Pixiu Rearing Guide

"Xiao Chen, you Professor He, did you show me that pile of rocks on purpose, just to drag me to the mining area?"

Xiao Chen fell silent, with anticipation in his eyes, Du Ziyu shook his head speechlessly, and took out the thermometer, it was 37.8°, which was already a low-grade fever.

"How many days?" Du Ziyu finally spit out.

"The journey takes half a day. After arriving at the mine and looking at the pits, Brother Du, you want to come back. There are plenty of off-road vehicles." Xiao Chen then opened up the conversation: "Actually, Mr. He left in a hurry last night and left me to wait for you in Yangon. Let's go to the mining area to meet him again."

"Then go back quickly." Du Ziyu nodded, and immediately called Manager Liu, saying that his fever has subsided and he will be discharged from the hospital immediately, but he still has some private matters to attend to in Myanmar, and the port side may help him in a while. Don't be busy, let Manager Liu handle the matters on the ship, don't wait for him, just go back to China.As for Mr. Du, he will personally greet him.

Du Ziyu is the young master of the Du family, Manager Liu naturally didn't ask much about his personal affairs, and only told him to take care of his health.As soon as Du Ziyu made an explanation, he packed his luggage that night and followed Xiao Li on the road in a hurry.About the mining area, I talked with Mr. He in detail yesterday. This mine is located on the Wulu River in Lao Pagan, and the place where the Mocui mine was discovered is a mine jointly mined by the Chinese and the military. It belongs to the famous jade mine in Myanmar. The company "Bao Yulong".For this investigation, Mr. He dragged a lot of connections and went through a lot of procedures before he was allowed to enter the mining area as a "Chinese scholar", and he had to be accompanied by the military.

It was already late at night when Du Ziyu and the others arrived at Menggong, a small town near the mining area. A jeep was waiting for them when they left the train station. The driver was wearing a green camouflage uniform and looked like a soldier. They were taken to a room in the town. Stayed in the guest house for one night, and rushed to the mining area early the next morning.The scenery outside the car window gradually became desolate. They drove along the Wulu River. The clear river surface meandered down like a watery jade wishful, connecting with the green hills in the distance, but as they got closer to the mine, the natural gift The beautiful scenery has lost her due demeanor, replaced by loess and barren hills, messy shacks are set up around hundreds of acres of mines, five or six "strange hands" are working not far away, and the mountain rocks have been excavated to produce huge There is a lot of noise, and in the rolled up dust, you can see dense miners moving around, manually picking and transporting stones.

The off-road vehicle stopped outside a camouflage tent. Hearing movement, a young man came out of the tent to welcome Du Ziyu and Xiao Chen.

"This is Lieutenant General's secretary, Montena." Xiao Chen introduced the visitor to Du Ziyu, and couldn't help but look into the tent: "Teacher, has he gone to the mining area?"

"You Chinese scholars can't stay idle. You went there early in the morning." Montague spoke Chinese fluently, patted Xiao Chen on the shoulder with a smile, let the two of them get in the car, and sat in the passenger seat himself: "Let's Just go find him."

The off-road vehicle bumped for another half an hour before arriving at the abandoned mine pit in the photo. It is located on the other side of the ridge, close to the riverbed of the Wulu River, and the mine pit is much deeper than the other side.

"This place was dug relatively early. There was no mine, and it was all excavated by hand." Xiao Chen explained to Du Ziyu, and several people slowly drove down the simple loess ramp on the side of the mine.From a distance, Du Ziyu saw Mr. He squatting in the middle of a pile of gravel. There were several Burmese soldiers in groups of three or five nearby, busy with something.

"Mr. He!" Du Ziyu got out of the car and still had to walk for a while to reach the mining platform. He was already covered in sweat when he reached Mr. He. He found that there were small flags planted on the ground every 200 meters. Burmese soldiers Follow the markers in the manual digging cave.At this time, Mr. He was standing in a small mine that was more than half a person deep, holding a flashlight to observe the gravel at the bottom of the cave.

