Chapter 679 can be regarded as gaining knowledge

  The camel caravan moved forward slowly, becoming more and more desolate as it walked, the vegetation on the ground gradually became sparse, and replaced by various weathered rocks and fine stones on the ground.

  Everyone ate some dry food at noon, took a short rest, and continued to move forward in the afternoon.

  Riding on the back of a camel, everyone gradually became miserable.

  Although the camel's back is relatively soft, its legs gradually become numb after sitting for a long time.

   There is also the kind of non-stop friction back and forth, which gradually wears down the flesh on the inner thighs.

  When they stopped to rest at night, everyone dismounted from the camels, and they all became bow-legged.

   Fortunately, Li Likun was well prepared, and he distributed a small bottle containing medicinal noodles.

  Liu Qingshan was fine. When he was riding a camel, he felt quite uncomfortable at first.

  Later, he gradually gained some experience, and his body slowly bumped up and down with the ups and downs of the camel, as if he had merged with the camel below him, so naturally he didn't suffer so much.

   It’s just this method, which cannot be taught to others. Even if he teaches, others will not be able to learn it.

  Aizmaiti picked up some dry grass and branches, built a fire, put a small iron pot on it, and boiled water to cook a pot of hot soup.

  He tore the jerky he brought into small strips and lowered it into it, at least he could have a sip of warm water.

  Everyone has a bowl of hot broth, and everyone's spirit has improved a lot.

  As the sun set, the temperature suddenly began to drop. Liu Qingshan took out down jackets from the luggage and told everyone to put them on.

   Aizmaiti saved the trouble, wrapped the sheepskin jacket he brought around his body, and led a dozen camels to find a place with a little lush vegetation.

   People are full, but camels are still hungry.

  Although it’s okay for a camel to not eat or drink for a few days, you can ask the camel to reserve more while there is still food.

  Liu Qingshan also wanted to go for a stroll, so as to digest food, he followed behind, and Miss Xiaoxu also followed him.

  At this moment, the world looks even more vast, and the only sound of footsteps is the rustling of two people stepping on the gravel on the ground.

  After setting off, Miss Xiao Xu calmed down a lot. Perhaps it was because she had already made all preparations in her heart.

   "Qingshan, you said that living is so tiring, why do people still live?" The girl suddenly asked softly.

  Facing such a profound philosophical question, Liu Qingshan was a little caught off guard, and subconsciously replied: "Maybe it's out of instinct."

   Then he felt something was wrong, and said with a smile:

   "Based on my current understanding, first of all, I must live well, and then let the people I care about and love live well."

  The girl remained silent again, kicking stones from time to time, wondering if she listened to what Liu Qingshan said.

  Suddenly, the girl picked up a small stone from the ground and looked at it in front of her eyes: "What a beautiful stone, it seems to be shining?"

   What she held in her hand was a stone the size of a pigeon egg, ruddy in color and translucent.

   I don't know whether it was because of the erosion of water or the blow of wind and sand, the surface of the stone showed a natural frosted state.

  Liu Qingshan was also taken aback, KLMY, Devil City, stone, these words are connected together, reminding him of a kind of jade whose value was discovered very late in later generations.

   That is gold silk jade, and the best of gold silk jade is this kind of chalcedony that can faintly glow, called: gem light.

   Gold silk jade is the rarest and most precious in red, and one gram that can reach the level of gem light is worth 10,000 yuan.

  Of course, that was decades later. As for now, this gemstone, like those ordinary stones, is lying quietly on the Gobi Desert, receiving the baptism of wind and sand.

  In fact, as early as in the ancient country of Loulan, gold silk jade was regarded as gemstones by Loulan people and widely used.

   It was just that as the ancient Loulan kingdom was submerged in the sea of ​​sand, no one cared about this kind of jade.

  The corners of Liu Qingshan's mouth curled up slightly. He thought of how to repay Aizmat and the nearby herdsmen who helped him.

   "I just wear this stone on my chest." The girl beside her held the red gem light and gestured on her chest.

  The shape of that stone is really a bit like a heart shape, and it doesn't even need to be polished, as long as it is inlaid and fixed around it, it can be worn.

  Liu Qingshan nodded, of course he could understand the girl's intentions, so he said with a smile:

   "After I go back, after my jewelry processing factory is established, I will find the best designer to help you make a pendant with this."

