(Thank you to the 42nd new leader for your chivalry and courage...)
When they took the top spot in Xiema Mountain, it was decided that Xu Wukun, Xu Wuliang and Xu Huai would all obey Liu Qiong'er's orders from now on, while Xu Wufu was squeezed out by Liu Qiong'er and had no way to escape. Liu Qiong'er took his men to Jinshagou
The matter of setting up another village was thus finalized.
In the early stage of Jinshagou, the main focus was to build a simple village and a blacksmithing furnace. Xu Wujiang also promised to send the eliminated thieves to Jinshagou as soon as possible.
Liu Qiong'er was worried about the long nights and dreamy dreams, so she took Xu Wuliang, Xu Wukun's family and Xu Huai to Jinshagou the next day.
Although there is a trail that has been trampled by carrying food before, people can barely walk on it, but mules and horses cannot walk on it.
Xu Wuliang, Xu Wukun and Xu Huai then carried their families and children on their shoulders and carried some daily necessities to Jinshagou.
Xu Wuliang got married to Huaiyuan Town, married Ge, and gave birth to his daughter Xiaohuan; Xu Wukun got married later, and married a woman from the Shangliuzhai family who suffered a catastrophe this time.
Mrs. Kun was originally married to her husband's family, but she had not had children for several years and was kicked out by her husband's family. She was a beautiful woman, but she had been married to Xu Wukun for almost ten years but still had no children.
Over the years, many people in the village often made fun of Xu Wukun over this matter.
However, he didn't care about Xu Wukun. He still wanted to wait for two years before having any children, so he chose one of Xu Wuqi's three sons to adopt him and take care of him until he died. However, he didn't expect that the friendship of more than forty years would collapse.
Many days have passed since this incident, and Xu Wukun is still very upset about it.
Compared with Ge's fierceness back then, Xu Wukun's wife had a much docile temperament. She was usually silent and did not stop Xu Wukun from supporting Xu Huai's family with his meager income.
Xu Wujiang and the others had never thought before that they could capture Xiema Mountain without any effort. They wanted to establish a foothold in Jinshagou. More than 20 strong men hid there for more than a month, but they also found a place to attack in the mountains beside the stream.
Seven or eight wooden houses were built.
This mountain valley is not big. It is a break in the mountains on the east bank of Jinsha Valley. It is more than 100 feet long from east to west and only more than 20 feet wide from north to south. However, it is adjacent to Jinsha Valley in the east and is sandwiched between mountains in the north and south.
There is also a shallow slope to walk out on.
The place is smaller, but it is easier to defend and harder to defend!
Xu Wujiang and the others chose to base themselves here because they only had so few people in the early stage and struggling to survive was the most important thing.
In addition to building wooden houses in the valley, they also cut down trees and built simple fence walls on the east and west sides, which can be regarded as the prototype of the village has been laid.
Otherwise, Xu Huai, Liu Qiong'er and the others would not even have a place to stay if they walked into Jinsha Valley.
Even so, Jinshagou Village is not connected to the outside world by vehicles and horses, and it takes two hours to walk to Xinzhai on the east slope of Shituoling, which is seven or eight miles away.
If Liu Qiong'er hadn't insisted on setting up another stronghold, Xu Wujiang, Xu Wufu would have set up a sentry post here at most, or even abandoned it directly. There would be no pity. After all, coming from the north or the west, the terrain is steeper and more dangerous.
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Looking at the few simple wooden houses in the mountain valley, Liu Qiong'er felt desolate. She looked at Xu Huai and said:
"People have told you to lie here. Tell me, how can we establish a foothold here and build a forge?"
Xu Huai had thought about the chute method that flashed in his memory before, and he was confident at this time. When he saw the wooden boards that Xu Wujiang and the others had sawed before in the village, he took the longest one and called it Liu Qiong'er, Xu Wukun, Xu
Wu Liang and others took the pottery urn and other items with him and followed him down to the valley.
Liu Qiong'er held up her skirt and sat lazily on the rocks by the stream. She watched Xu Huai place the long wooden plank by the stream. The other person rolled up his trousers and walked into the shallow water. He dug out some soft mud with a pottery urn and smeared it on one end of the long wooden plank.
Couldn't help but laugh and said:
"You are really stupid - you need to use a sandalwood pan to pan for gold. You pick up a wooden board and do hard work for half a month. How many wheat cakes can you get in exchange for the gold foam you wash out?"
Xu Huai looked back at Liu Qiong'er who was gloating about his misfortune and just smiled. He tilted the board slightly and used a pottery jar to get water for showering.
The traditional washing method is to put the soft mud containing gold sand into some sandalwood trays, and then stand in the stream and wash away the mud and sand with the stream water over and over again. A very small amount of gold foam will remain in the sandalwood trays.
A little adds up - the whole job requires a lot of patience.
Mrs. Ge and Mrs. Kun stood by the stream and watched for a while, then took Xiaohuan to clean the house. Liu Qiong'er thought that Xu Huai had not even learned the traditional washing method, so she sat lazily in the shade to rest, thinking about waiting.
Xu Huai laughed at him after working hard for a long time and achieving nothing.
Mrs. Ge and Mrs. Kun took Xiaohuan to clean up the wooden house and made do with simple things. They prepared lunch and ran to the streamside to tell everyone to go back to the village first.
Liu Qiong'er stretched out and was about to taunt Xu Huai, but she saw Xu Wuliang took the pottery urn from Xu Huai's hand and said, "You go back to the village first, and come and replace me in the afternoon!"
