gifted collector

Chapter 389 Gold veins?
"boom!"

Fang Ming picked up a thicker piece of wood and smashed it hard on the burnt black mud ball. After the mud ball cracked, a tempting aroma suddenly wafted out of it.

"Come on, let's eat first."

Fang Ming broke open the cracked mud ball, revealing a fish inside, and the snow-white fish meat was immediately exposed when he pulled it a little.

This fish was caught by Zhao Zhuzi in the lake before, and it happened to be dinner for the three of them.

People depend on food, so Niu Ping and Zhao Zhuzi stopped talking at this time, and concentrated on dealing with the cooked fish. Apart from the "popping" sound from the burning fire, they became quiet for a while.

After eating, Zhao Zhuzi and Niu Ping went to bed after a busy day. As for Fang Ming, he was in charge of "watching the sentry". Zhao Zhuzi came to replace Fang Ming at three o'clock in the morning.

When a new day came, Fang Ming and Niu Ping continued to go to the place where the imperial mausoleum was located. They dug two 15-meter-deep holes in the place where the bones were found, but they didn't find anything. Disappointed to give up on this place.

Fang Ming shook his head and said, "Old Niu, it seems we have failed again."

"Yes."

He stayed here for a long time, but he found nothing. Although he had already been mentally prepared that the imperial tomb would not be so easy, but after all, he was a mortal, so Niu Ping was still quite depressed.

"I think maybe we should change our thinking."

Holding his chin, Fang Ming said: "Since these people here died of robbery, it means that they may have found the underground palace back then, then... we should start with those big pits and drill holes there. Hole, see if there is any harvest."

Niu Ping's eyes lit up, Fang Ming's analysis was very likely, "Okay! Let's try!"

There are not many big pits in the entire mausoleum area, only three. Fang Ming and Niu Ping each walked to the edge of a big pit with a Luoyang shovel and began to dig holes.

A day later, Fang Ming was the first to hit a depth of 15 meters.The big pit that Fang Ming chose was not located on the central axis of the entire imperial mausoleum, so according to him, it is very unlikely that there will be "conditions" underground in this place, and the situation during the digging process also proved this. One point: the soil brought out by the Luoyang shovel during the whole process is nothing special. Even if the color of the soil has changed, there is nothing special about the density of the soil or the substances contained in the soil.

Fang Ming and Niu Ping were excited for a while when there was a shovel of soil that was lifted up with a trace of sawdust, but after research, it was found that it should be the top of a big tree buried deep in the ground many years ago. Hope to see something very different.

"Perhaps...if you hit another meter, maybe you will find it."

After drilling so many holes, nothing was found, and Fang Ming himself became anxious about gains and losses.He originally planned to stop when he reached 15 meters, but now he hesitated again.After being stunned for a while, he lifted the Luoyang shovel, then let go and put it down again.

"boom!"

"Boom!"

"Bang bang bang!"

The dull voice continued to sound, Fang Ming finally decided to go down a few more meters to see if he found anything.

The soil brought out by the Luoyang shovel was a little whitish. Fang Ming glanced at it and shook his head. This kind of soil has appeared before. Of course, he was very excited when he first appeared. After there is nothing special, there will be nothing when it reappears.

The Luoyang shovel knocked on the ground, and the soil inside poured out. Fang Ming picked it up, and the Luoyang shovel returned to his hand. However, just when he wanted to put the Luoyang shovel back into the hole he made, His eyes narrowed.

"Where does this light come from?"

Just when he turned his head just now, Fang Ming felt something flashed in his eyes.Without moving his body, Fang Ming slowly turned his head back. Soon, he found the light shining in front of his eyes—it turned out to be coming from the dirt he knocked down just now.

Fang Ming immediately threw away the Luoyang shovel in his hand, squatted down, and scratched in the soil, and finally squeezed out something like a grain of sand from the soil.

"This... is Jinsha?"

Fang Ming's eyes widened, and he looked at the golden sand "stained" on his finger in disbelief. Under the sun, the golden sand shone brightly, very dazzling.

Fang Ming plays with antiques, so it's not like he can't tell the difference between gold!
Actually hit the sand? !

Below 15 meters, the Luoyang shovel was used to hit the golden sand at a place close to 20 meters. What is the situation?
"Old cow!"

After thinking for a while, Fang Ming realized that he couldn't understand what was going on, so he raised his voice and called Niu Ping over.

