Although they are thirty or forty meters apart, the conversation between the two people, Han Peacock can hear it as long as he wants to hear it, not to mention, although their voices are low, ordinary people in the distance can also hear it, but they can't hear it clearly.

"You have also seen that treasure of our family, so if you find a real geological fault, our Hu family will cover all your future research funds." Lao Hu said in a firm voice.

"I remember that your piece of mutton fat jade seed material weighed 16.38 kilograms, right?" Professor Wang sighed.

The piece of mutton fat jade is delicate and moist, the inner quality is pure, the part is ink, and the overall appearance is a soft and powdery mutton fat color.

This kind of superb seed material, almost extinct, can be described as a rare treasure, and there is no one in the world today.

He really didn't expect that Lao Hu, who regarded it as an heirloom, actually got it from here, if this was the case, even if it cost a lot, he would have to find the veins here.

However, it is so difficult to find jade in the mountains, water and seed jade are quite simple, as long as you are willing to endure hardships, you can find them in the streams in the mountains, and the bulk of mountain materials, you don't have to think about it.

Although the price of mountain materials is not high, there are many mountain materials! But there is no way to enter and exit the machinery, so even if there is a lot of mountain material, people will not be able to collect it on a large scale.

Now we can only hope for water and seeds, although such jade is scarce, but their price is much higher than that of mountain materials.

After Professor Wang and Lao Hu closed their mouths, Han Peacock left quickly, he had already arrived at the place, and he was sure that there was really a superb jade here, so Han Peacock really didn't believe that he couldn't find it.

It is difficult to mine jade in the deep mountains, and explosives are used to blow it down, and the explosive force causes the internal crack of the mountain material to be very strict, and some pieces of large material weighing dozens of kilograms cannot be opened with a few pieces and bracelets. Only small pieces can be made. Therefore, many people do not like mountain food very much and think that it is riskier to buy.

This is the reason why many people don't like mountain material, and now, they haven't found anything, and only when they find it, they will study how to mine it.

And at this time. Lao Hu can only use the simplest method of crowd tactics, there are too many people, as long as you look carefully, there is no "jade" that has slipped through the net, and you can naturally find it.

In other places, there are often hundreds of thousands of jade miners, who often have to invest a lot of production or time to get a piece of Hetian jade.

Here, there are not so many people. However, there are not a lot of stones, so if you want to find a piece of jade here, it is easy to say that it is difficult, and it is really like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Easy, maybe just a big stone, is a rough stone containing beautiful jade, difficult. You just have to look inside the riverbed to find out.

When you see the pebbles, you know that they are the riverbed, and you can see the countless pebbles that have been piled up over the years. I know how difficult it is to find a piece of jade among so many stones.

Whether it is Hotan outside or in other places, the riverbed there has been turned over by an unknown number of meters, but here it is a primitive style.

So, don't look at the number of rocks on the riverbed now, if it is turned over. There are more stones below.

Outside, it's all excavators and bulldozers to work, but here, it's all about manual labor.

Although it is tiring to do so, it is only necessary to prove that there is a jade mine here. Jade diggers will flock to it.

Like Manasi jade, the reason why the jade diggers on both sides of the Yulong Kashgar River can't drive it away, interests are undoubtedly the biggest driving force.

By the dry season of October every year, hundreds of meters of beach banks on both sides of the river are almost piled up into quarries, where it is a misnomer to describe the depth of excavation as "digging three feet", and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is thirty feet to dig into the ground.

Now, Han Peacock, along with the others, walked into the widest river, which is the mainstream river here, and almost all the small streams flow into this river.

It is now the dry season, so the water flow in the river is very small, so in the downstream river channel with a width of more than 100 meters, the riverbed is exposed, and this season is also a good time for jade pickers to "try their luck".

However, the riverbed downstream must have been searched countless times, so to go upstream, according to Lao Hu, to continue deep into the mountains, it is necessary to bring enough water and food, because to collect jade, you have to walk back and forth in the river for at least a dozen kilometers or so, and it takes about 10 hours.

Continue to walk along the river, that is, upstream, there are all kinds of pictographic patterns of strange stones in the river, very beautiful, the stone quality of the strange stones here is really good.

The bottom of the river is the place where the jasper seed material is found, and it should be noted that the jasper is observed against the light under the strong sunlight, which will make the dark green, bean green, etc. become positively green, and will make the blue and white jade white bottom become whiter, which is the experience of senior jade pickers.

Further upstream, there is a small stream, and on the south bank of the creek, there is a relatively flat hillside, where the vegetation is luxuriant, and it is also a place where the surrounding herbivores gather, and of course, where the predators pounce.

