Pick up treasure

The few people walked farther and farther, and naturally walked further and further into the valley.To Wang Ding's surprise, this valley is beautiful, with such a poetic charm, at least that's what Wang Ding feels now.

In the valley, there are red willows, wild dogs, thorns, and reeds, and a few Populus euphratica trees stand tall and straight at the foot of the mountain, like soldiers in an outpost.

There is also a canal here. In the ditch washed by the water, there are many pebbles, and traces of jade can be found in the cobblestones. The jade man took it away.

"Aren't we going to pick up the jade here?"

Wang Ding casually pointed to a fist-sized jade stone on the side of the road and asked Zhao Xiaohu. Although the exposed jade flesh showed that it was just a piece of average quality material, Wang Ding thought that there should be good jade.

Zhao Xiaohu shook his head and said, "Brother Ding, all the good jades here have been carefully selected and picked up, and the ones on the side of the road are all ordinary goods that are ready to be taken away by car."

"Is that so?"

"No! Look over there..."

While talking, a tractor drove down the mountain. The mountain road was slightly steep, and the car was a bit bumpy. There were two young people in the car. When passing by Wang Ding and the others, the man who drove the tractor shouted With a loud voice, the two people in the car got out of the car quickly and put the stones on the car together. This action is a bit like the plot of the northerners collecting corn and loading it into the car. The two young men should have been pretending for a long time. It's all dripping sweat, and those stones are being transported to the car now, no doubt it's the same as what Zhao Xiaohu said.But Wang Ding didn't miss the opportunity to look for it with his eyes, so he took the opportunity to concentrate on scanning the stones to see if there was any falling fish.

However, it seems that the stone here has been selected many times. Looking at it this way, Wang Ding basically didn't have any spiritual response, and Wang Ding's eyes didn't find any good jade for a while.

The car drove away, and the group continued on.Just walking along the way, Wang Ding also met several people who pretended to be stones along the way.After more than an hour, Wang Ding, Zhao Xiaohu and his group finally arrived at the mining area. There were guards in front of the mining area, and each of them was holding two dogs. The dogs looked very fierce. When Wang Ding and the others came, the hunting dog One wanted to rush forward, if they hadn't been trained, Wang Ding was really not sure if he would be thrown down by the hunting dogs.

"What kind of dog is this?" Wang Ding asked as he walked to the gate of the mining area.

"Brother Ding, this is not a dog, this is a wolf dog. This wolf dog is very powerful. Let me tell you, if there were no well-trained wolf dogs in this mountain, the mine would not be so safe."

"Really, how powerful is it?"

"How powerful? To tell you the truth, we bought these four wolf dogs with a lot of money in the #Xinjiang Fighting Dog Competition. Once these four wolf dogs accompanied us Zhang Bo to the mountains to pick jade, and killed two bison , how powerful are you talking about?"

Wang Ding was fascinated by what Zhao Xiaohu said, but Shitou and Shuaizi were not happy. For them, picking jade was the most important thing, and they couldn't afford to waste time.Shitou and Shuaizi kept winking, and they urged to see the mine quickly, so Zhao Xiaohu stopped talking.

"Brother Ding, time is tight, the mine is just ahead, let's go to the mine to have a look, and we will leave after we finish."

Zhao Xiaohu had already made an agreement with the people at the mine, and heard that Uncle Zhang had arranged for someone to come and see the mine.The little boss named Lao Bian didn't dare to neglect, and led Wang Ding and others with a playful smile across a mountain road, and the group came to the top of the mine.

What appeared in front of Wang Ding was a huge mountain wall tens of meters high, but the entire mountain had been excavated by quarry workers. It was mottled and irregular, just a white section.And this section is just facing the afternoon sun, like a reflective mirror, which makes Wang Ding unable to open his eyes.

Waiting for the fascination to disappear, Wang Ding quickly opened the perspective and observed the huge mountain wall tens of meters high.But before Wang Ding found out, Shuaizi had already pushed on Wang Ding's shoulder.

"Wang Ding, let's go in quickly."

Wang Ding had no choice but to look back at Shuaizi's sound, but from the two seconds of short feeling just now, Wang Ding didn't realize that there would be a lot of jade in it.

Under the leadership of Lao Bian, Wang Ding got into the pit with a length of 80 meters.The height and width of the mine were only a little over 1.5 meters. Wang Ding could barely move forward with his body bent, while the others simply crawled behind Old Yu and entered the cave bit by bit.

Before entering the cave, Wang Ding had roughly seen the first ten meters of the mine, but there was nothing about it.And going deeper, Wang Ding guessed that he would definitely see jade, although it would not be full of jade on all sides, light could be used as a guide, at least there would be jade of moderate size.But to his disappointment, several people went all the way to the bottom of the cave, but they still didn't see any trace of jade.

