The three of us rested for forty minutes against the "tree of life", Wei Ergou was already tilting his head and snoring, and the heartless people slept well! Wei Yiyun and I couldn't sit still, we had already stood up, looking up at the super tree behind us. (I don't know if you have seen the photo in the post bar of the same name?) Erijia had also rested, and had now climbed to a higher branch and stood in the distance, presumably looking at the longs to see if he had returned. I also stood up and looked around, but I didn't get out of the sulfur circle, Wei Yiyun had already walked out of the sulfur circle and looked around the big tree, constantly taking pictures with his mobile phone.

"They're coming!" Erica shouted to us from the branch more than ten meters high, it turned out that the front army, the rear army, the left army, the right army, and the four black workers had already carried things around the bushes at the end of the grass, so it was estimated that according to their speed, it would not take more than twenty minutes to reach our big tree.

Wei Yiyun and I couldn't see these four black workers when we jumped up, although it was a grass, the grass was more than half a meter high, some were even more than a meter high, and the grass was also a half-slope, and we couldn't see it under the trees at all. Erijia got down from the tree and asked Wei Yiyun for a cigarette, and asked me to ask Wei Ergou about the next arrangements.

The specific arrangement of Wei Ergou is: wait for the four black workers to bring the things, first set up four tents, and sprinkle sulfur around the tents; In the meantime, we'll wait a lot to come back and see if we find anything; If you find a ditch, go over to prospect together, if not, tomorrow we will divide into two groups, Wei Yiyun and I will take two black workers, Xiaosheng you and Erijiaduo will bring two black workers, and go to the right and the front right to find the lower ditch.

After a while, the four black workers came with things on their heads, and the Africans used to carry things on the top of their heads, using the balance of two forces to carry things, generally they first folded a piece of cloth and spread it on the top of their heads to make a plane, and then put things on it, so that they were on their heads, if the body was straight, the gravity of the things and the ground support force were just two forces balanced, and the black people could hold anything on the top of their heads, as long as they could maintain their balance, I saw with my own eyes that there was even a gas tank weighing 40 kilograms. There is also an advantage to the things on the top of the head from a young age, the African body is very straight, and the temperament is very good, especially the African woman walks in a very straight and graceful posture.

I arranged for them to set up the tent in English, and the four black men began to study how to use this simple tent, Wei Ergou stepped forward and taught them how to set up one, and the black man had a strong ability to draw scoops according to the gourd, and the four of them automatically divided into two groups to set up two tents at the same time.

I was chatting with Erdog, sharing the analysis of the location of the gold mine with Ergou in simple English, and Erdog's analysis of the location of the gold mine was shared with Erdog, who listened very carefully and carefully, and kept nodding his head in recognition of Wei Ergou's unique analysis and said "DOG, GOOD!" to Ergou. Wei Ergou whispered to me in Chinese, "Don't teach Xiao Hei, some things are passed on inside and outside, you and Wei Yiyun are people I can trust, I just sue you, generally speaking, before Huang Jianjun's construction site, I never told them about their experience in judging gold sand mines except for Huang Jianjun!"

I immediately said, "Well, I see." "Erdog and I looked at me and Wei Ergou and asked me what Wei Ergou was talking about, I said to Erdog, "Wei Ergou said that you have a high understanding!" Erica gave a thumbs up to Wei Ergou and kept saying "GOOD, DOD!" The meaning is to praise Wei Ergou's good appearance, this kind of meaning, the English literal translation is not good, the literal translation is the meaning of "good dog", and I don't know why the black people call Wei Ergou "DOG", it is possible that when someone introduced his name before, his name was the meaning of DOG.

Wei Ergou looked at the time on his mobile phone, and the black worker was about to finish the two tents, so he said to Wei Yiyun, "Wei Yiyun, otherwise, you and Erica will go to Xia Donai to see where he is?" Don't go far. Wei Yiyun and Erijia also each took a machete and went in the direction of Donei to find it.

After a while, the four black workers finished setting up the four tents, and Wei Ergou asked them to dig a small ditch with a shovel two meters around the periphery of the four tents, and the small ditch formed a circle to surround the four tents, just like Sun Wukong drew a circle for Tang Seng. After the ditch was dug, Wei Ergou asked me to unscrew the sulfur bucket, and he grabbed a handful of sulfur with a plastic bag and sprinkled it in the pit, and a circle of sulfur defense against snakes and insects was thus established. Then we waited for Erica Wei Yiyun and Donai to come back.

