There were four or five like-minded people in the village who were in a similar situation, and everyone bought the wine from the big jar, boiled a large pot of fatty fish, and talked about the wine.

Gao Xiaowu and Gao Xiaoliu thought that their father had passed away and had nothing to worry about, so why not make a big ticket, not only enjoyed it, but also took a bad breath for many years!

Gao Xiaoer was not very in favor of embarking on the road of no return to being a water thief------ this obvious difference made everyone see it.

A clever guy suddenly said, "Why go into the lake and be a water thief? I can go overseas to find Jinshan! ”

Everyone is interested, there is a mountain of gold overseas------ where is that?!

The guy was clever, but like everyone else, he couldn't read, and he only heard people talk about it in the town that it was in the Wandering Times.

When it came to Liuqiu Island, Gao Xiaoer's heart suddenly brightened, why should he think about going into the lake to be a water thief, why not go there for a while?!

They asked the clever guy to find the Wandering Times, and then asked a literate person to read the newspaper for them.

Sure enough, they learned that there was a place called Australia dozens of days away, and it was said that eighty percent of them might have gold mines, and there were many more, and who found out who counted.

The Great Song Dynasty government had a rule that if a private person discovers gold and silver mines, it will belong to the government, and if a private person mines it, it will be a felony.

Everyone was happy all of a sudden, and the idea of wanting to destroy the fishing tyrant was diluted------ what is more important in this world than making a fortune yourself?!

As a result, they masked their faces and looked for an opportunity, taking advantage of the small number of bodyguards brought by a big fisherman, they beat the bodyguards, caught the big fisherman and beat him hard, and then searched for hundreds of banknotes from his body------ which could be used as the travel expenses to Liuqiu Island.

The eight of them simply left the lakeside fishing village that had left them suffering and destitute.

It's like they already have nothing, why not fight if they have the opportunity, don't say anything if they find a gold mine, even if they don't find it, don't they still have nothing?!

When you reach the final end, let's think of another way.

They had a beautiful meal in Lin'an City, and then found the registration station, and went to the Badao River on Liuqiu Island very smoothly.

Gao Xiaoer saw that there were many people in the same company, and he believed that there was a gold mine in Australia.

When they arrived in Western Australia, they were amazed that it was a treasure land with fertile water and grass, far better than the land around Taihu Lake!

Compared to it, there are too many swamps in my hometown-----

They bought bows and arrows for self-defense and knives, and bought some gold panning tools------ seeing that the money on their bodies was spent, and they happened to meet businessmen who took the initiative to lend to them, Gao Xiaoer mortgaged a hundred yuan with his Australian entry and exit documents, bought a batch of grain and dried meat, and kept the rest of the money for the last use.

They followed a large group of people towards the mountains where the gold mines were legendary.

Everyone has heard that the Liuqiu army first discovered a placer gold mine in the valley of the Balu River not far away, and it is said that three or four taels of gold can be produced a day, which is simply blood-boiling!

In the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, one tael of gold was basically worth ten taels of silver, and sometimes more; One or two pieces of silver can basically be converted into consistent money, and sometimes there are more------ a county is only two hundred yuan a year!

What's more, they heard from the Governor Wu here that the Balu Valley was just a small gold mine, and the bigger one was in the mountains to the northeast.

People die for money, birds die for food, eight brothers from the edge of Taihu Lake carry heavy luggage and march towards the mountains without complaint!

The Great Song Dynasty government stipulated that the people were not allowed to use gold and silver as currency, which could only be regarded as a bargain, but there were too many shops that bought them publicly------ and in Baisi City alone, they saw no less than ten posters advertising that they were buying gold at a high price!

The eight brothers are not as good as the gold panning team formed by those big families, and they even have mules and donkeys with them, and even horses to help carry them!

In the past, a horse cost 100 yuan, and people were not allowed to raise it arbitrarily, but now even if it is cheaper, it still costs about 50 yuan, and the poor can absolutely not afford it.

Moreover, I heard that people have bought the gold panning place first, and no one is allowed to enter, even if others find gold in the place they have divided, it must be counted as someone else's.

Damn, such a rich man has come to rob the poor of their chance to make a fortune!

However, when they did not find Jinshan, they could only go further, and could only treat themselves as mules and horses------ eight people encouraged each other with their eyes, panting and persevering.

There is a chance to find a gold mine, and no one wants to be a water thief who has no way back and has brought shame on their ancestors.

When they reached the mountains, they saw a few simple wooden houses, and the Liuqiu army seemed to be particularly good at building such strange houses.

There were a dozen wanderers on horseback, and they kept telling the people who entered the mountain that if they were in danger, they should light wolf smoke as close as possible to the place, and if they saw it, they would definitely go to the rescue.

Gao Xiaoer looked at their sturdy bodies and the short spear with the Xueliang bayonet on their backs, and felt a little more steady.

When they entered the mountain, they found that the mountain was one mountain after another, although it was not dangerous, but it was endless, and they really couldn't see the horizon at a glance.

There were nearly 10,000 of them in a large group, and after a short time they were scattered into the mountains, there was no trace of them, and it seemed that there were only eight of them left in heaven and earth.

Fortunately, the trees here are sparse, far less wooded than at the mouth of the Baisi River, and the climb is not too difficult.

On their first night in the mountains, they camped in a mountain depression.

They lit a campfire, boiled water, and asked for a noodle dish called somen noodles, which they had tried before, and as long as they had two tubes of noodles and two canned fish, without adding salt or seasoning, it tasted pretty good.

Of course, you also have to eat a little dry food with white flour and cornmeal with the soup.

In the evening, when the weather began to get extremely cold, everyone wrapped themselves tightly in thick cotton and linen clothes and sat around the campfire.

The bonfire burst out from time to time, and then countless sparks rushed into the dark sky.

The clever guy suddenly said:

"Since there are gold mines here, how can I see those soldiers who are not tempted?!

If I had, I would have been a deserter and gone to the gold pan------"

Gao Xiaoer thought about it seriously and said, "If you become a deserter, even if you have gold, where can you run?!" ”

Everyone laughed, this is true, with gold, you must return to Best City to sell money, or get back the Great Song Dynasty------ without the Australian pass, no sea ship dares to transport people.

In the middle of the night, the people went into their tents and went to sleep, and the soldiers told them that there were no fierce beasts here and that there was no need to worry.

On this night, I don't know how many people had a dream of gold------ if you look down from the sky, you can see countless bonfires in the whole mountain, they are just like the hope of those gold diggers, although slim, but real.

PS: Thank you for the reward that you can't survive if you don't make a pit