"Let's just say that," Councilor Wang waved at Pang Xiaonan with a wine glass, meaning to drink, "But I, a senator, belong to a member who is not very in charge of things, probably an honorary senator, except for some major national events that must be participated in, I only went to the Central Capital for a meeting, usually I stay in Huahai City, and I don't go anywhere." ”

"You have started your retirement life in advance, Lao Wang," Pang Xiaonan was a little envious of Councilor Wang, this is really hiding his merit and fame, hiding in the small building to become unified, "Come, cheers, it seems that I can't call you Lao Wang in the future, I have to call you Wang, Senator of the country, if this is placed in ancient times, you will be a first-class member." ”

"No, no, no," Councilor Wang drank the glass of wine and waved his hand, "the first-class master is not big, if you want to calculate according to the ancient kingdom government, our level belongs to the princely level, do you know the prince? Generally, only the emperor's brother or child can become a prince, which is higher than the title." ”

Pang Xiaonan nodded and said: "I understand your analogy, the prince is equivalent to a feudal official, but our Huaguo is now a democratic country, and there is no princely setting." But you're such a big official, why haven't I seen you on TV?"

Councillor Wang ate peanuts and said: "It's the business of the national leaders to go on TV, what kind of TV do we old people go on? I don't love TV the most, everyone knows you by then, it's not convenient to go to the street, and you have to watch out for assassins. That's why I don't need bodyguards, no one knows me. Councilor Wang's face flushed, and he began to speak without scruples.

Pang Xiaonan pointed at Councilor Wang and said: "I think you, the leader of the country hiding behind the scenes, are the most comfortable, and you have the right and no one knows you." ”

Councilor Wang shook his head and said, "Whatever is comfortable or uncomfortable, it is all about serving the people, and power is also a responsibility, you think this power is so fun." He is worthy of being a leader, he speaks tightly and does not leak, and Pang Xiaonan's admiration for Councilor Wang is deeper.

The two of you and I pushed the glass one by one, until a bottle of wine could not pour a drop of wine, and the dishes on the table were also eaten, Pang Xiaonan was still unsatisfied, Councilor Wang had already collapsed on the chair, and shouted in his mouth: "I haven't drunk so much for many years, how about it, do you want to come again?"

Pang Xiaonan looked at Councilor Wang's drunken appearance, waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I see that you are almost done, if you drink it again, I am afraid that you will not be able to bear it, and besides, there will be no snacks and food, so I will drink it next time." "Pang Xiaonan is not good at drinking, and he is not greedy for cups, if he drinks Councilor Wang out of a problem, the treatment he did before will be in vain.

Pang Xiaonan got up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling glass, looking at the mysterious space outside the window, a bright moon hanging in the dark, suddenly illuminating the sea surface, dim and dark, the sea water swaying and colorful, the people who watched were drunk and drunk, Pang Xiaonan turned around and glanced at Councilor Wang, and said: "Do you sit for a while or go directly to rest, I'll go first, do you want me to go down and call Aunt Mei up to clean up?"

Councilor Wang waved his hand and replied vaguely: "No need, I'll sit down again......"

Pang Xiaonan went downstairs and saw that Su Xiaomei hadn't slept yet and was watching TV, so he said hello: "Aunt Mei, I'll go first." ”

"Just go, aren't you drunk?" Su Xiaomei got up, Pang Xiaonan was a little uneasy, and said, "I'm fine, but Councilor Wang is a little drunk, you see if he's okay, he's still upstairs, don't catch a cold." ”

"Okay, then you go slowly, I'll go up and have a look. Su Xiaomei didn't care about Pang Xiaonan, turned around and walked upstairs.

Pang Xiaonan returned to his villa, took a bath, went to bed and fell asleep, and woke up naturally the next morning, he went to the terrace on the second floor, and there was an important thing waiting for him to operate.

