Back in the 1980s, hiking in the mountains was also a way of life

Chapter 532: Two Jin and Two and a Half Liang

When Wang An was digging, he discovered that these carnations were quite old!

It is possible that they have survived for countless years, or it is possible that from the first batch of dianthus to now, countless generations of dianthus have been growing over and over again.

Anyway, the roots of these carnations, quite a lot of them have rotted into small skins that look like rice husks, and quite a few roots have rotted away, leaving only a tubular root bark.

The key is that these root barks are also layered and stacked up. Even the fresh roots are covered or entangled with quite a lot of rotten root barks.

In addition, from the size of the roots of these living dianthus, we can see that many of them are definitely quite old.

But what is surprising is that none of these golden rice grains are wrapped by roots.

Therefore, Wang An only suspected that the golden rice might be related to these carnations, but he could not guarantee it.

The main thing is that Wang An couldn't really give a clear explanation, and the "eating in a sack" incident was still fresh in people's minds. If he made blind guarantees without any basis, how heartless would that be?
When Wang An finished picking up the golden rice in the pit for the third time and was about to dig the fourth pit, Wang Li's voice suddenly came from not far away. Wang Li shouted:
"Fourth brother, fourth brother, it's time to eat."

Hearing Wang Li's shout, Wang An looked at his watch and realized that it was already 12 noon without him noticing.

So Wang An raised his voice and shouted to Wang Li:

"Oh, got it. I'll be right back."

As he spoke, Wang An stood up, picked up the sack and 81 bars on the ground, and walked back.

Wang Li stood there waiting for Wang An for a while. When Wang An came up to him, he walked back side by side with Wang An and said to him excitedly:
"Fourth brother, do you know how much gold powder we washed out in the past morning?"

The reason why there is a "淘" in "黄金暴走" is because water is absolutely indispensable in the process of refining gold.

No matter when gold is refined, the first step is often to wash the sand with water, just like "washing rice" when cooking.

Of course, in later generations, various chemicals and mercury were used to extract gold from gold ore, because the gold mined by the gold panning method like Wang An's contained a lot of impurities.

There will also be a lot of tiny bits of gold that are contained in the stones and then washed away by the water.

Simply put, there is a lot of gold that will be wasted.

What Wang Li said about "washing out gold powder" is actually a local saying. Besides, there is no difference between the words "wash" and "pan" when it comes to getting gold out of sand.

After hearing Wang Li's words, Wang An was somewhat disapproving, mainly because he was too familiar with the gold panning method using the gold chute.

No matter how serious and hard you work, at the end of the day, the amount of gold powder produced by each gold trough will be a constant.

Of course, this constant is determined based on the gold powder content in the golden nest, and it does not mean that it is the same everywhere.

Someone may ask, why doesn't everyone guard two gold chutes? Wouldn't that be more efficient?

There is nothing wrong with asking this question, but you should know that the sand shoveled out from the bottom of the water is very thin. If you shovel up big rocks, you have to pick them out with your hands and throw them aside.

The locations where gold chutes are set up are all places where the water flow is relatively fast.

That is to say, even if every shovel you shovel out is full of sand without even a single stone, your speed of shoveling sand is still not as fast as the speed at which the sand on the gold chute is washed away.

Normally speaking, it would take two people guarding a gold trough to barely provide enough supply.

Because when Wang An was forced to pan for gold in his previous life, there were two of them guarding one gold trough, but even with two people, they could not be lazy. As long as someone was lazy, the task would not be completed.

You must always believe one thing, that is, as long as you are controlled by someone, the person who controls you will definitely calculate you to death and will never let you have even a little bit of strength left! This is the truth!
Although Wang An knew very well what everyone had gained, he still asked with a smile:

"How much money did you make? You look so happy, you must have made a lot of money."

When Wang Li heard this, he said with even greater joy:
"Yeah, Brother Wang has a small scale. After he weighed it, Brother Wang said it was two catties and two and a half ounces."

When Wang An heard this, it was just as he had expected. On average, each of the nine people had collected about 9 taels and 2 qian of gold powder.

But this took half a morning, or more than two hours to be precise. If you average it out, each person can find about one or two taels of gold powder per hour.

If we convert two into grams, that would be more than 60 grams of gold powder.

However, gold powder still contains a lot of impurities. If it is further refined, only about 55 grams of pure gold can be produced at most.

But this harvest can be said to be quite considerable!
After Wang Li finished speaking, Wang An said with a smile:

"That's a lot more serious. That's good. It's really good."

Wang Li continued excitedly:
"Brother Wang also said that the current gold price is 8 yuan per gram. We made about 5 yuan in the morning, an average of 9 yuan per person. They are so happy now."

When Wang An heard this, he immediately said jokingly:

"Then let's go quickly. I hope they don't really go crazy. It's really hard to deal with them if they go crazy in this desolate mountain and wilderness."

Wang Li was stunned at first, and then he laughed with Wang An.

As the two talked, they returned to the camp where everyone had set up their tents.

Seeing Wang An coming back, everyone stood up as if they had discussed it beforehand, then clasped their fists towards Wang An and shouted:

"Welcome back to camp!"

To be honest, this scene really scared Wang An, and he subconsciously took a step back.

The main reason is that it is too uniform, just like the ancient ministers welcoming the emperor back to the palace.

However, Wang An reacted immediately and cooperated with a smile:

"Everyone has worked hard! Let's eat!"

I have to say, with Wang An’s cooperation, the whole atmosphere instantly became lively.

Immediately afterwards, everyone began the second round of praising Wang An today. But when Wang An was about to show off again, he suddenly noticed Zhang Shuya's smiling eyes.

Then, Wang An became obedient.

The main thing is that it feels good to show off for a while, but it's embarrassing to get beaten up, so it's really not worth it.

After everyone finished praising him, Wang An smiled and said to them:

"I've decided to put our gold panning plans aside for this afternoon!"

(End of this chapter)