Chapter 43: The First Diamond!
"It's $500, which is the tour guide fee I originally said, and I would like to ask you to take me to the Peace Diamond Mine. Jia Lei had breakfast the next day and found Wu Niu's uncle and said.
"$500 is too much! If you really want to give money, you can just pay for the accommodation, you don't need so much money, my mother said she knew your grandmother back then." Second Uncle Wu Niu hurriedly returned the money and said.
"It's not much, you can use the extra part as the money to buy clothes! I like this dress very much, can you wear him back to China." Jia Lei touched the bearskin coat on his body and said.
This bearskin coat is obviously Wu Niu's cousin's, Jia Lei is wearing it up to his ankles, and his sleeves can cover his hands.
"Of course you can? My mother said a long time ago that she would give you this dress, so you can take it back!" said Wu Niu's second uncle, Imiron.
"Thank you! This bearskin dress should be quite expensive, should I make up some more money for you?" Jia Lei asked while touching the fur collar.
"It's not that expensive! Now that the ruble has depreciated, people from outside the bear skin will sell it for 300 dollars when they come to buy it. Imiron said.
"Then can you help me buy a few more sets?" Jia Lei asked with shiny eyes when he heard this.
"Well, there are no bearskin shops in the city, but I know a few old hunters who have skins at home. How many sets do you want?" asked Imira.
"My grandfather has one set, my mother has one set, my godmother has one set, and I want three sets. It's a pity that my younger siblings are too young to wear a bearskin ......coat," Jia Lei said regretfully.
"Children can wear snow rabbit and fox skins, and they are light, white, and warm!" said Uncle Imiran.
"Forget it! How many critters do you have to kill to make this coat? If you don't protect these animals well, they will be extinct!" Jia Lei said, shaking his head.
"Hahaha! These animals can't be killed at all, and we are not afraid of extermination! You don't know that the foxes and wolves in Siberia often steal our cattle and sheep, especially the wolves have hundreds of them at a time, and if we don't kill them, they will enter the villages and towns. Uncle Imirão said that it was true!
The wolves of Siberia were plagued in 2014!
"Well, I forgot, your country is sparsely populated! There are more animals than people. Jia Lei then remembered to say.
"Yes, we only have a few tens of thousands of people here, and I guess the total number of wolves in the entire Yakutia is about the same as a human being. Uncle Imiran said.
Environmental protection laws were not in vogue at this time, especially in this remote and inaccessible area, where the country's capital, Yakutsk, is 8,468 kilometers away from Moscow.
Typical sky-high emperor far away!
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"Brother, I still want to drink sugar water!" Xiao Eva ran over again and took Jia Lei's hand and said.
"Okay, okay, I'll get it for you." Jia Lei nodded and said that he was doing morning exercise in the yard.
"Great! Eva clapped her hands and ran away with a smile, and Jia Lei had to go into the house to get brown sugar out.
"I'm going to drink sugar water too!" Seven or eight children gathered around again, and there were more people today than yesterday.
"Where did this little prince come from? isn't this your child?" Jia Lei asked as he looked at a blonde, blue-eyed white baby holding Eva's hand.
"Paulo is the younger brother next door!" Eva's brother hurriedly replied to Jia Lei, saying that he now regarded Jia Lei as the boss.
"Oh, then you can get him a cup too, do you want to drink sugar water?" Jia Lei asked.
"Paulo wants to drink it!" Eva said that the sugar water was sweet and delicious. Paul Luo said in a humming voice, and Jia Lei knew that the child had a cold as soon as he heard it.
"It's best to drink brown sugar ginger water for a cold, you can drink one more glass later. After Jia Lei finished speaking, he added a large spoonful of ginger brown sugar to each child's hot water cup.
"It smells so good! Eva's second brother said.
"Shhh
"It's so spicy!" said little Paulo, sticking out his tongue.
"This water is very hot, you all drink it slowly and be careful not to get burned. Jia Lei hurriedly said, but unfortunately none of these children listened to Jia Lei's words at all, and they drank an enamel cup of ginger syrup in less than three minutes.
"Ah...... Yes...... Ahh
"Ahh Eva immediately abandoned her little friend and avoided, and Jia Lei, as the only "adult" present, had to help this little broken child wipe his nose with his own hands.
"Ahh
"You drink another glass of brown sugar water, and you can get better with a cold when you go back." After Jia Lei finished speaking, he poured a glass of brown sugar water for Paulo.
"I want it too!" the other children started up.
"I can only drink a glass! If I drink too much water, I will wet the bed at night. Jia Lei said while adding ginger and brown sugar to the children.
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"Was that the sugar water you gave my grandson just now?" an hour later, a middle-aged woman came over with little Paulo and asked.
"It's me, what's wrong? Could it be that little Paulo has a bad stomach, maybe he's allergic? Oh, I forgot to ask him if he has any allergies. Jia Lei said nervously.
"My grandson is not allergic! What medicine did you give my grandson, and why did his cold symptoms lessen?" asked little Paulro's grandmother.
"I didn't ...... I didn't take any medicine! How dare I give medicine to other people's children, he drank two cups of brown sugar water! But ginger brown sugar water can indeed cure colds. Jia Lei hurriedly defended.
"What is ginger brown sugar?" can you show me?" asked little Paul's grandmother.
"Yes! Yes!" Jia Lei hurriedly took out the remaining ginger brown sugar and asked the parents who came to find fault to check it.
"Is this sugar?" asked little Paulo's grandmother, who had never seen sugar in red before.
"It's sugar! It's sugar from sugar cane. Jia Lei hurriedly explained.
