"Ahem, that's the case, we don't have any money in our hands, but our home is here, are you still afraid that we owe you fish money?"

Bai Youfu stood up and asked slowly.

When the people of Wangshui Village heard it, eh? Bai Youfu is right!

If the people of Qinglu Village dare not pay back the money and go directly to their house to move things, wouldn't it be more profitable?

Hu Qing glared at the babbling boys fiercely and said.

"Why don't you hurry up and go home, and give all the fish that you carried back before to Village Chief Bai."

……

A quarter of an hour later.

Wangshui Village began to count the number of fish, and baskets of fresh fish were handed over to the villagers of Qinglu.

Bai Youfu once learned to do accounts with the bookkeeper in the tavern, and the bookkeeping work fell on him at this time.

"A total of nine thousand eight hundred and forty catties, equivalent to two hundred and ninety-six taels of silver and eight hundred cents."

Bai Youfu handed the account book in his hand to Hu Qing to see.

The people of Wangshui Village were smiling one by one, and each family could get a lot of miles......

They made eye contact with each other, and when the fish in Qinglu Village stinked in their hands, we went to move things!

Ji Wan took the ill-intentioned gaze of the villagers of Wangshui in her eyes.

She frowned, walked to the side of the village chief Bai, borrowed a pen and paper, wrote down the number of She fish and the corresponding silver money, and handed it to Bai Youfu.

"Village chief, let everyone press their handprints, just in case."

The serious look on Ji Wan's face made Bai Youfu's heart sink.

If you wait until the fish sells for a large price, it will be known by the people of Wangshui Village...... Hiss!

Bai Youfu took the deed paper and hurriedly implemented the handprint.

Ji Wan couldn't intervene when she saw the work here, and carefully recalled the process of making flavored dried fish.

Flavored dried fish needs to go through five processes, including pickling, baking, boiling, roasting, sealing, etc., which last three to four days to complete.

Among them, salt, red pepper, dried vegetables, vegetable oil and other seasonings are particularly important, and there is still a lack of some sealing clay pots.

She silently typed out what she was missing, planning to go to the county and buy back what she needed.

As for the silver...... Only a part of the fish can be exchanged.

Ji Wan shared her thoughts with everyone.

Bai Duowang and others discussed pulling 500 catties of fish, and Bai Duowang drove the car, Xie Da followed the car, and took Ji Wan to the county to buy it.

Out of Qinglu Village, just on the main road, Ji Wan looked up at the scorching sun hanging overhead, and suddenly thought that at this point, pull fish to the market......

Is there anyone else in the bazaar?

But this has come out, can't you pull the fish back again?

She frowned slightly and patted the bullock cart board.

"Uncle Duowang, can we go directly to the nearby landlord's old rich house and see if we can sell some."

"Okay! The rich man's house where Xie Sanzi stayed was not far away. ”

Bai Duowang flicked the whip in his hand, and the old cow pulling the cart slowly changed direction.

Ji Wei: ...... If Bai Duowang didn't mention it, she would almost forget Xie Xianhua.

Suddenly, she remembered the inexplicable palpitations before, and her eyebrows frowned slightly.

The ox cart traveled for two quarters of an hour, and finally came to Changfeng Village next door.

As soon as you enter Changfeng Village, you will see the largest Sanjin Courtyard, which is the home of the richest man in Changfeng Village.

The wealth of the rich man, the nearby fields and hillsides are all in the name of the rich man's family.

The villagers of Changfeng Village are all employed by the Qian family, and if it is not enough, the rich man will also select young and strong laborers from the nearby villagers and sign a long-term work contract.

Xie Da also worked in the Qian family, and as soon as he appeared, when the Qian family's porter saw him, he immediately said "ouch".

"Xie Da, come here today, and come looking for work again?"

Xie Dazong got off the ox cart with a sincere smile on his face.

"Not this time, there is a fish in our village, I want to come over to see if Master Qian wants to try it, and then look at my third brother Xianhua."

The porter glanced at the stacked basins on the bullock cart.

The plump fish squeezed one after another, shaking their heads and tails, spitting bubbles, and they looked like they had just come out of the water.

"This fish is good, you are also in a hurry, the wife of the family will have a birthday tomorrow, I will go in and report it, and ask Mr. Qian if he wants fish."

The porter was halfway there, suddenly remembered something, and turned back to continue.

"By the way, your third brother doesn't do the work in the house now, and goes out to work with the team, so you probably won't see it today."

Before Xie Da could react from the surprise, he was stunned for a moment.

The third brother went to work?

Is there a better job than a job in a house?

He wanted to ask carefully, but the porter had already left, so he had to wait patiently for the porter to come out.

After a while, a man of about twenty years old came out, wearing a rose-red silk robe, holding a folding fan, smearing white powder on his face, and looking feminine and delicate.

"Second son Qian." Qian Da stepped forward to say hello.

Qian Ergongzi hummed lightly, patted the folding fan with his hand, and circled around the oxcart to watch the fish: "This fish is good, let's stay." ”

Ji Wan and the three of them suddenly smiled on their faces, this is too smooth!

"Oh no—no—save people! Collapsed, all collapsed! ”

Suddenly, a middle-aged man wearing a patched blue cloth shirt, covered in dust, and panicked, appeared.

He ran and stumbled all the way, howling and crying and rushing towards Qian Ergongzi, clutching Qian Ergongzi's robe, and before he could speak, his body was empty.

"Bang-" The middle-aged man slammed to the ground and fainted.

The second son of Qian frowned and looked at the other party's face: "Who is this person?" ”

Xie Da hesitated: "Brother Li? This seems to be a long-term worker in the Qianfu coal mine. ”

"What did he just say?" Ji Wan's heart jumped and she asked out loud.

