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”bsp; Zhuang Rui also became serious, he didn't learn any skills to survive in the wild, what he could rely on was nothing more than his relatively strong body and the aura in his eyes, Zhuang Rui knew that there was no unified command in the wild, and it was easy to make trouble. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info The next day, the sky net was bright, that is, at five o'clock, Zhuang Rui was called. After getting dressed, he walked out of the small building and found that the courtyard was already densely packed with people, Zhuang Rui estimated that there should be at least a few hundred people. But no one is noisy here, it's very quiet.

In the middle of the courtyard, a large square table was set up. There is a sheep's head on it, and a table full of fruit plates, which is dedicated to the mountain god. Bless the jade miners who enter the mountain with a safe life.

The ancient old man of the ceremony presided over it, very simply, after saying a few words, he toasted to heaven and earth, sprinkled it on the ground, and then all the men who were ready to enter the mountain. They all brought a bowl of wine and drank it in one gulp, and Zhuang Rui was also stuffed with a bowl of wine in his hand, but fortunately it was wine, otherwise if this bowl went down, I am afraid that half of the people present would fall.

After the ceremony, the crowd dispersed. The teams that entered the mountain were looking for their own people, and some of the families of the men who entered the mountain came to see them off, and the scene became noisy.

"Brother Zhuang, come, let me introduce you

When Zhuang Rui was looking for Zhang Dazhi with his head out, Zhang Dazhi waved his hand at him more than ten meters away from him, and there were three people standing beside him.

"Brother Zhuang, this is Brother Tiezi, he is Wang Fei. This big guy is called Mengzi, don't look at him big. One year younger than me, this time we are in a group of five people, everyone knows each other, Brother Zhuang is a distinguished guest of Yuwang Mou, and he was specially arranged to our group. Zhang Dazhi gave a few people an introduction to each other.

When Zhuang Rui shook hands with a few people, he looked at it, Brother Tie was a little older, thirty-four or five years old, Wang Fei was a little younger, about the same age as Zhang Dazhi, and the two of them were not tall. It looks very lean.

And that fierce man is a tendon meat, more than 1.9 meters tall, and he looks quite honest. Hearing Zhang Dazhi shouting that he was a big man, he was not angry, and he laughed vigorously.

Brother Tie and Wang Fei's attitude towards Zhuang Rong is not cold, but they are not enthusiastic, they are still somewhat resistant to a newcomer like Zhuang Rui, after all, there is a newcomer in the team, which will affect the progress of jade mining.

In addition, according to the rules of jade pickers, the jade mined by a team of people is to be shared equally by everyone, like Zhuang Rui, who has no experience in jade mining, will also share their due share. This is also the reason why Tie Ge and Wang Fei are unhappy, but Zhuang Rui joined the team at the order of the Jade Prince, and the two of them did not show their faces to Zhuang Rui.

"Xiao Zhuang, and a few of you, come here

Not far away, Old Man Gu and Adila were standing there, waving to Zhuang Rui and the others, and several people hurriedly walked over.

The old man pointed to a large backpack more than one meter high beside him, and said to Zhuang Rui, "This thing was specially prepared for you by your Uncle Tian, this trekking pole is your Uncle Tian's beloved guy, and it was also used for you." ”

Between the words. The old man also handed Zhuang Rui a mountaineering technique in his hand, and said, "There is a mechanism on this hanging handle, huh." Hold it here with your fingers, and this claw will appear below, and generally fist-sized stones can be grabbed, and the province bends down to pick it up, this claw is made of alloy, and it is very strong, thank you Tian Bo. ”

"Hehe, don't thank me, if you don't know anything about jade, I won't give you this object. But let's talk about it first, what good things we found this time, but I have to sell them to the old man first

Adira waved his hand, and said to Zhang Dazhi and the others: "In your hearts, are you complaining that the old man has arranged a new person for you?"

