Hotan, known as Khotan in ancient times, means "a place where jade is produced" in Tibetan language, and is about 280 kilometers away from the sand truck.

Few Chinese people who grow locally don’t know the reputation of Hotan mutton fat jade.

After staying in the sand cart for more than ten days, Cai Hongming was idle and thought that since he was so close to Hotan, he might as well find a few pieces of jade there, and maybe he could make a fortune. Karwang's second son also happened to go back to run the jade business, so he wanted to go with him. But when he told Ji Dong and the others about this idea, he was despised by them.

"Brother Hong, we should be down-to-earth. Don't just have such daydreams."

Pan Haimin said earnestly. He had the most experience of this kind of thing. When he was not in the army, he always ran to the mountain to dig ginseng with a whim, hoping to dig a wild ginseng tree from then on, but his idea was good, but the reality was cruel. Not to mention ginseng, he had been searching on the mountain intermittently for several years, killing rabbits, catching flying dragons, scaring wild wolves, seeing blind bears, and sighting Siberian tigers, but he didn't even see a single hair.

"Brother Hong, let's take a shower and go to bed!" Li Chun also advised.

"In fact, this jade is not difficult to find, it's mainly based on luck."

Cai Hongming was a little discouraged by the two of them. At this time, Murong Hua suddenly spoke and pulled him, and couldn't help but give him a grateful look. Unfortunately, he ignored it at all, and said that he was wrong.

Murong Hua said: "I have a comrade-in-arms. His brother used to be serving here. Once, he was lucky when he was on patrol. He found a piece of stone jade on the road and sold it for 80,000 yuan. According to him, if he is lucky, he can get rich overnight as long as he digs a piece of jade. Bufan digs a piece of jade here and goes home to marry his wife to build a house."

"Really?" Li Chun's eyes widened when he heard this.

"Of course, but it also requires luck and eyesight. Someone can't dig a good piece of jade in their lifetime. Don't look at the priceless jade. I don't know how many people die in Hetian every year because of picking jade."

"No! It's just looking for something, as for it's so dangerous?"

"You think finding jade is so simple as picking up stones on the roadside! If it is that simple, it wouldn't be so expensive. There are mainly two jade-producing rivers in Hotan, one is the Yulong Kashgar River and the other is the Karakashgar River. These two rivers originating from Kunlun Mountain rush the jade material that breaks away from the rocks on the mountain from the mountain to the river bank below. In the past, you can find it by walking around with your luck. Later, if you don't have to dig, you can use dig. Now, there are fewer ones that can be dug, so you can use machinery to dig. Sometimes you may not be able to dig a good piece of jade if you dig for a day.

There is no jade below, so the people who pick jade can only look for it at the source of the river, and then they have to enter the mountain. Generally, they have to bring food for ten days and half a month or a month to eat and live on the mountain so that they can avoid running back and forth.

The climate on the mountain is changing. Rain and snow are ruthless, and you can encounter any danger. Sometimes you may even lose your bones in a blink of an eye. The altitude of thousands of meters high on the mountain may not be found with a telescope. However, as long as you are lucky, you can find a good piece of jade and sell it for tens of millions of yuan. So even if you are in danger, many people still come from the mainland of coasts to dig jade every year. This is also the psychology of a gambler, who wants to get rich overnight."

"Wan'er's second uncle is a typical example of getting rich overnight."

Cai Hongming continued Murong Hua's words and said, "In the past, this vineyard was planted by Wan'er's second uncle. Later, he felt that he could not earn much money to plant grapes and then went to dig jade. He was lucky. In a while, he was asked to dig a piece of jade material worth more than 20 kilograms and sold it for millions. But he was not so lucky. After digging for a long time, he simply contracted a pile of land and hired people to dig machinery, and he specialized in selling jade in the store. Now his business is getting bigger and bigger, and he is one of the best jade merchants in Hotan. How about it, do you want to go?"

Li Chun and the others didn't want to go there, so they would rather go home early than go there when they ran so far to dig jade. Now, hearing what he and Murong Hua said, I couldn't help but feel itchy, so I nodded and agreed.

"What should I do if the yak?" Chen Dashan asked.

"Take it over and we walk from Hotan Airport when we go back to avoid running back and forth."

After discussing it, things were settled.

The next day, Cai Hongming and Shi Wan'er went to Karwang to say goodbye. Karwang couldn't bear to leave Shi Wan'er, but sometimes he could not stay here forever, so he reluctantly went to prepare gifts for her. Finally, he took out a lot of raisins and badanmu, which were almost as many as a cart. There were also wines, which were all fine wines he had collected for more than 20 years. When Shi Wan'er said that Cai Hongming liked them, he gave him ten jars. When he gave them, he felt like he had cut his flesh.

Seeing that the old man gave so many things, Cai Hongming felt a little embarrassed to take them over, so he took out some insect tea and a few green Ganoderma trees from the blessing land in the jade tripod to give them to the old man.