The two stones bought at the gambling stone conference last night, in addition to the sky-high gem in the competition, Pang Xiaonan also brought back a rough stone with a high spiritual value, but this rough stone is not a gem recognized by the world, but a stone with special significance to Pang Xiaonan, Pang Xiaonan called it a spirit stone.

As the name suggests, the spirit stone is a stone with a high spiritual power value, but the more important significance is that the spirit stone can absorb the spiritual power, and the spirit stone can absorb the spiritual power in the environment into its own structure, and the cultivator who has the method of absorbing the spiritual power can absorb the spiritual power in these spirit stones, that is to say, the practitioner can absorb the spiritual power in the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas and various environments through the spirit stone for their own use, which has unparalleled benefits for speeding up the progress of cultivation.

Pang Xiaonan took out the spirit stone and put it in the center of the terrace, the abundant spiritual power made Pang Xiaonan feel extremely excited again, and he couldn't wait to open this spirit stone to see what kind of structure it was.

Pang Xiaonan slowly walked to the side of the spirit stone, calmed down, put his right hand on the surface of the spirit stone, and then he burst into a loud shout, and a strong force passed from his dantian to his right arm and then to the palm of his right hand.

Pang Xiaonan looked at the cracked rough stone, only to see that under the thin stone shell, a large black crystal, shining dimly under the rising sun, Pang Xiaonan grabbed one of them, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it over and over again, "It's so beautiful." ”

Pang Xiaonan stretched out his hand to touch the black crystal, and a cool breath spread to the entire palm through his fingertips, and the veins of the stone were like a prism, as refreshing as a knife and axe.

Then, Pang Xiaonan took the two stones in his hand, entered the house from the terrace, and then gently put the stones under the bed in his bedroom, and then went out and drove to a bustling street, he looked carefully at the shops on the street, looking for a store that sold hardware and electricity.

Suddenly, he found a small shop with the sign "Liukesong Hardware Store", so he parked his car in the designated parking space on the side of the street, got out of the car, and walked towards the store.

A middle-aged man in his forties was sitting behind the counter, and Pang Xiaonan stepped forward directly and asked, "Boss, do you have a cutting machine here?" ”

"Yes," the middle-aged man stood up and said to Pang Xiaonan, "You wait, I'll get it for you." Then he got up and walked to the display shelves in the back.

Pang Xiaonan looked at this small shop, although it was small, the goods were full, and there was only one person in the middle of the shelf, Pang Xiaonan watched the boss walk through the passage, and said: "Boss, the name of your shop is interesting, how is it called six pines, do you have six pine trees here?"

The boss's voice came from the other side of the shelf, "No, the name of our village is Liukesong, so my store is called Liukesong." Ha, found it. ”

The boss handed over the cutting machine to Pang Xiaonan and said: "This cutting machine has been with me for a long time, I once took it and cut a piece of glass, and I never touched it again, if you want it, give it to you cheaper." ”

Pang Xiaonan held the cutting machine, feeling heavy, the sand plate on the head of the machine did have traces of use, he asked the boss: "Can this cut diamonds?" Because the texture of the spirit stone is not like ordinary stones, Pang Xiaonan is afraid that the hardness will catch up with the diamond, so it will not be enough.

"Diamonds?" the boss didn't react for a moment, "Oh, you mean diamonds, right? That's not cut, diamonds are the hardest substance in the world, only diamonds can cut diamonds, or use lasers." ”

Pang Xiaonan nodded and said, "Then I'll take it back and try it." ”

The boss said generously: "Well, you take it back and try it, you really can't cut it, return it to me." ”

"Thank you to the owner. Pang Xiaonan took out the falcon and paid for it, turned around and left the Liukesong hardware store, and drove back.

Back at the villa, Pang Xiaonan couldn't wait to go upstairs, took out the spirit stone that had been split by him, and began to polish it carefully. First of all, he grinded off the stone shell on the periphery of the spirit stone, revealing the true face of the spirit stone, "Wow, it's so beautiful." "The black, shiny rough glows in the sunlight.

