Hell yes!

Xie Rouhui stood at the foot of the mountain, her face pale.

The collapse has stopped, and the choking smell of earth, rock, dust and powder between the breaths is still there.

Xie Rouhui stretched out her hand to cover her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, and hurriedly caught up with Mrs. Xie with her skirt.

The soil and stones were scattered, and the cinnabar in the incandescent sand and gravel was exposed, as if splashed with pieces of dried blood, which looked particularly infiltrating.

The injured miners rolled around, some crying, some lying still, and some holding on.

"Three collapsed wells." A few old men followed and said.

Looking at Mrs. Xie and the old men who were hurrying over, several overseers reached out to drive the injured people who were blocking the way away.

Mrs. Xie stopped.

"What for?" She frowned.

A few overseers hurriedly lowered their hands to get out of the way.

"Lord Great Dan." The miners knelt down and wept and kowtowed, "We are guilty, we are guilty." ”

Mrs. Xie looked at the miners who were wrapped in dirt, rocks, dust and sand, and had injuries on their heads and bodies, and stretched out her hand to touch the top of their heads.

The miners suddenly cried even more excitedly.

"What about the doctors?" Mrs. Xie shouted.

"The doctors in the mine are here, and the doctors from other places are also here." Xie Wenchang said hurriedly, stretched out his hand and pointed farther away, "At this time, I am being treated." ”

Mrs. Xie exhaled and stepped up again.

"How many dead and wounded?" She asked.

Xie Wenchang looked back at the other masters, and one of them walked up a few steps.

"The exact number hasn't come out yet, but there are probably twenty or thirty dead, and there are more wounded," he said.

"Why are there so many?" Mrs. Xie stood on her feet abruptly and shouted back in disbelief. "Didn't you say it was night? How could there be so many people in the mine at night? ”

Xie Roujia has banned night mining since last year, and even when there is work at night, he only does some work such as panning for sand and washing sand and transporting ore dug out during the day.

In this way, there are many fewer miners, most of whom are old and frail who cannot do daytime work, although they are not paid as much as daytime mining, but they can make a living, which is much better than waiting to die as waste.

Most of these works are done at the foot of the mountain, and the mine that collapses is very few, and even if someone happens to go to the mine to carry ore, there are only a few of them.

So when she heard that the mine had collapsed, a hint of happiness flashed in her heart. Thankfully, the mine was shut down at night. The casualties will not be too large.

But what's going on now?

Twenty or thirty? Twenty or thirty?

"You guys work at night?" Mrs. Xie raised her eyebrows and said.

Several old men glanced at each other.

"Sister-in-law." Xie Wenchang coughed lightly, took a few steps forward and lowered his voice, "There were too many stoppages in the previous period, and the supply and demand were not enough. So I've been working a little bit in the past few days..."

Mrs. Xie raised her hand and gave him a slap.

Xie Wenchang covered his face and knelt down.

The slap silenced everyone around them.

"Mother." Xie Rouhui hurriedly stepped forward. "It's no wonder they're not to blame. This mine had been in trouble before. ”

Mrs. Xie thought of what Xie Rouhui said last night, and she suddenly became even more angry.

"You know something is wrong, why don't you stop?" She shouted.

"The mine where the accident occurred stopped. Uncles and uncles have all asked people to scrutinize carefully, and the problem has been solved. Xie Rouhui said, "It's just that I didn't expect it to be solved over there, there was a problem here, even if the work is stopped tonight, it will still happen when the work starts again, no one thought that no one would want to do this, it's not a matter of not going to work at night, it's the same day and night." ”

"Miss, it's our fault, we shouldn't have stopped the entire mine, we shouldn't have checked just one mine, and we shouldn't have failed Miss's instructions." A few old men said with a look of shame.

Mrs. Xie looked at Xie Rouhui and then at these people, with some surprise in her eyes.

"Are you saying nice things to each other?" She asked.

Xie Rouhui glanced at Xie Wenchang and the others, and those people also glanced at her, and they all shook their heads hurriedly.

