After saying that, Li Chunsheng waved his hand, and they took a few steps back, turned around and left, which meant that they had given the guy to them.
After seeing Li Chunsheng and his group leave, Zheng Ping and the others slowly released their weapons and took a deep breath.
"Damn it, if there were fewer people, they would really bully us." Huang Fei put down the detector in his hand and snorted coldly.
He was just about to swing the detector like a stick.
"Fengzi, are you alright?" Zheng Ping turned to look at Chen Feng.
"It's nothing." Chen Feng shook his head, holding the steel bar.
Yin Xing looked at the steel bar in Chen Feng's hand and said in surprise, "Fengzi, do you always carry this steel bar with you?"
Everyone looked at Chen Feng upon hearing this. Could it be that Chen Feng had anticipated this would happen and had been carrying a weapon with him all along?
Chen Feng looked at the steel bars in his hand and laughed, "No, I just bought them this afternoon."
"I was originally planning to sell it, but you know what, it's actually quite handy to use, so I might as well keep it."
Everyone laughed upon hearing this, and Huang Fei looked at the ground in front of Zheng Ping.
"Brother Zheng, let's hurry up and buy it, lest something unexpected happens later."
Zheng Ping nodded upon hearing this, squatted down, took out a small shovel, and began digging up the piece of goods that everyone was vying for.
"Hopefully it's a big shipment, otherwise all our efforts will have been in vain," Yin Xing sighed.
Everyone took this to heart, worried that this thing might almost lead to a fight, only to turn out to be just a piece of junk, which would be a complete blunder.
Zheng Ping scooped up a spadeful of soil and ran it over the detector, while a group of people watched him dig.
After digging about a dozen shovelfuls, the detector went off.
"Ooh-woo~"
Everyone's spirits were lifted, and they were all looking forward to a large shipment.
Zheng Ping shook the soil off the shovel and continued using the detector. Before long, a dark yellow object appeared in the sand.
When that thing appeared in front of everyone, they all gasped in disbelief, and even Chen Feng raised an eyebrow.
"Holy crap, it's real gold!"
"My God, thank goodness we didn't give up the goods!"
"How much is such a large piece of gold worth?"
Zheng Ping looked at the gold in the shovel, and couldn't wait to pick it up and examine it. The smile on his face never stopped.
"It's so big, I feel it's worth 1,300 or 1,400. I've never dug up such a big piece of gold before!"
Zheng Ping turned to look at the crowd, his words filled with barely concealed excitement.
"Brother Zheng, you've struck it rich."
"That's really good luck."
"That's awesome, one yuan is 1300 or 1400 yuan."
The crowd gasped in amazement, their eyes filled with envy.
Although Zheng Ping was happy, he knew in his heart that without everyone's help, the gold would have belonged to someone else, and there would have been no share for him.
"Let's go to the county town later, sell the goods, and split them among ourselves," Zheng Ping said, standing up with the gold in his hand.
Everyone was pleasantly surprised to hear this, but since Zheng Ping had found it, wouldn't it feel like taking advantage of someone's misfortune to share the profits now?
"Zheng Ping, how about we forget about it? We didn't do much. Why don't you give Fengzi a bigger share? He did the most work." Yin Xing said somewhat embarrassedly.
Only two people got into a fight: Chen Feng and Zheng Ping. Logically and emotionally, it's reasonable for Chen Feng to get a larger share.
"Yeah, let's forget about it. We'll deal with it when we find something else. After all, we're all from the same village, and we can't just stand by and watch you get bullied. We'll lend a hand," someone chimed in.
Upon hearing this, Song Hui's excitement vanished instantly, replaced by a silent curse in his heart.
"Damn it, what are you pretending for? Wouldn't it be better to get a bigger share of the money? If it weren't for me, he wouldn't have been able to find this gold. I also contributed, so why shouldn't I get a share?"
He was hiding at the back pretending, and when everyone else went up, he went forward too.
He had a plan: if a fight really broke out, he would just run away and let whoever wanted to fight do it. Anyway, it wasn't his gold, so it had nothing to do with him.
He was overjoyed when he heard that he would be splitting the money.
Such a large piece of gold, even if there are many people, each person could get more than a hundred pieces, which is no small amount.
When he heard someone advocating against it, he was furious.
In his view, refusing money is stupid; why should you refuse something given to you for free?
Hearing what everyone was saying, Zheng Ping shook his head and said, "That won't do. We have to split it. Fengzi almost got into a fight, so he definitely deserves a bigger share. We'll talk about the exact amount after we sell it."
"Anyway, we definitely won't let everyone work for nothing. Besides, everyone's harvest wasn't good today, so if each person gets a little bit, it'll be a small way to supplement their household income."
This time, no one objected, and everyone nodded and got on the bus.
Chen Feng didn't actually intend to split the money; Zheng Ping had finally found a big piece, and he wasn't short of it.
But since Zheng Ping has said they're breaking up, he won't jump out to stop them. He'll just follow their decision.
Once everyone was on the bus, Huang Fei started the car and headed towards the county town. Everyone sighed as they tallied up their day's earnings.
"Damn it, I didn't find anything today. Another day of nothing."
"Me too, it feels like gold mining is getting harder and harder."
"I only found a small piece of silver, and it seems like I didn't have much left after paying for the trip."
Song Hui had the best haul today; he found a small silver coin this afternoon, which he estimates can sell for ten yuan, bringing his total to forty or fifty yuan.
Hearing the sighs of the people behind him, Huang Fei shook his head, feeling somewhat helpless.
If the gold mining business is bad, his business will suffer as a result.
What's more, we ran into something like Li Chunsheng today. With more and more people going to pan for gold, we'll inevitably encounter similar situations sooner or later.
You can let them fight once in a while, but everyone has a family, a wife and children. They come out to pan for gold to make a living. Who wants to fight with others and live in fear every day?
"What should we do, Brother Zheng? I feel like there's no hope left in this industry," someone asked Zheng Ping with a sigh.
Zheng Ping was considered the leader of this group, and he was somewhat helpless upon hearing this.
Although everyone made a lot of money by finding a piece of gold today, it was all pure luck. Who knows when they'll find another one?
You could make money panning for gold before, although it wasn't always stable each month, but it was still a decent side job.
But judging from this trend, gold mining is becoming increasingly difficult, and making a living may become a problem in the future.
“Sigh, this thing is worth money when you buy it, but it’s worthless when you sell it. But if things continue like this, this line of work is really going to be impossible.” Yin Xing shook his head as he looked at the detector in his hand.
He actually really likes this line of work; it's free and nobody bothers him, and the earnings are all up to fate, which is better than working for someone else and having to put up with other people's attitudes.
However, the current situation no longer allows him to continue.
No one spoke; they were all secretly considering backing out.
After all, people come out to eat, not to have fun.
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