Chapter 155: Darkness, the tip of the iceberg
"...... they?"
Su Jue let go of Tang Jingcheng's hand.
"This is the No. 103 earthwork in the Sufan mining area, and every ten minutes a truck will transport the waste excavated from the mining area here."
"And these people?"
Su Jue did not answer directly: "Wait a few more minutes, and there will be an answer in a few minutes." β
Sure enough, about four or five minutes later, a large truck drove up the road above the earthwork, and the people ran up the earthwork slope like crazy when they heard the sound of the truck.
The scene began to agitate until the truck stopped.
"Boom". The loading box in the back of the truck is lifted and poured down. Dozens of tons of waste rolled down the earthwork slope, and the men rushed up from both sides. It doesn't matter if the stone is still rolling down, as if it wants to take the lead to grab something treasured.
Tang Jingcheng has always remembered this picture in his mind since then, on the earthwork of Sufan No. 103, hundreds of people looted.
"What are they doing?"
"I'm gambling, I'm rummaging for my fate!"
These are quarrymen wandering around the mines, not going to the mines, and spending their days rummaging through these abandoned dumped piles of earth and rock.
Tang Jingcheng stood and watched for a few minutes, the whole earthwork was in chaos, those people were scrambling to climb to the height, the stones on the top were still rolling down, a child had fallen, and the woman was pulling him next to him, kicking and continuing by the way.
Is this a death? Just for a few stones?
"They ......," Tang Jingcheng didn't know what to say for a while. Swallowed, "Can you find jade?" β
"Yes, but it depends on luck! Maybe you can only turn over a piece of worthless tailing material for a few days, and sell it on the market for a few days at home, or you may be able to turn over the excellent quality of the fish that slips through the net. Getting rich overnight is a common occurrence in Hpakant. β
After Su Jue finished explaining, he looked at Tang Jingcheng in front of him: "This is the answer I want to give you." In front of money, everyone is the same greedy and ugly face, those people go to the abandoned earthwork at night to cause accidents, I can't care, and I don't want to care, as for the people around who are implicated. Sorry, they can only blame themselves for their bad luck. β
Tang Jingcheng digested his words little by little, laughing, this was really the clearest but most cruel explanation she had ever heard.
"So you're not a philanthropist!"
"Neither are you!" Su Jue retorted and took Tang Jingcheng's hand, her ten fingers were Qianqian, slightly curled and exposed to the sun, "How much jade have you touched with these hands?" Those jades were not worth much when they were first mined in the mining area, but after you carved them, polished them, and finally displayed them in the properly lit windows, the price increased dozens of times? β
It's really a word.
Tang Jingcheng couldn't help but smile bitterly, yes, she is not a philanthropist, she is at the top of this food chain like Su Jue.
"Qiu Qiguan once told me that every piece of jade was stained with blood, and I didn't understand what he meant at that time."
"Got it now?"
"Probably understand, come to Pa Dare to take a turn and see all this suffering and darkness."
"Darkness? Do you think what you see now is darkness? Su Jue couldn't help laughing.
"Is there anything darker?"
"Of course! Know why the miners are coming to make trouble? Know why there are military police dispatched in a landslide? Su Jue seemed to have something to say, and Tang Jingcheng wanted to ask, but he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "Forget it, there are some things you still don't know." My father is here, and I will go to Myitkyina the day after tomorrow to join him, and there are some things that need to be settled there, so I will take you with me and arrange for someone to take you to Bagan. β
Su Jue pinched Tang Jingcheng's cold fingers: "You shouldn't come here, you don't fit here at all." β
"So where do I fit in? Mandalay? Bagan? Tang Jingcheng sneered, "Indeed, there are only corpses and dead and wounded here, but Bagan is full of pagodas, the sun sets and the sun is west, and the sky is full of stars at night......"
The world is always half heaven and half hell, and what you live or experience is only a small part of it.
Tang Jingcheng put his hand on his bulging lower abdomen.
She is glad that this trip to Myanmar has allowed her to see the most complete despair and hope in the world with her child.
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Ye Qin couldn't go back to Myanmar so quickly because of the abortion, Lao Mai still cared about her in his heart and went to Guan Luo to ask for mercy.
Guan Luo agreed to let her recuperate in Yunling for two weeks before going back.
The flow of people is also like a small moon, you have to be particular about food, clothing, housing and transportation, Lao Mai hung a small sign on the door of the clinic: "Temporarily closed for two weeks", and then moved to Ye Tan to serve her.
Ye Tan's whole person has become more gloomy and depressed since the miscarriage, and his attitude towards Lao Mai is also extremely bad.
Lao Mai only thought that it was because of the pain of the operation that caused her to be like this, and he didn't feel too relieved, no matter how much she lost her temper at herself, he endured it, and continued to serve her silently to eat and drink.
At noon, Guan Luo went to find Lao Mai to have something to do, and when he entered the door, he saw him stewing fish soup in the kitchen.
"You sit on the couch by yourself for a while, and I'll simmer for another five minutes." Lao Mai's voice came from the kitchen.
Guan glanced at the living room, Ye Tan was sitting on the sofa eating oranges, and the oranges were also cut piece by piece and dipped in toothpicks, which looked like Lao Mai's handwriting.
Guan Luo snickered in his heart, it seems that one thing descends one thing, and Lao Mai has met a mortal enemy.
"How?" He sat down with his trouser pocket in his trouser pocket and threw the phone in his trouser pocket on the coffee table.
Ye Qin glanced at him lightly: "Brother Jiu, what do you want to ask?" β
Guan Xiao smiled, one long leg cocked: "The one in the kitchen, how does it feel?" β
"Not really!"
