The box contained a bunch of messy little things. From Chen Shuo's point of view, they were basically all tatters.

There are small round stones that I picked up from somewhere, wooden beads on bracelets, and a gray hollow ball. I don’t know what material it is made of. I think it’s quite good.

It's heavy, and the most outrageous thing is that it still has several bottle caps.

What these things have in common is that they are all round.

"Is this what you call a good thing?"

Chen Shuo asked this question again, but his tone was completely different.

Bai Xiaoqi fiddled with the contents of the box a few times with her fingers, "I used to think these were very good things, but I don't think so now."

"Because you were stupid before, that's why you thought it was a good thing."

"You are stupid."

"What I'm talking about is that you didn't say that about you before, but you are a bit stupid now."

As he spoke, Chen Shuo sat down on a branch with the box in his arms and pushed the branches and leaves in front of him. From this position, he could just see the gurgling river and the tent the two of them had set up.

He turned his eyes back and said again: "But this box of yours is a very good thing, maybe it is really a treasure."

"Box?"

Bai Xiaoqi sat down next to him, her two long legs dangling in the air, her eyes staring at the dark box. Although the patterns on it were quite beautiful, they were far less attractive to her than those round things.

.

I used to be able to play with round objects with my little paws, but how to play with boxes?

"Well, I feel like this box may be an antique. Let's ask my dad to appraise it after we go back. Maybe it can be worth a lot of money."

"How much is it worth?"

"How do you know if it hasn't been authenticated yet, but look at the workmanship..."

Chen Shuo looked at the carved cloud pattern decoration on it, and touched the piece of white jade with his hand. It was warm and smooth, "Just based on this workmanship, I feel that even if it is not an antique, it can be worth several thousand, not even tens of thousands."

"

"Thousands?"

Bai Xiaoqi looked a little unbelievable that such a broken wooden box could be worth so much. She pointed at the pile of bits and pieces in the box with her fingers and asked expectantly, "Then, can you see if there are any more of these things?"

valuable?"

"What do you think the bottle cap is worth?" Chen Shuo looked at her sideways.

"I didn't say bottle caps, just these other things."

"Everything else is junk."

"..."

Bai Xiaoqi puffed up her cheeks and looked at him without saying anything. These were all her treasures before, but they turned into rags in this guy's mouth. Don't I want to lose face?

Chen Shuo pinched her bulging cheeks and said, "Okay, don't look at me like that. These things are rags to begin with. It's just that you haven't seen the world, so you treat these things as treasures."

After a pause, he added: "As you just said, I used to think these were very good things, but now I don't think so. Doesn't this mean that you haven't seen much of the world before?

And you have seen more now, and you are no longer the ignorant little kitten that lived in the mountains before, so you will no longer do things like picking up broken bottle caps and treating them as treasures."

Speaking of this, Chen Shuo couldn't help but laugh, and the picture was inexplicably playing in his head.

A white kitten was wandering in the mountains, inspecting its territory, and suddenly found a bottle cap left by humans. This bottle cap was probably sunk into the soil.

She leaned over and sniffed carefully with her nose, then dug it out with her little paws, washed it by the river, then held it in her mouth and hid it in her nest as a treasure, and took it out to look at when she had nothing to do. From then on, she

Found more bottles...

Just as he was thinking about it, Chen Shuo suddenly felt that something was not right in the atmosphere. He turned around and found Bai Xiaoqi staring at him expressionlessly.

"Is it funny?" she asked.

"..."

Chen Shuo restrained his expression, remained silent for a moment and said, "If I say I'm not laughing at you, would you believe it?"

"snort."

Bai Xiaoqi snorted coldly. She believed that there was something wrong, and turned her head aside, not intending to deal with this annoying guy again.

I just picked up a few bottle caps as treasures. I used to live in the mountains, and I didn't know that such round things were everywhere in human society.

"Actually, I have done this kind of thing before. Really, when I was a child, I was not sensible and I often picked up rags and treated them as treasures."

If a person is angry because you laughed at her stupid things, the best way is not to apologize, but to tell her a similar stupid thing about yourself, to show that you have done this kind of thing.

Don't ask who said this. Ask Chen Shuo himself. He has personally tested it and it is very effective.

Because as soon as he said these words, Bai Xiaoqi turned her head back, stared at him twice, and asked: "What kind of rags did you pick up?"

"There are too many broken faucets, kite sticks picked up on the roadside, steel balls from bicycle chains, screws and nuts, hexagonal wrenches, and the sanding discs on cutting machines. I don't know if you have seen them.

It's also round, about this big. If you hold it in your hand and throw it out, it can fly quite far."

As he spoke, Chen Shuo gestured with his hands and made a throwing motion, "Really, it flew very far, and then I ran after him."

"And then pick it back up with your mouth?"

"Cough cough cough..."

Chen Shuo almost choked on his own saliva and coughed several times before turning his head to look at her faintly.

"...."

Bai Xiaoqi turned her eyes aside guiltily, avoiding his sight, but she felt that what she said was right.

As soon as this guy described it just now, he felt that his method of chasing the Frisbee was very familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, and then he quickly remembered it.

This is how many dog ​​owners in the community play. It's just that it's the people who throw things out, and it's the dogs who run out to chase them. When they almost catch up, the dogs jump hard and eat the things flying in the air with their mouths.

Catch it and then pick it back up.

And this guy throws himself and chases him. He plays the game between humans and dogs by himself. No wonder this guy is such a dog.

Bai Xiaoqi felt that she had found the reason why Chen Shuo was such a dog. The nickname A Gou really suited him.

The air was dull for a while, and Chen Shuo broke the silence, "I actually just want to say that many people are stupid and ignorant before they have seen the world, and they will take things that no one wants as treasures.

But when they grow up, or see the wider world, they will feel that the things they once regarded as treasures are actually just that.

It looks like growth, but... no, it is growth. There is a saying that the more people grow, the less happy they become. But in fact, it is not that they are unhappy, but that the cost of happiness increases.

I know more things and have seen more things, so I want more. I can never go back to the age when I could be happy for a long time with just a pinball and a card."

"It's also possible that I found something better and better." Bai Xiaoqi added.

"So have you found this better and better thing?"

"Found it."

"What is it?"

"You thing."

"I?"

Chen Shuo pointed his hand back at himself, feeling happy in his heart, and asked reflexively: "What am I?"
Chapter completed!