Ma Xiaoquan smiled slightly and said: "Well, the weather is indeed very cold, okay, then I will get better as soon as possible. "
After that, Ma Xiaoquan took out a small square box from his arms, about the size of an egg. The box was covered with a layer of metal skin, and the whole was white, making it difficult to tell what the box was used for.
.
Zhang Wei and Wang Xun looked at each other. They saw the small square box in Ma Xiaoquan's hand through the dim torch light, and their eyes condensed.
"Sir, how do you use this family heirloom of yours?"
Ma Xiaoquan looked at Zhang Wei and said: "It's not very useful. To put it simply, it is used to judge things that we cannot judge. It just so happens that we need to find mineral veins now. Well, it is useful."
"Is it so magical?" Zhang Wei stepped forward and said, "Sir, I have a gracious request. Can you let me take a good look at the treasure before I use it?"
Ma Xiaoquan glanced at Zhang Wei and threw the "family heirloom" in his hand to Zhang Wei.
Zhang Wei was startled and hurriedly reached out and finally caught the "family heirloom" that Ma Xiaoquan threw over. He held it in his hand and Zhang Wei stroked it carefully.
At this time, Wang Xun handed over a torch and approached Zhang Wei. With the light of the torch at close range, Zhang Wei carefully looked at the objects in his hands.
If it weren't for the cold weather outside, Zhang Weizhen would have really wanted to take it back and study it carefully before returning it to Ma Xiaoquan. The task assigned to him by Mr. Wei was to find a way to imitate Ma Xiaoquan's "family heirloom".
Zhang Wei was able to come to the silver mine as an official at a young age, firstly because he was one of Wei Zhongxian's closest lackeys, and secondly, because Zhang Wei had the ability to remember 80% to 90% of anything he had seen.
ability.
As early as the day before Ma Xiaoquan arrived, Wei Zhongxian's messenger came to tell Zhang Wei, asking him to find a way to extract the family heirloom treasure from Ma Xiaoquan's hand, and then take the opportunity to observe it carefully, and then make a fake and give it to him.
A package...
It has to be said that Wei Zhongxian's calculation was very precise and correct. If Ma Xiaoquan didn't know about it, he might have taken advantage of it.
But... Ma Xiaoquan took a fake underground detector because he was suspicious.
That's right, the object Zhang Wei is holding now is a fake underground detector. Or to be precise, it is not an underground detector at all, but a trap taken from Chunqiao.
machine parts.
Not many people had seen the underground detector, so Ma Xiaoquan simply found a fake one instead. Anyway, he had already come to detect it during the day, and the current "detection" was just a show.
Zhang Wei swallowed his saliva and finally touched the "underground detector" in his hand. Although he had not opened it to see what was going on, he had already memorized 80% of it.
Zhang Wei was very confident in his heart. As long as he was given a little time, he might be able to come up with an "underground detector" that at least looked similar in appearance.
"Sir, the workmanship of this thing is really ingenious..." Zhang Wei respectfully returned the "underground detector" to Ma Xiaoquan. Ma Xiaoquan took it, weighed it twice in his hand, and said disapprovingly: "But
It’s just a treasure, it’s nothing in fact. Okay, no more nonsense, I’m going to start exploring. Zhang Wei, you ask a few people to follow me. Wherever I go, they will follow me holding torches.”
"Yes, sir!" Zhang Wei waved, and several soldiers reluctantly raised their torches and followed Ma Xiaoquan.
Ma Xiaoquan was running around within a certain distance with the fake underground detector in his hand, and he was fine. He looked very proud, but he suffered a lot from those who were following him.
These hard-working soldiers.
Ma Xiaoquan had nothing to do with this. He was just putting on a show, waiting for the right time to reveal the correct location of the mineral vein.
At this time, several miner captains from the mines came, and it was the miner foreman whom they had seen during the day.
When the mine foreman saw Ma Xiaoquan running around, he frowned and asked Zhang Wei: "Master Zhang, what is Master Ma doing?"
Zhang Wei curled his lips and said: "If I knew what he was doing, I wouldn't have run out so late and caught the cold with him. Well, go to the foreman. Judging from your experience, this place,
Are there any other silver veins?"
The foreman of the mine shook his head: "Old man, I have been working in this mine for many years, and apart from the first one, I have never found anything else."
"Then what is Ma Xiaoquan doing? He's babbling like a magic stick?" Zhang Wei muttered.
The foreman of the mine said: "Sir, please go up and have a look. If Ma Xiaoquan is really bluffing, I will humiliate him in public."
Zhang Wei raised his eyebrows: "Okay!"
The foreman of the mine walked to Ma Xiaoquan. At this time, Ma Xiaoquan had just run five times and was stopping to do some stretching exercises.
"Sir!" the foreman of the mine said with cupped hands, "Sir, you are running around, but you have found a vein of minerals?"
Ma Xiaoquan curled his lips and pretended to be sure: "It's almost done."
"Almost? Sir, are there really other silver veins here?"
Ma Xiaoquan nodded: "There should be, um, right here." As he said that, Ma Xiaoquan stamped the ground under his feet.
"Here?" the foreman of the mine narrowed his eyes, "Is it impossible here? We have dug here many times."
"Oh, I also know that you have dug, but how deep did you dig?"
"How deep is it?" The mine foreman blinked, "About ten feet." In ancient times, ten feet was equivalent to more than two meters.
"Only ten feet?" Ma Xiaoquan frowned. The depth of the silver mine detected by the underground detector was more than 5 meters. However, they had only dug more than two meters many times before, so they would definitely not be able to dig out silver.
"Ten feet is very deep?" the foreman of the mine said disapprovingly, "In the past, silver mines were dug out less than ten feet. Besides, we have also dug deep pits, but there were too many people working there.
"It's still winter right now, so it's not easy to dig."
"Yes." Ma Xiaoquan nodded, "You are right, but the silver veins I detected are indeed in deeper places."
Zhang Wei came over and asked, "How's it going?"
The foreman of the mine said: "Master Zhang, Master Ma said it is in a deeper place. You see..."
Zhang Wei said to Ma Xiaoquan: "Master Ma, you can't bully the official. The official signed a military order with the emperor."
"Military order? What military order?"
Zhang Wei's eyes flashed with a hint of sinisterness, and he said: "Someone from the imperial court came before and made an agreement with the official that if the silver could not be dug out again, the official would be dismissed from his post and investigated. Mr. Ma happened to be taking care of the silver mine.
, I will go to the imperial court together with the lower officials. My lord, as long as we dig out the silver, the imperial court's reward will definitely be indispensable."