Du Ziyu squatted by the side of the mine, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, Mr. He would hand him the stone he was looking forward to. Du Ziyu took a look, shook his head, and simply jumped into the mine, squatted down and looked through the stones one by one. But he is not as optimistic as he imagined, there is no Mo Cui in this cave.

If only Shen Shi was there, he would be able to tell himself immediately where to dig the treasure with the shovel.

"Now that the black jade mine has been discovered, we can't use machines to dig it brutally. We can only rely on manual testing with shovels and shovels. They are very accurate at their hands. For ordinary rough jadeite, you can tell if there is a shovel or not by listening to the sound. Emerald green. But black jadeite is different from ordinary jadeite in density and structure, and they have dug less. Since we discovered black jadeite, we have been digging for three days, and there is no progress at all." He Lao sighed and hammered Hammering the sore waist: "It looks like I have to dig deeper..."

This sentence is a prophecy.Du Ziyu spent the whole day in the mine, looking at the stones until his eyes hurt, but he didn't find Mo Cui again. Looking at the scene, he didn't know how deep he had to dig to get something.

That night, they simply stayed in the mining area. Du Ziyu slept in a tent with Xiao Chen and Mr. He. The night on the mountain was not quiet.

"Hapakant belongs to Kachin State. Their people believe in Christianity, and Myanmar is a country of thousands of Buddhas, so the Kachin people want to be independent. The independence army has been fighting with the Burmese government all the year round, especially in the area of ​​Hpagan. There are treasures hidden underground. Military strategists It must be fought!" He lamented: "More than 20 kilometers away from us is the station of the Sixth Battalion of the Kachin Independence Army. It is also an emerald mine called Huika, and all the emeralds dug out there are of the highest quality. , so the Burmese call the Sixth Battalion 'Emerald Battalion'."

"The gunshots just now, could it be that the Kachin Army and the Burmese Army were exchanging fire?" Du Ziyu squirmed in his sleeping bag, unable to sleep, and propped his head up to chat with Mr. He.

"The Kachin people have been active recently, but they haven't invaded the territory of the Burmese government army. They were patrol guns just now to intimidate wild animals." Mr. He reassured Du Ziyu, and continued: "However, even if there is no security problem , the old mining area will be unable to mine in a few days. It will be the rainy season soon, when the river will soar, the open-pit mine on the west will be submerged by the river, and only the mine on the side of the ridge can continue to operate. If you can’t find ink emerald mine layer, then we have to wait for the dry season in the coming year.”

"Is it possible that the ore layer of Mo Cui is underwater?" Du Ziyu dragged his chin: "In the rainy season, part of the ore at the bottom of the water was washed into the mine pit, so we found the rough stone containing very little Mo Cui?"

"If you want to mine under the river bed, you have to block the river channel, divert the river water from the ore bed, and then use the 'weird hand' to dig." He Lao said, and suddenly sighed: "When I came here in the past seven years, The banks of the Wulu River are not like this. The mountains are like eyebrows and surrounded by green water... In the past few years, mining has become a black heart. Although the government has begun to control it now, the military is still mining it mechanically for the sake of the economy. Now it is almost impossible to see the mining areas that have been dug by manpower for more than [-] years..."

Du Ziyu didn't speak, and turned over. Except for the mechanical noise in his ears, it replaced the unique noise of the rainforest at night, making people toss and turn.Gradually, Mr. He and Xiao Chen snored slightly, and he got up quietly and walked outside the tent.The night sky was like washes, the stars were dotted, and there was a drizzle in the sky, carrying a smell of mud. Du Ziyu stared at the faint light brought by the miner's lamp in the distance, and suddenly began to miss someone.

He looked down at the phone, but unfortunately the signal was only half a bar, so he reached out to touch the green jade pendant on his chest, the coolness seeped into his fingertips, but his heart felt warm.

"Mr. Du, aren't you used to sleeping on our barren mountain?" Monta, the secretary who received them in the morning, walked to Du Ziyu's side at this time, and handed him a bandit cigarette. He probably just came back from patrolling at the sentry post, and was still neatly dressed in military uniform.

