A Yuan from Everyone in the County? I'd Rather Pick Up an Egg Every Day

[Rural Revitalization] [Realistic Fiction]

What would happen if you came across a stone that laid eggs?

In Agate Town, under the jurisdiction of a [fifth-tier county in Northeast China], [mining has been banned and the mountains closed off. Those who struck it rich went south, and the supply of rough stones here has dried up completely]. The whole town is in despair.

Other people raise chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep. I, Lu Xia, raise stones!

An ordinary-looking, lousy stone actually lays me an egg every day, and inside is a priceless piece of top-grade agate!

From then on, while others fight tooth and nail over scraps, I cuddle my “old mother stone” every day and worry about just one thing: Should I turn today's egg into a bracelet, a hand-held carving, or a display piece?

Have you ever seen a man save an entire county's industry by “collecting eggs”?

(A special note)

The thousand-year-old agate stone left behind by my master has a special mineral activity of its own. It can subtly change the elemental density of the surrounding waste stones and reorganize their internal structure, slowly “nurturing” complete new agate rough stones, the “eggs” I pick up every day.