Han Peacock and the three of them hurriedly walked over, and when they looked over, Han Peacock was a little dumbfounded, and found that the place where the jade was not in the riverbed, but on a hillside that was almost sixty degrees.

There was no vegetation on the uphill slope, maybe there was, but now it is very clean washed by the current, and all the stone walls are exposed, but the originally smooth stone walls are now like rat holes.

The newly discovered jade is on a huge stone wall, and now the stone wall is drawn with red cinnabar, and in the circle, there is exposed jade, which looks like a white jade.

Han Peacock visually observed that the piece of jade that was drawn was not small, but it didn't seem to have a very good texture, but it was because of its huge size, and it still had mining value, so even if it was not easy to mine there, it was drawn and ready to be mined.

The news of the discovery of jade here soon reached the ears of Lao Hu's father and son, who walked forward quickly, and after a few glances, immediately looked at the river below the steep slope.

Since there is jade on the mountain beside the river, there may be more in the river below, and it is better seed material.

He thought of this, and the others naturally thought of it, and everyone flocked to the riverbed, even the riverbed downstream of the river.

After all, the stones on the mountain rolled down, although they fell into the river first, but the river flowed, and since it flowed, no one could tell which section of the river had jade for thousands of years.

Soon, there were not a few people left under the hillside, looking at the Han peacock that did not move, Lao Hu smiled and said, "Xiao Han, why don't you go down to look for it?" ”

Han Peacock smiled: "Aren't you old and haven't gone down?" ”

"Xiaowei also thought of it?" Lao Hu didn't answer Han Peacock's words, but looked at the other young man beside him.

Wei Changqing glanced at everyone, turned his head and continued to look at the surrounding mountain walls and said, "It seems that jade was found here for a day or two, right?" ”

"Yes. There is jade here, naturally not only our Hu family knows, there are many people in the local area, who will enter the mountain every year, and the discoverer of the jade above is not our group. This should be discovered by out-of-town tourists. Lao Hu said.

"Tourists from other places who come to collect jade?" Han Peacock asked.

Lao Hu said: "Yes, only they don't care about the price of jade, but only care about the process of jade mining, otherwise, how can such an obvious piece of jade be left until now?" ”

Although that piece of jade has some value, it is not easy to mine, so I won't talk about it, even if you mine it. It is more difficult to transport it out of the mountain, so it is not for nothing that such a large piece of jade is placed there and no one picks it.

Of course, it is also possible that others did not notice, but looking at the situation of the surrounding mountain walls, such a thing is almost impossible to happen, so. The main thing is that there are fewer people, and there is no need to get such a huge piece of inferior jade that has little value.

"They're really not afraid of the odds." Wei Changqing looked at himself and fixed himself on the mountain wall. A walkway that began to cut through the stone wall.

"I really don't know what you mainlanders think, but you have a comfortable life at home, but you just come to the poor mountains and bad waters to find excitement." Lao Hu shook his head and said.

"It's not a poor mountain here, it's almost the same as bad water." Han Peacock said jokingly.

Lao Hu saw that Han Peacock and Wei Changqing had no intention of leaving, so he had no choice but to walk towards a mountain wall. When I walked nearby, there was a crack over there, and in the crack, there were several tents.

Outside the tent, a local woman was washing rice. It's ready to cook.

Let Han Peacock and the others wait outside, Lao Hu stepped forward, communicated with her in the local Tibetan language for a while, and quickly withdrew from the crack.

Han Peacock, Hu Ke, Wei Changqing, and Qian Mingyuan kept standing outside and didn't go in.

In the midst of such wilderness, four or five big men, who at the same time broke into someone else's camp, were likely to get not a welcome, but shotgun bullets.

When Lao Hu came out, the four of them followed him into the river, so that the two men on the mountain wall could see them, so that the men who were picking jade on the mountain wall could rest assured.

After all, they are doing treasure hunting, and no one knows who has any good things in their hands, so they must be guarded against.

Lao Hu stopped and said: "The situation is not optimistic, they have been in the mountain for more than 20 days, and it seems that there is not much harvest, although what they say is not necessarily true, but looking at the defective products that they are mining so difficult, you know that they may really not have much harvest." ”

"They carry things into the mountains on donkeys?" Han Peacock knew donkeys, and he saw that behind the tent, there were several donkeys.

Lao Hu nodded and said: "There are many such jade pickers here, stay here for a few days, you will know, but few people can last here for more than 20 days, maybe these people really have some gains, it seems that we have to stay here for a few more days." ”

Han Peacock and Wei Changqing all nodded, the natural environment here is harsh, only outsiders like them know that except for people with some special skills, it is definitely not so comfortable for ordinary people to enter the mountain, if they can stay here for more than 20 days without the intention of going out of the mountain, it will definitely not be simple.

