Untie the knot that bound the steel cable, and then threw Adili across the river. A cable about the thickness of a little finger was tied behind one end of the steel cable, and slowly placed it, allowing Adili and the others to slowly pull the steel cable apart.
Arrived on the other side of the river.
"Xiaodong, tie your steel cable to the largest stone on the side. The stone has the slot we left last time. After tightening it, tighten it with steel wire and pliers. Remember to tighten it!"
After telling Liu Dong several times in succession, Adili threw the pliers across the river.
Picking up the pliers, he pulled the steel cable with his right hand and walked to the huge boulder that was as big as a house when he was changing clothes. Sure enough, he saw three slots surrounding the boulder, about three centimeters deep.
Liu Dong put the steel cable into the slot, then circled the boulder, first pulled it, and then tied the steel cable into a knot. Then he picked up the steel wire and began to tighten both ends of the knot with pliers! To prevent the huge force
Under the impact, the steel cable fell off!
"Xiaodong, you must remember to twist it a few more times to make sure the steel cable does not come off, otherwise our work will be in vain!" Yang Shang explained on the other side.
"I know, don't worry!"
After replying, Liu Dong took the steel wire and twisted it on the two steel wires more than a dozen times, and then pulled hard. After feeling that it was very strong, he came to the river again.
This time, Adili and the others directly threw one end of the rope over, and then tied the end of the rope to the steel cable just like Liu Dong did before, and Liu Dong pulled it over. This way, they avoided the hardship of crossing the river multiple times!
In this way, there were ten steel cables in total, except for one as a spare. The remaining nine were arranged by Adili and others into three blocking ropes. Basically, there were no three blocking ropes combined into one.
As a result, just after the arrangement was completed, after a few "clicks", a loud "bang" sounded.
The thunderous sound made Liu Dong feel the momentum of the earth shaking, and he even felt that the ground under his feet was shaking. This kind of power of nature reminded Liu Dong again of the scene where the ice tongue collapsed yesterday.
These sounds also caused the expressions of Adili and others on the opposite side to change drastically. Yang Shang, in particular, looked frightened and anxious and rushed to the river bank, waving his arms and shouting to Liu Dong: "Xiaodong, hurry up and stick to the rock wall.
Hide, hide quickly!”
Because the sound of the avalanche was so loud, Yang Shang's voice was already a little blurry when it came over. However, just from the other party's gestures and expressions, Liu Dong also understood what the other party meant, so he nodded to Yang Shang again.
, quickly hid behind a boulder.
Yang Shang, who was relieved to see him hiding, was quickly pulled away by Adili and the others.
"Boom...crash...!"
The loud noise in my ears has changed from the initial thunderous sound to the galloping of thousands of horses. The overwhelming loud noise really tests people's courage. As the ground under my feet trembles more and more fiercely, a large amount of snow accumulates.
Falling down from the mountain, and watching the snow waves rushing down like a tidal wave, Liu Dong once again felt the insignificance of human power.
Maybe it only took ten seconds or even less from the time the ice tongue collapsed to the broken ice cubes rolling down to the foot of the mountain and falling into the river. But Liu Dong felt as if a century had passed.
Hearing the loud roar and watching the rapids in the river, which were like boiling water, Liu Dong really felt the dangers of the industry of jade collectors in Kunlun Mountain!
In natural disasters and in the vast primitive mountains, you may lose your life almost at any time!
After finally everything calmed down, Liu Dong shook off the snow on his body, and when he climbed up from behind the rock, everything in front of him changed.
The river is still the same river, but both sides of the river are covered with residual snow and a large number of ice blocks as if in winter. The most important thing is that there are hundreds of ice blocks of various sizes piled up in front of the blocking rope he tied before.
The largest piece is no less than three meters in diameter, and the smallest piece is as big as a human head!
And because of the obstruction of the steel cable, these large and small ice blocks have accumulated nearly 20 meters along the river! And these ice blocks not only collapsed the steel wire rope of the first blocking cable, but also caused the two blocks next to it to weigh more than
The 50-ton boulder was dragged dozens of centimeters. Fortunately, the quality of the steel cable was good and it did not break under such a strong impact.
However, seeing this situation, Liu Dong also understood Adili's purpose of setting up these blocking ropes, because some of the rocks contained in these ice blocks did contain jade.
"Xiaodong, Liu Dong, are you okay?" Yang Shang's anxious voice sounded.
"Here, Uncle Yang, I'm here!"
After walking a few meters ahead, bypassing the ice block, he waved to Yang Shang on the other side.
