Chapter 42: Fossils

"This is shepherd's cabbage, which is available all year round, and can be used as a cold salad or made into sauerkraut...... This is a bitter herb, which can reduce inflammation and go to fire...... "The land in northern Shaanxi is barren, and now it is winter, there are only two or three wild vegetables that can be found, and after teaching them how to distinguish, everyone will scatter to find it."

Hu Jianjun and Sun Xiaoxia together, Jiang Shaoan led Liu Ying, as Qin Ling said, in this kind of poor countryside, everyone is lonely, and it is always better to find someone to warm up.

Since they were like this, Shen Long was not polite, and led Qin Ling to a distance, and hugged and kissed him for a while when he reached a place where others could not see before starting to work.

After doing this for several days, they dug up all the wild vegetables that could be found around, and if they wanted to find it, they had to go farther away.

On this day, he and Qin Ling, Hu Jianjun, and Sun Xiaoxia went out, walked through a few mountain beams, and came to a place where he had never been before, Shen Long looked at the surrounding terrain thoughtfully, and put down the back basket, "Okay, let's be here today, you go dig wild vegetables, and I'll see if I can find voles." ”

Voles like to store food, find a vole hole less can dig two or three catties of grain, more can even dig dozens of catties, a few days ago they dug a few, out of several days of rations, so listening to Shen Long said this, the big guys are not strange, they are all busy with their own go, Shen Long stared at the bottom of the ditch with wide eyes and carefully paid attention to the stones at the bottom of the ditch.

Until noon, the big guy ate some dry food and gathered the wild vegetables he dug together, "Hey, the wild vegetables are getting harder and harder to dig these days, and it took most of the day to dig so little." ”

"If it's easy to dig, why should the people in the village go to ask for food!" Shen Long sighed, "Let's be okay, Zhong Yuemin and they were deducted half of their rations by the village, and I estimate that they should stop at the beginning of spring." ”

"When is this day going to be the end!" Hu Jianjun looked into the distance silently, and Sun Xiaoxia stepped forward and gently grabbed his hand.

"Don't say these depressing words, it's almost the New Year, let's get more wild vegetables, and when the New Year comes, I'll show you a hand and make a delicious meal, the big guys are happy, this is called the revolutionary romantic spirit." Shen Long persuaded.

"Then I'll have to wait, I haven't eaten your cooking these days, I'm really weird." They are all young people, sadness comes and goes quickly, and Hu Jianjun was quickly attracted by the food.

"Okay, you mean the food I cooked yesterday wasn't delicious, did you?" He patronized and praised Shen Long, but forgot that yesterday's meal was still made by Sun Xiaoxia, Sun Xiaoxia shook off his hand and frowned coldly.

"Xiaoxia, I didn't mean it that way......" Hu Jianjun's funny appearance caused Shen Long and Qin Ling to laugh.

Rest for a while, continue to get up and work, this time Shen Long finally made a new discovery, he found a black stone in a corner at the bottom of the ditch, Shen Long's eyes lit up and quickly stepped forward to dig it up, and after a while, he dug out this black stone the size of a basin.

Wipe off the soil on the stone, knock the stone in half, you can clearly see the traces of ginkgo biloba-like leaf fossils on the section, and then look at the black and shiny reflection of the section, Shen Long can be sure that this is not an ordinary stone, but a block of coal; That's what he wanted to find.

Don't look at Jingbian County is so poor now, in the future, it will be a famous energy and mineral base in the country, with proven reserves of more than 300 million tons of oil, 466.6 billion cubic meters of natural gas, and 3.5 billion tons of coal; In particular, the coal mine here is the junction of the country's largest coalfield, the Dongsheng Shenfu Coalfield.

In this era, it is not realistic to want to live a good life by farming, only the development of industry can bring new hope to the local area, everyone feels that the country is chaotic and has no development in this decade, in fact, this is not the case, during this period, the oil and coal and other energy fields have developed rapidly, and many large coal mines such as Gaoyang Coal Mine, Pingdingshan Coal Mine and Baodingshan Coal Mine have been newly built; If evidence of the existence of this large coal field can be found in advance, the state will not leave it alone.

Shen Long naturally will not let go of this information, when he came here before, he specifically asked the local old man to learn the story of the coal mine was discovered, just now he observed that the nearby terrain is very similar to the location where the exploration team found the coal mine, and the result is that the coal was found nearby.

He did not make a noise at once, but continued to dig down along the exposed part of the coal, and he found a new one, took out a pen and paper and drew a scribbled map, marked the place where the coal was found, and then continued to search around according to the description of the old people, and then he found the second and third pieces of coal.

By the time he was ready to go back, Shen Long had already piled five or six pieces of coal in his basket, and these pieces of coal were distributed within a range of several miles around, which showed that the area of the coal field was very large.

"Where is the coal?" Hu Jianjun was still a little stunned when he saw Shen Long carrying back such a pile of things, "This saves us the trouble of finding firewood." "The Loess Plateau is not densely vegetated, and finding fuel is a laborious task.

"It's dug up at the bottom of the ditch, but these coals can't be burned casually, I'm of great use." Shen Long ran all the way back to the village with the coal on his back, and went directly to Bai Mingchuan's house without taking care of food.

"Shen Long is here, just eat some together." Bai Mingchuan warmly greeted him for dinner, and his daughter immediately brought dishes and chopsticks to Shen Long, who is now working at the consignment point and is very grateful to Shen Long.

"Don't eat it, branch secretary, I just found something good, you can come out and have a look." Shen Long pulled Bai Mingchuan and ran outside, making Bai Mingchuan's wife and children confused, what's wrong?

"Look, the coal I just dug out in the ditch over there!" Shen Long poured out all the coals with a bang.

"Shen Long, you are a good guy, don't engage in these crooked ways." Bai Mingchuan didn't react for a while, thinking that Shen Long was giving him a gift.

"What's the wrong way? Haha, branch secretary, you're thinking about it, I'm reluctant to give you such a good thing. Shen Long laughed.

"Isn't it just coal, what's so strange?" Bai Mingchuan muttered, this little thing makes you happy like this?

"This is not ordinary coal, this means that there may be a big coal mine in front of our village!" It's not uncommon to go from a small piece of coal to the discovery of a large coalfield.

In "Breaking through the Guandong", Zhu Chuanjie dug a large piece of coal in Jiazigou, thus discovering the "Jiazigou Coal Mine"; In 1958, herders in Zalut Banner discovered the ashes of ancient people hundreds of years ago in an ancient fort, in which coal was buried, leading to the discovery of the Huolin River open-pit coal mine.

"What? Big coal mines? Bai Mingchuan was so shocked by the news that his body shook and almost didn't stand firm, "You say it again, I just didn't hear it clearly." ”