Chapter 135 Chapter 19 Picking Salt Flowers

Everyone thinks I'm crazy, and I'm suffocating to fight them, but I'm afraid it won't help.Wei Long didn't want to entangle Yuan Yuanyuan's problems anymore, he half-pushed us to the outside of the alleyway, just like a tour guide.I didn't want to stop, and I listed every detail of Yuan Yuanyuan along the way, how she appeared, and how she helped me get rid of the danger of dragon spitting. "I think he might be quite frightened and talking nonsense." Wei Long said to Fan Li. "When did Lao Jin talk nonsense and attack the defenders of socialism? I think you are an undercover agent of capitalism!" Xu Shaode got angry when Weilong laughed at me.

At this time, Fan Li stared at me, as if he wanted to say something, his lips were slightly parted, but they were closed again.Seeing this, I wished I could pry its mouth open with a shovel, but was quickly taken aback by my own thoughts. Could it be that I am really crazy, why do I always have such abnormal thoughts.Although the lights were dim, or even dark, I did see Fan Li was about to speak, so I couldn't help but ask, "Do you have anything to say?" Fan Li slowed down, turned his head halfway and said to me: "I mean, can you turn off the light?" I was speechless after hearing this, on the one hand I felt embarrassed, as if all the dangers were caused by me, on the other hand I felt that Fan Li didn't mean to say this sentence, or he didn't finish half a sentence.Fan Li didn't insist that I turn off the lights. Maybe he felt that the danger was over, but I didn't understand what the danger was.The whole team was a little weird, I guessed all kinds of possibilities in my heart, the most likely is that someone coerced them to say that they didn't know Yuan Yuanyuan, but who would threaten them and why.Xiaoguang walked at the end, and after seeing me again, she treated me very coldly and kept her distance deliberately.I suddenly felt very boring. Since they all denied that Yuan Yuanyuan had appeared here, why should I be boring myself and force them to admit it.Just like that, everyone stopped talking, and there were only footsteps in the alleyway. I also hugged the big civet tightly, because I suddenly felt a little cold, and the cat's fur could just keep me warm.

Weilong has worked in Qiaotian Coal Mine for many years, so he is naturally familiar with the road, and he quickly found the exit.I used a flashlight along the way, carefully observed the road conditions, and always felt that there was something strange in the alleyway.However, we have already walked out, even if I am killed, I am unwilling to go in again. When I came out, I looked at the alleyway again. The darkness inside is simply a black hole in the universe. It is not clear what it is, only that light cannot escape from a black hole.I expected Yuan Yuanyuan to come out, maybe even scream a few times, but nothing followed in the dark alleyway.

Fan Li and the others all looked at the alleyway. After a while, everyone exhaled at the same time, with a look of relief.I didn't know why, and I was angry and didn't want to talk to them, but then I thought of some problems.I have always felt that there is something wrong with the alleyway. It is because this alleyway has not encountered a dead body at all, not even a living dead, and the whole alleyway has no life.We walked into two lanes, and although there were a few dead people in the other one, none of them were as many as the shaft we came in.In other words, there is a lot of coal in the alley, so it should be the place where the most people live. If the gas explodes, there should be the most corpses here.

However, we walked from the mouth of the well all the way here, but there were the most dead bodies near the exit and in the well, and the more we went in, the fewer dead bodies.The gas is actually odorless, and if the gas accumulates in the coal well, the workers will not be able to detect it.However, judging from the distribution of dead bodies and living dead, this group of coal miners seemed to have discovered that the gas was about to explode, so they ran away desperately.I slapped myself on the head violently. On the way here, I passed the rails. These rails are used for the trams that transport coal. When workers go down the well, they also take the trams in and out, and they don’t even use their feet to go in and out. .Both sides of the tracks were crowded with dead bodies. I should have known that they had already noticed the danger, and the tram could not carry so many workers at once, so they all ran with their feet, trying to avoid the gas explosion.Of course, those killed by the search and rescue team can't be counted in it, they don't know what happened inside, but so far we haven't met a search and rescue team.

Others didn't seem to have noticed this problem, so I reluctantly told them about this discovery. Xiao Guangben said that he would go into a few more wells to confirm, but I gave her an angry look, and she canceled this suggestion.I don't care about everyone's weirdness, I firmly believe that I am not crazy, Yuan Yuanyuan has indeed been here, and they are crazy if they are crazy. At this time, a Kongming lantern floated out of the darkness again, but this time it did not come from the alleyway, but from a darker corner.The exits of the alleyway lined up in a straight line, and the position where the Kongming lanterns floated was at the end of the line. The darkness there seemed to be thicker, as if all the darkness came from there.Xiao Guang grabbed the Kongming lantern excitedly, and another fairy tendon flew out of it. Wei Long looked at it in amazement. He wanted to grab the fairy tendon, but the fairy tendon flew away immediately.The bird character of Yue State was still written on the Kongming Lantern. Xiaoguang said it was a distress signal. We couldn't figure out how these lights came from, and they wrote heavenly scriptures to ask for help. Isn't this begging for death?

