Chapter 496

Jiang Yuan thought for a while, looked at Zhu Dashan and said:

"I'll leave for a moment. Dashan, you and Qin Wen and Qin Wu should protect Zhiqiu and don't leave the village for the time being. If anything happens, you should pay attention to protecting yourself."

Zhu Dashan nodded, "Don't worry."

Jiang Yuan looked at Ye Zhiqiu again, "Don't run around."

Ye Zhiqiu nodded, "Then come back quickly."

Jiang Yuan nodded, turned around and walked away.

After a while, Jiang Yuan went up the mountain and stood on the top of the mountain again.

After looking at the mountain containing gold ore at his feet, Jiang Yuan suddenly had an idea in his mind.

I saw Jiang Yuan starting to walk towards the foot of the mountain in a circular route with the top of the mountain as the center.

In this way, no corner of the mountain can escape Jiang Yuan's gaze.

About an hour later, Jiang Yuan suddenly stopped.

In front of Jiangyuan is a steep slope with a stone cliff four or five meters high.

Jiang Yuan pushed aside the weeds and shrubs on the steep slope and arrived at the bottom of the stone cliff.

This is a huge stone, mostly covered in soil.

Perhaps due to years of exposure to the sun and rain, the surface of this boulder has weathered and developed many cracks.

Jiang Yuan reached out and grabbed a crack in the stone, pulled hard, and broke off a piece.

The stone broken open by Jiang Yuan weighed at least a hundred kilograms.

Jiang Yuan did not stop the movement of his hands, and continued to break open the stone layers as if peeling off egg shells.

Half an hour later, Jiang Yuan dug out a cave about three meters deep from the huge rock with an irregular shape.

Jiang Yuan bent down and got in.

In the darkness, Jiang Yuan reached out and grabbed a protruding object, then concentrated all his energy on his fingers.

Jiang Yuan's arm suddenly became thicker. He pulled hard and pulled the thing out of the stone.

After exiting, Jiang Yuan raised the things in his hands, looked at them, and nodded with satisfaction.

What Jiang Yuan held in his hand was a piece of gold the size of a football.

It is hard to believe that such a large piece of gold could be formed under natural conditions.

However, this lump of gold has no aesthetic value now.

Jiang Yuan wrapped the gold in clothes and walked to the nearest town.

There are gold and silver shops in the town, which are all opened by craftsmen themselves.

Jiang Yuan gave him 100 yuan, and the boss readily agreed to Jiang Yuan's request to borrow tools from the shop.

Jiang Yuan didn't do anything. He just turned the lump of gold into a square gold brick and weighed it, which was almost fifty kilograms.

Of course, there seems to be only one lump of gold of this size in that mountain.

More gold is as big as a grain of rice, and it needs to go through a responsible process before it becomes a piece of gold.

Jiang Yuan bought a backpack, packed the gold bricks, and returned to the village.

Although this gift is not exquisite enough, it is still somewhat substantial.

But as soon as Jiang Yuan walked a hundred meters away from the village, he noticed something was wrong.

Because there were more than a dozen plumes of thick smoke rising from the sky above the village.

People in the village were hurriedly carrying buckets to get water from the river at the entrance of the village to put out the fire.

Jiang Yuan quickened his pace and ran towards the village.

As soon as he arrived at the entrance of the village, Jiang Yuan saw Zhu Dashan who was helping to put out the fire.

"What happened?"

Zhu Dashan ran towards the village and said quickly:

"I don't know, a fire broke out out of nowhere. I asked Qin Wen to protect Ye Zhiqiu, while Qin Wu stayed at Jizeshi's house to protect his wife."

Jiang Yuan nodded and agreed with Zhu Dashan's arrangement.

Jiang Yuan glanced at a burning stilt building ten meters away, and his eyes suddenly froze.

Because beside the railing of the stilted building, a man in his thirties was holding a five or six-year-old boy. Seeing his panic, he obviously wanted to jump off.

The flames and thick smoke were about to engulf him. The man gritted his teeth and raised his legs to turn over the railing.

Jiang Yuan quickly shouted:

"Don't jump!"

This stilted building is seven or eight meters above the ground, and there is a stone pavement underneath.

Ji Zeshi had already asked people to bring a lot of quilts and throw them on the ground, but Jiang Yuan knew that this wouldn't work.

Jiang Yuan ran wildly and accelerated, then kicked his feet on the ground, jumped up high, and reached out to grab the wooden pillars supporting the stilted building.

At this time, the outer layer of the pillar had been burned to red charcoal by the fire!

As soon as Jiang Yuan's hand grabbed the pillar, it sizzled with heat.

Jiang Yuan frowned, resisted the severe pain, and gathered the energy in his body on his arms, so that he could withstand the high temperature for a short time.

Finally, Jiang Yuan climbed into the stilt building, lifted the man up, jumped down, and jumped down.

The moment he landed, Jiang Yuan bent his legs slightly and squatted down.

Even so, the bluestone slab under Jiang Yuan's feet was still trampled to pieces.

Ji Zeshi was stunned, "Jiang Yuan, are you okay?"

Jiang Yuan shook his head, looked at his blood-red palms, and said in a deep voice:

"Put out the fire first."

The man who was rescued by Jiang Yuan looked at Jiang Yuan gratefully, handed the child to a woman, and then ran to the creek at the entrance of the village with a bucket.

"This is too slow," Jiang Yuan looked at the fire in other parts of the village, shook his head and said:

"Don't think about saving the house, saving people is the most important thing."

Ji Zeshi nodded, "Everyone has been rescued."

Jiang Yuan was relieved, "Could it be Wang Hu who set the fire?"

Ji Zeshi frowned, "I don't know."

"If there is not overwhelming hatred, then there must be another purpose."

Ji Zeshi trembled and looked at Jiang Yuan, with a trace of panic in his eyes.

"Jiang Yuan, come with me!"

After saying that, Jizeshi ran towards the depths of the village.

Jiang Yuan followed closely.

Soon, the two of them passed through the stockade and arrived at the very back.

Jiang Yuan discovered early in the morning that the terrain of the village was somewhat special.

The village is backed by a mountain with a certain slope.

The terrain at the entrance is the lowest, so a river is formed.

At the very back of the village is a series of cliffs.

At the bottom of the cliff, there is a grotto.

When the two entered the grotto, Ji Zeshi's expression suddenly changed.

The grotto is about ten meters high and should be formed naturally, with no traces of artificial excavation.

There is a small pool in the middle of the grotto, which is quiet and quiet.

Next to the pool is a regular pile of stones.

Stones of different shapes were neatly stacked seven or eight meters high.

There are dense gaps in the stone.

At this time, the gap was filled with pitch-black beetle corpses.

There are also some beetles with red veins mixed in there.

But now, all these beetles are dead.

Ji Zeshi's eyes were blood red, he quickly ran to Shi Lei, and then started to move the stones like crazy.

Seeing this, Jiang Yuan quickly stepped forward and pushed dozens of stones over.

In fact, Jiang Yuan had already clearly seen the scene in the center of Shizui.

This stone block is placed very carefully, and there is a nest inside, which is also full of beetle corpses.

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