Chapter 18 The Ugly Stone

The exterior wall of the whole apartment building is made of dark red bricks and gray stone, which looks very refreshing and clean. On the window sills of each floor on the street side of the apartment building, there are light yellow window sills. There are pots of flowers and plants planted in the guardrail beside the window sill. The main entrance of the apartment building is facing Monet Avenue, and there are more than ten steps down from the main entrance to the sidewalk. On both sides of the steps, that is, the part facing the street on the first floor of the apartment building, there are two flower beds, in which several flowers are planted. A walnut, a red maple and a bunch of roses.

The black wrought iron gate outside the apartment is very strong and elegant, and the brass door handle on the gate is spotless. In short, everything in this apartment building is in line with the requirements of a well-educated and well-earned property owner in Heiyan City. Residential image - clean, fresh, decent, the surrounding environment is neither dirty nor resplendent. In Zhang Tie's impression, the traders who run orders on the commodity exchange in Heiyan City, the doctors who circumcised themselves, the teachers in the school like Jerome or Captain Colin, or the black The decent businessman who is doing small business in Yancheng and the notary I met today should live in such an apartment building.

There are many such apartment buildings, big and small, high and low in Heiyan City, and they are the favorite of charterers. That bastard Kista once imagined that he could earn money to buy such a building one day, and then he could live in the future. The days of collecting rent every month, and then casually looking for women in Heiyan City every day with the rent.

Seeing Zhang Tie's stunned look, Tang De said again, "Why, just a small apartment building scared you so stupid?"

Zhang Tie looked at Tang De in disbelief, "You're not joking, are you? I was stimulated by something. When I saw you today, I felt that something was wrong with you. Let me see if you have a fever..."

Zhang Tie, who was talking, stretched out his hand and touched Tang De's forehead, but Tang De opened his hand with a "snap", and Tang De gave him a hard look. "Bastard, let me say that you are a bumpkin who has never seen the world. This apartment building was bought for a few thousand gold coins a few years ago, but it is cheaper now. Some people will be gone after a meal. What is this money? You still Do you really think it's a big deal?"

As Tang De said, he walked up the steps of the apartment building, took out the key and inserted it into the door lock, and after turning it twice, he opened the door, "Come in quickly, I still have something to do." Tell you!"

Zhang Tie scratched his head. Following Tang De, he walked in. Behind the door was a thick and soft doormat. The apartment building was covered with brown wooden floors. The floor was shiny and spotless. Zhang Tie who walked into the apartment building looked up. The highest top of the apartment building seems to be a beautiful and elegant triangular glass roof, with plenty of light coming down from above. There are spiral stairs in the building leading directly to the highest floor. Starting from the second floor, there seem to be two households on each floor. People, the doors of the two families are facing each other on the stairway.

Tang De did not go upstairs, but walked past several tall green plants on the left side of the stairs, then took out the key and opened a door, and came to a house.

As soon as Zhang Tie came in,

Tang De locked the door with his backhand.

This is a house on the first floor of an apartment building. The furniture, sofa, and various decorations in the room are all available. All the furniture has a fresh woody fragrance, which smells so good that Zhang Tie didn't have time to look at it. Tang De led him through an aisle in the room again, and came to a quiet study room. Tang De moved some mechanism, and a bookcase in the study room was gently pulled by him, and it slid away from the side. There was a door behind the bookcase. Opening the door again, Zhang Tie saw stone steps going down all the way, which actually led to the basement of the room on the first floor.

Next to the stone stairs and on the walls around the basement, there are expensive ten-year-old fluorite lamps, and the light of the fluorite lamps renders the entire basement a pale green.

"Remember to close the basement door after you come in. When the inner door is closed, the outer bookcase will automatically slide back to its original position, and all the insurances will be closed. It will take a long time to break open with violence..." Tang De, who was walking in front, turned his head and said to Zhang Tie.

"Touch!" After closing the door, Zhang Tie realized that the door in the basement was making a thick and dull sound like a safe. The thick door was actually made of steel, but it was painted with a layer of wood paint. .

The basement is huge, covering more than 100 square meters. It is arranged like a temporary shelter. There are tables, chairs, several large and small lockers and other things, which Zhang Tie did not expect The strange thing is that there are no less than four wardrobes, large and small, and a huge mirror. What is Tang De doing here with so many clothes? Are he wearing them for himself?

Tang De walked to a chair, and motioned for Zhang Tie to sit on another chair.

At this moment, Zhang Tie's heart was completely filled with curiosity. Everything the grocery store owner, who was greedy for money, did today was full of mystery.

