"I thought you were adjusting the parameters, so I didn't pay any attention to it. I never expected that the machine was malfunctioning," Li Chunlai said, lighting a cigarette.
"I'm just bored, I'm just messing around with it," Chen Feng replied.
After thinking for a moment, Chen Feng stepped forward, pulled up the vacuum tube, and checked it section by section to see if there was a problem with the tube.
Li Chunlai also came over, a cigarette dangling from his lips, to help check where the problem was.
Sure enough, after pulling the pipe to about two-thirds of the way down to the money-absorbing ship, they saw that a large part of the pipe was cracked.
"Holy crap, how did it break?" Li Chunlai said, his eyes wide with surprise.
"Who knows? Maybe it was caused by stones scraping during the rain?" Chen Feng couldn't figure it out either, but since it was already almost broken, there was no point in dwelling on it anymore.
It would be best to replace it with a new one as soon as possible.
Chen Feng returned to the prefab house, pulled out the spare pipe, and, carrying the pipe, huffed and puffed his way to the shore, where he replaced it with the new pipe.
"No wonder there was no suction. It's all being sucked away from the side. There's no suction left at the tube head," Li Chunlai said, holding the old tube that had been replaced.
Li Chunlai even felt that if he used it for a few more hours, the tube would break completely.
"Okay, this should be fine now." Chen Feng said, panting heavily after changing the tubes.
"Okay, I'll go down into the water and try it out." Li Chunlai said, then went back to put on his helmet, grabbed the new hose, and went into the water.
Once they reached the bottom of the river, Li Chunlai placed the pipe on the ground, and the pipe head acted like a vacuum cleaner, sucking up all the mud and sand from the riverbed.
"Ah, this is the best I can do." Li Chunlai comfortably hugged the tube and continued to suck.
With nothing else to do, Huang Fei and his group went to the pit to sift for gold. Although the bottom of the pit wasn't dry yet, they figured they could sift out as much as they could.
Huang Fei reached out and grabbed a lump of mud, slammed it onto the plate with a "thud," then sank the plate into the bucket and gently shook it.
The dirty water and silt were slowly washed into the bucket by the water flow, and golden particles gradually appeared in the plate.
"Wow, I've had a good haul this time! I saw quite a lot of gold dust," Huang Fei said happily.
"I also screened out quite a few this time. They said there were problems with the previous locations, but today we changed locations and actually got some goods," Chen Jianguo said, looking at his plate with satisfaction.
Although his harvest was not as much as Huang Fei's, it was still not bad. Unlike before, when he couldn't see a single piece of gold for half a day.
"It really happened today. Do you think the heavy rain washed all the gold out?" Lin Nian asked curiously.
"Who knows? Anyway, this thing is similar to buying lottery tickets. Digging a hole is like buying a lottery ticket. You never know when you'll get your winnings."
Huang Fei collected the gold, then grabbed a handful of mud and slammed it onto the plate with a "plop".
"Holy crap, there's still this stuff here at this depth?" Lin Nian grabbed a handful of mud and picked out a rotten grass root.
"I don't know if the gold was washed down, but this stuff definitely was. It's so deep, where are we going to find this stuff? Even if there was any, it would have rotted away long ago," Huang Fei laughed.
"Then I guess I came down here too," Chen Jianguo said, throwing a mineral water bottle cap out of the pit.
"Haha, that must have been Chen Feng who shot it. We've collected all the trash; we'll throw it all away when we go to the city."
"If any trash is found here, it's definitely Chen Feng's doing."
Huang Fei didn't mention Qu Chenfeng in his words. Qu Chenfeng liked to finish drinking water, tighten the bottle, and then slam the cap off.
Even when he's bored, he'll randomly pick someone's butt.
Once, when Chen Jianguo was cooking, Chen Feng was behind him. He secretly tightened the cap on a bottle and smacked his father's buttocks.
The guy was so scared by Chen Jianguo that he dropped the shovel and ran away, thinking that the portable gas stove behind him had exploded. This amused them greatly, while Chen Feng was laughing so hard that he could hardly breathe.
There's nothing he can do; fathers are kind and sons are filial, and Chen Jianguo has gotten used to it all.
About two hours later, Li Chunlai finally got ashore. Chen Feng walked over to the edge of the pit and stuck his head out to ask, "Chunlai is back. Who's next?"
"I'll go today, let's work until dark," Huang Fei said, standing up and stretching his body.
Because of the rain today, I didn't work this morning, so I haven't been able to work for twelve hours in a row.
Chen Feng noticed that it seemed like they had never spent a full day searching since they arrived; it was always just half a day.
"Then Chunlai, you go and check on him. You can take a break now." Chen Feng said, heading towards the pit to relieve Huang Fei.
"No, no, no, Brother Feng, I'm not tired. You watch and decide what to do. I'll sift the gold." Li Chunlai jumped into the pit first.
In fact, they would rather sift through the gold here than go to the river to watch people. Mainly, watching people is just them, which is too boring, and there's no one to talk to.
Although the gold sieve had to be shaken constantly, the three of them chatted and joked around, and the time passed quickly. It was quite interesting, and sitting there wasn't tiring at all.
"My phone's dead from all that looking, damn it." Chen Feng sighed helplessly and could only go back to get his power bank before continuing his job of watching people.
He also didn't want to keep looking at people; it was too boring.
After Huang Fei finished dressing, he looked at Chen Feng's phone plugged into the power bank and couldn't help but say, "Fengzi, don't just play on your phone all the time. Check on me occasionally, or you won't even know when I pull the rope."
"Get down there!" Chen Feng kicked him into the river.
You don't trust me to handle things? Seriously.
Chen Feng would scroll through a few videos, then look up to see if anything was amiss, before continuing to scroll.
After Huang Fei went down and saw the gold-dredging ship starting to spew out mud and sand, Chen Feng then turned on his phone, intending to find a play to watch.
You can't just keep watching short videos. You need to improve yourself and cultivate your character from time to time. Short videos are completely devoid of substance, and watching them all the time will ruin your brain.
Three minutes later...
"Hello everyone, I pranked my girlfriend yesterday, and she seemed quite unhappy. Today I've prepared another prop: sesame paste."
"When I go to the bathroom later, I'll pretend I don't have any toilet paper and ask her to bring me some. Then I'll take the opportunity to wipe her hand and see how she reacts!"
Chen Feng stared at his phone, his eyes filled with anticipation. A minute later, he let out a silly grin.
"Hehe, hehehehehehe, hahaha!"
"This is hilarious! This woman actually licked it once, haha!"
The next video was a Shakespearean play, which Chen Feng swiped past without hesitation to find the next prank video.
As night fell, Huang Fei finally emerged from the water.
"It's no good, I can't see very well anymore. Once it gets dark, the underwater light gets dim." Huang Fei came up and took off his helmet, and saw Chen Feng sitting on the shore, guarding the rope, not even playing on his phone.
"Fengzi, you've been watching over me the whole time, without even checking your phone?" Huang Fei was touched by this.
Chen Feng blinked upon hearing this, and finally nodded heavily.
"Um."
He wouldn't say that his power bank was also out of power.
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