Chapter 25 Wu Da and Ximen
Luo Chong spent a whole day to clean them up. He first went to retrieve his backpack, cut some small trees, peeled the bark and twisted ropes to make some simple harnesses.
The leading male antelope had a halter on his head. The six female antelopes were divided into three groups, two of them were lined up side by side, tied to a short horizontal wooden stick with a rope around their necks, and tied together by Luo Chong to form a formation of one, two, two, two. No one could run away this time.
Leading the antelope team, Luo Chong found a stream and stewed a pot of dried rabbit meat for dinner. The antelopes were on a hunger strike. Since being caught by Luo Chong, they had not eaten. They just drank some water by the stream.
Luo Chong lay by the stream, squinting at the sunset in the sky, "Cut it, why are you pretending to be reserved with me? If you have the ability, don't even drink water."
Luo Chong cursed disdainfully, not caring about their hunger strike at all.
To the northeast of the stream, there is a colorful stone mountain, which is the one that Elder Shu pointed out on the lookout. It is very close to Luochong now, about two or three kilometers away, and it takes less than half an hour to get there.
The mountain is not the color of the fire clouds that Elder Shu said, but it is not completely wrong. There is indeed a part of it that is red. The whole mountain has sparse vegetation and a lot of stones. Huge granites can be seen a few kilometers away
, reflecting the colorful colors under the setting sun. The whole mountain is like a rainbow falling to the ground, with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, as well as large areas of gray and white. All the colors are distributed in bands and extend all the way to the northeast.
Damn, it's a treasure, there is definitely a mine here, and judging only by the color, this is a banded vein with multiple minerals coexisting, but I don't know which mineral is the main one.
Banded veins are mostly formed by the impact of volcanic lava flows. If they are formed by the accumulation of geological activities, such veins are mostly layered, which is easy to distinguish. It seems that there may be a volcano in the distance.
It was completely dark. Although Luo Chong wanted to go over and take a look, he could only suppress his impulse. He was tired from twisting the ropes all day, so he fell asleep early.
The next day, when the sky was just getting light, Luo Chong was awakened by a series of throaty cries. He squinted his eyes and looked around. The fire was slowly emitting green smoke, and only a few pieces of red-hot charcoal were still flickering. Luo Chong added a handful of firewood, and the fire was on soon.
The dim environment around was instantly illuminated, which also made Luo Chong excited for a while. He strongly resisted the urge to laugh up to the sky and lay on the ground and pretended to sleep.
In the small forest where Luo Chong tied the blue antelope, the two female antelopes that escaped yesterday came back with eight young antelopes, and an adult male antelope was kidnapped from somewhere.
The male antelope was riding a female antelope tied to a tree, and was protesting to the tied male antelope with throaty cries.
Damn, this is Pan Jinlian leading her children and Ximen Qing to protest against Wu Dalang. Luo Chong lay on the ground, trying to hold back his laughter, his body shaking.
Wu Dalang, whose horns were broken by Luo Chong, was so angry that he could only watch his wife being ravaged by Ximen Qing. He could only circle around the tree. Now, not to mention that he was tied up, even if he was not tied up, he could not do anything. His horns were broken by Luo Chong, and he was much shorter than Ximen. What the hell could he do to fight him?
Luo Chong couldn't bear to watch Wu Dalang continue to be bullied, so he quietly hid behind the bushes. These were all sent to him for free, and it would be a shame to their kindness if he didn't keep them all.
Luo Chong didn't disturb Ximen's good deeds, and quickly made a few simple rope loops, ready to catch the two Pan Jinlians who loved to escape first. By then, he would have all the female antelopes under his control, and he didn't believe that Ximen would run away again.
It was still dark. Luo Chong quietly came behind the two Pan Jinlians. While they were still looking at Ximen, he put a rope around their heads and pulled the rope back, causing them to collide with each other. The two female antelopes ran again, but they could not run more than ten meters. Luo Chong had tied the other end to the tree.
The young antelopes were still confused. Seeing that the female antelopes suddenly stopped running, they also stopped. As a result, they were taken down one by one by Luo Chong.
When Luo Chong came back to deal with Ximen, he had just reached the peak of his life, and he was put on the head. Ximen was furious. He collected his weapons and rushed towards Luo Chong. As a result, he found that he could only circle around the tree like Wu Da before he ran five meters.
Then, of course, there was another round of violent horn smashing. Amid Wu Da's gloating, Ximen was also put on the bridle and could no longer be proud.
After all this was done, it was already bright. Luo Chong was in a good mood and drank the salty meat soup with wild vegetables. The wild vegetables were a kind of plant similar to purslane that the blue antelopes eat. Since they can eat it, it must not be poisonous. Luo Chong put a little in the meat soup, and it tasted good.
After the antelopes and Luo Chong had breakfast, the team continued to set off. Ximen carried Luo Chong, Wu Da carried Luo Chong's backpack, and the two big and two small ones lined up in 8 rows behind. A team of 18 antelopes and a teenager went straight to the Eight Colors Mountain in the east.
The eight-colored stone mountain was called Babao Mountain by Luo Chong. There were indeed treasures everywhere, lying there quietly, waiting for Luo Chong to develop them.
There are many red mounds on the mountain. They are not the hematite that Luo Chong imagined, but some termite holes. However, termite holes are not useless. They are all good weathered clay. Pottery fired from termite holes is definitely better than clay by the river.
The orange one is cockscomb stone, which is also called realgar. It is very brittle and can be crushed into powder with a pinch. It can be used as a medicinal material. It can be used externally to treat snake and insect bites, and it can also be taken internally to treat parasites in the body.
In ancient China, there was a habit of drinking realgar wine on the Dragon Boat Festival. In fact, it was an insecticide. It had the same effect as the loaf of candy that my mother let me eat when I was a child. It is a mineral that is easy to distinguish.
But this thing must not be burned. The main component of realgar is arsenic disulfide, which is poisonous, especially the yellow smoke emitted after burning. After reacting with oxygen, it becomes arsenic trioxide, which is the famous arsenic trioxide, which is highly toxic.
The yellow one is yellow wax stone, which has a greasy surface and is mixed with a lot of golden chalcopyrite. The copper content in it is almost over 80%, which is a rich copper mine.
This is the first metal that Luo Chong has found. He was very excited and dug down again to see the depth of the mine. As a result, when he dug to a depth of one meter, the vein changed again. Some pyrite appeared layer by layer below, but it was very rare.
Pyrite is easy to distinguish. It is a yellow stone flake, all in flaky form. The main component is iron sulfide, so it is different from hematite, which is mainly iron oxide.
It seems that the volcano nearby should be an acidic volcano. The minerals produced contain a lot of sulfur. It is normal to find iron sulfide next to realgar, after all, realgar is a sulfide.
It’s just that there is too little pyrite here, so it can’t be used for iron smelting. It should exist as a companion ore of rich copper mines.
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