Chapter 165 Jiang's Reasoning
“Maybe there’s a gold mine.”
Li Mu looked upstream along the mountain stream. There were many mountain shadows and only the rough outline could be seen in the dark night.
Maybe there is a gold vein buried under one of the mountains.
Gold nuggets are not actually pure gold.
It is generally composed of natural gold and quartz stone, and some may also contain small amounts of silver, copper, palladium, platinum and other elements.
But nugget gold is more expensive than pure gold.
Because gold nuggets are naturally formed and the conditions for their formation are very harsh, they can be transformed into various shapes during the formation process, such as round, ginger, and animal shapes, and are very popular among collectors.
Gold is indeed the hard currency on earth, but after being artificially given the value of collection, and after being hyped up by some people, the price of gold nuggets has skyrocketed, far exceeding the original value of gold.
This cannot be said to be wrong, as long as someone is willing to pay for it.
However, this is not the greatest value of gold nuggets.
Its greatest value is that it will only form near gold mines.
If nugget gold is discovered in a certain place, geologists will look for gold mines in a circle with this place as the center, and there is a high probability of finding it.
“Maybe there’s a gold mine?”
Brother Nan followed Li Mu's line of sight, holding up a high-intensity flashlight and shining it at the distant mountains. He stretched his neck as if he wanted to see through the mountains and find the gold buried within.
"This nugget of gold was washed out of the mountain by water. There is a high probability that there is a gold vein, but I don't know how much gold it contains."
Li Mu took out his mobile phone, opened the Beidou positioning software specially developed by the Forestry Bureau, and marked the current location coordinates.
"Do you want to report it?" Brother Nan looked down at the phone screen and watched Li Mu operate.
"This kind of thing must be reported." Li Mu marked it and turned off his phone, saying uncertainly, "You don't want to go digging for gold yourself, do you?"
"How can it be!"
Brother Nan looked away with a guilty look in his eyes. "The gold mine belongs to the country. Individual mining is strictly prohibited!"
"That's it"
"What should we do with this piece of gold nugget?" Brother Nan pointed at the gold stone in Li Mu's hand.
"Hand it in."
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The cat stopped scratching the stone with its little claws again, turned its head, and stared at Li Mu with a serious face.
Brother Nan also stared at him seriously.
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Li Mu looked at Brother Nan, then at the kitten, and suddenly wanted to laugh.
It's a rare synchronization.
Very cute.
"Let me ask you, did you dig this piece of nugget gold?" Brother Nan said.
"No." Li Mu was very honest.
"Did you pick it up?"
"Not at all."
"That's it!"
"What's wrong?"
"You don't have to hand it in!" Brother Nan looked at Li Mu as if he was a fool. "Let me tell you, I have a point when I say you don't have to hand it in."
Li Mu listened to what Brother Nan said, it seemed like he was trying to reason with him, and he suddenly became interested.
He really wanted to hear what Brother Nan had to say.
So he pretended to be stupid and asked, "What's the reason?"
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Brother Nan shone the flashlight on Li Mu's chest, and looked carefully at Li Mu's face with the light that was blocked by his chest and spread out to the surroundings. He leaned forward with his upper body and got closer and closer to Li Mu.
Brother Nan has great skin.
The light reflected on her face, which looked white and delicate, with long and curled eyelashes, and soft lips like cherry blossoms, pink and moist. Li Mu subconsciously tilted his head back and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Fortunately, Brother Nan did not come any closer, but stopped and looked him up and down.
"Why, why are you looking at me like that?"
"Nothing." Brother Nan nodded his head and stood up straight.
She felt that Li Mutou had turned into a melon.
But Brother Nan has always taken good care of me.
It doesn't matter if the little brother becomes a fool, because I have a smart big brother like her here.
So Brother Nan began to reason with Li Mu:
“The law prohibits individuals from mining and digging for various minerals, but this nugget of gold was neither dug by you nor picked up by you. It was given to you by the clouded leopard.
"Who is a clouded leopard? It is a national first-class protected wild animal. It is a child of nature, and nature is its home. Isn't that right?"
"That's right." Li Mu nodded.
"So, this nugget gold is also a stone created by nature. The child of nature picked up the stone from his own home and gave it to his good friend. This is reasonable and legal."
Brother Nan spoke slowly and calmly, helping Li Mu analyze things one by one, "The clouded leopard's mouth is so small, it's impossible for it to hold this nugget of gold and such a fat rabbit at the same time.
"It is very likely that it first took the stone or the hare to the grass near the yard and hid it, then returned to get another one. The back and forth took so much time and walked so much distance, which was full of love!
"Now, you are going to give away your friend's precious love."
"Ah~"
Brother Nan sighed and glanced at Li Mu secretly, "If I were a clouded leopard, I don't know how sad I would be."
Li Mu's expression became serious.
At first, he just thought it was fun and was curious about what Brother Nan could say.
But as he listened, he felt that Brother Nan was right.
Brother Nan glanced at Li Mu's expression and asked, "Does what I said make sense?"
"Makes sense."
Brother Nan suddenly grinned and was very happy.
Li Mu looked at Brother Nan's expression and asked tentatively, "What if I still insist on handing it in?"
Brother Nan immediately put away his smile and stared at him closely, "Then I will kill you for Yunbao!"
"Don't dare."
Li Mu looked at the gold nugget in his hand and said, "But I still have to tell my uncle and ask him to inform the relevant departments that there is a suspected gold mine here."
"Of course we have to report it, and we also have to ask them to help us identify the gold content of this nugget of gold." Brother Nan took the nugget of gold from Li Mu and looked at it lovingly, like a little money-grubber.
"What if someone from the relevant department wants to take this nugget of gold?"
This piece of gold nugget weighs more than two kilograms. Even if the gold content is only 50%, it still weighs a full kilogram of gold.
The current price of gold is about 570 yuan per gram, and more than 28 yuan per kilogram. If it is made into gold jewelry, the price will be even more expensive.
With such a huge value, it is inevitable that some people will be tempted.
"whispering sound!"
Brother Nan didn't even raise his head, but said in a cold tone, "As long as you didn't hand it over voluntarily, I don't think anyone would dare to embezzle this nugget of gold."
"Oh, I see." Li Mu felt relieved.
He knew Sister Nan's temper. If anyone really had bad intentions towards this nugget of gold, she would really beat that person up.
"Nimu!" A kitten's cry suddenly came from the side.
Li Mu turned around and saw a kitten's head exposed behind a pile of rocks.
Seeing him looking at him, the kitten lowered its head and disappeared behind the stones. Then it ran over from behind the pile of stones with a small stone in its mouth.
He arrived in front of Li Mu and opened his mouth to spit.
Brother Nan shone the flashlight over here, and the small stones he spit out were golden in color.
(End of this chapter)
