I had already ascended to heaven when the spiritual energy began to recover?

Chapter 56 Beautiful Woman in the Mountains

These people are just talking to themselves!

Bai Sheng was speechless.

"What's wrong with your ears?!" The middle-aged man shoved his cigarette butt onto the ground.

"Are you all deaf? Where did that bell come from? It's clearly someone in the mountains knocking on stones."

I used to be a stonemason, how could I not know?

That's the kind of sound you hear when a pickaxe hits granite.

The old man hadn't spoken a word from beginning to end, only squinting and smoking. Hearing this, he slowly opened his mouth:

"That wasn't made by a person!"

People don't hit stones that far. When I was a child, my grandfather told me that there used to be a temple in that mountain, dating back to the Ming Dynasty.

Later it collapsed, but the temple bell is still there, buried under the ruins.

Around the fifteenth of July each year, the bell rings by itself.

"Old-fashioned superstition," the middle-aged man scoffed.

A few days ago, a group of tourists from the city went into the mountains specifically to look for it.

They searched the ruins thoroughly, but found nothing.

They did bring back a few glowing stones, but later the environmental protection bureau fined them, saying they were illegally excavating cultural relics, haha.

Bai Sheng also knew that, given the current situation...

We can't expect to get any useful information from them.

Continuing to waste time with them will just be like villagers gossiping about everyday things.

Bai Sheng had his clone ask the middle-aged man for the exact location of the ruins.

It seems that only this middle-aged man is still obedient.

His communication skills are also quite good.

The middle-aged man was very enthusiastic, pointing towards the ridgeline.

"Go up the abandoned quarry road behind the village, walk for about four miles, and you'll see a pile of rubble."

"The road is not easy to walk on, and there are weeds on both sides, so it's best to wear long pants."

The clone thanked him and left.

……

The clone walked up the abandoned quarry road behind the village.

The road surface was riddled with potholes from the rain.

The gravel mixed with yellow mud was extremely slippery when stepped on.

After walking about four miles,

A pile of rubble appeared ahead.

It's called ruins, but the outline of the temple is no longer discernible.

Only a few bluestone foundation stones half-buried in the soil and a pile of scattered granite rubble remain.

Wild grass sprouted from under the stone slab and grew taller than a person.

Bai Sheng had his clone walk around the ruins once.

Perception spread out, sweeping over every inch.

however,

There were no unusual energy fluctuations beneath the ruins.

The clone casually parted a clump of bushes, revealing a pile of rubble.

Bai Sheng was about to sit down and rest for a while.

A very faint sound of a branch snapping came from behind me.

Turning around,

Under the pine tree, about ten steps away,

A woman in her thirties or forties, wearing a floral short-sleeved shirt, stood quietly.

He was carrying a bamboo basket.

Chong's clone smiled.

"I was picking wild vegetables over there when I saw someone walking this way."

No outsiders have come to this place in a long time.

"Are you looking for that old temple?" She emerged from under the pine tree.

Bai Sheng looked in the direction of the sound.

The woman emerged from under the pine tree, carrying a bamboo basket.

A floral print short-sleeved shirt stretched across her body.

The two buttons at the collar were undone, revealing two mounds of snow-white skin.

"Oh, so you really are from the city."

I saw you at the village entrance just now. You're quite handsome, and even more so up close.

Bai Sheng: "..."

If it were any other time,

Bai Sheng couldn't help but make a few flirtatious remarks, but considering the importance of today's mission,

Moreover, what was sent was only a clone.

The clone's face is so realistically crafted that it's completely different from the real person.

It doesn't seem very interesting.

She placed the bamboo basket on the bluestone slab and raised her hand to tidy her hair.

Bai Shengrang's clone nodded and politely said, "Hello."

"Hello?" the beautiful woman repeated, laughing heartily.

"College students speak so politely, huh?"

"Sis, do you know if there are any glowing stones around here?"

Yes, there is.

The beautiful woman smiled and said, "I have some in my warehouse. Would you like to come back with me and take a look?"

Bai Sheng: "..."

Seeing that the village woman was chatting in a rather unserious manner, Bai Sheng simply stopped pretending.

