Chapter 11 The Secret of Women's Country

——Are there any gold diggers in the gold mining army in the west?I asked several ministries and people who have been to the western gold mines, and they all said yes.So, what is it like?I insist on exploring the land of women in this golden world. It's a pity that in the huge western China, it takes a few days to go around a few places by plane.Not to mention going to Xinyou Gold Field for an interview.However, the country of gold digging women is in the hinterland of the Altai Mountains.Unless, you are preparing for three months.Someone said to me. What, you want to know about the Gold Digger?Luckily for you, I just came back from the Altai Mountains!At a mineral resource management conference in Beijing, a female engineer from the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources heard that I was collecting and writing materials in this area, so she took the initiative to tell me her personal witness.I opened the interview book as if I had found a treasure... A group of six of us went to Xinjiang to investigate the mining work of the masses. Because I am a lesbian, someone introduced to me that there is a country of gold-digging women in the Altai Mountains, which aroused my interest.Xiao Zhang, the driver of the District Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, was unwilling to take me there.

That's not a place for men!he muttered. Isn't it popular now that there are girls in places where boys can do things most successfully?I say. Other places may be, but there is an exception.Xiao Zhang didn't tell the truth.So I have always been a mystery about this exception. The way into the mountain is difficult, because strictly speaking there is no way at all.We were in an old jeep.The car was on the so-called road-in fact, it was advancing on a dry river bed.At the end of the river bed are cliffs.There is no road here, no road, our car had to move forward along a slightly flat rock wall.I don't know how many mountains and rivers we have passed, and we finally saw the gold rush field in the hinterland of the Altai Mountains.

There are seventy-two ditches in Altai, and the ditches are known as gold. In fact, according to our geological survey results, there are at least one hundred ditches and rivers flowing with enriched placer gold.The Altai Mountain embraces gold miners from all directions with a selfless heart.It especially pampers the male gold diggers who are inexhaustible, and leaves the richest gold trenches for them.But Altai loves female gold diggers very much. There are hundreds of gold panning fields in the whole west, and it is rare that there are so many female gold diggers in Altai Mountain.Some people estimate that there are no less than 10,000 female gold diggers in the Altai Mountains.

Women need a special natural environment, and it is difficult for them to survive in the endless desert.Women cannot live without water, and they go where there is water.Water is of extraordinary importance to them.They have to wash their faces, and women who don't care much have to wipe their faces, unlike those men who can spend eight hundred lives without getting angry, and they have to take a bath if they don't wash their feet. A little dirt and sand, the body is their capital; but more importantly, they have to go through the once a month called bad luck, and men don't need it at all.

The men have already entered another golden ditch in the deep mountain.But they still squatted hopefully on both sides of this long-flowing ditch. Women are not as focused as men.When I saw someone passing by, I started chirping.However, the work in hand was not affected at all.At noon, it was a little hot, but not so hot that you had to take off your clothes, but the gold diggers wore very little.Of course no one wears skirts at work, but the trousers they wear underneath are special: they have a leg, but they don't come up to the knee.Some of the lower parts were obviously frayed and dropped, others were not.How good it is that it is inconvenient to have long legs!A young girl is cutting the bottom half of her new overalls with scissors.People wearing turbans are common, but there are also some pretty girls with fluffy long hair. The black waterfall, with rhythmic shaking movements, shows an intoxicating beauty. It's just because of too much sweat. The clothes are all wet.Once wet, all the unique characteristics of a woman are exposed to everyone.They don't care.And because for the sake of convenience, few people wear bras inside, so a pair of plump, swaying breasts are clearly visible in front of your eyes.Too much stimulation made some men embarrassed.The driver I saw, Xiao Zhang, was one of them. He didn't even dare to look at our female compatriots.I looked at the young man and smiled.It's no wonder that some of our female compatriots, especially some middle-aged people, seem a little too bold and presumptuous, maybe because of the hot relationship, some of them let go of the second and third buttons on their chests, and the white crisp The breasts and breasts are almost all on the outside...

