When Gu Yi was still excited when he discovered that there was golden sand in the river, he was very excited, but he was soon depressed. Even if he discovered the gold mine, what is the significance to him?

Gu Yi explored along the river bank and figured out the general environment of [Sank Valley]. This place is obviously a sinkhole caused by some kind of sinkhole, but the geology is not the karst soluble limestone common in the sinkhole terrain. Instead, it is a blue-gray siderite ore with high hardness. This blue-gray siderite is also the name source of the "blue stone ore".

Under the terrain of the sinkhole, there is usually abundant groundwater. The small river with a considerable amount of water in the [Sank Valley] is the branch of the underground river that emerges from the underground. According to Gu Yi's judgment, there must be a gold mine vein and crystal vein near the underground river. Otherwise, the sand and crystals that are gushing out from the underground river will not be covered with gold sand and crystal grains. This place can be regarded as a treasure land.

When they were detecting in the valley, they also saw some people moving from afar, but the number was not large. Most of them were moving in the stone-burning caves and iron stone caves around the mountain walls, which looked like they were mining.

Gu Yi remembered that the little boy Ge Qiao said that people in Jie seemed to be able to exchange the production in [Xiankong Valley] for food and needs at the Iron Courtyard.

This is obviously the "Taibokui" who did not show up in the Iron Academy. He took advantage of the privilege of supervising the Jie people in charge of food and fodder and privately allowed the Jie people who were mainly responsible for making money on the Zhenggao River to do private work for themselves.

I don’t know what agreement has between Mine Zhenggao Ji and this mysterious Taibokui. Mine Zheng provides them with money and food, while Taibokui is taking care of and suppressing these rebellious Jie people for Mine Zheng. Both sides have the intention of not being intrusive to each other, and using these hundred Jie people to work is completely Taibokui’s private behavior.

Obviously, Taibokui didn't need much resources to produce in this [Sank Valley]. It would be enough to rely on the grain and fodder of the Jie people to force them to make some pieces of work for themselves. Otherwise, it would be better to transfer more mines from the bluestone mine than to let the Jie people who don't even have iron tools in their hands pick them up with their bare hands.

This behavior of pretending to be public and private is obviously acquiesced by the mine. Anyway, Taibokui doesn't want much, and it will not affect the Jie people's "weighting" to accumulate combat power, which will delay his main source of income from fighting against Jie and earning money. Naturally, Taibokui will let him do whatever he wants. He can only take some work as a hard work, so as not to keep the fat too thick and become obsessed with losing his combat power.

Gu Yi did not dare to get too close to those Jie people. He took a look from a distance and took a detour and avoided it. The blood and energy essence in his abdomen had not been digested yet, so he did not rush to "hun" these "prey" and let them fatten up a little and kill them... He was not strong enough and did not know the strength of these old Jie people in [Sank Valley], so Gu Yi had to comfort himself like this.

His plan to tear down a few houses and get some wood was vain. From a distance, he could see the vegetation and huts, surrounding the small lake in the center of the valley, divided into several "small villages" of all sizes.

Gu Yi, who did not intend to have a conflict with these Jie people for the time being, could only take Erxiao back to the neighborhood of the Iron Courtyard upstream of the river. He discovered several very strange phenomena. One is that the Jie people were almost digging coal and iron ore, but no one went down to the river to salvage the so-called "gold essence, gravel, dragon marrow jade"!

This may be because these two things are produced too little compared to the coal and iron ore that can be picked up anywhere in the [Sank Valley], and the factor of luck is too great. It is hard to get a few grains a day, so it is not cost-effective to waste your energy. Compared to the coal and iron ore that can be obtained with just some effort, it will be much easier.

The most interesting thing is that the Jie people living around the small lake are not so harmonious. It is obvious that here is also in an environment where "there are people, there are rivers and lakes". The Jie people are divided into several small groups according to the distribution of houses.

Among them, the most powerful group occupied the iron stone caves on the mountain walls of the north shore of the small lake, and the second most powerful group occupied the burn stone caves on the mountain walls of the south shore of the small lake, forming a "south coal mine" pattern living across the lake. Both sides looked like twenty or thirty people.

As for the other small groups, it is obviously the small groups of Black-Toothed, Rou Pu, Bai Min, and Mao people who entered the valley with them last night, which are temporarily attached to these two forces.

I just don’t know whether the Jie people belongs to the “Southern Coal” or the “Northern Mine”. As the only Jie people allowed to leave the valley and also serves as the head of the Qianshan [Blueshi Mine], he has a lot of powers and conveniences. I think he will not be too bad in this [Sank Valley].

The second strange phenomenon is that the people of Jie dare not approach the Iron Courtyard at the bottom of the Xitou Valley, avoiding this area far away and only moving in the middle and lower reaches of the river. I don’t know whether they are afraid of the strength of the Taibokui, or whether they are using their power to prevent them from getting close.

But Gu Yi did not plan to engage in an undoubted "fight for power" with those people. The environment in the upper reaches of the river is much better than that in the middle and lower reaches. He planned to build a small wooden house next to the Iron Courtyard.

Before the strength reaches the point where you can ignore the threats of those Jie people, it is still very beneficial to borrow the "tiger skin" in the Iron Academy, which is very intimidating to the Jie people, to protect the weak three of you. At least you don't have to guard against the Jie people's sneak attacks all night and waste your energy.

Judging from the contact with Ge Qiao, a boy from the Iron Courtyard last night, it seems that he is quite easy to get along with. He is just a naive little boy. Although he looks like a little adult, he is not better than the stupid Niu Sha, and it should be easier to fool.

As for the mysterious Taibokui who has not appeared yet, although Gu Yi didn't know what he was hiding in the wooden house in the Iron Courtyard, he thought he was also the kind of thing that only focused on what he was interested in, regardless of foreign affairs. This can be seen from the fact that he was responsible for supervising the Jie people, but only carried out extensive management of the Jie people.

I think as long as the three of them don’t provoke him, they wouldn’t drive them away because of the friendship they “drink” with the little boy Ge Qiao last night, and they wouldn’t be allowed to live next to the Iron Courtyard?

Gu Yi was at least 80% sure about this. The boy Ge Qiao was still begging him to brew wine and pay him Taibokui, so he should not be too unkind.
Chapter completed!