Karwang sent too many things, and it was too cumbersome to take them on the road, so Cai Hongming put the wine into the blessing land of the cave in the jade tripod, packed the other things and sent them back by express delivery, and then called a trailer, carried the container of yaks, and headed to Hotan together.

Before the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were different ancient indigenous peoples such as the Indo-European and Han-Tibetan languages, including the Sai people, Qiang people, and Yuezhi people who lived here.

It was not until the Han Dynasty that Hotan was recorded in Chinese classics for the first time after Zhang Qian opened up the Western Regions.

"" records: "Yatan (Hotian) is also called Qusatanna, also called Huanna, Qudan, Beidi called Yudun, and Zhuhu called Huodan." The "Records of the Western Regions of the Great Tang Dynasty" mentioned by Xuanzang of Tang Dynasty called Hotan the country of Qusatanna: "The Tang Dynasty said that the land of the country of Qusatanna is used to refer to its elegant and elegant words. It is commonly called Hanna. The Huns called Yudun, and Zhuhu called Huodan, India called Qudan, and the formerly called Yudan, which was called "Qitanna." Also known as: "The country of Qusatanna is more than 4,000 miles apart, and most of the sandy moraines are." Qusatanna is the name of the country, which means "Land of the land of the country".

As the name suggests, the ground milk can be understood as milk in the ground or milk that emerges from the ground.

The jade color of the mutton fat in Hetian is as delicate and crystal clear as milk. A long time ago, these jades were washed down from the mountains by rivers and buried in the soil for hundreds of millions of years before being dug out of the ground. Therefore, the meaning of ground milk can be understood as a place where beautiful jade is buried.

Cross the Kunlun Mountains in the south to the northern Tibetan Plateau, connect to Bayingoleng Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in the east, penetrate deep into the hinterland of Takramakan in the north, adjacent to the Aksu region, connect to Kashgar region in the west, and border to India and Pakistan in the southwest. It is about 719 kilometers away from Islamabad, about 974 kilometers from here to New Delhi, while Kathmandu is about 1,154 kilometers.

If it weren't for the towering Kunlun Mountains next to it blocking the road and on the edge of the inland, Hotan should be used as a bridge to construct India, Pakistan and other countries, becoming an international trade port to the mainland, without having to rely solely on jade to achieve fame.

The sand cart and Hotan have a national highway. It only takes a few hours to drive. When it was almost noon, Cai Hongming and his party arrived.

There is a jade wholesale market in Hotan. Shi Wan'er, his second uncle, Akibig, has a house on the market. He built it when he had money earlier. The shops below were in business and the place was large. Even if Cai Hongming and others had a large number, they could live there.

Cai Hongming originally didn't want to disturb his house, so he planned to take Jidong and the others to stay in a hotel, but was severely taught a lesson by Akibig.

Ethnic minorities are so hospitable, and if you come here, it will make people laugh at him if it is spread. Especially Akibig is one of the best jade dealers in Hotan. If they are spread by those who are interested, their style will immediately decrease by several levels. Helplessly, Cai Hongming had to live in his house.

The Akibig family is very big. It looks like a building outside. Who knows that after walking around, he found it was a large courtyard with rockery and pool water and green bamboos in the courtyard, which made people feel like they were in Jiangnan.

Cai Hongming, Ji Dong and the others lived here. At night, Akibig roasted all the lamb in the yard to welcome the food, and the guests and guests were all happy.

In Hotan city, there will be a bazaar every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The bazaar is what we call a bazaar. At this time, jade diggers from all over the country will sell them with their own treasures, but it is said that the price is very high and many fake ones are fake.

The next day Cai Hongming came, it happened to be the Grand Bazaar. Out of curiosity, he walked towards the Grand Bazaar with Shi Wan'er and Ji Dong and others.

Akibig had been here for a long time and knew that there were many fake things in the market. He was afraid that Cai Hongming, the stupid son-in-law of the Han family and his niece who didn't understand the situation, would be deceived when he went out. When he went out, he specially called a clever guy to follow them.

The Grand Bazaar is located in the northeast corner of Hotan city, on National Highway 315.

I don’t know if it was too late. When Cai Hongming and others arrived, they found that the market was full of people. Standing in front of the market, they only saw the heads, and they couldn’t see the place where the people stood. How could they get in? Or was the guy Akibig called to have experience and took them to the side to walk a road.

This road is undoubtedly much quieter than the one they saw just now, but Cai Hongming and the others are here to play, so it doesn’t matter. Anyway, as long as there are people selling things, it’s fine.

After walking around, Cai Hongming found that the most special thing in Hotan is to sell things at kilograms, rather than the kilograms used to in the Western Xinjiang or the mainland and coastal areas. The most distinctive snacks here are barbecue kebabs, hand-pickled rice, rice sausages, and the whole roasted lamb in the market is only 15 yuan per catty. I don’t know if it is really mutton, but in other places, a bag of sheep shit is probably not the only price.

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