"I know you must have a lot of questions in your mind, can you ask now?" Tang De said looking at Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie scratched his head depressedly, "What are you doing today, why do you think you are a bit weird?"

"Because I'm leaving Heiyan City soon, so the things here must be settled!"

"You want to leave?" Zhang Tie looked at Tang De in shock, "Why?"

"Because of you!" Tang De looked at Zhang Tie with a smile on his face, "I didn't know when I would be able to leave Black Flame City, but because of you, I will be able to leave soon, do you know , I haven't been home for more than thirty years. I thought I might have a chance to go home when I was dying, but because of you, I can go home decades earlier, so thank you you!"

"Because of me?" Zhang Tie was even more surprised.

"Can you stop pointing at your nose with your eyes wide open, you look so earthy!" Tang De smiled, "Do you still remember the book "Abacus and Mind" that you gave me? Do you know how much he is really worth?"

"This, that book can improve and exercise spiritual power, it should be very precious!"

"It's not as simple as being precious!" Tang De shook his head, "Do you still remember the story about the ugly stone I told you before? That ugly stone is the book "Bacus and Mind."

Zhang Tie still remembers the story of the ugly stone. It was one of the many stories Tang De told Zhang Tie. There was an ugly stone that was discovered by a stonemason in a mountain village. I used that stone as an anvil and found it very useful. It has been used for decades. Once a more skilled blacksmith came to the mountain village and found that stone. I thought it might be some kind of iron ore. , So I cut a small piece, took it back, beat it into horseshoes, and sold it for dozens of copper plates, the blacksmith was very happy.

After the blacksmith left, another more skilled swordsmith found the fast stone. The swordsmith thought that the stone might be meteorite, so the swordsmith cut another piece from the stone, and tried to use it when he went back. The material on that stone was used to create a sharp treasured knife, which was sold for hundreds of gold coins. Later, a senior watchmaker discovered the piece of meteoric iron and cut a piece back. The metal made several pocket watches of the Meteorite series, and those pocket watches eventually sold for thousands of gold coins.

After the master watchmaker, another master sculptor discovered the stone, so the master sculptor moved the stone away. After some carving, the value of the stone was already tens of thousands of gold coins, and finally found the stone What is worth is an emperor. That emperor re-smelted that stone, and used the metal smelted from the stone to make the imperial seal, which is worth hundreds of millions...

The truth of this story is that different things have different values ​​in the hands of different people.

Zhang Tie understood, but at the same time he was confused.

"Like the human body exercising muscles, the exercise of mental strength is mainly carried out through visualization. The things that need to be visualized for mental strength are the secrets of secrets. All visualization is a difficult, rigorous, and extremely demanding task. A profound awareness activity of mental stability and continuity, which has very high requirements on people's will and xinxing. Before this, I have never seen anyone who can exercise mental power before the age of twelve , and I have never heard of a practice method that can improve children's and teenagers' spiritual power. "Abacus Mind and Magic" seems simple, but it can increase the age of a person's spiritual power from twelve to six years old , even starting at the age of five, and its threshold requirements are very low, as long as you know how to calculate, almost everyone can apply. The accumulation and improvement of spiritual power can even lay a solid foundation for more advanced spiritual power cultivation in the future. This is the real value of "Abacus Mind and Magic". This is a book that people can touch and learn when they are children. The method of improving spiritual power is also an enlightenment textbook for spiritual power cultivation, do you know its value now?"

"This... It seems that it is really a little useless for a few people to be able to cultivate spiritual power from an early age!" Zhang Tie smirked.

"It's a little useless?" Tang De's eyes widened, his voice raised an octave, and he became angry all of a sudden, as if he had been insulted, he couldn't care about his image anymore, jumped up from the chair, and shuddered violently It hit Zhang Tie on the head.

"Bastard, are you a pig head? Of course it's useless for an idiot like you to learn, but have you ever thought that if there were 10 million, 100 million, 1 billion, or even dozens of Chinese Hundreds of billions of people can learn this method, how effective it will be, how many people who can no longer improve their spiritual power can exercise and improve their spiritual power more easily, and it will be easier to advance and break the barriers of cultivation. The bottleneck, how many Chinese teenagers it can lay a good foundation for spiritual cultivation from an early age, and how much help this foundation will help them in the future, because of this, how many more geniuses and powerhouses will the Chinese have in the future, you idiot!" Tang De knocked on Zhang Tie again, panting heavily, and sat down angrily.

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