"No, no, Uncle Tian, you are laughing. ”

Tiezi and the others hurriedly shook their heads and denied it, even if they were dissatisfied in their hearts, they didn't dare to show it in front of the Jade Prince, in the Xinjiang Jade World. If you offend anyone, you don't dare to offend the Jade Prince.

"Don't look at Xiaozhuang as young, he is the director of the National Jade Association, and the level of jade appreciation is not lower than mine, so he follows you. It's a blessing for you boys."

Adira's words surprised several people, they originally thought that Zhuang Rui was the nephew of the old man, and this time they followed to join in the fun, but now when they heard Zhuang Rui's identity, they were suddenly taken aback, you know. The Jade Lord himself is just a director of the Jade Association.

"Ahem, Uncle Tian, you're joking, Brother Tiezi, they are all old jade pickers, I want to learn more from them."

Zhuang Rui was very modest to a certain extent. Yesterday, Gu told him about the distribution of materials for this team. However, with the particularity of Zhuang Rui's eyes, he is naturally full of confidence, and there is really no need to be too modest.

"Alright, let's go eat, the trucks are all arranged, and we'll be off in twenty minutes,"

After Tian Bo finished speaking, Zhuang Rui stepped forward and lifted the big backpack, this weight is not light, it weighs fifty or sixty pounds, so that Zhuang Rui can't carry it on his back, but he just carries this thing up the mountain, I'm afraid he won't be able to go far.

"Brother Zhuang, I'll come,"

Mengzi stood up from behind Zhuang Rui, took the backpack with one hand, and threw it back very casually. It was carried to his shoulder, as if there was nothing, and Zhuang Rui smashed his tongue when he saw it.

In the corner of the courtyard, a few cauldrons were placed. There was porridge boiling inside, and on the table next to the cauldron, there were fried dough sticks and buns waiting for breakfast, and several women were there to make porridge for everyone, and the other was behind them. There were also a bunch of backpacks the size of a school bag. Zhuang Rui could see that in each backpack, there was a kettle.

Zhuang Rui sent a book on the day of 08 Shanxun to ridicule the umbrella, and at the same time as the porridge was dropped, he received a small backpack. When it was his turn to slack off Mao Kou Xunbin, he was also sent a "Holding porridge in one hand and biting a fritter in his mouth, Zhuang Rui opened his backpack and looked at it. Inside there is a sedimentary military green kettle. There were also air-dried meats and flatbread wrapped in oilcloth, which were supplies for them after they went up the mountain.

During the meal, Zhang Dazhi introduced Zhuang Rui to the strengths of each person, Tiezi is an old jade picker, since the age of fourteen or fifteen, he has followed the adults up the mountain, and he is quite familiar with the terrain of the Kunlun Mountains and the Yulong Luoshi River, and the experience of jade mining is naturally very rich.

Wang Fei is Zhang Dazhi's comrade-in-arms, he has been up the mountain several times together, and his marksmanship is very good, and the only shotgun in this squad is in his hands, and Mengzi is physically strong, and he is in charge of these physical tasks. It's all up to him, as for Zhang Dazhi, he has a strong ability to survive in the wild, and he and the team were separated in the middle of a trip into the mountains to pick jade last year, and in the absence of food supplies, he stayed in the mountains alone for nearly twenty days and walked out safely.

On the whole, Zhuang Rui's jade picking team is a good match, taking into account all aspects such as safety, presumably to take care of Zhuang Rui who is entering the mountain for the first time. The Jade Lord did it on purpose.

At six o'clock, a whistle sounded. The people who were squatting in various places to eat all stood up, and according to the old rules, they had to get on the bus and leave immediately when the time came, and they would not wait to be late

"Hurry up, get in the car

"You monkey cub, where are you going, hurry up and get in the car. ”

"Aniwal, I can't bear your water tank: what do you mean, wife, do you want to take it with you, you can be happy at night. ”

Chaotic and noisy sounds rang out in the courtyard. Each squad greets their teammates. One. The Uyghur youth, who had just been married for a long time, was saying goodbye to his wife, which attracted a group of bachelors.

