"Kids, you're from the north, aren't you? This place is nothing like the north. There are lots of ravines and valleys here. If you're not careful, you'll fall in and be done for."
Fang Zhiyi simply nodded to acknowledge the advice, but then went back to doing things her own way.
Seeing that they couldn't persuade him, the locals stopped trying, hoping that the boss wouldn't fall to his death in the mountains.
Fortunately, the men with him seemed to be hunters, so they weren't afraid of venomous snakes or wild beasts.
Peng Huan'er stayed in the city to guard the shop. She discovered that her young master did indeed have a talent for business. Ordinary wood, when modified according to his wishes, could be made into some exquisite ornaments that were quite popular.
However... such income is far from enough to cover expenses, so every few days Fang Zhiyi would send someone to tell her to buy some food or tools, but no one knew what she was going to do with them.
But thinking that the young master had more money than he could ever spend in his lifetime, Peng Huan'er stopped worrying.
My only worry is that he must not get into any trouble.
Fang Zhiyi, covered in dust and dirt, looked at the map in his hand. Xiao Hei pointed and gestured beside him, and Fang Zhiyi began to sketch according to its description. Finally, he raised the map in his hand and laughed loudly in the moonlight.
On his hand-drawn map, this place is a sunken valley surrounded by sheer cliffs, as if carved by a knife and axe. If it were anyone else, they would surely marvel at the wonders of nature.
Only Fang Zhiyi was filled with excitement.
"Begging for food while sitting next to a treasure trove, tsk, how should we evaluate them?"
The next day, the lumberjacks discovered that the migrant workers who usually worked with them had disappeared, but they didn't think much of it. People came and went to work for Fang Zhiyi, and who had time to notice where these people went? They just thought their employer was generous and didn't bother with anything, so they just kept their heads down and worked.
"Young Master Fang, are we digging here?" A man wearing an animal skin vest asked with a frown. If Fang Zhiyi hadn't led the way, he wouldn't have dared to come to this deep mountain. He never expected there to be such a valley.
Fang Zhiyi nodded, and he and his companions began digging. They dug down more than ten feet, but all they found was soil and gravel, so progress was slow.
No one knew what Fang Zhiyi was looking for, but as long as Fang Zhiyi didn't say stop, they continued digging.
Li San craned his neck: "Young master, what good stuff could there be in this desolate wilderness?"
Fang Zhiyi glanced meaningfully in the direction where Xiao Hei was, and Li San looked in the same direction, but the place was empty.
"It's absolutely fantastic." Fang Zhiyi smiled.
Suddenly someone exclaimed, and Fang Zhiyi stopped chatting and peered down.
Then he saw a flat piece of metal lying in the soil.
"Have we struck iron ore?" someone asked excitedly.
Li San jumped down: "Your iron mine produces finished products directly?"
"Huh? What's this?"
Fang Zhiyi stood up: "Keep digging along this path!" He began to gather the others to come and start working.
"No more manual tech this time?" Xiao Hei watched as the thing in front of him was gradually unearthed.
“It’s never as fast as picking up something ready-made,” Fang Zhiyi laughed. “After all, this valley was blasted out.”
"With the current production capacity, we probably can't produce this kind of material at all." Fang Zhiyi looked at the huge metal again.
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