The locals generally ride mules or donkeys into the mountains, tourists are rented to ride into the mountains, at this time tourists are not afraid of hardships and dangers, hike to the mountains, explore and find jade, do not come, do not know the situation here, how to come, it feels like a back and forth before the ghost gate, scared and frightened!

When I went, I was full of confidence, thinking that this time I must pick up a few more good pieces of jade and bring them back, sell them for a good price and make a fortune, or pass them on to future generations as family heirlooms!

But when I walked on the road, I had strong altitude sickness, I was out of breath, my legs were paralyzed, and I couldn't walk an inch, and my thoughts became: I want to go back alive, as long as I go back alive, I will be lucky

People who have been on the mountain once, at that time, the thought on the mountain was to be able to live, and never want to go into the mountain again!

When I got down the mountain and saw the road, I felt a sense of security when I was drifting on the sea and seeing the land, and I felt a mixture of joy and sorrow.

In the lucrative jewelry industry, jade pickers did not get much benefit, like these jade pickers, after more than 20 days of hard work, after deducting the entanglement, each person only received a thousand yuan.

Compared with the hardships they endured, the dangers they faced, and the hard work, compared to the jade players in the circulation and collection fields, the income of jade miners was really meager.

And to fight a protracted war here, you have to set up camp and go into battle with your family, and if there are women in the small camp just now, it must be a family looking for jade.

Lao Hu is very familiar with the terrain here, and naturally knows to take out a secret campsite, but the terrain there is narrow and not suitable for a large army to camp, so he did not go there, but chose a small canyon on the other side.

In this mountain, the most difficult thing is to stay and eat, especially to eat, it is difficult for outsiders to adapt, because the altitude is too high, the water is about 70 degrees on the boil, even if the rice is steamed in a pressure cooker, the rice is sandwiched, even if it is rotten outside, it is still a little hard inside, difficult to swallow.

Living in the mountains for ten days and half a month, which person has to lose 10-20 pounds, such a difficulty, it is generally difficult for foreign tourists to adapt.

Therefore, jade mining is extremely difficult, and here, there is a story that has made the jade pickers ruin because of the collection of the best mutton fat jade.

Legend has it that Ren Zi. The Tuoguti family lives at the foot of Kunlun Mountain at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, and the family has been picking Hetian jade for generations.

Ren Zi has a piece of "standard jade" handed down by his grandfather - as long as any jade is compared with it, the merits will be judged.

One day in 1988, Ren Zi and his brothers went up the mountain to pick jade as usual and found a flock of goshawks hovering at the source of the Baiyu River for a long time.

At the feet of the goshawk, Ren Zi found the raw materials of white jade, and they used tools to peel off the outer skin of the stone a little, and they saw a corner of white jade as delicate as mutton fat.

Ren Zi immediately took out the "standard jade" for comparison and found that the fineness of the two pieces was not different.

Before Ren Zi and his brothers could mark the stones, a sudden rainstorm fell on the mountain, and the valley suddenly surged with torrents, and they could only stick their whole bodies on the rock wall to "survive".

At the end of more than an hour of mountain rain, the donkey that Ren Zi was riding was washed away, and the youngest brother was also washed away by the muddy water in a panic, and the jade stone was nowhere to be seen.

On the Kunlun Mountains, you can only walk for 3 months a year, and the rest of the time the mountains are covered by heavy snow.

By the time Ren Zi found the jade again, it was already 6 years later. In 1994, it took eight days for Ren Zizha Mupai to transport the jade back to the village.

Therefore, don't think that the best jade found in the mountains is considered successful, and only when the jade clouds come out of the mountain can it be considered successful.

Picking jade here, it is best to travel together, take care of each other, it is best to have a local guide, otherwise, maybe a rainstorm, you will be washed away, if you encounter heavy snow in advance, then congratulations, you can experience the snow burial for free.

Seeing that their group of people, after arriving at the riverbed, holding steel drills and other objects, turning over the stones on the riverbed, and screening the jade they liked, Huangshan was very moved.

"Is there any value in looking for the riverbed over here?" Han Peacock said.

Lao Hu shook his head and said: "Yes, but it is very small, this is a jade origin known to the locals, so I brought you here, but if you want to collect real good jade, you have to search around from here." ”

Han Peacock nodded, not speaking, he had guessed this when he saw the family's jade mining tools just now.

The tools that the family placed outside the tent were ladders, shovels, hammers, steel drills, helmets, bags, tents, ropes, food and water, cooking utensils, etc.

Judging from the equipment, its destination is not limited to the river beach, but most likely also includes the depths of the mountains.

If you want to pick up more jade, you must try to avoid this kind of mainstream river, many outsiders come here, there is no one who does not go down to the river, so it is difficult to pick up jade here for a long time. (To be continued......)