I played as an assistant in ancient times

Chapter 229 Eyebrow Pencil

The four people in the group felt their bodies sink suddenly and fell. The four torches suddenly lost their light. Lu Guan's first reaction was to support Shen Xiaoye.

When he stabilized himself a little, he felt that he was no longer in the original place.

Taoist Qingxi reminded from the front: "Don't move, don't touch the surroundings."

Then Taoist Master Hengxi said from behind to comfort him: "I'll light the fire right away."

However, before he took out the tinder, the little black cat meowed and stuffed a night pearl into Shen Xiaoye's hand.

The dark place was illuminated by the light. Lu Guan said with a click of his tongue: "How dare you take out such a good thing?"

"They're not mine." Shen Xiaoye said subconsciously. The gems and night pearls that Xiao Xuanmao had given her and her uncle had been thrown in the space without being moved.

It’s not that I don’t like it, but it’s too precious and taking it out could bring disaster.

But as soon as she said this, she felt there was a loophole, so she quickly said, "Ahem, I accidentally got the spoils while cleaning the battlefield."

"What a lucky guy." Lu Guan stretched out his hand with an envious look on his face, and Shen Xiaoye let him take it.

Only then did they realize that they could actually stand up straight where they were, and the space was much wider.

Taoist Priest Hengxi, who was originally at the end of the group, also passed them and stared at a rock formation on the side that had been artificially flattened together with Taoist Priest Qingxi.

"What's on it?" Shen Xiaoye motioned for Lu Guan to hold up the night pearl for a closer look, and she quickly took out a fire starter and lit the torch.

The place, which was only half the size of a room, became brighter and brighter.

Many crooked, high and low shapes were chiseled out on the flattened rock layer.

"Map?!" She and Lu Guan said in unison, and they both reached out their hands in unison, but thinking of Taoist Qingxi's previous reminder, they moved closer to take a closer look.

“No, it’s a map of the mineral veins in Mobei.

Look, this is a gold and silver mine, and this is an iron mine." Taoist Qingxi's eyes sparkled, and he pointed out the hidden mark with the mountain shape to the few people with his whisk, "Junior brother, go back and see if there is rice paper and good ink, you have to copy this picture."

"I'll go right away, but it will take some time to boil the white hyacinth water." Taoist Master Hengxi didn't expect that his great-grandmaster had left this treasure behind.

But as soon as he turned around, he looked back at the picture and said, "Wish Power Stone?"

"Here." Taoist Qingxi pointed to the top of the picture, "We'll take it out after we finish copying it."

"Such a small piece? Did our uncle-master knock it open?" Hengxi touched it, wiped off the dust and looked at it again. It was still a little bigger than the one they brought.

He couldn't help but wonder, "Could it be that Master Uncle knocked out a lot of pieces and placed them in different places?"

Taoist Qingxi froze, his joy gradually faded, and he said uncertainly: "No way?"

It would take many years for Taixu Temple to search for all of them, and the used wish stones are basically just waste stones.

The two brothers looked at each other for a long time, and both felt that their elders were capable of doing such a thing.

Shen Xiaoye pointed at the little black cat and silently asked it what the Wish Stone was.

Unfortunately, the little black cat could neither read minds nor lips, but it still meowed twice based on its intuition, "The wish-power stone they are talking about is a spiritual stone that has been worshipped in a Taoist temple for a long time and has received incense. It can play a role in suppressing the formation when setting up the formation and is not corroded by evil spirits."

Spiritual stone? Cultivating immortality? Shen Xiaoye refrained from asking.

Little Black Cat continued, "Spiritual stone is also a kind of jade, with different colors. It takes ten thousand years for a piece to be found in a jade mine, so it is extremely rare.

People who don’t know their color will treat it as a piece of broken stone and throw it away.”

So that's how it is. Shen Xiaoye understood. She thought it was some spiritual stone that had fallen from the world of immortals.