"Do you really think that idiot Xu Huai can really do something wonderful?" Liu Qiong'er walked over and said with a smile, but when she got closer, she saw a thin layer of golden foam attached to the wooden board, which was beautiful.
His eyes widened.
Although the amount of gold foam attached to the wooden board is still very small, it cannot be said that nothing is found.
"Come on, keep taunting me!" Although Xu Huai said that his muscles and bones were strong, his back was sore from bending over to get water to pour water on the board. At this time, he straightened up and smiled at Liu Qiong'er.
"What's so subtle here?" Liu Qiong'er opened her beautiful eyes wide, and without caring about her manners, she raised her waist and hips to look at the details of the wooden board.
In fact, there is nothing mysterious about it. If you look closely, you can see that the particles of gold sand are smaller and heavier, while the particles of sand in stream mud are larger. Take water and rinse it over and over again, and the foam-like gold sand will become rough.
In the saw pattern, the mud and sand with larger particles are washed and separated.
Afterwards, you only need to wait for enough gold sand to adhere to the saw pattern, then turn the board over and tap it to collect the gold sand.
It is also obvious that the longer the board, the more complete this separation will be.
When sawing a wooden board, different saw teeth are selected, the roughness of the saw grain and the separation effect formed will be different.
Although this method is very primitive, it is many times better than the traditional wooden plate washing method.
Xu Huai didn't expect to make much money by relying on this stream, but by gathering thirty or fifty people, the annual income could be equivalent to one or two thousand acres of mountain land, which was enough to spend on the preliminary construction of Jinshagou.
"How's it going? Now you know who the fool is?" Xu Huai laughed at Liu Qiong'er when he saw her tying her skirt around her waist and personally scooping up water to shower on the board.
"How come you have such a weird idea in your mind," Liu Qiong'er asked in surprise, "The Xu family has built a pond in Yuhuangling for more than a hundred years. How can you think of building a multi-stage rolling dam to store water?
It's strange, but this method of extracting gold is unheard of in Tongbai Mountain, how did you come up with it?"
"What's so mysterious about this method? If you eat a few more bowls of rice, you can figure it out!" Xu Huai said with a smile.
"Then if you say so, not one person is eating rice for free." Liu Qiong'er said.
"This afternoon's income is enough for two or three people to stand in the stream and wash for a day." Xu Wukun stood upright and ignored the bickering between Xu Huai and Liu Qiong'er. He couldn't help but admired, "Although the topography of the seven or eight miles of Jinsha Valley is very different.
It’s extremely dangerous, and there’s not much room for a stay, but if you gather thirty or fifty people to wash the gold sand with this method, and you can get three to five thousand pounds of money and food in a day, there won’t be any problem!”
When Xu Wukun and Xu Wuliang were young, their families were poor and they returned home from the Jingsheng Army without much livelihood. They both came to Jinshagou to pan for gold, so they knew best the difference between the new law and the old law.
"It's better to rob homes and homes!" Xu Huai said with emotion.
He took a sheep from Deng Gui once, and the gold and silver he got was worth thousands of guan. But here thirty or fifty people gathered here to pan for gold using the new method, and the income in a year was only more than a thousand guan, which didn't look like much.
"You have such a big heart!" Xu Wukun couldn't help but glared at Xu Huai.
They are working hard all year round to make a living, and they may not be able to make three or five thousand yuan of money at the end of the year. If thirty or fifty people gather here, they can get three to five thousand yuan of money in one day. What else can they be dissatisfied about?
For a village with a population of thirty or fifty people, including building a new blacksmith furnace and opening two remote trails to the east slope of Shituoling and Xiema Mountain, three to five guan of money a day can be enough to cover expenses.
Xu Huai laughed and said: "Seventeenth Uncle's people should be sent over before dusk to prevent others from coveting them. These people must be strictly controlled and this method cannot be leaked in a short time; and the master's family
There is a connection between that place and here, and it is estimated that the source of money and food here will be quickly seen. There is no need to hide it deliberately, and it is difficult to hide it. Let's just say that these are the methods that Miss Liu came up with. Uncle Seventeen's side
Well, let’s keep it a secret for now..."
Xu Wuliang and Xu Wukun looked at each other.
From the assassination of Guo Caoling, they have deeply felt that Xu Huai's opinion is getting stronger and stronger.
However, in addition to the fact that Xu Huai is too young, more importantly, they can feel that Xu Huai is not in Tongbai Mountain, so it is inevitable that there will be disagreements with more people in the Xu family who are only pursuing self-preservation.
In the past, it was okay to have differences only with Xu Guanshan, Su Laochang and the others. After all, we could still share the same hatred in the general direction.
Now, due to the situation, we have to make peace with Xu Wufu, Xu Bosong, Xu Zhongyu and others. If there is really a disagreement, why can Xu Huai win against them? Or why should they give in to Xu Huai?
Ruling a stronghold alone, hiding everything for the time being, or blaming it all on Liu Qiong'er, are the only options to avoid unnecessary disagreements in a short period of time.
In the past, they were more or less deeply worried about Xu Huai's actions. Yesterday, when they heard that Guo Caoling had been assassinated and Xu Huai could not be found in the mountains, they almost went crazy with anxiety.
However, after enduring such a strong stimulation and seeing Liu Qiong'er being pushed out by Xu Huai, Xu Wufu, Xu Wuqi and others were speechless, and were forced to come over to seek peace. They were also deeply moved.
They realized that Xu Huai had even surpassed his father at this time, which was beyond their ability to guess.
