"This time I drove pebbles that were not big or small, and the gems in them were more than 10 kilograms large and more than 8 kilograms small. Brother, the gem is big and second, the most pleasing thing is that the purity is particularly high, the color is particularly beautiful, two of the 3 rubies are bright red, one is light red, two of the 3 sapphires are sea blue, and one of them did not know what color it was at first, and then I looked it up on the Internet, called 'cornflower' color, which is the best color. ”

"Well, remember to collect it well, such things are not something that can be found casually, and it is not something that others can afford."

"I know, we're not short of money."

"Does Min Qiang know about the gem? Did you pick it up again this year? ”

"I'll sue him. There was no cell phone signal, so he had to contact me. I don't know if I picked it up recently, anyway, after the Spring Festival, he brought a group of people from the company over, and used the dry season to pick up more than 200 cars of pebbles in various streams and small rivers. ”

"Where are the pebbles?"

"It's all in Stone Lodge. Min Qiang said, you gave him so much money, he didn't want anything anymore, just help you do things, and if you have nothing to do in the future, you will take your family to travel. Brother, I'm going to do the same, we have money, and it's not necessarily a good thing to keep some for future generations. By the way, 6 of the gems peeled in Stone Villa were taken home by Zhang Ya, and he said that he would give one to each child. ”

"Okay, I'll give you some gold and jade in the future, and the children will have no worries about food and clothing in the future. Okay, let's stop talking, you can come over tomorrow. You go directly to Brother Qibin. I sue you sù his phone number. ”

After hanging up. Wuyang said, "I'll send it over tomorrow." Qibin, there are pebbles in my family Stone Villa, when will you go back and open one for your younger siblings and nephews, it is much more beautiful than a diamond. ”

Zhou Qian smiled: "Big brother, just give one?" ”

"Whatever you want, okay?"

Qibin said: "Big brother, don't get used to her. With her temperament, she'll empty you. In fact, the eldest brother gave us so much gold and jadeite, and the jade cabbage alone is priceless. Didn't you watch the program of the National Palace Museum in Taipei introduced on TV, and a jade cabbage that can be held away is already a treasure of the town, not to mention that we are piles of jade cabbage? ”

Wuyang smiled: "Qibin, we are brothers, you have made outstanding contributions to our cause, and it is appropriate for brothers and sisters to take something." Besides. You say, these things are for us. Isn't it just fun? ”

Zhou Qian said: "Qibin, what the eldest brother said is true, the richer the people, the more stingy they are, and the eldest brother is really generous." ”

Qi Bin smiled: "Okay, as long as you are happy." Big brother, are we going to the northwest tomorrow? I have arranged for the brethren to be evacuated from the mountains, ready with machinery, waiting for us by the river. ”

Wuyang said: "I don't have any arrangements for this holiday, but your sisters-in-law are coming over, and it's not easy for me to go." ”

Qibin said: "These water materials are getting less and less, if we don't go, there will be nothing for us, I think the sisters-in-law will forgive." ”

Xiaoya said: "Wuyang, you can go, sisters who want to go over to have fun, just book a ticket later." Qibin, you also bring a few ladies over, everyone hasn't experienced the scenery there. ”

Zhou Qian said: "Shanshan, there is not much for you to stay here, just accompany Qi Bin, we will open an office here." ”

Wuyang said: "Let's not take the airline's flight, I'll transfer the company's small plane over, fly straight from Spring City, so as not to turn around, we can't get there for a day, we will go to Spring City after dinner." ”

The airport was sunny, and Wuyang and Qibin walked out with a group of beauties, attracting many eyeballs. Wuyang's wives Huang Li, Hong Feifei and Ruan Na are dressed in military costumes, Relisha, Lai Yale and Rajima are dressed in national costumes, and Qi Bin's four wives are even more famous brands. Although she is already a wife and a mother, she looks like a group of beautiful models, but her elegant temperament and decent dress are better than models.

The pick-up was the minibus of the local military sub-district, and Huang Li's father was the commander of the large military region, and the secretary could handle such a thing with a phone call.