He said—it's collapsed, it's all collapsed!!

Coal mine collapsed?

Everyone gasped.

Qian Ergongzi's face turned white, he staggered back, took a deep breath, stabilized his figure, and quickly rushed back to the mansion.

Ji Wan's mood suddenly became heavy.

"What do we do now?" Bai Duowang sighed, things are like this, why are you embarrassed to let people buy fish again......

Ji Wan and Xie Da were silent.

Suddenly, a team of people rushed out of Qian Fuzhong, led by Qian Ergongzi, and ran in the direction of the coal mining area with an anxious face.

"I'd like to come along and see if I can help." Ji Wan twisted her eyebrows.

Bai Duowang and Xie Da didn't let them hesitate much, and nodded in unison: "We'll go too." ”

The three of them got back on the ox cart and tried to catch up with Qian Fu's team.

Half an hour later.

When a group of people came to the coal mining area of the Qian family, as far as the eye could see, it was unbearable to see!

Outside the collapsed coal hole, a clearing was cleared on which the seriously wounded and more than a dozen corpses were placed.

At the entrance of the coal cave, the black ash stone and soil are densely covered with blood spots, and the remnants of the pillars are broken, and they are inserted horizontally and vertically on the ground.

In the Qianfu team and the coal area, the long-term workers who escaped the catastrophe were digging the stone and soil with a solemn expression.

Those who did not have tools found sticks, knelt on the ground, dug with all their might, and pried ......

Some people even cut their nails with their bare hands, and the nails were torn off, and the bleeding was still unnoticed.

"I'm going to help."

Bai Duowang left a sentence, jumped out of the ox cart, and quickly joined the team carrying stones to find people.

"Big brother, you help me find some planks and strips of cloth, there are many people here whose hands and feet have been broken."

Ji Wan shouted to Xie Da, who wanted to go with Bai Duowang.

When she corrects the injured person's bones for a while, she needs someone with a lot of strength to hold down the patient, and Xie Da is just right.

Xie Da nodded when he heard this, left in a hurry, and after half a cup of tea, he brought back more than 20 pieces, neatly trimmed wooden planks and strips of cloth torn out of clothes.

Ji Wan took Xie Da and walked among the wounded, and when she found a fracture, she quickly bandaged the other party's bones.

When she met someone who only had one breath left, she poured a few sips of spiritual spring water mixed with water on the other party and hung her life.

Her calm handling and quick and skillful handling gradually soothed the panic and anxiety of the injured.

One after another, patients began to consciously restrain their wailings, trying not to disturb Ji Wan, and waiting for treatment.

"Another one, another one!"

Suddenly, someone yelled, and a man with a bloody face was hurriedly carried over.

Ji Wan left the half-bandaged wound to Xie Da to finish, quickly probed the pulse, punctured the acupoint with a golden needle, stopped the abdominal bleeding, and poured spiritual spring water, all in one go.

The middle-aged man, whose face was like gold paper, slowly opened his eyes, and his godless pupils slowly focused.

"Are you, Ji Wan?"

Ji Wan glanced at the patient who was temporarily out of danger, frowned, and looked a little familiar.

"Are you Uncle Lin who lives at the end of the village?" She asked hesitantly.

Uncle Lin became excited, and his body shook violently: "Hurry up and save people, hurry, Xie San, it's still inside!" ”

Xie San?!

Ji Wan's mind went blank for a moment.

"Bang-"

Xie Da, who rushed over to help, had a pale face, the wooden board he was holding in his arms fell to the ground, staggered and fell to Uncle Lin's side, and asked in a trembling voice.

"What do you say? My third brother, how can my third brother work in the mines? Didn't he never go into a mine? ”

Ji Wan stopped Xie Da: "Even if you shake Uncle Lin to death, it's useless, now you have to ask Xie Xianhua's location and find someone to rescue him." ”

"Yes, yes......" Xie Da shook his trance-like head violently and let go of Uncle Lin.

"Does Uncle Lin know where Xie Xianhua is?" Ji Wan asked in a deep voice.

Uncle Lin shook his head: "His position is deeper than mine, I don't know where he is." ”

Ji Wan's heart was groaning, the deeper the burial position, the smaller the chance of survival.

She pulled out her legs and ran towards Bai Duowang.

"Uncle Duowang."

Ji Wan took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down.

"Xie Xianhua is also inside, can Uncle Duowang let the people in the village come to help save people?"

Bai Duowang was stunned for a moment, and then his expression changed greatly: "Xie San is inside?!" ”

"Xie San, Xie Xianhua?"

Suddenly, a passer-by stopped his hurried footsteps, twisted his eyebrows, thought about it, and said for sure.

"I know him, I don't think he will survive."

Passers-by shook their heads and sighed.

"He was the first to go down, and he went in the deepest position, and there were the most stones in it, even if the stones couldn't be killed, just digging to his position wouldn't be able to do it for ten days and half a month."

When Xie Da heard this, his knees weakened, and he knelt on the ground, unable to get up.

"No matter what, if you live to see people, you must see corpses when you die." Xie Da choked up and directly dug the soil with his bare hands.

When Ji Wan thought that if this bad news was transmitted back to the Xie family, her heart was twisted.

She looked at Bai Duowang and pleaded.

"Please also ask Uncle Duowang to help talk to the villagers, if the villagers are willing to help, no matter what the matter is, this favor, I Ji Wan will definitely remember it in my heart."

"Needless to say, they are all from the township, uncle, just go on a trip, and I must call everyone to help." Bai Duowang looked solemn.

It's so dark that you can't see your fingers.

One leg was crushed under the stone, and the red blood stained the trouser leg, and the man who had passed out suddenly curled his fingers......