My Gold Rush Career Begins in 1984

Chapter 59 Naked Threat
Zhou Jingming calmly smoked his cigarette, waiting for Lao Tang to continue.

Old Tang scratched his brow, then pulled out a bunch of keys, took out the ear pick hanging from the ring, tilted his head, and started cleaning his ear. After a while, he patted his ear and shook it: "There's earwax in my ear that's rattling around, it's making a painful noise..."

After cleaning his ears, he looked at Zhou Jingming and the other two: "To tell you the truth, the little peninsula where you are now panning for gold was visited by the dwarf when he went into the mountains to scout it out. He inspected the sand and even saw some gold dust, but at the time he thought the quality was too low, not as good as this riverbank now."

He's ultimately a half-baked, unreliable person.

When his men entered the mountains and saw that you had already started construction on the small peninsula, he realized that his judgment was wrong.

The small peninsula where they now set up camp is truly a treasure trove for Peng Yuanchao. He becomes somewhat sensitive when the peninsula is mentioned, raising an eyebrow: "Gold mining sites have always been about first come, first served. You weren't chosen, but we've been working on it for so many days. The small peninsula is our territory, and there's no room for negotiation."

Also, speaking of scouting locations, we were there earlier than you. The deepest sand pit was dug out by us after testing the sand.

Upon hearing this, someone at the next table nudged the short guy sitting next to him, barely suppressing a laugh: "Hey short guy, the shit you caught in the ditch, it wasn't their shit, was it?"

Although he tried to keep his voice down, those around him could still hear him.

Zhang the Dwarf frowned immediately and turned to glare at the man.

Old Tang reacted even more violently, grabbing a large bowl from the table and smashing it, soup and all, at the man.

The man didn't expect Old Tang to suddenly make a move. He was hit in the face, the large bowl immediately shattered and fell, and the soup was splashed on his face.

Old Tang struck with considerable force, and the man screamed in pain.

Zhou Jingming glanced to the side and saw that blood was flowing uncontrollably from between the fingers of the hand covering his forehead.

"It's fine how you guys cause trouble normally, but what are you doing now? Can't you see I'm talking about serious business? Get the hell out of here."

Old Tang roared at him.

The man's wailing stopped abruptly, replaced by terror. He hurriedly crawled out of the tent, followed by two other men.

Old Tang got up, pulled a towel from a rope tied to the tent, and slowly wiped the soup off his hands. His angry face turned into a smile when he looked at Zhou Jingming and the other two: "I know that's your territory, don't be so nervous. I just want to talk to you about cooperation. I'm really too lazy to move again. We're so close, aren't we?"

"cooperate?"

Zhou Jingming wasn't surprised at all by his question and asked casually, "How do we cooperate?"

Old Tang smiled and said, "Simple... Let's combine our two places and explore that little peninsula together."

Look at me here, I have more manpower and a water pump, so it's more time-saving and labor-saving to clean up.

"The faster you pan, the more gold you'll find; you won't lose out."

Peng Yuanchao's face turned ugly upon hearing this, but seeing Zhou Jingming wink at him, he managed to suppress his anger.

Seeing that Old Tang was looking at him, Zhou Jingming knew that he couldn't stay silent: "This is a good idea. Combining them can indeed speed up the mining process and yield more gold."

Upon hearing this, not only did Peng Yuanchao frown, but even Wu Yang turned his head to look.

Old Tang also seemed a little surprised: "So that means you agree?"

"Agreed, how could I disagree with such a good thing?"

Zhou Jingming said seriously, "As long as the gold is divided fairly, there's no problem. I'd like to hear how the panned gold is divided when all the pieces are put together."

How to mine and pan gold is not the point; the point has always been how to sort the gold.

Old Tang must have thought about this a lot: "This is easy to handle. You found the gold vein, so you can take 30% and we can take 70%. That's not unreasonable, is it?"

"That sounds reasonable..."

Zhou Jingming turned his head to look at Peng Yuanchao: "But I don't have the final say on this matter; we have to listen to our boss!"

Peng Yuanchao had long since had enough. He slammed his hand on the table and stood up: "Empty words are easy to say. What guarantees do you have?"