Then, Pang Xiaonan began to grind the surface of the spirit stone, and the black shiny powder was sprinkled on the ground under the polishing of the sand disc, "You can grind!" Pang Xiaonan smiled, thinking that the stone that could be split by his own palm could be as hard as a diamond, so his subordinates moved quickly.

Soon, Pang Xiaonan cut the spirit stone into seven conical ornaments of similar size, Pang Xiaonan looked at the appearance of the spirit stone, and couldn't help but dislike his polishing process, "Hey, in the end, it's still not to the point of ingenuity, if you want to sell this thing, I'm afraid it's very difficult." ”

The black luster of the spirit stone has a soul-stirring power under the sun, but the hardness of the spirit stone is the same as that of ordinary stones, and it may be about the same hardness as the crystal, so it is not difficult to polish it. Pang Xiaonan quickly polished the 7 small spirit stones to shine, and there were a lot of stone chips on the ground.

Got up and wiped the sweat on his forehead, Pang Xiaonan went to get a broom and a garbage basin, swept the stone chips into the garbage basin, and then put them aside, concentrating on studying the placement of the 7 spirit stones.

Pang Xiaonan planned to set up a seven-star spirit stone henge, which required extremely high placement accuracy, he walked around the terrace, constantly measuring the distance between the spirit stone and the spirit stone with his feet, and striving to be accurate.

According to legend, the best spirit stone is a meteorite from outer space, this meteorite is said to be a spirit stone from a highly civilized planet, and the object that grows in Hallelujah Star can use the spirit stone that Pang Xiaonan finds now.

This black spirit stone, which has survived in Hallelujah for a long time, is a special mineral that can absorb the spiritual power of the environment, and over time, it can form a crystal with deep spiritual power, which is the general state of the black crystal that Pang Xiaonan sees now, and it is the best choice to use it to place the seven-star spirit stone formation.

Pang Xiaonan set up the Seven Star Spirit Stone Formation, then came to the side of the spirit stone in the middle, and meditated on the side. In this seven-star spirit stone formation, the six spirit stones formed an irregular hexagonal shape on the periphery, and the seventh spirit stone was in the center of the hexagon, and Pang Xiaonan was now sitting next to this seventh spirit stone.

Pang Xiaonan launched his spiritual power to urge the Seven Star Spirit Stone Formation, and the seven spirit stones began to absorb a steady stream of spiritual power from the surrounding air, and the six spirit stones on the periphery transmitted the absorbed spiritual power to the spirit stone in the center, and finally, the spirit stone in the middle input all the spiritual power into Pang Xiaonan's body.

The Seven Star Spirit Stone Formation formed a complete spiritual power transportation link, absorbing the spiritual power in the surrounding air to the greatest extent, and then continuously transported it to Pang Xiaonan.

Pang Xiaonan felt that the spiritual power was surging towards him like a mountain and a sea, and his body felt extremely happy, this seven-star spirit stone array was more profound and lasting than relying on his own absorption of spiritual power.

But Pang Xiaonan was not satisfied, he kept adjusting the position of the seven spirit stones, and kept testing until he felt the maximum input of spiritual power, and then stopped the test with satisfaction.

Pang Xiaonan found a marker pen from the house, marked the position of the seven spirit stones, and put the seven spirit stones back in place, only then did he look at the cultivation formation that took him all morning to build, and went downstairs satisfied.

I didn't eat breakfast, and now it's close to noon, Pang Xiaonan was a little hungry, ran to the kitchen to open the refrigerator, looked at the medicinal materials inside, and remembered that his kitchen had never been cooked with a fire, but only used to boil medicine, so he wanted to go out and find something to eat.

At this time, his mobile phone rang, and when he picked it up, he saw that it was Zhang Jiao calling, "Where are you, Pang Xiaonan?" Zhang Jiao's voice was very cheerful, as if something good was going on.

