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Chapter 1001: Jade Picking (Part 2)
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Liu Dong was still the first to get up the next day. Now getting up at five o'clock every morning to practice and meditate has become a deep-rooted lifestyle habit for him. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is instinctive, and he will never change it in this life!
After finishing the exercise, he took a Jade Toad Heart-protecting Pill and fed it to Xiao Jinzi, "Go and find food by yourself!"
"Chirp...!"
He quickly pecked the pill in Liu Dong's hand, then raised his head to swallow it, then lowered his head and rubbed Liu Dong's cheek affectionately. With a long and cheerful cry, the little gold with a wingspan of 2 meters soared into the sky like lightning.
, and then quickly arrived in the sky a hundred meters above Liu Dong's head, circled around Liu Dong, and disappeared into the distance!
Seeing this, Liu Dong breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the holes in the clothes on his right shoulder, smiling bitterly in his heart. In the past, Wang Qiang, Lin Ling and the others bought him a lot of clothes, and even Liu Dong bought them himself.
Some of them are basically stored in the mustard space, but not even a tenth of them can be worn by him.
But since he raised Xiao Jinzi, he has changed his clothes very diligently! I don’t worry about leaving the clothes in the past to waste!
"It's a pity that I've only had this coat for less than a week!"
"Xiaodong, I just heard Xiao Jinzi calling, what's going on?" At this time, Yang Shang had already dressed and walked out.
"Oh. It went to find food by itself!"
After nodding suddenly, Yang Shang said again: "Then let's prepare some breakfast. Eat early and start working early!"
"Know!"
After nodding, Liu Dong strode to the bonfire, relit the extinguished bonfire, then put the big pot that had been placed here, and poured half of the unused water that he had fetched last night.
Full!
After boiling for ten minutes and waiting for the water to boil, Liu Dong put all the mutton he brought this time into the pot. He also added some star anise, aniseed, ginger, etc., and cooked a pot of mutton soup!
Mutton is warm in nature. Although it is not suitable to be eaten in the morning, the jade mining that follows is definitely not an easy job. You will have more strength if you eat more.
When Yang Shang and Qiu Yuan got up and came over after washing, Liu Dong's mutton soup had been cooked.
Then, a few people were not polite, and after eating two bowls of mutton soup and one piece of flatbread each, they began to walk towards the river two hundred meters away, holding the steel cables they took out from the hole yesterday!
Liu Dong didn't know what to do next, so he could only follow Adili's baton.
But just as he walked onto the river, Liu Dong discovered a piece of jade from the soft pebbles nearby. The jade was wrapped with a layer of stone skin. The edges and corners had been smoothed, but there were obvious directional water patterns on the surface. It was obvious that this
It is a typical piece of jade material from mountains and rivers.
Moreover, the gap in the abdomen also exposed the jade inside. It is not big, and is probably about the same size as an adult's fist. However, the quality of the jade is not very good. It is only at the level of third-grade white jade. If it is taken outside, this
If the lump jade material is made into finished products and sold, excluding the cost, it is estimated that a profit of five to six thousand yuan can be made!
"Xiaodong, don't waste time on such materials. Each of us only has a donkey. It's not worth it to carry such jade materials back over the mountains and ridges!" After taking a look at the jade in Liu Dong's hand,
Yang Shang shook his head and persuaded.
And Liu Dong also believes that this sentence is indeed correct. He traveled through mountains and rivers, and even risked his life to come here. If he only brought back a few pieces of jade that could only earn thousands or even tens of thousands of profits, then
Why take such a big risk? Just buy it directly from Hotan!
But Liu Dong is different from Yang Shang. They don't want such jade because the quantity they can bring back is limited, and they want to use the limited space to store jade that can make greater profits!
But Liu Dong himself has the existence of the Mustard Seed Space. Although Liu Dong spent a lot of money to restore the antique treasures in the tomb of King Kangju, the radius of the Mustard Seed Space has increased from more than a thousand meters to what it is now.
It is more than 900 meters, but even so, there is no problem in loading hundreds or thousands of tons of Hetian jade.
Therefore, Liu Dong did not let go of the jade in his hand, but put it into the mustard space lightly and covertly.
Yang Shang and the others didn't notice Liu Dong's movements!
Of course, this is also because Liu Dong did not use the relic Yuanguang to collect the surrounding jade raw materials on a large scale!
The group of people walked about 500 meters down the river and came to the valley at the outlet of the Heihe River Basin. The river here is relatively narrow, and there are giant rocks piled up on both sides after repeated flash floods!
"Okay, this is it!"
After finishing speaking, Adili took off the steel cable from the donkey's back.
