Chapter 7: The Gold Rush

Wei Hongye said to Du Dalei: "Xiao Du, where is the right place to build a dam?" ”

Du Dalei looked around, pointed to the upstream direction and said: "Let's go there, the river in that place is relatively narrow, and it will save a lot of effort to build a dam. Brother, I'll train you well today. ”

"You're going to pretend to be a big-tailed wolf, aren't you just playing with mud, who will use you to teach." Na Zhe said dissatisfied.

Wei Hongye found the camping shovel, took the two second goods that were still fighting, and walked slowly upstream. After a while, I found the right place, the river here is relatively narrow and the water is shallow. Du Dalei rolled his eyes and said: "It's too slow to dig mud and build a dam, there are a lot of stones on the bank, let's move some big stones to build a dam, it will be a lot faster." ”

Na Zhe asked suspiciously, "Can this work?" There are a lot of gaps in the middle of the stones, and the fish haven't all run away? ”

Du Dalei laughed at him: "You are really worried about your IQ, and you always don't admit that you are stupid, brother teach you, first use big stones to build a dam, then fill the gaps with small stones, and finally dig some mud to plug it, and no fish can escape." ”

Wei Hongye hurriedly played a round game: "Stop bickering, hurry up and work, I'm hungry, I'm just waiting to eat this wild fish, it must taste delicious." ”

So the three of them began to move stones to build a dam. Du Dalei and Na Zhe attacked each other with words while working, everyone talked and laughed, and it didn't take long to build a dam in the barrage. The river is blocked by dikes and the water level rises slowly.

Du Dalei stared intently at the surface of the river and said: "Everyone pay attention, the fish will come down in a while, try to drive the fish to the shallow place, and throw the fish to the shore after catching it." ”

Na Zhe, who caught the fish for the first time, was very excited, and shouted: "Come, come, I have several fish here, you come over quickly." I can't do it myself. ”

Wei Hongye and Du Dalei ran over with the water and saw several fish of different sizes swimming back and forth in the water.

Du Dalei bent down to take a look, "We fenced them up and rushed to the shallow water, and then took off our clothes to cover it, and it definitely didn't run." ”

The three of them carefully drove the fish to the shallow water area, Du Dalei took off his coat, handed the small bits and pieces in the pocket of his clothes to Na Zhe, slowly immersed his clothes in the water with both hands, and suddenly mentioned it, and caught a fish.

"Haha, catch it, hurry up and get it to the shore!"

"Sample, look where you're going."

The three of them ran to the shore, Du Dalei threw the fish on the grass on the shore, the fish fluttered restlessly on the ground, the fish was about 30 centimeters long, the body was long spindle-shaped, slightly flattened. The scales are small, the dorsal part of the body is dark brown, the sides of the body are gradually white, and the dorsal and sides of the body are scattered with oblong black spots.

Wei Hongye squatted down and looked at it carefully, and said: "It seems to be a fine-scale fish, this fish is a carnivore, the meat is delicate, the spines are few, and the taste is delicious, we have a good mouth." Let's go down to the river and get a few more. ”

Several people were busy for a while, catching seven or eight large and small fish. Du Dalei shouted: "I said Lao Wei, it should be enough to eat, right?" Let's quickly clean up and stew the fish soup, I'm really hungry. ”

So a few people went ashore and began to cook.

When the fish soup gave off its fragrance, Zhao Zizhong and Boris also returned. The two of them struggled to carry a prey, shouting as they walked: "Come and help, this thing is dead." ”

Du Dalei and Na Zhe ran over, "Boss, you take a break, Xiao Na and I will carry it." What is this? ”

Zhao Zizhong said: "Boris, let's put down and take a breath first." The two threw their prey to the ground, "It should be a red deer." This one is still small, and the few who ran away are more than this one, even if they kill me and Lao Bao, they can't get it back. ”

The animals on the ground looked like deer, weighed about 100 pounds, and had russet hair on their bodies, with a deep back and a shallow ventral surface. Na Zhe poked a few times and said: "This thing's face is quite long, it looks a bit like Li Yong, and it deserves to be called a red deer." ”

Du Dalei sneered: "Little Master, I don't think it looks like Li Yong, but it looks quite like your kid, it won't be your relative." ”

After resting for a while, several people worked together to carry the prey to the river. Wei Hongye came over to take a look and said, "What a big thing, Lao Zhao, you and Boris have worked hard, we got a few fish, the fish soup has been cooked, everyone is hungry, let's eat." ”

So everyone took out their lunch boxes and ate them with fish soup.

After the meal, Zhao Zizhong said: "I'll pack up the prey here in the afternoon, Lao Wei, you guys go to find gold." Be careful not to go too far. Boris, you follow them with a crossbow. ”

"Can you do it yourself here? I'd better leave you a helper. ”

"No problem, you guys go together, I can handle it myself." Zhao Zizhong said with a smile.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, three days passed in a hurry. In the past few days, Zhao Zi hit a lot of prey, in addition to everyone's rations, he salted the remaining meat with the salt he carried and dried it to make jerky. The fish caught by a few people were also dried into dried fish.

