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Chapter 2 - Weird black stone

Damn my head hurts, Longwei say as he gets of his futon, he notices a nice smell in the air and he's stomach growls telling him to get his ass up. He walks grudgingly to the small living room with just a raised wooden slab in the middle of the room since that's what they could afford. A bowl of warm rice porridge and a note was on the table.

~Brother wei, I went to the market to buy some things, I'll be back soon.~

He reads the note and a warm smile crept on his face briefly before he looks over to the porridge and start stuffing it into his mouth, you would wonder if he even chews his food before swallowing. Once he was done eating, he wash his bowl and leave to cottage and head over to the forest near his home.

Longwei lives in mountain ridge village, a village with got its name from the tall mountain that located on the east and west side and a forest at its south side. He's village is located in the Tang long prefecture of the Cloud mist country. He isn't a native of mountain ridge as he has know idea who his parents were. All he knows was that he was found with his sister and an odachi wrapped in his hands at the outskirts of the forest where he was then found by the village hunters and carried back.

As he walked along the path heading south for about 14 m he deviated and headed west where he came across a crystal clear river, where he usual takes his bath. There are baths in the village but he is hated in the village, seen a trouble child. So only his sister goes there while he rather bathes here.

He looks down into the river to see a black haired boy, with deep black eyes and a slightly round face from baby fat and clear white skin, himself.

He takes off his clothes with only his under wear on and slowly dips in to the water and swims down the river a bit to find a waterfall, the source of the river. He swims a bit diving down and popping back up and the uses the soap he brought with him and washed himself. Once he finish Longwei tried to climb back up only to graze his leg on something protruding from the rock. He look sat it only to find a weird black stone lodged in the earth. He then goes to find a stick and a a silver colored piece of grass known as silver vein grass as probably guessed the vein of the grass is silver, hence its name, he tosses it into his mouth and chew a bit before bringing it out and smearing it onto the wound, this grass has a healing properties when the juice inside is rubbed on small wounds. Longwei then uses the stick to dislodge the stone from the earth and rinses it in the river before wearing his clothes and putting it in this pocket then head back to the village.