Chapter Twenty-Three: Cancareme

Great Dan Lord?!

The miners present only felt that their brains were booming, and they originally wanted to look at it, and their eyes suddenly drooped, and they fell to the ground regardless of it.

"Lord Great Dan!"

They shouted.

The overseers also knelt down, if not like the miners, but at least they all hit their heads on the ground.

Old Madam Xie stood still, not because of the sudden kneeling in front of her, but because of the sound of the Great Dan Lord.

Since her daughter Xie Yuan gave birth to a daughter and officially took over as Lord Dan, she no longer appeared in front of people, and she had never been to the mine before, and it was the first time to see these miners shouting in unison for Lord Dan.

No, she had seen it, it was when she was in office, she would personally visit the miners as the new Dannu, and when she was younger, she followed her mother.

It's just that it was decades ago, and she hasn't been in the mines since then, and she hasn't seen these miners so closely.

"What are you doing in the mines? If it's dirty and messy, you can make a good sacrifice and order a good mine, and we will do the rest. ”

The elders and brothers in the family all said so.

In fact, what Dan Nu can do is sacrifice, as for the point of ore and sand identification, it is a face job, and sand can still be learned, and point ore beneficiation and look at the mine, it is completely a look, maybe the Dan girls in ancient times can do it, but she can't do it, her mother can't do it, and her grandmother can't do it.

It's not like she's never heard of such a prostration, such a title, at home, when she sees those big shopkeepers and big foremen, every time she sacrifices when she was young, she is tired of hearing it in her life. But why did it suddenly feel a little different this time?

Her eyes looked at the miners kneeling on the ground, they were trembling with excitement, and some were crying.

Old Madam Xie walked over slowly.

"Get up." She said.

The overseers scrambled to their feet, but the miners didn't seem to hear it, and knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"Get out of here." The overseers yelled, picking up their whips to drive away.

"What are you doing?" Old Madam Xie asked.

"Old lady, they lowly people, rushed into the old lady." The overseers said.

Lowly people.

Cinnabar is the condensation of the essence and blood of the mountain gods, and the miners who mine the cinnabar from the mountains are the sinners who violate the mountain gods. They are burdened with sin. So it's a lowly person.

And the Great Witch is the one who appeases the mountain gods and eliminates their sins, so he is regarded as a god and benefactor by the miners.

Old Madam Xie looked at the eyes in front of her, and the afterglow of the setting sun was fading. Torches have been lit in the valley. The light of the fire was white. The dark-skinned, old, and thin miners lying on the ground were like black ants.

The song sung by Xie Roujia rang in her ears.

"The ants on the ground want to move, and the adults passing by don't step on me, they only move for their sons and daughters."

She knows the song. This trumpet song was originally a sacrificial song in ancient times, expressing their humility and prayers to the mountain gods, who came to offend the mountain gods in order to support their families, hoping that the mountain gods and passing gods would raise their feet high and let them go.

"I'm here for them, and the existence of our Xie family's great witches is also for them." Old Madam Xie said, "How could they rush me." ”

The overseers looked at each other.

This......

After hesitating, Old Madam Xie had already walked up to these miners and sat on a mountain rock casually.

"Get up." She said again.

Only then did the miners get up cautiously, but they still didn't dare to stand up straight, and looked at Old Madam Xie with a hunched body.

More people didn't dare to glance at Old Madam Xie until this time, their eyes were curious and excited, while the old miner led by him was only excited, obviously he recognized Old Madam Xie.

"Have you seen me?" Old Madam Xie asked with a smile, "What's your name?" ”

The old miner fell to his knees again.

"Lord Dan, old slave Haimu." He said in a trembling voice, "The old slave has seen you, you came to the mine with the old Dan master when you were a child. ”

Old Dan Lord?

It was her mother, Xie Shan.

At that time, I was Xie Roujia's age.

"You were only thirteen or fourteen years old, were you? How will you remember me? Old Madam Xie said with a smile.

