There is also a beautiful legend about the Alamas Aji jade mine: in the early days, the young Alamas of Liushui Village went up the mountain to hunt and shot a yellow sheep, and the injured yellow sheep ran up the mountain with blood, and Alamas hurriedly chased up the blood trail of the yellow sheep.

At last the yellow sheep could not run, and fell on the stone, and Alamas was surprised to find that the stone turned out to be a large white jade with a crystal clear and moist color.

Deeply moved by the realization that the Yellow Sheep had given his life in order to help him find his wealth, Alamas buried the Yellow Sheep and tearfully carried the jade down the mountain.

Later, the piece of jade was sold for a large price, and the first jade mine in Hotan was born.

In commemoration of the discovery of the first jade mine by Alamas, the jade mine was named after him.

Now that Han Peacock and the others have been brought here by the Hu family's father and son, they must be looking for the most favorable origin for their own harvest.

Coming out of the mountain from here, the jade they found was naturally Hetian jade.

The heavy snow closed the mountain, and there were naturally many jade miners stranded here, but Lao Hu and his son had already prepared, so they were arranged to stay at the Maimaiti house, the deputy village chief of Yushi Village.

As soon as they entered his house, they saw the green and white jade mountain materials, which were half piled up, which made Han Peacock and them really feel that Jade Village really lived up to its reputation.

In the evening, Maimaiti and Han Peacock drank, and the conversation box naturally opened, and at this time, Han Peacock knew that the purpose of Lao Hu's father and son was not so simple.

Maimaiti said that all the people in Jade Village are "Kunlun Eagles" and "Creepers", and their main way to earn money is to rely on grazing and digging jade.

The four jade mines have always been mined by the government or the big bosses under the mountain, but from September to April of the following year, the weather is cold and the snow covers the mountain, and the miners on the mountain can only go down the mountain to rest, and no matter how good the jade is, they can't do anything.

However, at this time, it was the time for the people of the jade village to show their talents, and the young people and experienced people in the village all went up to the mountain to pick up jade at this time.

And Qian Mingyuan came here at this time, also with this idea, usually those big bosses naturally don't let people pick jade. And at this time, they can't take care of it.

Because the jade mine is loaded with explosives to blow up the jade, after the explosion, the jade fragments fly all over the sky, and the miners cannot all pick them up, so the villagers pick up the scattered mountain materials.

In the earliest digging of jade, the villagers used yak horns and red willow sticks to insert them into the cracks of the jade rocks, smashed them with large stones, and later hammered them with steel drills and hammers.

Up to now, picking up mountain materials in mountain cliffs and river valleys is much easier than digging jade before.

Usually the altitude is above 4000 meters is the snow line, and the villagers of Jade Village, digging jade and picking up jade generally have to go to Kunlun Snow Mountain above 5000 meters above sea level, the road up the mountain is very dangerous, some places can only accommodate the feet of a person, a little careless, will fall into the 1500 meters deep cliff and the turbulent river.

"I almost died once, I remember that time I carried a piece of green and white jade down the mountain, the road became narrower and narrower, and the road condition was worse, and when I saw that I was almost 4,500 meters to the base camp, my feet slipped and fell into a 200-meter snow ditch.

Later, after a lot of setbacks, my companion rescued me, and I sold my green and white jade for 800 yuan to others cheaply, and vowed to never go to the mountain again to pick jade. Maimaiti said to Han Peacock with infinite sadness.

"Later, seeing that jade rose all the way, and others made a fortune one by one, I couldn't help it anymore, and went up the mountain to pick jade again, and the harvest was great. My experience in climbing mountains is getting stronger and stronger, and I have some fame in Yushi Village and even Hotan, and I dare to climb any mountain.

Every time I go up the mountain, the two clothes pockets will be filled with dirt, in order to climb the mountain to prevent slipping, every time I sprinkle a handful of dirt on the ice, you can climb the mountain with confidence, once, I climbed to the top of the snow peak of more than 6,000 meters, two feet volleyed in the air can not walk, so I have to ride on the peak, just like riding a horse, completely relying on the two arms and buttocks to cooperate, step by step forward.

In the end, I was forced to descend from the back mountain, and from then on, I had the pride of an eagle conquering the mountains, and the highest peaks were at my feet. "Maimaiti's face is full of confidence.

Perhaps because he was afraid that Han Peacock and the others would not believe it, Maimaiti ran to the back room, took out an envelope, and took out a few yellowed one-time imaging photos, which were photos of him on the Kunlun Snow Mountain.

The quality of the white jade mountain material in Yutian Jade Village is quite good, usually limited to the batch of jade material mined in 1995, mined before 1995, commonly known as "old material", mined after 1995, commonly known as "new material".

The "old material" is almost close to the mutton fat white jade seed material, and the "old material" on the market is sky-high, even if it is a "new material", a bracelet is at least 15,000 yuan or more.

Because there are not many "new materials" brought out by Jade Village, the "old materials" have long disappeared.

In the case of the increasingly depletion of Hetian jade seed resources, the "new materials" in the area of Jade Village have defended the noble identity of Hetian jade and the irreplaceable status of the king.

