Chapter 43 They are all good jade Seeing Halimu smile, Li Long was a little confused. "We all knew about jade when we were very young." Halimu got up from the wooden bed and rummaged around the stove for a while before pulling out a stone strip about ten centimeters long and as wide as a palm. He wiped off the dust on it and handed it to Li Long: "Look, Nathan found it in the river the summer before last." Li Long was sweating profusely when he heard what Halimu said. Yes, he made a fool of himself! This is where people have been grazing for generations. How could they not know there is jade in this mountain? I am short-sighted. He took the jade and looked at it carefully. The windows of the winter den are small, there is no sunlight, and there are no lights during the day, so the view is not very clear. But even so, Li Long could tell at a glance that this piece was clearly seed material, not the angular shape of mountain material. More importantly, looking at it from now, except for a little black stone skin, the rest of the jade is very beautiful green. It is not the green of jadeite glass in later generations, but a little deeper than that green. It is not dark green, but it feels like deep dark lake water.
Li Long also saw the popular version of Mahāhe jade in his later life, which usually had black spots like fly poop. But this piece of jade is transparent, without any cracks or black spots, and is definitely top quality. He simply got off the kang, walked out of the room, and looked through the skylight outside. Sure enough, there was no dark spot at all. Although this jade is not as valuable as Hetian jade, it is also top-grade jade. nice one. Halimu followed Li Long out, and seeing that he was looking carefully, he smiled and said: "Like it? I gave it to you." "No, no, no, it's too valuable." Li Long hurriedly handed the jade back to Halim, "This jade is more valuable." "Friends, let's not talk about this." Halimu stuffed the jade into Li Long's pocket and said solemnly, "It's useless to keep it here. I once took it down the mountain to exchange for something, but no one would trade with me. We can often pick up this jade in the mountains. In our eyes, it is not as valuable as the tea, flour and salt you brought. We are friends, so don’t say anything more!” Li Long was very sure that this jade would be sold for tens of thousands of dollars in the future. Although he was an outsider, he knew this. Even now, if he met someone who knew the business, it shouldn't be a problem to sell it for tens or hundreds of dollars. "Then I won't be polite." Li Long didn't say anything else. It's better to do something than to say some things. "That's right." Halimu said with a smile, "We'll go to Yushanjiang to borrow a gun later. Tomorrow morning we'll have two guns and see how many wild boars we can kill." "Okay, by the way, I brought some more bullets." Li Long took out the bullets and showed them to Halim, "Bring some more next time you come." "That's great." Halimu gave a thumbs up. "We need more of this. I'm worried that the wolf I injured last time will come back for revenge. There's a lot of snow in the mountains, and there are more and more wild animals nearby recently. Red deer and roe deer have also appeared." Roe deer is a roe deer. Because it looks similar to a female deer, people here call it roe deer. When there are more of these herbivores, carnivores will naturally appear, such as wolves, snow leopards, and even brown bears. This is a huge threat to herders - because once these carnivorous beasts run out of food, they will naturally attack the herders' cattle and sheep. Even in later generations, brown bears and black bears often ran into herdsmen's sheep pens and caught sheep.
Because Li Long was here, lunch was naan, dried meat and milk tea. Li Long was not polite, and after eating and drinking, he and Halimu rode on horseback to find the other herdsman Yushanjiang. The horse that Li Long brought had no saddle. In order to make it easier for Li Long to ride, Halimu gave his own horse to Li Long. He rode the production team's horse without a saddle and led the way along the ravine to the other side. It was because the horse had horseshoes nailed on it, otherwise Li Long would not dare to walk like this. The two men rode and walked for more than an hour, climbed over two mountains, and finally saw a winter nest on another mountain grassland. The barking of the dog could be heard from far away, and Li Long immediately saw that the sheep had not been driven out. It must be because the snow is too thick and the sheep can't eat grass outside, so they just feed them in the pen and wait for the snow to melt. When the two men were almost at the winter den, a man in his forties came out of the den, bending over. Halimu dismounted, went over to greet the other party, and then introduced Li Long. "Jakes?" Li Long stretched out his hand to the other party. Yushanjiang shook hands with Li Long and the corners of his mouth twitched. Li Long felt a little strange. It was not that he felt the other party was cold, but that he felt that the other party might have something on his mind. "The tea and salt I sent over last time were brought by Li Long." He then said to Li Long: "One of the antlers you took the second time was from Brother Yushan Jiang." Li Long hurriedly thanked him. "No, no, we're friends. You've helped me a lot, otherwise I wouldn't be able to drink milk tea at home." Yushanjiang spoke immediately when he heard Halimu say that Li Long brought tea. "Let's go into the winter den first." Yushanjiang took two people, tied up the horses, and went into the winter den first. Yushanjiang's winter home is bigger than Halimu's, but the furnishings inside are similar. There is a girl and a boy in the room. The girl is about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a round face; the boy is fourteen or fifteen years old, looks more like Yushanjiang, also with a round face. The two children looked at Li Long with curiosity. Li Long was annoyed again, wondering why he didn't bring any candy with him. Of course, for a child of this age, it is hard to tell whether he likes to eat candy or not. He thought about it, took out bullets from his pocket and gave two to each child. Then he looked at Harimu belatedly and asked in a low voice: "Isn't this... a taboo?" Halim smiled and said: “They’ll be happy.” Li Long had already seen five or six semi-automatic rifles hanging on the wall. This gun is older than Halim's. The originally grass-green gun belt has turned black, and the handguard on the gun has been polished to a shine and has a patina. Halimu talked to Yushanjiang and Yushanjiang smiled. He nodded, then bent down and rummaged under the wooden kang, took out a volleyball-sized piece of jade, and handed it to Li Long:
"Give it to you!" Li Long felt a little embarrassed. He didn't know whether to accept the answer or not. This thing weighs more than ten kilograms and it clearly looks like seed material. I guess no one wants mountain material now. And it feels very beautiful, it is definitely good jade. "Take it. We are friends, so don't be polite!" Yu Shanjiang urged. Li Long took it with some embarrassment. He even felt that his thoughts were not pure and he felt sorry for these simple shepherds. I had a purpose when I brought things into the mountains. And they gave too much. Even if they know this is the case, they will still give it. Li Long felt that the only way he could repay their kindness was to bring in more things they needed. Of course, the most important thing now is to look at the gun. Seeing Yushanjiang take down the gun, Li Long's eyes became eager. (End of this chapter)
