It has experienced many dangers and obstacles, encountered sand and dust weather, encountered heavy rain weather, and even encountered collapsed rocks, as well as mudslides caused by floods.

Under all kinds of harsh weather and dangerous terrain conditions, this prospecting road has become extremely difficult, camels and people can only follow the rugged path, if not careful, camels or people may lose their footing and roll down the mountain, goods are destroyed and people are killed.

This is just the road to find ore, and I don't know how hard those who carry jade materials down the mountain must be.

"One-eyed, have you expected to descend the mountain before?" asked Zhang Tianyuan.

"Well, the transport, the small material is transported by camels or donkeys, in order to transport the material, basically every year there will be a lot of camels and donkeys are stoned to death, sometimes people are not spared. This is a small piece, and the large piece of jade can only be pushed down the gentler section of the mountain or in the river, and then pulled and shouldered, and carried to the transfer place little by little. If the 'baptism' of the flood is encountered again, it will be even worse. Therefore, the jade picker has undergone a double test of spirit and body, without a strong body and superhuman endurance, it is definitely something that people can bear......" One-eyed sighed: "Those who do this business basically tie their heads to the waistband of their trousers, and maybe they will die one day." ”

"I didn't expect the jade pickers to work so hard. Zhang Tianyuan was a little shocked.

"Not to mention, I'll tell you a true story, it's my uncle's business. Around the time of the 90s, he led a mining team to start looking for new jade mines in the area of Yeniugou. Due to the rugged mountain roads, the main means of transportation are camels or donkeys, and it is difficult to obtain food or provisions. I often drink ice water when I am thirsty, and nibble on dried naan when I am hungry. That's it, three years at a time. But there was no 'jade'. Like a farmer who farms all year round but has no harvest, everyone is ......almost desperate," Gulzana couldn't help but interject.

"And then?"

"Saying that the gods blessed it, it is better to say that with the support of faith, it was finally bitter and sweet, and in 94 the new mine finally came out of the 'jade', which took nearly four years, and during that period, my uncle was a lot older. Gulzana sighed. It seemed to remember the way his uncle cried after he found the jade mine.

"So, love life and cherish jade! The spirituality and spirit of jade also contain a deep blessing from the jade pickers to the people!" Sima Yi said coldly, but it was very meaningful.

These words made Zhang Tianyuan can't help but think, why don't jade pickers have a solid and tough side of "jade"?

These people worked hard to find mines and extract jade, just to make a little money. But it is the bosses who really make a lot of money, and when people wear jade jewelry to show off in the bright cities, they may never think of the hardships of these people.

He shook his head slightly. If he hadn't gone into the mountain in person this time, he really wouldn't have experienced this kind of suffering.

Just as I was thinking about it, suddenly there was a loud "bang" in front of me. frightened Zhang Tianyuan, the key is that he had encountered a landslide before. So when he heard this voice, his heart trembled.

"What's going on?" Zhang Tianyuan hurriedly asked.

"It's okay, Advisor Zhang. In front of it is Shihezigou, and someone is mining jade. One-eyed said with a smile.

"It's been four days, and I've finally arrived at my destination, but how can there be such an explosion sound in jade mining?" Zhang Tianyuan really didn't know much about jade mining and jade mines, so he really wanted to find out about this matter.

"That's right, you must use explosives to open a mine, first make a blast hole, then put explosives and detonators in it, and then seal the blast hole with wet soil, which will enhance the power of the explosives. There was a loud 'boom' and the debris on the top of the mountain shook down and flew everywhere, so many miners had to wear hard hats or they would get hurt. One-Eye explained.

"It's very dangerous to fire artillery," said Ismaili: "Even if the camp is far from the mine, the people in the tent must wear hard hats, and there may be gravel on their heads." ”

"It turns out that this is how the miners kept hitting the cannon holes in the Kunlun Mountains, firing the cannons, looking for Hetian Meiyu, I have a long experience this time. Zhang Tianyuan looked into the distance, which was their destination this time, Shihezigou.

When climbing up the Shihezigou mining point along the winding mountain road, Zhang Tianyuan and the others were already out of breath, even if there was a restorative body of the earth, but several other people couldn't stand it, and his earthly qi had to be used sparingly, and it couldn't be used all at once.

The perennial snow on the high mountains and the huge white mountain sections carved by jade quarryers pierced Zhang Tianyuan's eyes under the strong sunlight. The stone is jade and the mountain is bright. Legend has it that jade is buried in stone, and it is difficult for people to recognize, but the warm jade qi will rise in the air in the warm sun. The magical white color in front of you creates a beautiful and confusing illusion, which makes people feel like they have been incarnated.

On the 100-metre-high working face, the jade miners are in stark contrast to the mountain they have dug up. From a distance, they look like tiny sesame seeds scattered among the stones. Looking at the thin black moving figures.

Looking at these, Zhang Tianyuan suddenly felt that human beings not only seemed small compared to nature, but sometimes they would sigh endlessly in the face of their own huge projects: they had become a part of nature, and in the end, all that was left was loneliness, insignificance and confusion.

