Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 143 Stone
Raven Ridge.

Located in the deepest part of the meadow in Caogou Village, Wuya Ridge was originally named Stone Mountain, and the entire mountain is made of blue stones. The blue stones used to build houses and pave roads in the village were taken from this mountain.

During the period of major construction in the early years, Shitou Mountain was famous for its high-quality bluestone. Later, Caogou Village formed a quarrying production team and forcibly dug half of a thousand-meter-high mountain.

Back then, Shitou Mountain was an area where children were strictly prohibited from entering Caogou Village. Firstly, open-air quarrying required opening the mountain and firing cannons, and splashing stones did not have eyes.

Later, the forest area became a forest protection area, and it was forbidden to open mountains to destroy the environment. The stone mountain was abandoned and gradually occupied by a group of crows. Over the decades, the crow population thrived, and the stone mountain gradually became the crow mountain.

quack quack!
The closer you get to Crow Ridge, the more crows appear in the sky.

They are not afraid of people either, hovering above their heads in groups, as if monitoring the sudden appearance of two-legged beasts.

Crows have a strong sense of territory and do not want other animals to enter their territory. If they find intruders, they will attack in groups, even eagles are not afraid.

"Nier, come here."

Li Hongbing beckoned his daughter to be with him to prevent the crow from sneaking up.

Hearing the call, Anna obediently rode a black horn to her father's side, pointing to the crows that were gathering more and more in the sky.

"Fuck you, white mouth."

"That's not white beak, they are all bad crows, they specialize in eating children."

As a person who has experienced it, it is natural to pass on the warnings of adults when I was a child to the next generation.

What playing with fire bedwetting.

Eating earwax will make you dumb.

The umbrella in the house is not tall.

Knocking on bowls for meals grows up and becomes a beggar.

The upper teeth fell out and were buried in the ground, and the lower teeth fell out and were thrown on the roof.

Li Hongbing believed in these lies when he was a child, but lies are lies after all. Once, the idlers in the village cheated Li Hongbing and other friends of wild fruits that they had worked so hard to pick.

In order to take revenge, seven or eight children picked out earwax all afternoon, and their ears were bleeding, so they took out half a spoonful. Li Hongbing contributed a bowl of chicken soup made by his mother, mixed with earwax, and let the idlers drink it.

The result!
The idle man did not become dumb, and the chicken soup was gone.

From that day on, Li Hongbing would spit when he heard anyone say that eating earwax would make him dumb.

Hemp eggs, a bowl of chicken soup for nothing.

In Anna's generation, it's another cycle of lies.

Hearing her father's words, Anna stretched out her arms in fear, and quickly hid in Li Hongbing's arms.

quack!

The group of crows circling above their heads noticed that the Twolegs were getting closer and closer to the nest. Some crows couldn't bear it anymore and fell quickly, gliding close to the ground, and flew towards Li Hongbing and Anna.

at this time.

Erhei jumped out of the grass, jumped two meters high, and bit the wing of a hapless crow in the air.

quack quack!
The crow struggled and screamed in Erhei's mouth.

"Erhei is great." Anna hid in Li Hongbing's arms and clapped her hands happily.

The other three wolfhounds ran out of the grass, surrounded Li Hongbing in a protective posture, and looked up at the group of crows screaming in the sky.

Erhei came to Li Hongbing's side with the crow in his mouth, spat out the crow, and pressed his claws firmly.

Li Hongbing carried the unlucky crow to check, and Erhei's mouth was very light and did not bite the crow.

He threw the crow into the air casually, and the freed crow croaked and flew back to the group.

Crows are very vengeful and smart, and when their companions suffer, the other crows also see that Twolegs are not easy to mess with, so they don't dare to fly low to harass them.

Over a grassy slope.

A majestic mountain appeared in sight. Unfortunately, half of this mountain was dug out, and the whole mountain was blue-gray.

Under the mountain, there are stone pits left by quarrying. Years of accumulated water have formed a crescent-shaped stone pit lake. The area is at least as large as ten football fields. Mountain blue.

