Obviously, this "contractor" Boss Mai is a somewhat cultured person, a brew of Pu'er tea was washed by him mellow and silky, and the entrance is as smooth as milk, of course, this tea is good tea, but if you want to brew it at will, it is categorically not such a stable taste.

"Good tea!" I drank a cup of Pu'er in three sips, and saw that there were still a few traces of the tea soup hanging on the wall on the white porcelain cup.

"Oh? Boss Zang understands tea? Boss Mai raised his hand and poured me another glass.

"I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, I just have the habit of drinking tea since I was a child, so I drank it for a long time, and I don't dare to boast if I want to understand, but today's pot of Pu'er, the color is like blood amber, the face is golden, and the throat is like silk sliding, not only the tea is good, but Boss Mai's control of this water is also indispensable." That's not my flattery.

"Hahaha, Boss Zang doesn't look very old at this age, he understands so much, it's not easy." Boss Mai made up tea for several other people.

"Okay, I've drunk this tea too, can Boss Mai tell me the inside news?" Jin Facai drank it all in another gulp, wiped his chin and urged.

I saw Boss Mai stand up, walked to the door of the room and looked out, and then gently closed the door. Turned back to the sofa and sat down, and said in a very low voice: "I also heard what the other side of the street said about this matter, as for whether it can be trusted, then I can't pack a ticket." ”

"On the other side of the street?" I asked.

Ah Bao hurriedly explained: "Oh, the other end of the street is the other end of this China-Myanmar Street, which is divided into two sections, one in China is called Friendship Street, and the other in Myanmar is Baixiang Street, which I told you about in the afternoon." The other end of the street that Boss Mai said is White Elephant Street. ”

Ah Hu continued: "Boss Mai's wife is Burmese, so they opened two shops on this street, and Boss Mai is in charge of this place, and his wife is in charge of the shop at the other end. Not far either. ”

"Oh, I see. It doesn't matter, whether it's true or not, it's better to say it first. I stretched out my hand and motioned for Boss Mai to continue.

Boss Mai lowered his voice and continued: "I won't talk about those folk rumors of gods and ghosts, I'll just talk about my father-in-law - oh, he has a mine in Myanmar and has a lot of contacts with people from the government army - the information he got from him should be more credible, but this matter is still kept secret from the outside world, so you have heard the math and can't say it." ”

"Boss Mai met us for the first time, and he dared to tell us about such a confidential matter, which is really righteous!" Jin Facai said as if boasting, and handed a cigarette to Boss Mai.

I knew in my heart that Jin Facai's sentence was flattering on the surface, but it was actually reminding me that the "inside information" that was so easy to tell me was suspicious, or rather, it was a little contemptuous of Boss Mai's tone. What kind of experience Jin Facai has, although he is not very old, he is also the old rivers and lakes of the three eastern provinces. At this time, there will be no ambiguity.

It's just that Boss Mai took the cigarette, lit the fire with a smile, took a puff and said: "This matter has been pressed by me for several months, and I have never told anyone. However, Brother Leopard said that Boss Zang was a master who knew yin and yang spells, so I thought about it before I took the initiative to agree to entertain tonight's dinner. To tell you the truth, I also have something to ask for today, so I will take this news out, which is considered to be a deal with you, I don't know what to say, is Boss Jin relieved? ”

This Boss Mai is really an old Jianghu, he heard the sound of Jin Facai, and he also threw out his words of asking for something along the way, it seems that today's dinner is really quite rich.

"Foreman Bao, I said that you are such a picky person, why did you take the initiative to invite you to dinner today, it turns out that you have a small abacus after a long time?" Ah Leopard teased with a smile.

"Hey, hey, hey, we're small businessmen, we have big risks, thin profits, and we don't do anything at a loss." After Boss Mai finished speaking, he glanced at me intentionally or unintentionally.

"What I said is that Boss Mai is straight to the point, so it's easier to talk about. Let's do one thing at a time, if I can help, I will help. "Now that I've said it, I won't say anything more.

