Chapter 171: Jade Picker
Xie Bin didn't expect Elken to use such a machete to stop the beast. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Besides, trucks come and go here, excavators rumble all night, and from time to time they have to bomb the mountain, even if any beasts are scared away, where do you dare to stay nearby.
The next morning, with a little dry food and water, the two men climbed over a small hill near the nameless river below. The river is not in a hurry, and it is winter, and the riverbed is exposed in a large section, and the dense pebbles are everywhere, which is quite tempting to look at, especially after knowing that most of the superb jade stones worth thousands of gold are turned out of these pebbles.
But this time there are pebbles everywhere, where to start? Don't look at what Xie Bin said when he said that it was the Tao, but this jade mining was really the first time, and he didn't know where to start at all.
Looking at Erken again, he didn't bend down with a stick, just paddled on the riverbed, and occasionally looked down and picked up one or two pebbles to look at, but most of them were thrown away, and he didn't see a single one for a while.
Seeing that Xie Bin was a little stunned, Erken smiled, "Brother Xie, just take a look at it, the right is to experience life, and ordinary people can't adapt to it without three or five days." ”
That's true, Xie Bin looked down at the ground, all of them were densely packed with pebbles, do you still have to look through them piece by piece? That's not called looking for a needle in a haystack, it's picking up hairs in the sea. Xie Bin stared at the pebbles on the ground for a while, and soon his eyes were sleepy, his head was dizzy, and he watched everything turn into pebbles.
Erken on the other side has already picked up several pieces, although the quality is not very good, but he can also buy one for three or two thousand, and in the eyes of ordinary jade pickers, it is a small fortune. Xie Bin naturally doesn't care about this money, but he can't get by with this face, he came to Kunlun Mountain, but he didn't pick up anything, which is really a bit of a loss.
Seeing that Erken was so happy to pick it up, Xie Bin secretly gritted his teeth, and simply squatted down and rummaged through it one by one with a small shovel.
Erken in front of him looked back and saw Xie Bin's appearance, and laughed: "Brother Xie, you will be very tired like that, and you won't be able to stand up in a while." Of course, Xie Bin knows this, squatting for a long time will compress the nerves and blood vessels of the lower limbs, which will cause temporary lack of oxygen or pain and numbness.
But Xie Bin relied on his ability and mutation qigong to be in his body, so he didn't care about this little injury, and he was determined not to dig out a few pieces of good jade and swore not to give up. With determination, I was much more decisive when I got off the shovel, and I didn't care about anything else, I dug hard with my head covered, as long as I didn't dig anywhere.
Not to mention, this kind of carpet-style indiscriminate large-scale excavation really allowed Xie Bin to find two good materials, one is white jade with dark red sugar skin, and the other is topaz. These two pieces of jade look no different from ordinary pebbles, just a little larger than Chéngrén's thumb, and the surface is smooth and round, although you can't directly see through the specific situation of the jade inside, but you can also get a glimpse of it.
Erken came over to take a look, and said with a hint of envy: "Yes, Brother Xie, you can sell it for tens of thousands of yuan, your luck is really good, so you can dig up good materials." ”
Xie Bin laughed, the depression in his heart was swept away, and he secretly thought, this is the life of a jade picker, at this time, looking at the white mountain, breathing the cold air, he also felt refreshed.
But then again, Xie Bin's luck is indeed good, this place is not remote, I don't know how many jade miners have picked it here, and the chance of picking up jade is really not high. Xie Bin was able to pick up these two pieces, one is because these two pieces are buried underneath, and few people will dig so deep; And then there's the wonder of nature.
The river flows all year round, and the river is abundant in summer and autumn, and a large part of the riverbed is submerged in the water, and the jade miners rarely go into the water, and few jade miners go up the mountain in winter.
In addition, this river flows down from the mountain, and from time to time some mountain materials are carried to the bottom of the mountain, and are slowly ground into seed jade, all year round, so this jade picker comes again and again, but the jade material by the water will never be cut off.
Picking up two pieces of good material, Xie Bin was more motivated, squatting on the ground and moving forward step by step with a small shovel, and the places he moved were turned up several layers. Fortunately, there are indeed more pebbles by the river, and there is no sediment. Otherwise, it will be freezing in the season before the beginning of the chun, no matter how powerful Xie Bin is, how many stones can he turn up with a small shovel?
Later, Xie Bin turned out a few more pieces, but they were not valuable goods, according to Erken's words, those were all goods that jade pickers didn't want. After all, Xie Bin is not an experienced jade picker, and he has not seen many seeds, and in terms of judging the real thing, he is not even as good as Erken, a child.