Niu Ping strode over. He immediately noticed the grain of gold sand on Fang Ming's finger, and his eyes immediately widened.Taking Jinsha from Fang Ming's hand, he lifted it up to face the sun and observed it carefully.

"This... is natural gold sand."

Natural gold sand refers to the fine sand-like particles formed by ancient gold mines due to weathering and other reasons over a long period of time, so it is called gold sand.

The grain of golden sand in front of me is brightly colored and is close to pure gold. Has the golden sand been produced so deep underground?
"Fang Ming, in the process of playing, is there anything special about the hand feeling?"

Before he made any important discoveries, Niu Ping was always worried about his gains and losses, but now he calmed down after hitting the golden sand, and began to question Fang Ming carefully.

People who use Luoyang shovels, especially experienced ones, can feel different when hitting different soils. Niu Ping asked Fang Ming that he had already regarded him as a master.

Fang Ming tried his best to recall it, and finally shook his head, saying: "No, it's normal, so I even thought that the soil with this shovel was no different from the other soil before when I first went to the South Garden in the morning. I have already planned to continue the beating, but I accidentally discovered that there is a grain of gold sand in it."

Fang Ming described the previous situation in detail. He knew that every word he said might affect Niu Ping's judgment.

Niu Ping frowned, this is really abnormal.It is normal for golden sand to appear in imperial tombs, because many times golden sand is used in imperial tombs as water in rivers, or directly used to pave the ground, or as a golden sand pool...these are not the only ones , but the crux of the problem is why Fang Ming didn't feel anything about the hand feeling even though Jinsha had already appeared?

This is absolutely not normal.

Walking to the edge of the hole Fang Ming made, he picked up the rope tied to the Luoyang shovel. Niu Ping hit down a few shovels. He found that just as Fang Ming said before, there was no change in the feel at all, but the shovel came out There is gold sand in the earth!

This is so weird!

After many years of tomb robbery, there are countless holes made with Luoyang shovels, and various situations have been encountered, but he has never encountered such a situation!
what happened?

What is the situation below?
Niu Ping found that he was a little confused.

"Old Niu, what shall we do now? What shall we do next?"

Seeing Niu Ping like this, Fang Ming knew that it should be difficult to judge.You must know that the place where the sand appears is not one meter or two or three meters deep, you can just dig it out to have a look, but the place where it is more than 15 meters, that is no joke!
"Continue drilling around this hole. It is still the original plum blossom hole. The hole that has been opened is now the center, and another four holes are drilled at intervals of five meters."

Niu Ping quickly made a decision—since one hole cannot be judged now, he can only drill a few more holes to see what the situation is like below, at least he can judge the distribution of the sand below. What is it like, let’s see how to decide at that time.

"it is good."

Fang Ming also understood that this was the best way at the moment, so after confirming the location, he started to get busy.

In addition to the holes that have already been drilled, drilling the "Plum Blossom Hole" means drilling another four holes. It is not a small project for those who do not use modern drilling tools. Fang Ming and Nian Niuping are very busy. At night, the two newly drilled holes only went down about four meters.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Fang Ming and Niu Ping temporarily stopped and went back to the camp to tell Zhao Zhuzi about the situation. He was very excited.

"Gold Sands? Where is it?"

Seeing Zhao Zhuzi like this, Fang Ming couldn't help being happy, took out a few grains from his pocket, handed them to Zhao Zhuzi, and said, "Here, let me open your eyes."

In addition to the shovel he made by himself, Niu Ping made a few more shovels later, and only four or five grains of gold sand were brought out.

Putting the golden sand on the palm of his hand, it was lit by the fire, and Zhao Zhuzi's eyes widened. It has to be said that the shining light of the golden sand under the fire is quite charming.

"Ha! Could it be a gold mine down here?"

Zhao Zhuzi opened his mouth wide and laughed loudly. In his opinion, it would be really cool if it was a gold mine. Gold always means money no matter what time it is!

"This... is not impossible. After all, when Luoyang shoveled down, the feeling did not change, which shows that it is very likely that it is indeed a gold mine."

It is found that the soil layer of Jinsha is very deep, especially the density of the soil containing Jinsha has not changed, it is likely to be the original soil. If the same situation is true for the other four holes drilled, Niu Ping thinks that it is very likely to be like Zhao Zhuzi. That being said, there could be a vein of gold mine down there.

(End of this chapter)