Wei Ergou's shovel kept digging the sand, and then checked it with his hands, changed a lot of directions and dug about thirty shovels, he changed to another water fork and continued to dig. I saw Wei Yiyun also repeating Wei Ergou's movements, I was curious, and I also pulled my trouser legs into another waterway, the water was very shallow and far from my knees, I didn't have a shovel in my hand, I could only use my hands to scoop up sand, I fished the first handful, and then looked at it with the naked eye, my eyesight was very good, I saw a grain of gold at a glance, I was very excited, and shouted "Come and see, I dug up gold!" ”

Wei Yiyun was the first to come over, with his hand to remove the sand in my hand, and found that there were two very small grains of golden sand, he picked them up and looked at the sky, the same excitement was overflowing, to Ghana to dig gold, I didn't expect the first gold to be dug by my bare hands, which is for the three of us composed of young team, no one expected, of course, it also means a very good omen, I threw away the sand in my hand, as a result, the gold grain in Wei Yiyun's hand, in fact, I have never seen a gold grain, It's just that the gloss of gold and sand is too different, and as soon as I pick up the sand, the gold shines with a unique light that attracts my attention. Wei Yiyun handed me another grain of gold, he motioned for me to step back, shoveled up a handful of sand from where I was standing, I looked closer, wow, there were several shiny grains of gold, the largest one was the size of a grain of rice, I took out the gold grain, and shouted, "Make a fortune, gold, gold!" I turned my head and wanted to shout Wei Ergou, I was too excited and accidentally slipped and fell, and my whole body fell into the river, I got up and carefully checked that the big gold nuggets in my hand were still there, at first the two grains had fallen into the water and were washed away, I was like a madman, shouting "Make a fortune!" Make a fortune! Wei Yiyun was also very excited by my shouting and splashed me with water, and I also splashed water on him with my hands, like two children playing in the water, and Erija and Donnay on the shore looked at us two crazy people inexplicably. On the other side, the four black workers on the shore noticed that Wei Yiyun and I were splashing water on each other in the water, and asked Wei Ergou to look at us, and Wei Ergou roared loudly, "What are you two doing?" ”

"Gold, gold, I'll hold up the gold grain and show it to Wei Ergou." I don't know if Wei Ergou saw it, it was a hundred meters away, but he should have understood and understood my movements.

Wei Ergou picked up the shovel and took three steps and two steps to think of me, walked into the gold nuggets that took my hand, and checked repeatedly without making a sound. Seeing that Wei Ergou was so calm, and Wei Ergou couldn't stop shaking his head, we thought we were mistaken, isn't this a golden grain? Wei Ergou pulled me and Wei Yiyun ashore, he put the gold grain in his pocket, and then whispered to us in Chinese, "Go, this is not the gold thread!" That one wasn't gold, it was just a stone with copper! He also motioned for me to explain to Erica. I went from being extremely excited to being extremely disappointed, and Eriga looked at us incredulously, and I told Eriga what had just happened, and Erika and Donay laughed heartily, and I looked at myself as if I had fallen into the soup, and thought I had found gold. Wei Ergou continued to shovel more than a dozen shovels in the place where I found the copper grains, and each time I looked at them a few times and threw them all back into the river, maybe I was really mistaken, there was no gold in this river. Wei Yiyun also laughed at me, "Xiaosheng has found gold, nickname outside!" Xiaosheng has found gold!" I didn't pay any attention to him in my frustration.

Wei Ergou asked the four black workers to dig a pit in the four directions of the southeast, north, and west of this open land, and he and Wei Yiyun chose a direction in the center and began to dig the pit, I didn't have the heart because of the ups and downs just now, I found a tree on the shore and sat down, and Arijia came over to comfort me, "Did you think you found gold just now, don't be discouraged, we will definitely find gold." A few days ago, I was digging sand gold with a friend, just like you, thinking that I had found gold, but when I showed my father, it was all other minerals instead of gold, and I found phlogopite, a golden mineral. Take your time, we will definitely find gold, DOG seems to have a lot of experience, so have confidence. “

"Well, thank you, Erica, I'm good friends with you, thank you for comforting me, I'm fine, I'm just too excited just now, I'm a little tired now, I'm fine." I said things against my will, but my heart was extremely lost, first, I was too much sun, I was a little uncomfortable, second, my mood was a little unpleasant, and third, I was worried that we would still not be able to find gold today. So I chatted with Erica under the tree, and he told me many stories about how he dug for gold, such as when he was twelve or thirteen years old, he used dynamite to blow up the rock gold veins, and when he blew them up, he would pick up the pieces and go home and crush them with a little hammer, and sometimes he could grind a gram or two of gold one day with a little luck. Thinking that I was still a child who didn't understand anything at the age of twelve or thirteen, looking at Erica with a childish face in front of me, I felt that I was a child, and Erica seemed much more mature than me.

