Chapter 05, Ancestor Blessing
The low-lying land by the river was cheap, and the father of the gold mine owner bought half an acre of flat land and one and a half acres of sloping land. I want to wait until I have made money, and then I will build a hill on the slope, raise the foundation, and move the house to a higher place, so that I will not be afraid of floods.
When he was 10 years old, there was a major landslide in the mine. The second uncle of the gold mine owner died on the spot, and his father, who was seriously injured in order to save the workers, returned home with ten taels of bereavement silver and ten taels of disabled silver. Then, after dragging on at home for a year, he spent all the money and owed a lot of debt. In the end, I couldn't bear it anymore, so I found a crooked neck tree to get rid of it.
There are three main accounts owed by the Jin family, Tong Ren Tang medicine fee 120 taels, Jin Hui Qian Zhuang 50 taels, and Jin Ji Mi Xing 3 taels. At that time, they saw that the father of the gold mine owner was a dog worker, and his mining skills were good, and he used the land as a guarantee before they dared to give money on credit.
The new house is 12 zhang long and 5 zhang wide, which is five times the original homestead, and is also 1 zhang 5 zhang high, directly flush with the street behind. The new house is a two-storey three-room wooden tile house, a total of three buildings, the front yard is shared, and the back yard is independent.
Under the pressure of the creditor, the mother of the gold mine owner hired four guarantors and signed a verbal agreement. The new house was given to Lao Lin, a craftsman in the town, for a total price of five hundred and twenty taels of silver. The Jin family's two acres of homestead land are worth fifty taels of silver. Within a year, he returned three hundred and thirty taels and got a house; and five hundred taels for two; Six hundred and seventy taels, all the houses belong to the Jin family.
In good conscience, this contract is still beneficial to the Jin family, but the premise is that there is money. If there is no money to pay it back, a year later, the house and land will be returned to the three families, and the Jin family owes one hundred and fifty taels of silver. Two years later, the one hundred and fifty taels of silver could not be repaid, and the four mothers and sons of the Jin family sold themselves to pay off their debts.
In order to make room for the new house, half of the old house was demolished, and even the door was gone. If it weren't for the three-sided brackets, they would have fallen long ago.
The gold miner lay on a broken bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep. At the other end, the ten-year-old brother Jin Changzhu climbed here, hugged his brother, and cried loudly.
"Brother, I dreamed that my family was sold into slavery."
The gold mine owner wiped tears from his tears as he put his arms around his brother. It's not a dream, it's something that's about to happen.
After his younger brother fell asleep, the gold mine owner came to the river beach alone and cultivated the "Spiritual Refining Formula". After an hour, I can't get up. After asking, I learned that from today onwards, the thieves and ghosts will start pumping water, and they will have to take half of their spiritual power. If you want to harvest in autumn, you must open up wasteland for planting, sowing and fertilizing in spring; In the same way, if you want the other party to pay, you have to pay first, this is an iron law.
The next morning, after eating a breakfast of wild vegetables and brown rice, the gold miner came to the new house and sat under the big osmanthus tree to watch the workers work.
Lao Lin and five stonemasons circled around a boulder under the tree. The boulder is more than two zhang long and wide, one zhang high, and boxy. Two feet are exposed on the side of the road, and more than a foot is exposed on the side of the river. It is best to disassemble the boulder and use it on the spot, but the two have a disagreement on wages. When no one refused to back down, the old forest people became old and set their sights on the gold mine owner.
"Boss, why don't you pack the work of unraveling stones and ask them to do it?"
"Yes, this is a big bluestone, much more solid than the stone in the river."
After the new house is built, I don't know whose house it is? The gold mine owner was about to leave, when the thief in the soul mansion suddenly spoke.
"It's like ore, on the vein map."
The gold miner returned to the boulder and pressed his right hand on the stone. He's less than a foot deep now, so he's in the right place. With a buzz, a boxy white color appeared in his head, with a green band in the middle, and two blue bright spots were clearly visible. After ten breaths, the vein map will be black, and it will automatically shut down.
Even a god, two spirit crystals!
The ghost was in trouble, and the gold mine owner's face twisted into a ball. Lao Lin and the five stonemasons had already heard about the young master of the Jin family being ghosted, and they were so frightened that they retreated again and again.
After a while, the gold mine owner pressed down his beating heart and said, "The stones in the river are not good. In this way, Lao Lin doesn't say one thousand two, and the five masters don't say two thousand five. Two thousand, Lao Lin is out of one thousand and five, and I will make up five hundred. ”
"Okay." Lao Lin and the five stonemasons smiled secretly and nodded immediately.
