934. Garbage District (3/5)
Kelly, a black woman, became the star of the park, and she reappeared here, with the diamond locked in the park's safe, and she continued to return to work.
After her appearance, many treasure hunters surrounded her and took the initiative to reach out to shake her hand, which is a tradition in the park, touching the lucky hand that has picked up the gem, you can pass on a part of the luck.
Kelly was constantly being chatted to and asked for tips on finding diamonds.
Kelly has now calmed down, she coped with everyone's inquiries with high emotions, and came to Li Du and his party with buckets and tools.
Sophie smiled and said, "Congratulations, Lady Ondra, the god of luck has favored you, which is truly an enviable thing." ”
Kelly shook her hand and smiled excitedly, "Yes yes, I got God's attention and seized this opportunity, do you know what I named the diamond?" ”
Sophie asked curiously, "What's it called?" ”
Kelly said happily, "It's Esperanza, it's my daughter's name, it's in Spanish, it means 'hope'. She is my hope and so is this diamond. ”
"It's a good name." Li Du said.
Kelly said, "Who's to say it's not?" Who's to say it isn't? It's the Stone of Hope! ”
She took Sophie as the object of her confiding and babbled: "My daughter was admitted to New York University, she chose to major in law, but I didn't have the money to send her there, she didn't have a scholarship, and it was difficult for her to apply for financial aid. And my two sons, who are so sensible that they even want to drop out of school and work to help their sister. ”
"Well, hope is here, I dug up diamonds, I came here, I didn't come here with great hope. Or rather, I just want to dig two small diamonds and make a few thousand dollars......"
"But I had been working for 10 months, 20 hours a day, and I couldn't find anything. Every day, my daughter encouraged me and she said that sooner or later I would find a diamond and thank God I really found ......"
Looking back, she didn't know whether she was excited or sad, and cried with red eyes.
Sophie comforted her softly and introduced Li Du to her, saying that she could help her sell the diamond.
Apparently not convinced, Kelly vaguely coped with it, telling Sophie that she had the contact information of a local diamond buyer who would sell for a good price.
At the same time, she told Sophie: "No one here believes there is a big diamond, but I found one." Faith, faith and care are key, and there may still be big diamonds hidden in the big rocks here. ”
Her words made Li Du's heart move, Li Du had been focusing on the dirt before, and he subconsciously ignored the relatively large stones, looking for small stones from them, and then looking for gems from them.
It's a regular practice for everyone in the park, and in the last eight years, no one but Kelly has found a diamond bigger than five carats.
Maybe he could keep an eye on the park's garbage area, which is the gravel disposal area.
When people look for gems from stones, the first thing is to find some stones, which are mixed with gemstones, which are hope, but also hindrance and interference.
So, after drying the stones without diamonds through a sieve, they are gathered and thrown into a fixed area in the northwest corner of the park.
Over time, a large amount of rubble appeared in the northwest corner area, which was carefully selected, and there were no diamonds in it, it was all useless and worthless small gravel, so it was called a garbage area.
Li Du thinks that there may be diamonds in this garbage area.
Of course, everyone is very careful when sifting through the stones, and even the smallest diamonds and gemstones will be selected, but everyone cares about the small stones, and the larger stones are basically thrown away from the upper sieve without selection.
So, he thinks there may not be small diamonds in the garbage area, but there will be large diamonds.
Rather than acting, Li Du led Godzilla through the park to the garbage area in the northwest, where he prepared to search carefully.
The garbage area covers about half an acre and resembles a gravel yard, where small and tall stones are piled up, and there are many of them, undulating like a graveyard.
There were a lot of people looking for gems in the rest of the park, and there were a lot fewer people here, but there were people at work, and it was clear that he was not the only one who had thought of it, but others who had plans to do the same.
There's no need to use running water to wash the dirt, just pull the stones.
But there are too many stones, and the diamonds are small, which is much more difficult than finding fire opals in Fossil Forest Park.
Most of the people who come here to look for diamonds just have an idea, come and work on it for a while, and soon they will find out that it is impossible to search for diamonds in this place, and they will eventually leave.
There are too many stones and too many small diamonds, and people may be able to find a small area in a day, and the probability of finding a diamond is even lower.
A Mexican with dyed green hair searched inside and found nothing, angrily raised his foot and kicked the pile of rubble, and said angrily: "Go and step on the horse, there is no shit here, damn it, it's better not to hope here......"
The person next to him complained: "Ha, you regret it, right?" I've told you a long time ago, I've told you several times, don't come here, don't come here, look at that guy Rodin, how many years has he been here? What have you discovered? ”
The man stretched out his hand to point forward as he spoke, and Li Du followed the direction of his arm and saw a bald black man with rough skin and scruffy sitting in a stone mound, looking for something.
The green-haired Mexican defended: "There are too many stones here, if there are less, we may find something, I believe there must be diamonds here, just too many stones!" ”
His friend rolled his eyes and said, "Of course, there are several truckloads of gravel added here every day, all of which are brought in by the park, and they will secretly throw gravel into the ground every night, which is really bad!" ”
The total area of Diamond Crater Park is only 37 acres, and it is estimated that hundreds of millions of people have excavated it over the past hundred years.
When the Arkansas state government took over the park in 1972, it was already overexploited.
Since then, the government has taken a series of measures to save the park's appeal, such as promoting the diamonds found in it and refilling it with rubble.
People knew that they were looking for diamonds in the rubble, and the park managers at the time were smart enough to think that people were looking for gravel rather than diamonds.
So, every once in a while, the park will take advantage of the time to re-bulldoze the land and sprinkle a lot of rubble into it, adding to the workload and fun of searching for diamonds.
The constant presence of rubble means that diamonds are constantly being presented, and that's the real attraction.
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