Chapter 4: The Golden River

Therefore, according to legend, 100,000 years ago, there was no river at the location of the Manjin River, but there was a continuous immortal mountain spirit vein for thousands of miles.

A certain immortal exerted an incredible supernatural power, easily uprooted this thousands of miles of Lingshan immortal veins, and moved it to the northeast of the immortal capital city, becoming one of the natural barriers of the six great immortal gates in the north and the Tianluo Sect in the south.

After the immortal vein of Lingshan was removed, it left a long thousand miles, the deepest part has thousands of zhang of ravines, the river water flowing out of the demon beast forest, along the terrain, poured down from the heights, formed the current Manjin River valley forest farm, the river water along the river valley, continue to flow to the southeast, plus the surrounding tributaries of the water veins converge, the water potential is gradually increasing, mighty, gathered in Manjin Lake, the land around Manjin Lake is fertile, commerce and trade are developed, known as the reputation of "fish and rice gold town", there are tens of millions of mortals living around Manjin Lake.

After that, the Manjin River continued to flow southeast, at Chixia Harbor, and penetrated into the East Pole Sea.

It is rumored that there is a huge open-pit gold mine in the demon beast forest on the other side of the Manjin River Valley, when an immortal flies from the edge of the demon beast forest, the open-pit gold mine hidden under the demon beast forest, the dazzling light reflected by it, actually stretches for dozens of miles, every time the flood breaks out, part of the gold ore and gold ore in the demon beast forest, with the water potential, is washed to the various river sections of the Manjin River Valley Forest Farm. Every year, the Manjin River attracts hundreds of thousands of gold diggers, who come from thousands of miles to find opportunities to get rich overnight.

The section of the river valley closest to the side of the monster forest has always been monopolized by the Jinhe gang with the background of the government, and the middle reaches of the forest valley have been contracted by the government to thousands of gold digging teams, and the downstream section of the forest valley only needs to pay a certain site fee according to the head, and you can rent a small piece of the mining right of the river, but the gold sand obtained by individual gold diggers must truthfully pay fifty percent of the tax to the government, and if you go to the gold without permission, you will be severely punished!

Even if the private gold mining team cannot occupy the best gold mining area, there are still lucky gold mining teams every year to find dog head gold ore and then get rich overnight.

The government did not suppress and restrict such an overnight rich, but instead hyped it, wearing saffron, setting off firecrackers, and sending gold guards to help safely transport gold ore to the gold shops in Manjin Lake to exchange for silver tickets.

Such lucky people return to their hometowns, buy houses, fields, marry wives and have children, which is the best propaganda signboard of Manjinhe.

Therefore, relying on such propaganda methods, there is an endless stream of gold diggers in the Golden River.

The lucky ones are only a few, and most of the gold diggers barely earn a wage after deducting the high river section contracting fees and daily expenses.

What's more, there are gold diggers, smashing pots and selling iron, scraping together a sum of silver, and going to the Manjin River to contract the river section, and in the end there are not a few people who have lost all their money and have lost their souls in the Manjin River.

In such a situation, the workers will also scrape together a share of the money to cremate such a poor person and send him back to his hometown.

Things hurt like that, nothing more than that.

In the lower corner of the Manjin is a small room dedicated to the gold diggers' urns.

According to the experience of the owners of the Manjin, every year from Chixia Port back to Dongning Province, there can always be a few such urns with the names and hometown addresses of the gold diggers, all of whom are from Tianluo country.

When Lao Yutou was young, he was very different, good at water, and wanted to get rich overnight, so he scraped together some money, borrowed some money, sat on the Manjin number, and went north to the Manjin River to pan for gold.

The old man who wanted to get rich overnight plunged into the sand at the edge of the river valley woodland, dreaming of gold every night, but after a few years, it was only enough to make a living, and it was not as good as going up to the gold panning team to earn wages, at least the food of the gold panning team was still enough.

Just when Lao Yutou was about to give up his personal dream of panning for gold and go to work as a long-term worker in the gold panning team, one night, in his hazy sleep, he seemed to hear a voice telling him that he could dig gold by digging three feet down in the place where he had dug.

Lao Yu woke up with a spirit, picked up the shovel, and rushed to the place where he panned for gold during the day and began to dig, one foot, two feet, three feet, a fist-sized dog's head gold, quietly placed there.

The news that Lao Yutou dug up the dog's head gold spread throughout the Manjin River Valley within a few days.

Within a few months, the fathers and villagers of Dongning Mansion, who were thousands of miles away, heard that the old man had made a fortune in the Manjin River and dug up a piece of gold lumps weighing dozens of catties.

The relatives who heard the news were full of dilapidated thatched huts in the old Yutou's hometown, and the frightened parents of the old Yutou thought that the family had come to ask for debts, and they hid in the fields and did not dare to go home.

The relatives talked a lot before they brought the old couple back from the field.