The minibus drove directly to the best local hotels, where the commanders and commissars of the military divisions were already waiting for them. After greeting each other, the commander asked: "Secretary Li, Mayor Zhu, are you here for tourism or what is the matter?" ”

Wuyang said: "We are doing private business, and we shouldn't have alarmed you." Thank you for your hospitality, after arriving, the lesbians will travel to various places, and Mayor Zhu and I will do our own thing. ”

The commander said: "The situation is quite stable now, it doesn't matter if the lesbians travel, if you do something, it is best for us to send someone to protect you." ”

Wuyang didn't want to tell them anything, but when he heard this, it was not easy to excuse himself. Although the two of them have martial arts, after all, this is not the era of cold weapons, and they are not afraid of 10,000. So he told me about going to the river to dig for jade.

The commander and the political commissar laughed when they heard this, and the political commissar said: "Secretary Li, I don't know how many times several rivers have been turned over, where is there any jade." ”

Wuyang said: "This is my long-cherished wish and Mayor Zhu for many years, and we are ready, we must try it tomorrow, if not, we have this wish, it is better to have it, buy some jade and carve a few small toys." ”

The commander said, "Okay, let's send two platoons to follow you, absolutely guarantee your safety, commissar, is this good?" ”

The commissar said: "We will send a reconnaissance company to protect you with all your weapons." ”

Wuyang said: "Isn't this okay? Without an order from above, it is a mistake to move troops. ”

The political commissar said: "We use holidays to train, why is it wrong? ”

"Well, thank you so much. We are responsible for the cost of fuel and other expenses for training, and we are also responsible for the overtime allowance for officers and men on holidays. ”

The commander said: "Your local chief is polite, and I will thank you on behalf of the officers and soldiers." We've eaten, and the troops can go with you. ”

Meal. Leave behind the female dependents. Ask them to contact their local bank first. Prepare two million cash, wherever they go, just gather on the night of the 6th. With your own plane, you should be able to play all of this place in 5 days.

4 grass-green minibuses and a cooking car rushed out, except for Wuyang and Qibin, all of them were heavily armed soldiers, Wuyang chatted and joked with them along the way, and soon arrived at the agreed place.

Wuyang is the first time to be here. Zhu Qibin said: "This is the Yulong Kashgar River, and the source is the Kunlun Mountains, which produce mountain materials. ”

Wuyang said, "Why is there no water in the river?" ”

Qibin said: "The water in the northern rivers is not as abundant as in the south, and now that the Kunlun Mountains have frozen, this river, which basically relies on water melted by snow, naturally has no water." We are also relying on luck now, if we are lucky, we can work for a few days, if the weather is suddenly cold and it freezes, we will have to go home. ”

"Good. Let's work overtime. If the harvest is not good, don't be stupid. Qi Bin. We said okay, no matter what the harvest this time is, it will be shared equally between the two of us, and I can't always take advantage of you. ”

"Big brother, it's okay to divide it equally, but you can't say anything to take advantage of it in the future. I arranged it this way, excavators, forklifts and car drivers and other workers are in three shifts, resting people and machinery, we dig upstream, one digs downstream, and returns to the city on the afternoon of the 6th, you see how the soldiers arrange. ”

Wuyang found the company commander, "Your people, you may have to arrange more people to cook, you must cook 6 meals a day, and you will also arrange workers to buy how much food and vegetables you need." As for the security work, when there are no unexpected circumstances, there is no need to arrange sentry posts, so as not to fatigue the soldiers and fail to cope with emergencies. ”

"Okay, let's follow the command."

Wuyang said to the excavator driver again: "Do you know how to dig?" ”

"You know, we arrived in the morning, and we went to see the situation of those people digging, and they lined up on the riverbed and dug forward, it was easy."

Wuyang smiled: "Our method is different from theirs, they are generally excavating, we decided to focus on digging, no way, we only have 5 days and 5 nights, such a long river, we can only focus on digging." ”

The driver said, "It's okay, the boss says you can dig as much as you want." ”

Zhu Qibin said: "Big brother, do we just need better jade, or do we only want jade?" ”

Wuyang said: "Since you have seen it, you don't need us to carry it on our shoulders, just take it back, and take it back for its own use." ”

So the two of them each took a hundred and ten people and started working. Wuyang walked in front, ran Zhenqi looked at the riverbed, and found that there was an abnormal situation, so he asked the driver to dig a handful, and left immediately after collecting the stones. The flow of the river is not large, but it can't be waded in vain, Wuyang tried it, the river water is still very biting, you can't see the other side from one side of the river, you can only look at one side at a time, I hope that the sky is beautiful, and the river water will be frozen, anyway, it is not difficult for the true qi to penetrate the ice.

