"Old Cui, walk slower and wait for me. Oops!" Cui Yong turned around and found that the Minister of Agriculture Qin Wen had tripped over a stone and fell to the ground.
"Is it serious?" Cui Yong had no choice but to go back, only to see Qin Wen rubbing his ankle and grinning.
"It hurts so much." Qin Wen pulled off the socks on his injured foot. The skin on the outside of his ankle had been scraped off, and it hurt a lot when he touched it lightly.
"S..."
"Can we still walk?" Cui Yong squatted down resignedly, as if he had already gotten used to it.
"Old Cui, I'm really hurt." Qin Wen pouted unhappily. He used to tease Cui Yong often, but this time it really hurt. He was so painful that he angrily slapped the culprit, but immediately found that the feeling was a little different.
"Come up." Cui Yong squatted in front of Qin Wen. Qin Wen pushed him and said, "Old Cui, we're not in a hurry to leave. Don't block the light. Help me dig out this stone and take a look!"
The two of them came to Xiacheng originally to look for jade. After finally getting some in Xiacheng, Qin Wen finished his work and pulled Cui Yong into the mountains.
After running for several days in a row, Qin Wen began to doubt whether he had remembered it wrongly. He was about to give up after crawling for a while, but unexpectedly, he got a pleasant surprise.
Cui Yong looked at Qin Wen suspiciously, who didn't even cry out in pain. He took out his tools and dug out the twenty or thirty kilograms of stone in a few seconds.
Qin Wen immediately took out the water bag to clean the surface of the stone, then took out the high-intensity flashlight he asked from Xu Ning and began to shine it on the surface of the stone. Some light came through.
"Glass!" Qin Wen exclaimed! This luster might be the best glass! Otherwise, the surface is not even gone, and the light passes through so easily!
Qin Wen was so excited that he almost jumped up. His feet didn't hurt anymore. He immediately took out the grinding tools and began to grind the stone carefully.
Cui Yong watched with interest from the side, and soon he saw a material that was different from the surface of the stone.
"Is it really jade? Why is it green?"
"Lao Cui, if it were completely green, the dark green kind, just one stone would be enough for us to eat for a lifetime."
"It's so expensive! Why were we looking for treasure in the first place? We could have just dug for rocks."
"That's different. Wasn't this land Xu Ning's in the first place? Besides, it wouldn't be of much use even if we dig up some stones. It's better to teach a man to fish than to give him fish. The real thing is to make sure that ordinary people have enough to eat." Now that he is almost halfway through his term as the Minister of Agriculture, he has even prepared his resignation letter. After working so hard for so many years, it's time for him to enjoy a peaceful life, right?
"So that's why you insisted on coming to Xiacheng to study three-season rice?"
"Yeah, I'm doing some research at the same time. After all, I've been doing research for most of my life. I'm used to it. When I'm not busy, I do something I like." He had been to Xiacheng before, but he was just passing by. The situation then was not like it is now. It was very chaotic at that time. Qin Wen was protected by someone at the time, and he was almost robbed.
"Xu Ning really did a good thing. He actually conquered such a barbaric group of people. Oh, it's green again! We're rich. This stone is probably half green! Lao Cui, we're rich! If this stone is well carved, we can make hundreds of thousands!" Qin Wen's eyes began to shine as he polished it.
"Why haven't I seen you do this before?" Cui Yong found Qin Wen's money-obsessed look particularly funny. He reached out and took the grinder and stone, and continued to grind according to Qin Wen's method.
Qin Wen didn't hesitate to let him continue grinding. "Of course there are none. I used to pick up a lot of stones when I was free. It's just that you didn't see them."
And during a time when he was feeling bored and anxious, he often bought some jade to polish.
"That's true." Cui Yong did not comment. After all, the two of them had not been together for a long time.
"Yeah! Lao Cui, I think there might be jade in this piece, otherwise this exposed stone is unlikely to produce jade." Qin Wen rubbed his sore wrist and began to shine a strong flashlight on the stone repeatedly. After this, traces of jade were found on nearly one-fifth of the stone.
"Lao Cui! We really made it! Xu Ning was right!"
"Ah, tsk, tsk, who's thinking about me?" Xu Ning rubbed his nose while chewing on an apple. Xu Feng beside him said, "Second sister, why isn't someone scolding you?"
"How is that possible? I'm your second sister, and everyone loves me. How could anyone scold me?"
"Why not?"
"How could that be? You little brat are scolding me? Well, I'll smash your head with a hammer!" Xu Ning sat up from his seat, looking like he was going to beat Xu Feng.
Xu Feng quickly hid behind Old Lady Xu, "Grandma! Save me! Xu Ning is trying to murder his own brother!"
"Okay, okay! Don't be so disrespectful! That's your second sister! Ning Daya, you should be quiet too. This carriage is so big. If it gets bumped into something, you will be the one who gets hurt!" Old Mrs. Xu grabbed Xu Ning who was rushing forward, and Xu Ning took the opportunity to hug Old Mrs. Xu and act coquettishly.
"Grandma, you're still the best to me!"
Xu Feng rolled his eyes to the sky and made a sarcastic face.
Xu Ning's eyes became sharp, and he immediately retracted his expression.
"Aunt Yuan, have you seen a tigress?" Xu Feng turned around and spoke to Xu Yuan with his mouth. Xu Yuan was amused by his funny look.
Xu Ning looked over suspiciously, and Xu Feng looked quiet again.
"Aunt Yuan, is Xu Xiaofeng saying bad things about me again?"
Xu Yuan shook his head, and Xu Feng was extremely proud of himself when he saw this.
"Hmph, I won't argue with you!" The more arrogant Xu Feng acted, the more Xu Ning didn't believe him. When they took a break to eat, Xu Ning specially hid Xu Feng's share.
You little brat! Can't I handle you?!
"Grandma! My second sister is bullying me!"
"Hey, you snitch! You can't stand the fun, come on, let's have a fight!"
"Hmph, hit me if you want! You're the one who can't afford to be teased, you tigress..." He blurted out what was in his heart without thinking.
Xu Ning was so furious that Xu Yuan couldn't stop her, and the two siblings started fighting.
The other people in the Xu family were used to it. Ever since they got on the boat, Xu Ning and Xu Feng would quarrel and fight every now and then. At first they tried to control them, but later they realized that these two people just had too much energy and nowhere to vent it, so they just let them do what they wanted.
The two of them chatted for a quarter of an hour, then became good brothers and sat down to eat.
Xu Ning's share of Xu Feng's was found by the Xu family a long time ago. In fact, it was nearby, but Xu Feng also loved to play, so he deliberately made some trouble.
"Grandma, how many days do we have left before we can return to the village?"
Xu Ning's memory of Xujia Village had long been blurred. He only vaguely remembered that there was a yard with a jujube tree in it.
"It's almost there. Once we get into the city, we can be home in a day."
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