Qinglan was kicked awake, someone kicked him heavily in the back, and then the other party's indifferent voice came from behind him: "Hurry up and work for me, pretend to be dead, I still want to live a good life when I come here." ”

Qinglan's body was soft, he couldn't lift any strength, and after being kicked several times by the other party, he barely opened his eyes and saw the situation in front of him.

He didn't remember how long he had been unconscious, he only remembered that he went to investigate Ma Huaiyi, and when he knew that the other party did have grain in more than one farm, he was just about to go back to report to the prince, but he was knocked unconscious from behind, and his nose was tightly covered by a wet towel, and then he completely lost consciousness.

Zhao Rui saw that Lan was awake, his expression was even more fierce, he kicked him on the knee hard, waved his whip and scolded: "Get up quickly, you haven't gotten up to work after sleeping for three days!" ”

Three days? Qinglan raised his eyes and glanced at him, his brows were furrowed tightly, his eyes were full of coldness and profundity, he had been missing for three days, what was the situation on the prince's side?

The complete ignorance of the outside world made Qinglan uncontrollably flustered, but there was nothing he could do at all.

The surrounding environment is too weird, like a coal mine, but in the previous materials in Songyan County, it was not said that there were coal mines in this place.

Qinglan stabilized his mind, reluctantly got up from the ground, and asked the person in front of him, "What is this place?" ”

"Ask so much what are you doing, you can't get out anyway, hurry up and get to work." Zhao Rui obviously didn't want to pay attention to him, and pushed him hard, urging: "Do you see the back basket over there, go and carry it, and hurry over to help." ”

Although there were all people around, when Qinglan was urged and beaten, Nanguan was indifferent, and it seemed that he had long been accustomed to this kind of scene, and everyone's faces were full of indifference that did not concern them, and they only did the work at hand.

Qinglan took two minutes to calm down and slowly accept all this, now all he can do is to stabilize here first, and then inquire about what is going on in this coal mine, and what is going on with these workers, the prince should let people look for him, hoping that when they meet, he can find out some useful information.

After thinking about it like this, Qinglan quickly calmed down, picked up the coal and put it in the back basket, and worked hard.

Zhao Rui looked at him coldly for a long time, and saw that he seemed to be really honest, so he smiled with satisfaction, but he was still not at ease, and waved his whip to warn: "You'd better be honest with me, and you can suffer less from flesh and skin." ”

Qinglan was silent.

At this time, there seemed to be some restlessness in another place, and Zhao Rui quickly left.

After he left, Qinglan slowed down the movements of his subordinates and slowly looked at the coal mine.

There are at least 100 workers here, and everyone has an ugly face, a face like a vegetable, and they walk staggeringly, as if they have no strength, not only adult men, but also old people, women, and children.

Qinglan looked more and more solemn, and his heart became anxious, and after reaching out to help the back basket of an old man next to him, he asked softly: "Old man, what kind of place is this, why are you here, are you willing to come to work?" ”

Since the coal mine has not been reported to the imperial court, it can only be privately swallowed by Ma Huaiyi, and since it is such an industry, I am afraid that he will not dare to recruit people openly.

Qinglan asked this, but the old man didn't look back, and quickly left with the basket on his back, as if he hadn't heard it, and his eyes didn't move.

Qinglan felt more and more weird, and tried to communicate with him several times but no one paid attention to him, he couldn't bear it, and his voice couldn't help but raise a little, but he was heard by the people guarding them behind.

The man walked over indifferently and whipped Qinglan on the back with a whip: "No whispering, no talking to each other, shut up and do your own thing." ”

"You!" Qinglan's face turned pale, and he turned around and glared fiercely at the guard, implying a warning: "Don't go too far." ”

When the guard saw his appearance, he suddenly felt a kind of annoyance that was offended, and cursed with raised eyebrows: "What are you staring at, and then staring at the eyeballs for you to dig out, come here, and think you are a character, right?" ”

A whip was drawn towards Qinglan again, this time he was directly grabbed by Qinglan, he looked at the guard coldly, and his tone was cold: "I just want to know what kind of place this is, you brought me here for some reason, and you don't allow me to inquire?" ”

"Heh, if you hadn't offended the people above, you wouldn't have come here, let me go, and dare to resist?" The guard muttered disdainfully, trying to pull his whip back only to find that it couldn't be pulled at all.

The drug they used for Qinglan before slowly became ineffective, and Qinglan's force came back a little.

But Qinglan knew very well that he was alone, and he was not the opponent of so many people here at all.

So he weighed it for a moment, but let go of his hand.

As a result, the guard didn't pay attention to him and suddenly let go, and was pulling the whip hard, but this time he sat directly on the ground and fell on all fours.

