After dinner, when it was still early, Quan Erlang jumped up from the ground and said, "The mountains over there are not high. I'll go over and see if I can pick up a deer rabbit or something. We roast it. Without these, it's good to take some bird eggs."

Yang Dalang said: "Although there are many wild animals in the mountains, you can't get such good luck? Don't run around and be careful to get lost."

How could Quan Erlang listen? While walking to the foot of the mountain, he said, "If you can't pick up wild animals, you will touch two fish from the stream to eat."

In this era, fish, shrimp and other vegetables were not considered meat. Even monks did not avoid fish when eating fasts and precepts. In ordinary people's concept, eating fish was not considered meat. This is the case in many places, and it is only like this in China.

Along the stream, Quan Erlang walked to the foot of the hill, looked up at the dense hill, and looked at Yang Dalang who was sitting and resting not far away. He hesitated for a while, but still climbed up the mountain. He didn't climb far away, but suddenly he was tripped and almost fell down. He looked down and saw a thick wooden stick on the ground, buried under the dead leaves, covered with moss. He wanted to pick it up as a crutch and bent down to pick it up, but he didn't expect the stick to be heavy. He suddenly flashed, slipped under his feet, stepped on a pumice stone, and sat on the ground.

The stone rolled down the hillside, and soon fell into the water, and a "thump" sound came.

Quan Erlang muttered: "For the sake of trouble, does this stick grow in the ground? Why is it so heavy!"

I used my strength to lift the stick on the ground. I held it in my hand and found that it was not a wooden stick, but a missing stick. There was a pointed point in front. If I looked good, it should be a crowbar.

Holding the crowbar in his hand, Quan Erlang tried it and said, "It's a good piece of iron that can be used as a mace, but it's a little heavier."

I fell just now, and then looked at the hill in front of me, and felt relieved and didn't want to go up. I remembered that the place where the stone fell down the mountain just now, there was obviously a sound of water. It might be a pond, so I wanted to go down to catch fish. I don't know how many people are not in the city, but as long as there is water, I want to have a lot of big fish.

Walking down the hillside, not far away, I saw a dark hole in front of me, just below the foot of the mountain. When I arrived at the cave, Quan Erlang stretched out his head and looked for a while, and saw a pool of clear water below, with extremely rough walls and traces of manual digging. The hole was too small, so where was there a pool of water? Quan Erlang walked around and didn't dare to go in. I wonder what the way here was, so Quan Erlang had to take a crowbar and return to the place where Yang Dalang was resting.

Seeing Quan Erlang come back with a stick, Yang Dalang said lazily: "Wilds are not so easy to hunt in this kind of place? Have a good rest, and we will continue to set off on the road later. Turn the hill and find a place to go back to the leeward to spend the night."

Quan Erlang sat down by the fire, handed the crowbar in his hand to Yang Dalang, and said, "Although I didn't hunt wild animals, I picked up a piece of good iron. After a few days, my brother will give me a Park knife and bring it to me."

"How to make an iron in the deep mountains?" Yang Dalang took the iron rod in his hand and looked at it. "This is an iron rod. It looks like it has been rusted to this shape for many years. There is no one here, so how could anyone leave such a thing behind?"

As he said that, Yang Dalang remembered something and stood up: "No, the iron chisel may be used for mining! Brother, what did you see in front, tell me. Maybe, the place where the ancients mined!"

Quan Erlang said: "That's a small hillside, with nothing left, how can I mine? But a hole was dug under the hillside, one or two meter square meter, and the hole was full of water, I don't know how deep it was. I looked at the wall of the cave, it looked like a person dug it out."

Yang Dalang said: "Since people dig it up, what else can you do in such a place besides mining? Take me to see it!"

Quan Erlang was a little reluctant, but seeing Yang Dalang's serious appearance, he had to stand up and take him to the cave.

When Yang Dalang saw the hole dug on the ground, he had a rough guess in his mind. He circled around the hole, picked up a few pieces and looked carefully in the sunshine. These pottery pieces were nothing special. They might have been pottery pots and pots in the past, but they were very old.

Quan Erlang stood aside and said to Yang Dalang: "Brother, what do you think that one does? This kind of thing is everywhere."

Yang Dalang said without looking back, "It's nothing special. I just saw when it was. If I guessed well, this should be the mine cave left by my predecessors' mining. However, there was no furnace left nearby, and there was no trace at all. If they had either transported the ore to another place to smel, it was because they were too old and the furnace had disappeared."

After hearing this, Quan Erlang smiled and said, "Is the mine so easy to find? If so, why should the government reward you heavily? Wouldn't you be a fool?"

Yang Dalang put down the pottery slices in his hand and said, "There were many iron smelting in this area in ancient times, so this kind of mining remains are not difficult to find. But if you find a place, you must also make sure that there are really mines here, and only if you are a large mine can you get the reward. Without this ability, how can you get the reward?"

After saying that, he pondered for a while and said, "This pottery piece looks very old. At least hundreds of years ago, I guess it is no later than the Han Dynasty."

How could Quan Erlang be willing to believe it? Just a pottery piece, can you still see the age?

Seeing Yang Dalang bent over and checking around, Quan Erlang was bored and held an iron stick and plucked it in the grass layer. After plucking it a few times, he found that there were some small stones on the head of the iron stick, and cursed: "It's a big deal, why are the stones here dipping on my stick!"

He lifted the stick and was about to remove it, but Yang Dalang suddenly turned around and said, "Wait! Show me the stone you are trapped!"

Quan Erlang was startled and walked to Yang Dalang with a stick, stretched his head over, and said, "What's the best stone?"

Yang Dalang took off the stone, looked carefully, and tried it on the iron rod, nodding: "There is a mine here, and it is a rich mine. Brother, look around and see if there are any such stones around, the bigger the better."

Quan Erlang didn't believe that it was so easy to find the mine. He looked around like a small stone, and found a few big ones in a while.

Yang Erlang carefully checked the stone and said to Quan Erlang: "Brother, we are lucky. We really found a good mine here. Look at this stone, it can be sucked onto an iron rod, this is the magnet inside. Judging from the appearance of this stone, it is not born like this, it should have been picked by people from other places. In addition to the iron rod that mines in your hand, you can confirm that this is the place where the ancients dug iron."

Although Quan Erlang didn't believe it was so easy, he saw Yang Dalang speaking decisively and said happily: "In this way, can we go to the government to receive the reward?"

Yang Dalang smiled and said, "It's not that easy! We also need to check whether there are veins in this cave and how it is going. If it were just a small mine and had been gleaned by our predecessors, who would give you a reward. What happened next is the most troublesome."

Quan Erlang said: "How to investigate this? We just need to report it and the government will do it."

Yang Dalang shook his head repeatedly: "There must be a lot of such ancient mines around. Now that I report it, even if there is a reward for money, there will be not much. It is not a waste of opportunity. Let's stay here. Let's take a closer look at the place in the past few days and see if there are any mine seedlings around."
Chapter completed!