The Xie family will not pay for the pit you dug, let alone give you a penny.

Although this is a very unfair deal, there are still many people who come to dig the gold pit. Because people are poor and life is not easy in these years, many people have to rely on this work in order to exchange some hard-earned money to support their families.

Li Debao also saw that the New Year was approaching, so he hid from his father, took his younger brother and his son, and secretly went to Jinxi Dam to dig a gold pit, thinking about earning a few cash and having a little more freedom during the New Year. As everyone knows, they inadvertently found these two rare "ebony" in the golden pit, and they were both happy and afraid. The joy is that the blessing fell from the sky, and found these two unavoidable "ebony", and what is more unexpected is that the material of these two "ebony" is still unusually good, one is one in a hundred "toon wood", and one is a rare "golden silk nanmu". The three of them were afraid of long nights and dreams, and they were worried that the people of the Xie family would know that not only would the cooked duck fly, but also that if they didn't do it well, they would get into trouble. So they have not dared to speak out to the outside world, and they have not dared to ask people to help dig up. The three of them got up early and worked hard in the dark for more than 20 days, and now they finally dug up the "ebony" and showed it, and Li Chongkui was unwilling to stop there.

After Li Chongkui discovered these two "ebony woods", he heard that his father and second uncle had discussed, and they planned to use the "toon wood" to honor Li Chongkui's grandfather and grandmother, and make a mouthful of "longevity wood" for each of the two old people. Then take that "golden silk nanmu" to make a few decent pieces of furniture, and leave it there for Li Chongkui and his cousin Li Chongrong to use when they get married.

This is also the choice that the people of Lijiashan live in the depths of the mountains, and there is really no choice. For those men who live in places with cheap transportation to marry their wives, the woman brings a complete set of furniture to make a dowry for the bride, and carries the furniture to the man's house with the bride to the church to marry. However, the people of Lijiashan, because they had to respect the legacy of their ancestors, took the initiative to cut off the connection with Jinxiba and Lianghekou in the south, and the marriage of men and women could only be chosen in Shaanxi and Gansu in the north. In those two places, there is little vegetation and wood is scarce, and the people of Lijiashan and the people there talk about marriage, not only to buy a set of furniture for their daughters, but also to prepare a set of furniture in the new house of their in-laws. It is for this that many families with handsome daughters in Shaanxi and Gansu are willing to marry their daughters to Lijiashan. Li Chongkui and his second uncle's son Li Chongrong are both eighteen or nineteen-year-old young men, so there is no reason not to think about buying furniture.

Li Debao looked at his son's energetic appearance, understood his thoughts, and did not persuade much, turned around and continued to move the bamboo pole in his hand, and slowly hung up the basket of gravel that his son had packed in the pit.

After about two bags of cigarettes, Li Debao heard his son cry out in surprise below: "Dad, come down and take a look!" Dig to the bottom! ”

Li Debao knew that his son Li Chongkui had already pulled out the "ebony", so he jumped down in response. He saw two "ebony" lying in the golden pit, covered with fist-sized holes, just like the dragon scales on Wolong's body, although they had not been pushed, they also looked black and smooth. This is the characteristic of "ebony", which has been soaked by the river for hundreds or thousands of years and washed by sand and gravel, and the appearance of the wood has been ground into large and small round pits. The more and larger the round pits, the deeper and longer the wood is buried underwater, the higher the degree of carbonization of the "ebony" and the better the material.

Under the golden pit, Li Debao saw the two "ebony" and was overjoyed. He squatted down and carefully looked at the two "ebony woods": one was about two feet long, "Guoxin" (the meaning of diameter), black and red, obviously a "toon wood", which was the best material for making "longevity wood". The other one is slightly smaller, much lighter than the "ebony" made of "toon", and it is not as black as the other "ebony", it is distinctively woody. If you hadn't seen it out of the ground with your own eyes, and you could have seen that it had so many holes in its appearance, you wouldn't have believed that it was an "ebony". Li Debao was pleasantly surprised, and now this wood is the "ebony" made of the precious "golden silk nanmu"!

Li Debao's father and son were so happy that they couldn't close their mouths. He climbed out of the gold pit to see if the person he invited back to his younger brother Li Degui had arrived. A cold wind blew, blowing the sand and dust all over the sky, and Li Debao couldn't help but squint. The barmao bush behind him was also blown to the east and west, and the ghostly figure hidden in it took advantage of the gust of wind to tiptoe up and quietly slipped towards the outside of the barmao. But the figure was still careless, startling a wild duck sheltering from the wind.

Li Debao suddenly saw a wild duck fluttering its heavy body and scurrying over from the mouth of the pit. In normal times, with his skills, he can easily pick up the "open flame gun" placed next to him, and make a cloud of iron sand, and it will be strange if he doesn't hit it right! But now he ran under his nose for the two "ebonys" in front of him, not to mention a wild duck, a hare, a wild sheep, a wild boar, or even a roe deer, and he didn't want to shoot to alarm the Xie family.

It was already dusk, and Li Debao had not yet seen the people brought by his younger brother appear. He stood on top of the golden pit against the "whirring" north wind, kept raising his head, and looked in the direction of Lijiashan, but he still couldn't see or hear anything.

"Dad, it's windy up there, and there's no way to live, so come down and rest for a while!" His son, Li Chongkui, was under the golden pit and shouted to his father with concern.

"You take a breath down there first!" Li Debao stretched out his head to look down and said to his son: "I'm still guarding above, in case the Xie family's people come, I'll send them away as soon as possible." ”

Li Debao is really tired. He has been working for more than 20 days in a row since he dug the gold pit at Xiahe Dam, and he stayed up all night from yesterday to today. He tried to sit down and smoke a cigarette, but he took out the fire sickle and touched it several times, and the sparks were blown away by the wind. He had no choice but to put away his cigarette pouch and continue to look in the direction of Li Jiashan.

At this moment, the figure of the dragon who was hiding in the Bamao bush just now was hurriedly running towards the Xie family's compound in Jinxiba.