Ning Yuan put down the stone in his hand and smiled faintly: "I want to take my brother with me, but I can't afford to take two stones of six hundred catties." ”

The steward's brows furrowed, and he pondered for a moment, but he still shook his head and refused: "There are many people who come to work here, and I don't need to bring a burden for you." ”

"But we only need one man's salary! Shopkeeper you guys are very cost-effective! Tong Xiaoye was stunned for a moment, and added dissatisfiedly.

They have all suffered so much, why are the people in charge still unwilling?

Unexpectedly, the steward smiled: "Child, the caravan we went to the mine was the worst silver." ”

Everyone also laughed, and someone shouted in the back: "The front, whether to go or not, if you don't go, hurry up and dodge, don't waste time there!" ”

Ning Yuan saw that the steward disagreed, gritted his teeth, and was about to increase the chips, but Tong Xiaoye stopped him and said crisply: "The one in charge, I'm not a burden!" ”

So he got up and went to move the stone on the ground.

In the surprised eyes of everyone, she gritted her teeth and actually lifted the stone.

It's just that the move is indeed a little reluctant, and after staggering for a while, the stone slams heavily on the ground.

Still can't do it!

Tong Xiaoye sighed in her heart, the volley step she cultivated was considered a physical cultivation method, and while her speed increased, her body quality had also improved greatly, and her body shape had changed a lot compared to before.

The weather in the north is cold, her petite figure and thick clothes are worn, so others can't see it for the time being, in fact, under the thick clothes, her arms and calves are thicker than her peers, and she has tight muscles at a glance, and it is absolutely impossible to wear a short skirt in summer.

Luckily, I don't need to wear a short skirt these days.

The only thing that can comfort me is that the main effect of the volley step is to remove impurities from the body and exercise the ultimate speed, unlike other physical exercises that rely on weightlifting, so Tong Xiaoye's muscles are not too outrageous, and with the discharge of impurities from the body, her skin is much whiter than before.

Her strength was not small, and she had been practicing day and night for two months, and her strength was even more amazing, but she didn't expect that she still couldn't hold a stone weighing three hundred catties.

I had just tried my best to move the stone, and my body was still empty.

Ning Yuan's distressed Tong Xiaoye took it in his arms and said very sincerely: "Shopkeeper, my younger brother is not yet nine years old, I am afraid that he will hurt his body by doing coolies so early, so I don't want him to go to the mine, but you can also see that he is definitely not a burden." ”

This kid, who is only eight or nine years old, can lift a stone weighing 300 pounds!

The steward's eyes were surprised, staring at Ning Yuan's handsome face and hesitating for a moment, as if he had thought of something, so he nodded and let him know.

Ning Yuan told him again, Tong Xiaoye didn't go to the mine to do chores, and he agreed very happily.

Tong Xiaoye was a little strange, but thinking that his brother and sister had nothing to be used, he happily took the paperwork with Ning Yuan and prepared to leave the coolie market.

"Shopkeeper, please let me go, I only accept four hundred taels of silver, not three hundred taels!"

There was a bitter pleading sound behind him, Tong Xiaoye looked back, it was the thin man who had just lined up behind him, he yelled, and struggled to move the stone again, but it was moved, but it didn't last three seconds and it fell.

This level is not even as good as Tong Xiaoye.

"You can't do this, we are recruiting miners, not opening a good church." The steward waved his hand impatiently, and shouted to the back, "Next, hurry up!" ”

The middle-aged man still didn't give up, crying and kneeling on the ground and shouting: "Shopkeeper, just let me go, I haven't eaten for two days, I can definitely move when I'm full, you believe me!" ”

The steward's eyes didn't squint, and the people behind him went up one by one, and no one paid attention to him at all.

Tong Xiaoye looked a little sad, remembering that this man was quite concerned about him just now, so he stepped forward and threw down a piece of broken silver: "Uncle, you go back and come back after a full meal, don't worry." ”

After that, he ignored the man's gratitude, and followed Ning Yuan and left the bazaar directly.

In order to save costs, the caravan recruited enough coolies to set off for the mines, so Tong Xiaoye's siblings had to wait in Tongzhou for a while.

"Mining for ten years, including 1,000 taels of silver, and 100 taels a year, more than the income of the most popular Oiran in Baihualou, it's actually quite cost-effective!"

Sitting on the bed of the inn, Tong Xiaoye looked at the paperwork seriously, staring at the huge remuneration on it and drooling.

"The premise of one thousand taels is that you can come back alive in ten years, like those who sold themselves and took the silver first, signed a death deed, and only gave five hundred taels of silver."

Ning Yuan sneered, and sighed again: "There are so many people who go every year, and even one-tenth of them come back alive after ten years, and those who sign the living deed are equivalent to working for ten years in vain. ”

"Then brother, how did you come back last time?" Tong Xiaoye remembered that Ning Yuan was covered with injuries when he came back, and asked curiously.

"There was a mining accident, and I couldn't go back, and I didn't dare to accept it in other mines, so I could only come to Tongzhou to recruit workers again, thinking that I hadn't seen you for a long time, so I went back to the capital first."

Ning Yuan didn't want to elaborate, but Tong Xiaoye didn't give up, and blinked his big eyes and pretended to be cute: "Brother, but you were injured in the capital!" ”

"You girl, why are you so curious!"

Ning Yuan patted her head angrily, knowing that this girl would be foolish if he didn't finish speaking, so he had to explain: "I escorted an old eunuch back together, and when he arrived in the capital, he wanted to kill me, but I killed him, but he was injured at that time, and the volley step exercise was also derived from him." ”

Tong Xiaoye knew that Ning Yuan was hiding a lot of details, but he didn't want to ask again, so he pinched his ears angrily and went to meditate and cultivate in bed.

It's also strange to say, she can't always get started when she cultivates the internal strength of the volley step, and she will fall asleep when she meditates, but there is no problem at all in cultivating the Nine Transformations Fusion Yuan Gong that Ning Yuan passed on to her, although she still can't feel much spiritual power, but she can enter the legendary state of concentration, and between cultivation, she can also feel that there is a spiritual energy that is nourishing the body.

And she could feel that the spirit stone in her hand was also gradually getting smaller.

Ning Yuan was also puzzled by this, and said to himself in confusion: "Could it be that the exercises inherited by our family are only suitable for people with poor qualifications?" The ancestor who achieved great achievements back then was the waste wood qualification of the five spirit roots, and the later small achievements of the characters were also pseudo spirit roots, but none of the good qualifications entered the Yuan infant stage. ”

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