"I suspect there are minerals."
"Oh?" Huo Yunqian turned the ring on his thumb and looked at Xu Tianxin's big bright eyes, and asked with interest: "What kind of mine do you have in mind?"
Xu Tianxin looked back at Huo Yunqian without hiding.
She was silent for a while. Silence is golden, brother.
"Gold mine."
Huo Yunqian turned his index finger.
"Just because you bought "Xuyou Shenglan" and "Fang Yu's Notes"? As far as I know, those two sets of books should not have such content. They are said to be "Minutes" and "Shenglan", but they are just two ordinary travel notes. That’s all.”
They don’t even have the simplest territory map, and they have little understanding of the landforms.
Xu Tianxin thought: Who are you looking down on?
Do you look down on her analytical skills, or do you think the authors of those two books were too superficial and sloppy?
If you look down on her, that's okay, but you don't understand her.
But she really doesn't want to hear about the author she likes.
Although these two book writers are not famous at all in modern times, they are not even famous here in their day. That's why in the eyes of a proud man like the General, who has read many good books, these two authors will be classified as unsuccessful literati, and they are still literati who do not want to face real life and wander around.
But these are the two book writers she likes very much when she comes here.
The reason why I bought these two books was, on the one hand, because it was so serious that I had to buy it home and look through it carefully.
On the other hand, the situation at home was that I hadn’t finished buying all the reference books. The house was broken down and worth thousands of dollars. Everything had to be spent to start over. So no matter how much I liked it before, I couldn’t just buy it back just because I liked it but didn’t use it much in my life. Home.
However, she once had the opportunity to briefly read it in a bookstore.
"It was a pity that the waiter drove me out of the bookstore before I finished reading it. He told me to either buy it or leave. I was short of money and could only leave sadly.
So I remember very clearly that the author of "Xuyoushenglan" wrote a period during his travels, where he was rescued by the Outer Eight Gates, which is the Ninth Gate Caijin Gate, and rested there for several months, and then followed them all the way. Two years.
He even used his status as a scholar to slap Cai Jinmen in the face.
General, you may not know the meaning of a slap in the face. He is an outsider and has a low status. A slap in the face means that he helps to save face.
From this, the two parties formed a deep bond, and the author also knew some common formulas in the gold mining industry. If you want to look for minerals, you need to look for grass, rocks, and mountains and rivers. You also need to look for cinnabar, magnets, and fire stones on the existing rocks.
For this reason, after he separated from Caijinmen, because he followed this formula to dig gold for two nights, he was chased three hills by the locals. He lost his shoes and wanted to beat him.
Because in order to prove his conjecture, he fed a grass plant to the cattle of his uncle, a farmer in the mountains, and the cattle were poisoned to death. Can they let him go? "
When Xu Tianxin said this, he seemed to remember the plot of the story and laughed heartlessly a few times:
"It was very interesting to write. It was in his short story that I saw the formula. It said what kind of mountain, what kind of stones and grass grew around the mine, how he found it, and how he was chased. of.
Then I thought, what if, what if the money officer who came to exchange for the wasteland had some ulterior motives?
After all, this is contrary to common sense. How can we buy wasteland at a high price? In all my life, I have never experienced anything falling from the sky..."
Xu Tianxin paused, she had encountered pie in the sky.
Sister Lu Yan gave her one hundred and twenty taels for free, and Grandpa Jia Lai gave her a wild boar skin for free when they met.
Huo Yunqian took a sip from the tea cup and hid a smile on his lips: "Well, it's right to be wary of others. Why don't you continue talking?"
I was very excited when I said it just now, and I was able to amuse myself.
Xu Tianxin thought:
Because it was not just pie-in-the-sky. Next, she began to combine some knowledge that modern people would have heard.
Moreover, in modern times, we belong to the group of old men. Talking about ancient times
He said he knows the most today.
For example, the north loves to produce minerals.
Why did the little devils occupy the north in the first place? They chose the land they occupied with a purpose, and stole as many gold mines as they dug out.
And why was there so much gold and silver in circulation in ancient times? You must know that what she spends now is silver, but during the Republic of China, why did gold and silver no longer be used as currency for common people's circulation, and gold and silver were rarely seen. According to the modern village elders holding bird cages in the park and scolding them, in the late Qing Dynasty, land was cut off and compensation was paid to the little devils. Shipped to people one by one.
Of course, gold and silver will no longer be used as a large amount of money in the later period, and it will definitely not be as simple as we people guess.
Regardless of this, she is sure that the Northland is rich in minerals. This is due to geographical reasons. It depends on whether they find it or not.
Moreover, there is also a place called Jiapigou in modern times. Xu Tianxin doesn't know if it is here. After all, mountains, rivers and rivers will change due to atmospheric weather and other reasons.
However, it is said that there are seventy-two ditches in Jiapigou, and there is gold in all ditches. It is also said that the high mountains in the North, especially the volcanoes, and many unknown mountain ranges have been rich in minerals since ancient times.