Pang Xiaonan replied lazily: "I'm at home." ”

"Oh?" Zhang Jiao's laughing voice on the other end of the phone, "In your mansion in the Hailong community, right?"

"Yes," Pang Xiaonan didn't hide it, he told Zhang Yao that he lived in Hailong Community, "What's wrong, is there something?"

"It's okay, can't I look for you if it's okay?" Zhang Yao asked, "Have you eaten?"

"Not yet, what, do you want to invite me to dinner?" Pang Xiaonan begged Zhang Yao for food in line with the principle of being cheap and not taking advantage of being a fool, "Originally, I was not used to going out to eat, since you are going to have a treat, and you are not a human being, then I might as well be respectful, let's say, where to eat?" He didn't give Zhang Yao any room to think about.

"Go to your house to eat!" Zhang Jiao said coldly to Pang Xiaonan's surprise, "I'll buy some food and come to your house to cook and eat?" You said that you would take me to visit your family's mansion. ”

"This ......" Pang Xiaonan remembered that there was indeed such a thing, and it seemed that he couldn't hide anyway, so he agreed, "Okay, come here, you call me when you get to the door, and I'll pick you up." "The security measures in the Hailong community are in place, but I am afraid that without the invitation of the residents of the community, no one from outside can enter.

Zhang Yao hung up the phone, her heart was full of disdain: "Hmph, you still lie to me, you are a poor student, and you still live in Hailong Community, I think you live in a rental house next to Hailong Community." But she suddenly wondered, where are there rental houses next to Hailong Community, which are full of high-end residential and tourist areas, and there don't seem to be rental houses, right? Oh, maybe the aborigines on Hailong Island used to build the kind of peasant houses with several floors for rent.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yao went out and walked to the supermarket, her main purpose today was to expose Pang Xiaonan's lies, and at the same time, she hadn't seen Pang Xiaonan for a few days, and it was boring to be at home alone, so she wanted to get together with him.

Knowing that Zhang Jiao was coming, Pang Xiaonan hurriedly went to the terrace on the second floor, where there was also the seven-star spirit stone henge he had placed, don't let Zhang Jiao see it, he felt that he was divine, he put away all the seven spirit stones, and only seven inconspicuous marks remained.

Then he went into the shower room again, and after a busy morning, he was covered in stinky sweat and took a comfortable shower, his stomach growled a little, "Sure enough, spiritual power still can't be eaten." Thinking of this, he dialed Zhang Yao's phone.

"When you buy groceries, you buy some snacks or food that fills your stomach, I'm afraid you can't eat what you make...... No, no, no, it's not to question your cooking skills, I didn't eat breakfast, I'm a little hungry now, wait for the food you make is too fragrant and it will seduce my appetite, I have to find something to fill my empty stomach first...... That's great, I'm going to eat potato chips, scallion pancakes, dried tofu, soda...... Don't buy too much, I can't eat too much, just buy a dozen or so kindly......"

Hung up the phone, Pang Xiaonan made a cup of tea, the tea was from Councilor Wang, the water is the purified water of the community, it is said that in order to let the residents of the community have fresh water to eat, the community specially built a purification pool, the water is from the mountain spring water from the back mountain, and then input to the villas in the community after purification.

Pang Xiaonan took the tea and stood on the terrace on the second floor, looking at the vast sea, and his mood was extremely happy. After the Seven Star Spirit Stone Formation is built, the growth of internal strength will be rapid and expansive, just wait for the old man in the blacksmith shop to build the ball and ball he practiced, and he will be just around the corner to enter the advanced level of martial arts.

"By the way, there's also that hundred-year-old mountain ginseng. Pang Xiaonan almost forgot that he bought an old ginseng last night, and it cost him 1 million, to be honest, the things were not expensive to buy, and the money was taken from Nangong Jim, although he didn't feel distressed when he spent it, but after all, he was out of 1 million, and he thought about it now that he was still a little too extravagant.

