Tan Muxing did not expect that he was accused of helping the village bully when he tried to stop the chaos. He said in panic, "No, no, I am not a village bully."

Hu Yongjin's facial features twisted into a distorted shape, and he shouted angrily: "If it's not you, let go!"

Tan Muxing hesitated to speak: "Ah, this... doesn't seem to work..."

Tan Muxing was afraid that if he let go of Hu Yongjin, the latter would suddenly attack and injure others, so he still refused to let go.

Hu Yongjin struggled awkwardly, but he couldn't get rid of Tan Muxing, and he was extremely angry. He didn't expect the other party to be hesitant and his moves were quite sharp. He wanted to lie down on the ground and roll around, but he was held up by Tan Muxing and couldn't fall down.

Wang Ping came up with a plan: "Okay, don't waste time here, just get him out like a bug."

Tan Muxing suddenly realized: "...Okay."

Tan Muxing led Hu Yongjin outside the building and followed him to the village entrance. The village chief and others stood by the building and watched from a distance, but they didn't expect Tan Muxing to walk quite far.

The village chief couldn't help but sigh: "Master, your friend has never thrown a bug before, right? He could just flick it out the window, why did he run so far?"

Chu Qianli: "It's funny. I don't even know if my deskmate has ever seen a bug, let alone lost one."

Not long after, Tan Muxing came back from seeing Hu Yongjin off, and asked with lingering fear, "Why did he still attack?"

Tan Muxing had always lived in a big city. Whenever someone caused trouble at night, the police would come in a matter of minutes. She had never seen anyone like Hu Yongjin.

Wang Ping said disdainfully: "There are many people like this. With his own strength and the help of others in a small place, he thinks no one can deal with him!"

"If this happened in another village, Yongjin would definitely not quit. It's just that the person in charge is different, otherwise he would be even more courageous." Village chief Lao Li shook his head, "The neighboring province is not advanced or civilized at all."

Yinlong Village is located at the junction of two provinces, with Yinlong Mountain as the boundary, but the villagers live together and move back and forth all the time. Hu Yongjin came to threaten the village chief, and he was probably following someone's orders and wanted to reach out to Yinlong Mountain.

Yinlong Village had developed well and was richer than the surrounding villages, so naturally they refused.

The village chief praised Chu Qianli and others for the economic development of his province and criticized the policy planning of the neighboring province, and then lent the car to the three of them.

Wang Ping often borrowed the car, and she drove skillfully, taking Chu Qianli and Tan Muxing up the mountain. This car was used to transport goods, so the driver had the driver's seat, and the other two sat casually in the back.

Chu Qianli opened her arms, feeling the breeze as she drove, and said intoxicatedly: "Let's feel the convertible in the village!"

Tan Muxing stopped her from doing this dangerous thing and said gently, "Don't put your hands out of the window."

"This car doesn't even have a roof, and you're still raising the window?"

“…”

The three of us drove to the middle of the mountain and had to walk the rest of the way. The air on the mountain was fresh and the vegetation was lush. It was really rich in resources. From time to time, there were noises behind the dense leaves in the forest. I was afraid that it was a small animal running through the dark.

The green shadows blocked out the sun, and the grass was knee-high.

Chu Qianli huddled timidly behind Tan Muxing and whispered, "There are no snakes here, right?"

Tan Muxing was stunned: "...Probably not?"

Wang Ping walked in front, nimbly chopping away the dead branches, mockingly saying, "You just encountered a small cabbage snake, and you're still scared now? You can calculate everything, so why are you so timid?"

Chu Qianli muttered, "I can tell fortunes because of the laws of nature. Only people who have awe for nature can do this."

Wang Ping: "Tsk tsk, don't those movies always show people going against the will of heaven? My fate is in my own hands, not in the hands of heaven?"

"That depends on how you understand 'heaven'. Besides, you'd better trust me than the domestic screenwriters. They're all full of nonsense anyway."

Tan Muxing followed obediently behind carrying things. Wang Ping picked mushrooms, fungus and other things, and also pulled down some wild vegetables from the mountains and threw them into the bamboo basket in Tan Muxing's hand.

Tan Muxing looked down at the ingredients of various shapes and colors. He felt quite curious. He reached out to take pictures and appreciate the surrounding scenery.

Wang Ping looked at Chu Qianli, who was idle and calm, and frowned, "Can't you lend a hand? Your classmates grew up in small towns and seem to be more sensible than you."

Chu Qianli was scolded and said: "I can help pick mushrooms, but the question is, do you dare to eat them?"

Wang Ping was startled when she heard this, and immediately changed her tune: "Forget it, don't pick them randomly, I still want to live two more years."

Wang Ping is the type who gets angry when she sees Chu Qianli sitting idle, but she also finds it annoying to watch him working, so she prefers to do it herself.

"Don't let her throw things into the bamboo basket." Wang Ping was afraid that something might happen, so she turned around to look at Tan Muxing and gave her an order in a serious tone.

