According to old legend, one hundred thousand years ago, there was no river at all at the Manjin River, but instead stood a spiritual vein of fairy mountains stretching for thousands of miles.
A certain immortal used his incredible magical power to easily uproot this thousand-mile-long Lingshan Immortal Vein and move it across the northeastern part of the Immortal City, becoming one of the natural barriers between the six Immortal Sects in the north and the Tianluo Sect in the south.
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After the Lingshan Immortal Vein was removed, a ravine thousands of miles long and several thousand feet deep at its deepest point was left. The river flowing from the Monster Forest followed the terrain and poured down from high places, forming the current Manjin River.
In the river valley forest farm, the river continues to flow southeast along the river valley, and with the inflow of water veins from the surrounding tributaries, the water gradually becomes larger and mighty, and gathers at Manjin Lake. The land around Manjin Lake is fertile, and commerce and trade are developed.
It has the reputation of "the land of fish, rice and gold", with tens of millions of mortals living around Manjin Lake.
Then, the water of Manjin River continues to flow southeast, and penetrates into the East Pole Sea at Chixia Port.
It is said that there is a huge open-pit gold mine in the Monster Forest on the other side of the Manjin River Valley. When an immortal flew over the edge of the Monster Forest, the open-pit gold mine hidden under the Monster Forest reflected the dazzling light.
It actually stretches for dozens of miles. Every time a flood breaks out, some of the gold ore and gold sand in the Monster Forest are washed away by the water to various reaches of the Manjin River Valley Forest Farm. Every year, the Manjin River attracts several people.
Hundreds of thousands of gold diggers come here from thousands of miles away in search of a chance to get rich overnight.
The section of the river valley closest to the Monster Forest side has always been monopolized by the Jinhe Gang with government background. The middle reaches of the forest farm valley are contracted by the government to thousands of gold mining teams in sections, while the lower reaches of the forest farm valley are only mined.
You need to pay a certain site fee based on your head, and you can rent a small area of mining rights in the river. However, individual gold diggers must pay a 50% tax to the government on the gold sand they earn. If you smuggle the gold secretly, you will be severely punished.
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Even if private gold mining teams cannot occupy the best gold mining areas, there are still lucky gold mining teams that find nugget gold ore every year and become rich overnight.
The government did not suppress or restrict such an overnight get-rich-quick thing. Instead, it promoted it vigorously, wearing red flowers and setting off firecrackers. It also sent a gold guard team to help safely transport gold ore to the gold bank in Manjin Lake to exchange for silver.
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Such lucky people return to their hometown, buy houses, fields, marry wives and have children, which is Manjinhe's best publicity sign.
Therefore, relying on such propaganda methods, there is an endless stream of gold diggers all over Jinhe.
There are only a few lucky ones. Most gold diggers can barely make a living after deducting the high river contracting fees and daily expenses.
What's more, there are many gold diggers who scrapped pots and sold iron to collect a sum of money and went to Manjin River to contract the river section. In the end, they lost all their money and many of them died in Manjin River.
When encountering such a situation, the workers will pool their money together to cremate such poor people and send them back to their hometown.
There is nothing better than this for things to harm their own kind.
There is a small room in the lower corner of the Full Gold Ship dedicated to the urns of gold diggers.
According to the experience of the owner of the Manjin, every year on the ship from Chixia Port to Dongning Prefecture, there are always several urns with the names and hometown addresses of gold diggers on them. They are all natives of Tianluo Country. According to
According to the rules of the older generation, transporting these gold diggers home who have died in a foreign land is a good thing to accumulate good fortune, but it is best not to be seen by the gold diggers, which will only add to the burden.
When Lao Yutou was young, he was very different and good at water. He only wanted to get rich overnight, so he scraped together things, borrowed some money, sat on the Manjin River, and went north to the Manjin River to pan for gold.
Lao Yu, who wanted to get rich overnight, plunged into the sand on the edge of the river valley and woodland, dreaming of dreams of gold every night. However, after a few years, he could only make ends meet, which was not as good as earning wages from the gold mining team.
At least there is enough food for the gold mining team.
Just when Lao Yutou was about to give up his personal gold mining dream and go to work as a long-term worker in the gold mining team, one night, Lao Yutou was in a hazy sleep and seemed to hear a voice telling him to dig deeper where he originally dug.
If you dig three feet, you can find gold.
Lao Yu woke up with a start, picked up a shovel, and rushed to the place where he dug for gold during the day and started digging. One foot, two feet, three feet, and a fist-sized piece of gold nugget was quietly placed there.
The news that Lao Yutou had dug up gold nuggets spread throughout the Manjin River Valley within a few days.
Within a few months, the folks in Dongning Prefecture, thousands of miles away, all heard that Lao Yutou had made a fortune in Manjin River and had dug up a gold nugget weighing dozens of kilograms.
Relatives who came after hearing the news filled the dilapidated thatched house of Lao Yutou's hometown. They frightened Lao Yutou's parents, thinking that someone from home was coming to demand debts, so they hid in the fields and did not dare to go home.
The relatives had to talk to each other before they brought the old couple back from the fields.
