Pick up treasure

"It's jade, it's really jade!"

The crowd around the entrance of the cave suddenly started to stir. They all rely on jade for food. Everyone understands the significance of discovering a jade vein. Everyone's face showed excitement, that is, Tusken The old man raised his right arm at this time and waved his fist fiercely.

When the piece of jade weighing more than a thousand catties was mined out of the cave, the crowd burst into cheers. Except for Wang Ding, Shuaizi and Lao Zhu, all the people present had followed Tusken for several years or even The veteran jade picker of more than ten years seems to have mined a new jade vein.For them, various channels will also be very profitable.

After walking around the jade for a few times, Tusken said happily: "Not bad, very good. This jade vein is no worse than the Talekesu Mine, and the quality of the jade is even better."

"Taleksu Mine?"

Does Wang Ding know where this mine is?

Naturally, Tusken knew that Wang Ding didn't know about this mine, and explained, "Taleksu Mine is a jade vein that I opened five years ago. That mine produced more than 60 tons of jade, including many mutton fat jade. Then It is the best jade mine I have ever seen in my life, but now that I look at this mine, it might surpass that one!"

"Ah, no way, I think this jade is just an ordinary blue-white jade, and the material can only be considered ordinary, right? Like the Taleksu mine you mentioned, all suet white jade is mined, how can this mine compare?"

Tusken glared at Wang Ding and said, "Oh, what do you know, kid? This is just the edge of the jade vein. The more you dig in, the better the jade will be, and good jade will keep appearing. I have a hunch , this mine will become the largest jade mine in #Xinjiang."

"is it?"

Wang Ding can see the jade mine here through perspective. Indeed, there is a large amount of it, and the quality of the jade is not bad.

However, Wang Ding is still not sure if he wants to judge whether the jade is good or not and not to mine it.

"Just wait and see the good show!"

It seems that it has been concluded that there is jade here, and Tusken is no longer as nervous as before.He simply went to camp to rest.

And the current mining naturally does not need Wang Ding to work. Tusken left, and Wang Ding also found something to do.At this time, the old pig took the gun brought by the mine protection team and asked Wang Ding to go hunting. Wang Ding saw that the old pig was very interested, so he carried the gun and accompanied the old pig up the mountain to hunt.

The mining of the jade veins went smoothly. In five days, the mine has been drilled into more than ten meters.The jade produced was nearly [-] tons. Mr. Tusken said it well. The deeper the jade is mined, the higher the quality of the jade. The quality of the few pieces of jade that have been mined recently can reach the upper-middle level, and they are very valuable.

However, there was a heavy rain yesterday, which caused the water level at the mouth of the river to rise a lot. Although it has not reached the height of the rock wall mine, it is not far away.Now the mining team is undoubtedly facing a difficult problem, that is, the stream must be diverted as soon as possible. For the past two days, Tusken took Liu Xiaosu to observe the terrain. After everyone's discussion, they finally decided to adopt the original plan, using explosives Block this river mouth, and open up another stream outlet.

It is said that the stream is cut off by expenditure, but the water in this stream is usually not very deep, only reaching the waist of a person, but it is the flash flood season.It can spread to a depth of three or four meters above the river, so it is not a simple matter to intercept the river and divert it.

After inspecting several places on the mountainside, Zhang Bo decided to use dynamite to blow up part of the mountain above the river mouth and let the gravel roll down.Block the mouth of the river, and then dig another ditch to guide the torrent.Wang Ding observed the entire terrain, and felt that this was the only way to try it.

Liu Gong and his men were 30 meters above the mouth of the river.More than 20 blasting points were shot, and all the blasting points were planned to be detonated at the same time. If they were detonated at the same time, those rocks would be enough to block the river mouth.

Although it is very likely to block the entrance of the mine, it is impossible.The terrain at the foot of the mountain is low, and if there is another heavy rain, I am afraid that the mine will become a water curtain cave, and mining will not be possible at all.

More than half an hour later, a hurried whistle sounded, and the people who planted the explosives immediately ran from the mountain to the camp.

"Time is up, detonate!!!"

Seeing that the workers had all run back safely, Tusken yelled loudly, and after Liu Xiaosu heard the order, she pressed down hard with the hand holding the remote control.

"Boom! Boom!! Boom!!!"

Following the sound of huge explosions with a rhythm, Wang Ding could only feel that the ground was shaking, and the mountain hundreds of meters away seemed to be cut off by the middle, and countless rocks poured down.Large and small stones splashed in all directions, and some of them even fell tens of meters away from Wang Ding and the others. If the distance were any closer, they would probably end up bleeding.

