Han Kongque and the other two hurriedly walked over. When they looked over, Han Kongque was a little dumbfounded. They found that the place where the jade was found was not in the river bed, but on a hillside with an angle of almost 60 degrees.
There is no vegetation on the upper slope. Maybe there used to be vegetation, but now it has been washed clean by the water. All the stone walls are exposed, but the originally smooth stone walls now look like mouse holes.
The newly discovered jade is on a huge stone wall. A circle is drawn on the stone wall with bright red cinnabar. In the circle, there is an exposed jade, which looks like a piece of white jade.
Han Peacock's visual inspection showed that the piece of jade that was painted was not very small. However, it didn't look like the quality was very good. However, it was huge in size and still had mining value. Therefore, even if it was not easy to mine there, it was still painted.
, ready for mining.
The news that jade was found here quickly reached the ears of Lao Hu and his son. They walked forward quickly, and after taking a few glances, they immediately looked at the river below the steep slope.
Since there are jade on the mountains beside the river, there may be more and better seeds in the river below.
He thought of this, and others naturally thought of it too. Everyone swarmed towards the river bed, and even the river bed downstream of the river channel had people passing by.
After all, the stone rolled down from the mountain and fell into the river first, but the river is flowing. Since it flows, no one can tell which section of the river contains jade for thousands of years.
Soon, there were not many people left at the bottom of the hillside. Looking at Han Peacock who was not moving, Lao Hu smiled and said: "Xiao Han, why don't you go down and search?"
Han Peacock said with a smile: "Don't you still want to go down?"
"Xiao Wei also thought of it?" Lao Hu did not answer Han Kongque's words, but looked at another young man beside him.
Wei Changqing glanced at everyone, turned his head and continued to look at the surrounding mountain walls and said: "It seems that jade has been found here for a day or two, right?"
"Yes. There is jade here. Of course, we are not the only ones in the Hu family who know about it. There are many local people who go to the mountain every year. The discoverer of the jade above is not one of our group. They should be tourists from other places.
Found it." Lao Hu said.
"Tourists from other places coming to pick jade?" Han Peacock asked.
Lao Hu said: "Yes, they are the only ones who don't care about the price of jade, but only care about the process of collecting jade. Otherwise, how could such an obvious piece of jade be preserved until now?"
Although that piece of jade is somewhat valuable, it is not easy to mine. Even if you mine it, it will be even more difficult to transport it out of the mountain. Therefore, there is a reason why such a large piece of jade is left there without being mined.
Of course, it is possible that others did not notice it, but looking at the conditions of the surrounding mountain walls, such a thing is almost impossible to happen. Therefore, the main reason is that there are fewer people, and there is no need to get such a huge piece of inferior jade with little value.
"They are really not afraid of hardships." Wei Changqing said as he looked at a man who fixed himself on the mountain wall and began to cut through the stone wall.
"I really don't know what you mainlanders think. You just want to live a comfortable life at home, but you come to the poor mountains and rivers to seek excitement." Old Hu shook his head and said.
"This is not a poor mountain. It's just bad water." Han Peacock said jokingly.
Lao Hu saw that neither Han Kongque nor Wei Changqing had any intention of leaving. He had no choice but to walk towards a mountain wall. After walking nearby, there was a crack on the other side. In the crack, there was Several tents.
At this time, outside the tent, a local woman was washing rice. She was preparing to cook.
After letting Han Kongque and others wait outside, Lao Hu stepped forward, communicated with her in local Tibetan for a while, and quickly exited the crack.
Han Kongque, Hu Ke, Wei Changqing, and Qian Mingyuan had been standing outside and did not go in.
In this kind of wilderness, if four or five grown men broke into someone else's campsite at the same time, they would probably be greeted not by a welcome, but by shotgun bullets.
When Lao Hu came out, the four of them followed him into the river, letting the two men on the mountain wall see them, so as to reassure the men picking jade on the mountain wall.
After all, what they are doing is treasure hunting, and no one knows who has something good in their hands, so they must be on guard against others.
Lao Hu stopped and said: "The situation is not optimistic. They have been in the mountain for more than 20 days, and they don't seem to have gained much. Although what they said is not necessarily true, it seems that they are mining such a difficult piece of land." Defective products, you know, they may not really gain much.”
"They use donkeys to carry things into the mountains?" Han Kongque knew donkeys. He saw several donkeys behind the tent.
Lao Hu nodded and said: "There are many such jade collectors here. If you stay here for a few days, you will know, but few can persist here for more than twenty days. Maybe these people have really gained something. It seems that we I have to stay here for a few more days."
Han Kongque and Wei Changqing both nodded. The natural environment here is harsh. Only outsiders like them know that except for people with some special abilities, it is definitely not that comfortable for ordinary people to go into the mountains. If they can stay here It’s definitely not easy to go more than twenty days without any intention of leaving the mountain.
