Chapter 42 Fossils

"This is shepherd's purse, which is available all year round. It can be used as cold salad or made into sauerkraut... This is bitter vegetable, which can reduce inflammation and fire..." The land in northern Shaanxi is barren, and it is winter again, and the only wild vegetables that can be found are These two or three types, after teaching them how to distinguish them, everyone dispersed to search for them.

Hu Jianjun and Sun Xiaoxia were together, and Jiang Shaoan was leading Liu Ying. As Qin Ling said, in this kind of backcountry, everyone is lonely, and it is always better to find someone to hug for warmth.

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

After working like this for several days, they dug up all the wild vegetables that could be found around, and had to go farther to find them. Some educated youths felt tired and retreated, but Shen Long still carried a basket all day long. , Hoes running all over the mountains and plains.

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

Voles like to store food. If they find a field mouse hole, they can dig up two or three catties of grain, and if they have too much, they can even dig up dozens of catties. They dug a few a few days ago and took out rations for several days, so they heard Shen Long say Said, the big guys are not surprised, they all went to their own business, while Shen Long stared at the rocks at the bottom of the ditch carefully.

Until noon, everyone ate some dry food and gathered the wild vegetables they had dug together, "Hey, wild vegetables are getting harder to dig these days, and it took me a long time to dig so little."

"If it's easy to dig, why would the villagers beg for food!" Shen Long sighed, "We're doing well, Zhong Yuemin and the others have been deducted half of their rations by the village, I guess they should stop eating in the spring."

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

"Don't say such depressing words. The Chinese New Year is coming soon. Let's get more wild vegetables. When the Chinese New Year comes, I'll show you my skills and make a delicious meal. Everyone is happy. This is called the spirit of revolutionary romance." Shen Long persuaded.

"Then I'll have to wait. It's really strange that I haven't eaten your cooking these days." They are all young people, and the 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, right?" He went to praise Shen Long, but forgot that Sun Xiaoxia cooked the food yesterday, and Sun Xiaoxia threw away his hand and frowned coldly. .

"Xiaoxia, that's not what I meant..." Hu Jianjun's funny appearance made Shen Long and Qin Ling laugh out loud.

After resting for a while, he continued 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 he hurried forward to dig it up. After a while, he found a black stone. This washbasin-sized black stone was dug out.

After wiping off the dirt on the stone, and knocking the stone in half, you can clearly see traces of ginkgo leaf-like fossil leaves 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 coal; that's what he wanted to find.

Although Jingbian County is so poor now, it will become a famous energy and mineral base in the country in the future, with proven oil reserves of more than 300 million tons, natural gas proven reserves of 466.6 billion cubic meters, and coal proven reserves of 3.5 billion tons; especially coal mines, here are The coal mine is the junction of the largest coal field in the country - Dongsheng Shenfu coal field.

In this era, it is unrealistic to live a good life by farming. Only the development of industry can bring new hope to the local area. Everyone thinks that the country has been in chaos and no development in the past ten years. This is not the case. During the period, petroleum, coal and other energy fields developed rapidly, and many large coal mines such as Gaoyang Coal Mine, Pingdingshan Coal Mine, and Baodingshan Coal Mine were newly built; if evidence of the existence of this large coal field can be found in advance,

The state will not leave it alone.

Naturally, Shen Long would not let go of this information. When he came here before, he asked the local old man to learn about the story of the coal mine being discovered. Similar, as a result, coal was found nearby.

He didn't say anything immediately, but continued to dig down along the exposed coal, and he found a new coal, took out a pen and paper and drew a scribbled map, marking the place where the coal was found, Then he continued to search around according to the descriptions of the old people, and he found the second and third coals.

When he was about to go back, Shen Long had piled up five or six pieces of coal in his back basket, and these coal pieces were distributed within a few miles around, which showed that the area of ​​the coal field was very large.

"Where is the coal from?" Hu Jianjun was still a little confused when he saw Shen Long carrying such a pile of things, "This saves us the trouble of finding firewood." The vegetation on the Loess Plateau is not dense, and finding fuel is also a laborious task.

"It was dug out from the bottom of the ditch, but these coals can't be burned casually, I have great use for them." Shen Long rushed all the way back to the village with the coal on his back, and went directly to Bai Mingchuan's house without thinking about food.

"Shen Long is here, just to have something to eat together." Bai Mingchuan warmly greeted him to eat, and his daughter immediately brought Shen Long bowls and chopsticks. She is now working at a consignment point, and she is very grateful to Shen Long.

"Don't eat, branch secretary, I just found some good things, come out and have a look." Shen Long pulled Bai Mingchuan and ran outside, making Bai Mingchuan's wife and children confused, what's the matter?

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

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

"What crooked way? Haha, branch secretary, you're thinking about it. I can't bear to give you such a good thing." Shen Long laughed.

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

"This is not ordinary coal, which means that there may be a large coal mine in front of our village!" It is not uncommon to find a large coal field from a small piece of coal.

In "Crossing the Guandong", Zhu Chuanjie dug a large piece of coal in Jiazigou, thus discovering the "Jiazigou Coal Mine"; in 1958, herdsmen in Zhalut Banner discovered ashes left by the ancients hundreds of years ago in an ancient castle, buried in the ashes coal, which led to the discovery of the Hollin River Open Pit Coal Mine.

"What? Big coal mine?" Bai Mingchuan was shaken by the news and almost lost his footing. "Say it again, I didn't catch it just now."