Back to 80, start from gold digging

Chapter 126
The day before, the notice in the village was sent to every family.At eight o'clock the next day, mining was officially started.

In fact, before this, some preparatory work has already begun.The machinery for excavating sand and sand was first driven into the factory, and the progress of deep digging with artificial shovels was really too slow.When the excavation of sand and gravel has reached a certain level, manual operation will be much easier.This combination of artificial and mechanical methods is also more suitable.

For a placer gold mine of this scale, the initial investment is not too much. After removing some basic equipment and tools, the rest is only some labor costs. The amount of funds raised by the villagers is still lacking. More than half of it is used as working capital.

The few people who had some opinions before and felt that the Zhao family had too many shares all shut their mouths when they saw this.No further words, I sincerely admire this family's work style.I feel ashamed when I think about those small thoughts, and I have changed my mind in private.

I knew early on that mining was about to start.Even though they were prepared in their hearts, they still couldn't hold back their excitement when they received the notification. Some people were so excited that they didn't fall asleep all night.

The next day, the villagers arrived at the bank of the river early.

Looking at the face of the people around him, who obviously didn't sleep well, someone would tease him from time to time: "Zhang Erlu, the waves are getting big at night, look at the blackness under your eyes, it's almost time to squeeze out the black juice. "

"Fuck you, Wang Dabiao, you still have the face to criticize me, you are not much better. Did you turn over the wall in the middle of the night?" Zhang Erlu replied.

Wang Dabiao said: "Oh, don't mention it. All night, I just thought about how to mine gold today, and my head was full of mud, stones and sand. I didn't stare for a while until it was almost dawn."

Zhang Erlu said happily: "We brothers are really the same, I am also very excited, my eyelids are slippery, and I don't feel sleepy at all. I only slept for two o'clock this night, can my eyes not be dark? ."

"Look at how promising you two are. You can't sleep well before you start working. Then you have to wait for the money to be withdrawn. Then you have to keep your eyes open all night."

"Come on, Team Leader Luo. If you're not excited, what are you doing here so early?" Wang Dabiao and Zhang Erlu, who were teasing each other just now, became allies this time, and they all turned to the person who spoke.

Luo Yujun chuckled: "It's a good thing, who wouldn't want to move forward, and feel happy to come and watch it earlier."

Indeed, looking at the piles of filtered silt, I couldn't restrain my excitement, my eyes were shining brightly.

It was eight o'clock soon, and hundreds of people had gathered on the bank of the river. Almost all of the more than 100 households in the village were mobilized.

Even the slow-moving old people, the babies waiting to be fed, and those groups who usually guard their homes, also came out with their families to take a look at this big event that shocked the whole village.

Before the start of construction, a simple ceremony was held, and firecrackers were set off. The village chief Luo Shengli said a few words, both of which were encouraging words. Moji, followed by a wave of his big hand, directly announced the start of work.

Following his sound, the villagers who had been waiting for a long time eagerly picked up the washing basin, dustpan, and square plate next to them, and went down the river one after another.

Out of curiosity about this business, and with a desire to make money, all men, women, and children in the village counted one by one, as long as they were capable, healthy, and free from movement restrictions, they all entered the water one after another.

It was just a few shakes tentatively, without any gains, and I lost interest.It is good to have that kind of heart, but physical strength does not allow it, and I am lost after standing for a while.Like this, everyone went ashore one after another, watching the fun from the other side.

River sieving is a simple but boring task. The same action is repeated continuously. Without a certain amount of perseverance and physical strength, this work cannot be completed.

In the beginning, the big guys were full of enthusiasm, but after this enthusiasm, they gradually calmed down.At this time, it is to see whether a person is suitable for the job.

On the first day of mining, everyone went down the river annoyed. There were a lot of people, but most of them just joined in the fun, and few of them really calmed down.Hechai is also a technical job, and what is emphasized is that practice makes perfect. With such a lot of noisy scenes, coupled with lack of experience, the result can be imagined, and nothing is achieved.

