In the late eighties, an unprecedented and rare gold rush will kick off in this little-known remote town, and at the same time there will be unprecedented and + earth-shaking changes in the place, and everyone here will be baptized and psychologically fissioned like never before......

Qiu Yuanba is a remote, poor and backward township. The mountain is deep and the traffic is inconvenient, and the only advantage is that the vegetation on the mountain is very good, and the spring flowers are in full bloom, and they are lush everywhere. Most of them are sloping land, and the crops grown in the countryside are slash-and-burn, and the year's harvest is not only to provide for the basic living needs of their own families and fill the stomachs of their families, but there is no surplus food at the end of the year.

A river divides the township almost in half, and the houses are all over the front and back of the hills, hidden among the trees or perched on top of the hills. Generations have lived here, and feelings are in the blood. Although I often hear people say how the outside world is different, not many people want to see it, because they have long been accustomed to this kind of life, in the eyes of most people, this is the world, and the world is here.

The second baby was born in Xiangyang Village. Xiangyang Village is actually not sunny at all, on the contrary, it is still damp and the sunshine time is very short, perhaps it is people's yearning and expectation of sunshine that gave it such a name.

His parents gave birth to two girls and a boy, and he was the youngest child. There is a saying in the countryside: the emperor loves the eldest son, and the people love the younger son. After graduating from junior high school, he basically didn't go uphill to do farm work, and he had nothing to do with cutting wheat, breaking grains, and planting buckwheat, but the small shops on the village street were the places he had to go to every day. Sitting on a small wooden bench in front of the shop, drinking beer, chewing peanuts and basking in the sun, it seems that he never thought about the two sisters and their parents at this time, sweating like rain. His father scolded and scolded, beat and beaten, and even drove him out of the house, and said all kinds of cruel words, but it had no effect. My father, who was in his fifties, also thought: If you want to do a big thing, you have to do a big thing, go for it! It's up to you to live or die. Hey, who's calling him that?

Erwa went abroad for two years after leaving junior high school, but she didn't seem to find any feeling, and she didn't get a penny back when she went home. He always felt that his future was not far away, and the barren land under his feet was the destination of his career.

But here you can see the mountains when you look up, and where you look down at the water, our ancestors have been fighting against the land for generations, and everyone has riveted their strength all year round, but they only fight for very little food from God.

Career, where is the career? The second baby is also very confused. He always felt that there was a fire burning in his heart, and he sometimes fidgeted, and sometimes even imagined that the legendary Inhumans would jump up to the top of the mountain, and use his strange vision to see what kind of wealth these endless mountains and forests and vast lands could bring, and then change the poverty here for generations.

He had lived here for more than twenty years, he was twenty-four years old, and it was long overdue for him to get married and have children. But the family conditions are average, and few people give him a matchmaker. His parents also wanted him to start a family as soon as possible, so that he could regain his mind and not be confused all day long. But there is always no suitable one, either he is suspicious of others or others are disgusted with him.

On this day, the second baby seemed to have something to do, so after eating at home, she gave her eldest sister a word and asked her childhood friends Sanmao and Zhang Haiping to go to the street. Usually people here go to the street to catch the market are carrying a basket and walking 20 miles to the street, today is lucky, just out of the village not far away, I met the harrier Ping living Yan Lao four and his family rushed to the tractor to take off. Yan Laosi is a native of Sichuan, and he has all the shining qualities of Sichuan people: hardworking, not afraid of hardship, and flexible brain.

The two of them not only made the crops beautiful, but also did a prosperous small business. At the beginning, I used to collect some chickens from various villages to buy them on the street, and now I also collect some other pepper fungus or something, and I also bought a tractor, which can be regarded as a sign of capital growth. He has a daughter, and it is said that he is a little interesting with the second baby, but this is impossible, Yan Laosi will never allow his daughter to have a relationship with such an unscrupulous person.

Erwa got off the tractor and Sanmao went straight to the Yangshu River Dam. The Poplar River Dam is a river beach 2 kilometers away from Xiangjie. There is an old poplar tree on the river beach that is said to be hundreds of years old, hence the name. There is a deep pool next to the poplar tree, which is said to be several feet deep, and people have drowned.

The locals use wooden planks to nail some so-called 'shaking gold gates', and when they have nothing to do, they can take the sand from the skin and sift the gold, and if they are lucky, they can make half a gram and a gram in two or three days. That's a lot, and the price of gold at that time was 40 yuan a gram.

There seems to be another person today, who is definitely not more than 1.6 meters tall, with a big head and a thick waist, and a beard on the upper mouth that seems to be stained with a pinch of weeds. Half of his head is almost hairless, and he looks like fifty, but he is actually only forty years old. The voice is very loud, the confidence is very strong, although the height is not high, but the opening is enough to overwhelm everything.

This one came from the other side of the river to tread water, came to Erwa's side, and after tidying up the trouser legs that he had pulled up when crossing the river, he shouted at Erwa with a Hubei accent close to Sichuan: What are you asking for, I've been turning around on the other side of the river for a long time.

Sorry, sorry. The second baby has never been so polite. Erwa specially bought a pack of jade cigarettes today, and handed it over as she spoke. The second baby is thin, not much taller than this one, but her well-proportioned figure, coupled with her decent dress although she doesn't spend much money, standing with this brother is much more visible.

Not far away, two old men who were panning for gold at the 'Shake Scattered Gate' had cigarettes in their mouths and glanced straight at Erwa, who shouted at them: Look at it, shake your gold. All of them are a brigade and often meet. Although we all know that Erwa is notoriously idle, she is not a bad person, except for fighting with others twice and entering the police station twice when she just graduated from junior high school, she is not bad. It's also reasonable.,What should people be called.,The action is not slow at all.,On the contrary, it's very capable like a monkey.。

What exactly did they say when they met with that, Ermao and Zhang Haiping didn't know.