Such a place, as long as the ability is sufficient, can naturally provide enough food for everyone, so after entering the deep mountains, there is no shortage of food, which is provided by the escort, and today, everyone is moving around, and no one starts to continue along the river into the mountains today, so it is enough to come back and eat after a while.

There are a lot of local herdsmen who came into the mountains this time, and if they were not accompanied, not to mention going into the mountains to find jade, it would be good to be able to walk out of the mountains along the way.

Therefore, if you want to pick up jasper seeds, find a good guide first, and bring the necessary tools, preferably a small hammer and a strong flashlight, and some people even bring rubber water pants.

You can definitely pick it up, but it's hard work, so be prepared to spend the night in the mountains.

In the deep mountains and valleys, if jade is really abundant, then the chance of finding jade is still very great, such as the Manas River, which originates in the depths of the Tianshan Mountains, in the 90s of the last century, when Hetian jade was flourishing, it was also found to produce a large number of jasper seeds.

Different from the Hetian jade seeds produced in the Kashgar River of Hetian Yulong, the Manas jasper seeds are quite large, the large ones are measured in tons, and the small ones are also counted in kilograms, and there are very few below the size of the fist.

Therefore, although it is not easy for them to find jade, as long as they find it, the harvest will not be small, which is also the reason why so many people want to follow Lao Hu and his son into the mountain.

The biggest difficulty encountered by the jade seekers was how to find a way to get the giant jasper out of the mountain, and now, with the stone dissolving machine brought in by Lao Hu, this problem has been greatly solved.

Although the original stone is large, as long as it is unraveled, no matter how big the jade is, some people will get out of the mountain.

The life of a jade picker is very hard, and it often takes a long time for a jade picker to find jade, and crossing the mountains and mountains is only the beginning of jade mining.

And the biggest difficulty is not food and shelter, nor hard work, but facing the number of stones as large and small as stars.

It is no wonder that the Weiwei people are asking for such a high price, perhaps only they know that good seeds are becoming less and less available, and it is becoming more and more difficult to find, so the price is so expensive.

Han Peacock doesn't need to hire a guide, Qian Mingyuan is a veteran, although he is not a local, but because of his familiar relationship with Lao Hu, he will follow Lao Hu into the mountains almost every year, so he is very familiar with this place, and he has a lot of experience in jade mining.

After the rainy season, this is the best opportunity for jade miners to find jade, and the key to treasure hunting is: look for the sun to find jade.

The characteristic of the landscape material is that after a strong wind or heavy rain, there are newly exposed colored stones, at this time, facing the sun, it is easy to see colorful stones, this kind of stone, it is likely to contain jade.

Qianming Yuan told sù Han Peacock and Huangshan that in this river is very long, the history of jade production is also very long, in the riverbed, from the iceberg that flows out of the mountain, it has been down to about 20 kilometers in the riverbed, you can pick up a few rough stones of mountain water.

From 20 kilometers down to more than 200 kilometers of riverbed, there is no jade at all.

From about 200 kilometers down to 270 kilometers, the 70 kilometers of riverbed are the main production sections of the seeds.

Some people say that there is no jade for nearly 180 kilometers in the middle section, because the water flow is too fast, and the jade material cannot be preserved, and the jade is washed downstream by the flood.

This raises the question, isn't the river flowing more rapidly in the more than 20 kilometers ahead?

Why is it more or less possible to pick up jade in that section?

And in this 180-kilometer area, why can't you pick up a piece of jade no matter how big or small?

The riverbed was full of oval stones, and there was not a single piece of jade, and the stones were not washed away by the water, but the jade, which had a much larger gravity than the stones, was washed away by the water, so the explanation that "the jade could not be retained because the water was too fast" cannot be established.

So here, experience is secondary, luck is the most important, if you are lucky, the most unlikely place to produce jade, you can find dozens of tons of jade rough.

If you're unlucky, you'll probably pick up rocks, even in the midst of highly productive veins.

This is the source of jade, and it stands to reason that it is more cost-effective and easier to collect jade here, but the opposite is true, because the veins are too scattered here, and the cost of opening the road is too high, so few people come here.

Here, even if the ore is opened, it can only be transported by mule, and the amount of each mule is only about 50 kilograms per time, once every two days, no wonder the mountain material is so expensive!

If you are not careful, the mule may be thrown down the mountain and die, and some people may be injured in accidents, die of illness, or freeze to death in the mountains

It can be said that jade is exchanged for the lives of jade pickers, and here, it really confirms the sentence: it is difficult to pick jade, and it is difficult to go to the sky!

Just as Han Peacock was listening and walking, there was a commotion in front of him: "I'm so lucky to have found jade!" But it's very difficult to mine! (To be continued......)