This young man was going to change the people in the mine. When it was estimated that it would be half a year younger, his wife was a little reluctant to stand there in a low voice and sobbed. There were a total of six cars parked outside the yard, of which there was only one minibus, and the rest were all large trucks with canopies, Zhuang Rui and others naturally got on the minibus, and after sitting down, Zhang Dazhi said happily to Zhuang Rui: "Brother Zhuang, this time I still stained your light, I took a truck last year."

With the words of the Jade Lord just now, Tiezi and Wang Fei are also much more enthusiastic about Zhuang Rui, this is not the two of them, but they only have one chance to go up the mountain every year, and this year's income is also counting on this opportunity, so they are naturally reluctant to bring newcomers, but Zhuang Rui has the expertise of appreciating jade, so it is different.

There is a lot of jade on the mountain that is extremely difficult to identify. And the weight that each person can carry is limited, with Zhuang Rui following, you can choose valuable jade to carry, a master who can distinguish jade, is of great help to them.

"Zhuang Bei, you can't turn back, this is the rule. ”

After another short whistle, the convoy started slowly, Zhuang Rui and the minibus they were sitting in were driving at the back, and they heard shouts from the crowd behind them, and Zhuang Rui was about to look back. was stopped by Zhang Dazhi.

A jade picker standing in front of a large truck. They are also facing forward, and this atmosphere is quite a bit of "the wind is dashing and the water is cold, and the strong man will never return".

Hotan originally belonged to the foot of the Kunlun Mountains. After more than an hour of driving, the terrain gradually became higher. Starting

Everyone should have heard of the Kunlun Mountains from various myths and stories, starting from the Pamir Plateau in the west. The mountain range is a kilometer long, with an average altitude of Wangkou meters, and the highest peak is at the junction of Xinjiang and Qinghai, with an altitude of as high as a meter.

According to legend, the immortal lord of Kunlun Rang is the Queen Mother of the West, and the "Yao Chi" recorded in many ancient books. It is the Black Sea at the source of the Kunlun River, where the sea throws rice, the lake is clear, and there are flocks of birds and birds. Wild animals are infested, the weather is thousands, and there are precious bison ditch petroglyphs in the Bison Ditch that passes through the Kunlun River.

Not far from the Black Sea is the place where the legendary Jiang Taigong cultivated the Five Elements Avenue for 40 years: Yuxu Peak and Yuzhu Peak, which are covered in silver for many years, surrounded by clouds and mist in the mountains, and the Kunlun Spring on the north bank of the Kunlun River is the largest unfrozen spring in the Kunlun Mountains.

The unfrozen springs form the Kunlun June snow wonders. The amount of water is large and stable, and it is said that it is the spring water used by the Queen Mother of the West to brew the elixir and jade liquid, which is a high-quality mineral water. The middle reaches of the Golmud River, which originates from the Kunlun Mountains, have eroded the slate for a long time, forming a canyon cliff. A dangerous wonder of a step dozens of meters deep.

Because Zhuang Rui and they want to go deep into the interior of Kunlun Mountain, even in June, they still bring thick cotton clothes, you know, there are a lot of snow-covered peaks in the Kunlun Mountains all year round.

On the way to the mountain, Zhuang Rui found that the trees he saw along the way were all dwarf bushes, and there were no tall broad-leaved trees in the south.

The car drove on the road around the ring for more than three hours. In the distance, towering above the cloud-like peak. You can clearly see the white snow.

According to Zhang Dazhi, the altitude here is already above 3,000 meters, and most people will have a little altitude sickness, but Zhuang Rui, who has experienced a trip to Tibet, does not feel uncomfortable. It's just that I have some regrets in my heart that the white lion couldn't accompany him. Otherwise, you can feel the charm of the Daisetsuzan Mountains.