"The Book of Poetry Xiaoya" said: The stone of the mountain can attack the jade. In ancient times, mining mountain stone was called attacking jade, which also refers to mining mountain jade, that is, mining primary jade ore, but this is a great risk. Since ancient times, countless people have lost their families and lost their lives because of this.

"Those people are residents of nearby villages, because of poverty, they can only do these dangerous jobs, here, to make money, it is all a struggle for life, there is basically no so-called safety norms. It's all up to each individual to be careful. One-eyed pointed to the jade pickers in the distance.

Although there are relatively few jade miners in Shihezigou, it is not nothing, before Zhang Tianyuan, someone found jade ore here, and the huge roar that just sounded was actually emitted by the jade mine.

"From the blasted stones, the workers pick out the more intact and better quality jade and put it in bags. As the sun slowly fades into the mountains, the miners return to camp with the fruits of their day's work. Waiting for the sun to rise again the next day, their lives were bitter. It's monotonous. One-Eye continued.

"These people actually went up the mountain in March, and they had to work in the mine for about six months. He didn't leave until the snow covered the mountain. Transporting ore from Shihezigou has to pass through flood passes and cliff passes, one of which is more than 30 meters high. All the items on the mine were carried up by the workers from the bottom of the mountain, and the jade mined was also carried out of the mountain little by little. Sima Yi on the side seemed to recall his former life, and said with a wry smile: "That's what I used to do, but now I don't want to toss it so much, because the jade shipped out is also the boss's, and I want to pick jade by myself, as long as I am lucky." You might even be able to make a lot of money. ”

"They are just working and sleeping so boringly?" Zhang Tianyuan asked.

"Not really, it's the busiest time of the night, when Uyghur miners sit around, play the rewafu, and without a tambourine, they find an empty plastic pot. The two young men danced merrily to the music in the tent where they could not stand up straight. The miners have to live in the mountains for more than half a year before they can go down, life is monotonous, and the fun can only be found on their own. One-eyed said with a smile.

"Entertain yourself. Yes, people always have to be optimistic, otherwise living in such an environment for six months will really go crazy. Zhang Tianyuan didn't know what was going on with others. Anyway, he couldn't stand it: "By the way, how do they usually eat? After all, they have to work here for up to six months, unlike us." I'm going to leave in half a month. ”

"When it comes to eating, cooking in the mountains at an altitude of 4,000 meters is really technical. Meals for one or two people are okay. It's not easy to cook for more than 20 people at a time. In the beginning, a large pot of rice was sandwiched. A large pot of noodles has become a mush, and the steamed steamed buns are all very firm.

However, it is a happy thing to be able to eat mutton pilaf every other day in the mountains. When I used to work in the mines, a sheep would be brought down the mountain every few days, and the next morning I would make a pot of mutton pilaf, and everyone had a great time, and this was the best delicacy. Here, you will realize the preciousness of food, money is useless at all, no matter how rich you are here, you can't spend it. Ismail answered Zhang Tianyuan's question.

There is no doubt that jade pickers are hard, the Han "Historical Records" contains: "Take jade is the most difficult, cross the three rivers and five lakes to the Kunlun Mountain, thousands of people go, hundreds of people return, hundreds of people go, ten people return." ”

But even so, in order to make a living, no matter how dangerous and hard it is, generations of Kunlun jade miners still come one after another.

People have to live.

"Let's go, let's go over and take a look, this is also the vein of Lord Kurban, and we will have dinner with them in the future, and it will be safer when there are more people." One-eyed said to Zhang Tianyuan, who was full of emotion.

So a group of six people continued to hurry, to the vicinity of the camp of this vein, the person in charge knew One-eye, and also saved a lot of trouble, One-Eye They went to the camp to arrange accommodation and food, Zhang Tianyuan was bored alone, so he went to the mine to talk to those miners.

To his surprise, there were jade pickers from Shaanzhou here, this is really a fellow villager seeing a fellow countryman, with tears in his eyes, not to mention how kind it is.

The wind was strong on the mountain, the ultraviolet rays were strong, the oxygen was thinner than in the barracks twenty miles away, and several jade miners had dirty hair and dark faces, cracked lips, and chipped fingernails.

"Fellow, how long have you been working here?" Zhang Tianyuan took out a pack of cigarettes, gave them to these people, and asked with a smile.

"What are you doing?" asked the miner warily.

"It's nothing, I'm a friend of Master Kurban, and I'm also here to look for mines in the mountains. Zhang Tianyuan said with a smile.

"Oh, that's right, I can sue you. We've been working here for seven years!"

"How long?" Zhang Tianyuan was a little shocked.

"Seven years!"

"It's been so long! How many times a year have you been back?" Zhang Tianyuan asked again as he lit cigarettes for a few people.

"I can go back once a year. ”

"Also, it's not easy to go back to this place once. How is the treatment, I heard that you are doing this work very hard, but Master Kurban is a good person, so you should be paid a higher salary, right?" Zhang Tianyuan asked.

"You're right, Master Kurban is good, much better than other mine owners. When people in other mines look for jade, their monthly salary is 800 yuan, and when they come out of jade, the mine owner pays them 3.5 yuan per kilogram, and their lives are also guaranteed by the mine owner, and our monthly salary here will be 100 yuan more, and each kilogram will be given an extra five cents. A miner replied. (To be continued......)