Mountain driving career since 1982

Chapter 812 The river beach is full of agate

It took Lu Lu most of the day to cut the oars and pedal poles using Pinus sylvestris planks at home.

The five silly roe deer raised on the meadow would often jump out from the trees and look at Lu Lu's yard from a distance, and sometimes they would touch the fence of the yard.

The weather gradually started to get hotter, and Xiao Zhengyang, who couldn't wear his roe deer scalp hat, still didn't give up the idea of ​​getting close to these roe deer. He often carried some corn in the pocket of his clothes. Since he couldn't see roe deer outside, he chose to go to the shed. He went to the grass and tried to lure the roe deer with corn. After the roe deer came in, he took the opportunity to lock them in the shed.

The child was young and his recovery ability was extraordinary. He had just been severely beaten, and only two days later, he seemed like a normal person again and started running wildly on the meadow.

Needless to say, he showed great patience in this regard and really succeeded in trapping five roe deer.

It's just that he underestimated the strength of the roe deer.

The roe deer looks cute and cute, and also very timid, but when trouble comes, it can also be annoying.

So, the roe deer, who was chased and cornered by the little calf and had no place to escape, pushed him to the ground, ravaged him, opened the shed door and ran away without his helmet and armor.

Xiao Zhengyang came back all covered in mud like a monkey. He told Lu Lu with his little mouth that he was gored by roe deer, and pulled Lu Lu to go and clean up the roe deer, which made Lu Lu amused. I led him to the barn once and found that there were two more newborn roe deer in the group.

After asking, I found out that the little roe deer he was chasing was the one who deserved to be gored.

After thinking about it, he went back and brought some corn back, and asked Xiao Zhengyang to feed it once a day in the shed. This was to supplement the mother roe deer giving birth to cubs and let them get more familiar with his family.

As the temperature rises, the wild vegetables on the mountains grow faster. The collection of wild vegetables at the collection station has entered the peak period. More than a hundred people from Huilong Tun and Xiushan Tun have participated. Even Linxi Village, through Tuo Dezhang knew that the wild vegetables were purchased in Xiushan Tunnong, and many people came to ask for specific instructions on how to process the wild vegetables, and then processed the collected wild vegetables and sent them to Xiushan Tun.

A large amount of monkey leg vegetables, oxmaoguang and cucumber Xiang are delivered to the wild vegetable purchasing station in Tunli every day. Lu Lu has to send inventory to the foreign trade company in the city every two days.

Even though they only earned 4000 cents per catty, after one month, the brothers discovered that each family still had an income of nearly [-] yuan, which is amazing.

And some of the more powerful families can earn seven to eight hundred, or even thousands, in a month.

The harvest of wild vegetables has come to an end, and there are still mushrooms in summer and autumn. It can be done for a longer period of time, and it will also be a good income after a year.

During this month, Brother Lu Lu guided several bee farms to complete the task of raising and changing kings. June is about to enter, the lime trees are about to bloom, and the bee farms are ready for a bumper harvest.

The five birch bark boats have been completely dried in the sun. They look like a big rack, but it is not too difficult to carry one in each hand.

After a heavy rain, while waiting for the river water to turn from turbid to clear again, Lu Lu summoned Zhang Shaofeng and others and talked about going to Wuyi Ridge and Xunke to collect red agate.

The affairs of the farm are left to Liu Bao and Lin Yujuan to take care of them. If there is anything that needs to be dealt with, go to Caodianzi to find Chen Xiuyu to discuss a solution.

In fact, it was just simple management at this time. The group of people had been on the farm for three years, and they knew how to solve most problems they encountered.

I make a lot of money every year, everyone works very hard, and things are easy to manage.

The next day, the brothers gathered in Lulu's meadow. Nowadays, there is no need to get proof for travel. After breakfast, the brothers loaded the birch bark boat into the car, took the tent and some food with them. Yuanbao and the others must bring their dogs and semi-automatic cars, but they don't need the horses.

