There was a warm and humid breath in her ears, and she was greeted by Min. sensation inside the auricle. Chi Linglong couldn't help but shrink, as if she was uncomfortable.

There was also a slightly rough and cold touch above the eyes, and it was the even-knuckled palm of the young man she had just become familiar with.

Chi Linglong's heartbeat thumped like a drum. The voice was deafening, the beating rhythm was fast and powerful, and Chi Linglong only suspected that maybe she couldn't control it, and that hot heart was about to burst out of her chest the next moment.

She felt her mouth dry, and she felt an unprecedented upheaval coming up from the bottom of her heart, leaving her at a loss.

For the first time in her life, Ji Linglong had doubts about the self-control she had always been proud of. However, at this stage of self-denial and entanglement, she still had the heart to sigh, although this young man is blind, but his ears are too sensitive!

Oh, yes!

The ears are so sensitive! It's worse than an able-bodied person with 5.2 eyesight.

If it weren't for the fact that she knew the inside story, just looking at the appearance of this young man in the past few days, he would have behaved no different from ordinary people, and he might have thought that he was a normal person who could not be more sound. - There were no two almost fatal arrow wounds and knife wounds on his body, no body with severe poison, and no constant torture from poison, and no blindness, which was exactly the same to him day and night.

He walked with steady and sonorous steps, and when he entered this dark jungle just now, the dark and deep reflection in his eyes was like a substantial ghostly light; She tugged at his sleeve and looked at him inadvertently. She still remembered that in those narrow wind eyes, the cold and doubtful brightness that appeared at that moment, but there was a slight flickering and hesitant ghostly light, flickering and flickering.

Every move he shows in front of outsiders is wordlessly convincing the fact that he is a normal and sound person,—— he has no weaknesses that can be attacked, and his personal strength is always at the peak of his life, and he will not let people have a fluke about his physical health, so as to underestimate or underestimate him, and use black hands and knives against him.

Chi Linglong knows that a blind person, under certain circumstances, his ears will become many times more sensitive than a normal person, and he will replace his eyes and do a good job of "monitoring the Quartet".

And she had only heard of it before, but now she had actually met it. She was a lively big girl, and in this dark night, her eyes were really not as good as the ears of the young man behind her.

Chi Linglong's mind kept fluctuating, but it was only in the blink of an eye, and it disappeared in a flash.

The surroundings were surprisingly quiet, although there was the sound of the two men taking a bath in the distance, and there was also the sound of small insects chirping nearby, Chi Linglong felt that everything was silent, and the whole world was clear at this moment.

The two men who were five big and three thick, after hurriedly bathing in the stream water, left quickly, ready to go back to change their guards.

When Chi Linglong heard that he was about to leave, it was completely different from the voice of the man who complained loudly before, and the other voice was slightly feminine, and he also sighed dissatisfiedly, "If it weren't for the rich monthly income given here, he would be able to earn at least five taels of silver a month. working day and night, sleeping later than the dog, getting up earlier than the chicken, sleeping for up to two hours a day, such heavy body lì labor, who he. stupid* to suffer this. ”

scolded and complained a lot, and the two men kicked and walked away again.

Chi Linglong had been trying hard to suppress her breathing, and at this moment, she finally let go of the nerve that had been tense on her body, and slowly let out a long breath.

She felt physically and mentally exhausted, and then had a sense of happiness for the rest of her life.

However, when Chi Linglong's thoughts turned to what the man had just said, "There are at least five taels of silver per month", her heart seemed to beat even heavier.

In the current Great Wei Dynasty, for ordinary people's families, twenty taels of silver can live in peace and worry for a year. Five taels of silver per month, compared with the annual silver of the officials of the Great Wei Dynasty in her memory, "In Beijing, civil and military officials, the annual silver is 180 taels for the first grade, 155 taels for the second grade, and 130 taels for the third grade,...... Seven-grade 45 taels, eight-grade 40 taels, positive nine-grade 33.1 taels, from nine-grade 31.5 taels. In addition, according to the silver every two to give the rice Hu. The silver of the civil officials outside Beijing is the same as that of the Beijing officials, but there is no rice, and the silver of the military attaché is halved. ”

This is the table of the officials of the Great Wei Dynasty today, carefully calculated, a seven-grade official, in addition to the various salaries and ice subsidies obtained from the imperial court every month, silk clothing, gold and silver utensils, as well as relatives exempted from military service, housing, transportation, receiving land, children and grandchildren enjoy priority in school, and being an official and other preferential and privileged policies, they really get from the imperial court every year, but only 45 taels of silver.