While the two of them were communicating, Lu Guan was holding up the night pearl and memorizing the patterns, occasionally asking Taoist Qingxi what certain symbols meant, while Taoist Hengxi was already walking towards the exit with the wish-power stone in the temple.

Shen Xiaoye regained his composure. Seeing that Lu Guan was asking questions carefully and that the Taoist priest had no intention of hiding anything, he understood after a quick thought.

After all, it is impossible for Taixu Temple to stay here to mine the mines in Mobei, but if a disciple occasionally wanders here, it would be a convenient thing to have the chance to get some.

She felt around in her bag, then actually took something out of her space, and when she was ready, she said, "I have paper and pen."

As soon as she finished speaking, the two people who were looking at the picture looked at her.

Shen Xiaoye took out a few pieces of rice paper cut into book size and an eyebrow pencil.

"This paper is too small, and it cannot be rubbed without ink." Taoist Qingxi was surprised that she brought pen and ink when riding a horse. It turned out to be an eyebrow pencil.

Seeing that he had no doubts, Lu Guan quietly glanced at Shen Xiaoye and told her to be careful. "I can come down, but I wonder if Chang agrees?"

Taoist Qingxi: "Hand it over to the emperor? Aren't you afraid that he will keep you in Mobei to manage the mining?"

"It would be too time-consuming, labor-intensive and expensive for us to collect the fruits, and they would also be damaged when transported back to the capital.

In the future, it will be better for Dada people to collect it, Da Zhou to send people to refine it, and then buy Da Zhou's items." Before Lu Guan handed it over, he had to discuss it with his uncle and Shen Changsui.

Shen Xiaoye heard that Ye had a different opinion: "The mark of the iron ore must be destroyed, otherwise Dada's strength will increase."

"Yes." Taoist Qingxi nodded and drew out his sword to destroy the iron ore mark, even though only a few people in their Taixu Temple understood this mark.

"Wait a minute." Shen Xiaoye stopped him and said, "The iron mines are located in close proximity, so we don't need to expand them and leave them for our descendants a hundred years later.

We only need to find two or three smaller gold and silver mines, and then cooperate with Dada or Waqif to mine them as appropriate.

What Lu Guan said just now is based on the premise that the Great Zhou will win, but the Northern Barbarians are rebellious and their submission will only be short-lived. "

The words of the two made Taoist Qingxi regain his sanity. Beilu could never return to his heart, so some things were better left hidden from the light of day. "That's right. If that's the case, there's no need for Hengxi to make the copy. Little friend Lu and I can do it.

"This location," he pointed to a mountain range and said, "Although there are no mines, it is a dangerous place. My uncle-master should have left something here.

Mr. Lu, remember to draw this location and route with emphasis.”

Lu Guan gave her a thumbs up, saying that some pictures do not need to see the light of day.

They got to work right away, and with the help of Shen Xiaoye, they drew several different pictures, each of which showed only two gold and silver mines.

One eyebrow pencil was not enough for them, but Shen Xiaoye had plenty of them. However, she only provided two.

Lu Guan also covered for her: "How many eyebrow pencils do you use in a year?"

"It's cheap. There's a rouge shop in Beijing that gives away more gifts the more you buy." She was telling the truth. Many shops in Beijing had promotional activities before the New Year, and the ancients were also very good at seizing business opportunities.

By the time Hengxi came over with a bunch of stuff, the map on the rock formation had been completely destroyed by them.

The three men also found a few places where they could pry open some ore to take away.

Taoist Priest Hengxi breathed a sigh of relief: "If I had known this, I would have stayed and started mining."

"It would be most comfortable if I had the chance to mine gold in the future." Lu Guan laughed. The ore was difficult to pry open and his knife had broken.

The four of them checked and found no more clues here, so they returned the same way they came.

Shen Xiaoye found that except for a narrow place where they could only pass sideways, there was no place where they sank. "How strange."