Be prepared, let Raymond drive the car, and go straight to Wuyi Ridge.

Now, Wuyi Ridge belongs to the northernmost boundary of Yichun. It was later merged with Tangwang River District to form Tangwang County.It is the latest developed place in Yichun and is a branch of Xiaoxing'an Mountains. In Mongolian, Wuyi Mountains means mountains covered with woods. It was also the site of a royal hunting ground in the Qing Dynasty.

Although it was remote, it was still on the border of Yichun after all, a distance of more than [-] kilometers. It only took Lei Meng a whole morning to drive to Wuyiling District. He had lunch there and asked someone to ask questions. After knowing the general direction, several people drove the car into the mountains along the forest farm road and stopped by the Wuyun River in Wuyi Ridge.

The entire Wuyi Ridge is a mixture of low hills and water meadows. Many places are inaccessible and inaccessible by car. The Wuyun River is the largest water system in the Wuyi Ridge area, with large and small tributaries running all over Wuyi Ridge. Most of the place.In addition, the source of Tangwang River is also in Wuyi Ridge, a place with a complex water system.

It had rained heavily a few days ago and the river had risen. The beaches on both sides of the river had been severely washed away. This was the time to wash and expose the agate rough stones.

As soon as the car stopped, everyone walked excitedly to the river beach before they had time to move their things down.

On the stone beach where the river has silted up, the stones are reflected in the sunlight. At a glance, you can see a lot of red or yellow stones, and those are all agates.

It's no exaggeration. If you lower your head and walk a few steps, you can see two or three pieces. The river beach is really full of agate.

"How should I pick up this agate?"

As early as when they were panning for gold sand in Baoxing Valley, Lu Lu had already told several people about Northern Red Agate. At this time, Zhang Shaofeng and others naturally did not need to say more. Only Raymond was managing the farm and had not participated in it. He didn't know what to do. How to tell.

"Onyx is valued for its red color and yellow color, so just pick up the ones that are transparent, comfortable to look at, and novel to you. Don't worry about the size!"

Lu Lu simply replied: "Including other colors, as long as you think they are novel enough and have a special color, you can pick them up."

This is indeed the case. In addition to quality, quantity is also important.

It goes without saying that it is easy to distinguish between agate and ordinary stones.

So, a few people started to rummage among the stones on the river beach. They turned over two stones here and kicked them twice with their feet. After a while, a few rough agate stones were picked up. It didn't take long for several people to use their clothes to carry them in their pockets. Then, after walking two or three times to the car, stones of different sizes and shapes gradually piled up in a small pile beside the car.When they were in Baoxinggou, none of them realized the value of agate. They just thought it was a translucent stone with a special color, which was very common.

But when the handicraft processing factory opened, they discovered that this seemingly ordinary thing could be sold at a good price, especially when they saw the various objects carved and polished by Kong Siren using these stones, and the little turtle visited the processing factory several times. After asking, they were also very interested in these things.

If you can make money, it's a treasure.

It is even more difficult to earn foreign exchange.

It's just "picking up rocks", which is much simpler and easier than chasing prey all over the mountain and carrying a stick.

When several people picked it up, they naturally became excited.

For a few people, this is the equivalent of picking up money.

The entire afternoon was spent on the nearby river beach. Several people even took off their shoes, rolled up their trouser legs, and went down to the shallow water of the river to search.

The agate stone in shallow water is soaked by water, making it more transparent and conspicuous, and it is more pleasing to look at.

In the evening, a few people stopped. After taking a short rest, they moved the birch bark boat off the car and set up a tent on the grass some distance away from the river beach to prepare dinner.

Taking advantage of this time, Lu Lu squatted next to the pile of agate stones, rummaged through them, and picked up those with pure color.Agate, which has the best transparency and is closer to gemstones in material, is placed inside the bag.

Although the quantity of such high-quality or top-grade agate rough stones was not large, it far exceeded Lu Lu's expectations.