Walking out of the cave, Lao Bian looked at Wang Dingdao with a smile on his face, "Brother, this should be your first time entering the mine, right?"

"Correct."

"Did you think you could see jade when you came in? It's strange that you still haven't seen it when you come out of the cave."

"Yeah, did I not notice?"

Wang Ding said in a daze.

"It's not that you haven't noticed. I might as well tell you that we are also looking for and detecting whether there is jade in this mine, and how much jade there is. To be precise, our current process is actually looking for ore veins. Only by confirming the ore veins can we proceed." Mining, in the early stage we can’t mine extensively, otherwise the veins will be destroyed.”

"Oh, I see, so if there is still no jade when digging, can this mine be abandoned?"

"That's right, because the cost of digging and mining jade is very high. If you haven't seen jade to this extent, you can basically be sure that there is no more."

"Then I would like to ask, have we found any veins of jade here, even if they are very small, I just want to take a look."

Wang Ding's request was something Lao Bian hadn't expected at first. Uncle Zhang had called people to visit the mine before, but those people were basically just going through the motions.

However, Lao Bian had a particularly good impression of Wang Ding, so he nodded and agreed.

Although Lao Bian agreed, Wang Ding didn't know that his actions had angered Shuaizi and Shitou. When they saw Wang Ding follow Lao Bian to another mine vein, they shook their arms and acted first. .

In order not to embarrass everyone, Shuaizi and Shitou only said to go to the front to inquire first, but even though they said so, they still clearly wanted to act alone.Fortunately, Zhao Xiaohu and Fatty Laozhu stayed behind, and he followed Wang Ding to see another vein.

In fact, starting from the hearts of Zhao Xiaohu and Lao Zhu, they also wanted to go to the mountains to collect jade as soon as possible. If you are late, you may not get anything.

Wang Ding was a bit ill-considered, but he had already made a decision, and Wang Ding would not regret it. Moreover, Wang Ding knew that even if those people went before him, they might not be able to find the jade faster than him.Now, Wang Ding wants to see what the jade veins look like and what their structure is, so that he can discover the jade veins. Otherwise, even if he has seen them with his own eyes, he may not know if they are.

Arrived at a mining area again, these two mining areas are one east and one west, facing each other, the distance is not far.

Wang Ding stopped talking nonsense and followed Lao Bian into the mine.

This time, when Wang Ding walked into the mine, his eyes felt a little bit, there was some kind of mist on the wall, and the vague fluttering feeling was very different from the previous mine.

Sure enough, as the feeling became stronger, Wang Ding saw jade ribbons appearing on the wall not far ahead.

There is not much jade exposed, Wang Ding opened the perspective to look in the depths, but there is not much jade that can be detected, just this little bit.

"Is there any jade here?" Zhao Xiaohu said excitedly after discovering the jade.

"Yes, we didn't dig this mine deep, but now there are traces of jade, which shows that this mine is a jade mine, and this mine is regarded as a key mining project for us this year. This project may take a year It’s done. We still need to work overtime to make it out.”

"It will take this long?"

In fact, Wang Ding is not entangled in such a long time, because Wang Ding has an analysis, that is, he has gone deep into the mining area to observe the mining area. If there are enough jade, then he should have a strong reaction, but at least until So far, that feeling hasn't risen any further.There are not many jades seen through the perspective, which is self-evident!

Not to mention the one-year construction period, the manpower and material resources consumed in it, I am afraid that the jade mined cannot sustain the expenditure.

Seeing Wang Ding's unbelievable performance, the old man might as well say, "Little brother, a year is not a long time. You may not know that mining jade is a technical job. It is not like other ore contiguous pieces, such as marble, A large piece of diamond is mined. It needs to be mined bit by bit. Jade is hidden in the stone core intermittently. A piece of jade must remove a lot of hard rocks wrapped in the jade before it can be taken out. Look at the rock connected to the jade. It is called the jade root. It looks like jade, but it is stone. This is the most difficult to distinguish. Well, all previous efforts are wasted, and the idiom "jade and stone are burned together" comes from the allusion of mining jade. If you want to pry open all the mines like this, and take out the jade from the stone core, you say how huge the project is. ?”

Wang Ding nodded. "Yeah, that would take a year. But..."

Difficult jade picking made Wang Ding gain insight for a while. This jade picking not only requires the hard work of the jade picker, but also a pair of insightful eyes to recognize the difference between jade and stone.

But Wang Ding saw this mine, and he really didn't know whether he should say it or not. In addition, whether his own judgment must be completely accurate, so Wang Ding couldn't say it at this time. (To be continued.)