"But I've known him for so many years, and it's the first time I've seen him serve a woman!"
"It was a sin he created, and he didn't do a good job of doing it at the time."
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Ye Qin seemed to be really repulsive to that child, and after the miscarriage, she became a hedgehog, and Guan Luo didn't want to worry about her.
"Okay, even if Lao Mai does something wrong, there are some things that you need to be willing to, after all, what you killed is a life, or his flesh and blood, have you ever thought about his feelings?" Guan Luo didn't know why he came to say these words to Ye Tan, he wasn't upset for Lao Mai, but he was also very uncomfortable about Ye Tan's miscarriage.
Ye Qin stared at Guan quietly for a few seconds.
She felt that every time this man touched the child, he would be very soft, whether it was for Ah Xi, Chi Feng's daughter Tongtong, or that Tang Jingcheng, after learning that she was pregnant in Kunming, he became a glass heart, and the evil ruffians on his body disappeared, and his whole body seemed to have changed.
"Brother Jiu, do you like children very much?" Ye Qin asked suddenly, his eyes fixed.
Guan slightly frowned, rubbing his fingers and hooking his lower lip.
Didn't answer.
It happened that Lao Mai came out of the kitchen with fish soup: "Okay, okay, you can taste the leaves." β
He put the soup bowl directly in front of Ye Tan, and took off the apron on his waist, which looked like a family cooking man.
Guan Luo was about to laugh, but Ye Tan suddenly threw the bowl in his hand on the coffee table.
The voice was so loud that Guan Luo was startled.
"What's wrong?" Lao Mai asked.
Ye Qin pulled his face: "How can you eat it so fishy?" β
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Guan Luo felt as if he had come to the wrong time, glanced at Lao Mai, stood up and patted him on the shoulder: "Clean up and coax, let's talk about it when it's empty, I'll go first." So he bent down and picked up the mobile phone on the coffee table, but unfortunately the mobile phone had been turned over with fish soup, greasy and wet.
The screen was black, Guan Luo took a tissue and wiped it indiscriminately, and left.
Lao Mai was still holding an apron in his hand, staring at the expressionless Ye Tan on the sofa, and his tone was not very good: "What do you want to do?" β
"If you don't do anything, you just want to lose your temper!"
"Because Lao Jiu is here? Are you trying to embarrass me? β
"Embarrass you?" Ye Qin laughed, "Are you thinking too much?" I'm just upset! After speaking, he leaned back on the sofa with his hands folded and stopped talking.
Lao Mai was stunned for a few seconds, and threw the apron in his hand into her face: "Okay, you're not happy, aren't you?" Lao Tzu is not happy in his heart! Whoever you want, who you love! β
Lao Mai burst into flames and slammed the door and went out.
Ye Qin let out a sigh of emptiness, took out his mobile phone, and opened the inbox, the message that had just been sent from Myanmar.
"It has been confirmed, and it is indeed pregnant, more than four months."
Attached below is a photo of Tang Jingcheng, wearing an apricot-colored loose cotton skirt, sunglasses and a sunhat, standing on the bank of the Wulu River in Hpakant, with a visibly bulging lower abdomen.
If calculated according to the time, more than four months, then she must be carrying a child in Guan Liu's belly.
Ye Tan covered her lower abdomen with her hand, she did a medicine flow, and when the blood clot came down, the whole person was almost spasmodic, but in the end, it was still not clean, so she could only go to the clinic again to clear the uterus, and the forceps poked into her uterus, and she remembered the touch at that time every time she stirred.
She's not afraid of pain, she's just afraid of the cold.
Ye Qin deleted the photos and text messages on his phone, dialed a number, and the other side was quickly connected.
"It's not that what you talked to me about last time is completely out of the question, but the premise is that you have to help me do something, and it must be done cleanly, and there must be no mistakes. I'll go back to Myanmar and talk about it in detail when the time comes......"
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Su Jue was busy all afternoon, and Tang Jingcheng saw Chao Jian coming to him with a few Burmese people in uniform, the style of the uniform was a little strange, not like the local police.
Ladumin sent Tang Cheng back to Yudu Hotel, she was rarely curious, and asked, "Who is the person who came to find Mr. Su just now?" β
Radumin snorted: "The person sent by Anglai to negotiate." β
"Anglai?"
"The leader of the Independence Army on this side of Kachin State."
"......" Tang Jingcheng didn't expect this answer, "You have always had a relationship with these people?" β
"What relationship? The mine is on other people's land, and you have to dig something on other people's land...... You have to ......" Ladumin couldn't think of words for a while, and glanced at Tang Jingcheng, "It's like what you Chinese said about worshiping the land, to put it mildly, you can do whatever you want here, otherwise you will find trouble everywhere." β
"What trouble can you look for?"
"Hit you!" Radumin drove the car, dusty outside the window, "Girl, let me tell you something, for each mine, the Su family can only get three years of mining rights for spending hundreds of millions of Myanmar dollars, and after three years, you need to pay an additional fee, and if each stone goes out in the normal way, or is auctioned publicly, you need to pay 10% tax to the Myanmar government, which is a lot of money, so you can avoid it." β
"How to avoid it?"
"I can't tell you how to avoid it, but even if you have the means, going out from Phakant is surrounded by jungles, this is the territory of Kachin State, to make sure that your goods don't go wrong, then you have to be filial, and the Independence Army needs to fund activities, so it's a deal to get what you need."
Ladumin's words were vague, but they were enough to surprise Tang Jingcheng. Serve as a brother and sister.
No wonder Su Jue said that she was too naΓ―ve, and she said that the "darkness" she thought was only the tip of the iceberg.