Chapter 14 An unexpected surprise

At night, the educated youth built a bonfire in the open space.

The fire was so bright that everyone's face was coated with a bright orange color.

Qiao Yadong played the harmonica and Li Huilan sang. The sound of the harmonica was clear and long, and the singing was beautiful and melodious. The educated youth held hands and danced around the fire.

"At night the garden was quiet, and the leaves no longer rustled.

What a beautiful night, what a quiet night

The river flows quietly, with slight waves, and the bright moon shines on the water,

I can vaguely hear someone singing softly, what a quiet night"

Tao Nanfeng hummed a tune that was out of tune, stood with his arms folded, his left shoulder leaning against the brick pillar of the eaves, and looked at the lively crowd in front of him, the corners of his mouth gradually rising.

Some people are active and like to be in the crowds. Wei Min and Chen Zhilu are among them.

These two people are very lively. They have been busy building the house for a month. Every day when they open their eyes, they just work, work, and work. It is a rare day when they can relax so much that they forget everything else for a moment. They climbed onto each other's arms, acted like they were wrestling, and did all kinds of funny things, which made everyone laugh.

"Come on, Chen Zhilu! Overwhelm Wei Min."

"Wei Min, don't be a coward. Throw Chen Zhilu down and you will be the winner."

"What the hell are you doing? It's been half an hour and there's still no winner!"

Everyone was watching the show, not afraid of the height of the stage, and started to make a lot of noise. Among the group of boys were the excited cheers of Ye Qin and Xiao Aiyun. Even though they had braids and hair flowers on their heads, they were actually tomboys at heart.

Wei Min and Chen Zhilu were just playing around, but the shouts from the crowd aroused their desire to win, and they exerted force at the same time, their bodies tilted and fell to the ground.

“Come on—Come on—”

Amidst the cheers, something unexpected happened!

The two men suddenly felt something empty under them, and with a "splash" they fell into the dug pond at the same time.

The pond was half full of water and everyone had forgotten its existence in the darkness.

"Ouch, I fell into the water!"

"Hurry, hurry, save people."

"Where's the bamboo pole? Where's the torch? Where's the flashlight..."

After a flurry of activity, the two men were finally pulled out of the water. Wei Min choked on a mouthful of water, his whole body was wet, and he sat sideways coughing violently.

Chen Zhilu can swim, but he was caught off guard and fell into the water and was very frightened. He stood on the shore for a long time, still in shock, and said, "Hurry up... build a fence around this pond."

The educated youth who had just been singing and dancing around the fire also realized one thing - although the pond was good, it posed a safety hazard.

Qiao Yadong suggested, "We have to go to work tomorrow, so let's fix the fence tonight."

Wei Min finally stopped coughing, got up from the ground, and stamped his feet angrily: "Okay! Let's go chop down the tree tonight and nail a row of wooden stakes."

Thinking of the bamboo forest he had just visited this evening, Tao Nanfeng said, "Let's dig up a few bags of bamboo and plant them." The flexible and strong bamboo is quite gentlemanly, introverted, low-key, humble and noble.

Although her voice was soft, Qiao Yadong heard it clearly. Looking across the campfire, Tao Nanfeng under the eaves looked like a bamboo, slender and tall.

"Okay! Wei Min and Chen Zhilu go change their clothes. A few boys come, carry your hoes and go with me to the bamboo forest at the west end to dig bamboo." Qiao Yadong arranged everything in an orderly manner.

Seeing that there was nothing for him to do, Tao Nanfeng tidied up and went into the house to rest. Before he lay down for long, he heard a series of beeps outside the window, and a low voice, "Tao Nanfeng, are you asleep?"

Tao Nanfeng got up, put on his clothes and opened the door.

Qiao Yadong, Chen Zhilu, Wei Min and a few other boys were standing outside the door. In the dim light of the flashlight, their eyes were flashing with an inexplicable light.

"What's wrong?"

After leading everyone to build a house for a month, Tao Nanfeng's status in the eyes of the educated youth quickly improved. Although she usually doesn't talk much, she has a calming temperament.

It seemed that no matter what happened, as long as I told her I wouldn't have to worry too much.

"Tao Nanfeng, look, what we dug up in the bamboo forest!" Wei Min held a big stone in both hands, his voice a little hoarse with excitement.

Wei Min, who choked on a mouthful of pond water, was not originally in the bamboo digging team, but he was not a man who could sit idle. He went back to the house, changed his clothes, and ran to the bamboo forest, where he joined everyone in digging bamboo seedlings under the cover of night.

At this moment, he looked like he was presenting a treasure and tried hard to lift the stone. However, the stone weighed over 100 kilograms and was very heavy. After lifting it for a long time, it only moved an inch higher.

Tao Nanfeng bent his knees slightly, held the bottom of the stone, and took it with one hand: "What's wrong with this stone?"

Although he was already used to Tao Nanfeng's strength, Wei Min was still surprised to see that the stone he had worked so hard to carry was lightly lifted by her. "You, you are so strong!"

The other girls were awakened by the noise. Seeing the flashlight flickering outside the door, they hurried over and asked, "What's wrong?"

Qiao Yadong looked mysterious and motioned for Chen Zhilu to speak.

Chen Zhilu pointed at the stone and said, "I tell you, this is no ordinary stone. If my judgment is correct, it is very, very valuable!"

valuable? Tao Nanfeng's eyes lit up and he looked carefully at the yellowish stone in front of him.

The educated youth site is located in a remote area, with a solitary earthen brick house standing on a flat slope, more than ten meters away from the dirt road in the mountains, so there is no need to worry about walls having eavesdroppers.

Seeing that the girls were all woken up, Qiao Yadong no longer lowered his voice: "Chen Zhilu's family works in the fertilizer factory. He said he has seen this kind of ore."

Xiao Aiyun became excited when he heard this: "This is ore, so won't we be rich?"

Li Huilan looked up and down at the stone in Tao Nanfeng's hand. There was no electricity at the educated youth site, and the light was too dim at night to see clearly. She could only vaguely see that the surface of the stone was rough and it emitted a strong earthy smell.

"This stone is very common. Didn't we dig up a lot of it when we were digging the foundation trench?"

Chen Zhilu puffed up his chest unconvinced when he heard her say this: "The stones dug out of the bamboo forest are different from those found at our educated youth camp. The colors are different. Didn't you notice?"

Li Huilan did not respond to Chen Zhilu's words, but looked at Wei Min with disdain: "Why do you always let Tao Nanfeng hold this stone? Take it over quickly. No matter how strong Tao Nanfeng is, she is still a girl, don't you understand?"

Wei Min scratched his head embarrassedly and reached out to take it. Tao Nanfeng smiled and waved his hand, then bent down and placed the stone under the porch.

Chen Zhilu pointed at the stone under the illumination of a flashlight and said, "Look, the stone is slightly yellowish and grayish in color. If you look closely, you can see some red and white grains mixed in."

Tao Nanfeng straightened up, his eyes resting on the stone, and a hint of doubt arose in his heart.

I didn't pay any attention to the appearance of these stones when I was cutting bamboo in the bamboo forest in the morning. After hearing what Chen Zhilu said, it seemed that they were really different from the usual gray-white rocks.

Hearing that he was still keeping her in suspense, Xiao Aiyun asked anxiously, "Tell me quickly, what kind of ore is it? We don't know what it is."

Chen Zhilu had a problem. He loved to keep people in suspense. When he saw Xiao Aiyun getting anxious, he started to show off even more. He signaled Qiao Yadong to turn off the flashlight, and everyone's eyes were suddenly filled with darkness.

Chen Zhilu took out a box of matches from his pocket and lit one.

"Hiss——" After a slight sound, a small flame lit up the darkness.

The flame slowly approached the stone.

One o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock...

Tiny green dots of light began to overflow.

"Wow~~" Xiao Aiyun's mouth became round and his eyes widened, "So beautiful!"

Li Huilan was so frightened that she shuddered: "Willow fire!"

The orange flame of the match went out and the world fell silent.

Tao Nanfeng's voice rang out in the darkness: "Phosphate ore?"

Phosphate rock?

Phosphate rock is one of the most needed mineral resources for national development. It is the main raw material for phosphate fertilizer and can also be used to produce yellow phosphorus, phosphoric acid, phosphide and other phosphates.

Apart from anything else, this box of matches in front of you cannot do without phosphorus.

Xiao Aiyun trusted Tao Nanfeng the most, and immediately looked at Chen Zhilu excitedly: "Aren't minerals usually buried underground? How did you find them?"

Qiao Yadong turned on the flashlight and said with a smile, "What a coincidence! Wei Min and Chen Zhilu had a good fall. If they hadn't fallen into the pond, we wouldn't have gone up the mountain to dig bamboo at night.

As soon as the hoe was used to dig, a "ding" sound was heard, and flames lit up, with countless green spots of light flying out. Seeing the green light, some people shouted "ghost fire, ghost fire", saying there was a ghost and they had to go back quickly.

Fortunately, Chen Zhilu was knowledgeable and calmed us down. He turned on the flashlight and looked at it for a long time. He recognized that it was phosphate ore, an open-pit mine, and very pure phosphate ore. ”

Wei Min grinned, "Since it's ore, then we don't have to be afraid. Dig this stone out, bring it back and ask someone to take a look tomorrow. If it's confirmed to be an open-pit mine, it will be a great achievement if we report it!"

Tao Nanfeng was not infected by their excitement. She pursed her lips and frowned slightly, which made Qiao Yadong's heart shrink: "What's wrong?"

"After reporting this, what will the field office do?" After saying this, Tao Nanfeng turned around and walked into the house to light the kerosene lamp. The dim light in the room added a soft curtain of light for her.

A word of reminder to everyone. Yes, if we report this to the higher-ups, the credit would have probably been taken away by Luo Xuan and his gang, and there would be no place for us to get any part.

Thinking of this, everyone became discouraged.

Wei Min muttered, "If the phosphate rock we found is really a mine, wouldn't that mean Director Luo and Director Jiao will be dead?"

Ye Qin snorted, "These leaders came and gave the educated youth a beating. They made the girls feed pigs and build roads. When there was a storm, they didn't care about our lives at all. Why should they hand over the credit to us?"

"Yes! Those bastards cannot have a good death." Ye Qin's words aroused the anger and dissatisfaction buried in everyone's hearts, and no one was willing to report such a good thing to the site office.

However, phosphate rock is a national resource and cannot be monopolized.

Qiao Yadong suddenly thought of something and said loudly: "How about I quietly invite Xiangbei over? He should have a way."

"Yes, yes, yes. Among all the leaders of the farm, I only admire Xiang Bei."

“Although he was just the leader of a road repair team, he helped us a lot.”

"On the first day, they delivered an iron pot and taught us how to make a fire and cook."

"If Xiangbei hadn't come to lead us to the site that night, the house would have collapsed and someone would have died."

After some discussion, the educated youth all agreed to tell Xiangbei about this matter first.

Xiangbei came over late at night, and after listening to Chen Zhilu's description, he felt very happy. He took out an iron pick, took out two fist-sized stones and put them in his pocket.

"Keep it secret for now, and go back to work as normal. I'll go down the mountain tomorrow to have someone identify it, and I'll make a decision when I come back."

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