Tan Muxing: “…I understand.”

Chu Qianli: "I can pick something else instead of mushrooms!"

Chu Qianli was allowed to pick food other than mushrooms. The three of them played and picked in the mountains, spending a pleasant and leisurely time.

Wang Ping usually doesn't walk too far, but today she accompanied the two of them and before they knew it, they had reached the top of the mountain.

Tan Muxing stopped to take pictures from time to time. It was said that he was collecting design materials and recording unfamiliar flowers and leaves. Standing on a huge rock on the mountain, he spotted the ant-like figures and said, "There are other people on the mountain."

Without even looking up, Wang Ping said, "It's the peak season for other people to come and pick fruits."

"Hmm... seems like a group of people?"

When Chu Qianli and Wang Ping heard this, they both walked over and looked in the direction Tan Muxing pointed.

Chu Qianli narrowed her eyes, trying to identify him, and asked doubtfully, "Is it someone I haven't seen before? Is he new to the village?"

Wang Ping said decisively: "No, then he is not from our village."

The three of them were far away from the strange crowd and machines. From a distance, the excavator looked like a toy, and it was operating slowly. The group had fenced off a site in the mountains, and it looked like they were working on something.

Wang Ping looked unhappy and asked in surprise: "Where did this person come from? This mountain belongs to our village!"

Tan Muxing sternly corrected him: "No, no, no, in fact, they are all national mountains..."

"They must be from the next village." Chu Qianli thought for a moment and recalled, "I came here with my grandfather in the past. There is a small area of ​​Yinlong Mountain that belongs to the next village."

"You can't just dig randomly, right? The two villages have to discuss this matter!" Wang Ping was furious. "I must talk to the village chief when I get back. How can we let others dig on our own hill?!"

Chu Qianli was laughing all the way. She looked at the excavator in the distance, not being careless for a rare moment, and murmured, "Ah, it's over. I can't quite remember the direction. Will they dig up all the Four Gods Sand?"

Tan Muxing was at a loss: "Four Gods Sand?"

"The four core elements of Feng Shui are finding dragons, finding acupuncture points, observing sand, and finding water. Don't people always go to the mountains to find dragons and find acupuncture points in movies?" Chu Qianli explained, "But in fact, the hills beside the main mountain range are also very important. It is best to have small hills in front, behind, left and right, so that the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Black Tortoise can sit and guard the place. This is the Four Gods Sand."

"Grandpa spent a long time choosing a place to live here. Good feng shui locations are hard to come by."

Chu Qianli didn't even bring a compass when she went up the mountain to play. The signal on her cell phone was not good, so she couldn't use the Internet to determine her location. She and her grandfather had agreed with the village chief not to dig in the mountain, but she didn't expect that when she went home to meet her relatives, people from the next village would secretly dig.

"It's getting dark. Go home and have dinner. I'll go see the village chief in the evening."

Wang Ping took a look at the sky, then drove the two of them down the mountain. She stewed various ingredients at home and went to the village chief's house to file a complaint against the neighboring village for stealing.

At home, Chu Qianli and Tan Muxing stayed inside, busy looking for old things.

Tan Muxing helped to drag out the huge box under the bed and found that this was an area that Wang Ping had not cleaned. He reached out and waved away the dust and asked, "Is this it?"

Chu Qianli also sneezed because of the dust. She touched her nose and nodded, "Thank you, it should be this. Anyway, these are all the things of Grandpa."

Chu Qianli opened the box to look for the compass. Tan Mu Xinghuan looked at the layout of the room. There were even strange pictures and symbols posted on the walls. He asked curiously, "Is your grandfather a Feng Shui master?"

"That's because he's more involved in Feng Shui in the village. In fact, he's good at fortune-telling just like me, but the essence of the horoscope is a model, and Ziwei can also be used for Feng Shui design." Chu Qianli added, "It's just like a subject. There will be basic knowledge, and then detailed classification."

When Tan Muxing heard that both of them were studying fortune-telling, he felt a little moved and could roughly understand the reason.

"Hey? I remember there was a compass, why can't I find it?" Chu Qianli shook her head in confusion. She looked around in the box and said, "He showed it to me at the beginning."

Chu Qianli remembered seeing her grandfather's compass when she was young, but she was not very interested in Feng Shui at the time and would rather play poker than touch the compass.

Tan Muxing pointed to the wooden box in the corner of the giant box and asked, "What is that?"

Chu Qianli took out the wooden box. She cracked the metal lock on the box and tried to open it, but it didn't work for a long time. "My goodness, it's been rusted for too long..."

Tan Muxing took the wooden box and gently opened the rusty box, revealing a shiny and smooth compass inside the box with a red crystal in the middle.

He handed the wooden box back to Chu Qianli, then moved closer to her and asked in confusion, "Is the red one a magnet?"

"The red one is..." Chu Qianli stared at the red crystal in the compass and suggested, "Can you help me get the Tarot card in my schoolbag?"