Thinking of the 1 million, he couldn't help but think of the Huamei Electronics Market, "Damn!" Pang Xiaonan patted his head fiercely, and there was something he forgot, "No, go to the Huamei Electronics Market in the afternoon and implement this matter, maybe it's another big deal!"

Pang Xiaonan drank tea, sat on the sofa on the terrace, this sofa faced the sea, there was a shade canopy on it, sitting on the sofa, you could feel the oncoming sea breeze with a fishy smell, it was a little unbearable after blowing for a long time, it was wet, so Pang Xiaonan drank all the tea in the cup and went downstairs.

"What kind of tea to drink, I'm even hungrier. Pang Xiaonan was feeling hungry, and Zhang Yao called: "I'm at the gate of Hailong Community, you can come and pick me up." ”

So Pang Xiaonan wore big pants and a ripped shirt, and put a pair of flip-flops on his feet and went out, and when he arrived at the door of the community, he saw a beautiful girl standing outside the door, it was Zhang Yao. Zhang Yao is dressed very fashionably today, wearing a white tight-fitting elastic shirt on her upper body, a big floral skirt underneath, and white leather sandals on her feet, revealing her good-looking five toes.

Pang Xiaonan beckoned to Zhang Yao from a distance and shouted loudly: "Zhang Yao!"

Zhang Yao looked back, recognized Pang Xiaonan, and walked towards the door, "It's really you, you really live here." Zhang Yao was a little surprised, standing outside the fence of the gate and talking to Pang Xiaonan in the air.

The security guard at the door recognized Pang Xiaonan and greeted him respectfully: "Mr. Pang, go out?"

"Oh, no, I'll pick up my friend," Pang Xiaonan pointed at Zhang Jiao and said, "Can you open the door and let her in?"

"Okay, Mr. Pang," the security guard pressed a button, and the tall iron door by the fence of the car passage remembered the crisp "click", and the door slowly opened outward, "Mr. Pang, you don't have to be so troublesome in the future, you just need to explain to us through the video intercom at the door." ”

"Oh yes?" Pang Xiaonan scratched his head, "Hahaha, I'm sorry, I haven't operated it, I didn't know there was such high-tech equipment, I know, thank you." ”

"You're welcome, Mr. Pang. The security guard saw Zhang Yao enter the door and sent her a brilliant autumn wave.

Zhang Yao entered the door with a large bag and a small bag, and Pang Xiaonan hurriedly went up to pick up a few bags of things, showing a gentlemanly demeanor.

Seeing a bag of scallion pancakes in a bag, Pang Xiaonan was also polite, opened the package and took out a piece and put it in his mouth to chew, Zhang Jiao stared curiously at the beautiful scenery in the Hailong community, and said in disbelief: "Who are you living in, I can't imagine that you really live in such a luxurious villa area." ”

Pang Xiaonan was too busy to win, and replied with a grunt: "Is it necessary for me to lie to you? This is the home of a distant relative, and he has gone abroad, so I will take care of the property here on his behalf temporarily." "Afraid that Zhang Jiao would be poor to the bottom of it, Pang Xiaonan casually made up a reason.

"Distant relatives?" Zhang Yao looked at Pang Xiaonan suspiciously, very disdainful of what he was wearing, "How can you have such a rich distant relative?"

"This ......" Pang Xiaonan almost choked, and quickly swallowed his saliva, pressing the food in his throat hard into his stomach, "I don't know, I have to ask my parents." ”

Zhang Jiao knew Pang Xiaonan's cunning, and he didn't ask anymore, and he jumped up in the community, he hadn't been to such a delicate and luxurious community for a long time, it was like returning to his own home.

Soon walked to Pang Xiaonan's villa, he stretched out his finger to open the door, beckoned Zhang Yao to enter the house, and walked to the kitchen, Zhang Yao bought a lot of vegetables, the handle of the plastic bag was very thin, and Pang Xiaonan's fingers were strangled out of traces.