"I'll taste it!" little Paulro's grandmother carefully dipped a little and put it in her mouth, and then he tasted the earthy sweetness of brown sugar and the spicy taste of ginger ale.
"This thing called brown sugar tastes a little weird, but it's sugar!" concluded little Paulro's grandmother, wiping her hands.
"Actually, the real brown sugar is not spicy at all, and I added ginger juice here to make it taste so weird. Jia Lei explained to her.
"Can you cure a cold?" asked little Paulo's grandmother suddenly.
Ginger brown sugar can only ward off the cold and warm the stomach and warm the body, it can only relieve the symptoms of cold and nasal congestion. Jia Lei said.
"As long as it can cure colds, the temperature difference here in May is very small, and children often catch colds, but it is not easy for children to get needles, and little Paulo has been sick for several days. It's finally good today. I'm going to see what the magic medicine is!" said little Paulo's grandmother.
"It's all right! Then I'm relieved. Jia Lei said with a sigh of relief.
"Can you sell me some of this magical red candy?" asked little Paulro's grandmother.
"I'm not short of money! I can give you some if little Paulo likes it, and I'll give the rest to the landlady." Jia Lei said that he originally wanted to give all the brown sugar to Wu Niu's grandmother's family.
"If you're willing to give me half of it, I'll trade this for you!" said little Paulro's grandmother as she pulled something out of her pocket.
"I can't give you that much, little Eva they have seven or eight...... What about the child......" Jia Lei's words were blocked.
Little Paul's grandmother spread out her palm, a transparent stone the size of a soybean was lying there, the sun was particularly strong at ten o'clock, Jia Lei could see that this stone was very fast and transparent, without a little impurity.
"This ...... What is this?" Jia Lei asked, swallowing at the mouth.
"Rough diamonds! It's a little smaller, but I think it should be enough for a few catties of sugar. Little Paulo's grandmother said with a straight face.
"This ...... You actually exchanged diamonds for sugar?" Jia Lei asked in surprise.
"We have a lot of this stuff here, and this is what my son brought back from the mine. Isn't that what you foreigners are here for? "Shall you give you half of the candy in exchange for this?" asked little Paul's grandmother.
"Give it, give it!" Jia Lei hurriedly nodded while pouring half of the sugar for her.
"Give me the sugar, this is for you! You can make a diamond ring of about 4 points after you go back and ask someone to cut and polish this!" said little Paulo's grandmother, and Jia Lei hurriedly took the rough diamond from her hand.
"Oh my God, I didn't expect any old man to have a diamond in his hand, this time it's the right one!" Jia Lei said with a smile while holding this soybean-sized rough stone.
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"We're going to park here, and we're going to stop private cars from any further. Uncle Imiran said.
"I understand, afraid that someone will drive in and grab the diamond? Jia Lei wrapped the borrowed ragged cotton clothes on his body, put the bag on his back and prepared to go down.
"That's not the main reason, it's mainly that we people here often drive drunk! If you don't shoot here, someone will drive straight into the diamond pit. It's going to hit people!" said Uncle Imiran.
"Well, that's a compelling reason. Jia Lei said embarrassedly.
"That's because we're not afraid of people robbing diamonds here!" said Uncle Imirang, and then he walked with Jia Lei to the gate of the mine.
"Stop! no outsiders are allowed to enter. The guard at the door pointed a gun at Jia Lei and said.
"Don't do that! This is my nephew, he wants to come to the diamond mine to see it! Just let him in, he's just a kid anyway. Uncle Imiran said as he gave each of the guards fifty dollars.
"Well, then go in, but according to the rules, the bag must be shed, lest he steal the diamond ore. The Captain of the Guard said.
"I don't have to steal, I can buy as many diamonds as I want with my money! Jia Lei snorted, took out his wallet, left his backpack and said, the others just laughed and didn't care.
"The car is coming, let's take a ride in!" said Uncle Imirang, who said that when you go in here, you will not be strictly inspected, but when you come out, you will have to go through layers of inspections.
"What car?" Jia Lei asked suspiciously, and then he saw Uncle Wu Niu stop a big blue truck and take him in.
"Didn't you say you wanted to go into the mine? This car will go down to the mine right now, and we'll just sit on it. Uncle Wu Niu explained to Jia Lei.
"Can I really go to the diamond mine to have a look?" Jia Lei asked excitedly, he now had a picture of a diamond flashing in the dark mine in his mind.
"Oh, what's so nice about the Diamond Cave? The driver said.
"But I've never seen it before, I'm just curious to go and see it!" Jia Lei said excitedly.
"I'm afraid you'll regret it in a while!" said the driver, who said that these foreigners would be very excited at the beginning every time they came here to visit, and it didn't take more than half an hour to keep them shouting one by one.
"What's there to regret? Big deal is to go back empty-handed. Jia Lei muttered.
You can't be too iron-toothed!
Jia Lei didn't even survive for 20 minutes, and he was already scared and couldn't scream...... Jia Lei's eyes are now full of mosquito coils, and the whole person is already dizzy, and suddenly the driver and master turned a corner, and the car slid down a few meters into the next corner. A small rock was crushed by the tires of the car and fell under the hole.
"Ahh
The Peace Diamond Mine Cave is a large pit that has been dug more than 500 meters, although it is only more than 300 meters deep in 1991, it is very deep to look up and down, and you can't see the bottom at a glance, Jia Lei is now sitting in the car and is going down the cave in a circle, and it has turned a hundred times!
Jia Lei had already been dizzy...... I'm scared stupid!Read a book and find the latest chapter by yourself?You're out,WeChat attention Beauty editor to help you find a book!