The matchmaker who came to the door to propose relatives also rushed to hear the news, a vigorous introduction, the girl from the east is filial, and the girl from the west is hardworking... Happiness came too suddenly, and the old Yutou's parents were almost excited.

With the good name of "God rewards food", coupled with the flexibility and willingness of Lao Yutou, within a few years, Lao Yutou also pulled up a gold panning team.

Regarding the "Immortal Dream", Lao Yutou never mentioned it to anyone, and even if Lao Yutou said it, no one would believe it.

Among the hundreds of thousands of gold panning teams in the Golden River, who has not done it: the dream of immortals guiding the way, digging to the gold mountain, and returning to their hometown?

In the following decades, the section of the river valley contracted by Lao Yutou never dug up a large piece of dog's head gold, but after deducting various expenses, the placer gold found was somewhat surplus, and it was a small reputation among so many gold panning teams in the Manjin River.

It's just that in recent years, there has been a great drought, and the river water flowing down from the Demon Beast Forest has been decreasing day by day, and the gold panning team is struggling, and many gold panning teams have dispersed and returned to their hometowns.

The old man is still sticking to the Manjin River, and there is another hidden secret.

It is rumored that in the Manjin River Valley, in addition to the river channels on the surface of the valley, there are many dark rivers flowing under the valley, and these dark rivers are deep underground, leading directly to the large gold mine on the other side of the Demon Beast Mountain Range.

In the dark river, if you dig out a piece of ore, it may be more than a dozen catties of dog's head gold.

There was a time in history when the gold pangers of the Manjin River were allowed to find and mine the gold veins of the Dark River.

Until a large-scale beast tide erupted, countless demon beasts swarmed out from the dark river waterway that was dug and widened by gold diggers, bypassing the defense line of the Terran army, slaughtering all the way, and heading straight for the Terran settlement in Manjin Lake.

The gold diggers in the Golden River were almost slaughtered.

After the end of the beast tide, all the dark river waterways were filled with sand and gravel by the immortals with immortal methods, and all the information about the location of the dark river was destroyed, and a law was issued that anyone who excavated the dark river waterways would be reduced to slavery!

With the disappearance of a whole generation of gold diggers, the golden vein of the dark river waterway has gradually become a legend and disappeared in the long river of history.

Half a year ago, in his sleep, he heard a voice again, which was the voice that guided him to dig up the dog's head gold, and he couldn't forget it in his life!

"Wedding box mouth three zhang ~ wedding dress box mouth three zhang ~ wedding dress box mouth three zhang ~ wedding dress box mouth three zhang ~ wedding box mouth three zhang ~"

Subsequently, the old man woke up from the dream, picked up the cigarette stick and took a few puffs fiercely, and fell into deep thought, what does the wedding box mean, is it that the immortal asked me to make a three-zhang wedding box for my baby daughter, and quickly marry her out? No, how can I make such a thing, a rough old man.

Don't... Could it be that what the immortals said was that the location of the small river estuary in Jiayi Forest Farm was dug down three zhang?

Right! Right! Right!

This must be what it means.

Lao Yu has been begging for a living in the Manjin River Valley for decades, and the situation of thousands of river sections in the Manjin River Valley, large and small, is more or less understood, otherwise it is impossible to contract the right river section with the right price in the bidding for the river section, so that dozens of brothers under him can work every year.

Jiayi Forest Farm, located in the southwest corner of the most upstream of the Manjin River, in the early years, there was a small river flowing out of the monster forest, flowing through this place, during the spring flood, it is said that you can pick up the dog's head gold, has been monopolized by the Jinhe Gang.

In recent years, the river flowing out of the demon beast forest has become less and less, and the small river in Jiayi Forest Farm has been out of water for three years, and the original small riverbed has been turned over and over countless times by the Jinhe Gang, and all that remains is a pile of rotten stones.

In the spring flood season this year, the Manjin River began to flow one after another, just into the summer, the government government posted a notice, the original Jinhe Gang contracted more than 10 upstream valley corners of the first, second, third and so on, re-bidding, the old Yu Tou was also invited by the government to bid, vaguely remember that the reserve price of the contract fee for a year of the Jiayi Forest Farm is 1,000 taels, for other years, this price is low enough, but, now it is different from the past, there is only a pile of rotten stones left in the Jiayi Forest Farm, and you have to run three miles away to pick up the saliva, and someone does the business of killing heads. How can anyone do a loss-making business?

A number, more than 10 river sections, all of which were finally unsold. In the end, the government offered a fixed price of 900 taels, but no one cared.

The words of the immortals, the old man still cares about it, without the guidance of the immortals, how can he have today?

Lao Yutou's family still has more than 1,200 taels, and it is enough to contract a forest farm.

The next day, Lao Yutou set off at dawn, and when he arrived at the mansion, it was already noon, and under the old Yutou's rhetoric, he finally contracted a one-year section of the Jiayi Forest Farm at a price of 800 taels. The government officials smiled and praised the old man, who was worthy of being an old gold digger with a unique vision.

