As a lord, I was forced to farm

The sunstone mine is a short distance away from Shicun, so the sand sled came in handy. Mushahe himself was the "carriage driver", and Jiang Ran sat on the sand sled, which had a small sunshade umbrella.

"Master Chief, we have arrived at our destination."

The group of people set out in the morning and arrived at their destination at noon about half an hour later.

The sun in the sky blooms like a golden rose, emitting dazzling light.

When Jiang Ran got off the sand, a Yulin guard stepped forward and held an umbrella to shield her from the scorching sun.

"Let's eat something first." Jiang Ran could tell that Mushahe and the others were hungry and dry, so she asked someone to take out kettles, cauldrons, food, etc. from behind the sand sled.

Yu Linwei quickly started a fire and started to get food, and the people from the desert also came to help.

Boiled eggs, noodles, bacon... just eat something to fill your stomach. To Jiang Ran, it was just a simple meal, but to the desert people who drank hair and blood, it was simply a delicacy on earth.

Mu Shahe carefully held an egg, peeled off the shell, took a bite and said, "I also ate bird eggs when I was young. At that time, there were many magic birds nesting in ancient trees. Nongjiang and I Climbing trees to dig out bird eggs... I really miss that feeling."

"The eggs are delicious."

"..."

After finishing lunch, Jiang Ran released her gilded eyes. The golden cat's eyes looked down from the sky. She found that the mine seemed to have been hit by a meteorite, leaving a huge deep crater.

Under the deep pit is the sun stone, but its beautiful orange-gold color is covered by a layer of rock on the surface. It is in the form of a raw stone and needs to be cut and polished to bring out the color.

Sunstone is just a relatively common gemstone, but its pure color and accompanying warm stone characteristics (storing heat and cold) give it some added value.

However, after being deposited in a place with strong spiritual energy for a long time, these ordinary gemstones may also transform into spiritual stones. For example, the set of Bingyang Jade wine sets given to her by Mr. Wang was made of spiritual jade transformed from ordinary jade. made.

This kind of spiritual jade is rarer and more precious than some spiritual stones.

Otherwise, Feng Chi, who was born in a big family, would not be so enthusiastic about the set of Bingyang jade drinking utensils.

I just don’t know if Jiang Ran’s sun stone mine has that kind of transformed sun spirit stone.

Mushahe thought that Jiang Ran wanted more sun stones, and now he had led two desert men to pick up the rough stones in the mine. "Chief Daran, please sit down and rest for a while. I want to pick out some beautiful ones." Sunstone is still very difficult, most of it is black stone with black impurities, and only a few have that orange-gold color."

Jiang Ran needed a stable source of gemstones to open a jewelry store. She found a place to sit down, watching Mushahe step on the gray and black stones with bare feet and patiently selecting them, and said to him, "The sun you found How about Shi Wo come and buy it?”

Hearing Jiang Ran's voice, Mu Shahe looked over blankly, "What?"

Jiang Ran said it another way, "You pick out the sun stones, and I will give you money to buy things outside."

"Okay." When he heard that Jiang Ran wanted to give them money to buy things outside, Mu Shahe immediately agreed without hesitation. "I dug one!" One of the desert people was lucky enough to dig up a sun stone. Their method of checking whether there was a sun stone in the rough stone was very rough. They would just smash the rough stone away to see, and sometimes the gems inside were also thrown away. Broken, it was a waste of natural resources.

Jiang Ran's eyes twitched slightly when he looked at it, not to mention those Yu Lin Guards. If they weren't in front of the holy face, they might beat their chests and denounce the waste.

The desert boy showed the sun stone to Jiang Ran with great interest. The latter took a look and saw that the sun stone, which was originally the size of a fist, was broken into four irregular dove egg-sized pieces and countless sun stone fragments. .

The wheat-colored skin, deep facial features and natural horns give desert people a very exotic flavor.

When people in the desert see Suling people talking to Jiang Ran, they will bow their heads or bow slightly to show respect. There are also wild animals in nature that will lower their heads or lie down with their bellies exposed to show submission.

Seeing Jiang Ran sitting there, the Desert boy bent his knees and sat on the ground. He handed the sun stone to Jiang Ran, raised his red face, and asked expectantly, "Chief Daran, how much can you give me for this?"

"I was supposed to give you five gold dollars, but you broke a big sun stone and its value became lower. I can only give you one gold dollar." There are too many explanations, so it's better to let the people of the desert experience it for themselves. Jiang Ran first took out five gold yuan, then put four gold yuan back into his pocket, and finally handed one gold yuan to the desert boy.

"Master Chief, this looks different from the money you gave us before!" The boy from Desert took the gold dollar, looked at it curiously and bit it, and finally said unhappily, "The money you gave us before It’s silver!”

Jiang Ran explained patiently, "This is called a gold dollar, which is also currency. One gold dollar can be exchanged for a thousand silver dollars."

"...That's all." Jiang Ran took out a heavy bag of silver dollars, which contained exactly one thousand yuan. "Maybe you are the first desert person to earn one gold dollar at a time."

The desert kid stared at the bag of heavy silver coins with wide eyes, and quickly stuffed the gold coins into his animal skin crotch, fearing that others would snatch them from him, "Sir Chief, you can't take back the money you gave me. went!"

Jiang Ran was playing with the four sun stones in her hand, and glanced at him when she heard this, "I won't take it from you."

"Ahhh!!"

Hearing Jiang Ran say that he would not take the money back, the boy from the desert breathed a sigh of relief and suddenly shouted. At this time, he finally came to his senses and said regretfully, "Originally, I had five yuan like this. It's all my fault." I broke the sun stone!!"

No one can escape the temptation of money. The poor want money, and the rich want more money. The desert boy imagined that the gold coins that could be exchanged for five bags of heavy silver coins should belong to him, and he regretted and felt depressed for a moment. Can't help myself.

The scene where the lucky boy from the desert went to Jiang Ran to exchange money was witnessed by Mu Shahe and others. When they heard that the original five gold yuan had become one gold dollar, they all felt sorry for the boy from the desert, in order not to follow in the same footsteps. , then their movements in searching for the Sun Stone were much lighter.

Mining rough stones is not an easy task, especially since the tools of the desert people are crude. Under the scorching sun, five people can only mine about a hundred kilograms of high-quality sunstones in one afternoon.

There was also an exceptionally high-quality sunstone, about the size of a football, and Jiang Ran paid a very high price for it.

The dusk in the desert is very beautiful. The brilliance of the red sun is like a splashing palette. The large tracts of red set off the rolling sand dunes. Even the people walking on the desert are all dizzy. color.

When all the rose colors in the sky disappeared, the desert also faded, and the night shone with sporadic light, Jiang Ran and others also returned to the stone village.