I explained for a long time. I just said that I met this man down there and did not tell anyone about him threatening me with a knife.
Then, three times in total, they tied climbing ropes around our waists and pulled us up three times.
Bean Sprout hit his head when he fell. Fortunately, our camel team brought some hemostatic bandages. Lao Zhang poured two bottles of mineral water and wiped the blood off Bean Sprout's face.
The man looked at the mineral water flowing to the ground and swallowed several times.
Seeing this, I brought him a bottle of water and some food from my backpack.
The man took it and ate it immediately. The baked naan without moisture was very dry. He seemed to be very hungry. He downed half of the baked naan after a few mouthfuls. He might have choked. He quickly opened the mineral water bottle and it made a loud noise.
I drank more than half of the bottle.
I patted his back for help and said, "Eat slowly. It's not enough. Don't choke."
After he finished eating, the guide Lao Zhang took the lead and asked, "What do you do and why did you hide the mold in the grave?"
The man spoke in Yinchuan local dialect, and Lao Zhang also talked to him in local dialect.
The local dialect of Yinchuan is a bit like Cantonese. They speak so fast that I can't understand what they are saying. I was curious about why he was hiding in the sand cave, so I interrupted: "Can you speak Mandarin?"
The man glanced at me and then said: "I work as a digger. Half a year ago, my friends and I teamed up here to try our luck, but something happened."
He asked the leader for a bottle of water again and talked intermittently for more than half an hour before he explained the matter clearly. What he said was a bit bizarre, so I asked the guide Lao Zhang if what he said was true.
Lao Zhang nodded and said: "I guess this is true. He even knows Jin Fenghuang. Jin Fenghuang and Jin Leihuang are brothers. These two are very powerful businessmen in Yinchuan. They did business in Shanxi in the early years.
The coal washing plant made a fortune. About seven or eight years ago, the price of Alxa agate suddenly started to rise sharply, one price per night. The two brothers sold the Shanxi coal washing plant and spent a huge sum of money to start involved in the Alxa agate industry. Until now
The Jin brothers have almost monopolized 70% of the agate ore in Alxa. No one knows how much money the Jin brothers have. Anyway, in Yinchuan, including several nearby cities, they all have a bit of face."
There is indeed a reason why this man is hiding in the desert.
It turns out that about half a year ago, they had a small team of four people. This team of four people mainly dug Alxa agate.
Around Alxa, the work of digging agate is called digging. All local mines that have produced agate have owners, no matter how big or small. If you secretly go to other people's sites to dig agate mines, once you are caught, you will be beaten lightly.
If the meal is serious, there are examples of people being buried alive.
This man’s name is Aza, a native of Yinchuan. The agate mine they secretly mined belonged to the Jinfeng Huanghuang brothers. They were not caught at first, but they successfully dug out several bags of agate rough stones and sold them to middlemen, earning them tens of thousands of yuan.
money.
Later, the group accidentally dug up a piece of "blood agate" and the news spread. The Jin brothers immediately discovered the four of them. According to him, two of the other three people were buried alive by Boss Jin, and the rest
Like him, people hid and pretended to be missing, not daring to go home or show up in the local area.
I don't know what "blood agate" is. I have only heard that there is a kind of wine-red blood amber in amber. I asked this person what blood agate looked like.
This person said: "We were shocked when we dug it out. Generally, agate rough stones have skin. The yellow-skinned ones are called huangskin ores, and the red-skinned ones are called redskin ores. Alxa agate has rich color and unique texture, and is comparable to jade stones.
Similarly, if you don’t cut the stone and peel it, you won’t be able to see the color and texture inside the agate.” “”
He raised his head and recalled: "That piece of ore has a skin as thin as paper and is dark red all over. If you shine it with a strong light, it will be as red as blood. The pattern of the stone inside looks like a placenta."
"Is there such a thing?"
I was surprised. Because generally agate is translucent. Even if it is polished and designed into a finished product, it will not be fully transparent that can be penetrated by light. This is the characteristic of raw agate.
I asked him in a low voice: "What happened next, where did the blood agate you mentioned go?"
