Wang Manyin took the so-called "Earth Dragon Tooth" and took a closer look, and found that the surface had been partially crystallized jade, which should be the upper jaw bone of some kind of herbivore.

In other words, the so-called earth keel is simply an ancient animal fossil.

Whether this thing can really cure diseases, Wang Manyin does not know. After all, I don't know anything about Chinese medicine, so I can't make conclusions.

However, he knew very well in his heart that for the members of the second team of Jar Village, this was definitely a huge fortune that fell from the sky, and he had to grasp it in the palm of his hand no matter what.

So there was no need for Wang Lianshun to urge at all, and then everyone became full of energy.

Wang Manyin dug in front, two others were responsible for carrying it, and the rest of the people carefully broke the clods of soil to find it.

He dug for a while, and then replaced Wang Yanqiang to take over.

Soon, the entire cliff wall was dug more than two meters deep.

Unlike digging caves, digging keels does not pay much attention to height and width, and mainly extends along the soil layer with fossils. Of course, you also have to guard against cave collapse during the process...... Fortunately, they are at the bottom of the cliff ditch, so there are usually no surprises.

Soil keels are not found everywhere, and if you distinguish them carefully, you can still see that there is a difference between the fossil layer and the ordinary red clay layer.

Wang Lianshun and the others were also not idle, roughly estimated the scope of the soil keel layer, and dug two more caves nearby.

Soon, there was a harvest.

After Wang Fugui arrived with the second team of other laborers, he continued to dig the cave.

Ten caves were started at the same time, accounting for almost one-third of the entire cliff ditch, and the scene was very spectacular.

At noon, Wang Shouchang brought the village mother-in-law and aunts to deliver the food early.

Because of Wang Fugui's orders, today's noon meal is also richer than usual, rare, you can see the bright and fat large intestine in the rice bucket, and there is a layer of oil slick floating on it.

This is, of course, the credit of Wang Manyin...... After mixing with the people at the food station, it is much easier to buy meat.

As long as he explains, the stationmaster will leave a pair of large intestines.

After serving a flat bowl of fried potato chips with fat intestines, Wang Manyin directly pierced four black nests of corn and sorghum with chopsticks, and sat on the red clay pile like everyone else and ate it.

After eating, there was no need to rush at all, and some people took the initiative to pick up a small nail rake and a curved shovel into the hole.

As the cave progressed deeper into the mountain, the cave became narrower and narrower, and in many places only one person could bend over with a dead wind lantern in his hand.

In addition, the air inside is turbid, and it will take about 20 minutes to dig for about 20 minutes, and then you will have to replace people again.

No one complained, though.

On the contrary, the excitement grew.

Several deep holes appear to have been dug into the center of the fossil layer, and the number of keels unearthed has increased significantly, and the size is getting larger. From time to time, fossilized leg bones resembling giant creatures can be seen being sent outside the cave. One of the leg bones was almost a metre long, the head of the bone stick was the size of a clay pot, and weighed at least 20 kilograms. This piece alone is estimated to be worth a few dollars.

Wang Manyin looked at it for a moment, but he didn't recognize what kind of animal fossil it was.

Knowing that there was a long gray and thick thing to be sent, his eyes widened in astonishment:, ivory!

That's right, I definitely know this thing, a proper fossil of ancient ivory. There is a piece in the Chinese textbook called "The Yellow River Elephant", and the ivory picture in it is very similar to it. ….

Millions of years ago, the Loess Plateau was also a land of abundant water and grass.

If these fossils are reported, it will definitely cause quite a stir, and even the jar village will become famous all over the country.

Wang Manyin just had such a thought, and then dispelled it.

Don't be out of the limelight!

What if the tank village is allowed to carry forward the style and donate all the fossils? Then he became a sinner in the second team.

In the future, Wang Manyin has seen a lot of rewards of 500 yuan and a pennant on the Internet.

It's better to sell it to the supply and marketing cooperatives and see how they decide. When the time comes, it will be the supply and marketing cooperatives that will suffer.

In the afternoon, it was not until the cliff ditch was completely darkened that Wang Lianshun ordered everyone to call it a day.

However, in order to prevent the cave from being occupied, he still arranged for ten people to be on duty here, and even sent people to bring dinner and quilts.

Recording five points of work in one night, this kind of good work, naturally many people are willing.

As for the remaining laborers, they drove back to the village in a donkey cart. Along the way, everyone had excited smiles on their faces, constantly talking about how much money they could get by selling the earth keel.

The density of this thing is only slightly lower than that of stone, and the size of a palm weighs a pound. It was full of two large donkey carts, almost 700 catties.

"Man Yin, I heard that you dug red clay in the sheep's tail ditch and found the soil keel?"

As soon as Wang Manyin arrived home, he was stopped by Orchid and asked curiously.

"Hmm," he nodded, a little surprised, "How do you know?"

"In the afternoon, it spread all over the village, and people who came to buy things were talking......

After listening, Wang Manyin was extremely speechless. The mouths of these people in the village are as loose as the waistbands of cotton trousers. Wang Lianshun originally wanted to hide it for two days and let the second team eat a wave of solitary food. Looking at this situation, I'm afraid I haven't been able to hide it for half a day.

