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A joyous afternoon from the village of Wu.

Uncle Jin Hao was seen receiving many congratulations from other uncles in front of the house.

"I'm happy for you Jin Hao"

"Congratulations, that's good for you."

"Hahahaha I didn't expect this day to arrive so soon"

"Good job uncle, congratulations!"

"What a good day for you Jin Hao"

"Hahaha, I'm happy for your celebration"

And many more, other families came to Jin Hao's house while giving each of their gifts.

Jin Fei who was sitting in the living room with Wang Jun was watching his father overwhelmed by the many congratulations and homecoming gifts.

He silently reflected back on his childhood memories by lamenting the entire interior of his house.

"Just treat it like your own home"

Wang Jun just sat quietly in his chair, his eyes closed like a sleeping person, he was meditating even though it was crowded in front of the house.

Because of his friend Jin Fei could only tolerate it, he then got up and went to his kitchen cupboard and took more bread and honey, then served it to the table, he clearly remembered that the variety of food in his village was very little, if not bread, then beef or lamb, or more rarely fish meat.

His mother was pacing back and forth while preparing Jin Fei's room, she was surprised that she had previously only prepared one bed for Jin Fei, but it turned out that Jin Fei brought another friend, so the plan was, Jin Qing would sleep together with her parents, while Jin Fei's room would be filled by him and his friend.

"Mom, relax a bit, your son is here but why are you cleaning the room?"

"A-ahh I'm nervous about my hero son."

His mother put a folded mattress blanket back in her arms into Jin Fei's room and then nervously sat down on the living room chair, the three of them waiting for Uncle Jin Hao who seemed to be almost finished serving other families who congratulated him.

"Mom, you're still blatantly honest in front of people, but I like it."

"Thank goodness, your mom never changes much, how can mom compare to you Jin Fei"

"ohh you guys have started the story already, Jin Qing, please dad arrange this" uncle Jin Hao brought a lot of things but most of them were bread and wooden jars of honey, other than that it was just clothes and a book.

The atmosphere calmed down after that.

"Hahaha, no no, just start it yet, let's dad come here, Jin Qing! You also don't be nervous like mom, you were before so close to me then why are you suddenly moving away?"

Looking at his blushing sister, how could Jin Fei not persuade his sister.

"hehehe your sister could hardly sleep last night to be honest she wanted more souvenirs than you hehe"

"I see." With a sarcastic smile

Jin Fei then placed an ordinary light brown cloth pouch with a red string on the end of which were two jade-like dark green beads.

It emitted a mysterious aura as well as a pressing feel towards Jin Fei's mother who was sitting staring at it with a full curious gaze.

"This is a storage bag, this is a good artifact, this is for you, there are items for you here, ah I forgot hahaha no no, I will take it out first, Wang Jun please take out the inside"

Wang Jun then flowed chi from his body, making his body shiver from the heat coming out of his body, his chi came out from the tips of his fingernails and formed a kind of transparent yellow rope that shone weakly, enveloping the opening of the storage bag.

Then out came a variety of items arranged beside the table, such as lawn mowers, new swords, new clothes, items that her mother had never even thought of: a thick, beautiful gold necklace adorned with ruby and jade gems.

Jin Fei took the jewelry and put it around her mother's neck, while her father and sister remained silent at the door.

"Ah son, what is this?"

"It's called jewelry in the outside world, just like the necklaces other aunts wear, but this necklace I gave you is a special necklace to give to mother."

The mother was once again touched by her son's gift.

Crying, she was helped by her husband who immediately embraced her and rubbed her back.

"Never mind dear, our son is really great now"

"And for dad, dad... Do you find it difficult to take care of the cows or cut the sheep's wool, here you go."

A large curved pair of scissors for trimming sheep's hair and a whip for whipping cows.

"oh for dad, is this for real?"

"Of course it is, how come..."

His father burst into tears instantly with a sob, following his wife who he embraced, they both cried happily as well.

"uh Jin Qing, are you going to cry too? Here, take this, the new spinning wheel and I got some artifacts to help you guys produce more, pass on my thanks to that grandmother, uh I forgot her name, just thank you for taking care of my parents"

Jin Qing nervously accepted all the goods from her older brother, her heart was happy beyond measure, finally her work that she felt was hard so far could be facilitated.