The matchmaker who came to propose marriage also came after hearing the news and kept introducing her. The girl from the host family was filial and the girl from the west family was hard-working... Happiness came so suddenly that Lao Yutou's parents almost lost their breath with excitement.
With the good reputation of "God rewards food" and Lao Yutou's flexibility and hard work, within a few years, Lao Yutou also started a gold mining team.
Regarding the "immortal's dream", Lao Yutou never mentioned it to anyone. Even if Lao Yutou told it, no one would believe it.
Among the hundreds of thousands of people in the gold mining team that fill the Jinhe River, who has not had the dream of being guided by an immortal, digging into a mountain of gold, and returning home in rich clothes?
In the following decades, no large pieces of nugget gold were dug in the river valley contracted by Lao Yutou. However, after deducting various expenses, there was still some leftover placer gold. There were so many gold mining teams in Manjin River.
Among them, it is somewhat famous.
However, in recent years, there has been a severe drought, and the river water flowing from the Monster Forest has been decreasing day by day. The gold mining team has been struggling, and many gold mining teams have dispersed and returned to their hometowns.
Lao Yutou still insists on staying in Manjin River because he has other secrets.
It is said that in the Manjin River Valley, in addition to the criss-crossing river channels on the surface of the valley, there are also many underground rivers flowing underground. These underground rivers are deep underground and lead directly to the large gold mine on the other side of the Monster Mountain Range.
If you find a random piece of ore in the underground river, it may be gold nugget weighing more than ten kilograms.
There was a historical period when gold mining teams in the Manjin River were allowed to search for and exploit underground river gold veins.
Until a large-scale beast tide broke out, countless monster beasts swarmed out from the underground river channel dug and widened by the gold diggers, bypassed the defense line of the human army, slaughtered them all the way, and went straight to the human settlement area of Manjin Lake.
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Almost all the gold diggers in Jinhe were slaughtered.
After the beast tide ended, all the underground rivers were filled with sand and gravel by immortals using magic. All information about the location of the underground rivers was destroyed, and a law was issued that anyone who dug underground rivers would be demoted to slavery.
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With the disappearance of an entire generation of gold diggers, the gold veins in the underground rivers gradually became a legend and disappeared in the long river of history.
There is no end to the "remaining" road. Half a year ago, in his sleep, Lao Yu heard a voice again. It was the voice that guided him to dig for nugget gold. It was a voice that he would never forget in his life!
"The mouth of the wedding dress box is three feet long~The mouth of the wedding dress box is three feet long~The mouth of the wedding dress box is three feet long~The mouth of the wedding dress box is three feet long~The mouth of the wedding dress box is three feet long~"
Later, Lao Yutou woke up from his dream, picked up the cigarette rod and smoked a few times, and fell into deep thought. What does the three-foot-long mouth of the wedding dress box mean? Did the immortal ask me to make a three-foot-long mouth for my precious daughter?
Wedding dress box, marry her off quickly? No, how can a rough old man like me make these things?
Could it be...could it be that the immortal said that the location of the small river mouth of Jiayi Forest Farm should be dug down three feet?
Yeah!
That must be what it means.
Lao Yu has spent the first few decades making a living in the Manjin River Valley. He knows more or less the conditions of the thousands of river sections in the Manjin River Valley. Otherwise, it would be impossible to bid at the right price for the river sections.
Contract a suitable river section so that dozens of brothers can have work every year.
Jiayi Forest Farm is located in the southwest corner of the uppermost reaches of the Manjin River. In the early years, a small river flowing from the Monster Forest flowed through this place. During the spring floods, it was said that gold nuggets could be picked up. The mining has been monopolized by the Jinhe Gang.
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In recent years, the river water flowing out of the Monster Forest has become less and less. The small river in Jiayi Forest Farm has been without water for almost three years. The original small river bed has also been dug over and over by the members of the Jinhe Gang countless times.
, all that's left is a pile of rotten rocks.
During the spring flood season this year, the Manjin River began to flow continuously. As soon as summer came, the government posted a notice that the more than ten corners of the upper river valley, including A1, A2, and A3, originally contracted by the Jinhe Gang,
The bidding was re-invited, and Lao Yutou was also invited by the government to bid. He vaguely remembered that the minimum contracting fee for the Jiayi Forest Farm for a year was one thousand taels. In other years, this price would have been low enough. However, today is different from the past.
There is only a pile of rotten rocks left in Jiayi's forest farm. He has to travel three miles to pick out a drink of water. There are people who do the decapitation business, but who is willing to do the loss-making business?
No. A, more than ten river sections, were all rejected in the end. In the end, the government offered a fixed price of 900 taels, but no one took any interest.
Lao Yutou still takes the immortal's words to heart. Without the immortal to guide him, how could he, Old Yutou, be where he is today?
Lao Yutou's family still has more than 1,200 taels, which is enough to contract the Jiayi Forest Farm.
He made up his mind and just did it. The next day, Lao Yutou set out at dawn. When he arrived at the government office, it was already noon. After some talk from Lao Yutou, he finally contracted the contract at a price of 800 taels.
He visited the river section of Jiayi Forest Farm for a year. The government officials smiled and praised Lao Yutou. He was indeed an old gold digger and had a unique vision.