Wanting to get the conversation out of the way, Eriga pointed to my jeans and said, "You know how the jeans came about?" ”

"The Americans invented it, for the convenience of horseback riding! Western cowboys wear cowboy hats, jeans, long sleeves, and a waistcoat on the outside, a revolver in the left pocket, bullets in the right pocket, a dagger on the leg, a rope on the back, leather boots on the feet, a large belt around the waist, and a metal spur behind the boots" I turned my brain and thought about the outfit of the American cowboy in the movie.

"You're half right, but not invented for horseback riding, but for gold panning!" Erijia said slowly word by word, as if to hang my appetite, and I was also driven by him to stop thinking about the sense of loss just now.

"YES, JEANS JEANS, LEVY! In 1850, a large area of gold was discovered in the western United States, and countless people who wanted to get rich overnight flocked to the barren western land that was once inaccessible and desolate. Levi Strauss was in his 20s at the time, and his heart was full of adventure, and the natural restlessness of the Jews made him uneasy about being a stable clerk. After a long journey, Levi came to San Francisco, USA, he found his recklessness, he was not the first person to go to the gold panning, the once desolate West is now full of gold diggers, tents everywhere, so many people living in tents, can you realize the dream of making a fortune? Will you be satisfied? Did you abandon your job and come here, waiting hopelessly? He was deep in thought. So many gold diggers stay in one place, living in tents, plus it is far away from the city center, it is very inconvenient to buy things, by chance, Levi saw that those gold diggers had to run a long way in order to buy a little daily necessities, and he also had a deep experience, so he decided not to have that unattainable gold dream, or to settle down in a down-to-earth manner, open a small store of daily necessities, no longer panning for gold from the soil, but starting his new dream from the gold diggers. As Li Wei expected, the business of this small shop was very good, and there was an endless stream of people who came to patronize it, and soon, Li Wei's costs were earned, and there was a lot of profit. One day, he went out by boat to buy a lot of daily necessities and a large number of canvases for tents and carriages. Due to the large number of passengers on board, the daily necessities were snapped up before they could get off the ship, but the canvas was ignored. When he got to the dock to unload the goods, he began to shout and sell the canvas, and since the gold diggers had already set up their tents, no one would bother to build a second one, and the canvas would lose money. Levi had thought that tents were a necessity for the people, but he was very frustrated that no one cared about them, and suddenly he saw a gold digger approaching him, and he was looking at the canvas. Hurriedly and happily stepped forward and asked enthusiastically, "Do you want to buy some canvas to set up a tent?" The worker shook his head: "I don't need another tent, I need pants that are as hard and wearable as a tent, do you have them?" "Pants? Why? Levi Strauss asked in surprise. The worker told him that the work of panning for gold was very hard, that his clothes and trousers often had to rub against stones and sand, and that the trousers made of cotton were not durable and wore out in a few days. "If you make pants out of these thick canvases, they will be strong and durable, and they may be very popular!" The gold digger's words reminded Levi Strauss. He thought, these canvases can't be sold anyway, so why not try making pants? So he had an idea and sold a pair of brown work pants in a novel and particularly durable brown work pants made by Jayne, a pastor in the western United States, with a thick canvas to sell to the miners. In 1853, the first canvas cargo pants, later known as "jeans", were born in the hands of Levi Strauss, who at that time called them "Levi's cargo trousers". The reformed mature jeans won the love of western cowboys and gold diggers at the time for their sturdiness, durability and proper wear. A large number of orders are coming. Levi Strauss no longer runs his own grocery store. In 1853, Levi officially established his own jeans company and began the long journey of this famous brand. After the company opened, the products were very popular, both strong and soft, beautiful in style, comfortable to wear, and welcomed by gold diggers. "Erica gave me a complete account of the origin and reasons for the invention of jeans, but I didn't expect this hairy boy to know this aspect very thoroughly, and he also told me that because he himself studied fashion design, but there is no room for this kind of professional display in Ghana, so he has been relying on his father to gnaw at the old.