"Are you shirking your faults together?" Mrs. Xie asked again.

"Big lady, we don't dare." Xie Wenchang and the others bowed their heads and said.

Xie Rouhui watched Mrs. Xie kneel down.

"Mother, I don't shirk my faults, this time I didn't check it strictly, but now that the incident has happened, I ask my mother to let them deal with the aftermath first, and then talk about the guilt." She said.

Mrs. Xie glanced at her and suddenly raised her hand.

Xie Rouhui will fall on her face in the future, and she closed her eyes and heard the slap but didn't feel pain.

"Big Lady!"

There was a chaotic sound in my ears.

Mrs. Xie raised her hand again and slapped herself.

"Mother." Xie Rouhui hurriedly grabbed her arm and shouted hurriedly.

Mrs. Xie shook her off and hurried towards the collapsed mine.

Xie Rouhui stopped Xie Wenchang and the others, and raised her heels to go up.

The collapsed mine had been fenced off, and several overseers saw Mrs. Xie coming and hurriedly and cautiously blocked it.

"It's dangerous here." They said.

Mrs. Xie ignored it and was about to step in, but Xie Rouhui grabbed her.

"Mother, how can you punish yourself like this!" She said hurriedly, "It's not her fault that the mine doesn't have an accident, and it's not your fault that the mine has an accident." ”

Mrs. Xie turned to look at her.

"Not my fault? What does it mean that the mother just died? She pointed to the mine, which was no longer recognizable, "What does that mean?" This was a slap in the face that the mountain god threw at me in public. ”

As she spoke, she raised her hand to hit herself.

Xie Rouhui reached out and hugged her.

"Mother, no, she didn't make a mistake when she was there, it's just because the mine doesn't start, everyone doesn't do things, but can the mine never start and don't do things? If that's the case, let's close the mine, and it's even more foolproof. She said hurriedly, "On the contrary, it is because they let the mine not start that they are forced to rush to work day and night, and they want to make up for the loss, they have gained face, but mother, you have to bear the fault of the loss, it is not easy for you, why do you blame yourself so much." ”

Mrs. Xie looked at her.

"But, the mine collapsed." She choked up.

"If it collapses, it collapses. We're collapsing, they're collapsing, and the wrath of the mountain gods is unpredictable. Xie Rouhui said, "They don't do things easily, we do things hard, difficult, don't we do it?" Didn't my mother dare to do it? ”

It's difficult, don't you do it? I can't help but do it.

Mrs. Xie straightened up and looked at the mine behind her.

"Difficult." She said, smiling wryly again. "It's funny. I've never done anything easy since I've grown up. ”

"Mother, it's nothing, there's nothing wrong with the mine. Now we need to take care of the aftermath. Just do it all over again. Xie Rouhui said. Whether it is done well or not is not a matter of looking at the moment, but at the long term. This is just the beginning. ”

Mrs. Xie exhaled.

"Then let me see what I can do in the long run." She said, looking at Xie Rouhui, and then at Xie Wenchang and the others who were standing in the distance nervously, "It's useless to just say it nicely." ”

Watching Mrs. Xie walk away, Xie Wenchang and others hurriedly came over.

"Thank you, Miss." Everyone was grateful, "Thank you, Miss, for breaking the siege." ”

Xie Rouhui hummed without being salty.

"But don't always count on me, it's up to you to do it, you have to do it well, otherwise," she said, smiling at everyone, "I don't want my slap in the face either." ”

"Miss, don't worry, this time it was really an accident." Xie Wenchang said.

"Miss, go down quickly, and prepare a sacrifice with your wife to comfort the mountain god, and we will do the rest." The others also said respectfully.

Xie Rouhui hummed and looked at the mine behind her, and occasionally saw the hands of people in the cracks of the stones, she couldn't help frowning and covered her handkerchief tightly around her mouth and nose.

She is always asked to come to the mine, what are you doing in the mine? Sent to death?

