"Is this thing valuable?" Brian looked at the stone and asked.
Zhang Chi said: "If jade is valuable, I don't know if it is jade."
"Can't you tell?" Cannon was a little depressed, thinking that what you just said was true, and now you are saying that you can't tell the difference, isn't that just poor and happy?
Zhang Chi was in a good mood at the moment, and he opened his mouth and said: "Our family is just an ordinary family. How do we know that thing? It's like if I take a rough diamond now, can you know it is a diamond?"
"I really can't tell," Cannon said after thinking for a moment.
Brian asked at this time: "Who buried this thing under the tree?"
"How do I know this?" Zhang Chi shook his head.
After talking to Cannon and Brian, Zhang Chi stood directly outside the pit and dialed the phone.
After two rings, the call was connected.
"Found the cow?"
As soon as the phone call came through, Melika's voice came from the other end. She was obviously joking. Zhang Chi would call home every day to talk about today's situation.
It's just that this call is usually made in the evening, but today it suddenly changed to noon, so Melika made a joke.
“I really found it”
Zhang Chi said with a smile.
Melika still didn't believe it and asked, "Then let Cannon tell me."
Cannon heard the sound and did not answer the phone. He said loudly: "The boss has been found. There are more people than last time. He is hiding in a small forest. I really like the boss saying he wants to poop now. Come on.
It was like this last time, and it’s like this again this time. Every time the boss poops, he will immediately pull out a group of cows..."
Well!
Zhang Chi was a little embarrassed and said to Cannon: "What are you talking about?"
Although finding a cow is a good thing, but when you put it together with your own poop, why does it sound so disgusting? Also, what should you use to poop without pooping, and how elegant is it to use the bathroom?
Pooh!
You are uneducated and I despise you from the bottom of my heart.
"You heard it, we really found the herd. Send someone here. My current position is on the route we prepared. A little further ahead from the third camp, there is a patch of grass not far away on the hillside.
…”.
Zhang Chi told Melika his current location.
Where does Melika use it to locate the position? It's not easy to check the location of the satellite phone. It's just giving money. Now that they have found so many cows, would Merika care about giving them a small amount of money?
"Did you really find the herd?" Merica confirmed again.
Zhang Chi couldn't stand it anymore. He took his satellite phone and came to a cow, reached out and patted the cow.
"Come on, moo!"
The cow was also obedient, and when she opened her mouth, she gave Merika a moo.
"It's true!"
Only then did Melika completely believe Zhang Chi's words, so she said: "Just wait, I will arrange the manpower today, and I will leave as soon as this afternoon, and tomorrow morning at the latest."
After saying that, Merica hung up the phone, started calling the helicopter rental company, and then gathered the cowboys on the ranch. At this time, she couldn't care about the cows at home. Anyway, these cows were generally
They won't be lost, they are all marked with the mark of their own ranch, and most of them can be found even if they are lost.
The first priority now is to drive the cattle Zhang Chi found back to the pasture.
Melika was busy over there, so Zhang Chi and the three of them had nothing to do. The cattle couldn't escape, because Zhang Chi didn't pay attention, and the position where he was grazing the cattle was a bit funny. There were cliffs on both sides, and there were cliffs on the other side.
It's not a cliff, but a crack, which is almost a meter wide and about ten meters deep. People can jump across it if they are brave enough, but cows are not so brave.
So now Zhang Chi and the others only need to stand here, and even a group of cows can't escape.
Besides, the cows didn't want to run away. They were confused when they came out. They were grazing in the gourd and living a beautiful life. Suddenly they found themselves in this place, and every one of them had a brain.
Question mark, some cows were still chewing grass from the gourds, and they didn't come back to their senses for a long time.
Many cows in the herd don't like the current environment, but they can't do anything about it. Fortunately, Zhang Chi is here, so they can feel more at ease. If Zhang Chi abandons them and runs away like before, this group of cows will
There will be several days to adapt to the environment.
Even so, many cattle are not used to the living environment in the wild. They are used to living a pampered life. Now they still have to find grass and decide which grass is delicious. Such a troublesome thing is really frustrating.
These cows are a bit unaccustomed.
It was like a group of city children suddenly returned to the countryside, and it was still the old countryside.
Zhang Chi and the other three were pondering the stones.
The stone is quite big, and it is impossible for one person to move it away, let alone one person. Even if two or three people want to move this stone away, it will be troublesome.
First of all, this is in the mountains, with no bridges or roads, and it is surrounded by rolling hills. If you want to move this thing away, it is not impossible to use a horse, but it will definitely be ridiculously slow.
Because there is no way a horse can carry this stone, it is possible to pull it, but if you want the horse to make a cart here? Then you are really overthinking it.
Cannon said: "Let the boss prepare the stone tool, and we will cut it into pieces and transport them back."
What Cannon said clearly means that he has never played with jade. If you cut a rough stone into several pieces, wouldn't you be scolded? How can anyone cut a rough stone like this?
However, Zhang Chi was also a person who had never experienced jade before. When he heard about it, he felt that Cannon's idea was a good one.