Wei Ergou started smoking again, he was very addicted to smoking at a young age, and asked me to inquire about the smoking room when I was at Dubai Airport. I asked the negroes to start clearing the ground under the tent, leveling it with shovels, and laying it out with sheets.

Wei Ergou took a puff of cigarette, and he opened his mouth to say to me; "Xiaosheng, let me tell you a strange way to find gold, which is called the animal method of finding gold."

"How to find gold for animals? You mean to let animals look for gold like drug detector dogs? "As soon as I heard that animals were looking for gold, I immediately thought of hunting dogs.

"Yes, but not quite!" Wei Ergou looked at me with a smile, "Gold is colorless and odorless, there is no way to detect it with the sense of smell, and you have to rely on ants to detect gold placer!" ”

"Huh? Ants, can ants detect like metal detectors? "I can't believe it when I hear Wei Ergou mention that ants are looking for gold.

"Listen to me tell me a story, in ancient times, there was a woman who hid 150 taels of silver in a chest, but one day when she opened the box to check, she found that the silver was missing. The woman was astonished and suspected that the silver had been stolen. Later, she searched again and again and found a large group of termites gathering together, eating the remaining silver grains. In a fit of rage, the woman threw the termites into the furnace to relieve her hatred. Unexpectedly, after refining the termites, 150 taels of silver appeared, and they were actually recovered. Wei Ergou said while smoking, and instructed the black worker to clean up the ground with his hands.

"It's a legend, right? How is that possible? "I don't believe Wei Ergou at all.

This is a small story recorded in the ancient book "The History of Tianxiang Building" in China. In addition, there is a story that during the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, Wu Zhenfang, a Jinshi who had been an official to supervise the imperial history, recorded in his book "Lingnan Miscellaneous Records" that in 1684 AD, thousands of taels of silver from the treasury of a certain government disappeared. Thinking that it had been stolen, the officials invited the most famous local catcher to investigate and secretly visit for several days, but found nothing. Later, someone found some shiny white borer under the wall of the storeroom, so they dug up the trail, and dug up a termite nest under the corner. The treasurer suspected that the silver might have been stolen by these termites, so he had all the termites in the nest caught and put them into the furnace to refine them, and the result was that the silver water of the white flowers was actually refined from the termites. At this point, the mystery of the theft of the silver vault has finally been revealed. Wei Ergou told the story of ants eating gold again.

"Huh? It is recorded in ancient books! Fantastic! I looked at Wei Ergou suspiciously, "You won't be blinded by me, right?" Have you read all these ancient books? ”

"This is also what my master told me, and I didn't believe it at first, until I was in the Huang Jianjun mine, once we didn't run out of red coals for making a fire, and a naughty little black worker used two branches to pour these red coals on an ant pile, and a bunch of sapper termites came out to protect the home, like moths to a fire, trying to lift the coal and carry it away, and died in a big circle on it in a few seconds. The next day I went to look at the place, and I found the place where the termites were burned, and I faintly saw the gold dots of hair, very, very small, and later, I shoveled the ant nest through the middle with a shovel, and then poured gasoline on it and lit it, and guess what, I picked up 10 grams of gold after the burning! Wei Ergou said vividly, and from time to time he gestured with his movements and his surprised expression at that time.

Later, after we went out of the mountains and returned to the rich man, I also looked up relevant information on the Internet, and it was indeed useful to use termites to find minerals, in fact, a long time ago, the ancient Greek historian Herodotus once said that the use of termites can help people find gold and other beneficial minerals. Now, this hypothesis has been confirmed, and modern science has deciphered the secret of termite silver-eating. Scientists believe that termites eat silver in order to reduce their own formic acid concentrations. It turns out that a high concentration of formic acid will be secreted in the mouthparts of termites, and silver will undergo a chemical reaction when it encounters formic acid to form powdered silver formate, so that termites can effortlessly swallow powdered silver formate into the abdomen, however, silver formate will not be digested and absorbed by termites, but will be decomposed to form a black powdery metal, which is retained in the termite's body. These powdered metals can still reduce silver when they reach the melting point of silver at high temperatures.