After getting the money and paying his wages, Somchai shouted to all the workers: "When you get the money, let's work! Before it gets dark, start working quickly and work for an extra hour or two!"
After giving out money, the voice became louder.
For the sake of money, the workers went into the river again and began to pick up sieves to load piles of sand and gravel and put them in the water to sift.
Diamonds are hidden among these countless gravels, and it takes eyesight and touch to find these precious little stones.
Songchai moved a table and sat by the river, and began to carefully count the remaining US dollars.
William had just paid off the rent of 3,000 US dollars and paid these workers 3,000 US dollars in wages. Including the two bodyguards who owed a total of 1,200 US dollars in salary arrears. More than half of the 12,000 US dollars had been used up at once, which made him feel a little fat.
pain.
What made him even more uneasy was what William had just said. There was another conflict between the rebels and the government forces in Kesan. I was afraid that the peaceful days would be gone forever.
If the fight comes here, I'm afraid I'll have to run away again. The money I invested is really like a meat bun and a dog.
Several black children walked up to Somchai and stood there without moving away, just looking at Somchai.
"Go, go, go - get away!" Songchai was very upset and had no good attitude towards these children.
Several children turned around and walked a few steps, but seemed unwilling to leave, then turned back.
These children are from the nearby Momule tribe, not child laborers employed by Somchai. However, some of these children's relatives will work for Somchai here, so they will also come here to play.
Songchai always felt that these children were acting suspiciously and might steal the sifted diamonds when he was not paying attention, so he would usually drive away the children when he saw them.
"Bruce! What are you doing for food? For God's sake, can you drive this little guy away!" He shouted at Bruce, who was standing on the gravel pile by the river, dancing and dancing, "I just gave him
You are paid, for the sake of US dollars, can you fulfill your responsibilities as a bodyguard!"
Rubus jumped down from the pile of sand and gravel, walked up to a few kids, and chased them like ducks.
Several little brats murmured complaints to Bruce, speaking in Momule language, and even Somchai was confused.
Bruce listened to the little kid and actually stood there and stopped chasing people away.
Somchai screamed again: "SHIT! Bruce! What are you still standing there for? What do you have to say to the little brat? Let them go! Let them go home!"
Rubus turned to Somchai and said, "BOSS, they said they have diamonds to sell to you."
"What!?" Songchai thought he heard wrongly, "Where did the little brat get the diamond? Was it stolen from here!?"
These words made Bruce very unhappy. He said with a sullen face: "BOSS, you have broken my heart just by saying this. You must know that I do my best to stay here for you every day, even if you owe me wages..."
"That's enough!" Somchai stood up. He didn't want to listen to Bruce's nagging anymore. You must know that black people are the most annoying people in the world when they nag.
Walking up to the little kids, Songchai lowered his head and asked them: "Do you have diamonds? Don't use crystal stones as diamonds to lie to me, I'm not a fool!"
Rubus translated his words to the little kids. The older kid in the lead took out his hand that had been hidden in his trouser pocket, stretched it out in front of Somchai, and spread it out.
Something shone in his palm, an intoxicating pink.
There are three stones in the little kid's palm, which look slightly transparent and slightly pink.
Pink Diamond!?
Songchai's heart immediately started pounding as if he had stepped on the accelerator. He carefully picked one up from the little kid's palm, took out a magnifying glass from his pocket, and began to look at the sunset carefully.
That’s right!
It turned out to be a rough pink diamond!
And it seems that the purity of this stone is really good, not the kind of junk diamond rough stone that is of poor quality and has not yet reached a high grade.
The most terrible thing is that this is a pink diamond, which is a very rare type of diamond. Almost only 10% of all mined diamonds are this kind of pink diamond. At the diamond buyers in Bo Town, this can be sold for a lot of money.
Low price.
He secretly estimated that among the three stones, the largest was estimated to be 10 carats, and the smallest was 4-5 carats. Even if polishing would waste some weight and only retain 50% of the weight, it could still be sold for a very good price!
"Ahem——"
He coughed twice, quietly calmed himself down, then put the stone back into the kid's palm with a look of disgust.
"A diamond is a diamond, but not very pure."
In fact, at this moment, Songchai's heart has already set off huge waves. He has been squatting here for nearly half a year. This is the first time he has seen such a high-quality diamond. And more importantly, the place where the little kid got the pink diamond is very important.
It is very, very important!
If there is one, there must be two, which means that where pink diamonds appear, there may be high-quality reserves. As long as you find them, you can make a fortune!
"Look! A diamond must be clear and transparent to be a good diamond. A diamond like yours with a little color is not the best."
Rubus translated to a few little kids, who couldn't understand the quality and grade of the diamonds. When they heard the song guessing that these diamonds were worthless, their eyes suddenly dimmed and they looked very disappointed.
"But!" Somchai said to Bruce: "These three are indeed diamonds. They may be sold for more than two hundred US dollars when traded in Bo City. I will act as a good person and give them one hundred and fifty US dollars.
If you ask them if they are willing to sell it to me, I will do it as a good deed."
Songchai pretended to be a kind and kind person and sighed: "It's not easy for children here..."
Bruce himself couldn't figure out whether what Songchai said was true or false, so he translated it according to the script.
Several little kids chatted for a while, and finally the older one apparently made up his mind and stretched out two fingers.
Bruce said: "They said it would cost two hundred dollars."
"Two hundred dollars!?" Songchai pretended to be surprised, but in fact he was already happy. He seemed to be very embarrassed and thought for a moment, and then said: "Okay, I will treat it as a good deed, but I have a
The condition is that they have to tell me where they picked up these stones and where they are."
When Bruce asked, the little kid jabbered and pointed to the upper reaches of the river.
"They said they picked it up while fishing on the river beach five hundred meters upstream," Bruce said.
Songchai almost wanted to slap himself twice immediately. You know, he has been digging here for half a year. He started digging from a little downstream, and then dug all the way up, but he missed 500 meters without digging.
The place the child mentioned.
It turns out that wealth is just around the corner!
He took out two hundred dollars and sent away a few brats. Somchai held the three rough stones as if he were holding three hot potatoes in his arms. He asked Bruce to tell the workers not to dig here anymore and they would be there soon.
Go dig five hundred meters upstream.
"BOSS, everyone is about to get off work and it's getting dark."
"You tell them to work overtime tonight to dig there, and I will give them an overtime pay of 10 US dollars each. If they dig up diamonds, they will be rewarded! The same goes for you. I will calculate the overtime pay for you, and you will have dinner here at the camp.
, you ask someone to go to the woods to hunt a wild sheep and come back, you drive my car to Bo City to buy some wine and come back, I will treat everyone to a drink tonight!"
There must be a brave man under a heavy reward, and black people especially like to drink. When I heard that there was wine, I hurriedly went to arrange everything.
Somchai hurriedly ran back to the temporary container house.