The explosion sites were detonated one by one, and the sound of explosions was still coming. Tusken suddenly handed Wang Ding a telescope, and when he took the telescope, Wang Ding quickly picked it up and put it in front of his eyes. It was more intuitive. Under the power of explosives, those hard rocks were as fragile as tofu, and they were broken into pieces of stones of different sizes, all of which blocked the mouth of the river.

"One time. Two times, three times." Twenty times, 21 times, all the explosion points were detonated, and there were no squibs. Someone next to him was counting the sound of the explosion, and when the sound of the explosion disappeared, that person also breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately reported to Liu Xiaosu who was in charge of the interception.

It is not a joke to use explosives to open a mountain. Due to various reasons, there will be a squib failure if you are not careful, and this is the most difficult to eliminate. When you encounter such a thing, you must send someone to check it, but after checking During the process, the squib will often detonate, and the end of the person who checks the fault is naturally needless to say.

In some places where people rely on mountains and eat mountains for a living.It is commonplace to use explosives, and there are not a few people who die from squibs every year.Liu Gong also breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that all the explosion points were detonated. This ruled out the work of squibs, but no one is willing to do it, which is tantamount to working with his head.But Liu Xiaosu is precisely because he is not afraid of death and loves to fight hard, so that he can become the number one under Zhang Bo's subordinates.

At this time, the originally low-lying river mouth seemed to be built into a dam in an instant, intercepting all the water flowing from the mountain, but this is not over yet, just three days after the first round of explosions stopped. Four minutes later, Liu Xiaosu pressed a button on the remote control in his left hand, and immediately, the deafening explosion sounded again. This time, the embedding of the explosion point was in the shape of a long dragon, five to sixty meters from the foot of the mountain. A line exploded downward.

The situation in the telescope is different from just now, this time the fried spot is relatively shallower.Wang Ding could only see the place where the bombing point passed. The land seemed to be plowed, and it turned to both sides one after another, and a deep chasm appeared in his sight.However, another picture jumped out!

"Wang Ding, look up." Mr. Tusken said from the side.

"above?"

Wang Ding was a little confused, so he raised the binoculars. After seeing it, he was stunned.

The place where Wang Ding and others camped was already at an altitude of more than 3000 meters, and the peak in front was even more than 5000 meters above sea level.There is snow on the top of the mountain all year round.Even in summer, only the white snow on the mountainside is slowly melting, flowing to the bison ditch.

"avalanche?!"

"It's an avalanche!"

Wang Ding saw through the telescope that there was a crack in the ice and snow that was as hard as iron on the halfway up the mountain, which was almost soaring into the sky.

Snapped,

Wang Ding seemed to be able to hear the "click" sound from the breaking of the ice layer, and then, the huge snow body began to slide, and the snow body quickly gained speed in the process of sliding down, so the avalanche body changed It became a white snow dragon that almost rushed down, soaring through the clouds and riding the fog, roaring and rushing down the mountain fiercely.

The snow layer broke, and white, layered snow blocks and snowboards rose up in response, as if the mountain god suddenly activated his internal force and shook off a white robe on his body, and it was also like a white snow dragon flying through the clouds and roaring down the mountain.

"Ibex?

"There are a lot of wild goats there."

Before Wang Ding had time to think about it, in Wang Ding's sight, the group of wild goats who were aware of the crisis ran wildly, but their speed was far less than that of the snow. After just a few seconds, the dozen or so wild goats disappeared. In Wang Ding's eyes.

"Isn't it spectacular?"

Tusken was used to seeing avalanches, but it was the first time for Wang Ding to see this kind of scene, just like the first time someone who has never seen the sea sees the surging waves and hears the laughing sound of the waves for the first time.

Wang Ding's heart was washed once, and even more enlightened once.

The insignificance of life, the irreversibility of nature, all kinds of emotions came to my head.

The avalanche continued for more than half an hour.After the straightness slowed down, the speed of the snow pouring down slowed down, but the bushes on the mountainside had disappeared, and they were all covered by thick snow. I believe that after a few days, All the snow will turn into snow water and flow down.

An hour later, no more gravel fell. The explosion was successful. The original river mouth was completely blocked, and another gap appeared on the right side more than ten meters away, and the mountain had begun to dissolve. The frozen snow water becomes a stream.Flow down from here.

The water in the stream also became colder. Wang Ding put his hand in the water, and he could feel a biting chill. He knew that this was because the snow had melted. Looking upstream, there were millstones from time to time. Large and small ice blocks washed down from the new channel mouth, making the water colder, colder, and bone-harder. (To be continued.)