At Chen Feng's command, Huang Fei and Li Chunlai each grabbed a drill and jumped down.
"Move over there a bit, I'm afraid you'll slip and then I'll crawl through again," Huang Fei said to Li Chunlai, sounding a little uncertain.
"It's alright, don't worry, I can still drill for you." Li Chunlai said as he pressed the switch, and the drill bit suddenly slipped and headed straight for Huang Fei.
"Hey, you son of a bitch, get out of here!" This startled Huang Fei so much that he almost jumped up and quickly hid by the edge of the pit, cursing loudly.
"Hehehe, just kidding. This thing can actually cut through, look how scared you are." Li Chunlai suddenly pressed down on the drill bit and started drilling.
When Huang Fei saw his actions, he cursed again before starting to work.
The two drills were incredibly efficient; cracks appeared in the granite, and it quickly crumbled into dust.
"Fengzi, we've dug quite deep. How about we dig a little deeper first, or maybe we can shake it out?" Huang Fei said, already somewhat unsteady on his feet.
"Come on up first, let's use the excavator to dig a bit, I think it's about time," Chen Feng told them to come up first.
The two men passed the drill upwards, Lin Nian caught it, and then they climbed out.
Chen Jianguo climbed onto the excavator, and with one scoop, he shoveled out nothing but rubble.
After digging several shovelfuls, the stones gradually decreased while the amount of loess increased. Chen Jianguo knew that he had dug through to the bottom.
Judging from its appearance, this granite is not even half a meter thick, only about thirty or forty meters.
"Xiaofeng, how deep are we digging?" Chen Jianguo shouted to Chen Feng through the window.
"You dig three or four more shovelfuls, widen the edge, and then we'll go down," Chen Feng said after a moment's thought.
"good!"
Chen Jianguo operated the excavator, digging back and forth and widening the edge until Chen Feng gestured for him to reverse the machine and turn it off.
Chen Feng and the others carried their tools and slid down into the pit. Only then did Chen Feng remember to send a WeChat message to his father.
"Dad, you cook. Once you finish this, today will be over."
"Oh, you don't need me to keep an eye on it anymore. Just be careful and call me anytime if anything happens." Chen Jianguo replied on his phone, restarted the engine, and drove the excavator toward the prefabricated houses.
Several people were in the pit, and Lin Nian used a detector to probe them.
"Hey, it's here!" Lin Nian kept pacing back and forth, trying to pinpoint the location.
"What are we waiting for? Let's dig." Huang Fei pulled out a shovel, squatted down, and started digging. Several people gathered around and began digging as well.
"Hey, tell me, this used to be a mine, so why is there still gold lying around here?" Li Chunlai asked curiously.
In his opinion, when panning for gold in a mine, wouldn't everything be completely extracted? How could there be any savings, especially since there's quite a lot left over? That's just too outrageous.
"Is it possible that the instruments weren't as advanced back then, and we're already at the bottom of the mine?"
“Even we have a hard time blasting through granite, let alone people from decades ago.”
"And the main problem is that they have no idea there's gold hidden down there. If they did, how could they possibly let it go?" Huang Fei said as he dug.
“That makes sense. And I feel that although we’ve made some pretty good deals, compared to the mine, it’s nothing. Take our mine, for example, we make over a million a day like it’s nothing.”
"Compared to that, this hundred thousand or so gold coins are indeed a bit lacking," Li Chunlai nodded in agreement.
"That's what they say, but actually, tens of thousands of dollars worth of gold isn't a small amount. It's just that they missed it, and we just picked up the bargain." Lin Nian shoveled a shovelful of soil over the detector and then casually tossed it away.
"It's only because it's buried deep, and below the mine shaft, that it's possible to find something here. This place has been here for so many years. Even if an excavator came, most people wouldn't be able to dig this deep."
"Usually they just turn over the soil and that's it," Chen Feng said from the side.
“That’s true. We’re so deep here, it’s almost like we’re tomb raiding,” Li Chunlai said, looking up at the outside of the pit.
"More than that is nonsense, but it's definitely six or seven meters," Huang Fei said confidently.
"Does the gold get bigger the deeper you go?" Li Chunlai asked suddenly.
"Of course! The deeper you go, the bigger the cargo. Don't you know that saying?" Huang Fei asked in surprise.
Didn't he pan for gold for a while before? How could he not know such classic words?
As if seeing through Huang Fei's thoughts, Li Chunlai waved his hand and said, "Hey, I've only been panning for a few days, and I don't have any professional gold panners around me. They're all just half-baked."
"If that's the case, then if we dig a few more meters deeper, wouldn't we find even more gold?"
"If you could dig several thousand meters deep, or even all the way to the Earth's core, the gold content there would be absolutely explosive. Compared to that, even our richest mines would be considered poor mines," Huang Fei chuckled.
“Digging for the Earth’s core is nonsense, but there are gold mines that are several thousand meters deep. It’s just that those super-large gold mines are beyond our reach,” Chen Feng said from the side.
"Ooh-woo~"
Just as Li Chunlai was about to say something, his shovel made a sudden sound as it passed the detector.
"Hey, haha, it's my turn now. Let me see how big this piece of gold is." Li Chunlai chuckled, gently shook the shovel, and something immediately floated out of the shovel.
"Holy crap, this piece is quite big too," Huang Fei exclaimed in surprise.
"It's quite big, take it out and let me see, I still have my brush on me." Lin Nian said, taking the small brush out of his pocket.
"Here, give me the brush." Li Chunlai took the brush and then took out the gold directly.
"Wow, wow, this gold is quite a lot!" Huang Fei exclaimed excitedly.
At first glance, you can tell that this piece of gold is more than a full size larger than the previous one.
"Quick, quickly clean it and see how big it really is," Lin Nian couldn't help but say.
Li Chunlai used his hands to scrape off the dirt from the gold, then vigorously brushed it with a brush, revealing the original appearance of the dark yellow gold nugget.
"This is heavier than the previous one, hahaha, doesn't this mean another tens of thousands in profit?" Li Chunlai held the gold, feeling as if he were in a dream.
Before, I could only earn a little over 200,000 yuan by mining gold dust all day long. But after coming to this abandoned mine, I earned more than 200,000 yuan in just a few hours. The environment here is much better than the riverbed.
"That must cost over ten thousand! Hurry up and climb out, let's weigh it." Huang Fei said, throwing his tools out and starting to climb out.
Several people took turns climbing up. Li Chunlai picked up the electronic scale from the ground, put the gold on it, and looked down at the numbers on it.
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