"Okay, just stay on the other side of the river. You don't have to worry about anything else. Just take care of yourself!" Yang Shang explained.
"I understand, Uncle Yang, don't worry!"
"Well, take care of yourself!"
After explaining a few more words, Adili and the others began to get busy. First, Adili and Lao Ma gave full play to the function of the horse pole, tied the thick rope into a live buckle, and then threw it ahead, six or seven meters away.
Accurately trap ice in river channels.
After the donkey was yoked, the seven people pulled the ice block to the river together. Because of the buoyancy of the water, it was not too strenuous to pull it up. When they actually reached the edge of the river, the seven people couldn't pull it anymore, so they drove the donkey over and yoked it.
Pull the donkey together!
Until these ice cubes are moved away from the river bank and exposed to the sun!
In this way, people and donkeys came together, had some lunch at noon, and worked until three or four o'clock in the afternoon to clear all the ice cubes.
Of course, at least half of them just gave up in the river, because there are no rocks in these ice blocks. No rocks means no jade. Since there is no jade, why waste all your efforts?
After finishing his work, Liu Dong also swam back from the other side.
After changing their clothes, they saw Adili and the others chatting happily around the place where they were sunbathing.
When Liu Dong passed by out of curiosity, Yang Shang came up and took his arm and said happily: "Xiaodong, we made a lot of money this time! Look!"
Following the direction of Yang Shang's finger, Liu Dong saw something the size of a computer mainframe in the melted ice, and 70% of the surface had been exposed to jade. Although the jade was not as warm and oily as the seed material, it was still
Mountain jade with pure color and fine jade quality appears in front of you.
What's more important is that the texture of the jade can be regarded as first-grade white jade. With such a large material, its value is almost no less than tens of millions!
And being able to harvest jade of this level and such preciousness on the first day makes people even more happy.
"This trip to pick jade is really worth it. Let's not talk about the next step. Even if we only have this piece of jade this time, this trip is not in vain!" Qiu Yuan said with excitement.
"God help us, we will make a lot of money this time!"
"There are still six or seven days left, and we will definitely be able to find more good jade by then!"
Everyone talked excitedly.
According to the rules of jade mining in Kunlun Mountains for thousands of years: all the jade collected through teamwork is collective and is the credit of everyone. Therefore, if the jade is sold for a cent later, it will be shared equally by everyone.
So if this piece of jade is sold, basically everyone can earn more than one million! In the past, it often took them half a year or even a year to earn more than one million. Now it is so easy
I made a profit, and this excitement and excitement was expressed almost without reservation.
Of course, although Liu Dong's joy is not intense, it is still pure.
This feeling of getting something for yourself after hard work is completely different from making money in casinos or the stock market before!
Although this time it was only over one million, Liu Dong felt that this made him happier!
"Okay, let's help each other and lift the jade stone onto the donkey's back. It's time for us to go back! Have a rest for the night and come back tomorrow to continue the work!" Adili greeted.
"What to do with the remaining ice cubes?" Liu Dong asked.
If the ice tongue collapses at night and the river water rises, and the ice that has not completely melted is rolled back into the river, then their work during the day will be in vain!
"Don't worry, the temperature difference is large at night and the ice tongue collapse area is small. The rising water in the river cannot reach here!" Yang Shang said with a smile after patting Liu Dong's shoulder.
Liu Dong, who suddenly understood, also helped Adili and the others move the melted jade material into the basket on the donkey's back. After a brief tidying up, the eight of them drove the donkey back to the campsite.
After dinner, the few people who were exhausted after a long day's work, except Liu Dong who was in the mood to do something else, Adili and Yang Shang all chose to rest!
What they did on the second day was exactly the same as the first day. They still fished ice floes from the river. Occasionally when they were free, they would also look among the huge rocks on both sides of the river to see if there were any good jade that had slipped through the net.
!
As a result, there was not much gain for the next six days, as if their luck had been exhausted on the first day.
Even so, Adili and the others were still very happy, because in addition to the piece of white jade worth tens of millions, they also found some jade worth tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands.
Considering their previous jade mining experience, this trip was quite fruitful.
However, in order to carry as much jade as possible back, the excess stones around the jade were cut away by a stone cutter.
By the time the sixteen donkeys had been loaded with jade as much as possible, it was time for Liu Dong and the others to say goodbye!
After untying the used wire ropes and packing them up again, they hid all the unused things in the original cave. After everything was settled, the eight people each led two donkeys along slowly.
The mountain road leaves this valley containing jade mines.
Although the ice tongue on the mountain range is still collapsing, the eight people can no longer carry more jade! (To be continued...)