Chapter 121: Fishing for Gold
Seeing that the situation was getting more and more out of control, at this moment, the person who bought the fisherman's gold ingots came to him. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Here's the thing: after he bought the gold ingots, he always felt uneasy, and later found an expert to make an appraisal of the gold ingots.
As a result, the gold ingots sold to him by the fisherman were fake, and the main ingredients in them were lead and copper, with only a very small amount of gold mixed in!
When the news came, the vigorous gold-making campaign finally ended in a roar of scolding and wailing.
Originally, that incident had been forgotten by the villagers, but today the village chief mentioned it again, and after we heard about it, everyone was stunned.
My father said suspiciously, "What do you mean, tonight's gold is also fake?" ”
"I'm not done yet!"
The village chief shook his head, and then said, "Actually, those sixteen gold ingots were also real! ”
"What did you say?"
Almost everyone present asked in unison.
"Don't be so loud, bring people in again, I finally got Lao Tian away."
The village chief made a silent gesture, he looked left and right to make sure that he was not seen, and then said softly: "The person who bought the gold ingots was my relative, and he was arrested by the people from the police station in the name of reselling gold. At that time, in order to calm the turmoil, the police station asked him to change his words, saying that the buyer had found someone to identify it, and the gold ingots were all fake! ”
My father said: "You are all confused, you just say, is the gold ingots real or fake?" ”
The village chief laughed: "The day after I bought the gold ingots, my relative was not sure, so he found an expert in the jewelry circle." The connoisseur concluded that the ingots are pure gold, but the purity is slightly worse, but because the ingots belong to old gold, the procedures and craftsmanship are limited, which is also a normal phenomenon, and because it is old gold, the price can be a little higher. ”
Grandpa nodded when he heard this: "You mean to say that the gold ingots fished out at the bottom of the river are real, but the police station came to such a conclusion in order to calm the turmoil?"
"That's right, but that's not the point!"
The village chief's voice was a little fluttering because of excitement: "The point is, it can be seen from the situation tonight. There should still be a large amount of gold and silver on the riverbed under the river in our village. It will take a day to find them all! ”
My father was slightly stunned when he heard this: "You are stupid! In this blatant fishing, it will be tempting to rise again! ”
The village chief smiled and said what he thought.
Two years ago, in the upper reaches of the river, a large dam was built.
The dam is used to release floodwater, and the floodgates are never closed.
Now, as long as the dam is closed for half a day, the river can be drained, and the contents above the riverbed will be unobstructed.
And from top to bottom of the dam, almost all of them are from our old Zhang family, and whether the village chief's plan can be realized depends on Grandpa's words.
After the village chief finished his thoughts, it was time for the grandfather to scratch his head.
Temporarily close the dam for half a day, this matter can be big or small, there are three villages in the lower reaches of the river, and once the river is dry, it is impossible to hide it.
The village chief saw his grandfather's thoughts: "Uncle Zhang, I have been thinking about it just now." Just let the dam issue a notice, just say that it is necessary to test the ability to store water, and the dam will temporarily close the floodgates for a day! ”
I glanced at the village chief, I had known him since I was a child, and I still haven't seen who he really is. It only took about ten minutes to walk back from the river, and he was able to plan so much. What kind of person is this!
Grandpa was a little moved by what he said, and Tie Lao Dao poked and said vigorously beside him: "Lao Zhang, what are you hesitating about?" This is the real money spent on gold, in vain! Just a matter of your words....."
Grandpa thought for a while, but still shook his head: "It's still not good, I promised the Yang Municipal Party Committee, and I haven't sung the big drama for a few days." Even if you close the sluice, you have to wait for the drama to disperse, right? ”
"Huh!"
The village chief laughed: "Uncle Zhang, the opera troupe has run away, how can you still sing?" Besides, in the past few days, people have died every day in our village for singing river operas, do you think the Yang Municipal Party Committee will not have a headache? It just so happened that the drama troupe ran this introduction, and the play was dispersed. Don't worry, you don't need to come forward, Yang Municipal Party Committee, I'll go and say. ”
As he spoke, the village chief's small round eyes glanced at me a few times.
Needless to say, I also knew that he must have used me as a cover again and said that it was my idea......
Seeing that everyone was eager to try, Grandpa had no choice but to nod and follow the crowd.
When I woke up the next day, I heard that the village chief had already agreed with the Yang Municipal Party Committee.
The reason is: due to the insufficient preparation of this hundred-year-old river opera, several people died unexpectedly. In addition, the theater troupe that I invited before suddenly left for no reason. This is the end of this hundred-year-old river opera, and the aftermath is solved by the village itself.
In the afternoon of the same day, the upstream dam issued a notice: from 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, the dam will be closed and the water test will be carried out. The test time is about 10 hours, and the opening time of the gate will be notified separately, and I hope that the downstream villages will be ready.
The play is no longer sung, and grandpa's birthday is also worshipped. I didn't want to participate in the rest of the things, so I discussed with Muyang whether to go back early.
Unexpectedly, Muyang didn't know what medicine he had taken wrong, so he had to see what was at the bottom of this river.
In order to satisfy Muyang's curiosity, I had to stay in my hometown for one more day. Grandpa and Uncle were busy all day that day, preparing for the dam closure tomorrow.
There was nothing to say that night, and when Muyang and I arrived at the river the next day, it was already past eight o'clock in the morning.
The dam has already begun to close. As the river narrowed, it finally dried up after half an hour. The riverbed, which had been hidden under the water all day long, finally saw the light.
When the water was almost current, the mossy reef at the bottom of the river had already been exposed, and the fish and shrimp that had not had time to swim with the current were jumping in several shallow ditches.
The banks on both sides of the riverbed have long been surrounded by people surnamed Zhang. More than a hundred or so people jumped off the riverbed almost simultaneously and began to search all the way down the river.
…………
In a few minutes, the results have been achieved.
"There you have it, Kim!"
Not far away, one of my distant cousins had already shouted, he was holding a golden ingot, and the people around him looked at him and suddenly became agitated.
He was the model, and the others bent over and conducted a carpet search on the riverbed.
"I have one too!"
"I've got that too!"
"Dad, there are several in front....damn it, it's a pity that it's all silver"
"Hey~ there's gold here!"
There are more and more ingots, and the nerves of these people are getting more and more excited.