Chapter 63: The Black Stone
When Chu Yan Nian felt that the branches were almost enough, he came down from the tree and helped Gui Hua sort out the branches on the ground. Then they used the rope to tie them up. It wasn't until sunset that the four of them prepared to head back home.
"Oh my, what have you two been up to? How did your hands get so black?" Guihua was originally going to hold onto Chuyande and Taohua's small hands, but when she took a closer look, she discovered that the two children's hands were as black as if they had been digging in a coal mine.
Chu Yan Nian was not surprised at all, but instead laughed and said to Gui Hua, "Silly girl, have you forgotten when you played with the black stone before? At that time, it wasn't just your hands that got blackened, even your clothes were stained piece by piece. Our mother had a hard time washing your clothes back then."
Chu Yan's words made Gui Hua stunned.
This fact is too cruel! The original owner of this body, had also played with black stones on the ground like Chu Yande and Taohua now? And got all over his body? Looking at Taohua and Chu Yande's bodies, there isn't a single black spot!
Before Guihua could make another sad cry, she suddenly thought of something and turned to ask Chuyan Nian, "Brother, what's that black stone you just mentioned?"
This time it was not Chu Yan Nian who answered the osmanthus flower, but rather Chu Yan De standing beside her, "Sister, it's this one!"
Chu Yande said, and picked up another piece of stone from the ground with his hand, which had some black ash on its surface.
Osmanthus flowers don't mind their hands being stained black, or rather, her hands have long been unclean, having picked so much firewood, they've already been layered with blackness.
Chu said De took the so-called black stone in his hand, Osmanthus fragrans repeatedly looked at the stone and found another piece of stone on the ground. After rubbing them against each other a few times, the gray layer on the surface of the black stone quickly fell off, revealing its original black color.
Black stone...
Osmanthus suddenly felt that her heartbeat seemed to accelerate suddenly.
Such a huge discovery made Osmanthus hate to faint immediately.
Black stones, these stones must have a large amount of carbon elements. And black stones with a lot of carbon elements, the first thing that comes to mind is the legendary warming artifact, coal.
Osmanthus has not experienced winter in this era, so it is not clear how people here keep warm in winter.
But according to what Chu said, the use of coal may not have been discovered yet. If that's really the case, can't I make some money by getting my hands on this coal?
Osmanthus flowers haven't forgotten that in their past life, they saw those coal mine bosses, each and every one of them were rich men!
Looking at Guihua holding the black stone and standing there in a daze, laughing from time to time, Chu Yannian thought she was thinking of something from her childhood, so he joked: "Okay, stop smiling foolishly. We have to hurry down the mountain, or else when it gets dark later, wild animals will come out and it won't be safe."
As she spoke, Chu Yan adjusted the bundle of firewood on her back and then reached out to take two small black hands, calling out to Gui Hua to follow her as they headed down the mountain towards the village.
Osmanthus flowers are following Chu Yan's words, but in her heart, she is thinking about how to make money from coal. After all, this big green mountain is not the Osmanthus flower family's, let alone whether the villagers will agree to let her make money from these black stones, even if the villagers agree, the result will probably be controlled by those powerful people, and the money she earns will only get less and less.