Haimu prostrates.

"The old slave was eight years old at the time." He said.

That is, now he is in his forties? Smaller than yourself? It looks like he's old like his father, because of his years of hard work.

Old Madam Xie didn't speak.

“…… Later, you became a priestess, and you also came to the mine, and a few years ago, your car passed by the mine, and the old slave was fortunate to see it. Hai Mu continued, raised his head and looked at Old Madam Xie boldly, with tears in his eyes with excitement, "Lord Dan, you are the same as when you were a child, you have not changed. ”

Old Madam Xie laughed.

She reached out and touched her face.

"It's the same as when I was a child, I'm old." She said.

"No, no, Lord Great Dan, your spirit is the same as before." Haimu said.

Spirit....

She couldn't remember what her spirit had been like herself.

Old Madam Xie smiled.

"What are you doing?" She asked.

"We're eating, we're eating." Haimu said.

The other miners nodded their heads as well.

Eating, Mrs. Xie looked to the side, and sure enough, she saw a lot of bowls thrown on the ground, as well as black things rolling down.

"Old lady! Old lady! ”

The voice of the chief overseer came, and with the panicked footsteps, a group of people hurried over.

"Why are you here?" The chief overseer saluted, excited and nervous.

He knew that Mrs. Xie had come to Yushan, and there was nothing strange about it, the old ladies and ladies of the Xie family would come to Yushan, or play, or escape the summer, but Yushan was just Yushan, and it had nothing to do with the mine, they would not set foot in the mine.

What's going on, old lady? Suddenly came over for the big night?

"You are?" Old Madam Xie frowned and looked at him.

"Little Liao Chengcheng." The chief overseer hurriedly gave a salute and added. "Little father Liao Zhengtian."

Old Madam Xie sighed.

"I don't know." She said.

"Yes, yes, the little father is humble and lowly, where can I see the old lady's eyes." Supervisor Liao said.

Old Madam Xie ignored him and continued to look at the miners.

"You're eating?" She said, "I didn't eat either, so I'll eat with you." ”

The Grand Overseer is a clever man.

"Old lady, our food here is really shabby, old lady, you are expensive, how can you..."

"I don't eat much." Old Madam Xie interrupted him and said. "You don't need to prepare anything else. I'll just eat the same as them. ”

"How can that be?" Several overseers blurted out.

Old Madam Xie looked at them.

"Why not?" "Is it because I don't work that I can't eat?" she asked. ”

She laughed as she spoke.

No one in the room thought it was funny.

"Of course not, these ......," said a small overseer, opening his mouth to speak. Truncated by the Grand Overseer.

"I can eat it." The Grand Overseer shouted. "Old lady, you can eat naturally. You can eat as much as you want, and if it weren't for you, you wouldn't be able to eat in this mine. ”

Old Madam Xie smiled. Reach out.

"Come on, give me a bowl of rice." She said, looking at the large rice buckets among the miners.

"Old lady, wait a minute, wait a minute, the food there is cold." The overseer said, "I'll let them heat it up and bring it back." ”

Old Madam Xie nodded and didn't care.

The chief overseer hurriedly waved his hand, and a group of overseers rushed over, frantically picked up the rice bucket and cake basket and left.

"Master Liao, really let the old lady eat this?" An overseer asked in a trembling voice.

The overseer slapped him on the head.

"You're stupid, do you eat this kind of food?" He whispered.

The overseer looked at the bucket that had been pulled over, emitting a rancid smell, and shook his head hurriedly.

"Bring us the food we ate." The Grand Overseer whispered.

"Then we won't have enough for so many people to eat." The overseer said in embarrassment.

The Grand Overseer raised his hand again and slapped him.

"Add some water!" He shouted in a low voice, "It's rare, it's a human eat!" ”

The overseers were in a hurry.

"Ask for clean dishes and chopsticks." The girl came and whispered orders.