Local people usually ride mules or donkeys into the mountains, while tourists rent them. At this time, tourists are not afraid of dangers and go hiking into the mountains to explore and search for jade. Before they came, they had no idea what was going on here and how they got here. It felt like I was going back and forth before the gate of hell, I was so frightened!
I was full of confidence when I went there, thinking that I must pick up a few more pieces of good jade this time and bring them back, sell them at a good price and make a fortune, or pass them on to future generations as family heirlooms!
But on the way to the road, altitude sickness was strong, I was panting, my legs were paralyzed, and it was difficult to walk. My thoughts became: I want to go back alive. As long as I go back alive, I will be lucky...
For those who have been to the mountains once, their only thought on the mountain at that time was to survive, and they will never want to go into the mountains again in the future!
When I saw the road after going down the mountain, I felt like I was alone in a boat drifting in the sea and saw the security of the land. It was hard to express my feelings of sadness and joy.
In the highly profitable jewelry industry, jade pickers have not received much benefit. These jade pickers, like these, worked hard for more than 20 days, and after deducting expenses, each of them only received a thousand yuan.
Compared with the hardships they endured, the dangers they faced, and the hard work they put in, and compared with jade players in the circulation and collection fields, the income of jade collectors is really meager.
To fight a protracted war here, you have to set up camp and fight with your whole family. If there were women in the small campsite just now, they must be a family looking for a beauty.
Lao Hu was very familiar with the terrain here, so he naturally knew how to set up a secret camping site. However, the terrain there was small and not suitable for large troops to camp, so he did not go there, but chose a larger place on the other side.
Small canyon.
In this mountain, the most difficult thing is accommodation and eating, especially eating. It is difficult for outsiders to adapt. Because the altitude is too high, the water boils at about 70 degrees. Even if you use a pressure cooker to steam rice, the rice will be cooked.
No matter how rotten the outside is, the inside is still a bit hard and difficult to swallow.
Living in the mountains for ten days and a half would require anyone to lose 10-20 pounds. It is generally difficult for foreign tourists to adapt to such difficulties.
Therefore, jade mining is extremely difficult. Here, there is a story that the jade mining industry was ruined because of collecting the best mutton-fat jade.
Legend has it that the family has been collecting Hetian jade for generations.
Ren Zi has a piece of "standard jade" passed down by his grandfather - any jade can be judged as good or bad by comparing it with it.
One day in 1988, Ren Zi and his brothers went up the mountain to collect jade as usual and found a group of goshawks circling at the source of the Baiyu River for a long time.
At the feet of the goshawk, Ren Zi discovered the raw material of white jade. They used tools to peel off the outer skin of the stone a little, and saw a corner of the white jade that was as delicate as mutton oil.
Ren Zi immediately took out the "standard jade" and compared it, and found that the quality of the two pieces was exactly the same.
Before Ren Zi and his brothers had time to mark the stone, a heavy rain suddenly fell on the mountain, and a torrent suddenly surged into the valley. They could only cling to the rock wall to "survive".
At the end of more than an hour of mountain rain, the donkey Ren Zi was riding was washed away. The youngest brother was also washed away by the mud and water in a panic, and the jade stone was missing.
On Kunlun Mountain, you can walk only three months a year, and the rest of the time the mountain is closed by heavy snow.
When Renzi found the jade again, it was already six years later. In 1994, it took Renzi Zhamapai 8 days to transport the jade back to the village along the mountain stream.
Therefore, don't think that finding the best jade in the mountains is considered a success. It will only be considered a success when the jade clouds come out of the mountains.
When picking jade here, it is best to go together so that you can take care of each other. It is best to have a local tour guide. Otherwise, you may be washed away by a heavy rain. If you encounter heavy snow and arrive early,
So congratulations, you can experience a snow burial for free.
Huangshan was very moved when he saw their group of people, after arriving on the river bed, holding steel drills and other tools in their hands, turning over the stones on the river bed, sifting through the jade they liked.
"Is the riverbed here still worth looking for?" Han Peacock asked.
Lao Hu shook his head and said: "Yes, but it's very small. This is a jade producing area known to the locals, so I brought you here. But if you want to collect real good jade, you have to search around from here."
Han Kongque nodded without saying anything. He had guessed this when he saw the family's jade-picking tools just now.
The tools that the family placed outside the tent included ladders, shovels, hammers, drills, safety helmets, bags, tents, ropes, food and water, cooking utensils, etc.
Judging from the equipment, its destination is not limited to the river beach, but may also include the depths of the mountains.
If you want to pick up more jade, you should try to avoid this kind of mainstream river. Many outsiders come here and go down the river for a walk, so it has been difficult to pick up jade here. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature