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When he was sitting in Xiema Mountain, he said that Xu Wukun, Xu Wuliang and Xu Huai would follow Liu Qiong'er's orders from then on. Xu Wufu was so suffocated by Liu Qiong'er that he could not refuse. The matter of Liu Qiong'er taking his men to Jinshagou to set up another village was decided.

In the early stage, the Jinshagou mainly built Jianzhai and an iron furnace. Xu Wujiang also agreed to send the removed thieves to Jinshagou as soon as possible.

However, Liu Qiong'er was worried that there were too many dreams at night, so she took Xu Wuliang, Xu Wukun's family and Xu Huai to Jinshagou the next day.

Although there are paths that I stepped on with food before, I could barely leave, but I couldn't walk on mules and horses.

Xu Wuliang, Xu Wukun, and Xu Huai carried their shoulders and backs, took their children to the family and moved some daily necessities to Jinshagou.

Xu Wuliang married into Huaiyuan Town and married Ge to give birth to his daughter Xiaohuan; Xu Wukun got married later, and married a woman from Shangliuzhai who suffered a great disaster this time.

Mrs. Kun originally married with a husband's family, but she had not given birth to her for several years, so she was driven out by her husband's family. She was beautiful and married to Xu Wukun for almost ten years but still had not given birth to her.

In recent years, many people in the village often laugh at Xu Wukun for this.

However, Xu Wukun didn't care. He thought that he would not have any more childbirth after two years, so he chose one of Xu Wuki's three sons to adopt him and retire to the end of his life. However, he did not expect that the friendship that had been in the past for more than 40 years collapsed.

This matter has been a long time since it has passed, but Xu Wukun is still worried.

Compared to Ge's stinginess back then, Xu Wukun's wife was much more docile and she usually had nothing to say. In the past, she did not stop Xu Wukun from using her meager income to help Xu Huai's family.

Xu Wujiang and the others had never thought that they could take down Xiema Mountain without any effort. They thought that they had gained a foothold in Jinshagou. More than 20 strong men had been hiding for more than a month, but they also found a mountain valley by the stream and logged wood to build seven or eight wooden houses.

This valley is not big, it is a fault in the mountains on the east bank of Jinshagou. It is more than 100 meters long from east to west and only more than 20 meters wide from north to south. However, it is adjacent to Jinshagou in the east, sandwiched between the mountains in the north and south, and there are shallow slopes to go out on the east.

The place is a little smaller, but it is easier to keep but hard to keep!

Xu Wujiang and the others chose to gain a foothold here, considering that they were just a few people in the early stage, and it was the most important thing to struggle to survive first.

In addition to building wooden houses in the mountain valley, simple walls were also logged on the east and west sides, which had laid the prototype of the village.

Otherwise, Xu Huai, Liu Qiong'er and the others would not even have a place to settle down.

Even so, it took two hours to walk to the Dongpo Xinzhai, Shituling, seven or eight miles away, seven or eight miles away.

If Liu Qiong'er hadn't insisted on coming over to build another village, Xu Wujiang and Xu Wufu would have set up a post at most, or even abandoned it directly, it would be no pity. After all, the terrain would be even steeper and more dangerous when coming from the north or the west.

Looking at the simple wooden houses in the valley, Liu Qiong'er felt desolate and looked at Xu Huai and said:

"People have asked you to deceive me. Tell me, how can we gain a foothold here and build a iron furnace?"

Xu Huai had thought about the chute method that flashed in his memory before. At this time, he was confident. Seeing that there was a wooden board that Xu Wujiang and others sawed out before in the village, he took the longest piece, named Liu Qionger, Xu Wukun, Xu Wuliang and others, and took the pottery urns and other items, and followed him to the valley.

Liu Qiong'er was sitting lazily on the rock by the stream. Seeing Xu Huai put the long wooden board by the stream, someone rolled up his trousers and walked into shallow water, and took the pottery jar to dig out some soft mud and apply it to one end of the long wooden board. He couldn't help but laugh:

"You are such a fool - you need to use a sandalwood plate to hunt for gold. You pick up a wooden board and work as a coolie for half a month. How many wheat cakes can you get to fill your stomach with after-staining gold foam?"

Xu Huai looked back at Liu Qiong'er who was gloating and just smiled, tilted the wooden board slightly, and took the pottery jar to take water to wash it.

The traditional washing method is to take some soft mud containing gold sand into a sand tray, and then people stand in the stream water and wash away the mud sand over and over again. The extremely small amount of gold foam will remain in the sand tray and accumulate into a lot - the whole work requires great patience.

Mrs. Ge, Mrs. Kun stood by the stream for a while, and then took Xiaohuan to clean up the house. Liu Qiong'er thought that Xu Huai had not even learned the traditional washing method, so she sat lazily in the shade to rest, thinking that she would laugh at Xu Huai after she had been busy for a long time and gained nothing before she could laugh at him.

Mrs. Ge, Mrs. Kun took Xiaohuan to clean up the wooden house, and because of the slightest conscience, he prepared lunch, ran to the riverside and shouted everyone to go back to the village first.

Liu Qiong'er stretched out and was about to ridicule Xu Huai for a few words, but saw Xu Wuliang take Tao Weng from Xu Huai and say, "You go back to the village first, and come and replace me in the afternoon!"

"Do you really think that this stupid guy, Xu Huai, can have any wonderful methods?" Liu Qiong'er walked over and smiled indifferently, but when she walked closer, she saw a thin layer of golden mozi attached to the wooden board, her beautiful eyes widened.

Although the golden foam attached to the wooden board is still very small, it cannot be said that nothing has been found.

"Come on, keep ridiculing me!" Although Xu Huai had strong muscles and bones, he bent his body to take water and poured it on the wooden board, which made his back hurt. At this time, he straightened his waist and laughed at Liu Qiong'er.

"What's the subtlety here?" Liu Qiong'er widened her beautiful eyes, and didn't care about her demeanor, raised her waist and her hips to look at the subtleties of the wooden board.

In fact, there is not much mystery. When you get closer, you can see that the particles of the gold sand are smaller and heavier. The particles of the stream mud are larger. If you take water and wash them over and over again, the foam-like gold sand will drill into the rough saw patterns, while the mud sand with larger particles will be washed to complete the separation.

In the future, you only need to wait until enough gold sand is attached to the saw pattern, and then the wooden board is turned back and knocked to collect the gold sand.

It is also obvious that the longer the wooden board, the more thorough the separation.

When sawing a wooden board, different saw teeth will be selected, the roughness of the saw marks and the separation effect formed will be different.

Although this method is also very primitive, it is many times better than the traditional wooden plate washing method.

Xu Huai didn't expect to rely on this stream to make a fortune, but gathering ten people would be worth one or two thousand acres of mountain fields in a year, which was enough for the early construction of Jinshagou.

"How about it, now do you know who is a fool?" Xu Huai smiled at her when Liu Qiong'er tied her skirt to her waist and wanted to scoop water and pour it into the wooden boards.

"How come you have such a strange way in your mind," Liu Qiong'er asked in surprise. "Xu has built a pond in Yuhuangling for more than 100 years. It is not strange that you can think of building a multi-level rolling dam to store water, but this method of gold acquisition is unheard of in Tongbai Mountain. How did you think of it?"

"What's the mystery about this method? You can think of it if you eat a few more bowls of rice!" Xu Huai said with a smile.

"Then you say that, it's not the only one who eats rice for free." Liu Qiong'er said.

"This piece of income is enough for two or three people to stand in the stream for a day," Xu Wukun stood up straight, not caring about Xu Huai and Liu Qiong'er's quarrel, and couldn't help but exclaim, "Although the terrain between the seven or eight miles of Jinsha Gully is extremely dangerous and there is not much place to support the site, but gathering ten people to use this method to wash the golden sand, and there will be no problem in a day of cleaning the money and food!"

Xu Wukun and Xu Wuliang were poor when they were young, and they had no livelihood when they returned from Jingsheng Army. They had all come to Jinshagou to hunt for gold, so they also knew best how big the difference between the new law and the old law was.

"It's better to rob the family!" Xu Huai sighed.

He held the sheep from Deng Gui once, and the gold and silver earned was worth thousands of guan. Ten people gathered here to use the new method to make gold. The income of only more than a thousand guan a year was only more than a thousand guan a year. It didn't look much.

"Your heart is so big!" Xu Wukun couldn't help but glared at Xu Huai.

They are working hard for a living all year round, and they may not be able to spend money all year round. If they gather ten people here, they can earn money in one day. What else can they not be satisfied?

The village of ten people, including building a new iron furnace, opening two remote trails to the east slope of Shituo Ridge and opening two remote paths in Xiema Mountain, can get money in a day, which is enough to spend.

Xu Huai laughed and said, "Uncle Seventeenth should send people here before dusk to avoid coveting others. These people must be strictly controlled and this method cannot be leaked in a short time. If the master has a connection with this, he will probably see the source of money and food here soon. It does not need to be concealed deliberately, and it is difficult to hide it. So let's say that these are the methods that Miss Liu thought of. Uncle Seventeenth, let's hide it for the time being..."

Xu Wuliang and Xu Wukun looked at each other.

From the assassination of Guo Caoling, they have deeply felt that Xu Huai's opinion is getting stronger and stronger.

However, in addition to Xu Huai being too young, they can feel that Xu Huaizhi is not in Tongbai Mountain, so it is inevitable that they will have differences with more people from the Xu family who only pursue self-protection.

In the past, it was okay to have differences with Xu Guanshan, Su Laochang and others, but after all, everyone can still share the same hatred of the enemy in the general direction.

Now due to the situation, we have to make peace with Xu Wufu, Xu Bosong, Xu Zhongyu and others. If there is a real dispute, why can Xu Huai fight over them? Or why should they give in to Xu Huai?

If you manage a village alone, you will hide everything from it for the time being, or push it to Liu Qiong'er. It is also the only choice to avoid unnecessary differences in a short period of time.

In the past, they were still deeply worried about Xu Huai's actions. Yesterday, when they heard Guo Caoling was assassinated and Xu Huai was not found in the mountains, they were almost crazy.

However, after enduring such a strong stimulus, when they saw Liu Qiong'er being pushed out by Xu Huai, they actually made Xu Wufu, Xu Wuli and others speechless, and were forced to come over to seek peace. They also deeply realized that Xu Huai was even far superior to his father at this time, and they could not guess.
Chapter completed!