"There is a condition, if the spirit crystal is produced, it will belong to me."
"Mining has unearthed occupational diseases. Okay, even if you dig up the spirit crystal, it's yours. ”
The owner of the gold mine took out one hundred and fifty copper plates that were not yet hot, as an advance payment.
Seeing the money, the five stonemasons were full of spirit. In order to make their work easier, they first cleared the soil under the stones and cleared the quarry.
The next morning, the stonemasons brought hammers and stone-breaking steel drills to break a line from the center at the request of the gold miners. Luck is not bad, the water lines of the boulder are vertical, which is convenient for dismantling.
Towards noon, the boulder was broken through the middle. With a bang, a stream of aura floated up with the dust. Before the dust cleared, the gold mine owner jumped in eagerly. In the middle of the boulder, there is a long gray band that is palm-wide and long, inlaid with two shiny stones.
The gold mine owner shook his fist fiercely, and said in his heart: Ancestor bless!
"Is it a spirit crystal?"
Lao Lin and five stonemasons also surrounded him, staring at each other. Lingjing, in fact, is a pebble with a very high aura value, and it is easy to misunderstand. When taking the dog head card, looking for spirit stones and spirit crystals in a pile of pebbles, more than half of the cattle workers could not pass the passing line.
"Try your luck. Rest for a moment and give me a quarter of an hour to see. ”
"If you can dig out the spirit crystal, the Jin family is still like this...... we will call it a day early and let you fix it."
When they were far away, the gold mine owner couldn't contain his excitement and shouted. Dig up the spirit crystal, indicating that the vein map is real. With the ore vein map in hand, he is the god of the Miao Mountain Spirit Mine!
After digging out the spirit crystal, he didn't stop for a moment and walked towards the town. When he was about to reach the entrance of the town, he was stopped by two thugs.
"Little Golden Dog Worker, why don't you invite us to a drink when you have money?"
The gold mine owner was sweating profusely. When I met them before, the reason why I wasn't afraid was that I was really poor!
The two of them, seeing the name, couldn't help but say, pushed him to the ground, and took out two white stones.
"Lingjing, it's gone!"
When he was about to escape, he was stopped by a man. The two of them just wanted to exert their power, but when they looked up, they were scared on the spot.
"Chen Jun......, Chen Ye."
"Bring it."
Since the East Window incident, Chen Jun risked being arrested and cleared the town strongly. The thugs didn't dare to squeak, so they had to hand over the spirit crystal they had just snatched. Chen Jun didn't even look at it and handed it back to the gold mine owner.
"In my early years, I met a great god, and I forgot about it, saying that one day in the future, I would become a yellow turban master under the great god surnamed Jin. Boy, this god surnamed Jin, could it not be you. ”
The gold mine owner didn't dare to answer, kowtowed three times to Chen Jun, and left quickly. An immortal who can have a yellow turban wrestler, the existence of a thousand-year-old god. And his beaten physique, how can he be a thousand gods? After only a dozen paces away, he heard two screams passing overhead.
After walking about two or three hundred steps, he passed by the gate of the county office. I found that the door was full of people, and it was already a mess inside.
"Two more fell to their deaths, and ten have already died."
The gold mine owner felt a storm in his heart. Three hundred steps apart, throw the living into the county government accurately, God!
In the Celestial Empire pawnshop, two pieces of spirit crystals were sold for three hundred and fifty taels of silver. Before the money arrived, the creditors blocked the door.
In the presence of the shopkeeper Hong, the gold mine owner paid 330 taels and got the ownership of a new house. When he returned home and told his mother the news, the family burst into tears. The haze that pressed over the whole family finally dissipated.
As for the origin of this boulder, anyone in Shuangjiang Town who is only forty years old knows it. People with dreams of making a fortune went up the mountain in groups of three or five, trying to find the place where the rocks fell back then. For a time, the mountain was full of people, and it was more lively than rushing to the market.
What the Jin family never dreamed of was that the day after the silver was paid, the construction of the new house stopped. Not only that, but my sister was also fired from the restaurant. The family has no work, and the next days can be imagined.
The owner of the gold mine went to the owner of Tong Ren Tang and was told that the silver had been spent and that he would continue to build the gold and add silver. After a few arguments, he was beaten violently by several guys. If it weren't for someone next to him, it would have been crippled.