Ghostly Tomb

Chapter 1013 Handed down gemstone mine [Thanks: ako million rewards plus more]

After everyone walked the mountain road for this period of time, Chen Zhi and others didn't feel very tired, but the injured Hu Meng and Lao Somersault were obviously exhausted. They pushed open the doors of those wooden houses, wanting to go in and rest for a while .

These wooden houses are all of the same standard, with simple triangular roofs, each about [-] square meters, and the environment inside is not bad. The floors, walls, and ceilings are all made of teak, which is very durable and warm in winter and cool in summer.

But probably because they were afraid of causing a fire, there was no stove in the middle of the house, only some benches and sofas for resting. In the surrounding cabinets, they also found a lot of canned water...

"We can only rest here for a while..." Hu Meng said as he took out the water jars, then pointed out the window,
"After passing here, the gem mine base is ahead, and there is no place to rest there..."

Pang Wei found some cups in the partition next to him, then poured water into them and took a sip.
"I said you boy, are you right?

I just said that I came here once, more than ten years ago~~~, how do you know there is no place to rest inside? "

"You don't know..." Hu Meng said to Fat Wei seriously,

"Our colored gemstone mine has been passed down for countless generations from ancient times to the present. It has been thousands of years or longer? We don't even know~~~~
But until now, this gemstone mine is still the most primitive mining technology, and the miners work very hard, and you will know when you go in~~~"

After Hu Meng finished speaking, he called everyone to drink water, and specially handed old Kutu a cup, asking him to come and rest with everyone.

They drank some water in the wooden house, paused for a while, and then moved on...

In front of the wooden house, there was a small slope. After turning over a slope, they finally saw the legendary Mongolian colored gemstone mining area!
It's just that the scene in this mining area is a mess now, with wet loess and muddy water everywhere, and there are some miners' lunch boxes with tableware on them beside the muddy water~~~
It seems that just like what Hu Meng said just now, the workers in this gemstone mine are very hard-working, and they have always been in a closed state, without contact with the outside world, and all mining techniques use the most primitive methods.

They didn't stop any longer, and continued to move forward. At intervals, they could see a ditch full of muddy water, and there were dustpans wrapped in gauze in it. It seemed that there should have been many workers sifting stones here. It's a bit like the gold panning scene in old movies, but now the workers are gone.

But in those dustpans there were still many small broken gemstones sifted out, most of them were transparent gravel, and there were not many colored ones.

"It's not so easy to mine a good colored gem...",
Hu Meng walked all the way and said to them:
"You may think that we, the children of aristocratic families, have never learned anything since we were young, only know how to eat, drink and have fun~~~
In fact, we have learned mining technology since we were very young, but the technology we learned is very traditional and more suitable for our family~~~
For example, if we want to mine gemstones in this mountain range, we need to loosen the mountain body with a soil planer first, and then use flood water to wash away the dug-out soil and stones. It is manually sucked into such a large tank, and there are staff on it to sweep away the big rocks in time.

The remaining muddy water will be mixed with gem-containing ores, which will settle under the muddy water. After the double precipitation, only muddy water and small broken gemstones will flow out.

Those dustpans wrapped with gauze nets before were tools for digging out small treasures in muddy water.

After this set of processes, all must be manually operated, and no machines can be used at all. This kind of hardship is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

As you may have discovered, there is no electricity in this land, no machinery of any modern society...

Colored gemstones are gifts from our ancestors and gods. Machines and gasoline will pollute this sacred land, and our ancestors will blame us, so we can only use our hands to mine the treasures left to us by the gods from generation to generation~~~
I once saw my uncle, his feet were all soaked, but he was still standing in the muddy water to wash the sand. The villagers in this village are related to each other. Although they are very rich, they work very hard! "

"Hey, I said Hu Meng~~~, if you really don't use any machines in this mine, how did you find the ore veins?",
Fat Wei said with some incomprehension:
"Could it be that your ancestors left you some treasure maps or something? Tell you where there are gem mines?"

"How can there be such a good thing?",
Hu Meng shook his head, smiled bitterly and said:

"Finding these gem veins is another complicated process...

As I told you just now, we cannot use any modern instruments and equipment here, and all rely on primitive labor and simple tools~~~~
When the veins are always exhausted, we need to find new veins~~~
When we are looking for new mineral veins, we first dig an earthen well from the top of the mountain, usually tens of meters deep, and then use wood to build a ladder down, so that people can go down to see the changes in the soil quality, and then dig deeper~~~
The mineral veins are distributed in bands, so as long as the mineral veins pass by, you can roughly know how deep the soil is dug down.

The strange thing is that the deeper the colored gemstone veins are, the more colorful the gemstones will be.

So some of our high-end goods are mined in extremely deep underground mines.

A piece of eight kilograms of material was once dug here, and a huge colored gemstone was produced.The gem was the size of a baby's head.It releases 77 kinds of brilliant colors, each of which cannot be painted by current paints, and is even more beautiful than angel eyes.

The huge gemstone was later divided into two and made into two eggs, one was given to an important person in Russia, and the other was sent to an American lady!

And since then, our Mongolian country has broken away from the meaningless second war and gained peace. Our small, sparsely populated country has been able to maintain it until now. "

"So it's like this..." Listening to Hu Meng's introduction, Fatty was a little moved.

"Brother, I really misunderstood you before. I thought you were a golden second generation who only knew how to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble. So you also care about the fate of the nation so much. I admire you~~~, you are really a role model for us..."

"But this kind of thing has pros and cons..."
Hu Meng continued:

"The higher the quality of the gemstone, the deeper it must be dug into the ground~~~, this will easily arouse people's greed~~~
I heard that when my uncle was alive, he also tried to use high-tech instruments to detect the underground situation, and wanted to dig deeper~~~~
But I was slapped twice by my grandfather, and was fined not to eat for a week! ! !
My grandfather said that my uncle is too greedy and the family cannot be handed over to him in the future.

He also told me that after I take over the mine in the future, I must not violate the rules set by my ancestors like my uncle did.

When you dig to a certain depth, you must stop, no matter how attractive the underground gems are, you can no longer detect the things below..."

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