The two hundred and seventieth chapters open the mountains to mine jade (2)
Chapter 273: Mining mountains for jade (2)
After five or six hours of turbulence, Zhuang Rui returned to the transfer station at the entrance of the Kunlun Mountains. Since the rainy season is coming, the mountain road will be more difficult to travel, and there are fewer people entering the mountain than what he saw yesterday.
However, there were more than 20 donkeys at the transfer station, which made Zhuang Rui feel a little strange. He had known the story of Afanti riding a donkey from reading comic strips since he was a child. Is it possible that he also wants to ride a donkey up the mountain?
Zhuang Rui's idea became a reality. Twenty of the twenty-six donkeys were used as camels to transport supplies, and the remaining six were used for people to unload the supplies from the trucks and put them on the donkeys.
After carrying them, the long queue entered the Kunlun Mountains.
While watching cartoons, Zhuang Rui felt that Afanti was very relaxed riding a donkey, and Zhang Guolao was riding a donkey backwards, which seemed much easier than riding a horse. After the Jade Prince assigned him a donkey, Zhuang Rui was eager to try riding the donkey.
Go up.
The size of a donkey is much smaller than that of a horse, about 85 centimeters tall, with a slightly narrow chest, thin limbs, and a short trunk, so the height and length are roughly the same, but the hooves are small and solid. The donkey team stepped on the rocky road and kept making "
"Pap" sound.
As far as the country is concerned, the distribution and usage rate of donkeys is the highest in Xinjiang. Many Xinjiang people in mountainous areas cannot do without donkeys in their daily lives. Although donkey hide gelatin boiled from donkey skin is valuable, it is far less expensive in Xinjiang.
Shandong is famous, which is why many people in Xinjiang regard donkeys as partners and friends.
After riding on the back of the donkey, Zhuang Rui felt awkward. Because the donkey's back was relatively narrow and had little meat, it was very uncomfortable to sit on it. It was even more uncomfortable when it bumped up and down and left and right when walking. It was uncomfortable to ride on it.
Within five minutes, Zhuang Rui was defeated, but seeing Adila sitting comfortably on the back of the donkey in front of him, her body floating up and down as the donkey walked, Zhuang Rui was filled with admiration.
"People in front of you, please pay attention, keep going forward, don't look back, and don't shout when you pass the mountain road."
On the way to Yiniu Valley, we have to pass through several extremely narrow mountain roads. Below the mountain roads are cliffs tens of meters high. For Zhuang Rui and his party, it is a relatively difficult hurdle. The experienced team members will make arrangements.
team.
This mountain road is still passable for people, but it seems a bit narrow for donkeys. From time to time, stones are kicked down the mountain road by the donkeys, making crisp sounds.
Suddenly, there was a noise in front, and then Zhuang Rui saw a donkey carrying supplies rolling down the cliff with a miserable cry. Standing on it, you could hear the donkey's body hitting the ground.
The sound and the bloody appearance made Zhuang Rui unable to bear to look at it a second time.
"Mind your donkeys, don't look down, and pass quickly."
Because the team leader was more experienced, there was no commotion in the team in front. After ten minutes, the entire team passed the death trail, and everyone was covered in cold sweat behind their backs.
You must know that the situation just now was really critical. If the leader failed to adjust and control the team in time and caused other donkeys to lose control, then all the people walking in front would probably be perished in this valley.
After this dangerous situation, the team's progress slowed down a lot, and they walked for nearly four days before reaching the Buffalo Valley.
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In order to prevent sudden flash floods, the team did not camp at the mouth of the river. Instead, they went to camp on a higher ground about one mile away from the mouth of the river. After resting for a few hours, Adila took two people with him.
He and Zhuang Rui arrived at the mouth of the river.
"Uncle Tian, this is it. Look, the roots of this rock are in the soil. It must not have washed down from the mountain..."
Zhuang Rui put down the shovel in his hand and breathed a little quickly. He had just cleared away the hard soil under the rock. This was not an easy job.
Adila squatted down and observed the rock carefully for a while, stood up, nodded, and said: "Well, I didn't pay attention before, let's go up a little further."
In fact, there is a stone at the foot of the mountain. It is a normal thing. Except for Zhuang Rui, I am afraid that no one else would care about it.
The peaks of Bison Valley are mostly rocky with little soil, and only low bushes can survive. Tall rocks can be seen everywhere. Several people walked upstream along the edge of the river. Adila was observing the exposed mountains along the way.
About forty or fifty meters up the mountain rocks outside, Adila stopped.
"It's a bit like the limestone formed by the overflow of magma after changes in the earth's crust..."
After a lifetime of dealing with jade, Adila can be regarded as a geological expert without a diploma. After looking at the mountains along the way, he came to a conclusion.
