When Director Ren and others arrived at the Devil Valley, it was already six or seven in the afternoon, and the sunlight was still particularly strong.
In order to prevent the little guys who were still running around in the Gobi Desert from getting heatstroke, Xu Qi boiled a large pot of mung bean soup directly beside the mine and let them drink a bowl when they ran back.
Just then, Song Tiantian and the others came back sweating profusely. They were drinking mung bean soup when they saw seven or eight cars driving towards them.
Fortunately, there is nothing else in this Gobi Desert except a lot of open space.
I saw them all parked on the flat ground not far from the gold mine, and they hurriedly got into the car and rushed over here.
Director Liu, who had already contacted Director Ren, immediately stood up and greeted them as soon as he saw them coming. "Hello, hello, are you Director Ren?"
"Yes, you are Director Liu, right? I am Ren Guochang. Thank you for contacting us the moment you discovered the gold mine." Director Ren shook hands with Director Liu.
"This is what we should do." Director Liu led him straight to the mine. "This is where we found the gold mine. These are the gold ores we dug out. All of them are here."
Director Ren had already seen this in the live broadcast room. Not only the gold ore dug out from the mine, but also the nugget gold that Song Tiantian and others found in the Gobi Desert using tungsten gold pills were all placed together.
This attitude is also very cooperative.
But Director Ren and his men are not the type of people who would pack up and take away even the nugget gold they found.
As soon as Director Ren saw the nuggets of gold, he immediately said to Director Liu and the others, "Thank you very much for your cooperation, but we won't be using these nuggets of gold."
"I just told Brother Lu and the others about this. They found these nugget golds in the Gobi Desert. According to the procedure, they don't have to hand them in."
"But Brother Lu and the others think that these gold nuggets were picked up near the gold mine, so they should be handed over so that we can study the reasons for their formation. Maybe we can even find the gold mine through them." Xiao Wu on the side hurriedly explained, fearing that Director Ren would think that they had not explained clearly to Lu Chuanbei and the others in advance.
"Xiao Wu is right. Rather than taking these gold nuggets back to exchange for money or collecting them at home, we think they can be put to better use if we give them to you," Lu Chuanbei said with a smile.
Since Lu Chuanbei, Tiantian's guardian, said so, He Xuebin and the others, who had nothing to do with them, would definitely not disagree.
After this conversation, Director Ren had a better impression of Lu Chuanbei and his team, but as an official unit, they couldn't take such a big advantage of Lu Chuanbei and his team.
Of course, it is impossible to ask them to spend money to buy these nuggets of gold. After all, although their bureau is in charge of the mines, the annual expenses are allocated with great difficulty. All this money has to be spent on finding mines, buying equipment, etc.
For this reason, Director Ren narrowed his eyes and decided to apply for a bonus for Lu Chuanbei and others for finding the gold mine after he returned. At worst, he could apply for more at that time.
Director Ren became even happier when he thought about how he had saved the company some money.
The entire process of Song Tiantian and her team finding the gold mine and the nugget was captured by the drone, so the subsequent handover was very simple.
Lu Chuanbei and others, including Song Tiantian, all signed their names on the report. Those who could not write their names, such as Wuketu, just pressed their fingerprints.
Because the full name was too long, the little friends who could only write a few of it could only wonder inwardly why their name was so long and difficult to write, and pressed a red thumbprint on the report.
After everything was handed over, Lu Chuanbei and others worked with the staff to clean up the tents, used daily necessities, fruit peels, bones, etc., then got back into the car and drove towards Mojin Village.
After returning to the village, Xu Qi simply cooked a pot of shredded pork noodles. For Wuketu's sake, Xu Qi used beef as the topping.
Only after everyone had eaten their fill did they send Wuketu back home.
It’s no wonder that the parents in Wuketu are quite carefree. Lu Chuanbei and others sent the children back as soon as possible, but they didn’t worry at all.
The next morning, the news that a gold mine had been discovered in front of the Gobi Desert in Devil Valley spread everywhere. Not only that, the villagers who heard the news also came to Lu Chuanbei's home to ask them about the gold mine.
Song Tiantian and the others ran out openly.
Only Lu Chuanbei and a few others were still surrounded by the villagers.
As soon as Song Tiantian and the others went out, they saw Wuketu running to the door with eager eyes.
"Wuktu, why are you here?" Song Tiantian greeted him happily.
"I came to play with you." Wu Ketu said, looking into the house: "But there are too many people in your family, I can't squeeze in."
"Haha, we didn't expect so many people would come today."
"Yes, they all came to ask my father and others about the gold mine."
"However, we just discovered the gold mine yesterday. How come they knew about it so quickly?" Xu Anjia asked somewhat puzzled.
"Um... I guess everyone has watched the live broadcast." He Jingnian guessed.
"That's right. After my mother found out that I went out with you yesterday, she kept watching the live broadcast at home and told the villagers that I was on TV and asked everyone to come and watch. Then, they saw that we found the gold mine." As he said this, Wuketu scratched his head a little embarrassedly.
"So that's how it is. I was wondering how everyone knew about it so quickly." Xu Anjia said with sudden realization.
"Then you won't blame me, right?" Wuketu looked at Song Tiantian and the others with some concern, afraid that they would not want to play with him anymore.
"Why should I blame you?"
"You didn't do anything wrong."
"That's right, and it has nothing to do with you."
"That's good." Wu Ketu breathed a sigh of relief and asked Song Tiantian and the others happily, "Where are we going to play today?"
"Let's go to the riverbank." Xu Anjia said hurriedly, "We're going back soon. I want to find a few more jade seeds as gifts for my mother and others before we go back."
At Xu Anjia's reminder, He Jingnian also nodded in agreement: "Yes, yes, yes, I have only found two pieces of jade seed material now. I am still a long way from giving one to my mother, grandfather and grandpa."
[Give away one piece for all? Do you know how hard it is to find a piece of jade seed material every year? 】
[You wouldn't plan to give your family jade seeds as souvenirs every year, would you?]
[It’s nice to make wishes every year, but it’s just so hard to realize them…]
[Young man, do you know that it is a blessing for ordinary people to pick up one or two pieces of jade seed material? ]
[They've become so inflated by the gold they've found every year that they've even started eyeing jade seed material.]
He Jingnian didn't know how difficult it would be to collect so many jade seeds. He was still eager to try and asked Wu Ketu, "Atu, do you know where else I can find jade seeds here besides the river?"
"Yes." Wuketu nodded affirmatively.
He Jingnian looked at him in surprise: "Where is it?"
"It's the Gobi Desert you visited yesterday. There's still a lot of jade there, but it's a little harder to find than in the river." Wuketu gestured with his hand.
Thinking of yesterday's experience of searching for jade seed material on the yellow sandy plateau, He Jingnian hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, no, no, I almost threw away the jade seed material yesterday, mistaking it for an ordinary stone. I'd better go to the river. At least there's water to wash the stone so I can take a closer look."
"Then let's go to the river."
"Sure, but Wuketu, you had an accident a few days ago. Will it be okay for you to go now?"
"It's okay, as long as I don't go into the river." Wu Ketu said without any trace of the shadow of being swept into the river a few days ago. "But when I'm older and heavier, and the river can't carry me anymore, I can go to the river to look for jade seeds."
Xu Anjia looked at him and asked, "Aren't you afraid?"
"I'm not afraid," Wuketu said. "What's there to be afraid of? Almost everyone here has fallen in the river before. I'm just too light and was accidentally swept away by the river. It's no big deal."
[This kid is really big. This was all washed away by the river, and it’s still nothing...]
I guess it's because the people here are so used to wading through the river looking for jade seeds that they don't take this little risk seriously.
[What the above person said is correct. For those whose income is almost entirely tied to jade seed material throughout the year, even if they know there are threats in the river, they will still pick up jade material in the river as usual in order to support their families.]
[That's true. Agricultural income there is too low. If they don't make money by collecting jade seeds, they won't make much just from the output of the fields.]
[I understand. I'll go to Lu Chuanbei's livestream now to place an order for Elaeagnus angustifolia and seabuckthorn fruit!]
[What? The livestream is selling Elaeagnus angustifolia again? When did this happen? Why didn't I know about it?]
[It just started airing. I guess Xiao Lu was afraid of the villagers surrounding them and asking about the gold mine and tungsten gold pills, so he quickly started airing and found an excuse to avoid them, right?]
[The above guessed correctly. When Xiao Lu saw that the villagers were silent after the show started, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. His expression almost made us all laugh.]
While Lu Chuanbei and his team were live streaming and selling goods, Song Tiantian, He Jingnian and others also came to the river. There had been no floods or large amounts of snow water rushing down from upstream in the past few days, so not many people came to the river to pick up jade seeds.
Especially now that there was an explosive gold mine of news in the village, there were even fewer people picking up materials by the river.
The clear river water flowed down. Song Tiantian looked at where the river was flowing and thought of the gold mine downstream.
Thinking of this, Song Tiantian couldn't help but ask Wu Ketu: "Atu, where is the place from here?"
"It's still the Mojin River." Wu Ketu said without hesitation: "From this section above to the river downstream, which is about ten kilometers long, it all belongs to the Mojin River."
As he spoke, Wuketu looked at Song Tiantian and the others and said, "By the way, do you know there is a legend about our river?"
"legend?"
"What legend?"
Wu Ketu said, "It is said that there is gold here too."
"What? There's gold in this river too?"
"I don't know if it's a gold mine, but it's definitely related to gold." As he said that, Wuketu told Song Tiantian and others the legend about this river.
According to legend, the Mojin River was called Zuliyati a long time ago, which means water of life. It represents that they rely on the river water left by the snow-capped mountains to nourish and nurture life here.
But no one knows when, a group of people suddenly came here, they walked along the river with a lot of treasures, and in the dead of night, they hid boxes of gems, gold bars and other treasures somewhere in the river.
After it was hidden, anyone who knew where the treasure was was killed on the spot.
There was a man who escaped from the disaster and told the village chief of Mojinhe Village the origin of their group. Only then did he know that they were a group of tomb robbers who were controlled by someone and specialized in stealing treasures from tombs for a certain warlord as military pay.
But before the stolen treasures could be received, the warlord was shot dead in an accident. Moreover, people found out that he had a team that was dedicated to stealing treasures from tombs for him.
For this reason, many people began to track down their news. In order to protect the treasure from being stolen and prevent tomb robbers from using it for those who found it, the descendants of the warlord directly led their team to hide the treasure.
Moreover, all the members of the tomb-robbing team were killed.
Although the tomb robber managed to escape the massacre, he had already been poisoned. So even though he finally escaped, he died from the poison.
And there were no clues left about the treasure. The only thing we know is that the treasure was buried in this river.
In order to find this batch of treasures, many people came to the river to search for gold and treasure. Over time, this river was called the Mojin River.
Later, when people learned that Mojin also meant tomb robbing, they called it Mojin River.
After hearing the origin of the river's name, Song Tiantian finally understood why the gold mine downstream of the river was marked as ancient gold on the map. It was really possible that it was ancient gold!
At this time, Wuketu continued, "...However, this story is probably just a legend. After all, no one has found any treasure in this river in all these years."
"In that case, let's go find the treasure!" Song Tiantian turned her head and saw He Jingnian looking at them excitedly...
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