Wei Hongye searched along the river for places with rich gold reserves, and he really found a few. So the crowd prepared to start panning for gold. Under the leadership of Lao Wei, everyone collected some flexible branches and made a dustpan. No one had ever done this work, and everyone was clumsily groping and doing it, and the dustpan made out was strangely shaped, which was unbearable to witness.

Wei Hongye pondered for a while and said: "I still think too simply, we have never made a dustpan, and the gaps in the things we get out are too big, if they are used to pan for gold, the golden sand will have to flow away from these cracks, and it will definitely not work." It's best to find some cloth to put on top of the dustpan so that the golden sand won't leak out. ”

Na Zhe hurriedly said: "Then I will contribute the clothes, will I cut it?" ”

Du Dalei immediately hit him: "You are a second goods, you tore your clothes, what are you wearing?" Want to run naked? ”

Na Zhe said triumphantly: "You stupid, who said that I was going to contribute the clothes I was wearing, I still have a few spare ones." ”

Wei Hongye nodded: "This is a good way, everyone looks for any clothes that cannot be used temporarily, and we will start work immediately." ”

Everyone found a few pieces of clothing and cut them with knives, and Lao Wei took out a needle and thread and sewed the fabric at the bottom of the dustpan. Then the gold panning began in earnest. Dig a few shovels and pour the gold river sand into the dustpan, and shake the dustpan in the river water, the less dense soil and sand are constantly carried away by the current, and the denser gold particles and fine gold sand will settle to the bottom of the dustpan.

Time passed quickly, and nine days later, everyone found a lot of gold. In the evening, everyone gathers to check the harvest of the past few days.

There was a piece of clothing on the ground, and several gold nuggets of different sizes were piled on it, and next to it were small piles of gold particles and a few piles of fine golden sand, which shone in the sunlight and looked very beautiful.

Na Zhe swallowed hard and asked, "How much can these weigh?" ”

Zhao Zizhong said: "I estimate that there are almost a dozen catties." ”

Du Dalei said happily: "Before the crossing, the price of gold was about two hundred and seventy yuan a gram. One or two or fifty grams, that's thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. One pound and ten taels is one hundred and fifty-five thousand. A dozen catties is more than two million. ”

Na Zhe said with emotion: "I went and worked tirelessly for more than ten days, which is not enough to buy a house in the capital, the house price of my Great Heavenly Empire is mighty!" ”

Boris said depressedly: "We can't go back, what does housing prices have to do with us." I wonder how much gold could be worth in ancient times? ”

"The price of gold in each dynasty is different, but roughly one tael of gold can be exchanged for ten taels of silver, and the purchasing power of one tael of silver is almost equivalent to one thousand yuan in modern society." Wei Hongye explained.

Du Dalei folded his fingers and calculated for a while: "Our gold was equivalent to more than one million yuan in ancient times, and it is far from enough to live the life of a local tyrant!" ”

"Wouldn't it be enough for us to dig for more gold? Let's work hard, get a few hundred catties of gold, and then go south to be a local tyrant! Na Zhe said arrogantly.

Du Dalei knocked down Na Zhe at once, hugged his neck, and said in a strange voice: "Local tyrant, ask for support, people are not very demanding, just give tens of thousands of taels of gold to spend a difference, it's enough." Wowha! ”

Zhao Zizhong frowned, and was a little helpless about this pair of living treasures: "Can you talk well, don't fix those useless." You just want to get more gold, have you ever thought that you can get more gold? Now everyone's weight is dozens of catties, if you go south, travel thousands of miles, and bring food, how much gold can each person carry? ”

Wei Hongye came out to play a round: "You can't bring too much gold, otherwise you won't be able to run when you encounter danger, and your life is still important!" Lao Zhao, how much do you think each of us should bring? ”

Zhao Zizhong touched his chin: "I think it's more appropriate to bring five catties per person, and if you have more, you really can't run." We can't afford to delay too much longer, it's winter here in a few months, and we can't freeze to death with gold, right? ”

There was a little cold for a while, everyone didn't speak, and finally Du Dalei, who was still nervous, said: "Hey, so much gold, it's a pity, we can't take it away, we can't take it away, we have a chance in the future, we come back and dig it hard, we must dig it up." ”

Wei Hongye said with a smile: "Xiao Du, don't think about beautiful things, the conditions of modern society are so good, after more than 100 years of mining, this gold mine can still produce gold, and we have such a simple equipment, it is estimated that it will not be able to be mined in a few hundred years." ”

Zhao Zi thought about it again and said, "In this way, you will continue to pan for gold tomorrow, and strive to get another dozen catties of gold in a few days." I went out on my own to reconnoitre, to find out the way, and to try to meet any danger when I really wanted to go south. ”

Wei Hongye hurriedly said: "Lao Zhao, let's send someone to go with you, and take care of each other." ”

Zhao Zizhong shook his head: "No need, I'll just go by myself." ”