The entire lake is like a huge mirror, blending the sky, green mountains and lake water together.

Where the breeze passes by, there are layers of microwaves, which are sparkling under the sunlight.

Seeing this scene, Li Hongbing's heart suddenly twitched inexplicably, and sadness welled up in his heart.

This is the cry of the heart of nature as a druid, the guardian of the natural balance, after seeing the earth being destroyed.

Fortunately, however, nature has begun to repair itself.

Clumps of shrubs, plants and trees grew out of the ruins and dangerous walls left by the excavation and quarrying, and the crow's nest was built between the raised stone crevices of the cliff.

There are lush reeds and cattail grass by the Shikeng Lake. From time to time, birds fly in and out of the reeds, and there are egrets catching small fish along the lake.

Form a beautiful picture scroll full of vitality.

When Anna saw Shikeng Lake, she broke free from Li Hongbing's arms and ran to the lake to play in the water, with Li Hongbing quickly following behind.

"I remember that the waste rocks are piled up here." Tie Zhu was not in the mood to appreciate the beautiful scenery. In his eyes, this was the usual barren land.

Relying on memory, I walked to a large pile of haystacks entangled with lala seedlings by the side of Shikeng Lake, and tore open a handful of lala seedlings with rough hands, revealing the black soil underneath.

Pulling away the soil, an irregular shoebox-sized rock was revealed.

"found it."

Tie Zhu picked up the stone and walked to the lake with a smile, and washed the mud off the stone with the lake water.

As the soil was washed away, the stones revealed their true colors, with dense black spots all over the blue surface,
Tie Zhu picked up a small stone and tapped it lightly.

Dangdang Dangdang!
The bluestone blocks made a crisp metallic sound, as if they were hitting an iron plate.

"That's right, the top quality blue hemp stone." Tie Zhu grinned, and handed the stone to Li Hongbing.

Li Hongbing only felt his arms sinking suddenly, he quickly stabilized his arms and hugged the stone.

Tie Zhu stretched out his thumb with a smirk, "I didn't see that, Uncle Hongbing has strength, this rock is not light!"

you old boy.

Just wait to see me make a fool of myself.

Li Hongbing glared at Tie Zhu, then looked at the pile of stones covered by lala seedlings, "I plan to use this blue hemp stone for the floor of the new courtyard. Counting the courtyard wall, I need a lot of it. I'm afraid it's not enough."

Tie Zhu smiled, and pointed to the rolling mounds beside Shikeng Lake.

"Uncle Hong Bing, I'm afraid you don't know that this place used to be a waste yard for green hemp stones. Back then, when stones were quarried, only regular stone strips were quarried, and all other unqualified green hemp stones were thrown here, let alone repairing courtyard walls and paving floors. Ping, even if we build another old house, it will be more than rubbish."

so much?
Li Hongbing looked at the mounds covered by grass and trees in surprise, and he could imagine the scale of the quarry back then.

However, a new problem arose.

If the stone is found, how can it be transported out?
I weighed the shoebox-sized green hemp stone with my hand, and it weighed about 3 to 40 kilograms.

According to this calculation, the weight of a cubic cyanite should be between 2.5 and 3 tons.

I rub!

A truckload of stones must not exceed dozens of tons.

What luck?

The soil of the meadow is fine for running a motorcycle, but it is probably not enough for a truck to run, and a truck with a slightly larger tonnage cannot drive nineteen turns in the sky.

Tie Zhu on the side guessed what Uncle Hongbing was thinking, and threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, "Don't even think about the truck, you can only use a cart to pull it. The quarry team in the village built a road before, but now it is eaten by weeds. Wait until Ming'er Kiln Factory After firing the fire, Dakui and I will pull the stone back together."

That's the only way to do it.

Li Hongbing picked up Anna who was playing in the water and started on the way home.

Back at the old house, Li Hongbing called Tie Zhu to stop and asked him to call the village chief Li Huaizhong, Dakui, Lao Gen, and Fu Sheng to his house at night to discuss building and renovating the old house.

(End of this chapter)