In this context, people who pursue huge profits have come to Jade Village to dream of making a fortune, but when they look around, see the peaks standing in a forest, the snow crown shining with dazzling light, and hear many real stories of jade destruction and death on the way to jade mining, they are discouraged one by one.

Because it takes 13 hours to walk to the Aramas Aji Jade Mine and 8 hours to the Khan Silirak Jade Mine, the first two jade miners and donkeys can barely go up at the same time, while to the Sezhik Kuremu Jade Mine and the Khan Kule Jade Mine, it takes people and donkeys to walk for 13 hours first.

When the donkey can't get up, people can only trek along the steep cliff for another 10 hours to the deeper part of the Kunlun Mountains.

Not to mention whether jade can be mined, the altitude of more than 6,000 meters above sea level, and the lack of oxygen and alpine sickness are enough for ordinary people, not to mention the dangerous hungry wolves and carnivorous birds of prey in Kunlun Mountain.

Therefore, only the locals who are familiar with the terrain and mountains and have years of accumulated experience have the courage to go up the mountain and make a fortune.

Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water, almost every adult here has the experience of entering the mountains in winter, so. In winter, when the snow covers the mountain, the people here do not hide in the house and cats winter, but are more active.

After eating, Han Peacock noticed that there was goose feather snow outside, and it seemed that after getting up tomorrow, it would really be a heavy snow covering the mountain.

At half past six in the morning, the sky was slightly bright, and Han Peacock got up. Outside, their entire expedition was now crowded.

I heard some of his plans from the old nonsense. Sure enough, he exposed his harvest and sold a few pieces of white jade, and at this time, the whole village knew about the new jade mine they had found in the mountains.

Take advantage of the crowds. Lao Hu and his son began to hire people from the village to go into the mountains to collect jade for him, and the daily salary was as high as 1,000 yuan, which was calculated from the time he set out.

Lao Hu's father and son recruited all masters, including seven or eight Maimaiti father and son brothers. There are dozens of other veterans in the village.

The salary of 1,000 yuan a day is not high, but it is definitely not low, dozens of people, tens of thousands of yuan are consumed every day, and if you enter the mountain for a month, it will cost millions, not to mention the consumption of food and drink.

It can also be seen from here that Lao Hu has gained a good harvest from entering the mountain this time, which also makes the people in the village very happy.

A new mine is not something that can be dug in a winter, and although they are hired to go into the mountains this time, they can go there themselves when they know the place.

So no one would gather Lao Hu's invitation, and they knew that if they were not hired, Lao Hu's father and son would never tell them to order accurately.

Lao Hu and his son hired enough manpower and needed supplies nearby, and their entire expedition team, if they wanted to enter the mountain again, they would stay here, and if they didn't want to enter the mountain, they would separate from here and go back to their respective homes.

Back at Maimaiti's house, Han Peacock ate a bowl of vegetable rice and a native egg, and climbed to a high place to take a picture of Jade Village.

At an altitude of 3,200 meters, Han Peacock found the best position, set up a tripod, and began to photograph the jade village in the canyon.

Looking from a high place, the small village of Kunlun surrounded by mountains looks so depressing.

In the recess of the bottom of the layers of Kunlun Mountain in the distance, a long line of winding silver-white water gushes out of the dam leakage, and after elegantly posing in Yushi Village, it sits towards Kunlun Mountain.

Overlooking the entire Jade Village, the stone houses and all the green trees in the whole village could not hide the traces of the river at all, and the words "living along the river" suddenly jumped out of Han Peacock's mind.

Han Peacock looked closely, the whole village house is arranged along the banks of the riverbed, the river bends, the village houses follow the bend, the river becomes the master of the whole village, absolutely eye-catching in the color and visual plate.

At this point, Han Peacock really understood why this place is called "Flowing Water Village", because flowing water is the main color and big scenery of the whole village, and it is impossible to call it Flowing Water Village.

Descending the hill and returning to the accommodation, the hostess had already prepared breakfast for them - mixed noodles and local eggs.

The hostess kept beckoning everyone to eat, and Han Peacock found that there were two unique things hanging around the hostess's neck at the same time - a piece of Hetian white jade and an eagle's claws, which may be the most distinctive costume in Jade Village.

The ornament hanging around the neck of the hostess should be a microcosm of all the women in the jade village, in the traditional customs of Uyghurs in other places, there is generally no habit of wearing jade, and on the white and plump chest, hanging an eagle's claws, it is even more indecent, and even inexplicable.

However, in Jade Village, what could be louder than Meiyu?

What else can have beautiful jade, and bring rolling wealth and infinite happiness to the people of Kunlun Mountain?

In a sense, the women of Jade Village wear beautiful jade, which is to condense the Kunlun snow region and integrate it into their own body, which in itself is the most primitive, direct and vivid reality expression of love for their hometown.

In the depths of Kunlun, under the firmament, on the top of the high mountain, the eagle is the "elf of the mountain" and "the proud son of freedom" in people's hearts. (To be continued......)