Xu Tianxin paused because she was thinking about how to make this topic bigger and rounder.
Although grandma always says that she doesn't like to lie.
But what grandma doesn't know is that as soon as she starts telling a lie, she likes to spin it into a perfect lie.
Xu Tianxin looked at the clear tea soup in front of Huo Yunqian, and couldn't help but pick up the teacup and take a sip, saying in his heart, "Good tea":
"I thought the general would dislike the verbosity of civilian girls. I was thinking about cutting off a section to get to the point directly, in case you don't have the time."
Huo Yunqian thought to himself: a dialect.
If I say I'm afraid you don't have time, I'll delay too much. I'll say I'm afraid you don't have time. I'll speak in Mandarin, but I won't have enough time to speak.
"Just tell me about your mental journey, go on." He has a lot of skills.
"Oh," Xu Tianxin continued: "Then based on the plants mentioned in Xu You's little story, I thought of another book I had read in the bookstore, "Fang Yu" written by our northern author. summary"."
"I was also strapped for money, so I didn't buy it at first. Is it a deep memory?"
"Ah? Ah. In the book "Minutes", general, don't look at the author's lack of description of the landform features of Kyushu, as if he has no insight.
But he has traveled extensively, and what is rare is that he likes to write comparatively.
Let me give an analogy to the general. For example, we grow sweet potatoes in the north, and sweet potatoes are also grown in Luzhou. How can we tell where they are grown? This person differentiated them based on their size and taste.
And the most rare thing is that wherever he goes, he writes down many wild plants along mountains and rivers. This person believes that wild plants, not cultivated ones, can best represent local characteristics.
It is still written in comparison, what kind of grass grows in what kind of mountains, and the local grass is obviously the same species as the grass growing in other places, but what is the difference..."
Don't say it, really don't say it.
Xu Tianxin didn't care when Huo Yunqian asked her if she was short of money again. Her attitude of not taking it seriously and eager to praise the benefits of "Fang Yu's Minutes" made Huo Yunqian interested and planned to go back again. Looking through the book that he had planned to gather dust as soon as he got it.
Obviously he had seen many better books of this kind, but he was also seduced by Xu Tianxin's recommendation.
Huo Yunqian also discovered that Xu Tianxinxin liked to read books about trivial matters and little people.
There is no feeling of family and country in these two books, nothing more, no poetry, no beautiful words, no longing for Kyushu, but she likes to find knowledge in this type of books.
This is one thing that makes Xu Tianxin slightly different from most other girls.
Normally, Huo Yunqian would find it a bit strange to find knowledge in the stories of little people, but if he can really find gold mines... "Continue."
"Yes, General, isn't that right? In order to test whether it was a mineral or not, I poisoned my uncle's cattle in the mountains. This was done by feeding the cows with horsetail grass, which is also known as gold-sucking grass. Mountains are divided into five elements, and they are also divided into yin and yang. , there are also sedge and honeysuckle in the formula. It is said that gold mines like to grow this kind of plant.
And in this book, because the author is a local, he really writes about the flint in the mountains in our Northland, what happened in the past, and what will happen to the wild plants after the changes in the mountains. .
Combined with "Xuyou", it is said that most of the plants around the gold mine cannot survive, and there are only a few that can survive. Those few can become guides. "
Xu Tianxin paused:
"Then I went to ask the fourth grandfather of our village, and he said that the mountain on the other side of Jiapigou is a volcano. He heard the story from his grandfather's grandfather's father, and it has been told from generation to generation. General, please forgive me, my little girl has no talent, it's true I don’t know what the name of grandpa’s grandpa’s father is.”
"Tianzu." Huo Yunqian was speechless, writing that at the age of thirteen, he had not learned the most basic things, so he had to dig for gold.
"I asked the uncles who provided fodder to my family why the grass in this area was all dug up and why they didn't dig cattle and mule fodder near Jiapigou in front and sell it to my family. They said that we couldn't go there. The grass grows immorally.
General, you are a proud man of heaven. You may not know something if you have never planted crops. In the eyes of us country people, the bad grass is the horsetail grass because it harms crops and is difficult to get rid of when it grows. Pigs, cattle and sheep will eat it by mistake. Poisoned. And it is the poisonous weed mentioned in "Xuyou".
As for honeysuckle that often grows near gold mines, my master, Dr. Guan Baoxiang, even knows where to find it in Jiapigou. "
Huo Yunqian directly hit the point: "No, I didn't read the whole book "Virtual Travel", but I flipped through it hastily. It didn't tell you that volcanoes can produce gold, and the author didn't write down all the formulas."
Huo Yunqian poured tea for Xu Tianxin and waited for explanation.
He thought the little girl would say, no? Where did you see that?
At least he would be stunned. Or maybe there was a lie in what he said, and he would be a little panicked at a young age.