After walking for two hours, I found that there was no jade at all more than 1 meter above the riverbed, not even a small one. The true qi of the afternoon sun is similar to that of ordinary people looking at watermelons, they can only see the jade inside the stone, but they can't see what color it is, if you can see the color, white jade is white jade, and black jade is black jade, it will be much simpler.

However, it is no problem to see a depth of 30 meters, although there is no jade on the surface, there is still a lot of jade around 5 meters. Wuyang saw the jade under the pebbles, pointed his finger underneath, and the excavator driver excavated it, and dug more than 10 pieces in two hours.

For dinner, I ate steamed buns, onion stewed mutton, although I didn't particularly like the pasta in the afternoon, but I just ate it, it was quite palatable, I ate 4 steamed buns in two taels, and I also ate two bowls of mutton.

After eating, he continued to dig, and when he arrived at the section that others had dug in front, there were a few pits left on the riverbed, and Wuyang was about to walk away, when he suddenly saw a section of the riverbed in the depths that was different from other places, and it seemed to have jade inside.

So let the driver start digging, first two excavators dug and the more they dug the stones, the bigger they became, and then two more were added. Wuyang thought, what kind of seed material? With such a large stone, what is the difference between jade being mined in the mountains and found in the riverbed? It's just fooling people. If people don't find jade in the mountains, of course, they have to say that the seeds are good, which is the same as saying that grapes are sour if you can't eat grapes.

Of course, this is because he has not studied the seeds. That's what I thought. In fact, real seeds. It means that it has been stripped from the stone. From the beginning of the mountain, the edges and corners of the jade are smoothed out by rubbing with other stones, and the luster of the jade is more beautiful and attractive than that of the jade mined from the mountain, as if it has vitality. Later he will understand.

Leaving most of the workers to dig and moving on with a small portion themselves. It was 12 o'clock in the evening. Dinner is delivered again. Wuyang had been walking on the riverbed, and he didn't know how far he had walked, so he asked the cook, who told him that it was about 10 kilometers away from the place where the big rock was dug.

The excavator driver said: "Boss, the length of this river is about 120 kilometers upstream, and if nothing else, it will be dug in 3 days." ”

Wuyang asked, "What accident do you mean?" ”

The driver smiled and said, "Boss, I'm just referring in generalities." If you are specific, like finding a big rock just now. We have to spend a lot of time digging, and we are afraid that others will come to grab it, so it will delay time. ”

"Someone else will come and rob it?"

"Of course, as long as the car is not loaded, someone may come to grab it, and the situation here is calm on the surface, but in fact, it is the same as human society, it is the law of the jungle."

Wuyang smiled: "We have troops to protect us. Comrade non-commissioned officer, you will go back and report to your company commander later, and ask him to arrange for two carts to dig big rocks, and after dawn, no idle people are allowed to approach. ”

"Yes, Chief. Chief, I would like to ask, do you know that there must be jade in that stone? The non-commissioned officer said.

"Absolutely, there is none, but I have a feeling that there is jade in it. By the way, if they dig out of the riverbed and let them prepare steel drills, hammers and other tools, I guess they will have to smash some of the surface stones, otherwise it will be inconvenient to transport. Call me over when you're ready. ”

"Okay, I'll convey it."

After the shift change, the excavation continued, and at 6 o'clock in the morning, the shift workers came again. Wuyang was tired all night, and his stomach was hungry again, and he didn't see the cook of the army, so he asked, "Didn't you deliver food?" ”

A driver said, "Boss, I want to invite you over, that big rock can't be lifted, it's too big, I can't think of a way, you can go over and eat." ”

"Okay, let's go, I'll see how much I've dug in one night."

Climbed into the carriage and saw that there were 6 or 70 stones inside, the large ones were about 300 kilograms, the small ones were less than 1 kilogram, and the total weight was 1500 kilograms, but there were still a lot of jade inside, at least more than 500 kilograms, of which the highest grade, that is, the jade meat was particularly delicate, accounting for about 100 kilograms. If the current price of water is 8,000 yuan per gram, it should be 800 million, and the hard work of this night is still worth it.

Back to the place where the big stone was dug, the big stone has been exposed on five sides, and what it brings to the afternoon sun is a deep shock, and I deeply feel how great the power of nature is. It is an irregular rectangular stone, the corners of which have been knocked off a lot in the process of rolling down the mountain, but it is still 10 meters long and 6 meters wide, and it should be more than 6 meters from above, that is, according to the density of the stone, it will not be less than 1,200 tons now.