Within a few days, the news that Lao Yutou had contracted Jiayi Forest Farm spread throughout the Manjin River, and Lao Yutou didn't care about the strange eyes of others, and took the gold panning team and went straight to Jiayi Forest Farm.

For a whole summer, the gold panning team of Lao Yutou dug up the entire Jiayi Forest Farm over and over again, but did not find a little bit of gold foam, and for a while, it became the biggest joke in the entire Manjin River. The gold diggers in the old Yutou team also resigned and left one after another for various reasons, and quietly joined other gold digging teams.

In the early autumn, there were only three people left in Lao Yutou's gold panning team, Lao Yutou, Yu Erwa, and Lao Li Tou.

Yu Erwa is a relative of the old Yu Tou, it was brought out by the old Yu Tou, the old saying breaks the bones and connects the tendons, and when the old Yu Tou retires in a few years, this gold rush team will sooner or later be passed to Yu Erwa, and Yu Erwa is also loyal to the old Yu Tou!

As for Lao Li Tou, decades ago, the two of them began to work together to pan for gold, a sudden flash flood erupted, Lao Yu Tou regardless of his own safety, jumped into the torrent, searched for several miles of the river, and finally, the dying old Li Tou was fished ashore from the water, and the relationship between the two old brothers could not be more iron.

These two people, Lao Yutou is definitely trustworthy.

A very ordinary afternoon,

Lao Yutou took Yu Erwa and Lao Li Tou to the estuary of Jiayi Forest Farm, and continued to dig down the estuary that had been dug countless times, and the other two people did not have any objections, and they were very tacit.

One zhang

Two feet

Sanzhang

The soil began to become wet, and the old man continued to dig down, and when he shoveled down, it was unexpectedly empty underneath, and the sound of water could be faintly heard.

The three of them glanced at each other, their eyes showed a slight excitement, and the shovel in their hands swung harder, and soon dug out a small opening that could accommodate one person.

Old Yu Tou glanced at Yu Erwa, Yu Erwa put down the shovel and quickly drilled into the small opening,

Old Li Tou took a wooden board out of nowhere and spread it at the entrance of the cave.

The old man loaded a bag of sand and skillfully laid it on the wooden board,

The two old men, at the same time, took out their cigarette sticks and began to smoke silently.

The kung fu of counting teas,

Hearing the sound of tapping at the plank,

Old Li Tou moved the plank,

Old Yu Tou quickly pulled up Yu Erwa,

Then, Lao Li Tou covered the wooden board again, and the sand on it didn't seem to move.

After Yu Erwa shook off the splash on her body, she also picked up her cigarette stick and began to smoke silently.

After a while, the old Yu Tou gave Yu Erwa a look, and the second baby took out a small bag of sand from her arms and handed it to the old Yu Tou.

Lao Yutou opened the mouth of the bag, glanced at it, and then closed it.

Old Li Tou has already moved the plank through an opening,

The old man threw the small bag down the hole,

Old Li Tou, with a slight move, quickly covered the plank,

The three of them tacitly accepted the cigarette stick and filled the sand back to its original place in an orderly manner.

I dug a few more places, and when the sun was about to set, as usual, I returned to the barracks with baskets, shovels and other tools on my back.

Then, the three of them squatted on the ground in a circle.

"Dark River Golden Vein", Lao Yutou said in a low voice, and the surprise in the eyes of Erwa and Lao Li Tou flashed,

Old Yu Tou's eyes motioned to Yu Erwa to talk about the situation in the dark river,

"First of all, there is a very long dark river channel, the river channel is full of fluorescent aquatic plants, there are several ventilation points on the water surface, the sand is touched from the dark river, estimated, a cup of tea, after passing the dark river channel, there are stone steps on the bank, at the end of the stone steps, is a channel formed by two boulders, extremely narrow, I threw fluorescent aquatic plants through the boulder narrow road, the length of the narrow road is about ten zhang, behind the narrow road, you can vaguely see the bare gold ore."

Yu Erwa explained while gesturing on the ground with a branch, and after speaking, she quickly smoothed the pattern on the ground.

"The gold placer content in the dark river channel is not high, if we can dig out a few pieces of dog's head gold behind the narrow road, we will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of our lives." Old Yu Tou said.

"Tonight, my second baby and I will go on the next trip in person, Lao Li Tou, you will work hard to let go of the wind." Lao Li nodded tacitly

That night, the three of them prepared torches and fire folds wrapped in brown paper, and under the cover of night, quietly came to the mouth of the forest farm.

Lao Yutou and Yu Erwa are both people with excellent water nature, and they successfully crossed the dark river waterway, came to the boulder narrow road, lit the torch, and threw a torch through the boulder narrow road

Under the light of the fire, the exposed gold ore on the opposite side of the narrow road shimmered dazzlingly.

Such a large amount of gold ore, the old man has never seen it in his life,

In the early morning of the second day, Lao Yutou embarked on the journey back to Dongning Mansion.

He needed to find someone who was small and watery!

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