It originates in the Kunlun Mountains of the Pamir Plateau, traverses central Asia, is like a giant python, and is known as the "spine of Asia".

Kun means high, and Lun has the appearance of buckling and coiling. Kunlun is the most mysterious place among all the famous mountains and rivers, and in the extraordinary imagination of the ancients, it is a huge bulge on the earth.

Liu Yuhao still remembers that in the ancient books he read, Kunlun is generally called a ruin, or a mound, it is "the sect of ten thousand mountains", "the ancestor of the dragon vein", so that the magical place will naturally be inhabited by the gods.

The earliest legend is that a god with a human face and a tiger body and a tail guarded it, and later became a beautiful woman, the Queen Mother of the West. According to legend, she is the fairy lord of Kunlun Mountain.

The "Yao Pond" recorded in many ancient books is the Black Sea at the source of the Kunlun River, where the altitude is close to 5,000 meters, and the weather is thousands, which is the birthplace of the Kunlun sect of Taoism. As the first sacred mountain, Kunlun Mountain has left countless beautiful legends and insoluble mysteries for thousands of years.

The Gonggong clan drove the dragon in the air and slammed into Kunlun Mountain. With a loud bang, the waist of Kunlun Mountain was broken, and the mountain collapsed. The heavens and the earth changed dramatically, the mountains and rivers moved, the rivers changed, and the earth collapsed to the southeast. The sky fell to the northwest, and the sun, moon, and stars all changed positions......

Ancient mythology may have fulfilled the Himalayan orogeny hundreds of millions of years ago.

From the Archean strata composed of gneiss, slate, and gneiss granite on the earth about 4.5 billion years ago, to the Cenozoic strata formed by the Himalayan movement that wrinkled, metamorphosed, and fractured Asia, the earth's interior has undergone many generations of crustal changes, resulting in a variety of different types of rocks.

According to contemporary scientific investigations, the intensity of tectonic plate activity during the Himalayan orogeny is unique in the world. The confluence of the Kunlun Mountains and the Himalayas is also the intersection of two major geological plates.

Constant movement and impact, under the combined action of the huge extrusion force between the plates and the underground magma, a magical mineral structure has been formed, that is, a magical and unique jade.

Before he knew it, Liu Yuhao had already spent five days in the mining area, during which he made many friends with his personality charm.

Liu Yuhao would work with the jade miners almost every day, and let them take him down to the mine to carefully observe the process of jade mining, so as to obtain first-hand valuable information.

"Daddy Temur, why don't you use more mechanical tools? Wouldn't that be much faster? ”

Liu Yuhao frowned, through the observation of the past few days, he found that all the jade mining workers were holding a steel drill and smashing the ore with a sixteen-pound hammer.

Normally, mines vary in length and size, and are open stone troughs or pits with deep and shallow depths. It is generally four or five times as wide as a vein, which means that for each piece of jade, a large amount of hard rock must be removed.

Every time the jade picker smashes it, it emits a crisp sound, and the steel drill also jumps high, and every centimeter of progress is made, and several hammers are smashed, which is not only slow, but also very dangerous.

The Uyghur word for Temur means fine ore, and Daddy Temur is a strong, ruddy-complexed Uyghur jade miner, probably in his fifties.

Dad waved the sledgehammer a few more times and stopped with a smile, and said: "Young man, the connoisseur must use a thick steel brazing steel wedge on the rock to see the natural texture of the jade seedling, the machine will not only destroy the pattern you want to observe, but also shatter the Hetian jade in the rock, and the hard work of picking a bunch of waste stones to go out will outweigh the loss." ”

Liu Yuhao's old face turned red, and he suddenly realized, smiled awkwardly, and turned to talk to Daddy Timur: "Daddy Timur, who else is there in your family now?" ”

Father Temur spat in the palm of his hand, sped up his speed and smashed a few hammers, with a satisfied smile on the corner of his mouth, and said: "My son is in a mine forty kilometers away, and there are only grandsons and daughters-in-law left in the family. ”

When talking about the little grandson of the family, Father Temur's face showed a smile of infinite relief, and Liu Yuhao smiled slightly in his eyes.

"Young man, don't do your best every time like you when you cut stones and take jade, you must know how to save effort, and you must know how to cooperate with your waist and arms."

Father Temur glanced at Liu Yuhao's posture and immediately frowned, and taught him hand in hand.

To take jade, you must first be able to identify what is jade and what is stone, the difference between the two, the rock connected to the jade is called the jade root, it seems to be like jade but it is a stone, the most difficult to distinguish.

If it is not obtained well, the jade will be broken, and Lang will not be able to get the real jade without physical strength, or in the end, it will only replace the jade with stone, and the effort will be in vain.

Moreover, theoretically speaking, the larger the jade of Hetian jade, the more mature it is, and the carver carves the jade according to the natural shape of each piece of jade to conceive the shape, and then the knife, can take out the whole piece of jade will better protect its economic value.

