kingnovel Chapter 392 It’s all here
Chapter 392 It’s all here
She gave up, hugged her knees, tilted her head, and said, "I admit defeat. My body is not as strong as yours. Just tell me, how long do you have to walk?"
Liang Fu paused and said a classic quote that really captured Shen Zheng's mentality: "I'm already here."
"No!" Shen Zheng jumped up, "Even though we are here, you still have to give me a clear answer."
She came forward, stared at Liang Fu, and said with a gnashing of teeth: "Do you understand this feeling? It's like a humble official who has been poor all his life and met a Taoist priest. He said that he might make a fortune, but he didn't say when, where, or how to make it. This feeling is really unsettling!"
Liang Fu pouted, knowing that he was in the wrong, and stopped teasing her: "Go left after leaving this forest, and you will arrive in half an hour."
Shen Zheng was cautious and asked him, "How long will it take to get out of the forest?"
Liang Fu looked ahead and said, "About half an hour."
Shen Zheng sighed helplessly, she just knew it.
Now that we are here, it is obviously not cost-effective to turn around now.
She encouraged herself and walked forward.
Liang Fu, with his agile legs, caught up with her and asked, "Master Shen, you are not angry, right?"
Actually, Shen Zheng was not angry at all, but when asked this by the old man, she still felt warm in her heart.
She smiled and said, "I am not angry. I am just a little tired because I seldom go out for a walk. I have never walked on such a small path for such a long time. I am just a little anxious."
Liang Fuxin smiled and said that she was not just a little anxious, but was so anxious that she was almost dying.
It was a little difficult to walk through this bush forest, but fortunately, they were all wearing casual clothes, not silk official robes. Otherwise, the silk threads hooked from the official robes could guide the people behind them along the way.
After adjusting her mindset, Shen Zheng listened to the chirping of birds in the forest. Waves of grass scent mixed with soil scent wafted into her nose, which was refreshing and invigorating, and was quite a pleasure.
She turned to Liang Fu and asked, "Sir Liang, how did you know there is limestone here? Have you been here before?"
Liang Fu smiled and said, "What else?"
Shen Zheng was puzzled. "Why are you here? If we continue walking, we will almost be out of Tongan County, right?"
Liang Fu snorted and pretended not to care: "Why do you think I'm here? I'm thinking about renovating our county school and building two workshops. I came to see if there are any materials that can be used. Can I save you some money?"
Shen Zheng was suddenly stunned, and her eyes began to feel sore and hot involuntarily.
She suppressed her tears, looked at Liang Fu and asked, "You... walked here last time too?"
Liang Fu picked up a stick and beat it left and right to clear the way for the three people. "Look at this road, does it look like it can be used for a carriage? I am in such a weak body that I can walk, but I dare not ride a horse."
As Shen Zheng listened, the corners of her mouth began to turn down.
Liang Fu hated that the most, so he quickened his pace and said, "Don't come to me with these cries, I'm just doing what I should do."
He left Shen Zheng with a gloomy back, but he was still secretly happy in his heart.
Little guy, you're not bad at being touched.
Shen Zheng followed behind him, her voice buzzing: "Master Liang, thank you."
Liang Fu waved his hand behind him, "It's just a small matter."
This is no small matter. Shen Zheng decided to be nicer to Liang Fu in the future!
The three of them walked through the woods, and the view in front of them suddenly opened up. Liang Fu had indeed not lied to Shen Zheng, and as soon as they came out of the woods, right in front of them was a continuous mountain of earth and stone.
Because of autumn, the vegetation on the mountain is no longer dense, and the whole mountain presents the unique yellow color of autumn, which is brilliant and has a sense of dryness.
Where there is no vegetation coverage, the soil and rocks appear grayish white. Because it is far away, Shen Zheng cannot tell whether the soil and rocks above are limestone. He can only say that the color is quite similar.
Liang Fu put his hands on his waist and breathed a sigh of relief, then raised his chin and said, "How is it? I didn't lie to you, did I? Let's go!"
Shen Zheng nodded heavily, raised his hands and gestured to charge forward, "Charge!"
Shen Xingjian looked at the old man and the young man who were full of fighting spirit, his eyes full of smiles.
The three of them began to walk again, but this time they had a goal, which was to walk straight towards the foot of the mountain.
They passed through the small woods, waded across the shallow riverbed, stepped over fallen dead trees, and got closer and closer to the foot of the mountain.
The few of them gradually reached the foot of the mountain. Shen Zheng stared at the foot of the mountain without blinking, and pieces of gray-white stones came into view.
"Wow—" She lifted her skirt and took two steps at a time, running towards the pile of stones, "It looks like it's really limestone! Sir Liang, Tong'an County is so lucky to have you!"
After Shen Zheng finished her compliments, she clasped her hands together and held several stones in her arms without even looking at them.
Shen Xingjian stepped forward and pointed to the stone on the ground, "Sir Shen, it's dirty. Let me do it."
Shen Zheng poured the limestone back again and said with a smile, "I am just excited. We have to choose these stones. They don't all have to be limestone."
Although Liang Fu didn't know how to use limestone, he was quite good at selecting stones.
He squatted down, picked up a stone, wiped the dust off it with his sleeve, looked at it for a moment, and then hit the stone against another stone.
When the two stones collided, some grayish-white powder was knocked out. He picked up the powder, twisted it between his fingertips, nodded, and handed the stone to Shen Zheng.
"Master Shen, take a look. This should be dolomite."
Shen Zheng took the stone and did something similar to Liang Fu, but she rubbed it deeper.
After grinding, she held the stone in front of her eyes and looked closely at the internal structure of the stone. Limestone is not a complete round stone, but a combination of multiple layers of calcifications, so when viewed from the side, you can see the layered structure - the middle layer is thick or blocky.
"That's right! This is it!"
Shen Zheng happily put the stone into his pocket and said to them, "Let's pick a few more to test. If there is no problem with the stone, we will send someone to mine it!"
Shen Xingjian watched them for a while and learned how to select limestone. He started to select it in the same way as them.
In just two moments, the pockets of the three men were filled with limestones of various sizes.
Although they were still a little greedy, they knew in their hearts that the three of them had to walk here, and if they brought too many stones, it would be even more difficult for them to walk back.
"That's it." Shen Zheng straightened up with the bag in her hand. "We can't carry too much. Besides, the purpose of our visit this time is to select some limestone to test. If there is no problem, we can come back again."
Liang Fu nodded in agreement. "No one is fighting over the white marble, so it's fine to leave it here. Fortunately, this mountain should still be within the boundaries of Tongan County."