It happened to be European, and I sat down next to a girl with long hair.She is strong, like a football player.Hahaha, you guessed it right, the girl is a straightforward person.As soon as I asked, she started chatting with me: My name is Li Li, from Dayi, Sichuan.A fellow of the landlord Liu Wencai.However, my fate was not good. After graduating from high school in 1977, I failed to enter university, so I returned from the county town to my home in the countryside. You ask me why I came here to pan for gold?This is a secret, but since you are from Beijing and have a lot of knowledge, it doesn't matter if I tell you.I have been strong since I was a child, and seeing the boys in the village go to the county to go to middle school with a good air, I secretly made up my mind to go too, and later I really passed the exam, and it was a key county.But my family has many children, my parents gave birth to two younger brothers and two younger sisters after giving birth to me.No way, while I was studying, I had to go home for three or two days to help with farming.In the end, the natural grades will drop.Hmph, watching other people go to college, I feel so uncomfortable, thinking: If it is not for the burden of my family, I will definitely be able to go to college.But what can a poor family do!After returning to my hometown and working for a year, the more interesting and boring I became.Last year, I followed the villagers to work in Shanghai. The young people there are really motivated. They work hard to earn money, and when they earn money, they plan to study abroad.Many girls like me who did not pass the exam told me that in foreign countries, as long as they have money, they can go to college.And there are a few people I know well who actually went to college after earning enough money to go abroad.I'm so envious.Going to college has been a lifelong dream of mine.I thought to myself, in China, it is useless for me to go to university.Then try to go abroad!You must think that it is ridiculous for a peasant girl in a valley to want to study abroad!But I believe, and I have already inquired about it, to go abroad to study in Japan will cost about 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.Really, there are plenty of people in Shanghai who help with this sort of thing.So, I secretly made up my mind to earn enough money to study in Japan like some Shanghai girls I knew.But in Shanghai, I work for others, and it only costs 60 to 70 yuan a month, so I don’t have much money to save after eating and buying some supplies.After I returned to Sichuan, I heard people say that there are gold mines here, and gold mining is the most profitable. Sometimes a gold bump can be found in a day, and the price is several thousand, tens of thousands!I think, if you want to make money and go abroad, it seems that this is the only way.So, we came here with a few boys from the village.Alas, my God, China is too big, it took us two months to get here from Sichuan!

Does your family know you're here?I asked. have no idea.It was a month after I arrived here that I sent them a letter back. Looking at this tanned girl who didn’t look like an intellectual at all, I couldn’t help but be infected by that persistent pursuit. You have been here for half a year, how far do you think you are from your goal?I mean her proceeds from the gold panning. She lowered her head, feeling a little depressed about it. 3 When I came here, I realized that the gold digging career is not as beautiful as we imagined.In the first month, I barely worked for a few days. I just arrived in the cold area, how could we get used to it!After a serious illness, almost took his life.Then I worked for two months, for the bosses. You don’t know what a boss is?Hey, at first I was just like you.After recovering from that illness, I desperately tried to get back the lost time. I rushed to the construction site at four or five o'clock in the morning and worked until I couldn't see it at night. I worked fifteen or sixteen hours a day. My little vanity box really felt heavy when I got it down, but who would have thought that on the night of the end of the month, a fat tigress with a Henan accent brought six or seven men with big waists to open it. The tent I lived in told me to pay the fee.I'm wondering, what's the fee?What fee?Capitation fee!said the fat woman.I was puzzled and asked, where did the head fee come from?I don't!The fat woman raised her voice when she heard it!Cursed: You Sichuan ghost girl, you are so hot!If you are not angry with the rules, I will tell you again: all the newcomers have to pay me the gold they mined in the first month, which is called a head fee!When I hear this, isn't it obvious bullying?Oh, I paid her all the hard-earned money I earned from the hardest month of hard work!quit!I replied: Why is it your turn to charge.This Altai Mountain belongs to everyone, so you are allowed here, and others are not allowed?God, what I said pissed off that fat woman. She grabbed my hair as soon as she stepped forward, and shouted hysterically: "Stinky girl, let me tell you, the Altai Mountains belong to everyone, but this golden ditch, We discovered the Red Gold Terrace here, if you don’t want to hand it in, then let these brothers bring it back for you to wake up and change your body.What does it mean?I'm new here and I don't know what this fat woman is going to do with these men.As soon as the fat woman finished speaking, these men stared at me like hungry wolves, some with murderous looks on their faces, and some approaching me step by step with playful smiles.Looking at them, I know what these people want to do with my own sensitivity.These villains, I will fight with you.I reached for the hair-twisting scissors under the countersunk head; I knew I was going to die today, but I wasn't afraid, thinking that death wouldn't let that fat woman and these thugs get away with it.Just at this critical moment, a group of young men from my village came to dissuade them with a lot of gold diggers, and finally the matter was calmed down.They interceded for me, and the fat woman didn't lead a few thieves until she took away all the gold I had worked so hard for a month.Afterwards, I angrily asked the boy from the same village, why did I give the fat woman the gold I gave him?As soon as the boys heard this, they said: My good aunt, you know, if you don't pay the head fee, they can do anything?Afterwards, they told me that just last month, a gold-digging couple from Sichuan came to work for a month, and then they came to collect head fees. Like me, the couple refused to say anything.The ruthless Jin stripped off the man's clothes and beat him with a leather whip until his skin was ripped apart.Then the woman was pulled up, and in front of her man, five men gang-raped her... Finally, the man was driven crazy, and although the woman was not crazy, she collapsed.She thought about going home without face, and finding gold was unsuccessful, so one night, she dragged the crazy man, and the two of them went to the back mountain to jump off the cliff together...