"Brother Zhuang, it's almost there, do you see the mountain pass in front of you, it is the transit station into the mountain. ”

Zhang Dazhi: They have been here several times. I was used to it for a long time, and I was afraid that Zhuang Rui would feel depressed, so I talked to him about the legend of this place.

The car crosses the Lakoram Pass, separated by a ditch that flows in detail. Zhuang Wu clearly saw that there was a mountain peak in front of him, which was the famous "old man looked at the legend that in ancient times, the son of an old man entered Kunlun to stop picking jade and did not come back, so the old man sat in Kunlun Mountain, a few watches. Day after day, year after year,

Generations of jade pickers stepped on the footprints of their predecessors from his side into the mountain, and dragged their tired bodies down the mountain, the old man carefully examined everyone who passed by, but never saw any trace of his son. Thousands of years have passed, and he has just sat motionless, watching, watching,

In addition to the Queen Mother Yao Pond, Kunlun Mountain also has more beautiful stories.

It's just that after getting out of the car, Kunlun Mountain gave Zhuang Rui the feeling, but it was not so beautiful.

The place where you get off the train is a transit station, whether you are going into the mountains to collect jade, or workers who go to the mines in the mountains, you have to stop here, and in this open land of thousands of square meters, there are plastic bags and other dirty garbage thrown everywhere.

It is a transfer station, which is a small two-story building, and there is a shed next to the building, and there are actually four or five camels in it, which makes Zhuang Rui take a few more looks.

The convoy into the mountain is not only Zhuang Rui and them, in front of the small building at the transfer station, three trucks have been parked, and the noisy crowd is swarming towards the small building, Zhuang Rui doesn't know what's going on, and he was stunned for a moment, and found that more than 100 people who were originally standing beside him were left alone, and even Zhang Dazhi didn't know where to go.

Looking at the black crowd, Zhuang Rui was not interested in squeezing in, and after about four or five minutes, the crowd dispersed a little, and then Zhuang saw Zhang Dazhi walking over with two enamel jars in his hands.

"Brother Zhuang, eat, this is the last hot meal in the mountain, there are many restrictions on entering the mountain to make a fire, most of the time, you can only eat the food we brought. ”

Zhang Dazhi handed an enamel jar in his hand to Zhuang Rui, there were two steamed buns in it, and there was some mutton soup underneath, five or six hours had passed since the morning, Zhuang Rui was also very hungry, so he took it and ate it.

After eating, the various jade mining teams were combined together and headed into the mountains, some teams only had two people, Zhuang Rui knew that they were all extremely experienced jade mining people, they were not willing to team up with those novices, what they were afraid of was to spread the jade they mined, such a combination is generally friends for many years or their own relatives.

"Brother Zhuang, the prince asked me to take you to the jade mine to have a look, and then let's go into the mountains to mine jade, what do you think?"

"Dazhi, you can arrange it, I'll just follow. Zhuang Rui did not forget the explanation of the old man before he came.

"Then let's go, Fuzhi greeted Tiezi and the others, and followed behind the workers who entered the mine. Walk into the mountains.

The transfer station is more than 10 kilometers away from the mining area, and when there are few people, you can ride a Luo to station. But today it is obviously not possible, there are many people and few ostens. Moreover, it is necessary to transport production and living materials. The miners had to walk on two legs, and Zhuang Rui took a look, and most of these workers were Uighurs.

If it is on flat land, more than ten kilometers of road is nothing to anyone, but it is different in the mountains at an altitude of three or four thousand meters, and the severe lack of oxygen makes people feel chest tightness and shortness of breath, especially on the Internet, so that inexperienced new workers have a headache like wearing a tight spell, and their hearts beat, panting, and their legs tremble with every step.

At the front were a few camels carrying supplies, and these workers followed closely behind, although they were not very used to it, but they were all gritting their teeth and persevering.