"Suddenly remembered Zhou Tianzi and drove up to Yushan. Ming Yu quit Fengyuan, and Chiji is the most gracious. ”

This poem by Li He says that when King Mu of Zhou returned from his western tour of the east, he went to Kunlun to "take the three times of jade" and "carry ten thousand jades". And his beloved horse "Chiji" was greatly favored because of his meritorious work in "taking jade" this time. This beautiful story tells people that the jade produced here was already shipped to the mainland.

However, how many people know that for thousands of years, this kind of Kunlun jade, which has been cherished and loved by hundreds of millions of people all over the world, has to pay so much hardship in the process of collection!

Looking at his hand full of blood bubbles, Liu Yuhao shook his head with emotion, and continued to smash it with the steel drill.

"Slow down, don't move Xiao Liu!"

Suddenly, Father Temur, who had inadvertently turned around, frowned, and then a flash of excitement flashed in his eyes, and he waved his hands and shouted loudly.

"What's the matter, Daddy Temur, you're scared me to death."

Liu Yuhao was startled, and hurriedly recovered the sledgehammer and steel drill in his hand.

Father Temur didn't realize that he had made a mistake that almost killed him just now, and he still looked at Liu Yuhao's feet with stunned eyes, and muttered: "Jade, that's the first-grade white jade, and finally the first-grade white jade has come out." ”

The excited shouts attracted more jade miners to surround the mine, this mine was the Weng family only last year to think that Liu Yuhao, who had re-excavated the iron hammer just now, went down and smashed out the first jade root in the mining area.

Suddenly, the mining area was boiling, and the appearance of jade roots meant that everyone's efforts in the past few months had not been in vain, although whether they could mine jade was the business of the Weng family, but as a jade miner, only when the jade mine produced jade, they would be steady.

Otherwise, who knows if I will move to other mining areas next year, after all, it is impossible for the Weng family to continue to invest if they haven't found a vein for a year.

"Where's the white jade? Where the hell is it? ”

After a while, Alekjiang rushed over with five or six loaded mine guards, shouting as he ran.

Arik is the head of the Weng family's security team at the mine, responsible for protecting the safety of the jade in the mine and the personal safety of the jade miners, and the so-called "Jiang" is the nickname for young men in the Uighur language.

Father Temur pursed his lips, picked up a piece of lustrous and bright white jade at Liu Yuhao's feet with a trembling hand, walked to Alex Jiang's side, and said, "Alekjiang, come and see, this is a real piece of white jade, and it is a high-quality material." ”

Alekjiang took the jade, squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully, and after about a minute or two, he said, "Go and invite Mr. Weng over, just say that we have a high-grade white jade in the mine." ”

A mine guard next to him nodded repeatedly, turned around and ran back.

Mr. Weng is naturally Weng Xueyan who is now in the mine, but in the past few days, the girl seems to be deliberately avoiding Liu Yuhao, and has been living at the transfer station one kilometer away from the mining area.

The one kilometer of the vast Kunlun Zhongshan Road seems to be very close, but if you really want to walk, people with average physical strength have to walk for more than 20 minutes at least to complete.

Alekjiang found a stone and sat down surrounded by a large group of jade pickers, and everyone's faces were full of joy after being stimulated by the white jade, and they were flushed.

"Father Temur, you are always the most experienced, tell us what you think of this piece of jade."

The main reason why Alekjiang is popular in the mining area is because he has a kind heart, shows full respect for everyone, and never shows that kind of superiority in front of the jade miners.

Father Temur took the piece of white jade from Alex Jiang's hand, raised it above his head and squinted at the sun's rays, and when Alex Jiang saw this, he quickly took out the strong flashlight in his pocket and handed it to the old man.

"Tsk Alec River, this is the best quality white jade I have seen in the mining area in the last ten years."

After a long time, Father Temur returned the strong flashlight to Alekjiang, reluctantly put down the piece of white jade, and said in a loud voice.

Hetian white jade is divided into seed jade, mountain water jade and mountain material jade.

And this piece is obviously a mountain material, under the direct light of the strong flashlight, the white jade is pure white translucent, the texture is warm, fine, and the naked eye can hardly see the fibers are intertwined.

Although there will occasionally be a slight hint of light yellow in the jade flesh, the oily jade is still as white as cut fat and soft and shiny to the naked eye.

Although the mountain material is not as good as the mutton fat white jade in the seed jade, the body is like clotted fat, and the fine light is blue inside, but it still retains the characteristics of Hetian jade white, transparent, fine and moist, and the high-quality mountain material white jade is also the best in the jade.

Alekjiang couldn't hide the excitement in his heart, his face was happy, and he took the piece of white jade in his hand again and kept rubbing it, "Okay, the good days of our mining area are coming." ”