"How did you get here?" Pang Xiaonan asked Zhang Jiao, putting the bag on the desk.

"Take a taxi. Zhang Jiao saw the sea view outside through the glass window of the kitchen, and exclaimed happily, "Wow, the sea view villa." She glanced at Pang Xiaonan fixedly, and said enviously, "It's good for you to tell your classmates to live with me, I live in a simple small suite, but you live alone in this invincible villa with a sea view." ”

Pang Xiaonan took out the snacks brought by Zhang Yao from the bag, opened a bag of dried tofu and feasted on it, walked towards the sofa in the living room, and said to Zhang Yao: "Where to live is not to live, you don't want to be so materialistic, hurry up and cook, I'm starving to death, Teacher Zhang." ”

"What?" Zhang Yao looked at Pang Xiaonan strangely, pointing to the pile of dishes, "You let me cook?"

"Damn!" Pang Xiaonan jumped up from the sofa suddenly, "You won't tell me that you want me to cook for you when you bring so many dishes, right?"

"That's for sure," Zhang Yao came out of the kitchen and sat on the sofa, not caring about ladylike demeanor at all, "I'll buy vegetables and you cook, it's fair, you won't tell me, you won't cook, right? Impossible, you grew up in the countryside, how can you not cook." Besides, I buy vegetables and cook for you, who are you and me?"

Pang Xiaonan searched hard in his mind, and finally found the memory of his own cooking, just like Zhang Yao said, he grew up in the countryside and has done all kinds of housework, and cooking is of course one of the necessary skills.

Zhang Jiao didn't treat herself as a guest at all, slumped comfortably on the sofa, turned on the TV, opened the big bags of snacks, and kept chewing in her mouth, while commanding Pang Xiaonan to say: "Don't be stunned, go cook." In this situation, Pang Xiaonan just wanted to chant a poem: I would have turned my heart to the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch, where is the reason?

Pang Xiaonan reluctantly walked to the kitchen, and he could only have enough food and clothing by himself.

The dishes Zhang Xiao bought were not ambiguous, snowflake beef, small yellow croaker, emperor vegetables, half a chicken, mushrooms, ...... "Can two people use so many dishes?" Pang Xiaonan muttered in his heart, but his hands began to be busy, picking vegetables, cutting vegetables, and side dishes, Pang Xiaonan's hands and feet were very sharp, and they were all done in one go.

This is all thanks to the experience of taking care of his father when he was a teenager, his father was paralyzed in bed, because his mother had to go out to work to make money, so after school and on weekends, Pang Xiaonan took care of his father at home, cooking is a skill he must know, there is no good food in the countryside, Pang Xiaonan changed his way to find ingredients, from fish and shrimp in the river to game in the mountains, Pang Xiaonan worked hard to get it, just to let his long-sick father eat a good meal.

With ingredients, you can't do without craftsmanship, otherwise you will waste the hard-won mountain delicacies, so Pang Xiaonan also humbly went to the neighbor's house next door to ask Uncle Wei, Uncle Wei is a mobile restaurant, specializing in the business of those rich families in the neighboring town, no one invites if the craftsmanship is not good, Pang Xiaonan sometimes goes to help, just to learn Uncle Wei's craft, so that if you can't get into college in the future, you won't have a craft to make a living.

Uncle Wei saw that Pang Xiaonan was diligent, so he told Pang Xiaonan a lot of cooking tips, so Pang Xiaonan helped in Uncle Wei's mobile restaurant while practicing wild vegetables in his own kitchen, and gradually improved his cooking skills, and even his father praised his good skills. Seeing his father's satisfied expression, Pang Xiaonan felt extremely happy.

However, after entering the Dongli Military Academy, there was a canteen for dinner, and there was no kitchen in the dormitory, and I was very busy, so I forgot that I could cook. If Zhang Yao hadn't come over with vegetables today, he wouldn't know when he would have started cooking by himself.