Gold Panning (Light on Series / Tao Jin / 淘金)

What's in your hand?

None of your business.

Where are my eight boxes of "canned yellow peaches"?

You sent RMB 1,000 home every month.

Where did you get the money?

I'm afraid the gold the team gave you every month

was not enough, right?

I sold the gold plate.

To whom?

Whoever offered the highest price.

You sold it to "Owl"?

You worked for him.

You helped him collect the river gold from those who wanted to smuggle in the Simu Goldfield,

and secretly eliminated

the gold panners who smuggled gold privately.

If I'm wrong,

open your bag to prove it.

[People want to dig gold from underground, but they don't know various evil seeds grow from there.]

Take everything.

The portholes are too close.

A tube of explosives can blow 500 kilograms.

Is he thinking straight by putting those portholes so close?

Something will happen if he does this.

The portholes are too close.

It's possible that the explosion buries us here

instead of opening the cave.

Wu,

are you sure?

You can only trust me.

I only trust myself.

Bring me the tools.

Who stabbed you?

Why didn't he kill you?

I made this knife for your mother.

Back then...

You have no right to mention her.

Let me finish my words.

After I finish,

you can take my life anytime.

If I really raped her back then,

with your mother's fierce temper,

she wouldn't have let me leave alive.

And she wouldn't have given birth to you.

All these years, I've lived a worse life than a dog.

I feel ashamed to see her.

After I find gold nuggets,

I'll go with you.

I'll make it up

to her.

She died.

When?

When I was five,

she jumped into the river.

It took three days to find her body.

Except this knife,

she left nothing.

Ma Debao,

do you think I'll believe you?

I didn't expect you to believe me.

Keep the knife.

When I get gold nuggets,

the gold and my life will all be yours.

Deal?

Everybody out.

Who is going to do it?

I'll do it myself.

Forget it.

If anything happens,

we won't have another one who knows how to open a cave.

Baojin?

It's a good name.

Auspicious.

You will do it.

Give us a good luck.

Have you ever played fireworks?

It's the same.

It's okay.

Master,

how come it has been quiet for so long?

Could they be malfunctioning explosives?

Shut up!

Ten thousand taels of gold come with the boom of explosives.

Saying malfunctioning explosives is a taboo for gold panners.

Clear the scattered stones first.

Bring in carts and baskets.

OK.

Hurry up.

The woods for support are too old.

We need to cut some new woods.

Otherwise, it will collapse.

Let Ma handle this.

He knows it.

Do as he said.

Hurry!

Hurry up.

Get more!

Hurry up.

Who is it?

It's getting late.

What's up?

The rainy season will arrive in advance this year, right?

I knew you would come.

As long as we find gold nuggets,

I'll go with you.

Anywhere.

I won't do gold panning anymore.

Are you really that desperate to find gold nuggets?

Then why did we come all the way here?

I will open the cave.

I don't care how much Shan promised to give you.

You can also have mine.

But on one condition.

Leave here immediately.

Leave tomorrow.

What?

You want to drive me away

so that you two don't have to give me the gold?

You don't believe me?

With me

between you two,

you won't turn hostile completely to each other.

When we find gold nuggets,

even blood brothers will fight against each other.

Right.

There are only interests among gold panners.

No emotional bonds.

Is Shan "Owl"?

Who is the buyer

of the deal this time?

So this is why you came here.

To ask me this question.

After what happened in the Simu Goldfield,

we are all fugitive gold panners.

It won't be easy to sell gold in the future.

I'm part of this.

Of course I want to know how you do it.

Go ask him directly.

You are gold bosses.

I'm just someone searching for mines.

Chow,

why do you do gold panning?

Let's go.

Trying to escape after hurting someone? -Go.

Stop.

Wu,

you recognize those skeletons?

I told you that

this place is a graveyard.

How did they die?

Some were killed by falling stones

or possibly buried alive.

So many people died.

Why did you agree to open the cave for them?

This way.

Liu Wu,

get Wu Jianchao here.

No need.

A bag of gold exists

where two veins intersect.

The main vein

is under the shaft.

If they dig further, more bodies will be found.

If we don't leave, more people will lose their lives.

Why do you do gold panning?

You know why.

Most gold panners

want to change their fate.

I asked your brother the same question.

He said he was changed by fate.

What else did he say?

He said he had a little brother.

He was young when he left home to serve in the army.

When he came back,

he didn't know how to get along with him anymore.

He could have got a good job.

The place was not far from our home,

and it was a decent job.

Just because I had a fight

and he hurt someone,

so he came to do gold panning in Kengma.

I ruined his life.

Do you think your brother hates me more

or hates you more?

If I were your brother,

I wouldn't blame you.

What about you?

Why do you do gold panning?

To make money.

I had a hard time getting the gold,

but nothing has changed.

I'm still poor.

And now I'm back to the Twin Ridges.

You gold panners

are like gamblers.

You can't get off once getting on the table of gambling.

Since you understand this,

you should go back.

But I'm not a gold panner.

There is no difference

in front of the gold.