Zhuang Rui felt fine, but the small backpack on his body was obviously much heavier than before. Looking at the fierce man in front of him, Zhuang Rui couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

The babbling of the mountain stream" Ding Ding Dong's singing echoed in the empty canyon.

In the valley, red willows, wild dog berries, thorns, reeds, and a few poplar trees resemble soybean sprouts. Standing alone at the foot of the mountain, traces of jade can be found in the pebbles full of ditches, some of which have been picked up by passing jade workers and placed on the stones on the side of the "road" so that the jade transporters can take them away.

The history of jade mining in China can be traced back to more than 7,000 years ago, according to Zhang Dazhi. The sleek pebbles are not all washed by the water, but are largely caused by jade mining and the friction of human feet, and the sound of ostrich bells has been swaying in the valley for more than 20,000 years, and people have become accustomed to this difficult process.

"Don't pick up the jade here?"

Zhuang Rui pointed to a fist-sized piece of jade on the side of the road and asked Zhang Dazhi, although the exposed jade and flesh showed that this was just a piece of material of average quality, but it was also jade. Zhang Dazhi shook his head and said, "The good jade has been picked up, and the ones that are placed on the side of the road are ready to be pulled away by car."

Zhuang Rui and the others would not have thought that because of the sharp rise in the price of jade, in just these two years, more than 200,000 people would flock in, not to mention the jade on the side of the road, and even the bottom of the valley would be cut three feet into the ground.

As he spoke, a tractor drove down the mountain, and although the road was not very steep, it was not very smooth, and the tractor was like a roller coaster. The front was raised high, and the next moment it fell into the pit heavily, Zhuang Rui looked frightened. There were still two people sitting on the back bucket of the car.

"Boys, go up and do a good job, haha."

When passing by Zhuang Rui and them, the man driving the tractor shouted, but this person's appearance was somewhat funny, and the bumpy road made his butt not touch the seat at all, and he danced like a convulsion, and everyone laughed.

After the tractor drove over, Zhuang Rui saw it. There was a man behind the tractor, and he kept throwing the jade stones on the side of the road into the car body. The tractor is not much faster than a person walking, and the person behind him can keep up.

After more than two hours, when they finally arrived at the mining area, several wolf dogs barked and pounced. He was scolded by the person who greeted him behind.

"Brother Zhuang, let's go to the mine and take a look, and we're going to leave after reading it. ”

Although it was the order of the Jade Prince, Zhang Dazhi and the others were not willing to delay their work here. After all, there have been more and more people entering the mountain over the years, and if you are one step late, the good jade may be picked up by others.

Zhang Dazhi had already agreed with the people at this mining site, and heard that it was the Jade Lord who arranged for someone to come to see the mine. The middle-aged man named Lao Yu didn't dare to slack off, and took Zhuang Rui and the others to turn around a mountain road and came to the top of the mine.

What appeared in front of Zhuang Rui was a huge mountain wall dozens of meters high, but the entire mountain had been excavated by quarrymen, and the white section was just facing the afternoon sun, like a reflective mirror, which made Zhuang Rui unable to open his eyes.

As the saying goes: jade is buried in stone, it is difficult to be recognized, but the warm jade gas will rise in the air under the warm sun, and the magical white creates a beautiful jade smoke, confusing illusion, so that Zhuang Rui is in a trance for a while, as if he has also been incarnated in it.

"The Book of Poetry Xiaoya" said: It is the stone of the mountain. You can attack jade, and mining mountain stone is called attacking jade in ancient times. It also refers to the mining of mountain jade, that is, the mining of primary jade ore, and Zhuang Rui, under the leadership of Lao Yu, drilled into the pit that is said to be eighty-three meters long. The height and width of this mine are only more than one meter, and Zhuang Rui can only follow behind Lao Yu. Crawling into the cave inch by inch, before entering the cave, Er Zhuang Rui imagined that the jade mines must be connected, and the cave must be surrounded by jade, and the light can be seen, but until he climbed to the bottom of the cave, he did not see a trace of jade.