"Guarantee? I can't guarantee that!" "If I can't guarantee something, would I dare agree to it? If we split it 30%, and then combine the profits, I'm afraid we wouldn't even have a chance to speak."

Old Tang stared at Peng Yuanchao for a few breaths before scoffing, "Indeed, we only met for the first time yesterday. We don't know anything about this matter, so it's hard to convince people no matter what we say... If you disagree, that's fine. I have a second way: you give up that small peninsula."

Don't ask me why. It's because we outnumber you and have more guns.

Upon hearing this, Peng Yuanchao felt his breath catch in his throat, his fists clenched involuntarily, his teeth clenched, and his face turned grim.

Wu Yang remained calm, only glancing at Zhou Jingming. Seeing that Zhou Jingming was still composed, he turned to look at Old Tang.

Old Tang glanced at the three men, took out a cigarette, lit one, and looked up at Peng Yuanchao, who was standing there. He blew smoke at Peng Yuanchao and said, "I'm just trying to be polite first, and it's a win-win situation. If you don't agree, our two groups might as well have a showdown. You three shouldn't leave yet. Think it over and discuss it carefully. Once you've thought it through, give me an answer. There definitely needs to be a result."

I suggest you choose the first one.

Having said all that, we've reached the end of the matter.

Old Tang's meaning was simple: either Zhou Jingming and his gang join his ranks, or he would forcibly take them from them.

With more manpower and more guns, it's a blatant threat.

Zhou Jingming turned his head to look at Peng Yuanchao, reached out and tugged at his sleeve: "Brother Peng, sit down... let's talk this out!"

Peng Yuanchao frowned. Although he was filled with resentment, he had no choice. Judging from what Old Tang said, if he didn't agree, it was hard to say whether he could even get out of the tent.

He couldn't understand why Zhou Jingming was still acting like nothing had happened, even at this point.

Furthermore, Wu Yang also appeared rather lukewarm.

Thinking about what Zhou Jingming and Lao Tang had said before, he couldn't help but wonder: Could it be that these two had already made an appointment with Lao Tang...? Hmm, very likely. The two of them go into the woods every morning and evening, so they have the opportunity!
Is that auspicious land just going to be handed over to someone else like that?
"You should talk things out properly. They've already taken advantage of you. How can you talk things out properly?"
Because of these thoughts, Peng Yuanchao forcefully shook off Zhou Jingming's tugging at his sleeve and sat down with a livid face.

Zhou Jingming just smiled and didn't take it to heart.

He took out a pack of cigarettes and rolled one up: "Old Tang, so you're saying that when you came to our place yesterday, it wasn't really to ask us for help in finding Jin Miao?"

"When it comes to finding Jin Miao, it's not as convenient as just going directly to pick her. I don't like trouble."

Old Tang looked at Zhou Jingming with a smile: "Shorty said that after looking around, he still thinks your place is better. I went to see it too. You guys have a lot of different accents, you're not from the same place, you're a disorganized bunch."

"Looks like you put on an act with us yesterday. You're quite the schemer!"

Zhou Jingming looked enlightened: "You have to admit it... Old Tang, no, I should call you Boss Tang, with your style of doing things, you must be someone who's in the underworld, right? Those things about opening joint venture factories and speculation are probably fake."

Old Tang smiled disdainfully, neither confirming nor denying the matter.

Zhou Jingming continued, "I think your first two suggestions are not very good."

They were all forced to come to this desolate wilderness to pan for gold and make a living, why force them to this? ...Would you like to hear my third suggestion for peaceful coexistence?

"There's a third suggestion..."

Old Tang looked quite interested: "Tell me about it!"

"Isn't it all about finding a rich mine so you can pan for gold?"

Zhou Jingming glanced at the sand pit on the riverbank: "You don't need to move. Just keep digging in that sand pit outside. It's such a big area, enough for you to keep working for half a year!"

Old Tang snorted impatiently, "We've already reached the bottom, what's the point of digging anymore!"

Zhou Jingming wasn't in a hurry. He lit the cigarette he had rolled and said, "Keep digging. If we still don't find gold after digging two more meters, I'll lead the men away without saying a word and give you that little peninsula."

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