When everyone untied the ten bundles of steel cables and placed them on the river bank, Adili began to take off his clothes!
"Uncle Adili, what are you planning to do? Swim over?" Liu Dong said in surprise.
"Well, we have to tie the wire rope to the rock on the opposite side, so one person must swim to the opposite side. Adili has the best water ability among us, and he is a native of Hotan, so he is also the most adaptable to the climate here! Otherwise, change
We old guys might really fall into this river and freeze to death, let alone pick jade!" Yang Shang said with a slight smile.
Liu Dong understood that the temperature of this river formed by the melting water of ice and snow was extremely low, and it was not the highest temperature at noon, but in the morning! Generally speaking, people who are not particularly strong would want to swim across this wide river.
A fifteen-meter river is definitely not an easy task!
However, as the youngest and strongest person among the eight, Liu Dong could not just watch the other person swim on this glacier. It was not because of how close his relationship with Adili was, but as a group of eight.
Responsibilities and obligations of a member!
No matter what you do, if you only think about making money from others without considering what you have to pay, it will only make you have fewer and fewer friends around you.
"Uncle Adili, leave it to me to go down to the river. I am the youngest of all the people here!" Liu Dong strode forward and said.
"You?" Although he was questioning, Liu Dong clearly saw a hint of relief in the other person's eyes!
"Xiaodong, you'd better stay here properly. Although the river is not frozen, the temperature is close to zero. If you haven't been in contact with it before, it will easily freeze if you go down!" Adili persuaded.
"It doesn't matter, Uncle Adili, a river with this temperature is nothing!" After saying that, Liu Dong didn't wait for Adili or even Yang Shang next to him to persuade him, and directly carried the wire rope on the ground to his shoulders, and then 'poof'
Jumped into the water with a sound!
"Hey, come back quickly, Xiaodong, don't go there with the wire rope...!" Yang Shang's anxious voice did not make Liu Dong look back, because when he said these words, Liu Dong had already reached the center of the river, and half a minute later
Before long, Liu Dong had already reached the other side of the river!
"This guy is really unambiguous...!"
"Haha, I like this boy's stubborn temper, he is a man!"
In the eyes of ordinary people, Liu Dong may have acted a little recklessly, but judging from his own behavior, it exactly reflects a person's character.
Although the matter is not too big, often the more inconspicuous the little things are, the more they can reflect whether this person is good or not!
Obviously, in the eyes of Adili, Qiu Yuan, and Lao Shi, Liu Dong, a young man, can be trusted. If he was initially recruited into this team because Yang Shang and Qiu Yuan strongly recommended him, then now Liu Dong really
Use your actions to win the trust and acceptance of Adili and others!
"You brat, please connect your bag and quickly change out of your wet clothes. Be careful not to catch a cold!"
After laughing and scolding, Adili vigorously threw his backpack over!
This time, only he, who originally planned to cross the river, took a change of clothes with him. Everyone else stayed in the camp, and naturally Liu Dong did the same.
However, Liu Dong has a mustard space, but he cannot open it in front of others. And even though he has been practicing martial arts all year round and has no feeling at all about the low temperature, he still has to behave normally in front of others.
It’s hard to make friends if you’re a reclusive person!
After throwing down the wire rope on his back, Liu Dong quickly picked up Adili's backpack, and then hid behind a huge rock as big as a house next to him!
But middle-aged men like Adili, who were in their thirties and forties, pointed at him and laughed without any scruples.
"This brat still knows how to be shy!" Qiu Yuan said.
"You are young. Who is not thin-skinned when they are young? Do you think everyone is like you, spying on the women's bathroom when you were in middle school?" Lao Shi laughed wildly.
"Don't blame me, you're not the same as the female classmate in the class at that time who was not harassed by you!"
The two are from the same hometown. They came to Hotan from their hometown together, and they are very familiar with each other's past, so it is really merciless to expose their shortcomings, and of course it is harmless!
"Okay, stop arguing, Xiaodong is out!"
After Adili finished speaking, everyone's eyes were focused on the other side, where Liu Dong was wearing a slightly worn sheepskin jacket, black cotton trousers, and brown leather boots.
Looking at the seven people opposite who couldn't help but laugh, Liu Dong looked at his own clothes and smiled bitterly. If he tied a rope around his waist now, except for the age difference, he would be exactly the same as the shepherd he met on the way here!
But compared to the change in clothes, what made Liu Dong feel even more bitter was that he had really carried this roll of steel cable for nothing, because according to Adili's instructions, this steel cable was to be tied to both sides of the river, and now it is being tied to both sides of the river.
I have carried it this way, and I have to go to the trouble of pulling it back again.