After Zhuang Rui, who had eaten a mouthful of ashes, crawled out of the mine and asked Lao Yu, "Master Yu." This is a jade mine, this episode is narrow, even if there is jade. I can't pick it up. ”

"Brother, this is looking for ore veins, only by first determining the ore veins, can we excavate, and we can't mine them in the early stage, otherwise we will destroy the ore veins. It was too late to cry."

After listening to Lao Yu's explanation, Zhuang Rui understood. Dare to feel that this jade mining is different from jade mining, and it is still a technical job.

Before coming to the jade mine, Zhuang Rong always thought that jade mining might be the same as mining marble, mining a large area. Only then did I know how ignorant and ridiculous imagination is,

First of all, jade ore is not like other ores. Instead, it is intermittently hidden in the stone core, and the veins are really like smoke and fog as the ancient poems suggest. The occasional exposed veins are encased in thick layers of rock. For each piece of jade, a large amount of hard rock wrapped around the jade must be removed.

This determines that jade pickers not only have to pay very hard work, but also have a pair of eyes to recognize the difference between jade and stone. The rock connected with the jade is called the jade root, which looks like jade, but it is a stone, the most difficult to distinguish, it is not good to obtain, and the jade is broken before the work is abandoned, and the idiom jade is burned, that is, it comes from the allusion of jade mining.

"Brother Zhuang, let's go, it's getting dark when you see it. If we don't leave, we won't be able to pass Death Valley at night. ”

Zhuang Rui crawled out of the mine with a disgraced face, and Zhang Dazhi on the side urged, it was already a detour from here to their destination.

The word "Death Valley?" made Zhuang Rui's heart tremble a little when he heard it.

"You'll know when you get there. Zhang Dazhi didn't explain much, but looked at his face. That's certainly not a good place to be.

After bidding farewell to Lao Yu, the five-person team continued to walk into the mountains, without the miners' team, the mountains were much quieter, the mountains here were basically made of stones, and the river valleys were vertical and horizontal along the way, and the mountains were undulating. After four or five hours of walking, several of them were all wet, all from crossing the stream.

However, Zhuang Rui's performance is not bad, at least in the past four or five hours, he can keep up with the team, and there is no lag, which makes Tiezi and others a little impressed by him.

Walking to the side of a stream, Zhang Dazhi stopped, looked at the sky, and said, "Let's eat something first, Brother Tiezi, you will definitely be able to cross Death Valley at night?"

"Yes, but hurry. At the mention of Death Valley, Tiezi also showed a nervous look on his face.

"Then hurry up and boil the water. ”

Zhang Dazhi commanded, Mengzi put down the big backpack, and actually took out a small steel pot from it, Wang Fei quickly built a stove with stones, and Tiezi went to pick up some dry branches, only Zhuang Rui was a little at a loss on the side.

In fact, Zhuang Rui didn't need to do anything, but in three or five minutes, the fire had already burned. Daichi took out the air-dried pieces of meat from his bag. Thrown inside, several people sat down around the stone stove.

"Dazhi, why did you choose to mine jade instead of looking for ore veins?"

Zhuang Rui was chatting with Lao Yu before. Knowing that the veins on this mountain are ownerless, as long as anyone can find it, the mined jade will belong to that person, it stands to reason that finding a vein is equivalent to getting rich overnight, which is much stronger than going up the mountain to mine jade.

"Brother Zhuang, don't say that this jade vein has been mined almost, even if we find the vein, we don't have the money to mine it, the initial investment. At least tens of millions. ”

The expressions on the faces of Zhang Dazhi and the others were a little helpless, even if the teams looking for the ore veins could find the ore veins, they could only occupy a small share, and the bulk of the money was still taken by those who invested in the mine.

Defense: It's 7,000 words again, and it's to write about prospecting for the future, well, it's 7,000 words again, and I'm anxious to ask for a monthly pass, and friends who have a monthly pass, don't stay, please friends

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