Chapter II
After the second baby was issued, it continued to expand the scale of gold digging
Anything that is done will change from difficult to easy; Not doing it is always a conceptual problem.
The gold washing method brought by Bald Zhang is: the sand transported out of the circle (commonly known as the trough) is piled up enough for a certain amount or 12 hours, also called 'a bankou', and then begins to wash, which is called 'slipping gold' here, because with time as a standard, there is an estimate of the gold content of the region, which is convenient for the next step.
The amount of gold withdrawn from the first 'Bankou' is generally not very good, because it is too close to the surface, and the gold content will gradually increase the further you dig below the river surface. The weight of gold far exceeds that of sand, and as the river washes and turns day and night, the gold sinks little by little. The so-called 'digging gold can not be boarded, it will be poor for 30 years', that is, the truth that gold digging must be carried out to the end.
When it comes to the board, the experienced gold digger will design the next mining direction according to the trend of gold, commonly known as the 'gold line'. This is somewhat similar to the current subway, the difference is that the subway is built with modern excavation tools, and the gold digging is all based on manpower; Reinforced concrete was used to build the subway, while wooden pillars and planks were used for gold digging at that time. A sturdy form of wooden pillars and planks pushes forward.
The board used here is called 'box board', and the pillar is called 'box wood', which vividly illustrates that the combination of 'box board' and 'box wood' should be like a box. When taking sand from top to bottom, it is vertical piling, a circle of piles is not enough to add piles on the inside of the head ring pile, the farther away from the slab, the more piles will be driven. Looking down from the top, there are large wooden boxes composed of "compartment boards" and "compartment wood" extending downward, and some of them are bottomless. When you get to the board, water will flow out from all directions, and then you need a high-dust pump to pump water out day and night. If the water is too large, two to three pumps are needed to pump it. The wages of the masters who manage the machines and pumps here are very high. This is currently the person who was brought by Bald Zhang who is responsible for this technology.
When you get to the 'board' (the bottom of the river), according to the trend of the gold wire, you have to erect a horizontal 'compartment' similar to digging a 'groove' downward, but the horizontal 'compartment' is much smaller than the vertical one. It is probably that people can walk so high with their heads down, and they will also turn corners, maybe there are many, and they will progress layer by layer. Multiple people line up and pass the sand up. It is commonly known as the '鉆compartment', and the water that often seeps out from the water column and the sand and gravel on the left and right is like a mountain stream. If the pump breaks down or the power goes out, in a matter of seconds, the entire tank can be flooded, and people will not be able to escape if they are too late, and they will die at the bottom of the river!
At that time, no one supervised the river dam, and no one was particularly curious about who wanted to do something, as long as they didn't dig their own yards.
Fortune is unpredictable, maybe you never dreamed of it, it was touched, it was bumped, and when something happened, I was stunned.
Since ancient times, everyone here has known that there is gold in the river, and some people even use it to subsidize their families, but no one takes it seriously. Often people will not care about and cherish the things that they are accustomed to, and it is he who may contain great wealth or business opportunities! The small-scale family is called 'shaking gold', it is very fortunate, and must also be able to find gold, washing, shaking, pinching, refining are all technical work, the key is only to dig sand in the epidermis, the gold content is very small, which is also the main reason why there has been no large-scale gold panning for many years.
It took a month and a half for the golden thread of this groove to complete, and during this time, the second baby was really eye-opening. It was the first time he had seen so much gold with his own eyes when he was so old, although panning for gold in the sand was a complicated and arduous process, but when the last process was completed and the yellow gold was lying in front of him, that feeling was really difficult to express in words!
Happiness came too suddenly, in fact, even Bald Zhang didn't think that the gold content of this river dam was so good, so that Bald Zhang, who was very deep in the city, was secretly happy and excited! It is said that the gold was sold for more than one million, and after removing some expenses, the second baby divided more than 300,000.
The news spread, although no one except Erwa and Bald Zhang knew the specific number of gold, but all kinds of signs speculated that the effect should be quite good.
This is a loud thunder, and it explodes inside and outside the mountains here.
Everyone here is as anxious as if they have set fire to their own house, and it is as if for the first time there is a sense of imbalance in everyone's hearts. The second baby in Xiangyang Village was sent, and it was a month, and the most important thing was that it was his second baby, a young baby in his twenties who didn't grow crops and was idle every day! What's going on, is it true?