And now, an ordinary laborer who opens a mine has a full five taels of silver a month, which is sixty taels a year, which is simply higher than the county order of the highest magistrate of a county for a year.

When Chi Linglong was frightened by this somewhat outrageous number, she became more interested in this unknown mineral deposit hidden in Qingyan Mountain.

Tell her that the wool is out of the sheep.

If it is just to silence these laborers, the "eunuch" who leads here. "People" should not be so lavish, giving each ordinary laborer five taels of silver a month, unless the deposit is very large, and they have enough benefits to eat; Or is there an unexpected use for this deposit?

If it is iron ore, it can be cast into a killing weapon, which can be used on the battlefield, it will be invincible, and even can train an invincible army; If it is a silver mine, it is a monstrous wealth, which can recruit troops and buy horses, or bribe the powerful to win over power; In the case of copper mines, all kinds of forged utensils can also be spread overseas, and they can also be used to forge armor and equip armies.

The profits brought by these are not simple words that can be summarized and clearly understood.

In Chi Linglong's mind, in just an instant, he turned over a lot of information.

What she could think of, the young master and Modding also thought of in an instant.

Of course, because of the level of contact between Chi Linglong and the two of them, as well as the different classes of the people they deal with, the different education they have received since childhood, and the different beliefs deep-rooted in their hearts, the young master and Mo Ding think more and think deeper, therefore, at this moment, the expressions on the faces of the two are darker.

After a long time, the young man behind him spat out a low and majestic sentence, "Follow up." ”

Murding immediately lowered his voice and replied with a heavy "yes".

The cold wind in his ears blew again, his delicate face was cut by the cold wind as sharp as a knife, and the trees and scenery beside him were retreating with lightning speed, Chi Linglong felt the arm clamped around his waist, the warm touch on the top of his head, and the thin but hard chest of the person behind him, which made people feel relieved to lean on, and his expression appeared in a short trance.

There seemed to be a few lights flickering in the dense forest of Senshan, Chi Linglong's long eyelashes flickered a few times, looking at the few large lanterns that were slightly red in the distance, his mind was also alive, but his hands couldn't help but stretch out, and he also hugged the slender waist of the young man.

The boy froze for a moment, then looked down at her. He was silent, and the movement of his feet was only a pause, and then he heard the wind again, and chased after Medding who was moving at the speed of light in front of him.

The three of them stopped behind a towering ancient tree that five people couldn't hug together. Mo Ding said in a low voice: "Master, there is a sentry post two hundred meters ahead. ”

Sentinels, which are generally only at the gates of major cities, as well as border fortresses or important military towns, are specially placed to reconnoiter or look at the typical military deployment from a distance in order to defend against the enemy or prevent the sudden invasion of the enemy.

There is a sentry post on the gate of Yizhou City, and of course there is a garrison base of the 300,000 Yizhou Navy led by Chi Zhongyuan. It's not that Chi Linglong hasn't heard of the term sentry post, and it's not that she hasn't seen it, she just never thought that in such a forest mountain and old forest, in such a "ghostly and evil" place, there would also be a sentry post.

The young master was not shocked at all that there would be a sentry post here. Maybe he had thought of it a long time ago, or maybe he was used to being moody. Therefore, although there are strange feelings in my heart, I don't hide them, and I don't let everyone see them.

He let out a low "um". The voice is shallow, but it has a kind of strength that holds and calms people's hearts. The warm moisture sprayed on Chi Linglong's slender neck again, but it only made Chi Linglong couldn't help but shrink her neck slightly, and turned her head to move her little head away.

The man was still holding her waist, and although she wanted to break away, she used some strength, but the effect didn't seem to be ideal......

After the young master said "um", the three of them did not speak again, but squinted slightly to observe the defense in the distance.

It was a large courtyard that was laid out in imitation of the deployment of a military base. There was a high fence around it, and the "soldiers" who were guarding the door. There are several wooden huts in the courtyard, but at the back of the wooden houses, there are countless white tents.

Chi Linglong looked at the number of tents, and then estimated that if there were about fifteen people living in each big tent, there would be at least more than two thousand laborers here.

It takes more than 2,000 young and middle-aged laborers to mine day and night, and the mineral deposits have not been hollowed out for five years.

Chi Linglong's eyes flickered twice, and while listening to Mo Ding's low voice, he and the young master began to report what scenes and arrangements were in the distance, and his eyes couldn't stop looking through the light of the red lantern, looking at the mountain range near the dense tent, which had obviously been carved out of several crude caves.

Unsurprisingly, that's the mine. R1152