78: Chapter Seventy-Eight: Boss Zhao is a real braggart!

"Hahaha, absolutely. We aren't here to sightsee, so why wouldn't we dig?"

Zheng Jing responded with a smile.

Boss Zhao wore an expression of 'the student is teachable': "That's right!"

Zheng Jing was very "receptive to advice," but he didn't ignore the details.

He picked up the metal detector and slowly swept it back and forth against the inner wall of the pit, pretending to carefully check the spot based on the alarm signal, before picking up his small hoe to dig along the left wall of the pit.

Even though he knew exactly what was buried underground and where it was, he acted out the whole scene to deceive others!

Sometimes, Zheng Jing felt that he was a natural-born actor!

According to the system's prompt, the silver was located more than 70 centimeters underground. He had already dug down about 50 centimeters while digging for milk roots earlier, so now he just needed to dig another ten or twenty centimeters along the left wall to get his hands on the silver block hidden deep in the soil!

Thinking of that shiny white silver, Zheng Jing was instantly filled with motivation, and he couldn't help but increase the force of his digging.

With such efficiency, it didn't take long before the edge of a silver block, coated in thick yellow mud, was revealed.

Although he had dug up good things many times before, Zheng Jing couldn't help but feel excited when he saw this impressively sized piece of silver!

He roughly estimated that it weighed at least over 40 grams—another 700 or 800 yuan in the bag!

Counting what he had already found, his earnings this morning had already exceeded 5,000!

Taking advantage of the depth of the pit for cover, Zheng Jing quickly stuffed the entire silver block into his pocket to hide it, then pulled out a tiny piece of silver scrap weighing only a little over a gram, which he had prepared beforehand, and casually buried it in the loose soil on the surface of the pit.

After doing this, he deliberately cursed: "Damn it!"

The others who were exploring could hear the anger in his voice from far away and all gathered around.

Guo Jianjun stretched his neck and looked around: "Jingzi, what did you dig up? It wouldn't happen to be scrap iron, would it?"

"It's not scrap iron..." Zheng Jing shook his head, picked up the tiny bit of silver scrap from the surface, and said with a face full of disappointment: "But it's not much better, damn it. I wasted all this effort just to dig out this little bit of silver—maybe a gram or two at most."

Guo Jianjun was left speechless, laughing and crying at the same time, when he heard that Zheng Jing was cursing just because he was unhappy with the weight of the silver scrap.

"You brat, you're just showing off while having it good. I haven't even touched a single hair all morning and I haven't complained, yet you're digging up silver and making a fuss? If you don't want it, give it to me."

Zheng Jing scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly: "Actually, I don't mind the small amount of silver. It's just that when you said 'good things are buried deep,' I took it to heart. I kept fantasizing that there was gold buried underneath, so my expectations were sky-high, and then reality gave me a reality check."

Hearing him say this, the others couldn't help but laugh.

Good grief, you believed that offhand comment? Is gold that easy to dig up? You're dreaming!

However, as teammates in Gold Panning, they naturally wouldn't directly discourage Zheng Jing, who was a semi-newbie.

So, they all smiled and comforted him: "In our line of Gold Panning, it's all about luck. It's common for the detector to be silent for half the day. It's hard enough to get a signal, and when you finally dig it up, it's often just scrap metal. Being able to find silver scrap is already pretty good."

"That's right, we often dig holes all day and only find wire and nails, not even a bit of silver..."

"Yeah, you dig and dig without a sound..."

"Be content and you'll always be happy, brother! A piece of silver scrap is worth ten or twenty yuan. Ten pieces is over a thousand, one hundred pieces is almost a hundred million. Then you'll reach the pinnacle of life, marry a beautiful, wealthy woman—wouldn't that be wonderful?"

Looking at Boss Zhao, who was talking nonsense with a straight face, everyone was momentarily speechless.

Guo Jianjun rolled his eyes at him: "Everyone run! Being an idiot is a virus, it's contagious..."

"Hahaha..." "Hahaha!" Zheng Jing and Zhao the Second burst into laughter simultaneously.

With Guo Jianjun and Boss Zhao, those two clowns, singing along with each other, the boring and monotonous Gold Panning work suddenly became a lot more fun.

After smoking a cigarette and chatting for a while, the group scattered again, holding their metal detectors to explore the hillsides they had each chosen.

Zheng Jing tossed a nail into the pit he had just dug, then filled it back with mud and stones, tamping it down firmly!

As for Boss Zhou and his crew, Zheng Jing had no idea whether they would eventually encounter these traps he had left behind.

But regardless, digging a pit is definitely much more tiring than filling one back in!

His group only spent a negligible amount of effort, but if Boss Zhou and his crew really crossed the line and detected it, they would have to exhaust themselves digging for half a day.

And the cruelest part was that after they spent a lot of energy and patience, full of anticipation that they would strike gold or silver and get rich, all they would ever dig up was a pile of scrap metal.

Once or twice is fine, but after many times, their mentality would completely collapse!

Their confidence in Gold Panning and their sense of luck would both be greatly diminished—or, as the saying goes, it would affect their 'Dao heart'!

Whether it was a change of fortune or the fact that one's luck doesn't stay bad forever, just as Zheng Jing finished dealing with the trap for Boss Zhou and his crew, Guo Jianjun's metal detector in the distance suddenly beeped frantically.

The piercing alarm sound instantly broke the dullness; for those in Gold Panning, this was undoubtedly the most wonderful sound in the world.

The Zhao Brothers, who had been a bit dispirited after not finding anything for half a day, immediately perked up when they heard this, and even pulled Zheng Jing along as they all gathered around Guo Jianjun.

They hadn't detected anything for a while and needed some excitement.

"Hahaha!" Guo Jianjun laughed loudly: "It's finally my turn! This time it shouldn't be a piece of scrap iron again, right?"

Zhao the Second immediately chimed in to bring him good luck: "It won't be, Jianjun. It's your turn to strike it rich."

"That's right, wishing you gold!" Zheng Jing and Boss Zhao also said one after another.

"Alright, thank you for your kind words. If I really dig up gold, I'll treat you all to a drink!"

Guo Jianjun replied, picked up his small hoe, and bent down to dig.

Zheng Jing stood to the side and watched clearly.

Guo Jianjun's way of digging and Gold Panning was completely different from his own!