On the way home, Erwa told Sanmao and Zhang Haiping that the person he saw just now was called Bald Zhang, the boss he was introduced by his classmates in the county that time, he was rich, killed pigs and sold pork, and is now the director of the meat factory. He pays for it, we work for it, and we dig for gold. Ermao and Zhang Haiping were a little puzzled, digging for gold? Since ancient times, haven't they all used wooden boards to nail a wooden bed to wash gold? How else can you dig? Erwa told them that these Hubei people have a whole set of gold panning methods, and the gold in the sand is all into gold threads, and they can chase along the gold threads, and they can also take all the gold in a certain place to the greatest extent.

Although Ermao and Zhang Haiping didn't know what Erwa's cloud was, they seemed to see the bright gold flowing in front of their eyes as far as Erwa's depiction of the bright prospects......

Erwa collected wood at the entrance of Xiangyang Village, and wanted to recruit 5 workers to work in the river dam, which spread in less than two hours in Xiangyang Village.

Erwa also pasted the specifications of the wooden boards and pillars on the back wall of the house at the entrance of the village, and there is no shortage of these things in this place. Generally, the wood is collected by the rich people on the street in small quantities, and it is used for roasting or banquets in winter, and having such a way to earn cash is definitely a good thing for Xiangyang Village, which was closed to traffic and inconvenient information at that time. However, many people are still skeptical, not only about things, but also about people.

But it was okay to try, and the next day someone cut down the green pole trees around his house, sawed them into boards and carried them to the mouth of the ditch as required.

As a result, to everyone's surprise, the second baby not only paid the money in full, but also gave more money. Three days later, the second baby posted a notice: it will be over for the time being, and it will be collected in 20 days.

Twenty days later, Erwa will still have to harvest timber, and because of the previous transaction, some people can basically believe this fact. Although everyone in the village doubted the origin of his money, after all, they did not owe anyone anything. All of a sudden, the sound of tinkling on several mountains could be seen everywhere every day, and soon the groves in front of and behind the houses lost their original lushness like sparsely haired heads, and were cut into sections by the villagers and sawn into piles of material.

Erwa took the planks and pillars she collected, found two tractors and transported them to the Yangshu River Dam for three days. On this day, Bald Zhang also brought a few people, and the 5 people from the same village who were looking for the second baby started to work together.

The bald Zhang led the command to dig sand and transport stones, and Erwa was responsible for setting up wires and drawing electricity. Because this job requires workers to work in shifts and 24 hours a day, lighting is the primary condition. In addition to the 5,000 yuan of wood collected for Erwa at the beginning, Bald Zhang also gave Erwa 1,000 wires, and Erwa is a local, which is convenient for dredging relationships. Buying a line, looking for an electrician, looking for a power supply station, it cost two cigarettes, and the road also ran a lot.

At this time, the second baby acted like a train without brakes, and there was absolutely no laziness at the beginning.

People, sometimes that's the case, maybe one or two things that can move him in his life and make him excited, grasp it, it is wonderful, and if it slips away, it is a regret that can never be recovered!

Although the weather in September was cool, the second baby was sweating hot, and her face was much more ruddy than usual. Before 6 o'clock in the evening, the electric rack turned on the light and pressed it, and everything was ready. Build a shed and set up camp. Move two larger stones, that is, the stove, and the large wooden board is laid as a board, and you can make a fire for cooking. Cooking is Sanmao's strength, this work Sanmao can be done, and people with fat heads and big ears generally like to engage in food.

The bald Zhang commanded the group of people who were looking for Erwa to dig a ditch to change the river, because the water would not rise in winter, and the river volume was small, so they only needed to dig a deep ditch on the side of the dam before they started to redirect the river. At that time, due to traffic and various inconveniences, Qiu Yuanba lacked modern equipment like the current excavator, and the whole process was completed by manpower.

On this side of the river, you need to remove the sand and gravel on the top, commonly known as 'barren sand', because there is no gold there. The bald men belong to the craftsmen, and when the sand pit is dug to a certain extent, four thick pillars are erected at the four corners of the pit, and two pieces of wood are placed between the four pillars, and the wooden planks are arranged in order on the edge of the transverse pillars after the death is fixed with wire and steel claws, and the sand and gravel that rolls down around are blocked by the wooden boards, and the four pillars form a mutual support, and the wooden pillars and planks form a square and solid wooden frame, which is convenient for digging sand. Then make a wooden ladder, the worker wears a raincoat, rain pants, rain boots, and takes the golden sand underneath and carries it to the top through the wooden ladder with a special back. At that time, the peasants were desperate to earn money without going far away, even though the water in their backs flowed down their raincoats like raindrops to their heels.

The older the model, the easier and less problematic it is, and while this gold panning model is the first of its kind here, it may have been in operation elsewhere for years and has been improved.

The method of gold laundering brought by Bald Zhang is no longer one person shaking the bamboo basket by hand, and the other person flushing water from above, so that the golden sand flows to the wooden door through the impact of water, and through the horizontal wooden strips nailed to the wooden door, in order to achieve the purpose of leaving gold and removing sand, but changing the inefficient and long-interval manpower scooping water into a water pump. The wooden doors have also been replaced with ones that are twice as large as before. These are quite outdated for today's people, but Qiu Yuanba was very advanced at that time.

According to Bald Zhang's confession, no outsiders are allowed to enter the gold digging site, and no one is allowed to watch the gold washing and smelting process except for him and Erwa. In the end, it turned out to be how forward-looking and controllable this regulation was.