"Okay, then I'll take Master Zang as a promise, then I'll rest assured. So I'll start by giving you a rough idea of what you want to know. I can't guarantee whether it's true or not. But it must have come from within, I can assure you. Boss Mai poured us tea again, and began to tell the story of what he had received from the old man on the other side of the street.

"I don't know what the name of the person you are talking about, I only know that his surname is Li, not a local, and I don't know how he got into that temporarily recruited porter. As for why the others died soon after they came out, but he didn't, then I don't know even more......"

"Hey, you have to get it, I don't know anything, so what kind of inside information did you hear?" Jin Facai didn't wait for Boss Mai to finish speaking, and then interrupted him.

"Don't worry, don't worry, Boss Jin, this person is not an important role, the important thing is that there is a big article behind this matter!" Boss Mai smiled, pressed his palm against Jin Facai, raised his eyebrows, and showed a smug smile, as if the next story was the part he felt had more weight.

Long story short, the whole rumor goes something like this:

As we all know, the Hpakant region of Myanmar is rich in jadeite, and the high-quality jadeite produced in the whole region accounts for more than half of the production of the whole Myanmar.

Initially, this place was discovered thanks to a great general of the Chinese expedition to the frontier, whose name is unknown, and the Burmese built a temple in the Lemak Gong area to enshrine his statue, that is, to commemorate the great hero who led the locals to discover the treasure.

The value of jadeite in the Lema Gong area is very high, which has led a large number of wealthy Burmese businessmen to spend huge sums of money to buy equipment to recruit miners, and go there in droves to mine. However, in recent years, after the government imposed a ban on mining, several major mines were directly controlled by the military, and due to the large demand of the consumer market dominated by Chinese, and the supply was deliberately reduced by the military, the politicians intentionally or unintentionally issued the specious remark that "jadeite minerals are exhausted" at this time, which directly led to the soaring price of jadeite wool.

In this environment, private miners tried every means to collude with the military, and even if they could get a little trouble in one or two mines, the windfall profits they earned were enough to last a few lifetimes, except for most of the windfall profits.

This Boss Mai is because his father-in-law is one of those miners who cooperate with the military, when Boss Mai first entered the industry, he would often snarn cheap labor in the border trade area and smuggle to the mining area to help his old father-in-law transport some rough stones to Baixiang Street, so after a long time, the nickname of the foreman of this package has gone away.

"What does this have to do with what we're asking about?" Kim Fa Choi interrupted.

"Listen to me slowly sort out the order for you." Boss Mai lit a cigarette and continued.

Originally, many large miners did this kind of business, and the authorities also turned a blind eye and did not take care of it. But just half a year ago, suddenly the army issued an emergency order: neither the army nor private miners were allowed to enter the mines, and the time for reopening became an indefinite waiting.

As an influential old local miner, Boss Mai's father-in-law found an opportunity to talk to the head of the army, and after getting drunk, the chief said something quite strange.

"What? Could it be that there was a major mining disaster of unknown origin? I asked.

"You're talking about it, but it's not just about a mining disaster." Boss Mai snuffed out the cigarette butt, walked to the window and looked out the window, then came back to sit down, and continued to narrate in a lower voice.

It turned out that on a rainy night half a year ago, thunder and lightning were combined, and a huge thunder suddenly hit a small hillside behind the Great Sage Temple, the sound was particularly huge at that time, and the people under the hill thought that it was going to be a landslide, and they came out to prepare to escape, but it was strange to say, the heavy rain in this night, it didn't take long to stop, and I didn't hear the sound of the mountain rock collapse again, just looking at it from a distance, on the slope of the mountain, the shadow was about to flash with a faint green light.

Everyone was stunned by the strange scene in front of them, some people said, probably the great sage appeared, helped them split a jade mine, if you can still see such a faint green fluorescence coming out at a distance of hundreds of meters, it must be a very huge deposit, and the quality of the jadeite inside is ...... Maybe it's a whole piece of glass material of several tons.