This must have been caused by a landslide and a crack in the ground, and what a force had washed such a large stone here.

Wuyang grabbed a steamed bun and instructed the workers while eating: "You use a bucket to knock on the stone and the two ends, you can knock 1 meter on the top, you can knock 2 meters at each end, and the stones that are knocked down are removed, and I will come over to see it after eating."

Knocking stones is much slower than eating, Wuyang has eaten, and when he saw that he only knocked off a little skin, he said to the driver: "I'll go to sleep in the car, and you call me when you knock well." ”

I was woken up, it had been two hours, and when I got out of the car at noon, I saw that there were people all around, everyone was pointing and talking. The fighters hung their submachine guns on their chests and faced the crowd of onlookers.

Walking over, I saw that the big stone had shrunk by more than half, and I looked at it for a while, and there were still many stones, if I removed some more, I should be able to get it. "Brothers, bring a hammer, and we'll get some more stones."

One worker said, "Boss, we have rented a large road breaker and four small road breakers, and they can be done very quickly, you just need to tell us how to do it." ”

Wuyang took a look, and the jade in the big stone was a figure-of-eight, high in the middle, oblique on both sides, and the widest part was at the bottom. After the excavator knocked just now, the thickness of the stone at the top is only about 10 centimeters. So he told the workers how to do it, "I have to stop when I call it off, remember?" ”

"Okay, remember."

The road breaker was activated, and the loud noise made it difficult to hear the shouting from several meters away. Wuyang had no choice but to watch from a close distance, if the powerful drill bit pierced into the jade and damaged the jade, it didn't matter, if it provoked the crowd of onlookers to rob it, I was afraid that there would be an incident.

After half an hour, the excavator was used to remove the stones, first the large ones, and the remaining small stones, and the workers loaded them into the bucket with shovels and then poured them into the distance.

After cleaning up, Wuyang arranged for the workers to drill again, and the stone left behind was almost an isosceles triangle with a bottom width of 6 meters, a height of 5 meters, and a length of more than 7 meters, and Wuyang calculated that the weight was only about 350 tons. But in most places, the stones are only a few centimeters thick, except for the stones that are 5 or 60 centimeters thick at the bottom.

"Brethren, can we turn it over and remove the stone from the other side?"

The leader of the workers said: "Boss, it should be possible to turn over now, we just need to hollow out the sand on one side of the stone and use the bucket to exert force on the other side, and the stone will be easily turned over." ”

"Okay, you can do it like this, but before turning over, you have to put the wire rope in place, otherwise there is still no way to install the hoisting on the car."

"Boss, even if you remove some stones, you can't lift it, our largest crane is only 70 tons, even if a few cranes are in such a loose riverbed, they can't work hard at all." The worker master said.

"So what do you say?"

"The wire rope still has to be placed, and a few more should be placed, for fear that it will break. We don't hoist, but we can use an excavator to tow it away, drag it to a place close to the power supply, you can have a stone cutter to cut off the stones, and even wipe them out, it is not very heavy, and then it is convenient to hoist and transport. ”

Wuyang smiled: "You still have a lot of ideas, so let's do it." ”

The excavator began to dig the sand on one side of the stone, and soon the stone was turned to the side, and the master workers began to mash the stone at the bottom with the road breaker. Wuyang saw that the bottom of the jade was very flat, unlike the above, there was no rule in the height, width and narrowness, that is, the lava was rolling. If it is used to carve a large ornament, it can be designed according to the shape of the jade.

There are already many large ornaments of jadeite at home, and the large ornaments of Khotanese jade are not yet available, but they have to ask Gu Yu's father Zhibo and their brothers to design and carve them to complete.

After the workers smashed the stones at the bottom, they hung the wire ropes with the buckets of several excavators and dragged the stones up, and Wuyang commanded them to use a small road breaker to slowly pound all the parts of the stones, and then dragged them onto the road, hoisted them onto flatbed trucks, and transported them to the military subdivision under the escort of the soldiers. As the big stone left, the crowd of onlookers dispersed.

Wuyang saw that it was almost time to eat, so he went back to the deep pit left by the big stone that he had just dragged out, and wanted to see what was going on. The deep pit is full of water, and it doesn't matter if you look at it, there is an abnormal situation at the bottom of the pit. (To be continued......)