"Brother, you're confused. The scale is in the car, and the car is quite far from us!" Lin Nian heard this and wanted to turn around to look for the scale, but then realized that the car was not near them at all.
"Damn it, I'm totally confused! Quick, let's go back and weigh this guy first!"
Chen Feng, clutching the gold nugget, walked back with Lin Nian, both of them beaming with joy.
However, they were indeed quite a distance from the car, and Chen Feng even got a little tired of carrying them for a while.
"Even though it's gold, it's tiring to hold it for a long time." Chen Feng chuckled, lifting the gold nugget up a bit more, otherwise it would have slipped off.
"How about I hug you for a bit, brother?" Lin Nian reached out to take the gold nugget.
"No, no, no, I can do it myself. I must put it on the scale by myself," Chen Feng said with a great sense of ceremony.
The two quickly walked to the car. Lin Nian took the key out of Chen Feng's pocket, opened the trunk, and went inside to look for the newly bought scale.
Chen Feng's arms were getting sore from carrying it, so he put the gold nugget on the ground. He estimated that the gold nugget weighed more than ten pounds!
Ten jin is a huge amount of money; Chen Feng has lost count of how much it costs.
Lin Nian took out the electronic scale, installed the battery, and put it in the car. Chen Feng then placed the large piece of gold on the electronic scale.
A number appeared exactly on the electronic scale.
"5000"
"Holy crap, holy crap, five kilograms! How much is that? Ten pounds?" Lin Nian stared wide-eyed, his mouth practically splitting into a grin.
"Ten pounds, exactly ten pounds, holy crap, how much is that?"
Chen Feng was a bit stunned. Others sell gold by the gram, but they've started selling it by the kilogram, and some even start at ten kilograms!
"Ten catties is... after deducting 30% loss, that's seven catties."
"Seven jin is three thousand five hundred grams, three thousand five hundred times four hundred equals... one million four hundred thousand!"
Lin Nian counted on his fingers and finally came up with a number that made them both cheer.
"One million four hundred thousand? Holy crap, if this gets out, I bet all the other gold prospectors will be shocked to their core!" Lin Nian was so happy he even jumped up.
"One million four hundred thousand? Wow, this gold nugget is amazing! It weighs exactly ten pounds, not a single gram more."
Chen Feng was both happy and somewhat surprised.
Something this big is hard to measure with such precision.
He reached out and pressed the gold nugget, but the numbers that should have been ticking didn't react at all.
"Hey, what's going on? Could it be that the new scale broke right after we bought it?" Lin Nian also noticed something was wrong and asked, puzzled.
If it's really broken, then wouldn't that mean the gold might not even weigh ten pounds, and all my joy would have been for nothing?
"Wait a minute, something seems off."
Chen Feng frowned slightly, picked up the gold nugget, and the numbers on the electronic scale jumped instantly before finally returning to zero.
Seeing this, Chen Feng and Lin Nian slowly exchanged a glance, their eyes gradually widening.
"Holy crap, bro, could this be...?"
"That's right, just as I thought. The scale is fine, not broken at all. The reason it shows ten jin is because it can only weigh ten jin!"
After Chen Feng finished speaking about this only possibility, he burst into loud laughter.
He said that this piece of gold is so heavy, how could it only weigh ten pounds!
I was so caught up in the joy that I forgot the scale might only weigh ten pounds.
"Wow, it weighs over ten pounds! How heavy must this gold be? It must weigh at least twenty pounds!"
"Twenty pounds... Holy crap, two million eight hundred thousand?!"
In just one minute, the value of the gold nugget doubled again. Lin Nian was incredulous, feeling as if a pie had fallen from the sky.
"Is this the gold worth nearly three million? Let me touch it!" Lin Nian stepped forward and touched the gold, his face filled with delighted joy.
"I don't know how heavy this is. The key is that who would have thought that I would come across such a big shipment? If I had known this would happen, I would have bought a 30-pound electronic scale."
Chen Feng grinned and said.
Logically speaking, a ten-pound electronic scale is more than enough for the normal use of gold prospectors, and might even be far more than sufficient.
Most gold prospectors only carry a 500-gram shovel, which is enough for them.
Thirty jin?
You want to sell fish? Who brings such a big electronic scale when panning for gold? What do you want to weigh?
However, Chen Feng was never like a normal person. On his very first day, he broke the scale, something even Chen Feng himself couldn't have imagined.
"Brother, I really want to know how much this gold nugget is worth. How about we find a place to weigh it?" Lin Nian asked impatiently.
Although Chen Feng was also eager to know, after calming down a bit, he decided not to rush into it.
"Let's get to work first and head back early today. Let's borrow a scale from Xia Yingying and see how heavy this thing really is," Chen Feng said, stuffing the gold nugget into the car.
Now that they're going back, they'll have to come back after weighing the goods. It's not like this one piece of goods is enough. The road to gold is long and arduous, and ten million is still a long way off.
Rather than having to turn back, it's better to weigh them together in the evening.
"Okay, that works too. We'll talk about it tonight." Lin Nian rubbed his hands together, already thinking about what to eat for dinner.
Damn it, I'll just order a box of mutton hot pot and eat mutton all day. I'm wasting my time today!
The two locked the car door and turned back to continue panning for gold. Chen Feng continued digging the hole he hadn't finished digging, while Lin Nian returned to the spot with the large gold nugget and continued panning for the remaining gold.
After panning for a large gold nugget, Lin Nian inevitably became a little arrogant, and even his words about panning for gold changed.
"A hundred or so yuan? Garbage."
"Two hundred silver ingots? Trash."
"Oh, this is a tiny gold bean, a piece of trash."
"A little gold coin that costs over a thousand yuan, garbage."
"Heh, isn't this the arrogant little gold nugget you always are, you little trash?"
"Hey, this one's not bad, this gold nugget must be worth four or five thousand, right? No, what's not bad about it, this is garbage!"
Chen Feng sat in the car digging a hole, feeling incredibly happy.
Although we don't know exactly how heavy this gold nugget is, it's definitely worth at least two million.
The ambitious project is now 20% complete, a significant leap forward.
Feeling comfortable, Chen Feng was also glad that he had listened to Xia Yingying and come here to try it out, otherwise he might have missed out on it.
It seems the old man's words made sense: listen to advice and you'll have a full stomach.
The two of them shopped until four o'clock. Although they wanted to shop a little longer, Chen Feng couldn't contain his excitement.
He also wanted to know how much this thing was worth.
"Get on the bus, let's go home!"
Neither of them had eaten lunch, and they were just waiting for this dinner.
"Alright." Lin Nian jumped into the car, lit a cigarette, and looked every bit the victor.
The two arrived at the villa quickly. Xia Yingying, who was looking at her phone upstairs, heard the car stop and glanced out the window.
When she realized it was Chen Feng who had returned, she was filled with confusion.
These are contestants who usually start at 5:30, why are they back so early today?
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