The sun was about to set, and there was a red fire cloud on the horizon.
The mountain breeze carries the scent of wind-blown rice. Next to a golden wheat field at the foot of the mountain, a small river meanders.
At this time, Li Zhe was wearing big pants, shirtless, and standing barefoot in the river, with a bamboo basket on his back, and he was concentrating on touching crabs.
He put his hand into a crab hole on the shore and groped around for a while. Suddenly, his face lit up with joy, and then he grinned and cursed.
He pulled out his arm covered with muddy water from the cave, and at the same time brought out a big crab covered in mud.
Probably dissatisfied with the interruption of his sleep, the crab used its two big claws to tightly clamp Li Zhe's jaw. The pain was so painful that he gasped, and even after several attempts, he couldn't get it to loosen.
At this time, the crab also realized that something was wrong and took the initiative to let go of Big Ao and wanted to slide back into the crab hole. However, Li Zhe held it down with a sinister smile, cleaned it and threw it into the fish basket.
"Hey, a plate of steamed hairy crabs tonight is enough."
Taking a look at the fish basket, there were already five or six large and small fat crabs in it. Li Zhe smiled proudly.
Soon, he found another crab hole. There were no fresh and clear scratch marks around this crab hole, so it was unlikely that there were crabs. However, Li Zhe would rather kill by mistake than let go, so he reached out and grabbed it inside.
"Damn, it sure didn't."
After touching for a while, he couldn't find any crabs, so Li Zhe stretched out as hard as he could. Some old crabs were cunning and cunning and dug deep holes. Once they found an intruder, they would try their best to hide inside.
"What the hell?"
Suddenly, Li Zhe felt that he touched a round and cool object, which felt like a bottle, so he took it out.
As expected, it was a porcelain vase with a somewhat strange shape.
"Could it be an antique?" Li Zhe's heart skipped a beat. Jiangcheng is an ancient city, and the news often mentions people digging up antiques near the fields.
He quickly rinsed the porcelain bottle in the river water, revealing its original appearance. It's as big as a palm, white and pure, with simple simple carvings on it, but after looking at it for a long time, I still can't figure out what the pattern is.
The material looked like fired white porcelain, but also seemed to be made of jade. In short, Li Zhe liked it very much at first sight and felt that the bottle should be a handicraft.
"It's a pity that it's brand new, not an antique. Let's keep it for fun."
Throwing the white porcelain bottle into the fish basket, Li Zhe touched a few more crabs, caught a few lobsters, touched a few river clams, and ran back to a farmland not far away.
The parents also finished their farm work, and the three of them went home together in the light dusk.
For dinner, the family of three ate all the red hairy crabs.
The local dog squatting next to the dining table looked greedy and wanted to chew the crab shell on the table. Li Zhe gave it a slap on the head. Although this thing was crunchy and tasted like crabmeat, it could easily hurt the dog's skin. stomach.
"Here, eat this!" Li Zhe threw the boiled lobster and mussels into the dog's plate.
Wild river mussels and lobsters are different from farmed ones. They grow in mud ditches or unclean water. When villagers touch them, they usually feed them to puppies and ducks.
"Xiao Zhe, go to bed early tonight and don't play games on your phone. Get up early tomorrow and go spray pesticide on the fruit trees with us."
Not long after finishing the meal, Li Weiguo stood up and reminded Li Zhe, then took the scissors and went to the yard to trim the bonsai.
"I got it, Dad."
Li Zhe responded and began to clear the dining table.
The big yellow dog kept wagging its tail, squatting next to him and watching him at work, whining twice, waiting to be fed.
After clearing the dining table and feeding the dog, he walked to the yard out of boredom. Li Zhe pointed at the potted plants that took up almost half of the yard: "Mom, are potted plants easy to sell now?"
These large and small potted plants were made by Li Zhe's father himself. They come in all kinds, from orange trees to oleanders, roses to asparagus, and even pearl boxwoods.
On weekdays, when I go to a fair or something, I will take some and sell them in the market.
"It's so easy to sell. Isn't it because your dad likes to mess around with all these weird and useless things? It's hard to make money by selling them back as flower pots."
My mother was collecting seeds from the dried plantains. When she heard this, she glared at Li Weiguo and complained angrily.
Father Li, who was pruning an oleander plant, hummed a few words without refuting, seeming to feel guilty.
After finishing washing, Li Zhe lay on the bed in the bedroom and scrolled through his mobile phone. He was reluctant to turn on the air conditioner. The ceiling fan in the bedroom was whirring, and it was still a bit stuffy.
Two months after returning home after graduating from college, he has gradually begun to adapt to the pace of life in the mountain village. It is just a bit boring, and it will definitely not work without the Internet.
In the circle of friends, classmates and friends are all showing off their happy lives. Some have just joined the Fortune 500 and are full of energy. Some have just returned from a wedding in the Maldives with a bunch of photos of blue sea and sky. Some classmates have become travel writers. , eating, drinking, having fun and writing all over the world, there are even top students who went to Wall Street to work in high-end hedge funds...
Li Zhe, who had accomplished nothing and returned home to farm, felt a little sad.
"Damn it, tomorrow I will go live to catch crabs. When I become an outdoor internet celebrity and make millions a year, I will also show off!" He hummed a few words and comforted himself.
