In the early morning, the sky looks gray.

In April, the temperature has gradually warmed up, the morning dew has wet the weeds and stones, a few cobwebs that have fallen on them are also stained with dew, and a few birdsongs can be heard from the pine forest in the distance.

Hu Niu and the others left the puddle and walked along the dry river, carefully identifying the looming river while continuing to search for gold ore.

This area is mountainous terrain, and this dry river channel is mostly made up of stones that have been worn off most of its edges, and there are few traces of earth. It's just that the stones are of different sizes, and you have to be careful when you walk through them.

Daniel Zhang and a dozen of his men walked through the ground as if they were already accustomed to this kind of terrain. Hu Niu followed closely with Ali and others, and also helped to find traces of gold ore in the rubble of this river.

Naturally, they did not do this for the value of one or two pieces of gold ore, but to determine the source of yesterday's gold ore through this search, and then to determine the existence of a gold mine upstream of this dry river.

It's just disappointing that I don't know if there are too many rocks here, or the gold ore in the puddle is not brought by the river from the upstream, and I have searched for more than 200 meters and still can't find new gold ore.

But the dry river is showing more life, with a lot of Manila grass coming out of the cracks in the rocks, some waist-length, and some deep pits with clear water at the bottom.

A few mouse deer were foraging in the grass of the river, and when they saw that this group of uninvited guests had suddenly appeared here, they immediately raised their heads, and stared at them with dark eyes.

Creak......

The little golden monkey looked like a fox and a tiger, ran to a high rock in front of him, and roared at the rat deer.

Several rat deer are indeed small, looking at the little golden monkey so "fierce", they don't care about the difference in size between the two, and they just flee into the distance vigorously.

Daniel Zhang watched the more and more Marani grass and puddles here, but he was a little vigilant, and even let the two cadres next to him cheer up and take the initiative to walk in front to open the way.

"Tiger girl, look!"

Due to her martial arts practice, Ali has a strong sense of observation, and soon found a stone under a pile of weeds, and her beautiful face was slightly flushed and she raised a coconut-sized stone and greeted.

"Gold ore!"

Daniel Zhang and the others have been looking for gold ore with a clear goal, and when they heard the movement, they were looking for prestige, and when they saw the stone in Ali's hand, their eyes immediately lit up with excitement.

Following Tiger Niu's piece of gold ore yesterday, it is obviously different, half of this piece is golden. Although it was a cloudy day, I also felt slightly dazzling and intoxicating.

Most importantly, now that they have found this piece of gold ore in this dry river, it is undoubtedly a clearer trace of gold mines.

"Daniel Zhang, is it now possible to be sure that there is a gold mine on it?" The tiger girl's face immediately overflowed with excitement, and she turned her head to look at Daniel Zhang and asked.

Daniel Zhang woke up from his excitement at this time, but he didn't dare to hold out too much hope and said: "In this way, there should be a gold mine on this, I just hope that the scale of this gold mine is not too small!" ”

Gold mines naturally have large and small sizes, and some gold mines can even make ends meet. This is also the reason why the imperial court closed many gold mines, because the government could not afford to pay wages and food from the mining harvest.

With this new discovery, everyone was more positive, and soon found two more gold ores, and it was more certain that there was a gold mine upstream of the river.

When the third piece of gold ore was found, Daniel Zhang let everyone not have to search anymore, after all, they didn't have to care about one or two pieces of gold ore, their goal has always been a big gold mine.

About a mile away, we followed the dry river to a mountain.

Unlike the mound of earth in Wohu Mountain, this mountain seems to rise suddenly, and even has a spring-like mountain with a few pines and cypresses growing sparsely on it.

When you get to the front of the mountain, the vegetation is even more lush, and it is still a large expanse of gravel with clusters of half-man-high marani grass growing wildly.

Daniel Zhang gave the men next to him a look, and they rushed into the weeds with machetes in hand to clean up, but they did not see large beasts, and several golden chickens "pounced" from the ground.

The good thing about Luzon is that there are no tigers and wolves, and the mountainous terrain often has nowhere to provide enough food, so it is almost impossible to encounter large predators.

"The source is inside!"

The dog went up the river, and first saw a large clear puddle in the grass, and then found that the water source was still in it, and a clear stream flowed quietly from the canyon in front of it.

Daniel Zhang and others looked at this stream and finally understood why the upper reaches of this dry river channel were overgrown with weeds, and dared to feel that the water source here was not completely cut off, and some water sources sometimes nourished the plants here.

Daniel Zhang turned to face the tiger girl, trying to persuade the tiger girl to stay outside, after all, there may be unknown risks here, just thinking that the matter is related to the gold mine, and this Luzon Island has never heard of the tiger wolf, so he swallowed back the words that were spit out to his mouth.

"Let's go in together!"

The tiger girl glanced at Daniel Zhang for some reason, and said lightly.

At this moment, she did not have the slightest fear, more of a nervousness. At this point, the truth was soon revealed, and this result was related to whether or not they could feed more people in the joint business group.

If the ideal gold mine is not found in this canyon, all the efforts of the day will be in vain, and it will take them another year to continue paving the road, and she will not be able to use the silver of the United Merchant Group to help the people of Luzon without restraint.

However, if you can really find a big gold mine here, then many problems will be solved, and you will have a lot less constraints to do things next, and no one will even dare to criticize it.

A group of people walked into this canyon, the mouth of the valley is several zhang wide, in the shape of a gourd.

Grieve......

In the midst of the rocks by the stream, a black and white viper, with a flattened head and scales on its back, suddenly protruded, spitting letters at their uninvited guests.

"Everyone, be careful!"

Daniel Zhang saw this poisonous snake that suddenly came out, and when he was like a great enemy, he let the people next to him beware, but he directly blocked the front of the tiger girl and said loudly.

He wasn't too surprised by the appearance of the poisonous snake. In such mountainous areas, where there is a water source, it is often accompanied by animals, which naturally face some upper predators.