Traveling through 70's wine

After climbing over a mountain, Wen Qing avoided people as far as possible and walked along the path in the field for another half an hour before getting back on the road. He took out the jeep and set off for Changhua City.

She did not drive the pickup truck this way, mainly to avoid being seen and to prevent the news from reaching the ears of the bearded man and others.

If you ask her why she didn't report the three robbers, firstly, the three didn't succeed in the robbery, and secondly, there were so many things in the cave, which meant that it was definitely not the first time they did this. Don't the locals know about it? Maybe she would get into trouble if she failed to report it.

She took the things in the cave as compensation and also as a punishment for these people.

Three hours later, Wen Qing saw Changhua in the distance, so he stopped the car, put it into the space, and rode his bicycle slowly over there.

Of course I went to Changhua to look for bloodstone. I remember that in my previous life, the Changhua bloodstone was hard to find.

Wen Qing bypassed Changhua City and rode his bike towards the Grand Canyon. After walking for more than two hours, he stopped to rest when he reached the entrance of the canyon.

She sat on a big rock by the roadside, took out her water bottle and drank some water, then took out a bag of scallion pancakes from her backpack and ate them bite by bite.

Looking at the Grand Canyon, there are towering mountains on both sides and undulating mountains in the distance. In the middle, there is a stream flowing like green silk. The narrow part of the stream is rocky, and the water hits the rocks and splashes water like broken jade, sparkling in the sun.

There was green grass beside the stream. About three miles across the stream there was a small village. Wen Qing pushed the cart to the entrance of the village.

There were four old ladies sitting under a big banyan tree at the entrance of the village. When they saw Wen Qing coming, one of the old ladies said, "Girl, who are you looking for?" They spoke in the local dialect.

Wen Qing guessed what she meant and said, "I have a cousin who married here, I came to see her."

The old lady didn't understand Mandarin, and the two of them talked for a long time. It was an old man next to them who understood a little Mandarin and finally understood that they were looking for someone.

Wen Qing couldn't clearly say which village her cousin was in. Of course, she really didn't know where her cousin was, so she could only go to several nearby villages to look for her slowly.

The old man's home was not far from the village entrance. Wen Qing gave him two yuan, left the bicycle at his home, and went up the mountain with the backpack to look for him.

The old man pushed the bicycle into the yard and told his family not to touch other people's things.

Wen Qing walked along the stream toward Kangshanling. On the way, he met three locals carrying baskets and walking up the mountain. As they walked and talked, he heard one of them say, "I heard that a piece of full-blood chicken blood stone was dug up from the mine a few days ago. Full-blood chicken blood stone is too rare nowadays. Only this one piece was found this year."

Another person said: "The mines are owned by the government now. It doesn't matter whether we can dig them or not."

The third person: "Full blood stone? How big is it?"

The first person: "They say it's as big as half a brick."

The second person: "It's so big, it must be worth a lot of money, right?"

The third person: "Nowadays, bloodstones with 30% blood are rare, and bloodstones with full blood are hard to find in the whole city. Do you think they are not valuable?"

Along the way, the three of them talked about this and that and walked quickly.

Wen Qing followed from a distance, and the two sides were about two hundred meters apart. The three people in front had not noticed that she was following behind them.

After walking for more than an hour, Wen Qing followed them to a gate with a sign that read "Lin'an County Chicken Bloodstone Mine". Seeing three people entering the gate, she thought they were delivering things to the mine, so she turned towards the mountain and continued walking upwards.

There was no stone road further up, so she broke off a branch from a tree, separated the weeds on both sides, scared away the snakes and insects in the weeds, and walked towards the back of the mine. She didn't believe that the mine could enclose the entire mountain.

The last time she found jadeite rough stone, she discovered it was washed down in a stream. This time, she did not see any water flow. It is possible that the stream had changed its course, or it may have been buried deep underground.

Bloodstone is mainly formed when mercury penetrates into the interior of the mountain stone and produces a chemical reaction with the minerals therein.

Land with mercury is generally barren and even weeds cannot grow well.

Wen Qing explored the area where the vegetation was sparse. After walking for about five miles, he reached another hillside and found that the weeds in this area were slightly reddish. There were only some small trees on the ground, but no tall trees. It looked like there might be mercury in the soil.

Wen Qing thought there might be a mine underneath, so he collected all the stones exposed on the ground into the space, then took out a hoe and dug up the soil, and then collected the stones on the ground layer by layer into the space. After working for three hours, he saw a big hole dug out on the ground.

Seeing that it was getting late, Wen Qing entered the space, cooked dinner, and then continued digging the pit under the moonlight. Since the pit walls were not reinforced, Wen Qing dug very carefully to prevent the soil on the sides from collapsing.

Wen Qing dug for two or three hours and then took a break. She dug a ten-meter-deep pit. Seeing that it was late at night, she climbed up and moved away from the pit. She was mainly worried that if it rained at night, there might be landslides and other problems. She walked into the woods before entering the space to rest.

She was extremely tired that day, so she took a shower and went to bed immediately. She didn't wake up until dawn, ate some dry food, and went out of the space to continue digging stones.

By noon, she had dug a large pit ten meters deep and twenty meters wide, and collected all the stones she saw and the soil she dug out into the space.

The barren mountain is sparsely populated. Wen Qing dug here for three days, dug up half of the hillside, and dug out a large pit that was fifty meters deep and one hundred meters wide.

Wen Qing looked at the deep pit with some regret. She couldn't keep digging here. It was winter now and few people went up the mountain, but if she stayed here for a long time she would always be discovered.

All the excavated stones were sent into the space. After screening in the space, about ten tons of stones were selected. She has not yet taken them out for a closer look, but they should all be raw stones containing bloodstone.

Standing at the edge of the pit, Wen Qing looked at the deep pit. There should be more raw stones underneath, but she had already dug some and didn't want to continue digging. One should be content.

Wen Qing put the stones and soil in the space back into the pit, and sprinkled grass seeds on them. When spring comes, green grass will grow on the ground, and nothing will be visible.

Wen Qing entered the space and put the raw bloodstone into the warehouse. There were more than a thousand pieces of raw stone in total.

She took out a stone weighing more than ten pounds and placed it on a stone-cutting machine. The raw bloodstone was not as hard as the raw jadeite, so it was easily cut into a fist-sized piece of bloodstone.

Wen Qing washed the stone and found that it was as white as jade, with only a thin patch of red on it, which accounted for about 20% of the stone. It was considered half red, which was very good.

Rest in the space for one day and go down the mountain the next day.

Wen Qing found the old man where the bicycle was stored. The old man was very responsible and no one touched her bicycle.

Wen Qing gave him another two kilograms of flour and said that she had not found the person and was going back to her hometown.

Calculating the time, it is almost the Spring Festival. It is time to go back to Pingjing. She also has to go to Nankun first.

She drove more than a hundred kilometers to Qianjiang. It was already late at night, dark and there were few people around, so she parked the jeep.

As soon as it was dawn, Wen Qing arrived at the ticket window of the train station and lined up. She was the first to arrive and was the first in line.

I waited until the ticket office opened and successfully bought a train ticket to Nankun that day, although it was only a hard seat.

She would go to Nankun to deliver wine to Mr. Zhao every holiday. This time, she planned to deliver 7200 bottles and 1200 boxes of liquor to him, with a total value of 5.04 yuan. Wen Qing erased 400 yuan, making it only 5 yuan, and Mr. Zhao would pay 1 yuan first.