"Mr. Jiang, what's written on this?" Deng Jian came up.

All the way to the west, it was very bitter.

Deng Jian wanted to cry.

In the past, he was a slave in the Fang family, although he was a teenager who always disliked himself, but at least it was comfortable there, but when he came here, Deng Jian was black and thin.

Along the way, I wanted to cry, I cried out, I wanted to cry again, and I burst into tears, but when the tears dried up, I found that it was meaningless, because the road that should be rushed still had to be rushed, so he wiped away his tears, and the dust was rolling all the way, wearing the stars and the moon, with snow on his head, wrapped in a cloak, and he couldn't stand the cold, but he still felt ...... Get used to it.

Jiang Chen smiled slightly: "Nothing, it's just some inscriptions, and what is recorded in it is all old things." ”

Deng Jian said with emotion: "I see that those big masters, who have made meritorious achievements, will build stone workshops, engrave inscriptions, and record their achievements, the young master is such a great person, he already has three stone workshops, I think he will have seven in his life." ”

Jiang Chen avoided talking about these issues.

Because these inscriptions do record the merits, but these exploits, but like the past, except for themselves, here to see this great victory, thus, the Ming army stationed here, and established a flat guard here, what is left? It's just yellow sand everywhere.

"Tomorrow we will go into the mountains."

"Oh." Deng Jian nodded.

Jiang Chen stared at Deng Jian: "It's going to be hard, you have to be prepared." ”

"Oh." Deng Jian nodded again.

That night, Deng Jian cried, hid in his tent, and washed his face with tears again.

He really doesn't want to come here, although the young master is usually bad to himself, but his own life, he has to live a good life, he has to marry a mother-in-law, and he has to give birth to a baby, why did he come here, it is freezing here, there is no human population, God knows if he will encounter the Tatars, he whimpered, kept sobbing, the young master seems to want himself, but he will not do anything except take care of the young master.

He secretly hurt himself, cried, cried, and fell asleep with tears on his covers.

The next day up the mountain.

The mountains here are different from those in Kannai, bare, the snow has stopped, but they are muddy and wet, there are almost no tall trees on them, at most, they are just some shrubs, and there is almost no end to this rolling mountain.

The location marked by Fang Jifan is very general, and it is not easy to find ore veins.

Some of the coal mine workers opened the way, they were very experienced in digging rocks, and they had already prepared pickaxes and walked freely on the mountain.

The rocky mountain and the snow on the mountainside are starting to increase, so the aimless search is really a needle in a haystack.

But since the commander has an order, no one dares to be idle, they have traveled thousands of miles, and there is no reason to return empty-handed. So, the crowd dispersed in groups of three or five, one hill after another, trying to dig.

Jiang Chen asked people to build a simple camp in the mountains, and everyone went out with dry food during the day, each with a compass, marking the location of the camp, and then collecting the rocks from the nearby places.

For more than half a month, almost everyone was exhausted.

The dry food brought with me has almost been eaten.

But Jiang Chen was not reconciled, he set out every day and returned at night, day after day.

For him, although exploration is boring, as long as the teacher says that there are mineral veins here, then he has to find out, because he is Fang Jifan's protégé, and Fang Jifan's protégé will never return empty-handed.

He asked people to go down the mountain to Lanzhou City a hundred miles away to buy food, but the people who went did not come back, so he had to go in person, along the way, he saw the person who had been sent out before, this person was originally a few guides hired by himself, but now, the clothes on his body have been stripped naked, his horses and the money and food on his body, all gone, the whole person was hung under a bare tree, frozen to death.

There are Tatars......

Jiang Chen was not surprised, he lowered the man from the tree, dug a pit, buried it, made a mark, stared at a stick stuck in the tomb, stood for a long time, and then turned over his horse and walked away.

After more than a month, the people in the camp had almost exhausted all their strength, and the snow became more and more severe, and the nearby mountains became snow-capped mountains, and the people became more and more silent.

Deng Jian's tears dried up again, and he wanted to go back to Guannai, dreaming about it.

And on this day, at last someone could not bear it anymore, and a miner shouted: "There is no vein here at all, this is a lie, if there is, why no one has noticed it before, we have been delayed here for more than a month, there are Tatars here, sooner or later, they will find the traces of people here, they will find us, stay here, continue to consume, it is death, we will go back." ”

Everyone was moved.

Everyone wants to go home.

Deng Jian almost blurted out, shouting that we should go back.

Only Jiang Chen's face was gloomy, and he shouted: "I can't go back." ”

"Why, there's nothing here, this damn place." The miner yelled dissatisfied.