Wei Long looked at the Kongming Lantern in disappointment. He jumped up and down when he was grasping the fairy tendons just now, but now he kept panting.However, when he saw the Kongming Lantern, he held his breath and stood motionless, as if he had encountered something surprising.We all looked at Wei Long, who took the Kongming Lantern without asking Xiaoguang, and then looked at the Kongming Lantern without saying a word.Apart from the strange appearance of the Kongming lantern, I can't see what's so good about this Kongming lantern, but Wei Long touched the paper on the Kongming lantern, and it seemed that there was something wrong with it.I held the flashlight down and found that there were some blue, green, white and yellow crystals on the paper on the Kongming lantern, but there was nothing surprising about these things.

These things are salt flowers. As the name suggests, the quality of the flowers is salt. Of course, it is not salt in life, but salt in the chemical sense, inorganic salt.When any inorganic salt is dissolved in water, a solution of this salt is obtained, which is called brine in the industry.There are various brines in nature, and seawater is also a kind of brine.These brines are all mineral resources.Underground brine is generally saturated or nearly saturated, and after mining, crystallization will occur after a little concentration.There are many colors of brine, mainly due to the difference in composition and concentration. After salt flowers become crystals, they will bloom into colorful crystal flowers, which are extremely beautiful.The Chaerhan area in Qinghai Province is extremely dry, with a huge amount of evaporation, and the brine is concentrated and crystallized to varying degrees. The salt flowers there are very spectacular, a large piece, and it seems to be on another planet.

Qiaotian Coal Mine has a long history, and it is not surprising that there are salt flowers. I was about to correct Wei Long's reaction, but he suddenly said that he knew where the Kongming lanterns came from, but he shook his head after he finished speaking, saying no It may not be possible, how could the Kongming Lantern come out of there.Holding the Kongming Lantern in his hand, Wei Long looked at the corner of the alley with a complicated expression. I just wanted to ask him what was wrong, but at this moment I saw a yellow Kongming Lantern coming quietly.I was worried that there was something harmful hidden in the corner, so I pointed my flashlight there, but the light never came back, and I couldn't see what was in the corner at all.

"I said Wei Long, don't play tricks, can you?" Xu Shaode returned to normal, with an unhappy face, and said, "Isn't it just a few lights? I have a sharp blade that can kill thousands of animals. Even if the king of Hades comes I'm going to tremble too." "Save that broken knife of yours for cutting watermelons." I heard Xu Shaode talking nonsense and reprimanded him, but I was very happy in my heart. Xiaoguang looked at me and smiled slightly. She took the Kongming Lantern that floated, and frowned again. The words written on the Kongming Lantern were still the same, but the handwriting was messed up a lot. At first glance, she thought it was a child's graffiti.Fan Li stood aside and glanced twice. He wanted to get closer to see what was in that corner, but Wei Long grabbed him.Seeing that I stopped asking about Yuan Yuanyuan, Xiaoguang leaned over and said a few words to me, but they were all insignificant nonsense, either asking me where I was hurt or if I was in danger just now.I was very surprised by Xiaoguang's behavior, but I couldn't figure it out, but I couldn't figure it out, so I had to answer directly that I was in good health and delicious.Seeing that I was a little cold, Xiaoguang exchanged some greetings, and then wanted to reach out to hug the big civet in my arms, but the big civet struggled like crazy and jumped to the ground.