Unexpectedly, this gold mining field is also a brutal and unfair world! Now that you know the Gold Rush is not a place for women either.But why do you keep doing it?And not only you, there are so many female compatriots!I asked. Li Li sighed deeply and said: People have to live.Anyway, although panning for gold is more difficult and there are many underworld people, you get used to it after a long time.And learned how to deal with it.What method, she didn't say, just smiled secretly.Women always have their own secrets. So, you are still very confident in your current gold digging life?

Yes.Li Li combed her hair and looked at the blue sky. She was still a girl full of anger.I've been on my own for 3 months now.To tell you the truth, my income is about 10 times that of my helper in Shanghai.That is to say, if I work hard for another year, it will be enough for me to go through the exit procedures for studying in Japan! I casually picked up the mud-stained Japanese practice book next to Li Li, and I couldn't help feeling all kinds of feelings in my heart.What a persistent girl, what a modern gold digger! Li Li is very active and capable, with a relaxed and happy smile on her face from time to time.However, I see that there are not many gold diggers like her.Most of their faces are gloomy, as if there is a stone in their hearts.

Yes, on the hillside, a gold digger who just came up from the ditch to drink water was looking eastward in a daze.Li Li told me that her name is Wang Yamei, from Hebei, and she is 21 years old this year.But she has been married for 3 years and is an old mother with two children. She was thinking about her child, and she was about to get sick! How old is the child? One is 3 years old and the other is 4 months old. So cruel, he was willing to throw it at home after 4 months, and ran so far to pan for gold by himself?I say. Li Li interrupted me and said: You don't know.She was forced by her family!Wang Yamei's family is poor, so she blames her father for insisting on letting her marry a rich man. At the age of 18, she was exchanged for the bride price of two cows to a peddler's house in a small town as a daughter-in-law. The man was a kidnapper.But this family is still only this oblique seedling.The parents-in-law looked forward to their grandson like crazy.After Wang Yamei became pregnant, she almost spoiled her like a harem queen.However, when the daughter-in-law gave birth, it was a woman. The in-laws were so angry that they hadn't eaten for three days.He forced his son to let his wife give birth.Wang Yamei had to do heavy work while carrying the first-born girl, and she gave birth to the second child after 4 months of pregnancy.How could the parents-in-law be willing to give up, let her conceive again, and threatened that if they didn't give birth to a grandson for them, they would not recognize her as their daughter-in-law.Wang Yamei waited with tears and sweat to conceive in October.You know, her fate is so bad, the third birth is still a girl!On the day she was discharged from the hospital, her in-laws did not let her go home.Since then, Wang Yamei has become a homeless girl.The month before last, she had heard that there was a way to live in gold panning here, so she and Ruo a group of people took a coal truck from Shijiazhuang to Altai.She is at home in Jinshan!A miserable woman, only 21 years old, like a middle-aged woman in her thirties or forties.You are from a big city, why do Chinese women have been so slavish for thousands of years and have not made any progress?

