With the powerful suction of the vacuum tube, the silt at the bottom of the river was drawn into the vacuum tube without any spillage, and then sprayed out by the gold-absorbing ship, while the gold sand inside was left in the groove of the gold-absorbing ship.
Chen Feng stood next to the money-attracting ship, occasionally poking at it.
"No, this amount of gold is far from enough. It probably hasn't been absorbed into the right place yet." Chen Feng shook his head to himself, looking down at the bottom of the river.
"Brother Feng, put the cage down. We've finished sucking up this area," Lin Nian said.
Chen Feng didn't say anything, but simply reached out his hand, and Chen Jianguo, who was sitting on the crane, understood what he meant and slowly lowered the cage into the water.
Lin Nian caught the cage in the water and pressed it to the bottom sideways. Li Chunlai then lifted a stone and put it in.
In this way, the basket of stones was quickly filled. Li Chunlai spoke, and Chen Feng waved his hand, and another basket of stones was pulled up.
They worked like this until noon, when Li Chunlai and Lin Nian surfaced.
"Phew, Brother Feng, how was the harvest?" The first thing Li Chunlai asked after getting ashore was this.
"Generally speaking, it's probably not sucked into the right spot yet," Chen Feng said, shaking his head.
"Huh, haven't you been sucking the right spot all morning?" Lin Nian asked, puzzled, as he walked over to the money-absorbing ship and peeked inside.
"It doesn't seem like it was very good. Although the harvest was not small, it wasn't as full as I expected." Lin Nian scratched his head, rubbed the gold sand, and put it down again.
"Yeah, I thought there would be piles of them by morning, but I didn't expect there to be so few," Li Chunlai said with a hint of regret.
They were all prepared to receive piles of gold after Chen Feng said that in the morning, but when they arrived, it seemed to be no different from yesterday, so they were inevitably a little disappointed.
"It's alright, we'll probably run into them this afternoon. Let's go, let's get ready for lunch," Chen Feng said reassuringly.
The group arrived at the camp for a meal. After they finished eating, Huang Fei took over from Li Chunlai, and the two of them got dressed and went into the water.
"Damn it, we have to find that pile of gold that Brother Feng mentioned this afternoon," Lin Nian said fiercely.
"You guys can't do it, I have to do it. Look, I got it done in no time." Huang Fei said with a chuckle.
Upon hearing this, Li Chunlai pursed his lips on the shore without saying a word.
"The frame is down, watch out for it," Chen Feng said.
"Okay," Lin Nian said.
"Come on, Huang Fei, give me a hand," Lin Nian said, picking up a stone.
"Oops, wait a minute, hiccup~"
"Alright, let's go," Huang Fei said, having adjusted himself.
The two of them worked together to move the stones into the basket, and Chen Feng on the shore couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Huang Fei is such a lazy bum; he has to burp before he starts working, and he really shows off his lunch, not allowing a single bite to be missing.
They worked until sunset before Chen Feng allowed them to come up.
"How's it going, Fengzi? Is this any good? We've cleaned this underwater area thoroughly; there's nothing left here." Huang Fei said, eager to take credit.
"Are you sure you've cleaned them all up?" Chen Feng asked, his brows furrowed.
In his mind, at least two-thirds of the gold in this underwater area had not been panned out, but how could a gold-sucking ship, with its carpet-like gold-sucking capabilities, possibly let so much gold slip by?
Chen Feng himself was puzzled by what was going on.
"It's definitely been cleaned out. They moved those stones one by one. Now, there's not even a grain of sand left on the riverbed, let alone silt."
"What's wrong? You're not sucking anything up." Huang Fei realized something was amiss.
If he had actually inhaled it, Chen Feng wouldn't have had this expression.
"See for yourselves," Chen Feng said, gesturing for them to come and see for themselves.
Huang Fei went to the money-attracting ship, rubbed his hands together, and thought that today's harvest was not bad, actually about the same as yesterday.
It's the land of gold deposits that Chen Feng described, a huge pile of gold in his imagination, but it doesn't match up at all.
"What's going on? But I really sucked it all up clean!" Lin Nian was completely baffled and said with some self-reproach.
Could it be that he missed something?
Chen Feng didn't say anything and walked to the shore. He could clearly feel that the piles of golden sand were there, but why hadn't Lin Nian managed to clean the riverbed and suck it up?
"Damn it, get me a flashlight, I'm going down into the water to see what's going on!" Chen Feng was going all out; it seemed he had no choice but to go down into the water himself today.
"Forget it, bro. How about I go down again? It's getting late, and it might be dangerous later." Lin Nian was already feeling guilty, and when he heard Chen Feng say that, he felt even worse. He immediately put on his diving suit and went back into the water.
“Come back. It’s no use for you to go down there again. You don’t know how to see things, so it’s a waste of your time.”
"It's still early, I can tell what's going on with just one look." Chen Feng refused Lin Nian's offer and put on his diving suit himself.
"Brother, it's not safe for you to be underwater alone. I'd better go down." Lin Nian ignored Chen Feng's advice and continued putting on his clothes.
“You’ve been working all day, stay on the shore. Chunlai, come down with me.” Chen Feng gestured for Li Chunlai to change his clothes and come down with him.
"Okay, Lin Nian, come out now. I've been resting all afternoon and I'm not tired at all."
They were supposed to switch shifts in the afternoon, but in the end they didn't, meaning Lin Nian had to cover for the whole day by himself.
"Alright." Lin Nian knew that forcing his way down was also unsafe, so he took off his diving suit and gave it to Li Chunlai, helping him put on his clothes.
Huang Fei brought a flashlight and handed it to Chen Feng. After Li Chunlai got dressed, the two of them sank to the bottom of the river together.
Chen Feng, flashlight in hand, headed straight for a place.
After he stepped onto the riverbed, he found that it was indeed as Huang Fei and the other man had said. The riverbed was now clean, without a single clump of silt or even a single grain of sand.
“Brother Feng, look, this is the area we sucked this morning, there’s no way it could have leaked.” Li Chunlai said, wiping the bottom of the river with his hand.
Chen Feng lay on the riverbed, feeling the riverbed with his hands. He could feel that there was a pile of gold just 20 or 30 centimeters below the riverbed, without a doubt!
No wonder Li Chunlai and his group couldn't suck it up at all; with the riverbed blocking the way, how could they possibly suck it up?
If Chen Feng hadn't come down, he wouldn't have noticed this situation at all. From the shore, he knew there was gold at the bottom of the riverbed, but it wasn't obvious at all, even if it was only twenty or thirty centimeters deep. He wouldn't have been able to tell that there was a riverbed blocking the way.
"Damn it, what do we do? The gold is right under this riverbed. There must be an opening in a part of the riverbed, and the gold sand was washed in. Eventually, it accumulated and got stuck here," Chen Feng said to Li Chunlai, pointing to the area.
"Ah, there's such a thing? How did you know?" Li Chunlai was astonished upon hearing this, looking at the riverbed with considerable confusion.
There's gold under just two riverbeds, and Feng Ge actually knew that? That's amazing!
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