  The girl showed a smile, the smile was so bright, as if the whole sky lit up: "No, I'm going to give this to Brother Hai."

  Okay, it’s about this time, you’re still giving me dog food.

Liu Qingshan was silent, looking down on the ground while walking, and soon found a yellow one, which was about the size of an egg. He held it in his hand, and he could still feel the residual heat after being exposed to the sun. It felt very moist. .

  Looking at the color, it looks like chicken fat, with a hint of red floating on the top. Even if Liu Qingshan doesn't know much about jade, he knows that this thing can definitely be called beautiful jade.

   At this time, Aizmaiti came back from a stroll, and the camel was already gnawing on the shrubs on the ground.

   Seeing the stone in Liu Qingshan's hands, Aizmaiti smiled and shook his head, then waved his hand again, probably saying that these things are everywhere and have no value.

  Liu Qingshan has heard that before the value of gold silk jade is discovered, you can pick up hundreds of catties a day on this Gobi desert with a basket of soil.

   But in the end, if you can pick up a catty a day, you are lucky.

  Liu Qingshan yelled and called Li Likun over to act as an interpreter. He said to Aizimaiti seriously:

   "Brother Aizmaiti, I need this kind of jade, but I don't have time to stay here to collect it, so I am going to entrust this matter to you."

   "You can call the herdsmen around to help me pick up this kind of jade, and then I will send people to take it away regularly. As for the price, let me think about it..."

   Aizmaiti waved his hands again and again: "No, we are friends. There are stones like this everywhere. We won't ask for money."

  Liu Qingshan shook his head with a smile: "Because I am a friend, I will not deceive my friend. You should be paid for your hard work, which is fair."

   "Okay." Aizmaiti nodded, then casually pawed the ground twice with his feet, and picked up a piece of gold silk jade: "Look, it's very easy."

  Liu Qingshan held it in his hand and looked at it. It seemed that the quality was average. It seems that he still needs a brief counseling to explain the quality clearly.

  He doesn't want to accept these ordinary golden silk jade, it is best to have gemstone grade.

  So he smiled and asked: "Brother Aizmat, don't you ask the price?"

   Aizmaiti laughed loudly: "My friend, I just said that even if you don't need money, I will help you."

   "The best quality of this kind, I will give you a price of 100 yuan per kilogram."

  Liu Qingshan shook the yellow gem light in his hand, and the red gem light in Miss Xiao Xu's hand.

  Although decades later, they would all be sold by gram, but considering the price difference, Liu Qingshan did not offer too high a price.

  After all, this thing has to be stored for a long time.

   "Oh my friend, are you kidding me?"

   Aizmaiti shook his head vigorously. He couldn't understand how the stones everywhere were worth so much money.

  One hundred yuan per kilogram can buy several sheep.

   "I never joke around with my friends." Liu Qingshan said calmly.

  Now Aizmaiti is not calm anymore, he muttered: "Oh, let me think about it, I need to think about it..."

  Even Li Likun, who was acting as a translator next to him, widened his eyes in shock: "Boss, no, I want to stay here and pick up rocks now!"

   "Of course. In the future, I will leave the affairs here to you and Wang Xiang. You will be responsible for collecting the jade and transporting it back to the capital."

  Liu Qingshan felt that it was appropriate to hand over this matter to Li Likun, and even if He Tianyu contacted the purchasing channel, he could hand it over to them.

   "Thank you boss, thank you boss!"

  Li Likun was overjoyed. This kind of errand was much better than driving on the construction site.

  Ai Zimaiti on the side thought for a long time, and finally figured it out. He walked up to Liu Qingshan:

   "My friend, I understand, you want to thank me, but you can't give me money directly, so you want to compensate me in this way, no, this won't work, I'm very angry now!"

  Liu Qingshan blinked, a little bit dumbfounded, what did you imagine?

   I guess he couldn’t explain it to him again, so Liu Qingshan took out the jade pig dragon on his chest from his collar:

   "Brother Aizmaiti, tell me how much this jade is worth?"

  It was getting dark, so Aizmaiti approached him and turned on the flashlight: "This can be considered jade, it's just a stone."

  Indeed, compared with the gem light golden silk jade in front of me, the material of Hongshan Ancient Jade is indeed much worse.

   "But this thing is worth at least 10,000 yuan now. Of course, it is something left by ancient humans thousands of years ago, so the value is higher."