I smiled and asked her what do you think? If you want me to say, it is the lack of self-independence and pursuit awareness-maybe.However, when the feudal soil still exists in this land of China, women's self-independent consciousness may never be fundamentally established.Similarly, the pursuit of consciousness still has a strong feudal nature.You can say that including you, coming here to pan for gold does not contain an element of pursuit of wealth and money.I say this to one of the rare thinkers of the Gold Diggers. Li Li admitted bluntly.However, she still insists: her pursuit is high-level.But among the many gold diggers I have met, including Li Li who thinks she is a high-level suitor, almost all the gold diggers embarked on the adventurous road of gold panning, most of them are motivated by themselves. One of the most basic and primitive pursuits of survival and getting out of trouble, unlike male gold diggers, many people are motivated by greedy psychology that worships money too much.Therefore, in contrast, female gold diggers have greater fantasies and attachments than male gold diggers.They tied their fate to the gold panning, and the success of the gold panning was very important to them. However, things are often like this, the greater the hope, the easier it is to put yourself in a desperate situation, and the less likely it is to survive independently.I learned that, with the exception of a few top picks, every gold digger has a book soaked in blood and tears. Li Li introduced me to another gold digger.The gold digger was about thirty, and she spoke and acted like a man.She is also from Sichuan, and it can be proved that she is a typical feudal family serf as soon as she speaks.My name is Zhang Acai, what did you say, my wife is always sick, and the doctor said that it will cost a lot of money to cure the disease.As a woman, how much money can I earn from a few acres of land?Hearing people say that there is endless gold to be dug here, so they followed. You really think there's a lot of money to be made here? What a lot of money!Still, it’s better than farming at home! When do you estimate that you will be able to afford your man's medical treatment? Well, well done, there is still a year and a half to go!If we don't do well, it will take two or three years. Are you still confident about that? What if you are not confident?It takes a month or two to come here, so you can't leave as soon as you come.Now that you are here, you have to get a cause! Feet, every gold digger has them.They came here for the purpose in their hearts, and they are working hard to realize their purpose, even at all costs. In the golden ditch where Li Li and the others are located, it is about two miles long and there are nearly ten thousand people. You and I are in a group, and they seem to be strangers to each other. They neither say hello nor walk around each other.A group of people has a fixed site.Li Li said that these people come from all over the world, each has its own gang, and very few Zhu Xiang.There are big and small gangs, most of them form alliances with fellow villagers, and some voluntarily get together to form alliances.The boss is called the boss.The boss is generally recommended by everyone, or has prestige, or is the first person here, or is a gold digger.The newcomers can't see at first glance that there is any hierarchy in the gang.But in fact, a gang is like a country within a country, the gold pan is a big country, and the gang is a small country.There is a monarch in a small country, and the monarch is the leader, and the subordinates are classified according to the working procedures of gold panning.Those who are new to the group, inexperienced, or clumsy are at the lowest level.They can only do sand digging, which is a heavy and exhausting job, and they get the least money. They often work for a month without even seeing what gold looks like.The second is people squatting in the water, holding a shovel, and carrying a dustpan or bamboo basket. Their task is to wash the sand.Sand scouring is a technical job. Baskets of yellow sand are sieved in dustpans or baskets, leaving a little black and yellow sand in the end.These sand grains are commonly known as placer gold, and yellow reflections can be vaguely seen under the sun. The action of washing the sand is simple, but you have to learn how to control the heat. If the sand is heavy, it will all run away, and if it is light, the sand will not get out.Some people scouring for a day, leaving nothing in the dustpan or basket, such people will be downgraded, that is, they have to go to dry sand, and those who pick sand are tiring.Sand scourers earn more than sand pickers and planers.The alluvial gold that was panned out was sent to a hut by Longzhong. This process is called sand selection.The sand picker puts the sand grains on a sloping stone slab, and the slate has fine lines that are not deep.The sand with clear water passes through the stone slabs, and the alluvial