It would definitely take some effort to get this village woman to show him the so-called glowing stone.

We'll have to find a different way to communicate.

After all, you need to use different ways of speaking to different people.

Bai Sheng had a sudden thought.

He controlled the clone to take two steps forward, shortening the distance between the two.

"Sis, you're so beautiful. Aren't you afraid that a city person like me will kidnap you if I invite you to my house?"

The beautiful woman was stunned for a moment.

They probably didn't expect that this college student, who had just been greeting them with hello, would suddenly change his attitude.

But she only hesitated for half a second before picking up the thread, giving the clone a push on the chest.

"Oh dear, I thought you were an honest person, but it turns out you're a bad apple too."

I'm not afraid of being kidnapped.

"These mountains are so winding, do you know the way? I don't want to have to lead you out later."

"That's perfect! Sister, you can take me out, and I'll take you back to the city."

Bai Sheng manipulated his clone to take another half step forward.

Now the two were less than a step apart.

The beautiful woman looked up at him, her eyes sparkling with a hint of coquettishness, and said reproachfully, "You're not that young, but you've got quite the nerve. I'm not someone you can just easily seduce."

"What do you want me to do to get you to come with me?"

The village woman leaned back against the pine tree trunk beside her.

Arms crossed over the chest,

This pose caused the neckline of the floral short-sleeved shirt to drop even further.

"Don't try to fool me. That dilapidated temple has been collapsed for years. Outsiders come here either to dig up stones or look for things, and you probably are too."

Bai Shengrang's clone gave him a look of being exposed, and sighed, half-jokingly:

"Since you have a keen eye, I'll be frank."

I heard from people in the city that there's a kind of stone in these mountains that glows at night.

I'd like to find a few pieces to take back for my elders to look at; they believe in feng shui.

The beautiful woman glanced at him sideways, her expression clearly disbelieving.

"Those stones can't be eaten or sold. A few days ago, a group of people dug up a whole backpackful, but the environmental protection bureau came and confiscated it all and fined them."

Bai Sheng realized that this village woman was really bored out of her mind.

This endless bickering...

We must find a way to get her to do it.

Bai Sheng let his clone put his hand into his pocket.

When it was taken out again,

It contained a crumpled red bill.

"Sis, take me to see this, this one is yours."

The beautiful woman glanced at the red bill in Bai Sheng's hand.

He held the bill up to his eyes and looked at the watermark against the sunlight.

"Ouch~"

Her voluptuous body leaned forward.

She tiptoed to kiss the clone's lips.

Bai Sheng suddenly jolted awake on his own sofa.

He controlled his clone to take half a step back.

I dodged it by tilting my head.

The beautiful woman missed her target, but instead of being annoyed, she giggled.

"Still feeling embarrassed! Alright, alright, I'm not going to take advantage of you, come with me."

She picked up the bamboo basket, turned around, and walked towards the southwest corner of the ruins.

Bai Sheng controlled his clone to follow closely behind.

I walked through a patch of cut bushes; the cut was fresh.

Several pieces of pine branches that hadn't been cleared away were still scattered on the ground.

The beautiful woman suddenly stopped and pointed ahead:

"Look, it's right down there."

The clone looked in the direction she was pointing.

A roughly filled-in pit, the soil of which was lighter in color than the surrounding soil.

It was obviously recently turned over.

But at this moment, around the pit

A yellow and white striped warning tape was put up around the perimeter.

Three or four people in police uniforms were standing around the perimeter, talking in hushed tones.

One of the older sheriffs saw someone emerge from the bushes.

He immediately stopped talking and walked over quickly.

"What are you doing? This area is closed off; tourists should take a detour."

He looked the clone up and down, then glanced at the beautiful woman following behind it.

The beautiful woman reacted quickly, picking up the bamboo basket and shaking it.

He said with a smile that he was picking wild vegetables and also bringing a relative from the city to see the mountains.

The sheriff clearly didn't believe this explanation, and his gaze returned to the clone's face:

"Are you here to dig for stones too?"

Bai Sheng readily admitted it.

He said he saw a glowing light band in the mountains of Cangshi County online and came to take a look.