Tan Muxing stood up without complaint. He took the schoolbag from the other side and fumbled for the tarot cards inside: "Which deck do you want?"

"I just brought a deck of cards."

Tan Muxing took out the Red Crystal Tarot. He looked at the familiar starry sky painting in his hand and said with a subtle expression, "So you have already broken it into small biscuits?"

Tan Muxing had admired this painting with Chu Qianli at an exhibition. Now the romantic starry sky painting was split into cards by her. As expected, the naughty kid would not leave anything intact in his hands.

Chu Qianli placed the compass and the red crystal tarot under the lamp. She carefully observed them for a long time and asked her deskmate for his opinion: "They seem a bit similar?"

Tan Muxing nodded: "Yes, they are all sparkling red."

There is a beautiful red crystal in the center of the compass, and there is also a red light flash on the back of the tarot card, which does have the same design elements.

Chu Qianli quickly took out her fortune-telling notes. She had been practicing with the Red Crystal Tarot. On the draft paper were written "red stone, starry sky in the village, grandpa, east, south, west and north, seven".

Does east, south, west, and north refer to a compass that indicates directions? Or is it something else?

Seeing her absorbed in thought, Tan Muxing looked hesitant and whispered, "What's wrong?"

"No, I'm just curious about what this stone is. Is it a ruby?" Chu Qianli stared at the compass. "I've never noticed it before."

Tan Twilight: "Not ruby, not even sapphire."

Chu Qianli was confused: "Ah, it's not blue, of course it's not sapphire..."

Tan Muxing smiled patiently and said, "Sapphire is a general term. Red and blue sapphires are both corundum. Corundum containing chromium is red, and corundum of other colors without chromium is called sapphire, such as orange, pink, yellow, green..."

"It doesn't look like corundum. I've never seen this kind of gemstone." Tan Muxing likes to make clothes. He has touched many rare materials and naturally knows them all.

Chu Qianli was silent for a few seconds when facing her knowledgeable deskmate. She said weakly, "Your words made me feel what class is."

Others learn about gems for appreciation and collection, but my classmate learns about gems for making clothes. This is simply outrageous.

Tan Muxing: “?”

Chu Qianli wanted to know the real scientific name of Hong Jing, so Tan Muxing suggested going back for an appraisal.

Unable to smash the compass to take out the red crystal, the two decided to analyze the composition of the Tarot cards after returning to Beijing to see what the red flashes meant.

At dinner, Wang Ping stewed the fruits of the three people's picking today, and fried some seasonal vegetables and eggs to complete the simple village meal.

While eating, Wang Ping said dissatisfiedly: "The director called the neighboring village, and they said they have a mining permit. The land also belongs to the neighboring village, so there is no big problem..."

"I was wondering why Hu Yongjin came here in such a hurry to get a signature. He had already started digging behind our backs. He must have forced the director to agree, didn't he?" Wang Ping sneered, "The village is really shameless!"

Tan Muxing was worried: "Can't we report this to the relevant authorities?"

"The director has already reported it to the higher-ups, but that's a matter for the neighboring province. If we really start to argue about it, we don't know how long it will take. Who said our village is located at the border of two provinces?"

Wang Ping shrugged helplessly: "They are digging every day. It will take time for the leader to come over. The director said he will go to the site tomorrow to stop it, but do you think it will be useful for him to go over there?"

The village chief, Lao Li, is an old man with thin arms and legs. He can indeed call on a group of burly men, but the neighboring village has a mining license from the neighboring province, and it is hard to say who is right now.

Tan Muxing: "Since there is a mining permit, perhaps it has been evaluated?"

"Ha, you think too simply. These people are all petty. There are policies from above and countermeasures from below. Experts say that mining can be done appropriately, but do you know what 'appropriate' means?" Wang Ping sneered. "It's like saying to season the food appropriately. How can experts know if people below are over-mining?"

"As long as there's money to be made, they'll take any risk. There are too many people like this in the village!"

Tan Muxing said nothing. He grew up in the imperial city and had never experienced the hypocrisy of small places.

No matter how bad the students in the school are, they can't be that bad, mainly because most of them have good family backgrounds. There are too many rich and powerful people in the capital, and no one dares to be too arrogant, or they are afraid of hitting a wall.

Chu Qianli said thoughtfully: "Then let's go to the scene tomorrow."

"Don't go. You two kids are useless. Just take your classmates to travel around."

Chu Qianli smiled and said, "He has never been to the countryside. If we want to take him to see the local specialties in the village, we must go there."

Talking about Evening Star: "Souvenir?"

Wang Ping was puzzled: "Our village has a specialty? How come I don't know about it?"

Chu Qianli said seriously: "Of course our village has its own specialty, and it is a well-known folk art that has been passed down. It has a long history and rich connotations. It is definitely a colorful and wonderful performance..."

Wang Ping: "Speak human language."

Chu Qianli: "The famous product of the advanced civilized village - the great dance master!"

Tan Muxing: “?”