Jiang Chen quietly wanted to hold the hilt of the sword on his waist, and then, he said sharply: "Because the teacher said." ”

The word "teacher", Jiang Chen deliberately raised the sound of Bei, and only the word "teacher" suddenly gave Jiang Chen more courage, and he became more resolute: "Among you, do any of you want to live up to my teacher?" Who? ”

All of a sudden, those who were about to move lowered their heads one by one.

In the eyes of the miners, Jiang Chen's mentor is their mentor, and without him, nine times out of ten, they would be dead.

In the eyes of some students who came with Xishan Academy, Jiang Chen's mentor was their master, who dared to deceive the teacher and destroy the ancestors?

The roaring miner, his face was bloodless, he suddenly covered his face and cried: "There are no ore veins here, we have searched for all the mountains, they are all stones, and there are worthless stones everywhere." ”

Jiang Chen said sharply: "Then look for it again, even if it is in the crack of the stone, we have to find it!" ”

……

Deng Jian thought of his young master.

The farther away from the young master, the worse the young master's attitude towards him, the more he forgot about it, and the more he felt at ease by his side.

Looking at the vast mountains...... He had a feeling of wanting to die.

But he still cheered up, right...... To find out.

The next morning, as usual, he carried a bucket to fetch water from a nearby lake.

The lake may have been a product of the Yellow River flooding into a mountain stream in the past, or perhaps it was created because of the topography.

Deng Jian, as usual, arrived at the lake, rolled up his trouser legs, he thought to himself, he admires Jiang Chen very much, why is he loyal to the young master, he didn't grow up eating Fang's rice, but I, Deng Jian, is different, my grandfather eats Fang's rice, and so does my father, when it comes to me, even if I give birth to a baby in the future, I still eat Fang's rice.

Thinking about it like this, Deng Jian felt very ashamed, shame, I'm not as good as him, okay, next time someone dares to say go back, I will also press the sword and ask who dares.

When he arrived at the lake, Deng Jian lifted the bucket, the water on the riverside was relatively muddy, he had to take off his boots, and slowly walked into the lake with contentment, he carried the bucket, walked barefoot into the biting lake, and fell into the mud step by step, and then slowly moved forward, walked a few feet, the lake was almost to his knees, he was ready to lift the bucket to scoop the water, he was shivering, looking at the unkempt self in the reflection of the lake, he subconsciously let the bucket float in the lake, bent over, and wanted to hold some water to wash his face.

But just as he was bending over, suddenly, his body shook.

Beneath the knee-high bed of the lake, mixed with silt, there seemed to be something......

It's like sand, but it's not like ......

Deng Jian was distracted, so he rolled up his sleeves, stretched out his arms, and grabbed a handful of silt from the bottom of the lake.

There was a rice-sized thing in the mud, which suddenly slammed Deng Jian's hand, Deng Jian couldn't help grinning and scolding, and when he slowly wiped off the silt on the hard object, an orange and yellow thing the size of a rice grain appeared in Deng Jian's eyes......

This is......

Deng Jian was dumbfounded......

He didn't care about the biting water of the lake anymore.

He looked closely at the grain of rice, and in the end, he was almost sure...... This...... It's gold.

Gold...... It's Sands!

Deng Jian's head was about to explode, and there was actually golden sand in the lake.

He was mad, and he searched in the water, and after a while, he found another, this one larger, irregular, and his pupils opened, and then, not caring about the bucket, he climbed ashore as if he were mad.

Got it...... Gold......

Over here...... There is gold.

You must know that in this era, most of the gold mines or rivers and lakes that can pan for gold have basically been panning for gold from ancient times to the present.

Available here...... There is so much golden sand here, and here, for thousands of years, no one has discovered the great value of this lake.

And this is a lake, maybe it used to be a river, and eventually it was formed because of the change of terrain, and it contains so much golden sand, then it is very likely that there must be a golden vein upstream.

Deng Jian seemed to be crazy, and he held the golden sand to the camp, and in the camp, except for the people who stayed behind, the rest of the people had long since disappeared.

Deng Jian shouted frantically: "Quick, hurry up the wolf smoke, hurry, recruit all the people nearby, I found it, I found gold, haha...... It's gold! ”

All of a sudden, several people who stayed here to cook and cook rushed up, and people surrounded Deng Jian, Deng Jian proudly displayed the golden sands in his palms, and the two golden sands were exposed in front of everyone.

Make a fortune!

The crowd jumped for joy.

Gold, at this level, where else can I find any gold mines, and even if there is, after years of mining, the output is almost outrageously low.

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