After everyone walked the mountain road for this time, Chen Zhi and the others didn't feel too tired, but the injured Humeng and Old Somersault were obviously exhausted, and they pushed open the doors of those wooden houses, wanting to go in and rest for a while.

These wooden houses are all a specification, simple triangular roof, each about 50 square meters, the environment inside is not bad, the floor and wall ceiling are all made of teak, very durable and warm in winter and cool in summer.

But presumably for fear of causing a fire, there was no stove in the middle of the house, only some benches and sofas for resting, and in the surrounding cabinets, they also found a large number of canned water......

"We'll only have to rest here......" Humeng said, pulling out the jugs and gesturing out the window.

"After passing here, there is a gem mine base in front of you, and there is no place to rest......"

Fat Wei found some cups in the partition next to him, and then poured water into them and took a sip.

"I said you kid, are you accurate?

I just said that I came here once, or more than ten years ago~~~, how do you know that there is no place to rest inside? ”

"You don't know ...... this", Humeng said to Fat Wei seriously,

"Our colored gemstone mine has been passed down for countless generations from ancient times to the present, and is it thousands of years or more now? We don't know ~~~~

But this gem mine is still the most primitive mining process, and the miners work very hard, and you will know when you go in~~~"

After Humeng finished speaking, he beckoned everyone to come and drink water, and specially handed a cup to Lao Kutu and asked him to come and rest with everyone.

They drank some water from the wooden house, paused for a moment, and then moved on......

In front of the wooden house, there was a small dirt slope, and after climbing a dirt slope, they finally saw the legendary Mongolian colored gem mining area!

It's just that the scene in this mining area is a mess now, full of wet loess and muddy flow, and there are some lunch boxes for miners to eat next to the muddy water, and there are cutlery on them~~~

It seems that as Humeng just said, the workers of this gem mine are very hard, and they have always been in a closed state, without contact with the outside world, and all the mining processes are all using the most primitive methods.

They didn't stop long, they continued to walk, and every other distance they could see a ditch full of muddy water, and in it was a dustpan wrapped in gauze, and it seemed that there should have been a lot of workers sifting through the stones, a bit like the scene of panning for gold in the old movie, but now these workers are gone.

But there are still a lot of small broken stones sifted out of those dustpans, most of which are transparent gravel, and there are not many colored ones.

"It's not so easy to mine a good colored gemstone ......",

As he walked, Humeng said to them:

"You may think that we, the children of the family, have not learned anything since we were children, only know how to eat, drink and have fun~~~

In fact, we have learned mining technology since we were very young, but the techniques we learn are very traditional and more suitable for our family's ~~~

For example, if we want to mine gems in this mountain range, we need to use a plow to loosen the mountain, and then use water to wash the shaved soil and stones, and then use the water to wash the concrete stone, and then use artificial sucking into such a large trough, on which the staff will sweep away the large stones in time.

The remaining muddy water will be mixed with ores containing gems, which will precipitate under the muddy water, and after double precipitation, only muddy water and small broken gems will flow out.

The dustpans wrapped in gauze before, were tools for digging small treasures in muddy water.

In this process, all of them must be operated by hand, and no machine can be used at all, which is a hardship that ordinary people can't do.

As you may have discovered, there is no electricity in this land, and there is no machinery in any modern society......

Colored gemstones are a gift left to us by the ancestral gods, machines and gasoline will defile this sacred earth, and the ancestors will blame us, so we can only use our hands for generations to mine the treasures left to us by the gods~~~

I once saw my uncle, who was still standing in the muddy water with both feet soaked, and the villagers of this village were very rich but also worked very hard! ”

"Hey, I said Humeng~~~, if you really don't use any machines in this mine, how did you find the ore veins?" ，

Fat Wei said with some incomprehension:

"Could it be that your ancestors left you some treasure maps or something? Tell you where there are gem mines? ”

"How can there be such a good thing?" ，

Humeng shook his head and said with a wry smile:

"Finding these gem veins is another complicated process......

As I told you just now, we can't use any modern instruments and equipment here, and rely on primitive labor and simple tools~~~~

There will always be a time when the veins will be exhausted, and we need to find new veins~~~

When we are looking for a new vein, we first dig an earth well from the top of the mountain, generally dozens of meters into it, and then use wood to build a ladder down, people can go down to see the changes in soil quality, and then dig deeper and deeper~~~

The veins are distributed in bands, so as long as you find the veins passing through, you can roughly know how deep the soil is to dig down.

Strangely, the deeper the veins of colored gemstones are, the more brilliant the color of the gems becomes.

Therefore, some of our high-end goods are mined in extremely deep underground mines.

An eight-kilogram piece of material was dug up here, and a large colored gemstone was produced. The gem was the size of a baby's head. 77 brilliant colors were released, each of which could not be painted with current paint, and was even more beautiful than the eyes of an angel.

The huge gem was later split in two and made into two easter eggs, one for an important Russian figure and the other for an American noblewoman!

And it was from that time that our Mongolia, which got out of the meaningless Second War, got peace, and our small country with a sparse population was able to maintain until now. ”

"So that's how ......", fat and listening to Humeng's introduction, he was a little moved.

"Dude, I really misunderstood you before, I thought you were a golden second generation who only knew how to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, it turned out that he cared so much about the fate of the nation, admired and admired~~~, I really ...... a model for me"

"But this kind of thing has pros and cons......",

Humon continued:

"The higher the quality of the gemstone, the more you have to dig deep into the ground~~~, which is easy to cause people's greed~~~

I heard that when my uncle was alive in the past, he also tried to use high-tech instruments to detect the situation underground, and wanted to dig deeper~~~~

But I was slapped twice by my grandfather and banned from eating for a week!!

My grandfather said that my uncle was too greedy to give the family into his hands in the future.

He also told me that in the future, when I take over the mine, I must not be like my uncle and trespass the rules laid down by my ancestors.

When you dig to a certain depth, you have to stop, and no matter how tempting the gems in the ground are, you can't detect what lies underneath......"