After Xia Hou used prospecting techniques to find the ore points in the front, he dug up the ones that were relatively shallow and close to the ground and cave walls, leaving those buried deeper in the mountain and no longer paying attention to them.

Fei Gongfu and Erdong do not have prospecting skills, they use the old method before, after selecting a place, regardless of the desperate digging, keep digging, dig to the mining point, that is lucky, even if you don't dig it, then continue to dig, so dig will always dig.

In the No. 9 mine, so many large and small branch tunnels were dug by this soil method.

However, Xiahou always went to the new area to dig shallow iron ore, which seriously affected Fei Gongfu and Erdong to dig iron ore in the same place, so that after they couldn't see Xiahou's figure, they had to leave the place where they were digging to catch up with Xiahou's pace.

Fei Gongfu and Erdong didn't dig much iron ore after digging for a long time, so they proposed: "There is no iron ore in this place, let's change places?" ”

With prospecting skills, it didn't matter where Xiahou went to dig iron ore, so under the leadership of Fei Gongfu, they returned to the main mine road and continued to move forward.

After going deeper, away from the area, they randomly found a branch mine and went in to dig iron ore.

Xiahou used the prospecting technique again to dig all the ore points on the surface of the branch road, and Fei Gongfu and Erdong, who were following behind, had just dug in a little, and when the ore points buried in the depths were about to be dug out, they couldn't see Xiahou in front of them, so they had to stop what they were doing and catch up with Xiahou.

This kind of thing happened many times, and finally after finding Xiahou in front again, Erdong couldn't bear it anymore, and roared at him: "Xiahou, let me tell you, mining requires perseverance, perseverance, and finding a place to keep digging to dig iron ore!" If you dig in the east and dig in the west, you will never be able to dig iron ore! ”

Hearing his words, Xiahou stopped the mine hoe, propped it on the ground, then bent down to pick up a piece of iron ore, handed it to Erdong, and then looked at him with big eyes.

Seeing Xia Hou hand him a piece of iron ore that had just been dug out, Er Dong was really angry in his heart, and scolded loudly: "You stepped on shit luck, and you just happened to be hit by your blind cat and hit a dead mouse." Look at you, half a day has passed, and you have only dug so little, if we were all digging in the same place just now, we would have dug it all up a long time ago. ”

Er Dong said as he put Xiahou's bamboo basket in front of him and showed him it, so that he could see clearly the dozens of scarce pieces of iron ore in his bamboo basket.

Seeing Erdong come out to reason and lay out the facts, Xiahou pulled the big bamboo basket from Erdong and put it in front of him to show himself, there were only a few pitiful pieces of iron ore in his own bamboo basket, and he dared to say that he had the confidence to come from.

Seeing that he didn't dig as much as Xiahou's, Erdong was suddenly speechless, if it wasn't for Xiahou to make trouble, how could he dig so little in half a day?

Seeing that Erdong and Xiahou had a quarrel, Fei Gongfu came up to persuade everyone to dissipate their anger and continue mining.

looked at the iron ore in the bamboo basket of Xiahou and Erdong, and then looked at his own bamboo basket, and compared with them, the situation was similar, and only a dozen pieces were dug in half a day.

Now, even if the iron ore of the three people is combined, there is only a small half basket, and it seems that today it is possessed by the god of decay, and it is impossible to make up enough baskets.

Thinking about how ridiculous it is to think about who to complete the task for first, and arguing with Erdong now.

At the current rate of iron ore, even if twenty lucky people like them were added to dig it, it would not be enough to make up ten baskets of iron ore.

Thinking of the time when I was alone before, I concentrated on digging in one place, although it took a little longer, but I dug a basket at all, but now three people are digging, but it is far from digging a basket, so it can't go on.

So, Fei Gongfu came out and said, "The second junior brother is right, the three of us are here to dig down to this place, don't run around." ”

At the beginning, they thought that Xiahou was lucky because they could dig iron ore with a hoe, so they let Xiahou take them to dig it.

But half a day has passed, and there is no increase in the iron ore in Xiahou's bamboo basket, it is still the same as at the beginning, and now they don't want to run around with Xiahou, they just want to go back to the old methods used in mining.

Of course, Xia Hou refused to dig deep in one direction, and purely relied on physical strength and luck to dig iron ore, he only wanted to dig those shallow ore points on the surface, and it was impossible to stay here to waste time with them.

So he said, "Senior brother, I have my own method, so let's do it, you stay here, and I'll go in and go around." ”

Fei Gongfu was just about to object, and wanted to persuade Xiahou that mining is an honest job, and not to be cheating and half-hearted, but Erdong was quick and immediately agreed with Xiahou's opinion.

"Senior brother, Xia Hou wants to use his own method, let's go with him, wait for him to dig less than iron ore for a day, and tomorrow he will be obedient, dig honestly, let him go today." Erdong said.

Since Xiahou and Erdong both have this opinion, Fei Gongfu will no longer block it, and let Xiahou enter the depths of the mine by himself, while they stay here to concentrate on mining.

After Xiahou left, after a long time, Fei Gongfu and Erdong dug a half-meter-deep mine hole on the side of the mine road, and at the same time, their bamboo basket was also full.

When the opportunity came, Erdong said to Fei Gongfu: "Senior brother, this basket is full, you go and hand in the task." ”

The reason why he agreed to Xia Hou to act alone just now was that he wanted Fei Gongfu to find Xia Hou for the time being, and then hand over the task himself.

Fei Gongfu refused: "No, I'm not in a hurry to go out, and I promised to let you and Xiahou complete the task first, but now that Xiahou is not here, you should hand over this basket." ”

"Senior brother, there is not much time left today, there is too much time wasted just now, I estimate that we will not be able to dig ten baskets today, and we may only be able to dig nine baskets. If I go to hand it in, it will be wasted, none of us can finish it, today is busy in vain, and these iron ores are also dug in vain. And senior brother, you have already handed over a basket, which can just be completed, and we will not waste a day's hard work in digging iron ore. In order to let Fei Gongfu go out a day earlier, Erdong persuaded him bitterly.

Fei Gongfu said while mining: "Second junior brother, you have made progress in arithmetic, you can even calculate how much iron ore we can dig, when did you learn this ability?" ”

Erdong smiled dryly: "This ...... Intuition, intuition, my intuition has always been accurate, and I feel like we can only dig up ten baskets at most today, including the one that Senior Brother handed in before. ”

"Then keep digging, I'll see if your instincts are right." Fei Gongfu said.