Digging for Jade in Hotan: The Entire Riverbed Is My Mine

In the 1990s, he answered the call to support development in the borderlands. Live off the mountains if you live by the mountains, live off the water if you live by the water, and mine jade if you live by jade. Su Yang was reborn into a family relocated from Hotan and became a good-for-nothing young man. After wasting half his life, he now wanted to earn an honest living and make a better life for himself. The ancient riverbeds on the Gobi Desert, the old channels beneath the Kunlun Mountains. The new oases by the Tarim, the verdant treetops among the Tianshan ridges. They're all my mines. “Yangzi, we sell jade by the piece. Why are you selling it by the pound?” “Second Aunt, because the entire riverbed is my mine.”