Although most people can't believe that how much gold can be born on the land they step on every day, Erwa and a group of people have been tossing at the Yangshu River Dam for more than a month, which is an indisputable fact that everyone knows. To buy so many materials, the wages of the workers had to be opened, and the main thing was that the second trough was started again, and a large number of timber purchases and labor were being recruited. A lot of information is gathered together to confirm the authenticity of the second baby!
These days, the sky is gloomy and gray, and it is solemn like a hailstone. But the air seemed to be wrapped in countless explosives, which would explode at any moment, and everyone's fields and after-dinner conversations seemed to have changed radically.
It all came so suddenly......
The second baby is also surnamed Mao, and her original name is Mao Peicheng. Usually the second is embarrassed, and the second baby has become his alias.
The second baby is rich, and there must be a few right-hand men, and Sanmao and Zhang Haicheng alone are not enough. Siwa was the first thing he considered.
The fourth baby is different, it is indeed the fourth oldest in the family, and even his old son calls him the fourth baby. He and Erwa are descendants of an elder and brothers, although they are three years older than Erwa, they are much bigger than Erwa. People are also real, and they are good at growing crops. He is not very old, the child is already two, and the eldest is eight years old. He belongs to the kind of people in the countryside who are not conservative but not very open, not ignorant but not very advanced in thinking.
Siwa's desire to get rich is not very big, but Erwa's recent actions are indeed a bit big in Qiu Yuanba and she has become a celebrity. Usually the fourth baby is not good to him, but he is not bad, they are all relatives, and they often get together when the family has something to do. The two of them have never quarreled or blushed, and they also helped the second baby fight twice when they were in school, but that time he beat Lao Tzu half to death, and now he still has palpitations.
The second baby told him what he meant, but after his wife played east and west, he felt unreliable again. The house will be built next year, the foundation has been chosen, and if something really goes wrong, he can't make money, and he can't stand it.
The second baby saw what the fourth baby was worried about, so she said: First give you half a year's salary in advance. Who doesn't do such a good thing, go back and tell his wife Zhang Yinyi, Zhang Yin doesn't say it in his mouth, but he is very comfortable in his heart, anyone will calculate this account, only make money and not lose money.
Zhang Yin is a native of the mountains, and marrying into the family of four children can be regarded as poverty alleviation. Thin and tall, with black hair, although due to the long-term teasing of the mountain sun, the face is a little dark, but because of the nature of laughing, a soft face does not have the indifference of rejecting people thousands of miles away, and the heart of the hook is numb. He was only eighteen years old when he married the fourth baby. She has a cheerful personality and speaks very aggressively, which is not the same as Siwa. In the village, I saw her dancing with a group of men and women, saying a word, while the fourth baby was smoking a cigarette on the side, occasionally talking to someone, but her eyes wandered on her.
Zhang Yin's first-hand cooking, who is happy in the village, is the top pick.
The second baby wants to cook, and the salary is not low, and the work in the field is also done, and there is nothing big for the parents of the fourth baby to help him, so Zhang Yin and the fourth baby have become a double worker.
The second baby has become a big boss, he is rich, and he is generous by nature. He gave Sanmao and Zhang Haiping half a share, and the bald Zhang side divided two shares. The shares between him and Bald Zhang have also undergone a fundamental change, from one-third of the shares in the first slot to reciprocal shares. This is mainly because Erwa is a local, and it is all said there, and there is no local intervention in these jobs, so I am afraid that there will be a lot of unexpected things happening. For Erwa, people bald Zhang knows the entire gold digging technology process well, although now the people of Erwa have some understanding of the gold digging process, but the core technology of Erwa can not be mastered, such as gold is a technically difficult job.
The golden sand on the door panel has to be separated from the sand and gold after being washed and filtered, although there is not much sand at this time, almost half of the gold, but all the sand must be separated from the gold, and the gold can be smelted and burned. This requires a special wooden basin, one after the other, dipped in water to push bumps in the water, so that the strength of the hand skillfully blends with the buoyancy of the water, so that the sand and gold can be separated naturally. Some of the gold is in the form of a surface, which can easily run away with the water, so it is necessary to wrap it in some mercury, and finally squeeze the mercury dry, and the gold will coalesce together. Finally, remove the miscellaneous seeds, knead them into a cake shape, master the heat and time, and in a few minutes the yellow and clear golden cake will be placed in front of you.
Gold digging is not only a technical job, it is simple to say that it is simple, and it is indeed complicated to say that it is complex. You and I can't imagine how complicated it will be in the future....