After all, most of the seed jade has a little shell or miscellaneous sè, and sometimes it is really difficult to judge. Unless Xie Bin uses his ability to detect, he won't have much to do with these pebbles-like jade. Of course, this difficulty is much simpler than that of jadeite wool, unless the skin is very thick, otherwise experienced jade pickers can easily judge the true value.
Xie Bin squatted and dug deep like this, although the speed was slower and the consumption of physical energy was relatively large, but it seemed to have a very good effect, which provoked Erken to squat down and conduct a carpet search like Xie Bin. It's just that although Erken is also a martial arts practitioner, he has never practiced this kind of duck step after all, and he can't stand it after a while.
Xie Bin was happy and comfortable, digging and digging with a small shovel, and after most of the day, he actually dug up more than a dozen pieces of jade material. Calculated the size of the jade, it is almost 50,000 yuan, if all the jade miners had such efficiency, the price of this jade would not be so high.
It's just that on the side of such a riverbed, few people like Xie Bin can stand it by hand, and it is not worth it to dig by machine, so they can only let people like Xie Bin try their luck, or wait until one day these materials are turned out by the river and then found by jade pickers.
At noon, Xie Bin took stock of his harvest, and used his ability to probe carefully, and found that the quality of a piece of sugar-skinned white jade was a little better than Erken's estimate, and it could be sold for **10,000 yuan.
However, Xie Bin didn't plan to make a move, this was the jade material he picked up by himself, and it was more interesting to make it into an object and give it away, so it was not bad to keep it for his own use. Xie Bin thought beautifully, stroked the two pieces of jade in his hand, and fell into his own good dream.
Erken on the side was casually nibbling on the air-dried beef, while looking at Xie Bin with envy. He was only nineteen years old, and he was still a child, but he just looked more mature. Since fusing Xie Bin on the Internet with Xie Bin in front of him, he is very envious of Xie Bin's life.
Xie Bin was thinking about the beauty, when he heard Erken on the side ask, "Brother Xie, how about I learn carving from you?" Xie Bin wondered a little in his heart, why did he want to learn carving by himself? Is this carving so fun? But it's not good to say no outright.
Xie Bin thought for a while and asked, "What do you learn to carve?" It is very difficult to learn without a foundation, and it is a thankless job. ”
"Alas, I'm bored at home now, I don't have anything else to do but practice martial arts, and I have to be verbosed by my father all day long," Erken said with a sad face.
Xie Bin thought to himself, he is another rebellious teenager, but he is better than Mu Feng, at least this one is not so prodigal, and he has his own hobbies. In other words, this person who practices martial arts can achieve something, and this xingzi must have outstanding points, and it is easier to achieve success no matter what he does.
Erken's ability to practice martial arts every day without the supervision of his master is quite amazing, and if he learns carving, he will definitely be able to achieve something. It's just that Xie Bin himself doesn't plan to accept apprentices. Not to mention whether there is a way to teach his craft, even if it can be taught, he doesn't have this plan. After all, Xie Bin is still too young now, and he is still early from the age when he can accept apprentices.
Erken sighed, probably because he heard the meaning of rejection in Xie Bin's words, so he didn't say more, children are still relatively thick-skinned, and they rarely mention it again when they are rejected.
It's just that this makes Xie Bin a little uncomfortable, and persuades: "If you want to learn carving, you can find a tutor, this thing is the master to lead the door, and practice in the individual," said and said with a smile: "In fact, with your family conditions, you don't have to think about these at all, you can practice martial arts well, although you don't pay attention to personal force now, but after all, it is a kind of inheritance, and you will be a generation of grandmasters in a few years." ”
Elken nodded blankly, not knowing if he had listened or not. Anyway, Xie Bin's words are completely sincere, and they come from the heart.
However, what Xie Bin didn't expect was that after a few years, Erken really became a generation of grandmasters of Xingyi Boxing, with a number of disciples, and wrote a strong stroke in the history of Chinese national arts. And Erken said in the preface to a "General Theory of Xingyi Boxing" written in his later years that he was able to persist on the road of national art for so long, completely because of the words of the carving master Xie Bin, although the skills of the two have nothing in common, but there is no difference between this persistence and love.
At this time, Erken was still a half-grown child, and after a short break for lunch, he forgot about the morning's proposal and began to play. At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Erken proposed to go back, after all, it was in the mountains, and it was better to return to the camp early.
Xie Bin nodded, his heart was also very happy, although he could feel a little tired, but looking at the harvest in his backpack, he felt that it was worth it. This feeling is like when I used to set up a stall, I sold a dozen or so wood carvings for one hundred and two hundred, and I was secretly happy at night counting one or two thousand yuan in cash under the lamp.
This sense of accomplishment after watching one's sweat turn into the fruits of labor has little to do with more money and less money, especially in different environments and different time periods. (To be continued.) )