"This is still a small part." Zhao Lei smiled: "Every night, there are many truck inner tubes on the river, which are rowed over by the old Burmese people as boats. The rough stones are hung under the inner tubes and soaked in the water. As long as we see these Lao Mian jumped into the water and left, and we fished out the inner tube and stones."
Ye Qing nodded. No matter how long it took them to be fished out, there would still be a trace of water on them. He knelt down and took a few glances, then stood up and left, flashing the flashlight in his hand across the rocks.
"How's it going?" Xue Xiaoyu asked nervously.
"Brick materials!" Ye Qing said with a smile without looking back: "They are all picked out by stone pickers from the discarded slag. It is 310 tons in the mining area, and one ton shipped to us plus 1,500 tons." The shipping cost is up to two thousand. Even if you buy it from the rough stone yard in Tengchong, it is not expensive."
"Yes, this is the most suspicious thing!" Xue Xiaoyu frowned and said: "Moreover, we have also traced the whereabouts of the rough stones bought by Marvin. But we have never been able to find those stones. Even if we resort to tricks, It also disappeared suddenly.”
"What's the reason!" Ye Qing knew that the so-called superior method was to install a positioning system on the rough stone.
"Generally, the signal will disappear only after you find the signal device and smash it!" Zhao Lei shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"Destroy the stones and eliminate their traces so that no one can find the remains of these stones!" Ye Qing's eyes lit up and he knelt down to look at the stones.
"There is another situation where the stones are crushed and sold to construction companies for use as stones." Xue Xiaoyu said with a smile: 'This is our habit here. In the last century, many houses in Tengchong were built with scraps of raw stones. . "
Ye Qing had also heard about this. Every time Tengchong demolished an old house, countless people would rummage through the foundations, and many good things would be found.
Ye Qing looked at twenty or thirty rough stones in a row. The stones were just stones. There was nothing strange about them, but the same thing was that they were not small in size but not of great value.
But why did Marvin go through so much trouble to get this kind of stone?
Could it be that they put sand gold in the stones. But how it was put in, and the stone was covered up without a trace.
Ye Qing took another two steps forward and squatted next to a larger stone. He turned on the light and looked closely. The stone was obviously cut. It was square, with the entire surface exposed. It was horse-toothed, with only a green patch the size of a teacup in the middle. . But this rough stone is very solid, weighing more than 100 kilograms.
"Is this piece of green valuable?" Xue Xiaoyu also squatted beside him, watching him focus on the piece of green, and asked with a smile.
"Cut it out and make it into a bracelet. If you sell it for five hundred, you will lose two hundred in labor fees!" Ye Qing smiled: "This should be the entrance of Xinchang. The stone was dug out after the vein was found. The purpose of cutting it was to check the quality, and then it was cut. Throw it away as trash.”
"Then look what it does!" Xue Xiaoyu asked curiously.
"Look!" Ye Qing gestured: "This stone is cut into squares, but it is still more than a foot thick. This is what these stones have in common."
"They have all been cut, so they are very neat!" Xue Xiaoyu's eyes lit up.
"If you cut it from the middle, you don't have to separate it, and you can cut the stone from one side." Ye Qing frowned: "Hollow out the inside, just like an ancient dressing box."
Xue Xiaoyu smiled and said: "We have already thought about this problem, but after cutting a few pieces, we found nothing!"
Ye Qing smiled: "Not every stone contains sand gold. Only the true and false can deceive others!"
"But it's not obvious how they glue the stones together."
"There is a fake technique in stone circles, which is called skin-paving." Ye Qing explained with a smile: "It is to cut a hole in the original stone, and after finding it is worthless, stick a better jade slice on it, and then put the original stone on it. The leather shell is glued on, and it becomes a valuable rough window stone. This kind of fraud is so clever that even a master of stone gambling cannot avoid taking medicine."
"What is taking medicine!" Xue Xiaoyu was surprised.
"Thankfully you are still the daughter of the big boss of the quarry!" Ye Qing looked at her with disdain: "You don't even know how to take medicine."
"I've been going to school and started working after graduation!" Xue Xiaoyu glared at him and said confidently: "I don't know, it's normal!"
"Taking medicine means being cheated!" Ye Qing said helplessly.
"Uh!"
"You don't understand, okay? This is jargon, not slang. If you tell your dad, he will understand immediately!" Ye Qing didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse to agree to keep Xue Xiaoyu by his side.
"Is it possible to cut them all? Not only that, but there are several large warehouses!"
Ye Qing gloated: "What you should consider is that if all the sand gold flows out of these warehouses, you will be in big trouble!"
"Why are you laughing? We can't find any clues and have already been informed and criticized." Xue Xiaoyu became angry: "Besides, we hired a master like you. If you can't tell, it won't be a shame!"
"I am responsible for this matter!" Zhao Lei said with a bitter smile: "If it really leaked out from here, I will ask for it myself..."
"It's a great achievement to find out!" Ye Qing quickly interrupted him, teasing Xue Xiaoyu, but he couldn't joke about this kind of thing, Zhao Lei would be beaten to the end.
Zhao Lei asked anxiously: "How to find it!"
Ye Qing thought for a while: "Find an electronic scale and two buckets that can hold a stone of this size. There must be a water source here!"
"Yes, tap water!" Zhao Lei nodded: "What else do you need!"
"Two small slings, net bags, and a box ruler!" Ye Qing smiled and said, "Find some small stones."
"There are small stones, there are many in the warehouse over there!" Xue Xiaoyu shouted.
"Nothing else!" Zhao Lei asked again.
"Gone!"
Zhao Lei waved his hand and said to the young man behind him: "Go and make arrangements immediately!"
Not much time, everything is ready. A group of people looked at Ye Qing eagerly.
"Start from the first piece!" Ye Qing glanced at the small stone. It only weighed sixty or seventy kilograms. No need for a sling: "Weigh it!"
Several young men carried it away and put it on the electronic scale: 'Seventy-five kilograms! "
"Tie it up and hoist it into the bucket!" Ye Qing smiled and glanced at Xue Xiaoyu: "The two of us will weigh the small stone to seventy-five kilograms!"
"Cao Chong calls the elephant!" Xue Xiaoyu's eyes lit up.
"That's right!" Ye Qing took out a few small stones from a wooden box. After getting started, he glanced at them involuntarily, and the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily.
Then he said nonchalantly: "Stones of the same weight have the same volume. Put in a stone of the same weight, lift it up, and measure whether the size of the remaining water in the two buckets is the same. Which one has less water overflowing, which one is bigger?" It’s fake! Just cut that piece!”
