Traveling through the ancient times

When we returned to Qunan, everyone felt sad. This trip was really thrilling.

But thinking back, Chushunihua couldn't help but mutter in her heart, the red bird said there was danger and asked them to leave quickly, so was it danger on the island or on the sea?

After all, if it hadn't told them to leave, perhaps they wouldn't have encountered the pirates. So was it helping them or harming them?

A certain bird who was wrongly accused, [Of course I am helping you. Those pirates have been waiting for them on the sea. They will encounter them sooner or later. However, if they stay overnight on the island, they will not encounter pirates because they will sleep on that small island forever...]

The plants on the island looked beautiful and harmless during the day, but at night they turned into man-eating monsters.

Business people just can't stop. Chu Shuhua returned home and took less than a moment's rest before going out to her hot pot restaurant. I wonder how the business is these two days!

It was still three or four in the afternoon, and there were not many people eating there. The restaurant was deserted and the waiter was sitting aside taking a nap.

When Chu Nianhua entered, Qi Muhe was using an abacus. Chu Nianhua did not disturb her but sat aside and watched. After he finished calculating, she asked, "How is business these two days?"

Qi Muhe was startled by the sudden voice. He turned around and saw Nian Chuhua looking at him with a smile, "When did you come? Why didn't you make any noise?"

"Just now, weren't you settling accounts? I don't want to disturb you."

"Then you can't make a sound so suddenly. If you scare me and make me sick, I will have to depend on you for the rest of my life." Qi Muhe patted his chest exaggeratedly.

"That's perfect. Where else can I find such a good housekeeper except you?" Nian Chuhua made a naughty face and was about to pounce on Qi Muhe, but Qi Muhe covered her face and pushed her away.

"When did you come back?" Qi Muhe handed the account book to Nian Chuhua and asked her to take a look.

At the beginning of the year, he took the painting and flipped through it. "It was just this afternoon, not long ago..."

"Why don't you take a good rest at home? Aren't you tired from traveling?"

"I'm not tired, we're just on a boat!"

"Are you seasick?" Qi Muhe remembered that he once took a boat out to sea and vomited so much that he felt dizzy. After returning from the trip, he lost several pounds.

"No, I was worried about seasickness at first, but I didn't, which shows that I have a good physique." Chushulhua even prepared some seasickness medicine, but luckily it was not used, otherwise she would have suffered a lot.

"Seasickness has nothing to do with physical fitness. My physical fitness is not bad, but I still get seasick."

"Really? Then it must be uncomfortable for you to ride on a boat. You should travel by land. But it is also possible that you are not used to riding on a boat for the first time, so you feel dizzy. If you ride on it a few more times, maybe you won't feel dizzy anymore."

She used to get carsick when she was young and knew how uncomfortable that felt. But as she grew older and rode in cars more often, she didn't get carsick as often. The same should be true for boat rides.

Qi Muhe nodded, thinking that what she said made sense. "Did you encounter anything new and interesting during this trip to the sea?"

"Really..." Chushunhua said, and took out the colored crystal stones from the bag, "Here, I'll give it to you."

Qi Muhe looked at the crystal clear stone in Chu Nianhua's hand and reached out to take it. "What is this?"

"Stone!"

“…” This answer is equivalent to no answer…

Chushulhua glanced at Qi Muhe's reaction and said, "This is not an ordinary stone. This is a crystal stone picked up from the Seven-Colored Fairy Island. It glows in the sunlight. It's so beautiful."

They were indoors at the moment, and these stones looked like ordinary glass balls, except that they were clear and there was nothing special about them.

Qi Muhe looked at the stone in his hand with disbelief. He knew that night pearls could glow, but that was at night in dimly lit places. How could this stone glow in the sun?

He has read a lot but has little experience, so don't lie to him!

"Really, if you don't believe it..." Nian Chuhua looked at the backyard which was now exposed to the sun, pulled Qi Muhe and went to the backyard, "Let's go and take a look under the sun."

Qi Muhe looked at the slender hand pulling his sleeve, his ears turned a little red, and he walked away following her force.

"Look!" Nian Chuhua gestured to Qi Muhe to look at the stone in his hand.

The stone, which was dull just now, glowed softly under the sunlight, as if a flawed jade had turned into a pearl. It was indeed very beautiful.

"I didn't lie to you, did I?" Nian Chuhua smiled so much that her eyes narrowed into slits.

Qi Muhe smiled to hide his emotions, "Fortunately you didn't lie to me, otherwise I would have walked away."

"I would never lie to anyone but you. You are my benefactor!"

Qi Muhe raised his eyebrows, "When have I ever done you a favor?"

"Since we met."

Qi Muhe understood that she was talking about helping her run her business.

The two returned to the counter and chatted for a while. Nian Chuhua never mentioned the fact that they were robbed by pirates.

As evening approached, diners began to come into the store one after another, and the two of them became busy. They did not go home until the store closed, dragging their tired bodies.

In the following days, Chushunihua did not go to the store again because she wanted to start studying her mahjong. All the milky white stones brought back from the Colorful Fairy Island were sent to her home by Lu Mingcheng.

She took a few pieces of stone to the street and found a jade polishing shop, and asked them to help her grind them into cubes of the same size.

Many shops were unwilling to take her business when they saw that the stones she brought out for the New Year's Eve painting were not jade but ordinary stones. Some of these stones were harder than jade and difficult to grind. Most importantly, their grinding tools were easily worn out.

Finally, they found an old shop in an alley. The old craftsman inside took a look and realized that this was just an ordinary stone. However, he did not refuse it immediately. Instead, he asked Chu Nianhua why he was grinding it.

At the beginning of the year, she just said that she was grinding it for fun, and showed the old craftsman the mahjong drawings she had drawn, "I want to make them like this, first grind them into squares, and then carve this pattern."

The old craftsman took the stone and tried it on the grinding tool. "This is not easy to grind. I won't be responsible if it breaks."

When the painting at the beginning of the year looked promising, he immediately said to the old craftsman happily, "It's okay, just grind it, and if it breaks, it's my fault."

The old craftsman said that he could not only grind it, but he could also carve the pattern for her, but it would take a longer time.

This was great. She didn't have to find someone to carve the words separately. Time was not a problem and she was not in a hurry anyway. She just handed the matter over to the old craftsman. The two of them agreed to come and see the finished product a few days after the painting at the beginning of the year.

Taking advantage of this gap, Chu Nianhua sent Nian Dali and Luo to a farm on the outskirts of the city. After buying the farm, Chu Nianhua hired workers to renovate the house and replanned the surrounding fields.

Although the farm was particularly large, it was not small either. It was definitely too much for Nian Dali and Luo to handle it alone, so Chuanchuhua went to the nearby village to hire a few farmhands to help with farming and managing the land.

As for what to plant, it was roughly explained in the painting at the beginning of the year. When there is a harvest, it will be sent to the hot pot restaurant, and some can also be sent home for your own consumption.

Nian Dali and Luo Shi now have things they are good at doing, and they are full of energy every day. This is his daughter's business, and they are managing it carefully.

On the appointed day, Nian Chuhua went to the polishing shop early. He was very satisfied with the result, so he negotiated the price with the old craftsman, sent all the stones and drawings in his home, and then waited for the set to be made.