Not for any other reason, but simply because this stone exudes a grayish-white color. The area where Chen Feng pulled out the soil was completely grayish-white, without any other color!
Chen Feng had thought the goods might be inside the stone, and he would have to break it open to find them, but who would have thought that the stone's surface was covered in silver?
Chen Feng tentatively dug around again, but all he could see was grayish-white, without a trace of quartz.
Seeing this, Chen Feng's breathing became rapid.
No way, this can't be real, right?
He dug deeper into the soil, and when he saw the large patches of grayish-white soil, Chen Feng was completely dumbfounded.
It seems like it's real! It really is a big, solid silver brick!
No, if this were truly solid and entirely made of silver, it wouldn't be a silver brick; it would be a silver lump! Silver bricks aren't this big!
Chen Feng took a bottle of mineral water out of his bag and poured it over the silver lump from top to bottom.
As the soil was washed away, the silver lump finally revealed its true appearance.
The silver lump is an irregular grayish-white color, a solid piece, and it doesn't appear to contain any quartz.
"Holy crap, how much does this cost?" Chen Feng muttered to himself, taking a deep breath as he looked at the silver ingot.
It's no wonder he initially thought it was just a stone; the key is, who has ever seen such a large amount of silver? Who would believe it?
Chen Feng picked up the silver lump. It was incredibly heavy. He couldn't even estimate its value anymore; it was far beyond his knowledge.
But he felt that this was almost ten pounds, right?
Damn, they used to sell silver by the bottle, now they're selling it by the pound, huh?
Next time, don't ask me how many grams of goods I found; all I know is ten pounds!
Holding the silver lump in his hand, Chen Feng chuckled; it was truly a sweet burden.
It's really valuable, but it's also really heavy.
Chen Feng put it in his backpack, and when he put the backpack on again, he felt it dragging him down from behind.
"Damn, how can I work with this? If I carry this thing around all day, I'll be exhausted!" Chen Feng said, gripping the shoulder straps and giving the backpack a hard shake.
After thinking it over, Chen Feng decided to send the goods back first, otherwise carrying them would be too heavy.
Fortunately, he hadn't gone far. Soon, Chen Feng returned to the camp, opened the back of the car, threw his backpack inside, and the silver ingots hit the car with a loud thud.
Chen Feng took the silver ingot out of his bag, lit a cigarette, and stroked the large piece of silver back and forth.
He was genuinely curious about how much this thing would weigh.
But there's no scale on hand right now, so he can't measure it, which is making him really itchy. What should he do?
Chen Feng thought for a moment and came up with a good idea. He found two plastic bags, put the large silver ingot in one bag and mineral water in the other, about seven or eight bottles in total.
Chen Feng picked up both bags at the same time and felt their weight.
After weighing the bag in his hand, Chen Feng felt it was lighter, so he added two more bottles.
This time, upon further weighing, it seemed a little light, so Chen Feng put in another bottle of water.
After weighing it again, it seemed about the same for both sides. Chen Feng counted them and found that there were a total of ten bottles of mineral water.
"It really does weigh ten pounds."
Chen Feng grinned as he looked at the large silver ingot, calculating in his mind just how much it was worth.
"Subtracting 30% for losses, that's nearly seven catties of silver. Let's say seven catties, that's three thousand five hundred grams multiplied by eight..."
"Twenty-eight thousand yuan, which means these ten catties of silver are worth nearly thirty thousand yuan, haha."
Chen Feng himself didn't expect that the goal he set that morning would be achieved so quickly.
With only six thousand yuan left, today will be a breeze, won't it?
"Feels good. If word got out that this is ten pounds of silver, no one would believe it. This big silver ingot is really impressive."
Chen Feng gently patted the silver ingot and chuckled.
After resting in the car for a while, Chen Feng stuffed the silver ingots under the bed and covered them with something as a precaution.
After locking the car door, Chen Feng picked up the detector and set off, then went to search for the remaining six thousand yuan.
If we can find 6,000, this mission will be successfully completed.
Time passed slowly, and it was about 5:30.
Chen Feng was squatting on the ground digging in the soil, his forehead covered in sweat.
The weather cleared up around 10 a.m., and the rain didn't actually fall; it was stubbornly held back.
After breaking it up enough, Chen Feng pulled over the detector and began shoveling soil over it, one shovel at a time.
"Ooh-woo~"
Upon hearing the sound, Chen Feng shook the shovel and then began searching through the shovel with his hands.
Soon, he found a silver nugget in the shovel, which he estimated to be worth more than a hundred yuan.
"Wow, I've collected all six thousand yuan! Perfect ending!"
Chen Feng stood up, holding the small silver coin in his hand. Although it was just a silver coin, he couldn't hide his joy.
The profits from this trip totaled exactly 200,000, which Chen Feng was already very satisfied with, not to mention he also had a rhombus-shaped piece.
After tidying up his tools, Chen Feng turned and headed back to the camp.
After achieving his goal, Chen Feng felt completely relieved. This time, unlike before, he wasn't always just a little short of reaching his target, and the other guy would always give him a hard time.
Around six o'clock, Chen Feng returned to the camp. After washing up, he opened a new can of food and started cooking.
As expected, the old man didn't come back, and Chen Feng kept this in mind.
He wouldn't be surprised if the old man stayed up until midnight tonight, after all, it's the last day, and he has to hurry...
Before Chen Feng could finish his thought, he saw the old man walking towards him from a distance, carrying his large backpack, which was bulging as he returned.
"Um?"
Seeing this, Chen Feng was puzzled. Why was the old man so fast this time?
"You're back, sir?" Chen Feng got up and walked over to greet him.
"You're back." The old man turned around, smiled at Chen Feng, and took off his backpack.
"Grandpa, how much did you buy today? Why is your backpack so full?" Chen Feng asked, looking at the old man's backpack with a puzzled expression.
"Hey, these are all mineral water bottles. I collected a lot today."
After the old man finished speaking, he pulled a woven bag from the carriage, opened his backpack, and put all the mineral water bottles he had picked up into the woven bag.
Chen Feng was stunned by what he saw, completely dumbfounded.
"Hey sir, why are you picking up these things? How much are they worth?" Chen Feng finally managed to say after a long pause.
"We should pick up whatever we can, otherwise it would be a waste," the old man said with a smile as he tied the bottle tightly shut.
Only now did Chen Feng understand what was inside all those woven bags in the old man's carriage—they were all scraps he had collected while panning for gold.
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