   Aizmaiti was obviously confused again, he couldn't figure it out: when did the stones everywhere become worth money?

  However, there is plenty of time for him to think slowly, so Liu Qingshan is not in a hurry. After these herdsmen exchange gold silk jade for real money, they will surely believe it.

   After letting go of a few camels, Aizmat drove them to a large weathered rock pile a little out of control.

  The camels formed a circle, all crawling on the sandy ground, their big mouths began to chew slowly.

  Camels are similar to old cows. They are both ruminants. The common people call this "chewing cud".

   "Let's go to bed too, we have to drive tomorrow." Aizmat unloaded a few sheepskins and rolls of blankets from the camel's back, and then demonstrated it to everyone.

  I saw him laying the sheepskin on the ground, next to a big camel, Aizmaiti went on the sheepskin, curled up, covered his body with a blanket, covering even his head.

   A whining voice came from inside the blanket: "This is very warm."

   Just sleep like this?

   Everyone has increased their knowledge, and they also started to do it.

  Others are easy to say, Liu Qingshan looked at Miss Xiaoxu, and saw that she also spread the sheepskin, lay down next to a camel, and finally squeezed her body towards the camel.

  It seems that this girl is far stronger than she appears on the outside.

  Liu Qingshan also covered the blanket and began to sleep.

  However, he still asked Aizmat: "Don't you need to watch the night?"

   After Li Likun translated, Azimat’s dull voice came: “Camels are more vigilant than us.”

  Okay, let's go to sleep. In this environment, of course, it is impossible to fall asleep immediately.

  But listening to the silence outside, only the soft, rhythmic chewing sound of camels, people who are tired all day are gradually falling asleep...

   There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, everyone woke up from the cold.

  Liu Qingshan led them to run a few laps, and everyone felt warmer.

   Aizmaiti cooked another pot of broth, the sun gradually came up, and finally survived the difficult night.

   After eating, everyone continued on the road. After riding the camel for a while, Li Likun and Cao Xiaofei simply slipped out to the ground, looking for the shiny golden silk jade on the ground while walking.

  Anyway, the camels are walking at a leisurely pace, and they can keep up.

  Finding a piece, the two happily ran to Liu Qingshan's camel, and asked the boss to help distinguish the good from the bad.

  If the quality is poor, just throw it away; if the quality is good, put it in your pocket. After a while, when two people are walking, there will be a rattling sound in the pocket.

  Li Likun patted his pocket: "This is full of money."

  After the pockets were bulging, the two of them moved into the backpack, and Li Likun said to Liu Qingshan with a smile:

   "Boss, I weigh several catties, and I can exchange it for at least two hundred yuan."

  Liu Qingshan nodded with a smile: The first one to open up wasteland is just cool.

  But he still said in his mouth: "First pick up less, don't crush the camel."

   Aizmaiti also gradually believed in it, but he didn’t go down to pick it up. There will be plenty of time to pick it up slowly in the future.

   This area has a radius of one or two hundred kilometers, and there are all of them, so don't worry.

  However, during the noon break, Aizmaiti still gathered a few pieces of golden silk jade, and they were all the kind that can shine in the sun, and showed them to Liu Qingshan.

  Liu Qingshan nodded: "Brother Aizmaiti, these of yours are worth about a hundred yuan."

  Aizi Maiti was so happy that his beard straightened: "Thank you, my friend, you are our best friend."

   With this extra income, the herdsmen around them will definitely get rich, so Aizmaiti is grateful from the bottom of his heart.

  He didn't want to go to Devil City, because the legends there were too scary.

   But he didn't expect such an unexpected harvest. He couldn't help but feel that the Devil City wasn't that scary.

  In the afternoon, everyone continued on the road. Although the camels walked slowly, they traveled nearly a hundred miles in one day.

  According to Aizmat, if you walk another day tomorrow, you will be able to enter the Devil City area the day after tomorrow.

  When I went to sleep at night, it was still the same as yesterday, but when I slept until midnight, Liu Qingshan woke up suddenly.

  I saw the camel beside me struggling to get up from the sand.

   And Aizmat next to him also jumped up, yelling loudly.

   Li Likun was also awakened: "Wolves, wolves!"

  Liu Qingshan's roar sounded immediately: "Get ready to fight!"

  (end of this chapter)