Chapter 43 They are all good jade
Seeing Harry's wooden smile, Li Long was a little confused.
“We’ve known about this jade since we were very young.” Harimu got up from the wooden kang, rummaged around the stove for a while, and pulled out a stone about ten centimeters long and as wide as a palm. When the article came, he wiped a handful of ashes on it and handed it to Li Long:
“Look, Nathan picked it up from the river last summer.”
Li Long listened to Harimu’s words. , I was sweating profusely, yes, I made a fool of myself!
This is a place where people have been grazing their cattle for generations. How could they not know that there is jade in this mountain? It's because I'm short-sighted.
He took the piece of jade and looked at it carefully.
The windows of the winter nest are small, the sky is dark, and the lights are not lit during the day, so the view is not very clear.
But even so, Li Long could tell at a glance that this piece was clearly seed material, not the sharp edges of mountain material.
More importantly, looking at it from now on, except for a bit of black stone skin, the other parts of this jade are very green. It is not the green of later generations of jade glass, but a little darker than that. It's not dark green, it feels like a deep lake.
Later generations of Li Long also saw the popular version of Mahe Jade, which usually has black spots like fly droppings.
But this piece of jade is transparent, with no cracks or black spots. It is definitely top quality.
He simply got off the kang, walked out of the house, and looked through the skylight outside. Sure enough, there was no black spot at all.
Although this jade is not as valuable as Hetian jade, it is still the best among jade.
Good stuff.
Harimu followed Li Long out, saw him looking at it carefully, and said with a smile:
"Like it? I gave it to you."
"No, no, no, it's too valuable." Li Long He hurriedly handed the jade back to Harimu, "This jade is of higher value."
"Friends, don't talk about this." Harimu stuffed the jade in his hand again. He gave it to Li Long and said solemnly, "It is of no use to us here. I once took it down the mountain to exchange for something, but no one exchanged it with me.
We can often pick up this jade in the mountains. In our eyes, they are not as good as the tea, noodles and salt you brought. They belong to friends, so don’t say any more!”
Li Long was very sure that in future generations, this jade could be easily sold for tens of thousands. Although he is a layman, he still knows this. Even now, if you meet a knowledgeable person, it shouldn't be a problem to sell it for tens or hundreds of dollars.
"Then I'm not polite." Li Long didn't say anything more. It was better to do practical things than to say something.
“That’s right.” Harimu said with a smile, “We will borrow a gun from Yushanjiang later, and tomorrow morning we will use two guns to see how many wild boars we can shoot down. "
"Okay, by the way, I brought some more bullets." Li Long took out the bullets and showed them to Harimu." I’ll bring some when the wind comes next time.”
“That’s great.” Harimu gave a thumbs up, “I can have more of the wolf I injured last time.” There is heavy snow in the mountains, and there are more and more wild animals nearby, including red deer and roe deer.”
Roe deer is a roe deer. Because it looks similar to a female deer, people here call it roe deer.
If there are too many herbivores, they will naturally attract carnivores. Wolves, snow leopards, and even bears will appear.
For herdsmen, this is a great threat - because once these carnivorous beasts are short of food, they will naturally attack the herdsmen's cattle and sheep.
Even in later generations, brown bears and black bears often ran into herdsmen's sheep pens to catch sheep.
Because Li Long is here, lunch is naan, dried meat and milk tea. Li Long was not polite either. After eating and drinking, he and Harimu rode horses to find another herdsman, Yushanjiang.
The horse Li Long pulled did not have a saddle. In order to make it easier for Li Long to ride, Harimu gave his own horse to Li Long. He rode the production team's horse without a saddle and led him along the ravine to the other side. While riding.
That is, the horse was nailed with horseshoes, otherwise Li Long would not dare to go like this.
The two of them rode for more than an hour and climbed two mountains before they saw a winter nest on another mountain grassland.
The sound of the dog barking was heard far away. Li Long saw the sheep on his horse and did not drive it out.
It must be because the snow is too thick and the sheep cannot eat grass when they go out, so they simply feed them in the pen until the snow melts.
When the two people were approaching the winter nest, a man about forty years old bent over and walked out of the winter nest.
Halimu dismounted, went over to greet the other party, and then introduced Li Long. "Jax?" Li Long stretched out his hand to the other party.
Yu Shanjiang shook hands with Li Long and moved the corners of his mouth.
Li Long felt a little strange. It was not that he felt cold, but that he might have something on his mind.
"The tea and salt I sent last time were brought by Li Long."
He said to Li Long again:
"The antlers you took away for the second time included an It’s from Brother Yushanjiang.”
Li Long thanked him hurriedly.
"No, no, my friend. You helped me a lot, otherwise I wouldn't be able to drink the milk tea at home." Yushanjiang spoke immediately after hearing Harimu say that Li Long had brought tea. .
"Let's go to the winter nest first." Yushanjiang led two people to tie up their horses and entered the winter nest first.
The winter nest in Yushanjiang is larger than the one in Halimu's house, but the furnishings inside are similar. There is a girl and a boy in the room. The girl is sixteen or seventeen years old and has a round face; the boy is fourteen or fifteen years old and looks more like Yushanjiang and also has a round face.
The two children looked at Li Long with curious eyes.
Li Long was annoyed again, why he didn’t bring any candy with him.
Of course, such a big child doesn’t know whether he likes sweets or not.
He thought for a moment, took out bullets from his pocket, and gave two children one or two.
Then he looked at Harimu belatedly and asked in a low voice:
"This...doesn't it violate any taboos?"
Halimu said with a smile:
“They will be happy.”
Li Long had already seen the 56-meter semi-automatic rifle hanging on the wall.
This gun is older than the one from Harry. The original grass-green gun belt has turned black, and the handguard on the gun has been polished and shiny, and is patinated.
Halimu and Yushanjiang had a conversation, and Yushanjiang smiled.
He nodded, then bent down and rummaged under the wooden kang, took out a piece of jade the size of a volleyball, and handed it to Li Long:
"For you!"
Li Long was a little embarrassed. It was neither the answer nor the answer.
This thing weighs more than ten kilograms, and it clearly looks like it is made from seeds. I guess no one is taking mountain seeds now.
And it also feels very beautiful, definitely a good jade.
“Take it, my friend, don’t be polite!” Yushanjiang urged for a while.
Li Long took it with some embarrassment. He even felt that his thoughts were impure and he could not bear to be sorry for these simple shepherds.
I had taken things to the mountains with a purpose.
And they gave too much.
Even if they know this is the case, they will still give it.
Li Long felt that in the future he could only repay these kindnesses by bringing in more things that they lacked.
Of course, the most important thing now is to look at the gun.
Watching Yu Shanjiang take down the gun, Li Long's eyes became eager.
(End of this chapter)