Jin Fei gently pushed a basket of bread, a bowl of honey, and a glass of milk towards Wang Jun who was sitting beside him, Wang Jun was silent and still meditating.

Jin Fei complained about it, "already home but still huh.." he thought, he then waited for her mother and father to finish crying happily while embracing each other on the front seat.

"Do you all want to hear my story?"

Because of his son's offer just now, Uncle Jin Hao wiped his wet cheeks and soothed his wife who was still crying a little, then smoothed their wrinkled faces after crying.

"Drink this, calm down first, Okay, calm down now... I'll start telling the story, so that time..."

***

"So that time, grandpa were young, grandpa originally never knew what the appearance of the outside world was like, after grandpa really got out of the border forest, grandpa came to a truly vast expanse of grassland, hundreds of times wider than our grassland, at the end of grandpa eyes, I saw a big mountain that looked small, I also saw a lake, because I felt confused to start the journey, Huang Gu suggested to go to the lake first, the lake was really big and dark blue, when I tried to explore its depth by throwing stones, I knew that the lake was very deep"

In the living room of Ming Qi's grandfather's house, the two were listening to Ming Qi's grandfather's old stories with curious eyes.

Imagining the beginning of Ming Qi's grandfather's journey in a light green meadow with fresh grass everywhere, then a large lake whose depth was unknown, added to the mysterious impression of Ming Qi's grandfather's story.

"It's very deep?, did grandpa ever bathe there?"

"hohoho of course not my grandson, grandpa can't swim, obviously if grandpa go in grandpa will drown, even Huang Gu is reluctant to dip his feet into that lake, there we just cleaned our faces and moved on, but from there we accidentally found a road mark, a strange mark, the mark is straight without any breaks at all, and you know what it is, it is a wheel, the shape is perfectly round, in our village it is very impossible to make a wheel."

Wu Liang was once again stunned at the word 'wheel', how could such a perfect shape exist in this world, he thought.

"Did you ever try to make one?" asked Shan Yu, after he finished the piece of bread in his mouth.

"Hohoho of course I have, but it never works, and it requires a lot of precision and a long time, it took half a full moon but it still wasn't the same as what I imagined, it always broke or didn't turn properly, uhh why we even discuss the wheel, so... then I went to follow the direction of the wheel and took us to another small village, Our journey to the village took a day and a night without any problems at all, maybe at night you heard the howls of wolves, but when you arrived at the village, you only heard people offering their goods, what is it called, ah yes the market, on the edge of the road there was a house with wide windows and there they served their goods, grandpa wanted to exchange it with bread but they asked "don't you have money?", grandpa got even more confused, so..."

"What is money?"

"Gosh Wu Liang can you just let me finish, ekhem sorry I got carried away hohoho, so money is like our bread in the village, only they are made of sparkling blue stone, I also don't know the exact value"

"Ohh let's continue pa, this is getting more exciting"

"hohoho is it exciting?, yes it is, traveling out there is exciting, but there are always dangers that follow, so how can we survive out there?", grandfather of course sold some of our bread, then we worked lightly for the baker, fortunately Huang Gu had that skill and grandfather also taught him, so grandfather and Huang Gu worked there for almost a dozen full days, we worked during the day and went home at night, at first we were confused because we had to go home where fortunately there was a good person who offered an inn, yes yes it was called an inn, so we slept, ate, bathed there, at one time grandfather was also reprimanded by our friend because grandfather's clothes were just that, hohoho what a beautiful nostalgia..."

Shan Yu and Wu Liang sat quietly and enjoyed every bit of his grandfather's story, every time Ming Qi finished a sentence, Wu Liang would automatically imagine what the world out there was like.

Perhaps Ming Qi's grandfather's description was simple but for Wu Liang, it was enough to stimulate his desire for the outside world, even so he was aware of his debt to the village, now he could only grow and contribute a lot to the village until his debt was paid off, so he could go outside the village and look for medical sewing thread to replace the medical sewing thread he had used.