Listening to Wen Feichen's words, Ming Zhao didn't laugh like him, he looked at the bronze shop opposite, his face gloomy. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"What's wrong with you?" Wen Feichen poked his elbow.

Yu Heng hooked his lips and smiled, "I guess I was scared by my brother, right?"

"Yes," Ming Zhao nodded, "I was really scared by him! I didn't expect him to be such a person behind him, how could my father never find out?"

"Because he can pretend! It's not just that he doesn't touch the woman your father gave, but he is always modest, simple, and upright in front of your father, so he has been in the position of the prince for so many years. But your father may have discovered something recently, otherwise your brother wouldn't have imprisoned him. ”

"Then I'm going to expose his true colors!" Ming Zhao stood up and prepared to leave the tea shop.

Wen Feichen hurriedly stopped him, "Where are you going?"

"I'll also go to the bronze shop across the street to buy something and see what they're up to!"

"It's useless, you can't even enter the door without an acquaintance's introduction. Do you think that the guy standing at the door was idle and bored and had been there? ”

"What then?"

"It's better to cut down trees than to dig up roots, and let's go straight to the copper mines! A normal bronze shop can't eat all the copper that comes out of a mine, let alone this kind of fake shop? Let's first find out where the other copper goes. ”

The three of them immediately left the tea shop, returned to Sihaitong to say a word, and then rode to Guo Qing's copper mountain. They were all accustomed to riding horses, and it only took one day to reach the foot of the copper mountain.

"Then we have to walk, and we can only leave the horse at the inn. The mountain was very well guarded, so we went up the mountain first and waited until it was dark before we mixed into the mine. ”

Ming Zhao and Wen Feichen both nodded, of course this kind of thing is to listen to Yuheng, a veteran.

The three of them dressed up as Orions and went up the Copper Mountain from a sparsely populated path. It had just rained heavily and the road was slippery, so the three of them walked very carefully.

"Oops!" Wen Feichen didn't pay attention, stepped on a stone that had been loosened by the rain, and then the whole person rolled to the bottom of the slope.

Yu Heng and Ming Zhao were startled and hurriedly chased down from both sides. Fortunately, there was a muddy ground under the soil slope, and the ground was soft after the rain, so although Wen Feichen fell, he was not injured.

"Senior brother, are you alright?"

"I'm fine! Ouch!" Wen Feichen lay on the ground, holding his waist and screaming, he fell from such a height, although he was not injured, he was still shocked, and his waist hurt a little.

He saw that Ming Zhao and Yuheng were about to come down to save themselves, and hurriedly waved his hand, "No need to come down, it's all soft mud here, I'm fine, I'll be able to get up if I slow down." With that, he struggled to get up, and suddenly, his foot touched something, which seemed to be a little soft, and it didn't seem to be a rock.

"What is this?" Wen Feichen squatted down and poked a little bit of white on the ground, which was a little soft, he was startled, and hurriedly found a branch from the side to remove the mud next to it.

His eyes widened as the mud was removed, "Oh my God......! Manpower!"

Ming Zhao and Yu Heng saw him squatting on the ground to pick up the mud, and were about to call him, when they suddenly heard his exclamation, and hurriedly flew down to him.

I saw a human hand exposed in the soil, it didn't look like an adult, it was estimated that it was buried here, and the rain was too heavy in the past two days, which washed away the mud on the surface, so it was exposed.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Wen Feichen hurriedly apologized, "I'm sorry to disturb you, let's go!"

"Wait!" Yu Heng crouched down and continued to use the twig to pluck the mud, revealing the corpse a little more.

"What are you doing? If a man dies like a lamp going out, don't disturb him, let him rest here in peace!"

Yu Heng looked back at him with a smile, "I didn't expect Gongzi Wen to be such a kind-hearted person." However, I'm sure the guy lying here would love me to dig him up. ”

"Why?"

"Because he died unexpectedly!"

When Ming Zhao and Wen Feichen heard this, they hurriedly stepped forward to look at the corpse that had been basically dug up. It looked like a boy of twelve or thirteen years old, and it should have been less than two days since he died, and the body had just begun to decompose, and he could basically see the original appearance.

"How could a child die here? Could it be that he went up the mountain to chop wood and fell to his death?"

"If you look at his hands, he has deep calluses on his mouth, and his hands are full of scars, and there are copper-yellow mineral sands between his fingernails, which means that he is a miner. ”

"No," Ming Zhao looked at the skinny boy, "such an old child, how to be a miner?"

Yu Heng stood up, "The answer to this question won't be known until we enter the mine!

Ming Zhao nodded, "Then let's hurry to the mine!"

"No!" Yu Heng pointed to the sun that had just reached overhead, "We need to find a place to rest for a while, and then we can go to the mine until it gets dark." ”

After dark, the three of them used their light body skills and quietly touched the mine. Although it was dark at the moment, the mine was still a lively scene.

Dozens of wellheads are mining at the same time, and from time to time a basket of ore is hoisted from the wellhead, and then a special person in charge of carrying the ore is sent to the smelting furnace. Each of the miners looked very thin and tired, their faces expressionless, as if they were just walking dead.

"Tut-tut...... It's better to meet than to be famous!" Yu Heng shook his head, "Such a good mine is actually occupied by Guo Qing alone, if you want to say that there is no one behind him, the ghost will not believe it!"

Ming Zhao nodded, Master Gan had taught him this kind of thing, the ore transported from the well was of good quality, and this mine could open several *** at the same time, which shows that this mine is indeed very rich in copper ore.

"It turns out that there really is a child who is a miner!" Wen Feichen looked at a child who was bent over and desperately carrying a basket of ore, this child was only eleven or twelve years old.

"This child was either reduced to a slave after committing a crime in the family, and then was secretly brought here by the crown prince. Either they got it back from the Fang Kingdom below. ”

"Let's go, let's go to the refining furnace and have a look!" Ming Zhao took the lead and touched the refining furnace.

The three of them quietly touched the side of the furnace, only to see that the smoke on the tall furnace was filled, the firewood below was burning, people kept adding ore to the furnace, and the copper smelted was constantly coming out from the other side.

"Hurry up, sort the copper, and send it to the Bronze Workshop, and the better one to the Armory!" a man who looked like an overseer yelled at the miners who were toiling.

The miners were busy sorting it, and most of the copper was placed on carts ready to be sent to the armory workshop.

Ming Zhao and Wen Feichen looked at each other, "It turns out that those coppers are used to practice weapons!"