This movement directly alarmed all the guards around: "What's the matter?" ”

The guard who fell to the ground had an extremely difficult face, rubbed his ass and stood up, staring at Qinglan as if he wanted to tear him apart, and said viciously: "This stinky boy actually dares to resist, and he even makes a move, teach him a hard lesson!" "Nine peaches

When a group of people heard this, they were also interested, after all, it had been a long time since anyone dared to disobey them so much, which made them feel very fresh, and naturally they would not let Qinglan go easily, and a group of people gradually surrounded him, and soon started to move.

Even if Qinglan's kung fu was good, he was quickly subdued, kneeling on the ground with his arms pressed, the voice above his head was presumptuous and flamboyant, and he said proudly: "How about it, it's not for Lao Tzu to kneel down obediently, I still think you are so cross." ”

Qinglan gritted his teeth, his face had just been punched several times, and it was already swollen.

Although the guards were proud now, they didn't get much benefit just now, and everyone had more or less injuries on their faces.

None of the people around dared to take a sideways look, and everyone was busy with their own business with their eyebrows bowed, like marionettes who could only work.

After all, this kind of thing is really not new to them, and when everyone first comes, they will make a fuss, and in the end they will either be obedient or die, and there will be no other result.

Zhao Rui also came over from there, and as soon as he came over, he whipped Qinglan fiercely, seemed to be a little irritable, his face was quite ugly, and he directly ordered: "Throw him into the dungeon for me, starve for two or three days, and leave him to fend for himself if he is not honest." ”

Soon Qinglan was picked up, and went around the coal yard into a mine, and walked through a long tunnel, and at the end of it was a pit almost two meters deep, and there were three or four people in it.

Before Qinglan could react, he was directly pushed down.

Even if he reacted quickly and held the ground with his hands when he landed, he inevitably twisted his ankle.

The four people in the dungeon raised their eyes and glanced at Qinglan when he fell, and they never cared about him again.

Qinglan stretched out his hand and rubbed his ankle to make sure that he didn't hurt his bones, then he calmed down, raised his eyes and glanced at a few people in the dungeon, and slowly moved to sit next to a person.

He thought that the man would dodge, but he didn't, and took the initiative to talk to him: "How did you get here?" There is such a lack of coolies above, you are so young and strong, you have not done anything, so you will not be left behind. ”

Qinglan was a little surprised, but quickly hid his emotions, and said indifferently: "It's nothing, it's just a fight with them." ”

At this moment, everyone in the dungeon looked at Qinglan in shock.

They would be left behind, but they would try to run away because of a verbal argument, or because they were really disobedient, but no one dared to do anything to anyone like him.

The young man sitting next to Qinglan showed a little smile, and said sincerely: "He is a good man, but as a person who has come over, I still have to advise you, don't fight with them, we are not opponents at all, if you want to survive, you have to do what they say." ”

"You know this so well, why are you still locked up here?" Qinglan subconsciously asked rhetorically.

After asking, he felt that his words were a little inappropriate.

Fortunately, Sun Lei didn't care, just pulled the corners of his mouth, and said softly: "Our situation is different, I took the initiative to provoke them and was locked up here, but because I had enough of these days, I wanted to come down and hide for two days to relax, the biggest suffering of being locked up here is nothing more than that they don't care about it, starve us to death, anyway, I'm used to being hungry." ”

Qinglan raised his eyes and glanced at them, and indeed everyone's faces were ugly, like dry wood, and their lips were even dried and peeled.

He couldn't suppress the shock in his heart, frowned and asked, "How long have you been locked in?" ”

Sun Lei raised his eyelids, pointed to the person on the very edge, and said slowly: "He has the longest time, today is just the third day, and he will be taken away later, and then the two of them are two days, I was left yesterday." ”

Qinglan couldn't help but wonder and asked, "Why was it taken away in three days?" ”

Sun Lei didn't speak for a while, but bumped Qinglan with his elbow, and muttered softly as if biting his ear: "Don't speak, someone is coming." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, someone came from above, this time it was four guards, who stood on it and lost the ladder and came down, pointing to the person Sun Lei said just now for three days, and ordered: "You, come up!" ”

The man was reluctant to move, and raised his eyelids coldly to look at them, resisting completely.

The guard lost his patience for a moment, and one of them came down and stretched out his hand to pull the man: "Get up for me quickly!" ”

As a result, there was still no pulling, and the guard lost his temper and lost his patience, and said viciously: "I don't want to go up, do you?" I thought that if I came here, I would be able to live a happy life, then I will fulfill you and let you die a happy death! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he slashed the man to death with his saber.

Qinglan was stunned, his eyes glared at the guards fiercely, and he subconsciously wanted to get up and stand over, but was tightly grabbed by Sun Lei next to him.