Chapter 543: Considerable Harvest

The difficulty in digging that Wang Shuai spoke of is absolutely correct, and Wang An also has deep personal experience.

Because the root hairs of Dianthus are like ropes, both resilient and very sturdy, and underneath the Dianthus are mixtures of stones of all sizes and soil.

And when Dianthus grows, its root hairs are crisscrossing in the soil between the stones.

Therefore, this leads to the whole ground being connected together by the root hairs of the Dianthus, forming a whole mud-stone slab mixed with stones, soil, and root hairs.

One can imagine how sturdy such a mud-stone slab is.

Therefore, taking an hour to finish one pit is already quite fast.

However, it is still that saying: as long as the money is there, let alone a mud-stone slab, even an iron plate must be smashed open!

Before Wang An can speak, Wang Shuai continues excitedly: "Calculated by the current gold price, let's not say 8.5 yuan per gram, just count it as 8 yuan; these people of ours, in one day, can each become a ten-thousand-yuan household; this is much stronger than the second-hand equipment we deal with, hahahaha..."

Wang Shuai's words also speak to the hearts of Wu Dong, Zhang Shuya, and the others, so the group follows suit and laughs.

One hears Wu Dong say: "Yeah, what else to deal with equipment for? When there is time, come and mess with some gold; this is much more satisfying."

Ma Guoqiang says with eyes full of light:

"I feel this job is quite good; why go to work? Earning those few pennies."

Wang An hears these words but doesn't refute, because if one follows the historical trajectory, this gold mine won't be discovered and reported until around 1995.

That is to say, if there are no accidents, the group can pan for gold here for more than 10 years.

However, this job of panning for gold cannot be done as a profession; being able to pan once a year is already quite good.

The reason it is like this is because when the rainy season arrives, the river rising is almost an inevitable thing, and wanting to pan for gold in a river with very fast and deep water is like joking; it is fundamentally unrealistic.

Furthermore, the gold dust in the gold nest is not inexhaustible; it also needs a time and process for gathering.

Of course, if one finds the mineral vein of the gold mine, that is another matter, but the premise is that the mineral vein found must be a surface mine; otherwise, relying on these 10 people to dig a mine is truly a bit ridiculous.

And as for the situation of golden millet appearing in the Dianthus patch in front of them, to tell the truth, it is purely an accidental discovery, because the appearance of this patch of Dianthus in front of them has already overturned Wang An's cognition.

Thinking of this, Wang An says to Wu Dong and the others with a smile:

"In my opinion, you guys should still do what you usually do; that second-hand equipment business should also be done normally; anyway, the money won't be much different, and it will come back sooner or later; let's just treat this gold-panning business as accidental wealth."

Immediately following, Wang An also tells Wu Dong and the others about what he just thought.

After Wang An finishes speaking, He Liang frowns and says:

"That is to say, we have to find the gold mine, and it's best to get equipment for mining; this way, as long as the season is suitable, we can pan for gold all the time, right?"

Wang An hears this, thinks for a while, and then nods:

"Yeah, one can say that, but if we do this, it is truly stealing minerals; but if anything happens, the nature of it will be different; by then, if you guys can't handle it, the matter will be big."

Wang An's words are very realistic, so He Liang, Wu Dong, and the others instantly fall into hesitation.

After all, everything is afraid of being weighed; although panning for gold brings money fast, if it causes big trouble that can't be solved, then the loss will outweigh the gain. Looking at the hesitant group, Wang An says with a smile:

"This matter should be pondered slowly; it's getting dark, let's go back and eat cracklings; we finished processing all that meat this afternoon; we shouldn't be hungry this month, hahahaha... By the way, the four of us also moved the camp here."

Hearing that there are cracklings to eat, the group immediately throws the hesitant matters in their heads aside.

"There is a road before the mountain, and the boat will straighten when it reaches the bridge"; thinking so much is fundamentally useless.

As for moving the camp, no one even asks a single question.

As they talk, everyone takes their small cloth bags containing gold and follows Wang An back; as for tools like pickaxes and iron shovels, there is no need to take them back, so they are all left in this Dianthus patch.

A few minutes later, the group returns to the camp.

At this time, the three Feng Chengmin people have already started the second pot of oil; the previous pot of cracklings and oil have been put into several long tree bark boxes.

The group eats cracklings while gathering today's harvest together.

The gold dust is still the same, without change, but the golden millet has increased a lot.

In this afternoon's time, even though it was delayed for a while because of the big bear, Wu Dong and the other six harvested 6 jin and 3 liang of golden millet! Adding the 6 liang plus that Wang An dug in the morning, that is, after this day, not counting the dog-head gold in Wang An's hand, the group harvested a total of 6 jin and 9 liang of golden millet, and two jin and two and a half liang of gold dust.

If calculated by the 8 yuan per gram that Wang Shuai said, it is a total of more than 72,000 yuan! 72,000 on the first day, averaging 7,200 per person; it must be said that panning for gold is truly a business of huge profits.

Looking at the considerable harvest in front of them, everyone's faces reveal happy smiles.

Wang Shuai looks at the gold in the cloth bag and suddenly says to Wang An: "Xiao An, you are too generous, thinking of us for such a money-making business..."

But before Wang Shuai can finish speaking, Wang An interrupts:

"Stop, stop, Brother Wang, let's not say this in the future; once you say this, I feel like our relationship was for nothing."

After Wang An finishes speaking, Zhang Shuya shouts to Wang Shuai:

"Why are you so pretentious? Don't use that set of yours on my little brother; if you are smug again, do you believe I'll kill you?"

It must be said that these words of Wang Shuai, although indeed sincere, also sound a bit awkward to people.

It is mainly because Wang Shuai's words contained the word "us."

As soon as this word "us" came out, Wang An clearly noticed that the expressions of Wu Dong, He Liang, Ma Guoqiang, and Sun Liang, these four, froze.

Fortunately, the timely obstruction of Wang An and Zhang Shuya makes Wang Shuai immediately realize that saying it this way is inappropriate, so he apologizes repeatedly: "My fault, my fault, what was I saying."

However, Wang Shuai's previous words also make Wang An suddenly realize a problem, which is that although the relationship between these six people is very good, there are also disharmonious places between them.

It is mainly because among these 6 people, there has never been anyone who is the real leader.

But thinking about it, it's normal; even among brothers, there are disputes, let alone they are just childhood

(End of chapter)