"What kind of stone is it? Go and show me. ”

Zhang Gaogong asked eagerly, Yu'er hurried home, her home was in the farmhouse, very close, and after a while, she came panting with a black tower.

Zhang Gaogong took it and took a look, and told Yu'er with certainty: "This is not an ordinary stone, this is an iron meteorite." ”

The news of the discovery of the meteorite immediately caused a sensation, and people searched everywhere, and more and more meteorites were found.

Some of these meteorites shattered the tiles and scattered them in the yard; some smashed the villagers' cowsheds; Some of them fell into the soft soil of the sugarcane field, smashing holes more than ten centimeters deep.

Kowloon was also very excited, and he immediately took action.

He searched first in front of the house and behind the house, then in the sugar cane fields, then on the nearby hillside, and at the location where there might be a meteorite, Kowloon patiently searched.

Meteorite hunters from all over the country and even abroad followed.

Since the day before yesterday, the fields near the surrounding villages have been full of people looking for meteorites.

On the one hand, the meteorite hunters from other places want to try the luck of "picking up the meteorite", and on the other hand, they hope to buy the meteorite from the villagers, but it is not easy to find this thing.

An old man, who was 102 years old, told Zhang Gaogong in a muffled voice that she had never seen such a stone in her life.

Jiulong felt that there was no way to go on like this, so he quietly asked Zhang Gaogong how much the iron meteorite found this time was worth a gram.

Zhang Gaogong told Kowloon that at present, a gram of the best iron meteorite can be sold for 1,000 US dollars, and a gram of ordinary iron meteorite can be sold for tens of yuan. Zhang Gaogong continued, to a certain extent, the collection value of iron meteorites here is still very high, of course, meteorites are more important is its scientific research value, meteorites for the study of outer space and the formation and evolution of the earth, the origin of life, and aerospace are of great value.

Jiulong thought carefully, then stood at the head of the field, leaned his waist, and shouted to the villagers who were picking up stones all over the ground: "Please continue to look for it! 10 yuan per gram, I will collect as much as I have here." ”

Jiulong found that when he shouted, the mentality of the villagers underwent a complicated change, "Wow, one gram is worth so much, why don't I pick up a kilogram?"

The villagers exchanged their heads, they didn't know that this thing could be sold for money at first, and now Jiulong shouted, and immediately the whole village went to pick up stones.

On this day, Kowloon received more than 80 grams of meteorites, and still carried more than 800 pieces of silver.

When He Gang saw Jiulong doing this, he also came to the spirit, and shouted out 15 yuan a gram, how much to collect.

Later, when the meteorite hunters came in, more and more people bought them, and the price became higher and higher, and the villagers were dumbfounded, and this meteorite was really so valuable? They immediately became cautious and began to try to find out, not offering a price, but only asking how much money the other party gave, thus creating a situation in which there was no price but no market.

He Gang originally wanted to quietly buy meteorites at a low price, every time he went to a new place, there were basically not many people in the local area who would understand how much meteorites were worth, so he could collect a lot of good stones by randomly selling dozens or hundreds, and he had the experience of "chasing meteorites" seven or eight times so far, and almost all people in meteorite landing areas had such a psychological change process.

Now, He Gang didn't even collect a small piece of meteorite, so he couldn't help but be annoyed, so he simply went to a farther place to see if there was any surprise.

Uncle Wang went home unhurriedly and took a hoe and walked to his field, he felt that it was so easy to pick up just by picking up, so it was better to dig it and try it.

Mr. Wang's field planted a lot of peanuts, he found a place with traces of depression, he couldn't help but be excited, quickly dug down, the result was dug nearly three meters deep, dug a big strange stone, like a big watermelon, but it sank to death, and the ordinary stone is very different, Mr. Wang felt very strange, such a big one, could it be a meteorite? He was not sure, anyway, he dug it out, so he quickly called Zhang Gaogong to come and have a look.

This strange stone is roughly circular in shape, and the surface has been oxidized.

"The surface is pitted and there are metal inclusions, showing traces of high-temperature burning," Zhang Gaogong said, which is much like the traces of friction and combustion when a meteorite passes through the atmosphere.

After that, he used a machine to cut off a small slice of the stone, and then used a chemical reagent to examine the inside of the slice, and "the Wistedden reaction (a simple method for identifying iron meteorites), which is common in iron meteorites, appeared." The detection lasted for more than an hour, and Zhang Gaogong preliminarily judged that it was an iron meteorite with a density of 7.8 grams per cubic centimeter and a diameter of less than 1 meter.

When Uncle Wang heard that it was a meteorite, he was so happy that he couldn't even say anything: "Really...... It's so nice, I'm ...... Look for...... Weigh the sub...... Weigh and see. He went home and borrowed a large scale to weigh the pigs, and at this moment a large number of villagers gathered around, and he called five or six young and strong lads to help lift them, and one weighed 585 kilograms.

More than half a ton? It's really amazing, if it costs 1 gram and 10 yuan, wouldn't it cost 5.85 million?

At this price, Kowloon is powerless.

When He Gang saw such a big iron bump, he only had envy.

"As far as I know, this should be the largest iron meteorite in Fujian. ”

Zhang Gaogong said affirmatively.

The landing of such a large meteorite immediately caused a sensation, and a large number of outsiders flocked to the local village, and everyone was expecting to get rich overnight.

Suddenly, people were digging in the fields, on the hills, and even behind the houses, hoping that there would be big iron bumps exposed.

This incident also attracted the attention of the local government, and immediately organized the people's police and village joint defense team members to conduct investigations to prevent mass incidents.

Although the meteorite trade is a private act, and the government should not intervene excessively, the rural early rice has already been headed, and this season, the villagers still need to take care of the fields, the government reminded through the village radio.

The local town government also issued a special document saying that more and more unknown people from outside the village are looking for meteorites, and some people even advocate that the price of meteorites is worth 10,000 yuan per gram, resulting in meteorite seekers everywhere in sugarcane fields, paddy fields, and villages, which has a certain impact on the normal production and life of villagers.

The article said: The meteorite has not yet been recognized by the official authority, please do not believe the advocacy of unknown outsiders, do not blindly want to find the meteorite to achieve the goal of getting rich overnight, a better life needs your own efforts and dedication to create.

The government made such a big move, and Zhang Gaogong and they were not stupid, which was obviously warning them not to get involved in this matter, so several people were also very knowledgeable and followed He Gang back to Zhangzhou.