"Well, it makes sense. It's really difficult to get such a big piece back. It's much better to make it into smaller pieces. But I have a method, which is easier than opening a stone tool," Zhang Chi said.
Cannon became a little curious and asked: "What can I do?"
Zhang Chi said: "Fire the fire, put the stone on the fire, wait until it is hot, then pour cold water on it, and the stone will naturally crack."
The method Zhang Chi mentioned is the ancient quarrying method. In the past, people quarried stones without modern tools, so they used this method. They set up a pile of firewood on the stone to burn it, and then poured cold water on the stone after it was heated.
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When a hot stone encounters cold water, the temperature of the surface layer suddenly drops, but the temperature inside is still high. The force generated by the two temperature differences can cause the stone to crack.
But Cannon doesn't know that industrialization has been going on in the United States for a long time. Let's take an example. The New York subway was opened to traffic in 1904.
The Qing Dynasty fell in 1912, which means that eight years after the establishment of the New York subway in the United States, the Qing Dynasty in China did not fall.
Calculate the time difference.
So people like Cannon and Bryan don't know this method of breaking stones. The place where Cannon came from was poor, but everyone in South America knows that Latin people's nature is free and passionate. There is no such word.
It means the same thing as diligence.
The two of them didn't know this method, but there was an advantage, that is, they all listened to Zhang Chi. Anyway, they were waiting for Melika to send someone over, so the three of them found firewood and started to burn the rocks in the pit.
None of the three of them thought about how the tree could fall down at the touch of a button, and no one cared whether the stone was left by someone else. Nothing was wrong with them, and they didn't care at all, because here in the United States, in the wild
The treasure you find is yours. If you don't take it away, or if you hide it and someone else finds it, it doesn't belong to you anymore.
It cannot be said that if you find it and bury it, it will still be yours if someone else finds it. As long as you don't take good care of it, the ownership will be transferred to others.
There is plenty of firewood here, so let's just burn it directly. Anyway, the three of us will have nothing to do for a while.
After burning for more than two hours, Zhang Chi also added a little oil or something to support the combustion.
When the stone was almost burnt black, Zhang Chi felt that it was almost done, because he didn't dare to reach out and touch the surface of the stone.
"Water!"
Zhang Chi said.
Cannon said: "If you want to burn it for a while, maybe you can crack the stone."
Zhang Chi glanced at Cannon and wondered if this old boy was joking with him, waiting for the stone to burn and crack. How dare you think about it!
Thinking of this, Zhang Chi directly picked up the bucket next to him and poured it on the rocks.
As soon as the cold water met the hot stone, a cloud of smoke immediately rose up. Just as the smoke rose, the stone made a clicking sound.
Zhang Chi continued to pour water on the rocks, and the sound of "ka-ka" was heard endlessly.
Only when the firewood was soaked through, no more mist rose from the rocks, and all the water poured on it flowed to the ground, did Zhang Chi stop.
The stone cracked, splitting into five or six large and small pieces.
Zhang Chi, Cannon, and Bryan looked eagerly at the cracked spot in the stone, wanting to see how green it looked inside.
It's a pity that Zhang Chi and the three of them thought too much.
When the cracked stone is separated, a part of the middle part shows green, but most of the places are not green, just the flowery white color of the stone.
Zhang Chi is not too disappointed, because he is Chinese and has seen and heard stories about jadeite falling and rising.
Anyway, he didn't spend any money on this stone. Now that it's cracked like this, no gems can be seen at all. In fact, it's no loss to him.
Zhang Chi picked up the piece that originally opened the small window, and found that the small window was opened quite skillfully. Originally, the green strip was like a film embedded in the stone. Once the small crack was removed, it looked like
It's full of aqua stones, but it's actually only about half a centimeter thick.
This thing must have a price, but Zhang Chi really couldn't tell how much it was worth.
Just when Zhang Chi was holding this stone to look at, Brian suddenly shouted to Zhang Chi: "Boss, come and see."
Zhang Chi stretched out his head curiously and found Brian picking out stones with his hands again.
Zhang Chi felt that this child was stupid. He was trying to pick out rocks with his hands. He didn’t want his hands anymore, right?
Who knew that what made Zhang Chi dumbfounded was that as Brian pulled out more and more stone foam, a handful of bright green stones were actually revealed inside.
"Well, there's something else," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
Brian asked: "Is this valuable?"
Cannon stretched out his head to take a look and said: "It's really worthless. This thing is not as good as what I just saw."
"Do you know this?" Zhang Chi and Brian were both curious.
"You don't need to know this. You can tell it's worthless just by looking at it." Cannon said, "But there may be something valuable in this stone. Boss, take everything back and drive slowly."
"Here, let's get a piece for each person. Everyone depends on their luck," Zhang Chi said with a smile.
Cannon looked at Brian, and they both shook their heads: "You discovered this, not us together."
The two of them didn't take this thing seriously at all. Besides, the boss helped the tree out, and it had nothing to do with them. This chapter has been completed!