Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Gold Rush Continues
"Haha, I found gold!"
Gao Xiaoliu was ecstatic, he held the piece of gold and rushed to Gao Xiaoer and them!
This sentence made all the companions who were lying down jump up, and the sky had eyes, and finally let me wait to find it.
Gao Xiaoer took the piece of gold with trembling hands, and just about to take a closer look------ Huang De glanced at it and said, "Everyone, that's fool's gold------ it's a piece of yellow iron!" ”
Fuck you! Why do you just look at it and say it's a yellow iron!!
Gao Xiaoliu was really anxious, he grabbed Huang De's placket at once, if it weren't for the cotton linen clothes, they would have been torn apart long ago.
Huang De felt that his feet were about to leave the ground, and he hurriedly said: "Liulang, don't be in a hurry, there is a touchstone under it, and I will try it out at once!" ”
The crowd hurriedly pulled them away.
Huang De took out a dark and inconspicuous stone from his backpack and said, "If it is gold, then the path drawn is yellow; If it is fool's gold, then the way drawn is black------"
Gao Xiaoer snatched the touchstone with his hand and scratched it fiercely with the "gold" in his hand, and the result was really a black trace.
Gao Xiaoliu's eyes turned red and said, "Is there any other way to try it?!" ”
"It can be burned with smokeless fire, real gold does not change color, fool's gold will turn black------ people use fool's gold to defraud people's property."
Huang De means that occasionally he looks away, which is too normal and nothing.
Everyone lit a fire, and when there was no smoke, they put it on, and sure enough, after a while, it became pitch black.
Well, what Huang De said is true.
Collectively, they went to the place where the pyrite appeared, and beat it with hammers, and dug deep with shovels and pickaxes, and it seemed that even pyrite did not have much reserves.
Huang De said at this time: "Pyrite is also a useful mine, and it can be sold for hundreds of yuan in general------
Everyone sighed in their hearts, they came here thousands of miles away, and they suffered for nearly half a year, and they only got a few hundred yuan? !
Huang De was also helpless on his face, but he smiled secretly in his heart, pyrite is the messenger of the gold mine, and there must be gold mines around here!
He deliberately didn't tell the truth, but he tried to lure them away from here.
Huang De said: "Let's go further to the northeast, I see the direction of the mountains and clouds, there must be gold mines in the northeast!" ”
Gao Xiaowu took over at this time, and he snorted angrily: "You just said that there are no mineral deposits here, how did you get pyrite now!?" ”
Gao Xiaoer waved his hand to prevent everyone from dwelling on this matter anymore.
They packed up their things and continued their way northeast.
The mountains of the northeast are even more inhospitable, with even the bouncing kangaroos in sight, and the green trees are even more scarce, and if they are, they are covered in spikes.
The surrounding rocks are even more rugged and hideous, and in the evening and at dawn, it looks like a monster crouching there!
There was also a strange howl of the cold wind blowing in the middle of the night.
It can burn people to death during the day and freeze them to death at night.
The wind and rain they experienced in Taihu Lake were really not as cruel as here------ they didn't know how many layers of skin they had taken off, but the legendary gold was nowhere to be seen.
On this day, they found a stream as thin as a thigh------ Gao Xiaoer hurriedly ordered everyone to fill all the water bags.
He knew that water was now more important than food.
Gao Xiaoer said: "We still have half a month's ration left, we have traveled so far, birds and beasts are very rare------ we spend another five days looking for gold mines, after five days must withdraw from this place, our lives are important." ”
Huang De was greatly admired and said, "Exactly, exactly!" Stay in the green mountains, I'm not afraid of no firewood------ I can rest for a few days when I go back, and I can come out again. ”
The others were silent, what else could they say at this moment.
Everyone obeyed Huang De's arrangement and divided into six ways to search in all directions.
Huang De said: "Everyone can only walk for half a day, no matter where they go, as long as they are halfway through, they will inevitably have to go back!"
If someone gets lost and doesn't come back, then there is no need to search for it, and that person will inevitably die in the mountains.
I'll wait for this time------"
Gao Xiaoer immediately understood after hearing this, this is a good way to expand the scope of searching, and he is really desperate.
So he left two men to guard the luggage, and asked them to prey on the best of the best.
The rest of the people will set off early tomorrow morning and do their best!
At dawn the next day, they set off separately in light clothes.
Huang De also walked in one direction alone, but he quickly stopped and stood in a high position to watch everyone walk away.
He smiled hehe, when will he really find such a lucky search?!
It's crazy that a group of fishermen who don't know how to survey the land at all should come to take the risk!
He looked at the sun, re-identified the spot where the coin was located, and took a shortcut to it.
In fact, there were no roads in this mountainous area, so he had to travel lightly and quickly, trying to get there as soon as possible, leaving them behind.
When he was walking earnestly, he saw a lush meadow on the slope of a mountain more than ten feet high not far away, and even a few small trees more than one person high.
They stand out in this reddish-brown mountainous landscape!
Well, where there is grass and trees, there is a source of water, just enough to fill your own sheepskin water bag.
He climbed up quickly, and haha he really saw a spring!
He looked out over the cliffs around him, and wondered how the spring came from.
He first filled the spring with water, hung the parchment bag on the tree, and then washed his face and hair in the spring, and immediately felt his whole body cool.
It's nice that he also took off his canvas eucommia rubber-soled shoes to make his feet touch the grass.
He also jumped on the grass, and the scent of the grass rose in the trampling------ haha, everything is under the control of my Huang De!
As soon as he thought of this, his body slid suddenly, but he didn't expect that the grass actually covered a trap, and he slipped directly into a cave!
He yelled and screamed to grab something, but he didn't realize that the cave was covered with slippery moss, and he couldn't catch anything!
During the whole sliding process, he also felt like he had turned two corners and hit him twice before he fell to the bottom of the hole!
It feels like that hole is so deep, this fall made his eyes glow, and he almost fainted!
He lay at the bottom of the cave and did not dare to move, he was afraid that he would be hurt again.
After a long time, he tried to touch his whole body ------ damn it, and his foot hurt again!
His foot hurt his hamstrings again, and it was swollen and painful.
At this time, he began to grope around------ the bottom of the cave was pitch black, and he couldn't see the light at all!
He crawled and touched, as if he had touched the stone wall, and then stood up little by little and slowly touched it, and after touching it for a long time, it was still an uneven stone wall, until his head hit the back of a stone pillar and stopped, he touched the stone pillar, and stood on the ground thin and thick------ presumably similar to the stalagmites he saw in the southern caves of the Great Song Dynasty.
To his delight, he heard the sound of water droplets.
Water has a place to come from, and there must be a place to go------ if you can't say it well, you will find a way out.
At this time, he no longer wanted any gold and silver, only a way out, even if there was a little light.
He walked very slowly against the stone wall, like a blind man.
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