If I had come yesterday, would I have been smashed into it now?

Is....

Xie Roujia, a, deliberately made these rules, did she count the day when she got out, and then deliberately framed her?

This!

Xie Rouhui tightened her mouth and nose, lifted her skirt, and walked away quickly under the crowd of everyone.

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When the sun rose, Xie Rouqing rode an ox down the mountain, and saw that there were many people walking around at the entrance of the mine not far away, driving a big carriage, and miners were constantly sitting on it.

"What is this for?" Xie Rouqing asked.

Shui Ying jumped out, ran to those people to ask a few words, and soon ran back.

"Miss, there is an accident in a mine, there are not enough people, they have to help clear the mine." She laughed.

Xie Rouqing frowned.

"Let them?" She asked.

Didn't the miners here in Yusan say that they were all waste? They are all disabled and sick people who are not wanted by other mines, why do they have to hire people from them now?

"They said that because they were brought out by the eldest lady herself, they did the best work, and they also dug well, and now they like to go to them when they have anything." Shui Ying said, "You can also get extra wages." ”

Xie Rouqing sighed.

"Where's Ango?" She asked, "Are you back?" ”

"Not yet, Lao Haimu is also looking for him, and he has lost his temper." Shui Ying said.

Xie Rouqing didn't speak anymore and patted the bull's head.

The scalper turned unhurriedly and walked towards his lodgings on the mountain.

Xie Rouqing sat on it and staggered, hearing the laughter behind her, her eyes fell on the small drum hanging on the back of the cow, and she reached out to take it down.

The sound of drums rang out from the mountain road.

The miners who got on the bus laughing couldn't help but turn their heads to look for sound.

"It's the bull rider playing the drums."

"The drums are very good."

"It's good every time."

Everyone talked a lot, the drums beat one after another, the drums beat cheerfully and excitedly, and everyone's hearts were cheerful, and I don't know which leader should sing the trumpet with the drums.

"Hah! Ha step! ”

"Hah! Ha! Ha step! ”

"Hah! Ha! Step up! Peach blossoms bloom in March! ”

"Hah! Ha! How many petals are there when the peach blossoms bloom! ”

The miners in the two wagons roared in unison.

"Three, three, six! Thirty-six! ”

The roar startled the stewards who had come to summon the conveners.

The trumpets and drums continued, and the sound grew louder and louder, and everyone sang with red faces and pulling their voices.

"How many petals does the hibiscus flower have!"

"Three or four get eight hundred and sixty-eight!"

"One hundred and sixty-eight! One hundred and sixty-eight! One hundred and sixty-eight ha! Ha! ”

Xie Rouqing's hand flew on the drum, the movement became faster and faster, and the drum beat faster and faster, and a smile gradually appeared on the corner of her mouth.

Fast hands, fast drums, fast trumpets, only the cattle are still unaffected, slowly swaying on the mountain road.

Listening to the sound of the trumpet echoing in the mountains and forests, An Geyu climbed up from behind a cliff and rushed out with a little excitement, but he didn't see a familiar figure.

I thought she was back.

An Ge Yu stopped and looked at the people on the mountain road with a gloomy expression.

Where is she now?

……………………………………………………

Xie Roujia stopped the horse, it was obviously an April day, but there was still a little yellow field in his sight.

At this time, a city appeared at the end of the field, not like the bustle and bustle that passed along the way, like this field, with a bit of desolation.

With the sound of horses' hooves behind him, Zhou Chengzhen followed and reined in the horse beside Xie Roujia.

"Where?" He asked, squinting to see the words on the city, but he couldn't read anything too far.

Xie Roujia also looked at the city, although her vision was also blurred, but she seemed to see two huge pale red words.

"Northside." She said.

Beicheng, the boundary of the desert north, the belly of the army, the prince guards.

Three years after her death, she returned.

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Note: The trumpet is adapted from "Cheshui Trumpet" - "Grand View of Chinese Customs and Folk Songs", Haining, Zhejiang (to be continued......)