Four people came out of the back room with a large yellow bucket in the shape of a pig's kidney, and placed it in the courtyard.

Li Dequan is a frequent visitor to this house, and he knows that this yellow bucket is a family heirloom of Li Zaihao's family, and the wood used to make the yellow bucket was made by Li Zaihao with Li Jiashan's unique golden silk nan wood. In addition to the New Year's holidays, the family can use this yellow bucket to bathe, usually, only the new daughter-in-law and newborn babies can use it.

Li Dequan saw that the yellow bucket was brought out, but Li Zaihao was still silent, he wanted to go up to help, but he couldn't figure out the purpose of Li Zaihao, and he couldn't intervene for a while, so he had to continue to sit on the bench, smoking a cigarette, and looking at Li Zaihao.

After a while, Li Dequan saw Li Zaihao scoop up the brown socks he had been rubbing for a while from the wooden basin, put them on the ground, and reached out to carry the wooden basin again. Li Dequan hurriedly stood up, put the cigarette pot in his waist, and stepped forward to help him hold the wooden basin.

With Li Dequan's help, Li Zaihao still didn't stop, and he and Li Dequan carried the wooden basin to the edge of the rhubarb bucket. He asked Li Dequan to continue to hold on to the wooden basin, he covered the edge of the wooden basin with the palm of one hand, carefully tilted the wooden basin gently with the other hand, and then slowly filtered the water from the skin of the wooden basin through the gap between his fingers into the rhubarb bucket.

At this time, Li Dequan looked at Li Zaihao's actions curiously, and understood everything. He cooperated with Li Zaihao to gently filter the water on the surface of the wooden basin to Li Zaihao's palm, and the water in the wooden basin gradually flowed out, and only a layer of fine sand was precipitated under the wooden basin, but the fine sand was densely covered with some shiny little dots, and the yellow cancan was very beautiful.

Lee Dequan saw Lee Jae-ho use his trembling right hand to carefully cut open the layer of fine sand left under the wooden basin, and use his thick fingers to pick out a yellow thing the size of a pumpkin seed from the fine sand.

Li Hushi stood beside her, her heart was in her throat, and she blurted out: "Melon seed gold!" ”

"There are so many 'Jin Feifei'!" Li Degui's wife also couldn't help but scream beside her.

Li Zaihao's face finally showed a smile, he didn't raise his head, and said to Li Degui: "Take out your straw sandals and take a look." ”

Li Chongrong stood next to him and heard his grandfather instructing his father, and without waiting for his father to do it, he happily followed his grandfather's example, and helped his father scoop up the straw sandals from the wooden basin, and filtered the water on the surface of the wooden basin into the yellow bucket. ，

Li Zaihao raised his head and said to Li Dequan with a smile: "That's right, the pit they dug is 'red'!" ”

Li Dequan knows his father's mind best, and he will smile heartily.

Li Degui understood a little, and he secretly wondered: "Jinkeng is 'red' or not 'red', what does it have to do with our family?" The Xie family has led all the water from panning for sand gold to their territory, even if we have a gold pit, there is nowhere to find a water source to pan for sand gold? No matter how good the gold pit is sold to the Xie family, they will only give you ten oceans. We might as well get the 'ebony' out and carry it up the hill and give him the gold pit to be destroyed!" ”

Li Degui was thinking like this in his heart, and before he could say it, he heard his father still say to him with interest: "The pair of straw sandals you wore walked on the mountain road for a day, and there are still a few 'Jin Feifei'. The brown socks on your feet are not directly in the sand of the gold pit, and there are 'melon seed gold' on them. Think about it, how much sand gold is in that pit of yours? As soon as I heard you say that there was 'ebony' in the golden pit, I knew that you had come across a 'golden nest'. Later, when I heard you say that the 'ebony' was toon wood, I was even more convinced that there was sand gold in it. ”

"Grandpa, why did you guess so accurately?" Li Chongrong's eyes widened and he asked curiously.

"Don't you know the truth of 'Jin Kemu'? Wherever there is 'ebony' buried, there will definitely be sand gold, but not more, and there is less! He happily answered the question of his younger grandson, then turned back to look at his nephew and son, and said to them: "You should also know that where wood can sink into deep water, there must be a 'backwater tuo', and only when the flood whirlpools there can a big tree sink." Think about it, if the flood whirls there, why can't you spin up the sand and gold in the river and bury it underneath? What's more, it's still a 'toon wood'! ”

Lee Jae-ho watched the family listen to it fascinated, and became even more interested. He took a puff of dry tobacco and spat out a mouthful of phlegm.

Lee Jae-ho continued: "Do you know what kind of wood the Xie family's 'gold shake bed' (a tool for panning for sand gold) is made of? ”

Although Li Dequan knew, he didn't say anything.

Li Degui and his mother, sister-in-law, wife and son didn't know, they all shook their heads, looked at Li Zaihao in confusion, and listened to him say proudly: "You don't know, do you? They are made of 'toon wood'. Only 'toon wood' is the easiest to get sand gold, so the old 'gold customers' use 'toon wood' to make 'gold beds' to shake sand gold. The sand was washed away, but the gold was stained on the 'toon wood'. I suppose there must be a lot of sand gold under the feet of that 'toon wood' you dug! ”

When Li Zaihao said this, he still looked a little dignified. He said to his son without doubt: "You hurry up and carry the four "sandwiched backs" with Chongrong to the bottom of the mountain now, and don't delay for a moment. After arriving at the bottom of the mountain, you and your second brother and their two masters put the gold sand around the 'toon wood' in the gold pit in the back basket, and don't want anything else, and immediately carry it to the mountain. Later, I will also take people down the mountain with your eldest brother Dequan, and carry back as much gold sand as you can from the gold pit you dug. ”

When Li Degui heard what his father said, he didn't come back to his senses for a while, and stood there stunned without moving.

Li Zaihao looked at the twilight, and yelled at Li Degui angrily: "Don't go quickly!" ”

Li Degui heard his father urging him, so he hurriedly ran into the house with his son Li Chongpin, and ran out with two "clip backs" on his back.

When Li Hu saw this, he hurriedly called out to them in pain, and handed over to Li Degui the two packets of cooked bacon wrapped in banana leaves, baogu baba and a gourd of liquor that he had just taken out of the back room. Distressedly, he said to him: "Dry food is brought on the road, and you eat as you go." When I got to the bottom of the mountain, I drank a few sips with the boss and the two of them, and the body was ambiguous, which can be regarded as a New Year! ”

Li Degui's wife also hurriedly found a pair of brown socks and a pair of straw sandals from the house, and urged Li Degui coquettishly: "Hurry up and put them on." ”

The wife of the eldest Li Debao heard her father-in-law ask Li Degui and his son to carry four "clamp backs" down the mountain, and knew that her man and son would also carry gold sand when they came back. She hurriedly went into the house to find four "back mats" and four "beating pestles" and handed them to Li Chongrong, and said to him: "You take this with you, carry things, and walk such a long mountain road, without these two things, how can you do it?" ”

Li Zaihao looked at his wife and two daughters-in-law chattering, listened to their nagging, and knew that they were distressed by the four men, and his eyes couldn't help but turn a little red.