The chief supervisor responded and went to find clean dishes and chopsticks, and the girl took the hot water and scalded it herself several times, and then walked back with it, and the food was also delivered.

Big barrels of broth, big bones piled high.

"Old lady, it's shabby." The chief overseer personally served soup to the old lady, and said nervously, "All of us in the mine are sinners, so we don't dare to eat and drink too well." ”

Old Madam Xie took it with a smile and tasted it.

"Those who work hard can be fishy and thoughtful." She said.

Look at the miners over there, holding bowls in their hands, looking at the big bones handed in front of them motionless, seemingly sluggish.

"You eat too." Old Madam Xie said with a smile.

The miners were still hesitant.

"Eat it!" The overseer on the side couldn't help but shout, with a little warning.

The shouting made the miners come back to their senses and look at each other.

"Eat, eat, eat." Haimu said, taking the lead and grabbing a large bone first.

The miners rushed up, and the broth was too cold to drink, holding the bones and gnawing fiercely.

The overseers' faces were ugly.

"That's how people who work, they eat and drink vulgarly." The chief overseer squeezed out a smile and said to Old Madam Xie.

Old Madam Xie didn't speak, looked at the gobbling miners, and slowly drank the broth in her hand.

Before I finished eating a bowl of rice, there was a lot of noise outside the valley, and it turned out that someone was looking for it.

"Old lady, why did you come here! The old lady is in a hurry to hang herself at home! ”

Old Madam Xie snorted, looked at the sky, and put down the dishes and chopsticks.

"Eat." She looked at the miners who were hurriedly kneeling down to see each other off.

The miners did not dare to get up, and Mrs. Xie no longer insisted and left in the crowd.

Listening to the chariots and horses go away, the overseers in the valley let out a sigh and wiped the sweat from their foreheads.

"Why did the old lady come here?" Everyone couldn't help but say again, "But something that has never happened before, it's really scary." ”

"Will it come in the future?" Someone asked.

These words made everyone's sweat come out again.

The overseer's gaze turned to the field, and he saw the miners gobbling up the bone broth again, and he was immediately angry.

"Fuck it back! Get up for me, work and work! They swarmed up and roared angrily.

The miners suddenly became a mess and got up to dodge, but there were also many people who were carrying the falling leather whips, holding the bones in their hands and refusing to let go, gnawing over and over again.

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At the foot of the mountain, a group of miners put on their fur hats and installed lanterns, ready to enter the mine.

The old man in the queue, Haimu, coughed a few times, and someone squeezed over to support him.

"Daddy." The young man shouted in a low voice.

Haimu looked at the visitors, and the young man looked worried under the light of the torches lit on all sides.

"You go back." He whispered, "I'll do it for you." ”

"Brother An!" The overseer next to him saw it and shouted with a whip, "What are you doing?" ”

Angoli looked at the overseer.

"I'm going to do it for my father." He said.

"For? You are already a person in our mine, and you have to work, so how can you replace it! The overseer shouted, waving his whip in his hand.

"I do the day job." "I worked as a night worker for my father. ”

In other words, he works day and night work.

The overseer raised an eyebrow, and Haimu grabbed Ango's arm.

"Brother An, no, this is going to kill people!" He said, smiling again, "Tonight, thanks to the blessing of Lord Dadan, I have a full meal, and I have strength. ”

"Dad, it's not a matter of being full or hungry, you're sick, at least I can't survive for a day or two." Brother An said, "But if you do it tonight, Dad, you won't be able to live." ”

So saying, he reached out and took off his father's fur hat and lamp cluster, turned and strode up the hill.

With the sound of the overseers' whips, the winding queues surged upwards in the light of the torches on the steep mountain roads on both sides, like black lines drawn on pale drawings.

Lao Haimu did not leave and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the team that went away could not tell which was his son, but he still looked at it seriously.

"Brother An, I'll send you out." He muttered.

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