gold falls into the fine lines. The sand pickers are generally veteran gold diggers with rich experience, high grades, and high incomes. The last process is usually done by the boss himself Do it, or let the boss bring a few reliable and experienced people to do it together.This process is called blowing sand.That is, put the yellow alluvial gold sent by the sand picker into an iron vessel like a dustpan, and while throwing the alluvial gold upwards, blow on the alluvial gold thrown up by Fei, so that the sand in the alluvial gold is blown to the ground, and the real alluvial gold is blown. Gold fell into iron.Sand blowing is a high technology.If the mouth is heavy, the gold will be blown away together, and the gold that falls on the ground cannot be picked up.The mouth is light, and what falls into the iron is still alluvial gold. There are four processes and four levels in the gold pan.For sand planing, those who pick sand usually only get two or three clover dollars a month.There are twice as many Taosha people.The sand pickers are twice as many as the sand washers, and the boss and those who blow sand are even higher.In the gold rush field, the income of the most labored and the most tired is inversely proportional to the income of the least labored and the lightest boss.This concept of hierarchy has a strong feudal color.But in the gold rush field, it is a matter of course. Anyone who violates the law will be severely punished.I heard that a sand scourer found a piece of dog's head gold weighing several taels during her process, and hid it without anyone noticing. , and expelled him from the gang.It is said that this kind of person will not be wanted in other gangs.It seems that the gang rules are still very strict.But who knows how much gold those bosses have been greedy for alone, and who will fire her?The law of help is also only for common people, not for state officials. In addition to the ranks in the gang in the gold rush field, there is also the supreme ruler of the gold field, that is, the big boss of the gold field.The big boss rules the entire gold field where he is located, and the monarch in a country implements a centralized system of power.The thugs hired by the Fu army in the hands of the big leader have earth holes dug by the prison, which are black, dirty and full of maggots.Some bosses and gold diggers who do not obey the rules have the right to be punished, ranging from monetary fines to severe physical punishment, or being kicked out of the gold field.If the amount of money stolen is large and the circumstances are serious, those who steal gold will be sentenced to severe punishment, or even executed.Corporal punishment is usually stripped naked and displayed to the public for 3 days, and all money is withheld. Those who commit the death penalty usually keep their heads secret when enforcing the law.When the head is ready to execute someone, this person will suddenly disappear from the gang. Most of the missing people are either thrown into the bottom of the cliff, or buried alive in a place in the desert where no one can find them.Therefore, all the gold diggers on the gold pan, including the bosses of the various gangs, are afraid of big money.The main income of a lot of people comes from the gold panning in the first month of the new buddy, which is called head fee.In addition, the monthly tribute paid by the bosses of each gang, just these two sums of income, is enough to make Datou the richest man in the entire gold mining field. But in many crowds, many men can also be found.Li Li told me quietly that these people were all hired by their big gold digger.Some of them are faces of big bosses, and some are thugs who specialize in helping big bosses rule Haijinchang.These men are doing evil in this woman's country, doing all kinds of bad things.Whichever woman they want to sleep with, you can't escape the night.Every gold digger is unwilling: they not only punish them physically, but also confiscate their money.Everyone is here to spend money and release money, and money is the lifeblood, so those who refuse to obey at first have to be at the mercy of these beasts. Li Li sighed: "Women, this is the fate!" I feel sad.But it seems that everyone is not particularly disgusted by this.Because I saw that the Jinchang people and women were still talking and laughing with those wicked men. Li Li smiled more knowledgeably than me: Most of them are married people.Can people who are used to eating dizzy not panic if they don’t eat for too long? She said it so that people blush.But thinking about what she said might make sense.I heard earlier that no gold field is closed on the issue of sex.Sexual openness is a major feature of all gold panning fields.This is precisely because the Gold Rush Field is a very single and dull restricted area. The country of women in the western gold rush is such a world where blood and tears, hope and destruction, pursuit and dreams, fragrant flowers and green plums coexist!