"What's the problem?" Du Enhai asked.
Li Du said, "How about a hundred thousand dollars for you and your stall to leave this mine?"
Du Enhai gulped. "A hundred thousand dollars is too little, isn't it? I've been here for five years. I spent a lot of money to clean up this mine. There were many poisonous insects here, and I tried my best to drive them away. "
Li Du said, "A hundred thousand dollars is too little? Don't be too greedy. You've been in Hpakant before. You should know the consequences of being greedy, right? "
Du Enhai stared at him and finally sighed. "Fine, a hundred thousand dollars. I'll leave with my men."
Li Du smiled. "Thank you for your understanding, Boss Du. When are you leaving?"
"When are you going to pay?" Du Enhai asked.
Li Du pointed at the stacks of bills in front of him. "Didn't I already give you the money?"
Du Enhai was a little angry. "Boss Zhong, that's a little unfair. I won this money. How can I use it to trade?"
Li Du smiled and shook the dice cup in his hand. "You won it? You're the boss of stalls. It doesn't seem appropriate for me to be too direct. "
Du Enhai gulped when he saw this. After some thought, he stood up and said, "Alright, give me two days. I'll move the stalls out of here."
Li Du smiled. "Thank you so much for your cooperation, Boss Du."
Du Enhai smiled back, then asked, "You're looking for jade here, aren't you? Like the previous owner of this mine? "
Li Du said, "Not really. I just want to stay here for a few days."
Du Enhai didn't believe him. He continued, "If you're harboring the same intentions as I said, then you'd better give up. Countless people have come to Nai Mountain in search of jade, but they've never found anything. Many have even lost their lives."
Du Enhai picked up the hundred thousand dollars on the ground and gestured for his men to move the dog and chicken cages away.
Their stalls were simple. They made use of the mining area. All the pits, big and small, became a ready-made arena for cockfighting. All they had to do was throw the animals into the pits.
Du Enhai's earlier claim that they had renovated the pit was just an excuse to bargain.
Li Du did not pay attention to the process of them packing up and leaving. He strolled around the mining area and continued to release the little bugs to check on the underground rocks.
According to Old Thaw and what he had heard from Du Enhai, the King's son was not the only one who had his eye on the area. There were others who wanted to mine there as well.
However, none of them managed to mine anything related to jade. Instead, they lost their lives there.
Li Du believed that the children of the King of Old Hpakant might have low emotional intelligence and bad personalities, but they would not be lacking in terms of jade. Since they had chosen to mine here, there had to be a reason.
The formation process of jadeite ore was very complicated, and the requirements were very strict. It was even harder to form than diamonds, which was why it was so rare and so expensive.
Jade ores would not exist alone. They generally existed in the form of deposits and veins. The ore bodies were mostly vein-shaped and distributed in a beaded pattern on a flat surface.
In addition, jade ore bodies appeared in many forms. They ranged from 10 to 500 meters in length, and could extend for more than six kilometers. The thickness of the ore bodies ranged from 0.03 to 5 meters, and the thickest could be more than 20 meters. For example, in areas like Old Hpakant and Huika, the veins there were very long. Some mines even dug down hundreds of meters.
In the discovered jade veins, the center of the ore body was a zone of pure jadeite. The two walls gradually changed into a transition zone of jadeite and feldspar. Beyond that, it was a zone of feldspar and green mudstone. Beyond that, it was strongly serpentinized peridotite.
To put it simply, the rocks found in the mines had unique characteristics. For example, some of the rocks had black, green, or yellow skin. Those were the most common characteristics.
However, this characteristic was not found on Dena Mountain. The rocks on the mountain were rough and large, and their color was mostly grayish-white, grayish-yellow, or yellowish-white. The texture seemed to be granite, and it had nothing to do with jade ore.
That was why many people followed the news of a jade vein on Dena Mountain and came here, but eventually left empty-handed. No matter how you looked at it, it did not look like there was a jade vein here.
Li Du knew that there was definitely a jade vein here. Tang Chaoyang would not have gotten the information wrong. The exquisite jade carving in his hand came from the jade vein on Dena Mountain.
Moreover, the jade carving had marked the vein. From the looks of it, it seemed to match the surroundings.
As he speculated about the possible hiding places of the vein, he controlled the little bug to start a plowing search around the area.
He did not find the vein, but he did find a tunnel.
The tunnel was quite long, stretching for nearly 30 meters. It started from a mine pit and went deep into the foot of the mountain. The entrance was where the mine pit was located, but it was blocked by someone, so it was impossible to discover its existence from the mine pit.
Li Du guessed that Du Enhai had blocked the pit, and the opening of the pit was now used as a dog-fighting arena.
However, after thinking about it carefully, he felt that was not the case. The pit was built with steel bars, wooden planks, and stone slabs. It looked quite sturdy and reliable. There were some tools scattered inside, such as pickaxes, mountain axes, pneumatic hammers, hydraulic hammers, hydraulic shears, and even a modified mini excavator.
These tools were valuable. If Du Enhai had blocked the opening, he would not have left these tools inside unless he had not gone in to take a look.
Du Enhai had come to Wooku Town from Hpakant. He had stayed in the mine area and knew the value of these tools to the mine, especially the modified mini excavator. It was a simple structure with a digging arm and a control panel. It was very intricate and valuable.
Through the eyes of the little bug, he carefully examined the tools. He guessed that they had been abandoned for more than ten years. Apart from the tools, there were also some wrappers and packaging bags. A few of the instant noodles were produced 14 years ago.
After looking at the things in the pit, Li Du arranged for the little bug to follow it deeper into the pit.
Then, the little bug went about 20 to 30 meters deep into the mountain rocks. Li Du successfully found a layer of black rock!
Seeing this, he was overjoyed. God would not disappoint those who worked hard. He must have made an important discovery. This layer of black rock was very common in jade mines. This was the famous black sandstone layer!
The little bug entered the black rock. As expected, a patch of green appeared in his field of vision.
He was looking in the right direction. There was indeed a jade mine here. The information that the sixteenth son of the King of Old Hpakant and some jade merchants had received was also correct. The jade was in this area, but it was buried a little deep, different from the jade mines in Hpakant.
This was understandable. Hpakant was where the best jade mine in the world was. Before the large-scale excavation, some of the deposits were exposed on the surface. There was no need to dig underground to find jade.
Such a high-quality mine was rare in the world. It was only natural that Dena Mountain did not have such a high-quality mine.
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