I just wanted to bend over to hug the big civet again, but it didn't want to, and kept hiding far away from Xiaoguang, but refused to leave.I looked at Xiaoguang puzzled, wondering if the big civet could still read people's hearts, thinking that Xiaoguang wanted to eat it?Xiaoguang's eyes are a bit strange, she once wanted to catch the little red chicken, but that damned little red chicken is too tricky, no one seems to be able to catch her except the old woman.I have already vaguely felt that the big civet and the little red chicken have similar similarities. I don't know what is so special about these two animals that makes Xiaoguang care so much about them. Wei Long was playing the role of a tour guide. He and Xu Shaode stared at each other, but their mouths were saying that the Kongming Lantern came out of a salt mining cave.We all had preconceived ideas, and always thought that the Qiaotian Coal Mine was for mining coal, but we had never heard that there was also salt mining here, so we all urged Wei Long to clarify the matter quickly.It turned out that several salt wells buried deep in the ground were discovered during the mining of Qiaotian Coal Mine. It is rare for salt wells to be buried deep in the ground.Weilong also said that there was a hidden official in Qiaotian Prison in ancient times, and he controlled everything in Qiaotian Prison for hundreds of miles.Where this high official came from is unknown. He controls several salt wells in the mountains, and almost everyone listens to him.However, after the high official died, he asked his wife and children to throw his bones into the largest salt well and seal it forever. Of course, all these are just local folk legends, and no one took them seriously. It was not until the Qiaotian Coal Mine was mined and people discovered the salt well buried for thousands of years that they realized that all of this was true.There are salt wells in almost every coal well, but the salt well in No. 10 well is special, because there is a golden rock at the bottom of the well, which cannot be penetrated by any drilling tools, which is very strange, but Wei Long said it must be It's nonsense, how can there be such a strange thing.However, I quickly thought that the piece of golden rock might be the European metallurgical wall, and we saw it move just now.Weiron went on to say that the salt well was at the corner of several rows of roadways. There were a few coal miners who wanted to urinate and shit in the corner, but they were all gone forever, not even a lump of shit left.Since then, the person in charge of Qiaotian Coal Mine has set up an iron fence there to prohibit others from entering. Weilong trembled a few times as he spoke. It seemed that this legend had a deep influence on him, and he was uneducated, so he was particularly superstitious about these myths about gods and ghosts.Xu Shaode has always had a dislike for Wei Long. Before he finished listening, he questioned this superstitious rumor. He said how precious salt can be. To control salt, you want to control a hundred miles around. Now which household does not have salt.I was worried that Xu Shaode's words and deeds would make others think that I was uneducated, so I quickly asked him to stop, but fortunately no one said much. Because the engineering and civil construction major will design some mining buildings, it also mentioned a lot of ancient mining history, but Xu Shaode returned the knowledge from the book to the teacher before he stepped out of school.I remember that there are very few rock salt historic sites in Guangxi, and I have never seen anything mixed with coal mines.The history of Chinese salt production can be traced back at least 5,000 years ago, which is almost in sync with the history of Chinese civilization in historical records. The government has even monopolized salt and iron to control people's livelihood, so controlling salt will have great power. According to the source of salt, ancient Chinese salt can be divided into several categories such as sea salt, lake salt, well salt, and rock salt, each of which has a different production process.The salt wells here should belong to rock salt. Rock salt, also known as salt mine, is actually a solid salt-bearing rock formation deep underground.There are two main ways to mine ancient rock salt.One is to dig roadways, extract salt-bearing rocks, and then crush and dissolve the rocks to extract salt.The second is to dig a deep well to the salt-bearing rock formation, inject water to dissolve the salt, form brine, and then draw the brine.This method is the same as the production process of well salt. Among the ancient salt-making processes, the production process of well salt is the most complicated. As early as the end of the Warring States period, Li Bing, the prefect of Qinshu County, dug salt wells in the Chengdu Plain to extract brine and fry salt.At that time, the salt wells were large in diameter, the well walls were prone to collapse, and without any protection measures, and the depth was shallow, so they could only draw shallow brine.After the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, Zhuotong well appeared in southern Sichuan. It was a small deep well. When drilling the well, the "single-shaped" drill bit was used to crush the rocks by impact, and the cuttings and water were pumped out with bamboo tubes by injecting water or using groundwater. .The diameter of Zhuotong well is only the size of a bowl, and the well wall is not easy to collapse.The ancients also removed the joints of the big Nan bamboo, socketed the end and the end, wrapped the hemp rope outside, coated with putty, and lowered it into the well as a casing to prevent the wall of the well from collapsing and fresh water from immersing.When taking brine, thin bamboo is used as a brine extraction cylinder, which is inserted into the casing. The bottom of the cylinder is used as an opening and closing valve. The emergence of Zhuotong Well has made the deep well drilling technology in ancient China more and more mature.Since then, the depth of the salt well has continued to increase.In the fifteenth year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty (1835), the first deep well over a kilometer in the world at that time was drilled in the Zigong Salt Area of ​​Sichuan Province - Shen (Nian Shen) Sea Well. When I finished speaking, Wei Long clicked his tongue in admiration, saying that intellectuals are not ordinary, and they speak clearly and clearly.The big civet raised its head and seemed to be listening to my explanation, with a half-understanding look.At this time, Fan Li had already turned on the mining searchlights. I don't know where he found them, but our lights were almost broken.There is an ancient salt well in the coal mine that is really special, so we all want to see what happened, but under the strong light, the iron fence in the corner has been twisted out of shape, and the hole in the middle is enough for three people to pass through at the same time. We all walked over, and even Weiron forgot the fear. Many parts of the iron fence were broken, and there were traces of melting on the broken parts. It was obvious that it had experienced super high temperature.The iron fence, which might have been black before, had become smooth and shiny, with a riotous hue.Behind the iron fence is a tunnel. The tunnel is in a mess, and it seems that we will be buried alive at any time.The air-conditioning inside is stronger, and we couldn't help feeling strange that the temperature was still so low after the gas explosion.The exhaust fan in Qiaotian Coal Mine has stopped working, and the gas in the coal mine cannot be pumped at all. It stands to reason that no matter how fast the high temperature drops, it should not drop to this temperature. "Is the salt well in front?" Xiaoguang looked around, and there was a five or six meter diameter hole in front of him, which looked a little scary. "Yes, I've been in twice..." said Waylon slowly. "Twice? Didn't you say that there is an iron fence here, so no one can get in?" I asked curiously. "Didn't I tell you that some people disappeared when they came in to pee and poop. At that time, the iron fence broke down once, and after many people disappeared, it was closed again..." Wei Long said with lingering fear. However, when Weilong wanted to continue talking, another yellow light cluster appeared in the salt well, which was another Kongming lantern.We all stood carefully on the edge of the salt well. Fan Li pointed the searchlight at the bottom of the well, but he didn't see the gold and stones underneath. Instead, he saw a group of children, and there was an old man among the children.