Due to long-term weathering, these rocks have long changed their shape and color. It is really difficult to see without careful observation.
This trip into the mountain was suggested by Zhuang Rui, so Adila looked at Zhuang Rui and asked: "Xiao Zhuang, in your opinion, where should we survey?"
"Start from the rock wall at the mouth of the river and drill ten meters into the mountain to take a look first..."
Zhuang Rui said it casually without thinking about it. After he finished speaking, he realized that something was wrong, but when he saw Adira nodding, he realized that he had similar views to his own.
"I think it's okay, Mr. Zhao, please gather the boys to work..."
Prince Jade acted very decisively. After setting the tone, he was ready to start work immediately.
You know, most of the jade veins on Kunlun Mountain are already being mined, but new jade veins are becoming less and less. If jade veins can be found this time, for Adila, the name of the Jade Prince will be
Head, will be further consolidated.
The roar of the diesel engine echoed in the river canyon. The one-meter-high diamond machine continued to cut away pieces of rock from the rock wall. Adila stood next to the diamond machine and carefully observed the rock.
The situation inside the wall, usually the rocks close to the jade veins, can be easily distinguished.
More than two hours passed, and a human-shaped cave entrance appeared under the huge rock wall.
Zhuang Rui stood not far away, watching as a hole was gradually being dug out of the rock wall, and he became nervous. At a depth of more than one meter, he could see a piece of jade mountain material weighing more than a pound, and this
The jade veins will also appear in the world.
"Stop, stop, stop quickly."
Suddenly, Adila shouted loudly, stopped the diamond machine, and got into the hole that was more than one meter high and two meters deep. When he came out again, he was holding a palm-sized stone in his hand.
This stone does not look like a mountain stone, because the whole stone is white crystalline, a bit like coarse salt, reflecting dazzling light under the sunlight.
"There is jade, there really is jade. Get a diamond machine and open the hole wider..."
The old man held the stone and murmured a few words to himself, then immediately started giving instructions loudly, and the progress of digging into the rock wall suddenly accelerated a bit.
"Uncle Tian, what does this stone mean?"
Zhuang Rui walked over and saw the old man holding a stone, looking at it as if he were looking at a treasure.
"This is dolomite, which is also an associated mineral of jade. The presence of dolomite basically means that there are jade veins nearby. Xiaozhuang, your opinion is correct. There must be jade veins here."
Adila smiled happily, and the wrinkles on his face relaxed. His whole appearance seemed to be more than ten years younger. For Adila, who has been hunting for jade all his life, being able to find a jade vein is like an ancient man.
Having the opportunity to carve a piece of peerless jade, the feeling of satisfaction is indescribable.
As the hole became larger, two diamond machines drilled into the depth at the same time. A distance of more than one meter was quickly penetrated. The workers who dug the rock were very experienced. When the miner's lamp found the jade, they immediately drilled it.
He turned off the diamond machine, crawled out of the hole, and shouted to Adira: "Your Majesty, a jade has come out, a jade has come out!"
The crowd surrounding the entrance of the cave suddenly became commotion. They all depended on jade for a living. They understood the significance of discovering a jade vein, and their faces showed excitement. Even Mr. Adila raised his right arm.
, and waved his fist fiercely.
When the jade material weighing more than a thousand kilograms was mined from the cave, the crowd burst into cheers. Except for Zhuang Rui and Mengzi, the people present were all old jade collectors who had followed the Jade Prince for more than ten years.
, mining a new jade vein will also be very profitable for them.
After Adila walked around the jade stone for a few times, he said happily: "Not bad, very good. This jade vein is no worse than the Talexu mine, and the quality of the jade is even better..."
"Uncle Tian, this is just ordinary blue and white jade. The material can only be considered average, right? I heard that mutton-fat white jade has been mined in the Taleksu mine."
Zhuang Rui knew that the Talexu mine was the mine that produced more than 60 tons of jade. He believed that the output of this jade vein would definitely surpass the Talexu mine, but as for the good quality of the jade that the old man said, he
I don't quite understand it.
"What do you know, kid? This is just the edge of the jade veins. The more you dig into it, the better the jade will appear..."
Adila glared at Zhuang Rui, but his face was full of smiles. He had a hunch that this mine would become the largest jade mine in Xinjiang.
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"Fourth brother, we have been here for five or six days. When will we return to Beijing?"
Sitting in a vineyard open to tourists, Star Xu said to Ouyang Jun resentfully, you know, although the scenery here is good and the climate is cool, there are two crews in Beijing waiting for her to return to start work.
of.
"How do I know? I will still live here until that kid comes out."
Ouyang Jun fiercely stuffed a grape into his mouth, but forgot to spit out the skin and swallowed the grape with the core in his stomach.