It's just that the speed of the army is always one step faster than that of the common people, and before everyone can go up to see and understand, a large army of hundreds of people has already come to encircle the area with a radius of one kilometer around the temple of the great sages.

Later, after being confirmed by the army's ore experts, it was disappointing to announce that this was not some jadeite mine, and that the green glowing stone was a myriad of stones sandwiched between granite stones, and the specific names of the stones could not be said, but they would emit a faint green glow in the night light.

Within a few days, the army sent geologists, archaeological experts and other people to study there for more than half a month, but in the end, no one knew the exact names and causes of these stones.

In the end, there was really no way, and the Myanmar government came forward and asked China for cooperation in the inspection.

Within a few days, a team of more than a dozen experts set off from the capital and went straight to Hpakant.

"And then?" I asked.

"Well...... After the appraisal of several senior experts, it is not very certain that this is a stone that may be called bronze stone. ”

"Bronze stone? Is that a type of copper ore? That's not bad, although there is no jadeite, it is a copper mine. Jin Facai said.

"No, no, no, not at all. Bronze is an alloy of copper with impurities, but its essence is still metal. But this bronze stone, although the name is bronze, does not contain copper ore in it, but the texture and color of the stone, the sound of hitting it, and the reflection under the light...... All are very similar to ancient unearthed bronzes.

Because as early as a few years ago, similar stones were unearthed in the Daxinganling Mountains of Inner Mongolia, these stones were embedded in ordinary rocks at that time, and the volume was not large, and an occasional opportunity was discovered by someone, when taken out of the rock, it was necessary to chisel it with a chisel little by little, which was a bit like digging dinosaur fossils, but it was more difficult.

Later, several domestic geological experts were invited to study, and the exact cause of its origin was not found, and it has been an unsolved mystery in the field of geology and archaeology until now, because its shape resembles bronze, so it was named bronze stone. ”

Boss Mai took a sip of tea and continued:

"But this stone cave found in Myanmar this time is different, first of all, this stone is larger and more complete, the color is greener and more shiny than those found in the Great Khing'an Mountains, and the sound is more crisp. There's even a rumor, which sounds suspenseful, that those experts knocked down a few stone samples and put them under high-powered magnification, and guess what?

"What's wrong?" Everyone couldn't help but ask together.

"Hey, this look, it's amazing. I actually saw that on every piece of stone, no matter what method you used to cut it or smash it, as long as there was a face exposed, it was densely covered with a strange text-like texture, and each word was only as small as a powder particle. To put it scarily, that is to say, these stones are condensed by so many small powder words, so even if you smash that stone to the size of a sesame seed, there are still many words on it! ”

Listening to Boss Mai say this, everyone entered into contemplation, this is obviously not a lie that can be made up casually, if it is just that the military is trying to prevent miners from mining, there is no need to painstakingly create such a scam, not to mention, this thunder and glowing stone cave is seen by many people, and the Chinese expert team is not just a casual invitation to invite.

"The story sounds a little sneaky, but ...... What does this have to do with the person we are looking for? Jin Facai pulled the topic back again: "Is it difficult...... The group of people who later carried all the ore died, and it was these bronze stones that were moved? ”

"Boss Kim is so smart! That's it! Boss Mai gave Jin Facai a thumbs up and continued: "It is said that soon after the Chinese expert team returned to China, they made a special report to the above, and after a while, the above instructed them to take a batch of stones from Myanmar back to continue the study. Then, a temporary transport team was organized here and went inside to pick it up.

Because this is a non-governmental cooperation project between the two countries, there is no formal establishment, anyway, this is a border trade area, and there are many people who transport ore every day, so it will not cause any trouble, so I simply summoned a group of villagers temporarily, and I wanted to transport things to the territory, and then handed over to the logistics here to transport.

What happened later, as you know, the stone had just been transported to Baixiang Street overnight, and it was too late, so I wanted to sleep in the car for one night, and then unload the goods into the country at dawn the next day, but I found out the next day that almost all the people involved in the moving and transportation had died on the truck, and they all began to turn blue......"