Get on track 1 - Golden Cake

"It's coming, it's coming! Stewed pig's trotters with soybeans, braised pork head, stir-fried pork liver, scrambled eggs with leeks and lamb chop soup! Zhu Yong and Lao Cao brought a few dishes to the sitting, and the bowls used on the construction site were all stainless steel iron bowls, and the capacity was very large.

"Lao Wu, come and eat! Lao Cao went to close the gate of the wall of the shed, this is burning gold! There is also Lao Zhu, one bottle of beer per person! Wei Ergou beckoned everyone to come to dinner, and Zhu Yong held rice for everyone one by one, and then took out eight bottles of local beer from the refrigerator.

Today's production is more than ever, and everyone's mood is very happy to sweep away the haze of last week, especially Wei Ergou, who frowned sadly last week, and now he is angry again!

"Lao Zhu, hold up a bowl of lamb chop soup and send it to a few little blacks outside! Let them add another dish! Wei Ergou suddenly thought of something, then stood up and said to Zhu Yong. Zhu Yong took a large bowl from the pot and carefully took it out, Xiao Cao helped him open the gate of the wall, and we heard the cheers of the black people over there inside!

There was wine, meat and gold, and tonight was the happiest day we had in the gold mines, and we didn't think about what happened last week, but were still in the cheerful atmosphere of getting on track.

"Lao Wu, this leek is also called "aphrodisiac grass", you eat more, I'll give you some! Zhu Yong took the leeks and put them in Lao Wu's bowl.

"I thank you family, come on, come on, Lao Zhu, you have to make up for this." Lao Wu also stood up and took a few pieces of pig's head meat and put them in Zhu Yong's bowl, "What do you eat to make up, you Lao Zhu have to eat pig's head meat to replenish your brain!" "Everyone was amused by his two living treasures!

"By the way, Xiaosheng and Yiyun, you go to town tomorrow morning, take a half look at this TV set-top box, and run a multi-channel one! What about Yiyun, you drive, go and see your pearls by the way, don't cuckold! Lao Zhu, tomorrow you let the black people build a small pavilion in front of their own thatched hut with wooden boards, and when the TV signal is available, Xiaosheng, you can buy an old TV set and come back, and solve the nightlife for the black people at night, otherwise these will bring the black women back at night to mess around, and break the rules that Erica said! After Wei Ergou finished speaking, he held up the bottle and clinked glasses with us.

Erijia and I sat together, and I simply translated their words to him, and Erijia stretched out his thumb to Wei Ergou and said, "Dog is right to do this!" Hopefully, we sold the gold to the black workers' huts and built them into wooden structures, and according to him, we can work in this mining area for at least a year, and the houses will be repaired when we have money! It is better to build a bathroom, in Ghana it is easy to spread diseases by pooping everywhere, you can dig a deep pit not far away, put two boards on it to stand conveniently, fence the pit with wooden boards, and sprinkle disinfectant in the pit every day to ensure that bacteria do not breed. It's necessary! We also have to reduce the probability of malaria transmission! ”

I translated Erijia's words to everyone, Wei Ergou nodded vigorously, he stood up and said to me and Arija, "Good construction!" Yes, yes, I didn't expect Erijia to become our political commissar, just do what the political commissar said, this is our base in Ghana, our home, our castle, our cash cow! When today's gold cake is sold, it will be done immediately! ”

I don't know how the commissar translates into English, so after a pause and using another word, "shaman", which means shaman, I told SΓΉ Erica: "Dog says you are now the shaman of our construction site!" We listen to you, and when the gold is sold, we will improve the living conditions! ”

After eating, Lao Cao, Lao Zhu, Lao Wu and they began to fight the landlord, Wei Ergou and Xiao Cao were lying on the boat and playing with their mobile phones, which can also see the difference between young people and old people.

Eriga and I sat at the charred gold and watched the gold change in the crucible, the bottom of the gold had turned red, and some of it had melted and turned crimson in color. After about an hour and a half, the gold had melted into a puddle of water like ice cream.

"Old Wu, old Wu, it's okay!" I was a little excited and called Lao Wu.

Lao Wu came over and looked at the crucible with tongs and shook it, "It's almost hot!" Lao Wu said to himself, he brought a small stool to sit next to the crucible, adjusted the wind power of the blower, and constantly shook the crucible to accelerate the melting of the gold water.

After another ten minutes or so, Lao Wu shook it to confirm that the gold was almost completely melted into water, and Lao Wu took out a cast-iron conical container with a large bottom, and Lao Wu put the container on the charcoal and roasted it for about five minutes. Lao Wu used a wooden trough to fix the cast iron container, and then waved my hand to let Erijia and I retreat, he himself also took leather gloves and slowly carefully clamped the graphite crucible, and gently poured the gold water of the graphite crucible into the cast iron container, the magma-like fiery red liquid, when poured in, emitted green smoke, making a crisp swishing sound. Lao Wu also called Lao Cao over, Lao Cao held a super long and ultra-thin small hammer, gently knocked on the bottom of the cast iron container, Lao Wu knocked Lao Cao while pouring, both of them were blushed by the brightness of the gold water, their faces were red, and their foreheads were sweating, this is 1064 degrees of gold water, Lao Wu has been the hottest recently, Lao Cao's hammer is more than half a meter long, although it is a little distance, you can also see that several of his hair have become curly, and they have been burned by the heat wave of gold water.

"Erica, have you seen alchemy before?" I stood behind Lao Cao with Erijia, more than two meters away from Jinshui, and I asked Erica gently,

"Yes, but it's different! I have seen that the English alchemy is put in that corrosive liquid, and it is not burned with fire like you; My father told me that in the past, the Indian alchemy was directly burned with an oxygen acetylene high-pressure gun, and I needed to buy oxygen cylinders and acetylene bottles, and we didn't have any, so we needed to go to Kumasi to buy them. Erica continued to look at Lao Wu and Lao Cao curiously, and whispered to me.

"Oh, the mobile phone you said used by the British concentrated sulfuric acid, concentrated hydrochloric acid, concentrated nitric acid, we call it aqua regia in China!" I didn't know how to translate "kingwater" and coined the word "kingwater" myself.

"Haha, it's aquaregia! That's right, it's a mixture of three super-corrosive liquids, and the British put gold minerals into this mixture. Erica corrected my speech, making me think that at first the middle school chemistry teacher taught me that gold can only be dissolved by aqua regia.

"But the cost is high! And the oxygen acetylene you mentioned also costs money! It's better to burn it directly! "I boasted to Arijia about the advantages of Chinese fire refining gold, that is, two words "cheap"!

Lao Wu poured all the gold water into the cast iron container, and Lao Cao also put down the hammer. "Alright, just wait for him to cool down!" Lao Wu took off his gloves and put down the tongs.

About another hour later, Lao Wu used tongs to soak the container in water to cool it thoroughly, although after an hour, the temperature of the container was still very high, and there was still green smoke and sizzling sound when immersed in the water.

After Lao Wu thoroughly confirmed that it was cooled, Lao Wu turned over the container, poured out a black lumpy object, and then gently knocked it with a small hammer, the black layer on the surface immediately fell off, and a piece of gold cake was displayed in front of us! The size of this fast gold cake is a little bigger than that of the Republic of China, and Lao Wu put it on the microelectronics scale and weighed it, 150 grams! According to the gold price at that time, it was worth 50,000 yuan!