After seeing Chen Feng's large load, everyone brought over the buckets, preparing to collect all the gold and begin separating it.
"Why do we have to use a basin for this thing? It's so hard to shake it, we can't really use it properly. Why don't we just go cross the river? That would be so much better," Huang Fei asked, watching Chen Feng's movements.
Chen Feng, who was carrying a plate, couldn't help but look up at him when he heard this, and then gestured for him to come over and help him separate the plates.
"Come on, I can do it too. I've already learned how to do it by watching." Huang Fei picked up the plate, dipped it into the basin like he was doing, then picked it up and gently shook it from side to side.
Some grains of sand were carried away by the water flow and fell into the basin below.
Huang Fei continued to repeat the action, and in this way, the sand was sifted away less and less, and the gold in the middle seemed to be gathering more and more.
Huang Fei felt that the shaking was a bit slow, so he unconsciously increased the force. As a result, a few grains of gold were carried outside by the water and fell back down with another shake.
"Hey hey hey, holy crap!" Huang Fei quickly lifted the lid and looked at the few gold grains at the bottom of the basin.
"Now you know why we use a basin to catch it?" Chen Feng said with a smile, as if he had expected this.
"Damn it, I thought gold was heavy and wouldn't be thrown off," Huang Fei said, somewhat annoyed.
Lin Nian reached out and carefully picked the gold out of the basin, placing it on the lid.
"Take it easy this time, don't fling it out again," Lin Nian said with a smile.
"Alright, I've learned my lesson this time." Huang Fei slowly submerged the lid in the water and continued to gently shake the sand out.
This time, Huang Fei learned his lesson and shook the sand very well, without throwing any more gold out. In no time, he had shaken all the sand off.
"Alright, let's weigh it this time and see how much money it is." Huang Fei chuckled, holding the lid. Everyone brought over the small scale, and Huang Fei poured the gold onto it.
"Wow, over 240 grams! That's almost half a pound!" Li Chunlai exclaimed in surprise as he looked at the number on the scale.
"Haha, half a jin? When did we start selling gold by weight? How much is this worth?" Huang Fei laughed.
"Let me do the math. Even if it's 240 grams, after accounting for losses, this gold is probably worth around 66,000 yuan," Chen Jianguo said after doing the calculations.
"Sixty-six thousand? Holy crap, another sixty thousand in! If we add that to what we made this morning, we're making a hundred thousand today!" Li Chunlai was completely stunned, having never seen so much money before.
"Haha, this stuff makes money so fast! My mom even said before that now that I'm making money, I shouldn't stay in the village all the time. She suggested I open a small spicy hot pot shop in the county town."
"How many bowls of spicy hot pot would this sell? It would be enough to make a day's income for us! We'd be boiling the whole pot dry!" Huang Fei laughed.
Indeed, how many spicy hot pots would you have to sell in a county town to earn 10,000 yuan a day?
"Hey, how long did we actually shop this afternoon? It seems like we didn't shop as much as we did this morning," Lin Nian said happily, doing some calculations.
"It's exactly three hours in the morning, and in the afternoon, the two of you together seem to have a little over six hours."
“The batch that came this morning was 40,000, and this batch is 66,000. It’s true that the afternoon batch is not as good as the morning batch,” Chen Feng said from the side.
To be honest, he thought he could break 100,000 in the afternoon, because in his mind, that was the minimum income.
The result was that he only made 66,000 in the whole afternoon, which made Chen Feng a little puzzled and unhappy.
It's not that 66,000 isn't a lot, but it's completely different from what he detected in his system; the difference is quite large.
Could it be that there was a leak because it was their first time in the water?
Chen Feng thought it might be possible. After all, it was their first time going into the water, and it would be good enough if they could complete the mission successfully. How could they be asked to do more?
We can take it slowly later. There's no rush, and we can't rush it.
“Okay, then I’ll collect all the gold. You guys should also keep a rough count, and we’ll sell it together when we’ve accumulated enough.” Chen Feng said as he collected the gold.
What he meant was that everyone should be aware of the situation, so as not to sell too much or too little at the last minute.
"What are you saying, Brother Feng? I'll take whatever you give me. Do you think I'm hiding anything from you? I'd be jumping for joy if you could take me out to have fun." Li Chunlai didn't want to hear this.
“That’s right, just keep it and that’s it. You can sell it whenever you want, we won’t interfere,” Huang Fei echoed.
“Of course, that’s too formal. We’re all brothers, who cares about such calculations?” Lin Nian said, sitting down.
Hearing what everyone was saying, Chen Feng smiled but didn't say anything. He went into the prefab house and put all the gold into a box.
This box can hold about fifteen pounds of gold. When the box is full, Chen Feng will go to Brother Qi to sell it.
It was getting dark by then, and since everyone had eaten quite a lot in the afternoon, Chen Jianguo simply cooked some noodles.
“To be honest, even if it doesn’t make much money, I’ll still come out with you. It’s more fun outside. There are always the same jobs in the village, and it gets boring after a while,” Huang Fei said, slurping his noodles.
"Me too. Patrolling every night is really boring, especially now that no one dares to come. At night, I just stare at the weeds. It's not as fun as watching old ladies stealing ore every day."
Li Chunlai couldn't help but chuckle as he spoke, saying that it was still more interesting to do those old men and women, especially the things like throwing feces before, which were simply too exciting.
"Of course, Brother Feng, I'll do whatever you ask me to do without complaint." Li Chunlai was worried that Chen Feng might misunderstand that he was unwilling to do it, so he made a special explanation.
Chen Feng was eating noodles when he heard this and couldn't help but laugh.
That's why he brought those two along this time, instead of Zheng Ping and the others.
They are the kind of people who can't sit still, so they are not suited to doing monotonous jobs.
Zheng Ping is perfect for simply leaving him somewhere and letting him do the work.
You have to use people in the right places to achieve twice the result with half the effort.
As for Lin Nian, you don't need to say anything. He's just my little follower. He doesn't care what he does; he only cares about being able to hang out with me.
"You guys eat first, I'll go boil some water and we'll make some tea." Lin Nian put down his chopsticks and began the classic post-meal routine.
"You all like going out and having fun, right? You'll have plenty of time to play around in a while," Chen Feng grinned.
Once things get back on track, I'll definitely be pumping for twelve hours a day. The sooner I drain the river, the sooner I can go home.
I wonder if they'll still be able to laugh after some time.
"It's nothing, just a small water mine, we can handle it," Huang Fei said without any concern.
After the meal, everyone gathered around the fire, holding hot tea, laughing and chatting from time to time, the firewood crackling and popping, creating a very pleasant atmosphere.
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