"Such an old man, standing from morning to night, didn't even pick up a single grain. Is there any gold here? The third girl of the old Zhao family, it was shown by someone who looked for it somewhere. Could it be a scam? Have you been cheated?" Zhang Erlu didn't think Zhao Wenduo was cheating, after all, the Zhao family also invested a lot of money in, so he just thought she was cheated by others.

Wang Dabiao said: "This kind of thing can't be said casually. It is designated to find a reliable person and get accurate information before releasing it. I heard that it was all reported and had detailed evidence. .But why no gold was withdrawn, I don’t know. Maybe we haven’t touched the edge yet, and the digging place is not right.”

The two of them worked for a whole day, except for eating, drinking, and running to the bank for a while, almost all of them were soaked in the river.The same enthusiasm, the same loneliness and disappointment.As excited as I was in the morning, I am as frustrated as I am now.

At this moment, Wu Dakui passed by the two of them, and when he heard these words, he couldn't help but said: "Da Biao is right, this matter of mines is not nonsense, it is all well-founded. The person hired by the third girl is a well-known expert in the city, so there is nothing wrong with it. You don’t look at it, just us people are crowded together in a mess today, just joking, how can there be much? A serious worker, the alluvial gold is not a stone on the river bank, it is big and conspicuous, but you can start to pick it up. It is said that the smallest grain is as big as a grain of sand, so I am a little dazed , I just missed it. You have to be serious about making this thing, and slowly sieve and wash it. None of us have experience, so it’s normal if we haven’t finished it.”

"But it's true, we really haven't done it, we're doing it randomly. I just washed my hair twice, and the water was rushing, and it was all washed away, and there was nothing left on the plate." Zhang Erlu thought about that scene and laughed.

"We also imagined too well. We didn't understand this business. We just thought about how much gold we could get out at once, and didn't think about it. It's so easy to get that stuff. The fish in the tide are the same, so don’t worry about whether it will happen or not, if you just catch a lot with one net, it’s worthless.” Wang Dabiao analyzed straightforwardly: “The reason why gold is expensive is because it is rare and not easy to get. That's right. Today's situation is also reasonable."

Wu Dakui patted him directly on the shoulder: "Da Biao, you really got the name wrong. You are not Biao at all, and your brain is easy to use. Let me tell you, just do it honestly, the third girl from the Zhao family is optimistic about the project. That’s right.” He raised his head, which meant, look at brother, brother is just a ready-made example.

"Oh, Brother Da Kui, you are being serious. To be honest, did your family earn all the money from doing business with the old Zhao's family? Did selling bicycles make you so much money? How long has it been? Just half a year."

"No way, you miscalculated, and it will take four or five months to survive." Wang Dabiao corrected.

Zhang Erlu's eyes widened: "You can earn tens of thousands of yuan in just a few months, don't you catch up with gold digging now?"

Wu Dakui also wanted to be convincing, but he didn't deny it, but his smile became brighter: "Why don't you tell me to follow along and do a good job, just invest the money in their family, it's not bad."

Now not only Wu Dakui himself, but his family are all die-hard fans of Zhao Wenduo, and they have absolute [-]% trust in her.

As soon as the alluvial gold mine was announced, people would go back to other people's houses and sit together to discuss whether they should invest money and how many shares to buy.Their family has completely different styles of painting. The first thing they do when they get home is not to get together to discuss, but to do their own thing, rummaging through boxes and cabinets, and calculating how much money they have.The third girl specially found someone to find out the mine, could it be so bad? If you don't invest money at this time, you would be a fool.

Cui Yuzhen even went back to her natal family early the next morning. With the two things of selling skins and milk, the old Cui’s family also followed in the footsteps of her daughter and son-in-law, and took out the family’s 3000 yuan savings , direct transfer on behalf of the shares.

Wu Dakui said that the money was pooled from various relatives. This is half-truth and half-false. It is true that there are relatives in it, but it is only from the old father-in-law's family, and the rest is from his family.

If it weren't for the pressure on the capital in the car dealership, he would be able to spend all his money and invest it.Because he knows that this business is a huge profit, much more profitable than leather and car business.