He knew very well that many of the really good agate rough stones were actually hidden underground. After all, this stuff was originally a product of volcanic activity.

But now, just by picking up, you can easily pick up a lot of high-quality and top-quality materials. Lu Lu can only sigh that he has been reborn in the right era. He can be one step ahead in many things. With the help of The memories in my head are really full of opportunities, and they are real.

If there were no memories of the previous life in my head, how could I focus on these inconspicuous things?
At the beginning of the next day, several people launched the birch bark boat into the water and used pedal poles to push it upstream. After a simple adaptation, they each chose a river beach, continued searching, and then loaded the agate rough stones they picked up into the birch bark boat and sent them back to the birch bark boat. Campsite.

And sorting these agate stones every night has become something Lu Lu must do.

Relying on the birch bark boat, a few people traveled on the beaches of various tributaries of the Wuyun River. During this period, they changed campsites four times according to the location. In the blink of an eye, Raymond sent two to the handicraft processing factory in half a month. Go to the agate stone.

The agate stones that Lu Lu picked out and packed in bags were specially placed in bags for Kong Siren to store separately. The other rough stones were unloaded in carts and piled next to the large pile of pine flower stones on the site.

Having obtained so much material made Kong Siren and his gang very happy.

Many small agate stones can be simply polished and drilled to be strung into bracelets and pendants as hand ornaments. They can also be used to make safety buckles and the like. Larger ones can be carved into handles or ornaments.

Apprentices can get started with many things directly, which greatly increases the amount of processing output.

When Raymond was also sending those agate stones back for the second time, he met the little turtles who came to the processing factory again. They were led by the leaders of the district government. They expressed their love for the finished products. Start pouring money into your own country in batches.

Naturally, I will not let go of the Songhua inkstones, strange stones, some ornaments, wood carvings, etc. produced in the factory.

This has become a very stable channel.

The news that Raymond brought back made several people extremely happy.

What pleased Lu Lu the most was that the wild forest wood carvings that Chen Xiuqing took, which were specially carved from purple basswood, were also highly praised by the little turtles.

Probably because they thought it was novel and unique, every time a carving was made, one was taken away, and the price was not low.He has finally found his own place on the path of carving.

Of course, for ordinary apprentices, wages are paid according to the current wage level, while for several masters, in addition to wages, they are also motivated by commission, which greatly increases their enthusiasm for work. This is something that has been decided for a long time.

Lu Lu did not want to produce a large number of standard objects that were made from the same mold, but continued to maintain pure hand carving and polishing. It is precisely because of this that the products produced are always novel and unique, rather than static and the output is variable. A lot, but the income continues to rise.

The entire handicraft factory has become famous in the district and even appeared in newspapers. Many people came to visit it and took away some of their favorite carvings. Some skilled craftsmen also joined the factory.

The business of the entire handicraft factory became more and more prosperous, and other handicraft factories began to be built in the district.

But who are Kong Siren and others? They are the descendants of the elders in the palace manufacturing office. The skills they master are beyond the reach of ordinary craftsmen. No matter how many people appear, they can't shake Lu Lu's status as a handicraft factory.

Of course, there were also those who tried to poach, and they took away a master Kong Siren hired. The salary was doubled compared to Lu Lu's, and the commissions were also increased a lot, which sounded very tempting.

However, after he went there, he found that the sales of the place were still not open, and it was difficult to get some carving materials. After two months of hard work, the total income was not even as high as half a month with Lu Lu. He came back to Kong Siren with a face and wanted to come back, but Kong Siren scolded him mercilessly, and then left in despair, not even daring to come to Lu Lu.

He himself also understood that Lu Lu treated them well, and his leaving was purely a letdown. Of course, in the mouths of Kong Siren and others, they preferred to use the word "betrayal" to express the seriousness of the problem.

But at this time, in the Wuyi Mountains, Lu Lu and the others encountered a strange thing happening...

(End of this chapter)