After reading online novels for several hours, Li Zhe felt dizzy and thirsty. He absently grabbed the cup on the desk beside the bed and took two sips.
A cool and refreshing feeling exploded in my throat!
Li Zhe's tiredness disappeared in an instant and he became extremely awake. The sultry heat of the summer night seemed to have disappeared. His whole body became relaxed and comfortable, and the sensitivity of his five senses and thinking suddenly reached an unprecedented level.
He subconsciously looked at the water glass in his hand, but was shocked to find that what he was holding at this time was the white porcelain bottle he had picked up while fishing for crabs by the river in the evening!
This white porcelain vase was originally used as a decoration on his desk after he went home and cleaned it. It was also filled with water. He planned to pick some gardenias, jasmine and the like tomorrow and put it in. However, he did not expect that he had mistakenly used it as a water cup just now and grabbed it. Got up and drank.
"It's strange. What I drank before was obviously ordinary water, but why does it taste like this when I drink it?"
Li Zhe was a little confused, but he felt an urge to continue drinking. He hesitated and took another sip.
A more refreshing feeling than before once again hit the whole body, and the pores all over the body shrank, and then slowly relaxed. Li Zhe was in high spirits, stared at the white porcelain bottle with bright eyes, and then drank it all.
Smacking his lips with unfinished content, he stood up and ran to the living room to pick up a hot water bottle, fill the porcelain bottle, and put it on the desk to study.
He discovered that without any shaking, the water surface in the small porcelain bottle was rippling slightly, and it never stopped!
Li Zhe's family is located at the foot of the mountain and has contracted to plant on the top of the mountain. There are not many families nearby. There is no bottled water or tap water for drinking water. It is all water from wells. The water from the mountain well could not be said to be turbid, but it was definitely not that clean. However, under his gaze, the water in the white porcelain bottle became clear, and all impurities disappeared!
"I'll go! What's going on, fairy baby? A high-tech purifier from the future?"
Li Zhe, who likes to read various online novels, has many strange thoughts flashing through his mind, and feels that the chuunibyou disease he has recovered from for many years is about to relapse.
I took a sip fearlessly and still felt refreshed, but it just felt a little worse than the bottle just now.
"Is it because the water has been stored for different lengths of time?"
With a glance, he spotted a potted rose in the corner of the bedroom. This rose was grafted and cultivated by his own hands when he returned home from college two months ago. He was bored and didn't want to go to the fields.
Because he was a newbie, the potted plant he had made had a very ugly shape, and it was always looking dull and half-dead. If it hadn't been for the fact that he had torn it out with his own hands, he would have thrown it away long ago.
The soil in the flower pot was also dry and cracked, and my mother obviously didn't like it and never watered it.
With an idea, Li Zhe stepped forward and poured all the water in the white porcelain bottle.
After staring for a while but not seeing any changes, Li Zhe patted his head, cursed himself for being crazy, lay down on the bed and picked up his phone again.
He was about to fall asleep in a daze, when suddenly a crisp sound of "click, click, click" got into his ears. He was woken up, and subconsciously followed the sound and looked towards the corner. The next moment, his eyes suddenly widened!
I saw that the roses that were originally in the corner changed drastically at this time, and dense new branches were pulled out. The main stem became obviously thicker, and the branches were even more lush with flowers and leaves.
What’s even more terrifying is, “Ka…Kaka…”
This is the sound of broken flower pots of inferior quality, and dense spider veins appear on the flower pots.
While Li Zhe was stunned, new and tender branches kept sprouting, growing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye! The delicate new flower buds began to grow bigger one by one, and the roots of the flower plants even slowly squeezed out from the cracks in the flower pot...
After a while, the strange rose stopped growing.
"Ghost...monster!"
Li Zhe was so frightened that he almost jumped out of bed.
Crash, the flowerpot exploded completely and scattered all over the floor.
Li Zhe cautiously leaned over and stared dumbfounded at the rose tree, which was twice as big as before and much more graceful in appearance.
"It was dry and almost dead, but after pouring a little water from the porcelain bottle, it became so full of life that even the flowerpot was squeezed and exploded?"
After swallowing, he quickly ran over and grabbed the white porcelain bottle on the desk and filled it with water.
Staring at the bottle with wide eyes, the inside rippled slightly again. This time he was very patient and waited for a few minutes. The water inside became extremely clear.
The rose tree burst the flower pot, and most of the mud at the roots was scattered. Li Zhe poured water directly on the roots of the flower plant that were exposed to the air.
Under his gaze, the rose roots greedily and quickly absorbed the water, barely leaving a drop.
After absorbing the water, the flower roots trembled slightly, and then began to grow larger. The new buds that had sprouted from the flower branches seemed to have accumulated enough strength, and while Li Zhe was stunned, they began to bloom slowly!
The refreshing fragrance came from the shop. What surprised Li Zhe the most was that these dozen roses in full bloom were actually colorful, with all colors available, but there were no duplicates!
After a while, as if the power was exhausted, the rose plant stopped changing.
After staying for a long time, Li Zhe woke up, stared at the white porcelain bottle with gleaming eyes, and kissed it hard twice.
Damn, this is really a fairy treasure! Make yourself rich!
With no sleep at all, he put on his slippers and left the bedroom and ran towards the flower house in the yard.
