Chapter 60: Up the Mountain

"I can't buy this thing, I made it myself. If your brother wants one, you can ask him to find me, and I'll make one for him. Hou Dalin empathizes with the fact that once a person's limb is mutilated, the physical and psychological blow is incomparable.

But if you can walk normally, even if you can't do heavy work, it is extremely important for a person to rebuild his confidence in life.

The eldest son-in-law thanked him and agreed to take his younger brother to the city to find him after the New Year. Hou Dalin has nothing to do, saying that the doctor's parents are a bit exaggerated, but there are still some people who love the house and empathize with Wu, and can help the same disabled people, Hou Dalin feels that he is duty-bound.

Having said this, the old branch secretary has no intention of recruiting Hou Dalin as a son-in-law. He always felt that his girl was good anywhere, and if she was a cripple, wouldn't she be laughed at by the villagers?

This topic was exposed, and Hou Dalin proposed to borrow a gun.

"That's no problem, let the iron bolt take you to the militia to get one later, and bring fifty more rounds." The old branch secretary didn't think about it, and agreed in one bite.

This kind of thing is really not a matter for the old branch secretary. In those days, gun control was very lax, and village collectives like Houyu Village, which lived in the mountains, had their own militia teams.

In such a team, although there are no heavy weapons or anything, there is no shortage of ordinary guns and ammunition.

After eating, Hou Dalin took his leave. The old branch secretary asked his son to take Hou Dalin to the militia and received a gun plus fifty rounds of ammunition.

When a man has a gun, his waist pole instantly hardens. This time, Hou Dalin had a great sense of security when he went up the mountain, so he walked deep into the mountains for two more days.

This time, Hou Dalin did not have a specific destination, he drove the tricycle to the limit of what he could drive, and it was not until there was no road ahead that he found a place and hid the tricycle.

According to the old branch secretary, this mountain is called Maoshan, and the reason why it is so called is because the vegetation on this mountain is very lush. Thanks to the abundance of water in the mountains and the relatively high temperatures, even in winter, some green bamboo can be seen everywhere here.

"What a piece of feng shui treasure!" Hou Dalin climbed halfway up the mountain, looked at the scenery in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh like this.

He decided not to leave and set up camp here today. Halfway up the mountain, Hou Dalin found a cave that was not very big, the entrance to the cave was very small, and Hou Dalin had to bend down if he wanted to go in. Moreover, from this mountain pass, the spring water gurgles outward.

Hou Dalin looked at the cave, his heart was a little hairy, the cave was dark, Hou Dalin shone it with a flashlight, and he couldn't see anything.

To go in or not to go in? Hou Dalin hesitated.

But men, that's not good! Playfulness and curiosity are very heavy, and when I see such a hole, I always feel itchy when I don't go in.

With twelve points of caution, Hou Dalin dragged the gun and went in with a flashlight.

After bending down and walking for a while, the scene inside suddenly became clear.

There is a lot of space inside, and Hou Dalin took out a high-power lamp and lit it up very brightly.

The entire cave is hundreds of square meters, and there are artificial chisel marks on the ground and stone walls, and it is clear that this is not a naturally formed cave.

Looking at some of the tools on the ground, Hou Dalin was even more sure of his idea. There is a stone crevice above this cave, from which the spring water seeps out.

Hou Dalin speculated that it was probably because when people were digging this cave before, they inadvertently chiseled through the water-filled stone wall, so that a large amount of water gushed out and destroyed the cave.

Hou Dalin looked around with a flashlight, and suddenly found a lot of dotted metal reflections on the ground.

Hou Dalin is interested, the ground is not flat, and many potholes will show such flashes.

He put his hand on the ground and collected some of the things on the ground into the space, and soon, he knew what these were, Jinsha!

"There's a gold mine here!" Hou Dalin came to his senses all of a sudden, and it is very likely that this hole was made for gold mining before.

When it was abandoned, the spring water flowed out of the cracks in the stone with golden sand, and as it passed over this relatively flat stretch of ground, the gold was left in the potholes because it was heavier.

"Haha, my luck, it's really no one! When traveling to the mountains, you can encounter gold mines, who do you say this is reasonable? After a burst of excitement, Hou Dalin continued to collect gold in such potholes.

It took him more than an hour to finish the gold.

After refining the space, he obtained a total of nearly five kilograms of pure gold this time. This amount is quite considerable, and this is the accumulation of this cave for I don't know how many years to have so many golden sands.

Hou Dalin collected some stones on the stone wall here, but these stones did not perform very well in the space, although they also contained gold, but they were too little.

A stone the size of a gasoline drum was refined into a piece of gold the size of a sesame seed. This content really has no mining value.

Could it be that I guessed wrong? The previous people abandoned this mine because they had finished mining the exposed gold veins?

Well, quite possibly.

However, this is not Hou Dalin's concern, he wants to see if there will be golden sand in this cave in the future, and it is very likely that in a few years, the water in the stone crevices will bring out a lot of golden sand.

The ground here is simply a natural gold sieve.

Set up camp, Hou Dalin decided to stay here tonight.

After taking out the camping equipment and getting enough firewood outside, Hou Dalin was ready to eat and spend the night.

Early the next morning, Hou Dalin left, but when he left, he still found a lot of stones and blocked the entrance to the cave.

It is not possible to block it completely, because there is still water to flow out. Hou Dalin just chose some stones of the right size, which could not only block the entrance of the cave, but also have enough gaps to allow the water inside to drain smoothly.

After dealing with this secret cave, Hou Dalin continued to set off with a good mood. Seeing that the bamboo here is growing well, I dug up some bamboo whips and put them in the space, ready to go back and plant a few.

I also saw a few strangely shaped stones, which were also in my pocket, ready to be placed in my small courtyard in the future.

In this way, Hou Dalin kept walking around Maoshan like this for three days, and then he was full of addiction and ready to go home.

On this day, just as he was walking down the mountain, he met a group of people on the way.

At the beginning, Hou Dalin didn't pay much attention to it. Maybe it's the militia in a nearby village that is training, or maybe the villagers are doing some kind of work.

He walked down the mountain with such a swagger, not hiding his body at all, until he saw that the other party found himself and subconsciously dispersed and hidden, which made Hou Dalin think more in his heart.