It's still the famous sentence, the three girls are all optimistic about the business, so can it be too bad?

The first day of mining started with a lively start and ended with a few disappointments.

At the river screening site on the second day, the number of people was significantly reduced.

The crowd who simply watched the groundbreaking ceremony did not come, and the people who joined in the fun did not do it anymore. These directly subtracted nearly half of the people.Even so, one or two hundred people still covered half of the river beach.

It's just that most of these people still have to be cut off. When the time comes, they will go to work and go to school, and they will all return to their respective positions after the holiday.Then there is the disadvantage of gender, and women will leave the team one after another, and there will be no more than a hundred people who can really stay.

Zhao Wenduo sat on the bank, looked at the river full of people, and calculated silently.

There were too many people entering the water yesterday, so she didn't join in the fun.I plan to go down and test the water for a while, and I find it very interesting to watch them all washing.

For the members of Zhao's family, Li Cuizhen fiddled with them all morning yesterday, but did nothing. In the afternoon, she quit and went home to look after her children.Zhao Mingyu was full of energy, instead of going down the river in the afternoon, she stayed for more than three hours before going ashore.Today, I continued at yesterday's position, and I bowed my head to wash and sieve for a long time.

Although Zhao Wennan was young, he was not at all afraid to pick up the wash basin, and followed Zhao Mingyu, washing it decently.

The little girl regarded this as a toy, a small game like building a sandcastle or playing house, and she didn't care so much if she couldn't make something.This kind of interest is only temporary. Children usually don't have much patience, and they get tired after playing for a while.

That's the reason, no one stopped a child like her, anyway, there are plenty of tools for washing and sifting, let the children play if they want to play, it's not like this at ordinary times, there's no need to get stuck on it.

Maybe it's because of the sharp eyes of a child, or it's just pure luck, this first grain of gold came from a seven-year-old boy.

"Mom, look, I have a yellow thing here, which is the same color as you said." The little boy held his own washing basin, pointed to a handful of clean sand and stones at the bottom of the basin, and mixed it with the dirt. The yellow particles the size of two cantaloupe seeds call out to the mother who is bending over beside her.

The woman didn't react at first, but she followed her son's voice and cast her eyes. When her eyes caught the smear of yellow in the basin, the voice in her ears immediately became clear, and she immediately realized something, and exclaimed: " Yeah, it's alluvial gold—"

With her son washing and washing by her side, she didn't have much expectations, because she herself was also trying to learn.Children don't understand anything, holding a pan is just playing.

No matter what, I didn't expect that just playing around here, something came out of it.

Her cry was actually not loud, far from shouting.But now the people in the river screen are relatively dense, and there are only one or two meters apart around them. If there is any movement, they can be found.

As soon as the voice fell, five or six people gathered around the circle.

"Where is it, where is it, let me see—"

The wash basin in the little boy's hand was picked up by the woman, and suddenly several heads came over.

"Yeah, really, I still have two pills."

"Withdrawal, withdrawal—" After confirming that it was correct, someone yelled.

More people rushed over, vying to see the first gold that came out.

This time, the alluvial gold mine is really solid.If I was still a little apprehensive and anxious yesterday, this time it is considered to be on the ground.

It is also the appearance of these two alluvial gold, which stimulated the people who were washing it. A child can get it out. Adults like them are living for nothing. If you don’t rush to get the gold out, what are you waiting for?

The initial curiosity dissipated, and each of them rushed to reload like chicken blood, speeding up the action of washing their hands, thinking of being the second person to withdraw gold.

The atmosphere on the field became lively again, while washing and sifting his hands, he kept joking and joking from time to time. For a while, he was enjoying himself and working in full swing.

This kind of atmosphere lasted until noon. Seeing that it was time for lunch, the villagers on the river beach began to go out, go home for lunch, and come back in the afternoon to continue shopping.

Just at this moment, a half-grown child ran up from the small path not far away, and shouted at the group of people on the river beach: "Master, Dad, it's not good, someone has entered the village and wants to grab it!" Mine."

(End of this chapter)