Although Huo Yunqian felt that the possibility of lying was very small, after all, it was not how he knew it by reading a book, but he felt that he was not completely telling the truth.
But when Huo Yunqian raised his head, what he didn't expect was that Xu Tianxin looked at him with admiration and said: "General, you can remember this detail by just reading it. Strong awareness."
Later, Xu Tianxin told him without any panic: "I did not learn about the volcano from a book, I heard it from traders."
"Which trader?"
Xu Tianxin pointed to the tea in Huo Yunqian's hand and said with a smile: "The fragrance is clear but not coarse, and the taste is thick and not astringent. It is exactly the golden flower tea you brewed, as the big shopkeeper of Jingyang Fu Tea said."
Fu Cha is one of the three tea merchants in this mutual trade.
Fu Zhuan tea is a dark tea, also called fermented tea. Since ancient times, it has been deeply loved by people who eat beef and mutton to relieve fatigue. Like the one made by General Huo, it should be grown due to the unique geographical conditions of the Qinling Mountains.
And what is there in the Qinling Mountains? There are mines in Shaanxi and Yuan Dynasties, which is modern Shaanxi. There was a TV series in the 1990s about Tongguan, which was filled with people who had dreams of going gold mining. It is said that the founder of the royal family here laid the foundation for the founding of the country. The royal gold mines have been vigorously excavated, and it is no longer a secret in the local area.
"So General, when the lady of the country entertained all the great shopkeepers, they talked about the specialties and customs of various places. Shopkeeper Shen of Fucha laughed and sang a local folk song with us. Burn the stone and the stone will make the fire. Look for the gold and the baby will bring the gold. The green mud will touch the gold. The gold is silent, and the flying geese leave their shadows behind..."
This is how volcanoes are known to produce gold mines.
Xu Tianxin breathed a sigh of relief and finally finished explaining.
On this side, Huo Yunqian did not expect that Xu Tianxin would not only taste what kind of tea it was, but also that the channels for her to obtain knowledge points would be complicated.
We had a banquet with the shopkeepers and talked about everything.
"Besides the gold mine, there are other things we don't have in the north. Has Manager Shen ever talked to you about it?"
Xu Tianxin thought to himself, could it be: "A talented man from the south, a general from the north. The emperor came out of the land of Shaanxi, and there are dozens of emperors' tombs there."
Get it right every time you dig it.
In the Tang Dynasty, there was a bay in the Song Dynasty on Banpo. The tombs of the Han Dynasty were located between the mountains, and Gaozhouhui was on both sides of the river. Hu Nian's formula was adapted from the ancient "Shaking the Dragon Sutra". She is very cruel.
Huo Yunqian couldn't even hide his smile when he thought about it. And even he didn't know in his heart whether this smile was because of Xu Tianxin's nonsensical thoughts, or whether it was funny.
Because he originally wanted to popularize the "貊" mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas to Xu Tianxin.
It is like a bear, black and white, and it also eats copper and iron.
He felt that Xu Tianxin would like the animal he was talking about. This was a major feature of the Shaanxi-Yuan area. There was this round animal there, but Xu Tianxin had never seen it before.
Xu Tianxin didn't know what General Huo was thinking. If she knew, she would say, Hey, pandas, I've seen them before. I also saw Qizai, a yellow-haired panda, biting someone’s ear.
"Xu Tianxin."
"yes."
"I checked a lot of miscellaneous books and found them quite good."
Huo Yunqian paused for a moment: "Have you ever checked how much the private citizens will be punished for privately exploring mineral deposits?"
Xu Tianxin: "..."
"Ahem, if the girl suspects it, she can't sell it casually. She plans to keep it for herself until next spring, when the flowers bloom, she can identify the grass and go into the mountains to confirm it before reporting it to Left General Lu Yan or General Jia Lai. That's why she got into trouble. I provoke you to come here in person.”
Xu Tianxin suddenly stood up, raised his chest and raised his head again and continued: "But the civilian girl does not regret all the troubles she did. Because the civilian girl Xu Tianxin can also be regarded as a non-staff member of the Zhenbei Army. When I suspect that there are minerals somewhere, I would rather suspect that I am wrong. Yes, we are also obliged to protect our Zhenbei mineral deposits."
Jiubao, who was standing guard outside the door, held his sword and thought: His young master is almost confused.
I'm almost confused.
Xu Tianxin finished her fooling around seriously and smiled at him. It seemed to be saying that she didn't want any reward for helping the Zhenbei Army guard the gold mine, and becoming famous was not her goal. She just felt that it was meaningful to rack her brains and study it thoroughly before turning it in.
Huo Yunqian looked at Xu Tianxin whose face was illuminated by the sunshine outside.
One sincerity can be worth a thousand evil words, and one silence can be worth a thousand words.
Huo Yunqian suddenly didn't know whether he should speak or not, and sincerely praised the little girl's intelligence.