Within a few days, the news that Lao Yutou had contracted the Jiayi Forest Farm spread throughout the Manjin River. Lao Yutou ignored the strange looks from others and led the gold mining team straight to the Jiayi Forest Farm.
Throughout the summer, Lao Yutou's gold mining team dug over and over the entire Jiayi Forest Farm, but could not find any gold mote. For a while, it became the biggest joke in the entire Manjin River. Lao Yutou's team
The gold diggers there also resigned one after another for various reasons and quietly joined other gold mining teams.
By early autumn, there were only three people left in Lao Yutou's gold mining team: Lao Yutou, Yu Erwa, and Lao Litou.
Yu Erwa is a relative of Lao Yutou. She was brought out by Lao Yutou. As the old saying goes, the bones are broken but the tendons are still connected. When Lao Yutou retires in a few years, this will happen. Sooner or later, the gold mining team will be passed to Yu Erwa, and Yu Erwa is also loyal to Lao Yutou!
As for Lao Li Tou, the two of them started working together to pan for gold decades ago. A sudden flash flood broke out. Regardless of his own safety, Lao Yu Tou jumped into the flash flood and searched for several miles of river. Finally, he was on the verge of death. The old man Li Tou was fished out of the water and the relationship between the two old brothers could not be stronger.
Lao Yutou can definitely trust these two people.
A very ordinary afternoon,
Lao Yutou took Yu Erwa and Lao Litou to the river mouth of Jiayi Forest Farm and continued to dig down at the mouth of the river that had been dug countless times. The other two people did not have any objections and were in a very tacit understanding.
One foot
Two feet
three feet
The soil began to become moist, and Lao Yu continued to dig down. When he shoveled down, the bottom was actually empty, and he could hear the faint sound of water flowing.
The three of them looked at each other, with slight excitement in their eyes. They swung the shovels in their hands harder and soon dug out a small opening that could accommodate one person.
Lao Yu glanced at Yu Erwa, who put down the shovel and quickly got into the small opening.
Old Li Tou took a wooden board from somewhere and laid it at the entrance of the cave.
Lao Yutou loaded a bag of sand and skillfully spread it on the wooden board.
The two old men took out their cigarette rods at the same time and began to smoke silently.
It takes several cups of tea,
Hearing the knocking sound coming from the wooden board,
Old Li moved the board away,
Lao Yutou quickly picked up Yu Erwa,
Then, Lao Li's head was covered with wooden boards again, and the sand and soil on it didn't seem to have moved at all.
After Yu Erwa shook off the water splashing on her body, she also picked up her cigarette rod and started smoking silently.
After a while, Lao Yutou winked at Yu Erwa, who took out a small bag of sand from his arms and handed it to Lao Yutou.
Lao Yu opened the bag, glanced at it, and then closed it.
Old Li Tou has already moved the board to open a hole.
Lao Yutou took advantage of the situation and threw the small bag down the hole.
Old Li moved his head lightly and quickly covered it with wooden boards.
The three of them put away the cigarette poles in a tacit understanding and filled the sand and soil back to their original places in an orderly manner.
We dug a few more places, and when the sun was about to set, we returned to the barracks as usual, carrying baskets, shovels and other tools.
Then, the three people squatted on the ground in a circle in tacit understanding,
"The golden veins of the dark river", Old Yutou whispered, surprise flashed in the eyes of Erwa and Old Litou,
Lao Yutou’s eyes signaled Yu Erwa to tell him about the situation in the underground river.
"First there is a long underground river channel. There are fluorescent aquatic plants growing in the river channel. There are several ventilation points on the water surface. The sand and soil are picked up from the underground river. I guess it will take just a cup of tea. After passing the underground river channel , there are stone steps leading up to the shore. At the end of the stone steps is a passage formed by two boulders. It is very narrow. I threw fluorescent water plants through the narrow passage of boulders. Visually, the length of the narrow passage is about ten feet. Behind the narrow passage, there is a vague view. See exposed gold ore.”
As Yu Erwa explained, she made gestures on the ground with branches. After she finished speaking, she quickly smoothed the patterns on the ground.
"The content of placer gold in the underground river channel is not high. If we can dig out a few pieces of nugget gold behind the narrow channel, the three of us will have enough food and clothing for the rest of our lives." Old Yutou said.
"Tonight, Erwa and I will make the trip in person. Lao Litou, thank you for your hard work." Lao Litou nodded tacitly.
That night, the three of them prepared torches and fire folders wrapped in brown paper, and under the cover of darkness, quietly came to the mouth of the forest farm.
Both Lao Yutou and Yu Erwa were people with excellent water skills. They successfully passed through the underground river channel and came to the narrow passage of huge rocks. After lighting the torch, they threw a torch across the narrow passage of huge rocks.
Under the illumination of the fire, the exposed gold ore on the opposite side of the narrow passage shone dazzlingly.
Old Yutou has never seen so much gold ore in his life.
In the early morning of the next day, Lao Yutou embarked on the journey back to Dongning Mansion.
He needs to find someone who is thin and has excellent water skills!
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