Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

As the saying goes, "A horse will die if it runs too fast." The huge black tree stump that reached the sky looked very close to them, but in fact, Huba and his friends had rowed until they were numb, but they still hadn't reached it yet.

The water level in Guixu is getting lower and lower.

The group rowed for most of the day but still hadn't arrived. Land appeared on both sides, and everyone discussed and decided to go to the Jianmu tree from the land.

Except for Zhang Haike and Zhang Haihua, all the people rowing the boat collapsed on the ground due to exhaustion. Dali even lay directly in the water and began to snore.

Hubayi: "Uncle Ming, go get Dali out of the water. If he keeps sleeping like this, he might get dragged away and eaten by something in the water."

Uncle Ming looked up at Dali who was sleeping soundly beside his feet and said, "Don't worry, Huzi! It's very safe here. When I rowed over here just now, I saw that there were no vicious fish or anything like that."

Fatty Wang came over and said, "Old Hu, come here and I'll show you something different."

When Wang Kaixuan took Hubayi over there, he also took Yang Xueli with him.

The two followed Wang Kaixuan to the back of the land, where they saw a bronze wall that towered into the sky. There seemed to be an ancient battlefield depicted on it, but because the wall had been soaked in water, it was covered with moss and could not be seen clearly.

Wang Kaixuan: "Old Hu, look at this tripod, it's even bigger than the one we saw in the loess plateau before. Isn't this thing really valuable?"

Yang Xueli: "This tripod is even bigger than the national treasure that Longguo has collected in the museum. Fatty, if you can take this thing out, you will definitely eat free food in prison for the rest of your life, and you might even get two holes in your head!"

Wang Kaixuan: "Bah, bah, bah, Chief of Staff Yang, you really love to joke around. When did I ever say I would move him away?"

Wang Kaixuan strolled away to other places. When Yang Xueli and Hubayi finished studying the bronze wall and were about to leave, Yang Xueli glanced at the bronze vessels piled up randomly nearby.

Yang Xueli: "Old Hu, look at this!"

Hubayi also turned his head to look over. The bronze vessel was engraved with the hexagram that he had seen on the back of the mirror before, and now it appeared before their eyes again.

Yang Xueli: "It's the same hexagram again. Uncle Chen told you the same hexagram before. Later, the grandmother on the island also told you the same hexagram!"

Hubayi also realized that the divination from Blind Chen and several crises during this expedition made Xueli's nerves tense all the time, and the slightest negligence could lead to a bottomless abyss.

Huba hugged Yang Xueli and said, "Don't be afraid! Look, I'm standing in front of you safe and sound! Besides, when we were on the cruise ship before, I listened to you and didn't rush out in front."

Yang Xueli: "But!"

Hubayi: "Xueli, you have to know that there are all kinds of dangers in our line of work. We can't just give up because of a small setback! This is not in line with your style, Yang Xueli!"

Yang Xueli: "Then you have to promise me that after this is over, you will come back to Sam Country with me and not touch the things down there again. You can take risks if you want, but you can't touch this again. Even if you want to explore the desert or the rainforest, I can accompany you, but I don't want you to touch this tomb again."

Hubayi: "Okay, I swear, after this is over, I will never touch anything underground again. If I break my promise, I will not..."

Yang Xueli covered Hubayi's mouth with her hand and said, "Don't talk nonsense. We can't talk nonsense in this line of work."

After the three of them returned to their original place, Uncle Ming also came out from a small path.

Uncle Ming: "Hu Zai, Miss Yang, come here quickly, I have something to show you!"

Uncle Ming was hiding behind a big shell, thinking about this and that. When he saw Hua Yu and others sitting by the water to rest, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Hubayi and Yang Xueli looked at each other, and the three of them walked over quietly.

The black bear was taking care of Xiaohua, who didn't want to eat much. His ears moved as if he received some signal.

Black Blind: "Dahua, you're just letting them wander around like that, aren't you afraid that they might bump into something?"

Hua Yu was held in Zhang Qiling's arms, drinking tea in small sips and occasionally taking a bite of the pastries that Zhang Qiling handed to her.

Zhang Qiling felt itchy when he saw Hua Yu's nonchalant look, "What are you afraid of? Is there anything in this place that can hurt me?"

Hei Xia Zi realized what Hua Yu said was right. There was indeed nothing in this place that could hurt Hua Yu. Even if there was, it would be dealt with halfway. The Zhang family members around Hua Yu were not pushovers either.

Hua Yu: "Xiao Hua, eat well and don't be picky about food!"

Xiao Hua sat listlessly in Hei Xia Zi's arms: "Dad, when are we going to leave? It's so boring here, there's not a single living thing!"

Uncle Ming led Huba and the other two through many twists and turns and finally arrived in front of a huge shell with a bronze lid on the outside.

Wang Kaixuan couldn't tell what was different about this shell. "No, Uncle Ming, you just wanted us to see this thing?"

Uncle Ming: "Fatty, you don't understand. This shell is nothing, but the things inside are extremely valuable."

After saying that, Uncle Ming took care of Hubayi and Fatty and helped them remove the bronze lid.

I saw that inside the shell there was something emitting a soft white light, lying inside, as soft as if it had no bones.

Hubayi: "Uncle Ming, what is this?"

Uncle Ming: "This is mother of pearl. It is said that mother of pearl can attract giant clams that have lived for thousands of years in the deep sea."

Wang Kaixuan: "Then can we use this to attract the big clams in the sea one by one and collect their eggs?"

Yang Xueli: "Uncle Ming, why do I think this mother of pearl looks like a person?"

Uncle Ming sighed and said, "Speaking of which, this mother of pearl is also a miserable person. I heard that the mother of pearl can only be made by pregnant women who have seen a lunar eclipse, and because of the lunar eclipse, their children are also excellent baits to attract deep-sea monsters."

Yang Xueli: "Produced?"

Uncle Ming: "Yes, it is made. It is to take the baby who is not even one month old directly from the woman's belly under the witness of the lunar eclipse, and then use secret medicine to dissolve the woman's entire body bones, so that a piece of thin female skin as thin as a cicada's wing is obtained, and then it is forged into mother-of-pearl. However, not every pregnant woman who has seen the lunar eclipse can make it successfully. Basically, for mother-of-pearl, it is a very high probability to succeed in one out of a hundred."

Wang Kaixuan: "This is too inhumane! Just to collect pearls from those thousand-year-old clams, so they have to sacrifice so many women and children?"

Wang Kaixuan turned around and found a shovel, "Old Hu, come and give me a hand!"

Hubayi was a little confused: "Fatty, what are you going to do!"

Wang Kaixuan looked at the pearl mother curled up in the shell with some pity in his eyes. "Dig a hole and bury this pearl mother! It's a poor creature. If you don't use it well, it will be buried in the water forever!"

After hearing this, Hubayi and Yang Xueli also joined hands to dig a big hole, put the shells into the hole, and put the bronze lid back on. Wang Kaixuan also generously picked a South Pearl from the bag and put it in the hole.

Wang Kaixuan: "Although this is not your child, it can accompany you instead of your child! You can go without worry! If we meet your child, we will also bury him in peace."

The three of them stood in front of the small mound and bowed deeply, which dumbfounded Uncle Ming who was trying to get some benefits from the situation.