiaomei suddenly caught Zhang Erquan's quickly withdrawing gaze. She knew that she couldn't continue to inquire, so she simply changed the subject:
"When does the social gathering tonight start?"
Heizi scratched his head and sighed: "I want to be a deserter."
Ye Xiaomei covered her mouth and laughed: "You are afraid of playing the role of White Haired Girl. As far as I know, you wrote the script. Now you have lifted a rock and dropped it on your own feet."
Heizi's face darkened instantly. When he arrived at the military compound, he stopped, looked around sadly for a few times, and then walked back with his head lowered.
Ye Xiaomei separated from Heizi and the others at the gate of her family's courtyard. Heizi said that they would start after dinner at 7 o'clock in the evening.
A large stage was built on the training ground, and the benches below were prepared. Almost all the tables and chairs from the military dormitories, canteens, and other places were moved.
Everyone gathered together on the training ground to make arrangements, making other places much quieter. Even the women in the family compound volunteered to help move the stools.
She closed the door of the dormitory. Ye Xiaomei became anxious and quickly took out the stone from the cloth bag and placed it on the table, then threw the cloth bag on the bed.
The next second after she pulled the curtains shut, the stone quickly began to show colors. The entire gray stone became translucent, and the whole room was lit up with colorful lights, dotted on the ceiling and walls, which looked very beautiful.
What a magical stone, Ye Xiaomei exclaimed, picking it up and turning it over and over in her hand.
It's not a big deal to look at it, there is something in the stone, she threw it far away without paying attention.
The stone rolled under the bed, and light appeared from under the bed.
She seemed to see a black toad inside. Ye Xiaomei swallowed a mouthful of saliva and her throat felt a little dry and sore from fear.
She quickly grabbed the man's teacup and took a sip of the cold tea, then held her breath and lay on the ground to look under the bed.
The shadow of the toad in the colorful light moved, and Ye Xiaomei was so scared that she sat down on the ground, her brain as confused as a rope.
She took a few deep breaths and tried to calm herself down.
She had to think it over. It was said that if you found the white snake, you would find the black toad stone. Wasn't that right? What was there to be afraid of? Besides, the black toad was still inside the stone, and it wasn't going to jump out and bite her.
Don't be afraid, Ye Xiaomei encouraged herself, bent her body, stuck out her butt, crawled under the bed, and grabbed it.
I looked around carefully in the dark room and found that there was indeed a black toad inside.
It has been lying prone with its big mouth on its front feet and its eyes closed. It looks silly and ugly, but also very cute in its sleeping position, just like a baby sleeping soundly after eating and drinking enough.
Ye Xiaomei continued to turn, and the poisonous bumps on the back of the black toad in the stone were clearly visible, as if it were alive.
But it didn't move. It was just that the uneven surface affected its sensitivity to light when reflecting light, causing a difference in vision. It seemed that it had just scared itself.
Phew, I was scared to death.
Ye Xiaomei patted her chest, calmed herself down, stood up and sat on the chair, staring at the stone in a daze.
Could it be that this is how the Black Toad entered the state of waiting for resurrection?
And she remembered that there were a lot of these stones in the cave. Could it be understood that all the things inside were wrapped with these black toads?
Also, this stone is really hard, how did the black toad get in? Ye Xiaomei thought so, and she probably knew more about this knowledge than Tang Bushi.
She put the stone down, turned around and picked up the cloth bag, trying to find her cell phone to call Tang Bushi and ask him about it.
When I heard the voice from the other end of the phone, I knew it was Li Yao instead of Tang Buci.
After waiting for a while, Tang Bushi's deep and clear voice came, saying sarcastically:
"Where did he go? Why didn't he come over for tea?"
Ye Xiaomei said impatiently: "Drink you big head ghost, I am at my husband's place in the military area, let me tell you something..."
Ye Xiaomei didn't say where she found it, she just said that she picked up a stone that glowed in the dark, and there was a black toad lying inside it.
Tang Bushi originally wanted to tease Ye Xiaomei that she missed her husband so much that she went crazy, but after hearing these words, his voice instantly became a little more serious.
"You mean, there is a black toad in a stone that glows in the dark?"
Ye Xiaomei listened to his serious words and nodded quickly: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, I haven't seen the newly unearthed Black Toad Stone. You must know what the Black Toad Stone is like when it's pretending to be dead. Tell me about it."
Tang Buci said impatiently, "I know. Black toads only hibernate in their own holes. I've never heard of them burrowing into rocks. Why don't you bring it here for me when you come back? This is a bit strange."
Ye Xiaomei couldn't help but frown. It was incredible that a toad had drilled into a stone before pretending to be dead and falling asleep. What's more, the stone was glowing.
What's more, the stone is so hard that toads don't have teeth. Even if they had teeth, they couldn't bite it, let alone bite through the stone and drill into it, and there wouldn't be any gaps at all.
Ye Xiaomei looked at the stone in her hand as she spoke. Indeed, there were no signs of being bitten or of being broken and put together again.
There was the sound of a wheelchair rolling. Tang Bushi's voice was very low, but one could tell he was trying very hard:
"I'll look up some books. Remember to bring them to me when you come back."
Ye Xiaomei felt a little heavy-hearted as she didn't find the answer. She hummed and was about to hang up the phone.
Unexpectedly, Tang Bushi suddenly asked in a panic, "Did you see the white snake when you picked it up?"
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