There was no way, so many people saw it at the construction site at that time, and it was too difficult to keep it secret.

Knowing that men work hard all day, Orchid scrambles a large plate of eggs at night.

At present, there are two local chickens alive in the family, and they lay two eggs a day, which is not enough for them to eat.

However, it is too easy to eat eggs by guarding the consignment point. Although the chicken plague was very bad, there were still many local chickens in the three villages that survived.

In this more than a week, the number of eggs collected is not comparable to before, but there are dozens of eggs, which is enough for them to eat.

Of course, every time after eating eggs, the orchid will make up for it with money, otherwise the account will not be even.

As soon as they picked up the bowl, the two kittens jumped on the kang and meowed around the table.

The two little ones have just arrived home for more than ten days, and their bodies are like snowballs, and they are already one size bigger. They even learned to climb trees without a teacher, and they became more and more mischievous.

Wang Manyin took a large number of chopsticks and eggs before letting them calm down.

After eating, the two of them lit kerosene lamps to study as usual.

After reading it for a while, Orchid suddenly closed the book.

"What's wrong?" Wang Manyin asked puzzled.

"Manyin, I don't know what to say?" Orchid opened her mouth with some hesitation.

From her marriage to the present, she has never stopped studying. In just a few months, I have already known and mastered thousands of Chinese characters, and I have read more than a dozen books intermittently.

If you come across a word you don't know, you can look it up in the dictionary, so you can read most of the articles smoothly and know the general meaning of what the book says. ….

"I read a lot of truth in the book, and the more I read it, the more blurred it became, as if I had a lump in my heart......

Hearing this, Wang Manyin understood.

Reading can broaden your horizons, and orchids are undergoing transformation. In other words, she is no longer her original self.

The original orchid did not know how to read and write, and could only walk around the fields and homes every day, working hard, without time to think about life and the future, and even knew what she really needed.

This...... It is also the current status quo of most people on the Loess Plateau.

is like a dialogue that Wang Manyin once saw in a certain TV series.

A young man asked a child, "What are you free-range for?"

The other person replied, "Save money."

"Why are you saving money?"

"Grow up and marry a daughter-in-law."

"What are you doing with a daughter-in-law?"

"Baby,"

"What about the baby?"

"Save money again and marry a daughter-in-law for the baby......

For generations, it is like a reincarnation, and few farmers have been able to break free.

In the end, it's because of limited vision.

Orchid had a similar idea before, marrying the man she liked and giving him a few dolls. The two of them worked hard and saved money to marry daughters-in-law for the dolls...... So a lifetime passes.

And after reading some books, she can look at what is happening around her with a broader eye, and vaguely feel that life should not be just like this.

In addition to having a full stomach, there must be other beautiful yearnings.

But in this world, although she has a lot of thoughts in her heart, she can't change the current situation.

This is also what Wang Manyin wants to see.

For him, the orchid has never been his vassal, but a companion who can hold hands and spend the rest of his life together, and there is more beautiful future waiting for them.

As for his mother-in-law's confusion, Wang Manyin also has ...... You can only wait for time to ferment slowly.

After listening to the man's analysis, Orchid nodded.

"Well, Manyin, you summed it up very well, and said everything I thought in my heart......

After the lights went out, the two hugged each other and imagined a bright future. Wang Manyin also revealed some "conjectures", which made Orchid very excited to listen to it, and kept asking whether it could really be realized.

I really guessed.

When Wang Manyin was eating in the morning, he saw Wang Manjun passing by on the dirt road with a large group of people carrying a pickaxe.

Looking at this posture, it is obvious that he is going to dig the keel. No way, that cliff ditch does not belong to the second team, anyone can dig it. What's more, everyone is from the same village, so it's impossible to fight because of this.

When Wang Manjun saw him, he deliberately stopped and asked how many earth keels the second team dug up yesterday?

In this regard, Wang Manyin could only answer vaguely: I haven't weighed it yet, and I don't know.

After a hurried meal, he did not go to the sheep's tail ditch, but went straight to the Shibijie Commune to inquire about the purchase price of the earth keel.

This is also the task assigned by Wang Lianshun yesterday.

"Have you dug up a keel in your village?" Hearing this, the person in charge of souvenir procurement was excited, "Where's the thing?"

"I haven't pulled it over yet, I just want to ask about the price and go back and report it to the villagers."

"There are also grades for the acquisition of earth keels, and the tusked keel is the best." Pai Zi Ya, or 'melon Zi Zi Ya, belongs to the special grade, and you will be given two yuan per catty. If the mixed tooth is a first-class product, one catty and one piece of six; The second-grade products are the leg bones and ribs of the earth dragon, one catty and one hair, and scattered broken bones, one catty and eight cents......

After listening to the other party's introduction, even Wang Manyin was indescribably excited.

It's developed, it's really developed.

Yesterday they were busy all day, digging up at least 700 catties of earth keels, among which there were not many fossils with teeth. The so-called pai tooth is the fossil of herbivores. The melon tooth is supposed to be a fossilized jaw with canine teeth.

There are about 100 catties, and even if you calculate it on an average basis, it is estimated that it can be sold for 300 yuan. Although some of this money will be used to make up for the deficit of the production team, the laborers involved in digging the keel can also have one or two yuan of side income every day.

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