System: After the fortune telling, my cultivation level skyrocketed.

The villagers who were watching speculated that the stone might have been accidentally swallowed by a large fish.

Lin Hai cursed and threw the small stone in his hand into a pile of inedible fish entrails. Then he scooped up the entrails with both hands and threw them into a ditch not far from the riverbank.

When Lin Hai returned, he saw Xiao Lin. He smugly warned Xiao Lin that from now on, this fishing spot belonged to the brothers, and if he dared to come here to fish again, he would be beaten every time he saw him.

Xiao Lin was furious, but the other party was a notorious thug in the village, and he had no chance against him.

Soon, as the Lin brothers carried away the cleaned fish, the crowd dispersed, but the pile of fish entrails remained untouched.

Everyone had left, leaving only Xiaolin on the entire riverbank. He immediately rushed to the spot where the large fish entrails had been thrown away, poking at them with a twig in an attempt to find the small stone.

Xiao Lin quickly found it. Holding it in his hand, he found that the stone was normal, no longer glowing, and not heavy, just like the weathered pebbles that can be found everywhere in Northwest China.

Xiao Lin didn't think much of it and immediately put the stone in his pocket and went home.

However, to his surprise, he had a very strange dream that very night.

In his dream, for some reason, it was pouring rain from the sky. This was strange, as it wasn't the rainy season. Subconsciously, Xiaolin got out of bed and prepared to rush out to collect his things.

But as soon as he opened the door, he saw a very beautiful girl in red standing at the entrance of his main room. The girl was tall and slender, about sixteen years old, with a red mark between her eyebrows and a long golden braid hanging down behind her head. The braid was so long that it almost reached past the girl's calves.

In the dream, Kobayashi asked the girl who she was and if she was lost.

But the girl in the dream didn't speak. She stretched out her two fair hands to Xiaolin, looking at him with pleading and longing in her eyes.

Kobayashi found it strange and continued to ask her who she was.

The girl in the red dress remained silent, only staring at Kobayashi with those outstretched hands.

Suddenly, Xiaolin felt a burn on her palm, and she immediately woke up from the dream.

Xiaolin woke up with a start and subconsciously opened her eyes to look at her right palm.

Upon looking at it, he was immediately startled. The small stone he had picked up yesterday was shimmering in the dim light, emitting a golden halo.

For the next two days, Xiaolin had this strange dream every night. In the dream, the girl always stood at the door of their main room, her eyes full of pleading, reaching out her hand to him.

After having these strange dreams for two consecutive days, Xiaolin finally couldn't sit still anymore.

The next day, he took the fish he had caught to the market to sell, and then went to a place that collects antiques.

At that time, the antique shop's top dealer was very surprised. He examined the stone in Xiaolin's hand from left to right with a magnifying glass, and then asked Xiaolin where he got it and how much he planned to sell it for.

Xiao Lin hesitated and didn't say anything, while Da Chaofeng directly offered an exorbitant price for Xiao Lin, asking for 200 million right off the bat.

Upon hearing this, Xiaolin hurriedly snatched the small stone back from Da Chaofeng's hand, saying that it wasn't his, and then turned and ran home.

However, on his way home, when he passed by Lin Hai's house, he heard funeral music and the sound of women wailing. Out of curiosity, Xiao Lin asked passersby and learned about Lin Hai's house. Xiao Lin was quite frightened.

It turned out that the Lin brothers slaughtered the big black fish and brought it home that day. That night, a torrential downpour began in the area. The next day, when the neighbors came to visit, they found that the Lin family of four had drowned inside the house. The water on the ground was just a small amount of rainwater, and the water level was only two inches high.

The news spread quickly throughout the village, causing quite a stir.