"No, I've been out for too long, and I'm a little homesick." Du Ziyu smiled, borrowed the fire from Montana, and took a puff of cigarettes. The choking acridity burned his throat, which made him sober up a lot.

"Do you want a sweetheart?" Monta glanced at the ring on Du Ziyu's ring finger and laughed. He took out the wallet from his pocket and opened it to find a photo of a girl: "This is my fiancée. I went on a mission, and when I come back this time, we plan to get married." He said, turning his head to look at Du Ziyu with a gentle expression: "I envy you Chinese, you are strong, peaceful, and the country gives you a sense of security. And here , especially Pagan, I don’t know who’s man will go to the battlefield tomorrow, it’s not peaceful and unstable here, only a lot of money can make us feel safe.”

Du Ziyu nodded, looking at the mechanical "strange hand" in the distance blurred in the night, he had nothing to say for a while, the harm brought to Pagan by war and poverty not only affects nature, but also stabs people's hearts.

"So now, we Chinese are the ones who are fighting for your green gemstones. It's fair." After saying a joke, the rain gradually became heavier, and Du Ziyu had to go back to the tent. The moment he turned around, he suddenly turned his head Looking towards the dense forest deep in the night, I always feel a little uneasy.

Montena noticed his movements and kindly suggested: "I'd better send you back to the hotel in Pagan town tomorrow, so that you can rest better. You are important Chinese scholars we have invited."

Du Ziyu nodded. He didn't feel afraid of the Kachin State's Independence Army, but felt that something in the depths of the dense forest seemed to be calling him... Maybe he was too tired.

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The rainforest at night is a natural cover, and the foraging beasts sneak in the night and the bushes, but this long-planned hunt ended in silence because of an off-road vehicle speeding past.The wild wolf bared its fangs, hissed threateningly at the "four-wheeled monster" who was leaving in the dust, and then sneaked into the jungle, chasing it at high speed.

"Sir, I can only take you here." The off-road vehicle drove out of a teak forest and stopped in an open place by the river valley. The driver brother spoke broken Chinese and looked at the "big Buddha" next to him in embarrassment. Why, this Chinese man has a terrifying aura that makes him dare not disobey like a rabbit with a shotgun: "Further ahead, it is the territory of Kachin State. If you break in, you will eat bullets!"

The man had a handsome face, but his cold expression failed to live up to his outstanding appearance. He stared at the mountain in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "Cross this mountain, and I will be there."

"Sir, don't you understand what I mean? This mountain is an emerald mine in Kachin State. Before we reach the foot of the mountain, don't rob and beat us to death!" The driver almost shouted anxiously, but The man just glanced at him silently, then turned his gaze around the mountain and into the depths of the dense forest...

The driver waved his hands again and again: "You can't go over there. Over there is the Valley of the Savages. There are miasma and leeches, as well as jackals and hyenas. It's better to be shot to death and have a whole body..."

"How much is it to go to Savage Valley?" The man frowned.

The driver immediately shook his head violently: "I won't go no matter how much money!"

"Then tell me how to go."

"You want to walk by yourself?!" The driver was stunned, wondering if there was something wrong with the man's brain. He glanced at the ring on the man's ring finger and couldn't help asking: "The person you are looking for, Who are you?"

"spouse."

The driver froze again, searched his poor Chinese vocabulary, and further confirmed: "You mean, wife?"

"Wife?" The man was a little dazed, he frowned and thought about these two words, and couldn't give a definite answer for a long time, but the driver brother saw something and slapped his thigh clearly: "I see, it's my sweetheart." Bar!"

sweetheart?

The man recited this statement twice in his mind, and nodded thoughtfully.

"You are really kind, you are not afraid of death for the sake of your sweetheart!" The driver brother shook his head, feeling very emotional: "Forget it, I will take you there, and I will take it as a good deed!" As he said, he winked at the man: "However, the money can be doubled, five times!"